Contending with the substanceless “human shields” argument by Israeli war crimes apologists

Apologists of Israel’s war crimes and genocidal acts against Palestinian people disingenuously throw down the term “human shields” as a justification for Israel’s mass killing of civilians.  They provide no factual qualification or definition of human shields because they lack the substance to do so. It’s a distraction and a logical fallacy – a conclusion without a premise based on facts. They are fully aware that they cannot legally justify Israel’s blatant, indiscriminate killing of civilians, so they seek to […]