There’s objective collective punishment of Palestinians. That’s a simple fact. I don’t see “this is political” dismissal when people post about other controversial topics, such as Uyghurs and China.

Example posts - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26401715 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26217821 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23739567

Seems more like Israel is believed to be above criticism and there are active campaigns to silence that criticism.