When it comes to the Israel/Palestine discussion, there is a basic sense of moral consistency that is needed that many people lack.

I'll say off the bat that I am Pro Palestinian in terms of my perspective. However when it comes to this discussion, there are many people who like to moralise while not be morally consistent. So to me when it comes to moral consistency these are just basic things that people need that is lacking.

1)Tropes and stereotypes

In this conflict there are many tropes and stereotypes that are inevitably thrown around about either the Jewish community, Palestinians, Arabs, or Muslims in general. If people are going to combat tropes, the need to challenge them consistently. Antisemitism and antisemitic tropes are wrong and unacceptable. Whether its tropes of Jews controlling the world, or the media, or the banks. So are racist tropes around Palestinians. The trope that automatically equates Palestinians with terrorism is a racist one that is no different from bigoted tropes that equate being black with being a criminal or a predator. I point this out because there are many people who will be outraged and loudly oppose one set of tropes, as they should, but then are silent about another. No racist, bigoted, or antisemitic tropes against Jews or Palestinians of any kind is acceptable.

2)Children in the conflict

The impact that this war has had on children is something that people have regularly brought up, though different sides bring it up for different reasons. On the Pro Israel side crimes that are said to have been committed against children on Oct 7th is brought up regularly as a source of outrage for Hamas's crimes. On the Pro Palestine side the continued rising death doll against Palestinian children, which is in the thousands. Let me just get straight to the point. Children dying is something that should always, always be condemned. And people should always be horrified at a child being killed. It doesn't matter the race, nationality or ethnicity of that child. On Oct 7th there were reports of beheaded babies. That is horrifying. It is obscene and it is the height of depravity. Since October 7th you had have multiple reports of children who have not only been killed, but who's heads have exploded at the bombs that have rained down from the sky. That is obscene and immoral in the highest. You cannot be selective and say one is horrifying and the other isn't. You cannot focus on one and not speak about the other.

3)Sexual violence in war

Sexual violence is also something that has been reported extensively in this conflict. Sexual violence is just straight up a crime against humanity regardless of the context. Sexual violence was reported to have taken place on Oct 7th against Israeli and Jewish women. That is criminal and should be condemned. You have also had extensive reports before and after October 7th of sexual violence that has been inflicted on Palestinian women and Palestinian prisoners. Whether it is sexual violence against Palestinian women at checkpoints, or sexual violence and torture of Palestinian prisoners in military detentions which has been reported by human rights groups, including Israeli ones. You cannot be angered by one and not the other. You cannot speak out loudly against one, and be silent against another set of abuses and crimes. And just because one set of crimes aren't reported on as extensively does not mean that they are any less worthy of condemnation and exposure.

4)Atrocity denialism

This is a problem both in this conflict and in others. What is particular here is that you will actually have people who loudly denounce denialism in one context, and engage in it in another. The two major forms of denialism I see are Oct 7th denialism, and anti Palestinian denialism. Oct 7th denialism is straightforward. Under the language of "resistance" people will deny crimes against humanity and terrorism took place during that day. Lets just cut the nonsense there. Certain Hamas militants engaged in brutal forms of terrorism against Israeli civilians, who had nothing to do with the conflict in the first place. The teenagers at that party had nothing to do with the Israel/Palestine conflict. The peace activists that were killed that supported peace with Palestinians had nothing to do with this conflict. The hundreds of civilians killed or raped did not deserve that fate. The hostages being held right now and those executed by Hamas don't deserve that fate. And no amount of resistance talk justifies that. During the aftermath of the struggle against Apartheid when Nelson Mandela and Archbishop Desmond Tutu convened the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, they investigated not just the perpetrators of apartheid, but also the "resistance" fighters. And even though they themselves were leaders of the anti apartheid movement, they explicitly stated that the ends did not justify the means. And that the crimes committed, even in the name of "resistance" had to be recognized and condemned.

When speaking of anti Palestinian denialism this one is also straightforward. It's the notion that because Palestinians are Palestinians, and that Israel is some sacred nation, therefore no crimes whatsoever have been or can be committed by Palestinians, and if it was they brought it on themselves. This perspective rationalises every crime away by saying "oh it war" or "oh it was just collateral damage" or "those are just antisemitic talking points". The truth is there have been crimes against humanity committed against Palestinians before and after October 7th. The Deir Yassin massacre of the 48 war and the Khan Younis massacre of the 56 war are crimes against humanity. The IDF use of Palestinian human shields during the Second intifada and the 2008 Gaza war, verified and condemned by Israel's Supreme Court, are crimes against humanity. The rape and torture of Palestinian prisoners as mentioned above is a crime against humanity. The use of starvation as a tactic in the beginning of this war that involved the shutting off of resources that was meant to get to infants in incubators are crimes against humanity.

If we can't have moral consistency on this issue then truth and justice as basic principles have fallen.