Israel is executing an online influence campaign using hundreds of fake social media accounts to advance “Israeli interests” among progressive western audiences, including US lawmakers, Haaretz reported on 19 March, citing an investigation by Israeli media watchdog group Fake Reporter.
It’s kind of worse than that. They’ve built themselves a machine that has to kill UNRWA workers because it’s a genocide machine; that’s what it does.
In the modern day, a crucial part of any genocide machine is manufacturing consent for the genocide. This is also a large part of why the genocide machine was built - to manufacture consent for the awful people that run it. It creates an enemy and directs its subjects’ hatred at that enemy to deflect from their own horrific abuses.
If they turn off the genocide machine, that hatred goes somewhere and the people running the machine are now vulnerable, so their only option is to keep cranking the handle on the genocide machine.
This doesn’t excuse anyone of course - you don’t start running a genocide machine without being okay with genocide.