Opinion: Israel's TV comedians are helping to fuel the hate machine

Orly Noy, writer and activist, argues in her latest column for Middle East Eye that Israeli TV comedians are resorting to the "complete dehumanisation of Palestinians in Gaza".

She writes: "Fascism does not suddenly appear overnight. It is created through a long process in which a society chooses “national resilience” over criticism, a soothing lie over painful truth, and national morale over collective soul-searching.

A culture of fascism is not created by rotten leadership, but by all those people who enlist in the machinery of silencing, hiding, distorting, and dehumanising the “other” in the name of unity.

If they really wanted to contribute something significant to the public debate, the folks at A Wonderful Country could, for example, dedicate their programme to the fate of the more than 200 hostages still in the hands of Palestinian fighters, as the cries of their families disappear amid the noise of war and the joy of revenge."

You can read the column below.