The short answer is that the US is a direct supporter of Israel, that Israel’s genocidal war against Gaza is funded by US taxpayer money, with US representative

The short answer is that the US is a direct supporter of Israel, that Israel’s genocidal war against Gaza is funded by US taxpayer money, with US representatives speaking for genocide in the name of their constituents. The longer answer is that the Gaza genocide the the big atrocity of this decade. It is has a large publicity, it is of a larger scale, there are so many stories around it, scandals, etc. that it catches the media attention very easily. Plus people tend to sympathize when they hear stories like that. But the real answer is that people don’t really care about whataboutism. Just because they care about one issue, that doesn’t mean they must care about every issue.