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What’s your prediction of the next cause the ‘activists’ are going to move into, after Gaza?

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Dangeos · 18/10/2025 17:56

Seems like they’re getting bored of Palestine now that it’s a bit awkward talking about Hamas killing Palestinians in the streets.

so what do we think the next big cause is that they’re going to move onto? Do we think they'll finally bother to start talking about the awful crisis in Sudan? Or is there a trendier topic emerging?

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Gloriia · 20/10/2025 16:51

Whammyyammy · 20/10/2025 16:33

After just stop oil and free Palestine, I imagine most could do with a reapplication of green/blue hair dye and a bath.
Hopefully followed by a job

Grin
DonnaHadDee · 20/10/2025 16:46

Hopefully being more aware of the ongoing killing and ethnic cleansing in the West Bank. It has been very much overlooked in the horror of Hamas atrocities and the mass killings of women and children by the IDF.

JaneJeffer · 20/10/2025 16:37

I heard they were going to petition MN for a thumbs down button

Swiftie1878 · 20/10/2025 16:35

I was in London at the weekend. All the noise outside Downing Street was about Digital IDs.

Whammyyammy · 20/10/2025 16:33

After just stop oil and free Palestine, I imagine most could do with a reapplication of green/blue hair dye and a bath.
Hopefully followed by a job

Dangeos · 20/10/2025 16:25

I volunteer at a soup kitchen in town most weekends.

But anyway yes the people who suspect that Digital ID is going to become the new thing, I reckon you’re onto something there.

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WildLimePoet · 20/10/2025 13:04

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CountFucula · 20/10/2025 12:20

There’s a word for people who will never ever stop the activism for Palestine and aren’t working towards a peaceful solution: antisemites

stomachamelon · 20/10/2025 12:19

@Custardcream84i would be ashamed to know someone I loved was writing hateful crap like that to people they don’t know. Your last paragraph is vile. You don’t know my story anymore than I know yours. I have family there who have been through so much. I honestly don’t know why you think writing that is ok.

sabababa · 20/10/2025 12:01

MaturingCheeseball · 20/10/2025 11:55

This sounds worryingly like a person who is not keen for peace.

Kinda like that chant:
We dont want no two state
We want 48

Aka never ending conflict

MaturingCheeseball · 20/10/2025 11:55

CaptainMyCaptain · 20/10/2025 11:53

This. It's not over yet.

This sounds worryingly like a person who is not keen for peace.

CaptainMyCaptain · 20/10/2025 11:53

verybighouseinthecountry · 18/10/2025 20:07

I don't think people will ever stop the activism for Palestine, sorry to disappoint you OP.

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This. It's not over yet.

sabababa · 20/10/2025 11:15

PuttingOnTheKitsch · 19/10/2025 20:13

The conflict in Palestine started long before October 7th

September 2023 was the deadliest year on record for children in the West Bank.

https://www.savethechildren.net/news/2023-marks-deadliest-year-record-children-occupied-west-bank

The IDF needs no excuse for slaughtering Palestinian children. They've been doing it for decades.

Yeah, we could go back almost 100 years to the Hebron massacre and ethnic cleansing as an example.

sabababa · 20/10/2025 11:11

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So 25 years ago during the 2nd intifada when hamas was blowing up buses and cafes, what were you protesting? Were you protesting that Palestinians should accept Barak's offer? Or Olmert's offer?

The fact that you state you will never stop, no matter what, speaks volumes. Seems to be part of your identity.

Salvadoridory · 20/10/2025 11:08

Maybe they will become as disingenuous and goady as the OP. But its not likely, most people just aren't that unpleasant. Just say what you really want to say, the fact you wrap it up in this crap just shows you know what you really believe might not be ok outside of the bubble which you exist in.

JHound · 20/10/2025 10:51

Dangeos · 18/10/2025 17:56

Seems like they’re getting bored of Palestine now that it’s a bit awkward talking about Hamas killing Palestinians in the streets.

so what do we think the next big cause is that they’re going to move onto? Do we think they'll finally bother to start talking about the awful crisis in Sudan? Or is there a trendier topic emerging?

Do you care about Sudan or is this Whataboutism?

I don't think people who care about the situation in Palestine will ever stop caring. But there will be highs and lulls in tandem with outbreaks of violence in that region.

People will stop 'caring' once it's fully resolved (which won't happen in our lifetimes.)

Custardcream84 · 20/10/2025 10:40

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VivienneDelacroix · 20/10/2025 08:40

BeLoyalCoralHiker · 20/10/2025 07:37

I used to work for a housing charity and it’s bitterly hilarious how homeless people go from being alcoholics and druggies who secretly have money and shouldn’t be allowed to have dogs, to the most worthy cause in the UK and one that it is patriotic to support, at the drop of a hat.

A massive proportion of the adults we worked with did have drug and alcohol problems and some were not taking up places in accommodation because it was conditional on participation in addiction treatment, so actually substance abuse as a cause should be given as much attention as housing.

Except those who bleat "we need to look after our own" are the ones who are least likely to help anyone, and in the next breath are taking about how they're sick of paying for those who don't work.
People who don't care about others don't care about others. There's no grey area.

VivienneDelacroix · 20/10/2025 08:36

Catssuddenlyappear · 19/10/2025 00:04

Yeah, what a dreadful bunch of people. Complete arseholes for risking imprisonment, job loss etc for carding about genocide

(Sarcasm if that wasn't obvious)

This is a post that needs reposting.
Absolutely this. 👏👏👏

FrenchBunionSoup · 20/10/2025 08:17

My guesses would be:
A) anti-AI and/or pro-Universal Basic Income; and
B) Disability discrimination, but in a way that is going to make things much worse for disabled people.

Soukmyfalafel · 20/10/2025 08:08

WeAreOnTheRoadToNowhere · 20/10/2025 07:11

They will be waiting for instructions re what their next belief should be. Friend of mine (socialist worker) gets bused around the country marching.
Never was useful idiot so appropriate
I think it is about appearing virtuous and believing themselves to be a 'good person'
Once they have decided who is the oppressor and who is the oppressed they can justify any behaviour. That's how they shout at and abuse women who are meeting to discuss women's rights. They are oppressors so all abusive behaviour is acceptable

Confused about this one. MN really is getting filled with automated garbage right now. Doesn't even make any sense.

Soukmyfalafel · 20/10/2025 08:03

Bit of an immature, pathetic thread OP. Says more about you as a person than the people supporting Palestine.

War, taking people hostage and the mass killing of women and children is not superficial, gossip column material. Grow up.

gannett · 20/10/2025 07:54

starsinthedarksky · 18/10/2025 18:40

And what are you doing to help homelessness in the UK?

OP never came back after being asked this, how curious.

BeLoyalCoralHiker · 20/10/2025 07:37

I used to work for a housing charity and it’s bitterly hilarious how homeless people go from being alcoholics and druggies who secretly have money and shouldn’t be allowed to have dogs, to the most worthy cause in the UK and one that it is patriotic to support, at the drop of a hat.

A massive proportion of the adults we worked with did have drug and alcohol problems and some were not taking up places in accommodation because it was conditional on participation in addiction treatment, so actually substance abuse as a cause should be given as much attention as housing.

Namechang44 · 20/10/2025 07:27

Trying to downplay the undeniable genocide and breaking of international law by Netanyahu with your title, isn’t going to work. It will go down in history.