I get what the article is trying to say but it really seems to ignore or to try to overlook a sizable chunk of history in the region in an effort to come off as befuddled as why this would ever happen.

The article jumps back and forth making it a bit hard to quote but here’s a section of it

That there was no pause even for provisional pity among the progressive supporters of Hamas in the west is scarcely less shocking than the pitiless acts themselves. Allow the fallacious narrative that Zionists dropped out of a clear blue sky to occupy someone else’s country, and you would still expect some inhalation of breath, some space for shock or sorrow, some admission that when they shouted, “From the river to the sea, Palestine shall be free”, even the most fervent anti-Zionists never envisaged freedom-taking in quite so bloody a form. But no. Ere yet that blood had dried, the victims of this unimaginable horror were normalised into burglars who had broken into someone else’s house and got what they deserved. Hard cheese. If you don’t want to be cut down at a music festival, opined one Soas-educated scholar, how about, “don’t have musical festivals on stolen land?”