This framing is simply a get-out-of-jail card, primarily because its a logical soup. It makes sense to those who agree with you but none at all to those who don't.

The word 'condemnation' has become a trope that invalidates all discussion regarding legitimacy and objectivity. In a war of ideas its the nuclear option.

Israel marks October 7th as ‘the darkest day in Jewish history since the end of the Holocaust’ and I respect that. I am fully convinced that what is now being perpetrated against the Palestians can legitimately be classed as another holocaust - the parallels are so striking.