She said that an Israeli journalist said that he/she felt more compassion for the child because the child looked like him/her. You know, journalists who decide to spread the story all over the world. The people who control the narrative. In response, you accused her of attacking white people and westerners, and called her a racist and xenophobe. I'm not sure how you felt you had a leg to stand on there.
What she said is her opinion, she gave her reasons for believing it to be true, and it honestly seems pretty obvious that there is truth to it. I know it's fashionable on the internet to accuse less fortunate people of being the real racists when they point out the shit they go through and all that, but what this woman said and her reason for saying it is so sensible and tame that anybody attacking her just comes across as a try hard.
Your confirmation bias is astounding. You don't have an iota of evidence to substantiate it, or contextualize it, and yet you believe it to be true. There isn't a hint of skepticism. Did you happen to inspect if other fair Palestinian children got global coverage, and "worldwide solidarity?" They were probably abused like the rest.
No, she doesn't get to hide behind the journalist's opinion. She said, "it's probably Ahmed's looks that prompted this worldwide solidarity, and that's racist by the way," and then in response to the Op-Ed, "So perhaps the world showed more solidarity because she looks like their children." That isn't a reference to people who don't look like Ahed. She has accepted this opinion and now advances it. I don't care that she hedges; she is doing the same thing Serena did, and begging the question...but
also offering an answer. She seats this in Israeli journalism, which is a separate culture, and then expands this to worldwide journalism, but with that parallel maintained; those journalists whose children look like Ahed. This a reference to white/fair-skinned journalists. Furthermore, her implication that they only cover Palestine's plight more favorably due to this suggests that they don't cover it favorably when this child's complexion
isn't like Ahed's (as with Israeli publications like Haaretz).
She's accusing whites belonging to cultures aligned with Israel and/or callous to Palestine of being callous because they're racist. That's racist. I don't care where it comes from. No more free passes. Slurring people as racist or bigots is itself a pejorative, so if you cast that allegation at a race, based merely on presumption, then you are the racist.
She's appropriating that western liberal rhetoric, that swill, and look at you! You're lapping it up. You can't help yourself.
