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Pro-Palestine Demos/ Marches

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sunflower1022 · 08/10/2025 20:30

Anyone who attended a pro-Palestine demonstration/ march yesterday, on the day of the second anniversary of the barbaric attacks, needs to check their moral compass.

Nothing else needs to be said, no whataboutery, nothing.

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Hohumhuee · 10/10/2025 22:33

Hamas was elected by the Palestinian people, they are their representatives. The ‘protests’ on the 7th were deliberate. Propaganda is such a powerful tool. If nothing else, Hamas and their supporters will be remembered in history for the effective use of propaganda in our modern age and the gullibility of large swathes of people. Scary stuff but sadly nothing new. I do believe the sheer idiocy will be acknowledged eventually, but at a cost.

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sunflower1022 · 10/10/2025 22:22

scorpiogirly · 10/10/2025 22:20

It isn't genocide. Palestine doesn't want to be free. This is not about land. They want to eliminate Israel and the Jewish state. They have bluntly told us this over and over again.

For those gobbling up the propaganda peddled by the likes of the BBC, I suggest you seek some alternative sources and do some research.

These marches are a disgrace.

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scorpiogirly · 10/10/2025 22:20

It isn't genocide. Palestine doesn't want to be free. This is not about land. They want to eliminate Israel and the Jewish state. They have bluntly told us this over and over again.

For those gobbling up the propaganda peddled by the likes of the BBC, I suggest you seek some alternative sources and do some research.

These marches are a disgrace.

Closetangel · 10/10/2025 22:16

sunflower1022 · 09/10/2025 22:05

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Wow an eye roll. Typical 🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄

HRTQueen · 09/10/2025 22:10

I have attend the protests

but this week was not the time to

there is an element form some of antisemitism on the protests i have been too which will be denied

it has to be acknowledged it’s part of the problem as we acknowledge the atrocities by the Isreali government and Hamas

Beanosaurus · 09/10/2025 22:09

I completely agree OP

Thegreyhound · 09/10/2025 22:08

Did anyone read the list of the names of over 18000 dead children in The Guardian this week? There were stories of some of the individual children and beautiful pictures of them smiling and playing.

Young lives cut short on an unimaginable scale: the 18,457 children on Gaza’s list of war dead

I’d march to protest against this, to try and stop this, to ask the government to stop funding this every single day of the week.

You don’t like people protesting the deaths of 18000 children? You do you.

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sunflower1022 · 09/10/2025 22:05

Closetangel · 09/10/2025 21:45

Israel are terrorists that's why

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Closetangel · 09/10/2025 21:45

Israel are terrorists that's why

Alittlefeedbackwouldbenice · 09/10/2025 11:52

deckchairmayhem · 09/10/2025 11:42

I think you re wrong about that.
Why does one atrocity get an anniversary when so many other equally abhorrent atrocities don't.

It's right that 7/10 should be commemorated. Likewise on a separate day for the suffering of the Gazans.

It's not about 'getting' an anniversary, that kind of just happens. If some atrocities don't get a commemorative day, there's nothing to stop you starting one. I mean it's national mouldy cheese day today, so these days exist from the most trivial to the most serious.

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sunflower1022 · 09/10/2025 11:48

deckchairmayhem · 09/10/2025 11:42

I think you re wrong about that.
Why does one atrocity get an anniversary when so many other equally abhorrent atrocities don't.

It doesn’t ‘get’ an anniversary!

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sunflower1022 · 09/10/2025 11:47

CompoCompoComp · 09/10/2025 11:41

Are we not done with these endless threads on whether or not people in this country should have the right to peaceful protest?
It seems like there is a deal that will end the slaughter in Gaza, so perhaps we could all just take a breather ?

I don’t think it’s as simple as that because Jewish people are currently at best feeling unwelcome in this country and at worst under threat.

It’s not right.

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deckchairmayhem · 09/10/2025 11:42

I think you re wrong about that.
Why does one atrocity get an anniversary when so many other equally abhorrent atrocities don't.

CompoCompoComp · 09/10/2025 11:41

Are we not done with these endless threads on whether or not people in this country should have the right to peaceful protest?
It seems like there is a deal that will end the slaughter in Gaza, so perhaps we could all just take a breather ?

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sunflower1022 · 09/10/2025 11:38

Alittlefeedbackwouldbenice · 09/10/2025 11:37

Think it's tasteless and I think it would be better if they were commemorated on separate days, where both can individually be given the attention they deserve.. I wouldn't go any further than that or make any assumptions on their motivations though.

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Well we can definitely agree that it’s tasteless.

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sunflower1022 · 09/10/2025 11:37

You’d hope the authorities ban it but it wouldn’t make a difference anyway, would it.

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Alittlefeedbackwouldbenice · 09/10/2025 11:37

sunflower1022 · 09/10/2025 11:29

Well you just said yourself that you would not be attending a march on the anniversary, so you obviously don’t agree with it either.

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Think it's tasteless and I think it would be better if they were commemorated on separate days, where both can individually be given the attention they deserve.. I wouldn't go any further than that or make any assumptions on their motivations though.

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sunflower1022 · 09/10/2025 11:35

MaturingCheeseball · 09/10/2025 11:33

Rather worryingly I see plans are for big Palestine protests on Remembrance Sunday. I’m not one for banning protests, but this shows that the protestors are just unpleasant full stop.

Deeply unpleasant.

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MaturingCheeseball · 09/10/2025 11:33

Rather worryingly I see plans are for big Palestine protests on Remembrance Sunday. I’m not one for banning protests, but this shows that the protestors are just unpleasant full stop.

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sunflower1022 · 09/10/2025 11:31

And there are absolutely people (and not a ‘small minority’) who went out on Tuesday to celebrate the 07th Oct attacks and intimidate the Jewish community by spouting their vile slogans.

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sunflower1022 · 09/10/2025 11:29

Alittlefeedbackwouldbenice · 09/10/2025 11:19

So when you were like, answer me this, why is no one answering me, why will no one give me an explanation?

And then I did, though explaining I wouldn't have done it, it's no I disagree.

I'm not sure why we bother frankly.

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Well you just said yourself that you would not be attending a march on the anniversary, so you obviously don’t agree with it either.

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Alittlefeedbackwouldbenice · 09/10/2025 11:19

sunflower1022 · 09/10/2025 11:18

I think it was absolutely an act of celebration and I wish people would stop with the fake excuses. Fucking own it.

So when you were like, answer me this, why is no one answering me, why will no one give me an explanation?

And then I did, though explaining I wouldn't have done it, it's no I disagree.

I'm not sure why we bother frankly.

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sunflower1022 · 09/10/2025 11:18

I think it was absolutely an act of celebration and I wish people would stop with the fake excuses. Fucking own it.

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Alittlefeedbackwouldbenice · 09/10/2025 11:09

sunflower1022 · 09/10/2025 11:02

I would seriously love to hear from the previous posters why those marches were held on Tuesday this week.

Anyone?

Because the actions of Israel have meant that 7/10 is now not just a date of an abominable terrorist act, but also marks the start of a revenge campaign of slaughter and genocide.

Saying that I think it is better to commemorate them on different days, that it's tasteless to do them on the same day, and wouldn't and didn't go to those marches. Actually I don't go to any of the matches, because the timings don't work with my child who has disabilities, and I don't live in a big city. But I wouldn't go to one on the anniversary unless it happened to be in a usual march day.