This obviously isn't an original observation but I still think almost everyone is underestimating how much the Internet drives polarization on every controversial topic.

People with pro-Israel sympathies go on social media and see 24/7 coverage of antisemitic violence. People with pro-Palestinian sympathies go on social media and see 24/7 coverage of violence against Palestinians in Gaza or elsewhere.

This not only causes people to dig in on their existing biases, a small minority gets radicalized and engages in further violence. And once again this mainly gets seen by people on the other side of the debate.

@binarybits Look at the footage from October 7 and tell me the appropriate framing. Have you seen the footage?

@binarybits This is true but the problem is that progressive elites were happy to leverage this phenomenon when this was helping them asymmetrically; in the early Obama years conservatives were less online so online political energy was mostly "woke", mic et al