mass strike?

You should be ashamed to say that you no longer care about Israelis killed by Hamas. Assuming you are talking about citizens not soldiers, they are no more responsible for the actions of the IDF than Palestinian civilians are responsible for Hamas.

I would never say I don’t care about innocent Palestinian civilians being killed.

But the boycotting dates thing is nonsense.

What? Did you not know about the other 1200 slaughtered, raped, tortured and mutilated and the 7000 injured?

All the rockets continuously fired into Israel that only prevented thousands more deaths due to Israel having to create an unprecedented defence system no one other country in the world has to have due to all the attacks from Palestinians going back decades?

Or was that not enough to start a war in your book?

Wars end when one side surrenders or a ceasefire agreement is reached. Hamas doesn’t want to surrender and release the remaining 50 hostages, and Israel will only accept a ceasefire agreement which includes Hamas surrendering and releasing the 50 hostages (quite rightly), so why is your OP so one sided?

You don't understand the grounds on which strike action can be called do you? There are specific grounds for industrial action being taken. It has to relate to your employer and you can't strike in sympathy The Unions have to ballot for it. Then you have to reach an agreed level of union members voting for the strike and then you take the action. Seeing as local government workers didn't reach the threshold for strike action over pay just this week, you think that they will vote for and then strike and lose a day's pay even if it was a legal strike?

Maybe a general strike about the state of the UK instead

Always the same personal attacks.

How would this influence Netanyahu?? The only person who has any leverage over him is Trump. Why should we disrupt things in this country. You are very naive

Im free to my opinion.

Who said anything about not feeling anything when they see children suffering?

The hostages were brutally murdered. Utterly unforgivable.

As a complete nobody I am horrified by what happened but am equally heartbroken to see children starving. As I say, I am a complete nobody, I probably understand nothing of this but I wish some less cruel present and future could be found.

I did say why. It’s because I’m fed up with my colleagues saying ‘we’ must boycott Israeli companies. It pisses me off, so I buy the dates as a secret act of petty revenge.

Of course of course the hostages “lost their lives” … or you could say they were “brutally murdered” too?

If it’s any consolation we don’t buy dates as we don’t like them.

Could we go on strike and protest until Hamas treat their civilians like humans instead of deliberately utilising them as pawns.
Then also - the war is over if they release the remaining 200 hostages.

It is pretty hard to read about people stuffing down dates after seeing the cover of today's Daily Express.

And I think you'd be surprised how many people actually don't care at all about what's going on in the me. You might think from looking on here and sm that people are really passionate and opinionated on this subject....but the truth is there's huge numbers of people who really aren't very interested at all.

There is a genocide and mass starvation.

Shame on the Israeli government and their supporters.

In this country we are free to boycott Israeli goods!

I boycott Israeli dates, so does all my family.

If we had a strike every time there was conflict or war somewhere we'd always be on strike. There hasn't been a time since I've been alive that there hasn't been a war going on somewhere. In fact there has probably never been a time in the entire history of humankind that there hasn't been a war going on somewhere.

You sound like you’re reading from a script

There isn't a genocide and many posters talked about boycotting Israeli goods after the slaughter of Israelis. If you look back, I'm sure you will find the thread.

I buy Israeli dates on purpose because I’m fed up with hearing my colleagues saying ‘we’ should boycott this and that.

Exactly this. My family, friends and I must have been propping up the Israeli date business and we didn’t even like dates before but we do now!

What about Susan and Yemen OP, do you feel as strongly that we must do something to stop the wars there too?