@Mookie Spitz, I think you hit the nail on the head with this question: "I’m simply trying to understand why, say, an LGBTQ+ person supports Hamas, when their ideology is the most homophobic on the planet? Or why Gaza experienced “genocide,” and not Syria, Yemen, Sudan, or the dozens of other hot spots across the globe?"

Israel, unlike most governments currently engaged in serious warfare against non-peer opponents, isn't a dictatorship. It has, as you said later, a substantial Haaretz segment of its population, meaning Western-oriented or even European-oriented liberals. The result is that the people in Gaza still have cell phone service using Israeli cell towers, they have access to real-time information about the world outside Gaza and outside Israel, and they are able to transmit videos and photos of military operations that gain sympathy for their cause.

Yes, things were awful under many authoritarian dictatorships. But unlike those other countries that do horrible things to their people or to oppressed minority groups, Israel doesn't have heavyhanded control even its own media run by Jewish Israeli citizens, let alone the media of other people.

Result? Jewish people use some of the most restrained tactics possible for military operations in urban terrain, and get blamed for the inevitable casualties all over the Western media, while far worse military tactics of authoritarian dictatorships get nearly no attention.

Result: "It's the Jews' fault." Or the politer version that often means the same thing: "It's the Zionists' fault."

Rubbish. The fault belongs to the terrorists who committed unspeakable atrocities. Israel is conducting a just war of self defense.