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.

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Well said.

Bingo!

Jewish people have got absolutely nothing to do with protesting for peace in Gaza.

You do realise the land was already divided and Israel had withdrawn from Gaza for several years before the Pogrom on October 7th? Israel unilaterally withdrew from Gaza in 2005, evacuating all Jewish towns and military presence, leaving the territory entirely under Palestinian control.

What? Did you not read the newspapers for 20 years?

Sure.

I don't even know how to respond to this. I genuinely don't know how to argue with willful ignorance.

They won't listen.

Sounds like you definitely didn't. There was no Jewish military presence in Gaza since 2005. Israel was supplying Gaza with electricity and water and other humanitarian aid. They could have continued to have what you seem to think they wanted - their own land without Israel's presence. But what they actually want is to eradicate Jews from the face of the earth, so they started a war.

At this point people who actually want peace have got absolutely nothing to do with 'protesting for peace in Gaza' either.

I don’t know if you know this is factually incorrect or are just intentionally spreading misinformation.

It's the opposition of ignorance. It's called knowing things. Knowing facts that are in the historical record, enshrined in treaties and legislation. You think I'm making this up? You think Israel have been occupying Gaza all these years? Crazy.

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I mean, I wouldn't be happy. Would you?

It's factually true. Why do you think there was an occupation in Gaza after Israel withdrew? In 2005 Israel handed Gaza to the Palestinian Authority (who were shortly afterwards ousted by Hamas.) This is all on record.

This isn’t a game dairy
and no @wrongthinker supporting the Peace cause is nothing like supporting Nazis. What an appalling an unverifiable comparison

As it stands there’s a deal on the table and Trump has asked Israel to stop bombing. They haven’t ! So atm it’s Israel that are continuing the war

Its disgusting the way some people have no empathy and lack the ability to think of anyone other than themselves
Im so happy other countries are able to speak out without putting up with all this derailing and inflammatory nonsense.

Well you don’t think that if you think it’s Israel’s land so I assume this is where you are coming from. The international community of course thinks otherwise and that it is an illegal occupation. You know this.

Yes and I have asked for someone to spell out what I am saying in that post which is supportive of terrorist and no one can articulate it so let’s move on shall we?

Definitely wouldn't be happy if someone was campaigning for a terrorist cause on the basis of some drawings they found on facebook, no.

But - and seriously, please ask yourself this - if you're arguing that Palestinians are reacting to the occupation of their country (which they're not, because it wasn't occupied, but whatever, let's go with it for the sake of the discussion) does that mean it's okay for them to rape and behead and maim and mutilate innocent young people at a music festival, to rip babies limb from limb, to rape women and drag them through the dirt to be raped by all their friends, and then ring their mums and tell them what they've done so everyone can cry with pride? Would you do these things if you felt very oppressed? Do you think that's a reasonable response to being oppressed or having your country occupied? Because it sounds like that's what you're saying here.

I can only guess they are sucked in by the lie that a particular side is the morally correct one and the intellectual one. They are given soundbites about a snap shot in history and “won’t someone think of the children in Gaza” as some kind of prepackaged “we’re on the right side of history” cosplay that. Means they don’t have to actually think.

Of course they have.
We have a right to protest.
Without doing so our Governments and Governments around the world would think we agree with genocide

Our voices are crucial and we have a right to them.

And it’s almost the second anniversary of those horrors.

On top of the attack on Thursday.

And yet people insist on their ‘right to protest’.

No empathy and no shame. And no heart.