Depends on the timeline you’re looking at. Some western countries have calibrated their stance in recent years particularly.
It’s actually one of the positives of social media. Even just five to ten years ago Western media acted as a shield against truth, helping to promote dogmatic support for Israel even as it committed genocide.
Canada doesn’t really belong on this list, it has been fairly clearly pro Israel throughout most of the 21st century and before that.
Ireland has a unique experience with settler colonialism so tends to have a more balanced take amongst Western countries. More of a specific exception than the rule though.
Spain is somewhere in between but also an exception.
When I say the West I do mean more generally the majority of or the power centers within. Which would be the British empire (which created this mess) and its successor the American empire (which allows it to continue).
I’d also draw a distinction between the West in general and the Global South which, having borne the historical brunt of Western colonial genocide, displacement and theft, has been pro Palestinian throughout most of this conflict and didn’t need social media to see the reality of the situation.
Like Ireland, or Spain, or Canada?
Depends on the timeline you’re looking at. Some western countries have calibrated their stance in recent years particularly.
It’s actually one of the positives of social media. Even just five to ten years ago Western media acted as a shield against truth, helping to promote dogmatic support for Israel even as it committed genocide.
Canada doesn’t really belong on this list, it has been fairly clearly pro Israel throughout most of the 21st century and before that.
Ireland has a unique experience with settler colonialism so tends to have a more balanced take amongst Western countries. More of a specific exception than the rule though.
Spain is somewhere in between but also an exception.
When I say the West I do mean more generally the majority of or the power centers within. Which would be the British empire (which created this mess) and its successor the American empire (which allows it to continue).
I’d also draw a distinction between the West in general and the Global South which, having borne the historical brunt of Western colonial genocide, displacement and theft, has been pro Palestinian throughout most of this conflict and didn’t need social media to see the reality of the situation.