Opinion: What about Sudan? The new talking point to distract from Israel's Gaza horrors

Less than a month into Israel’s war on Gaza, pro-Israel social media accounts, some of them based in India and since suspended, suddenly decided they were very concerned by what was happening in Sudan.
 
Why, these accounts asked, did the world not care about a war that had been raging since April 2023?
 
On the Telegram channel of Hananya Naftali, who has been working for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in his digital team, the right-wing influencer declared that “there is zero interest in civilians murdered in Sudan”. 

"It’s clear now – the outcry for Palestinians often masks a deeper hatred for Jews. No Jews, no news," Naftali wrote. 
 
At other times, pro-Israel accounts have claimed a direct link between the armed movements fighting Israel in Gaza and Lebanon, and Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), which is at war with the Sudanese army and has been widely accused of carrying out an ongoing genocide against “non-Arab groups” in Darfur.

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