Kotaku, Vice, IGN and plenty of other video game publications have hopped aboard the pro-Palestine, anti-Israel bandwagon without providing historical context or even a flimsy pretense of objective reporting. Clearly these people are more interested in scoring social just points and in their woke street cred than in video games. I’m not a diehard supporter of Israel by any means, but this conflict isn’t one-sided. There’s blood on the hands of Israelis and Palestinians, and leaving Hamas and terrorism out of reporting is basically just lying about the facts.
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My new piece on this subject: https://diabolical.substack.com/p/video-game-journalists-versus-israel
My article on Kotaku’s ‘call to action’: https://diabolical.substack.com/p/kotaku-posts-a-super-one-sided-call
My post on Anita Sarkeesian’s silly ‘settler colony’ nonsense: https://diabolical.substack.com/p/anita-sarkeesian-versus-israel
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Eric, Hamas firing rockets into Israel is irrelevant when they know they aren’t going to hit anything so to Israel invisible dome defense system.
There are no Hamas agents is in areas that Israel are bombing.
This isn’t a both sides shit.
“Why aren’t they articles mentioning Hamas tho?”
A “terrorist” organization doesn’t represent an entire state or their people. Just Hamas. Israel’s Defense DOES represent all the people for Israel because the actions are coming from Israel’s Government.
"There's blood on the hands of Israelis and Palestinians"
One side definitely has significantly more blood.
Gaming journalism is so screwed up and has been for quite some time. They've lost the plot. Instead of being consumer advocates, they've become political activists. I first became aware of you Erik, back during the ME3 ending debacle where you were the ONLY gaming journalists that was actually advocating for the consumers. You ackowledged our POV and said we had valid criticisms, whereas the rest of gaming journalists just dismissed us outright. I've not forgotten that. You're a stand up guy. Best regards Erik.
You're bang on Erik. It sucks, but the one sided reporting on this is borderline anti-Semitic.
Erik is quickly becoming one of my favorite journalists. He admittedly leans left but that doesn't come through with his reporting. That's rare nowadays.
I just want to play video games, talk current events and make fun of FTWD with Erik.
It's not that connected to the British. The zionist revival movement started in the 18th century. During the late 19th century Israel saw a massive influx of Jews. And after WW1 – once the British had control over Israel they were against Jewish immigration. In fact, google Petach Tikva (where I was born) – the first of the new Jewish cities outside the 7 walled biblical cities. Check when it was founded, long before 1948..