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THREAD. He has a point. Why would anyone whose own ethnic group isn't affected by it care about trying to stop the U.S. government from giving $14 billion to a far-right military whose leaked documents and public statements show that it intends a genocide and ethnic cleansing? 
Yglesias continues to marvel. Aside from not understanding how social movements work or the concept of solidarity, he again reveals something I've pointed out before: people like him find out about activism on an issue and assume that the activism happens in isolation.
Yglesias sees as people protesting an imminent genocide and he assumes they "care 1000x more about" it than many other things. It's hard to fathom for him, but a lot of people spend their lives *fighting injustices that are related to each other.*
That's why many of the people at these protests were in the streets in 2020, tried to stop the Iraq war, have been protesting the rise of fascism and imminent genocide in India, have been trying to stop mass incarceration, have been fighting against the U.S. war machine,
Trying to stop the militarization of the U.S. border, putting their lives on the line to block pipelines that are destroying the future of the earth, desperately trying to get people to pay attention to what the U.S. is supporting in Yemen, throughout Africa, etc....
His words are revealing. This isn't a "humanitarian issue." It's not some kind of natural disaster. What Israel does--theft of land, lynch mobs, Apartheid where Palestinians have few basic rights, the murder of 1000s of children--can only happen b/c of U.S. weapons.
A similar thing happened when Yglesias and others attacked the racial justice movement in 2020. They accused people of not caring about the "safety" of Black people and poor people, though many people he was talking about spent their lives trying to build safer communities.
It's a tactic of deflection by people safe enough to tolerate the status quo. They say "why don't you care about other injustices?" People throughout history fight injustices connected by greed, profit, hatred, bigotry, and indifference by *connecting their struggles together.*
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