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Icreatedausernameyippee · 03/10/2025 23:46

In the wake of the tragic events that took place in Manchester, I want to implore people not to lose steam or, more importantly, hope.

Gaza is still facing destruction, famine and genocide.

We need to continue to peacefully pressure our government to take action and sanction the Israeli government and to educate and inform people about the horrors faced by the Palestinian people day in and day out for the last two years.

People who opposed the liberation of Palestine want for this to be a turning point. For people to point the finger at a movement that wants to see the end of the suffering of millions and label it as inciting hate.

It's not.
And it's important.

Please don't put down your passion for Gaza.

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BeNattyKoala · 04/10/2025 13:00

NototerrorismIntheUK · 04/10/2025 12:58

Don't you realise Jewish people lived in those lands prior to the Ottoman empire, prior to Islam being thought up, prior to Christianity, and have lived there for many thousands of years. It wasn't all Palestinian land and there was no country or state called Palestine.

Indeed, they just don't get it at all. If only the "pro Palestine " mob would put their signs down and get a basic education and research the history of the area.

Kamek · 04/10/2025 13:00

Get on a plane then and piss off to Gaza and protest there.

MrsSkylerWhite · 04/10/2025 13:01

Icreatedausernameyippee · 04/10/2025 00:03

Empathy and sensitivity is what is driving the vast majority of people to speak out for Palestine.

I completely agree with you. Today, though, I think the Jewish community of the UK need the empathy and support of their countrymen and women. A clear demonstration of that would be a postponement.

Ablushingcrow · 04/10/2025 13:01

ShazMidlands · 04/10/2025 00:22

No I will not. Zionism means an Israel home for their women and children not an evil word to be condemned. Palestine is a state run by a terrorist organisation and most people on here wouldn't last 5 minutes in a place like Palestine with the human rights record there regardless of any war. Jewish people are quiet friendly people who integrate in western countries as are supposed " zionists" who simply want to live in a tiny country which is smaller than Wales. Look at Israel on a map - a tiny country where the people there wish to live in peace without their women and children butchered at a music festival.

Jewish people have lived in Israel for 3 thousand years long before the muslim caliphate invaded it in the 7th century murdering the people there -leave Israel alone you disgusting people. Israel is the homeland of Jewish people who lived there for 2500 years before Islam was even created.

Fantastic post. Thank you.

SonK · 04/10/2025 13:02

This argument should be Israel verses Palestine not Jews versus Muslims as there are Muslim, Christian and Jewish Palestinians living in Palestine...

The lack of basic knowledge on this thread...

inamarina · 04/10/2025 13:04

MaudlinGazebo · 04/10/2025 01:06

People who hate Jews = terrible, awfully sad but the fault of other Jews really, dreadful to see but only themselves to blame

People who “hate” Muslims = dreadful bigots

Have I got that right @Icreatedausernameyippee?

Or alternately, if it’s the fault of Israel that people hate Jews, which Muslim Government should take the blame if people hate Muslims?

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Well said.

NototerrorismIntheUK · 04/10/2025 13:04

Not sure if link opens so here is the text

As Jewish families mourned, the ‘globalise the intifada’ mobs came out. For shame.

Violence breaks out in Parliament Square during a pro-Palestine protest hours after two men were murdered in an attack on a synagogue in Manchester. Pictures in above story show the violence taking place against police

BeNattyKoala · 04/10/2025 13:05

Israel is a tiny little country surrounded by hostile states. All it wants to do is exist and live in peace contributing to many areas such as medicine, technology etc and we have people wanting them destroyed using the term zionism as an insult. No one seems to call out the horrific genocides occurring in muslim countries, but when Israel is invaded with children and women mutilated we hear " free Palestine" - a terrorist state which murders, tortures and rapes indiscriminately

When nazi Germany invaded the west many innocent German people were caught up in the bombings - it's called war not genocide. Israel could flatten Palestine like a pancake overnight if it wanted to as a nuclear armed country but it attempts to target Hamas - yes innocents are affected but it isn't intentional or genocide. Palestine is DELIBERATELY targeting women and children you vile ghouls.

SunnySideDeepDown · 04/10/2025 13:05

Icreatedausernameyippee · 04/10/2025 00:10

I think the attack was an act of anger. I think it was a clearly disturbed individual. I think it was harmful to a good cause.
I think the blame lies with the perpetrator.
Not with the people calling for an end to a formally recognised genocide.

Anger to who though? Why should an innocent Jewish man be murdered because someone is angry with a war in another country?

Why are Jews to blame again!!

