Unabashedly Zionist in nature, the book aimed to teach Israeli children about the Jewish people’s historic roots in Israel and to reassure them that Israel’s Iron Dome, which lights up the sky when it intercepts incoming rockets from Israel’s enemies, would ultimately keep them safe. “It will make me happy if it will bring value to Israeli children who are going through this, hear[ing] rocket sounds at night and the alarm and need to run to bomb shelter,” wrote author Roman Sandler.
You don’t have to deny centuries of Jewish suffering, driven by 1900 years of exile from their land of origin, to suggest that this is a cheap kind of history to teach children.
Instead, a series of Palestinian-aligned accounts began to spread a downright lie: that Sandler’s book was a jubilant celebration of Israeli rocket attacks on Gaza.
Hamas themselves do routinely publish materials encouraging children to commit acts of genocide and suicide bombings against Israelis, so there’s no imagined “if” about her alternative scenario. But why let facts get in the way of a tweet?
The truth is quite different. According to the evidence of the Meir Amit Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center, nearly 17,500 rockets were launched at southern Israel from Gaza between 2001 and 2021 by a combination of Hamas and the Iran-backed Palestinian Islamic Jihad, which provides most of the military hardware.
This is the reality of Israeli life: nightly sirens, bomb shelters, safe-rooms. Over in Gaza, the reality of Palestinian life is clearly worse, because with Israel’s aerial bombardment comes starvation, unchecked disease, and the constant threat of murder by Hamas for anyone who challenges their control of aid, their imposition of strict gender and religious norms, or their propaganda.
Most of the widely-shared memes of Palestinian anguish are rooted in fact, because the inhabitants of Gaza are suffering profoundly. But they are souped up by casualty figures reported with blind faith from the lips of Hamas officials, or images generated by AI.
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In the first hours of Israel’s new phase of direct conflict with Iran, the controversy around Under The Rockets’ Glow reemerged on X. “You’re ‘Under The Rocket’s [sic] Glow’ for real now. How does it feel? F*** around and find out,” one Irish nationalist account tweeted at an Israeli mother who had posted about packing supplies to care for her children and baby in a bomb shelter.
The trope was repeated across the web: a heady combination of sheer glee at the prospect of Israeli families experiencing a bomb threat, and a brazen pretence that this is not, in fact, a norm with which many Israeli families are wearily familiar.
Israel has understood itself as under siege from Iranian assault for over three decades. That has made its people both hardy and angry. Few Netanyahu voters are likely to care about a bunch of Western leftists displaying their ignorance on social media. But when we saturate our population in ignorance, we make it harder for our government to respond with expertise to the latest true horrors in the Middle East.
Hawks will argue that regime change in Iran is the only way of breaking the cycle of violence that its government so brazenly sponsors; those of us who remember Iraq know that regime change doesn’t come so easily from foreign weapons. Either way, those of us who live in Western European or American cities should take a moment to be grateful that we live under more peaceful skies – for now. (Eastern Europe, of course, has already lost that luxury.)
Ignorance, hate and propaganda: all thrive by mocking other people’s suffering. The worse our culture of disinformation becomes, the greater our own polarisation – and the sooner the conflict it engenders will come to our own door.
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