One interesting aspect of the unfolding war is the ongoing propaganda struggle. It starts out with students at elite universities blaming the whole thing on Israel; sort of like the people explaining a murderer’s actions by his bad childhood. Then, when major donors and employers react negatively, they find that the tactics of cancel culture can actually work against them. You hear a lot less “Glory to the Martyrs” chanting now. That instructor at Stanford who ordered all his Jewish students to stand in a corner for being “colonizers” didn’t seem to get a positive result for his actions.

The hospital bombing is a case in point. At first the media was pushing the Palestinian narrative, but now only professional twits like the “squad” are sticking to it.