Please continue to protest!

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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.

I don't need to make anything up when your own words are right there, no amount of rewriting and redefining your meaning can change that, people can make their own minds up.

At some point, these people will have to have a reckoning with themselves. But to be honest, if it hasn't happened after the terror attack in Manchester, maybe they are a lost cause.

The attack in Manchester yesterday was abhorrent. I personally believe marches should have been postponed.
Do you agree that the murder of thousands of innocent children in Gaza is equally abhorrent?

Can you spell out clearly for me what I said which you feel is supportive of terrorism please? I’d like to call you out on what you are saying as it’s pretty serious to call someone a terrorist supporter.

I've detailed my own personal reasons. I cannot speak for everyone else.

OP why do you have "a passion for Gaza" as opposed to a passion for Xinjiang or South Yemen or South Sudan?

And could you and your fellow passionate advocates for Gaza not have reined in the passion for just a few days, to allow our Jewish communities to grieve and remember and commemorate this savage antisemitic attack on Yom Kippur? Could you not even done that, rather than continuing to show everyone how virtuous you are?

The protests are in support of stopping the Gaza war

Your post suggests you support the murder and genocide of all those in Gaza just because you don’t agree with their beliefs ??

Wow
Im glad most people don’t have such moral superiority

I've already made it extremely clear and I'm going to stop engaging with it now so as not to take the thread further off track.

And the fact they haven’t been postponed…what does that tell you about the people participating?

Wtf? Why are you asking me to make a moral equivalency? Are you saying that it's fine to kill Jews in a peaceful country because Muslims are being killed in a war somewhere else? Surely not.

Now is the time to recognise that your anti-Israel campaign has real consequences. Terrorists are emboldened. People are murdered. A very real fascistic terror squad wants to exterminate all Jews throughout the world. And you are going out with your placards and cheering them on.

That they are wrong in the circumstances. They should have postponed.

Do you agree that the murders of innocents in Gaza by the government of Israel is equally abhorrent?

Obviously, not.

Call the poster out because Mumsnet aren’t deleting the personal attacks and Islamophobia on this thread

Im shocked by some truly disgusting posts on this and the last thread on the marches.

I don’t go anywhere with placards, incidentally, because I don’t want my sympathy for the innocent civilians of Gaza to be confused for support of Hamas.

Baby raping? I think you’re going a bit too far with the rhetoric now.

Do you agree that Hamas using children as human shields while their leaders hide in tunnels is wrong? Do you agree that the barbaric attacks on Jews that started this war was wrong?

Or are you just parroting that one line because you really haven't thought about this beyond the Hamas propaganda?

Ok so you realised your mistake, but can’t admit it so you stop engaging. Don’t worry, you are not the only one who should’ve called out for making accusation's about posters they don’t agree with or dont have the capacity to understand.

There is no genocide. The marches are pro-terror demonstrations by clowns and should never have been allowed to carry on as they have been. They should not have been allowed to carry on as they have been because they are pro-terror, pro-Hamas, and antisemitic.

Yes I agree with you. I believe both Governments in this conflict are equally reprehensible and I’m at a loss as to how the world has stood by and let it happen.

I guess you didn't actually see any of Hamas' footage of their proudest moments on October 7th then.

And I’m hardly “parroting”. As a dispassionate, atheist adult observer I’m able to reach my own opinion.

I wish religion had never been constructed.

Palestinian support for Hamas has actually increased since October 7th, which is frankly disgusting.

https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2024/03/22/poll-hamas-remains-popular-among-palestinians/

But they're not equally reprehensible. One side started a war. The other side has been castigated for defending itself in that war.

That's like saying the Allies were just as bad as the Nazis in WW2. Yes, the Allies did some awful things (Dresden is probably the most famous example) but that doesn't make us as bad as the Nazis. If we transposed this situation to today, people would be saying, Oh the poor Nazis, they're so oppressed, the Allies are trying to destroy them and that's terrible! We should just let Hitler do what he wants, he's not harming anyone really...

I pity the Hamas Comms department. They record their most successful terror session and then all the supporters keep insisting it didn’t happen. It must be so frustrating.

Again, an 18 month old report. Many mainstream reports from correspondents with decades experience in the region suggest that right now, Hamas is receiving less and less support from the broken civilians. Some, incredibly bravely, expressing their opposition on camera to BBC “trusted correspondents” inside the strip.