The dust has still not settled on October 7 and there are many conflicting reports of what did and did not take place, but let us for the sake of argument take the reports of Hamas’s alleged acts at face value. Does it not stand to reason that Israel would find itself in the position of being beyond condemnation for the crimes it commits? It would not.

Roher’s documentary gave the game away seconds into its own run-time when the director asked his subject, with barely-contained glee, to imagine a life after his own inevitable assassination—that’s how enthusiastic and impatient Western leaders were to make a martyr out of Alexei Navalny. If I was in Pussy Riot I’d be sleeping with the lights on.

“China” is often the subject of Western ire, or at least the exaggerated “China” we’re sold by mainstream Western media, explains Jack Daniel Christie, but few in this part of the world ever turn their attention towards South Korea, a nation that seems to get by in the popular Western imagination with a cursory identification as a “liberal democracy.”

Despite endless cries of Russian “interference” and “meddling” in US elections, comparatively little attention is paid to much larger foreign movers and shakers in American political life. In 2018 alone, Israel spent at least $22 million on lobbying and campaign donations during that year’s election cycle. Where are the anxious reports on “Israelgate”? They’re nowhere to be found.