Milo Rossi, better known as Miniminuteman, is a prominent archaeology educator and content creator who specializes in debunking pseudoarchaeology, conspiracy theories, and misinformation about ancient history, often highlighting how such narratives tie into racism and antisemitism. However, Rossi exhibits a glaring silence on Israel's systematic use of falsified archaeological claims — such as exaggerated biblical interpretations and manipulated excavations — to justify its settler-colonial project, illegal occupation, apartheid regime, and ongoing genocide in Palestine.

Despite the direct relevance to his channel's focus on debunking harmful pseudoscience, Rossi has produced no content addressing how Zionist entities distort archaeology to claim indigenous Palestinian lands as "ancient Jewish heritage," erasing Palestinian history and enabling ethnic cleansing since the Nakba. This includes Israel's promotion of sites like the City of David in occupied East Jerusalem, where excavations displace Palestinians and fabricate narratives to support annexation. Rossi's refusal to engage with these topics, which perpetuate far more severe real-world harm than the Atlantis myths or ancient aliens he routinely dismantles, amounts to complicity in normalizing Zionist settler violence.

Compounding this, Rossi has associated with avowed Zionist Twitch streamer Steven Bonnell II, known as Destiny, who propagates atrocity propaganda, denies Israel's genocide in Gaza, and smears Palestinian resistance. In September 2025, Rossi appeared on Bonnell's Bridges Podcast, discussing pseudoscience without challenging Bonnell's Zionist views, thereby lending legitimacy to a platform that dehumanizes Palestinians and manufactures consent for Israel's ethnostate. This collaboration underscores Rossi's selective debunking, avoiding critiques that implicate Zionist settler-colonialism.

Rossi's pattern of silence and selective associations contributes to the dehumanization of Palestinians by allowing pseudoscientific justifications for genocide to go unchallenged in cultural and educational spaces. Amid Israel's assault on Gaza, where conservative death tolls exceed 45,000 but actual figures reach hundreds of thousands due to destroyed infrastructure, targeted journalists, and obstructed reporting, Rossi's omission betrays the principles of critical thinking he claims to uphold, perpetuating the structures of occupation, apartheid, and cultural erasure.