Opinion: A cruel month of massacres in Gaza as the US mask is ripped off

In a column for Middle East Eye, writer and scholar Ammiel Alcalay argues that as tensions flare with Iran, the US "mask is off" in its continued full support for Israeli actions in Gaza. 

He writes: "While the needle doesn’t seem to have moved among the western political alliance led by the US, the mask has been off for a long time in most of the rest of the world, and it is increasingly coming off among the actual subjects of these western governments, whose anger and disgust mounts daily. 

Indications of this are everywhere, from continuing protests, to conservative commentator Tucker Carlson’s recent interview with Palestinian pastor Munther Isaac, in which the pair excoriated US congressional and evangelical support for Israel, a pillar of US-Israel relations and funding.

The dizzying events of the past few weeks, including the Iranian counterattack on Israel, tell us much about where things stand in the relentless mix of differently scaled atrocities and psychological warfare carried out by state actors and their willing accomplices in the media, academia and professional associations. 

The official outrage, both genuine and feigned, over the targeted killing of seven World Central Kitchen aid workers has not been even remotely matched when it comes to the more than 34,000 Palestinian casualties of this genocidal slaughter."

You can read the full column below. 

Opinion: A cruel month of massacres for Palestinians as the US mask is ripped off