Many pro-Palestinians DO actually support Hamas

OP your post doesn't seem to make sense. You say there are all these people supposedly supporting Hamas, but then you say they won't admit it because they're afraid of exposing themselves as supporters of evil - why would people be supporting something they considered evil? Unless you're saying they are secretly evil as well and that's why they secretly support them? Who are all these evil people? I just don't understand how you're reaching your conclusions. It's like you've gone down a rabbit hole.

Or maybe you just think everyone who doesn't agree with you 100% must be an evil Hamas supporter?

No one thinks the Israeli hostage situation was anything other than horrific. Unfortunately it was never a priority for Netanyahu to get the hostages back, he was the one who didn't care or prioritise them and I think that was a terrible, terrible thing for those poor people. It's also terrible that Jewish people around the world are being targeted, that is a terrible thing too.

What's also terrible is that children are starving and being shot in Gaza and people calling them 'the sadder faces on SM' is really cold and heartless. So many people seem to have lost all compassion, even to the point where they have become completely racist - on another thread a poster was saying Arabs shouldn't be allowed to lead their own countries. There is so much hatred and 'if you're not 100% with us then you must be 100% against us'.

I just think the whole situation is very, very sad.

Of all of the threads I’ve been on- people have openly condemned Hamas, including myself.

Yes, many do.

What is this more sinister cause? I have Jewish friends who also go on the marches. There's massive support from Ireland for the Palestinians because the Irish were driven off their land and experienced famine. This situation goes way beyond Hamas and goes back a long way. The British have dirty hands in this situation, starting with the Balfour declaration. You don't have to support Hamas to want a ceasefire and a peaceful settlement.

And I think people do like a simple goodie v baddie cause...it is like a football match. They don't want nuance or complicated issues to consider. They want to pick a side...and who should they pick? How should they decide? Well who looks sadder on social media posts?

But this is not what is happening.

The narrative is not at all on how Hamas is continuing to behave and how they are currently causing the suffering of Gazans for their own purposes. Instead all the blame is going on Israel, with no context as to how Israel are constrained by or responding to the action of Hamas, or how Hamas could reduce the inevitable suffering that is caused to civilians in war, but is instead deliberately ensuring Gazan civilian suffering. And how Hamas promises to commit more October 7th atrocities in the future.

Instead their is a complete silence on how Hamas is an active agent in the devastation in Gaza. But much noise about Israel.

I think you're right op. I also think a proportion of them are just useful idiots who have seen footage from Gaza and think it's sad and can't see beyond that at all. They have been brainwashed by a far more sinister cause.

This isn't a football match where you pick side and blindly support them.

It is perfectly possible to be appalled by the actions of both Hamas and the Israeli government

I agree.

Hamas have been completely written out the narrative by these people. As if Israel has not been reacting and responding to Hamas's actions ever since Hamas started this war on October 7th. They had to write Hamas out of the narrative to be able to present Israel as the bad guy.

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Agree.

And as for ‘queers for Palestine’ - the mind boggles.

What worries me more is that a lot of people marching for "peace" have been brainwashed into a somewhat one-sided view of what peace looks like, and who for. The first "pro-P" demo in London (14 Oct) was applied for on 7 October as the attacks were unfolding, suggesting a deliberate effort to control the narrative and present the atrocities as a kind of freedom protest. DARVO indeed.

It's possible. I'm hearing some troubling things irl.

Agree, it’s crazy.

I agree, but I think MN is a difficult place to express this without being labelled a child murderer.