🇮🇱 FACT: Israel is BEHEADING Palestinian babies.

— Jackson Hinkle 🇺🇸 (@jacksonhinklle) October 23, 2023

This was going to be a piece about this guy’s Twitter profile. It’s actually pretty notable that a former Tucker Carlson guest/outspoken MAGA influencer with a blue check and 1.4 million followers is going further than Rashida Tlaib with his pro-Palestinian, anti-Israeli rhetoric. Just like the “mainstream” of the Trump right wing is only “pro-Israel” because they’re anti-Muslim, this guy is pretty obviously pro-Palestine because he’s an antisemite, as most MAGA hatters are – honest about it or not.

You don’t want to see the rest of Hinkle’s profile. It’s rife with images of death and suffering being inflicted upon babies and children in Gaza over the last two weeks. You will feel a lot of pain and sorrow, especially if you’re the parent of a young child. All of it is the collateral damage from indiscriminate bombing taken to avenge the horrors inflicted upon Israelis – babies and young children among them – after Hamas terrorists invaded southern Israel on that bloody Sabbath.

I just saw indescribable, raw footage of Hamas’ massacre along with 100 other international journalists, provided by Israeli authorities. Here are the notes I took: 

1: Hamas terrorist screaming Allah Akhbah as he frantically tries to behead a dead man with a shovel.

— Jotam Confino (@mrconfino) October 23, 2023

Maybe we should apologize to the readers that got all pissy when we played a little fast and loose with the reporting on 40 babies and toddlers that were beheaded by Hamas at a kibbutz the same way we did (a little obliquely) about jumping on the New York Times’s reporting about the Israeli bomb that didn’t kill 500 people at a hospital that turned out to be a misfired Hamas rocket that ended up killing a smaller number of their own people. Problem is they both felt true because of other stories of absolutely fucking indescribable atrocities coming from both sides.

Hamas gruesomely slaughtered children, raped women, kidnapped freaking Holocaust survivors, shot young people dead by the hundreds at an EDM concert. The IDF bombed a goddamned church and killed relatives of former Congressman Justin Amash. More than 2,000 children are dead in Gaza. So how the fuck are we supposed to be “skeptical” about other crimes against humanity when they’re first reported? Was any part of either sketchy story really that objectively hard to believe?

What needs to happen now is this needs to end. Enough innocent blood has been spilled. It’s on Israel to stop the bombing and promise the people of Gaza some extremely generous bounties to hand over the members of Hamas – and all other terrorist groups – down to the last man. It’s on the people of Gaza to comply with that. Then it’s on Israel to integrate the Palestinians into a unified democratic state with educational and economic opportunities for all, Jews and Muslims alike.

Easier said than done, we know. But nobody’s even fucking tried. That’s why children are dying.