This is the worst argument that you'll hear

in defense of Israel's murderous onslaught against Gaza,

but it's also an extremely common argument,

I'm sure you've come across it yourselves,

and it needs to take you on,

not just because it is total abject nonsense,

but because it actually underlines the unique horror

of what's happening right now in Gaza.

So in that sense, it becomes inadvertently useful.

Now, it goes like this.

Why are you all focusing in Gaza

and protesting about Gaza so much

rather than X, Y, or Z, horror?

Now, superficially, of course,

this is an argument for never protesting about anything,

that unless you protest against everything simultaneously,

then you can't protest a single thing.

I won't tidy my own room

because the rest of the world is a mess.

Now, that won't satisfy critics on its own,

that argument, because then the focus is argued

is on Gaza is driven by a particular

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