Icreatedausernameyippee · 04/10/2025 13:06

BeNattyKoala · 04/10/2025 12:50

I'm not dodging anything, the equivalent would be Palestinians living next to Israel in Gaza which is what was happening but they invaded Israel, kidnapped and murdered Israeli women and children. Do you think if native Americans did that to present day European descended Americans, they would just sit about singing kum by yah and there would be protests saying " Free the native Americans".

Are you quite alright?
Israel had effectively turned Gaza into an open air prison. They had been occupying more and more land on Gaza and the West bank for decades. Children had been indiscriminately killed by Israel for years before October 7th. In fact in the week leading upto October 7th, 84 people were forced out of their land - the UN condemned this action.
Between 2008 and 2023, 4000 Palestinians Were killed by Israel. Strikes were carried out on schools and hospitals repeatedly.

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Icreatedausernameyippee · 04/10/2025 13:07

Kamek · 04/10/2025 13:00

Get on a plane then and piss off to Gaza and protest there.

We can't. Israel won't let anyone in or out. Including journalists. Why is that?

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HaimishaPickle · 04/10/2025 13:07

DomPom47 · 04/10/2025 12:54

Yep there are indeed Land Back movements — and some small parcels of land have been returned — but they’re a drop in the ocean compared to the scale of colonisation. Those cases don’t undo the displacement, cultural erasure, and systemic inequality that still exist today.

So not actually considered mad or never going to happen as you previously stated? That's quite the backpedal. So it is possible to engage with a process of traditional land reclamation and recognition without trying to do it by force with suicide bombings, car rammings, shootings, stabbings, firing thousands of missiles for years, beheadings, deliberately maximising the deaths and suffering of the very people you claim to be fighting for, slaughtering families in kibbutzes and massacring people at a music festival and taking hostages? Who knew?

BeNattyKoala · 04/10/2025 13:07

Icreatedausernameyippee · 04/10/2025 13:06

Are you quite alright?
Israel had effectively turned Gaza into an open air prison. They had been occupying more and more land on Gaza and the West bank for decades. Children had been indiscriminately killed by Israel for years before October 7th. In fact in the week leading upto October 7th, 84 people were forced out of their land - the UN condemned this action.
Between 2008 and 2023, 4000 Palestinians Were killed by Israel. Strikes were carried out on schools and hospitals repeatedly.

Israel has never deliberately attacked women and children unlike your fantastic Palestine state - you are supporting a state run by a terrorist organisation ffs

Icreatedausernameyippee · 04/10/2025 13:09

SunnySideDeepDown · 04/10/2025 13:05

Anger to who though? Why should an innocent Jewish man be murdered because someone is angry with a war in another country?

Why are Jews to blame again!!

Jews aren't to blame.
But Benny Yahoo keeps bleating on about how he's doing what he's doing for the Jews, because he's Jewish. He is the one conflating his evil actions with being Jewish.
A deranged individual has taken that narrative and run with it.
That's why it's important to separate being Jewish with the Israeli government.

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Bananadramaa · 04/10/2025 13:11

BeNattyKoala · 04/10/2025 13:07

Israel has never deliberately attacked women and children unlike your fantastic Palestine state - you are supporting a state run by a terrorist organisation ffs

You are a bit misinformed there.

WineBeforeWhine · 04/10/2025 13:12

Jews aren’t blame, the terrorist group that is Hamas are to blame! When will people realise this?

NototerrorismIntheUK · 04/10/2025 13:12

SonK · 04/10/2025 13:02

This argument should be Israel verses Palestine not Jews versus Muslims as there are Muslim, Christian and Jewish Palestinians living in Palestine...

The lack of basic knowledge on this thread...

The Gaza Strip. The area that Hanas control and in conflict with Israel breakdown as folliws:

Ethnic groups
Palestinian/Arab 98.7%
Religions
Sunni Muslim 98–99%, Arab Christians 0.2% (2,000 to 3,000 est.), other, unaffiliated, unspecified <1.0% (2012 est.).

In 2006 Israel pulled its citizens out of Gaza and left it to Hamas, they have since run a pretty poor show for their people looking to terrorism rather than looking after its citizens, so the world aid did that for them. Hamas are no good for anyone really.

HTH

Icreatedausernameyippee · 04/10/2025 13:12

BeNattyKoala · 04/10/2025 13:07

Israel has never deliberately attacked women and children unlike your fantastic Palestine state - you are supporting a state run by a terrorist organisation ffs

BOLD LIE.
Children playing on beaches have been shot and years prior killed prior to October 7th.

Women and children have been shot on their way to collect aid since.

British doctors have spoken out about how teenage boys in Palestine have been shot in the testicles like a sick target practice.

