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People tearing down posters of Israeli hostages - what is this supposed to convey?

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WilmaWonka · 22/11/2023 13:02

Just seen another article about someone tearing down posters of kidnapped Israelis.

This time an apparently well known ‘feminist’ artist who stated that she was ‘getting rid of the shit’.

Posters of civilian women and children, many who’ve seen family members murdered horrifically in front of them and are being held captive by the very people who carried out those atrocities, experiencing god knows what horrors in captivity. There can’t be a logical expectation that a government that carried out brutal murders, gang rapes, mutilation, and burnt babies and children alive would be treating them humanely!

Obviously that’s her reason for doing so and there’s been many other videos and reports of people in the UK and other countries doing the same quite openly. I’m quite old and I’ve never seen anything like this in my life before.

Would this be happening if they weren’t Israelis?

Do these people not understand that the barbaric murders and kidnapping of Israelis was the reason this war started in the first place, do they think these kidnappings are fake news?

Are they trying to convey that these kidnappings don’t matter as the Palestinians have been held in an ‘open air prison’, in total ignorance of why Israel had to blockade itself from them for the protection of its civilians?

Really can’t get my head around it.

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feralunderclass · 22/11/2023 13:14

Largely people do not think the hostages are the reason the war started, the only ones thinking that are trying to ignore the last 75 years of conflict.
I've no idea why this would be a feminist matter?
Would this happen if they weren't Israelis?
Can't say for sure, but I assume any country that has a track record of Israel's would probably be viewed the same.

Echobelly · 22/11/2023 13:11

I think some people (wrongly) see it as saying 'Don't feel sorry for the Palestinians, feel sorry for the Israelis!' - personally I think we should be allowed to think of and remember both and however much a person might, quite right IMO, hate Israel's stance, there's no reason to be hateful about the victims of Hamas while you're at it.