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BeNattyKoala · 04/10/2025 13:14

Bananadramaa · 04/10/2025 13:11

You are a bit misinformed there.

There's a difference between innocent people killed in a war and deliberately targeting them. Why do you think the war is going on for so long, do you not think Israel could end this overnight if it wanted to? If Palestine had the weapons Israel had, there would be no Israel, that's the difference..everyone there would be dead

NototerrorismIntheUK · 04/10/2025 13:14

Icreatedausernameyippee · 04/10/2025 13:07

We can't. Israel won't let anyone in or out. Including journalists. Why is that?

Go in via the huge border with Egypt. Oh wait, Egypt closed that....wonder why

BeNattyKoala · 04/10/2025 13:16

Icreatedausernameyippee · 04/10/2025 13:12

BOLD LIE.
Children playing on beaches have been shot and years prior killed prior to October 7th.

Women and children have been shot on their way to collect aid since.

British doctors have spoken out about how teenage boys in Palestine have been shot in the testicles like a sick target practice.

Innocent lives are always caught up in war, if you think the IDF deliberately kill women and children you're falling for the same propagandist bs the green haired pronoun ghouls on the pro palestine march believe

DomPom47 · 04/10/2025 13:17

BeNattyKoala · 04/10/2025 13:05

Israel is a tiny little country surrounded by hostile states. All it wants to do is exist and live in peace contributing to many areas such as medicine, technology etc and we have people wanting them destroyed using the term zionism as an insult. No one seems to call out the horrific genocides occurring in muslim countries, but when Israel is invaded with children and women mutilated we hear " free Palestine" - a terrorist state which murders, tortures and rapes indiscriminately

When nazi Germany invaded the west many innocent German people were caught up in the bombings - it's called war not genocide. Israel could flatten Palestine like a pancake overnight if it wanted to as a nuclear armed country but it attempts to target Hamas - yes innocents are affected but it isn't intentional or genocide. Palestine is DELIBERATELY targeting women and children you vile ghouls.

Israel has the right to exist and for its people to live safely — for me that’s not in dispute. But Palestinians also have that same right, which has been systematically denied for decades through occupation, settlement expansion, military control, and displacement. Wanting Palestinian rights recognised isn’t the same as “wanting Israel destroyed.”

Criticism of political Zionism — the policies and practices of the Israeli state (particularly this current Israeli coalition led by the most morally upright President)— isn’t the same as antisemitism. Many Jewish people themselves criticise Zionism as it’s been applied by the Israeli government. Opposing apartheid, occupation, or ethnic cleansing doesn’t equate to hating Jewish people.

Atrocities in countries like Syria, Yemen, and Sudan have rightly been widely condemned by human rights groups and international media. Acknowledging Palestinian suffering doesn’t erase other tragedies — people are capable of caring about multiple injustices at once. These wars/atrocities/conflicts do not get called a genocide as it doesn’t meet the legal definition.

When thousands of civilians — especially children — are being killed in a besieged, blockaded area with nowhere safe to go, it crosses the line from “war” to crimes against humanity. Many international legal experts, UN officials, and human rights bodies have said the scale and nature of Israel’s actions in Gaza meets the definition of genocide. Intent matters — but so does disproportionate force and collective punishment.

Hamas have committed war crimes — there’s no question about that. But conflating all Palestinians with Hamas is inaccurate and dangerous. Most Palestinians are civilians who want to live freely and safely, not participants in violence.

There is a massive power imbalance - Israel is one of the most militarily advanced countries on earth, backed by billions in U.S. aid. Palestinians, meanwhile, live under occupation and blockade. Saying “Israel could wipe them out but doesn’t” isn’t a moral defense — it underscores how asymmetrical the situation is. And Israel does not need to have all Palestinians murdered for that to be a genocide - look at the example of Bosnia where under 10,000 boys/men were murdered a this was a genocide.

Bananadramaa · 04/10/2025 13:17

BeNattyKoala · 04/10/2025 13:14

There's a difference between innocent people killed in a war and deliberately targeting them. Why do you think the war is going on for so long, do you not think Israel could end this overnight if it wanted to? If Palestine had the weapons Israel had, there would be no Israel, that's the difference..everyone there would be dead

Yes I mean you are misinformed about Israel not deliberately targeting innocent people in Palestine for decades.

BeNattyKoala · 04/10/2025 13:18

The reality is the people supporting Palestine wouldn't last 5 minutes there before October 7th - a terrorist run hellhole with no human rights, no safety for women or children compared to Israel - a country with low crime, low rapes, low murders etc. "Free Palestine " .. utterly clueless

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