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Please continue to protest!

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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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Notabikerchick · 04/10/2025 19:08

I have little sympathy left for Gaza

Questionairballoon · 04/10/2025 19:09

dairydebris · 04/10/2025 19:06

Again. You can call it a genocide without calling Israelis Nazis.

Its really very simple.

Netanyahu literally called Palestinians “children of darkness” among other evil, dehumanising phrases. Israel’s government is carrying out acts that are akin to what the Nazis did and it’s TERRIBLE. Only people getting offended are the ones who allow their dehumanisation of Palestine’s to cloud their judgement

Bananadramaa · 04/10/2025 19:09

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Questionairballoon · 04/10/2025 19:10

dairydebris · 04/10/2025 19:08

Innocent civilians on both sides of this conflict are victims. Some Israelis are victims. Some Palestinians are victims.

The difference between the sheer magnitude of Palestinian victims (men, women, children and even animals) is vastly higher than the amount of Israelis. You can’t deny the differences.

PeanutCrush · 04/10/2025 19:10

DrPrunesqualer · 04/10/2025 17:01

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

And yet you say plenty of Jewish people march alongside you in the pro pal marches? Which is it?

Questionairballoon · 04/10/2025 19:12

PeanutCrush · 04/10/2025 19:10

And yet you say plenty of Jewish people march alongside you in the pro pal marches? Which is it?

You misunderstood the poster. Protesting for Palestine is nothing to do with Judaism. Protesting for Palestine is about protesting against the terror being inflicted by the Israeli government.

I always feel more hopeful about the future when I see fellow Jews protesting for what is right, as we should.

dairydebris · 04/10/2025 19:13

Questionairballoon · 04/10/2025 19:07

Don’t waste your breath. The people living IN Israel have protested against their own government while Mumsnet posters think they’re Netanyahu’s spokesperson!

If criticising Israel is offensive to Jews (I’m one and it doesn’t offend me or the Jews around me lol) then that’s like saying any criticism of Saudi Arabia is offensive to Muslims and any criticism of England is offensive to Christians. Bonkers.

Zionism is not the same as Judaism and you cannot build your “homeland” on the bodies of dead Gazans.

Oh look! A whole post of straw men!

Criticizing Israel is fair enough.

Calling Iaraelis Nazis is antisemitic.

Calling the entire state of Israel evil is antisemitic.

I hope that helps.

quantumbutterfly · 04/10/2025 19:13

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Israel has taken the word credulous out of the dictionary, the monsters.

Questionairballoon · 04/10/2025 19:14

dairydebris · 04/10/2025 19:13

Oh look! A whole post of straw men!

Criticizing Israel is fair enough.

Calling Iaraelis Nazis is antisemitic.

Calling the entire state of Israel evil is antisemitic.

I hope that helps.

Who said the entire state is evil? Lmao I literally said Israelis themselves are protesting against their government.

thepariscrimefiles · 04/10/2025 19:16

Petrolitis · 04/10/2025 17:20

Frankly there are many many people being killed in conflicts around the world including in Ukraine.

Yet somehow Gaza is supposed to always top the list of whom we support and talk about. Despite Hamas being a proscribed terrorist organisation, despite their aim to kill all Jews and despite the fact Hamas won the majority of votes in 2006 by people who apparently thought that was just fine.

And who can forget the atrocities Hamas perpetrated on innocent civilians just because they happened to be Israeli?

Anyone, with any decency would be focused on mourning the loss of the victims in Manchester and highlighting the scourge of antisemitism at the moment, not bolstering the cause of Hamas who seek to anililate them.

The UK and other European countries have provided significantly more support and aid, including military aid, to Ukraine and Ukrainians. There was a special visa route for Ukrainians to come to live in the UK and the outpouring of sympathy was pretty universal.

There has been nothing like that for the Palestinians and, even if the UK did provide more aid, there is no way of getting it through to the Palestinians in Gaza.

Bananadramaa · 04/10/2025 19:16

quantumbutterfly · 04/10/2025 19:13

Israel has taken the word credulous out of the dictionary, the monsters.

Better not feed it

IsEveryUserNameBloodyTaken · 04/10/2025 19:18

wrongthinker · 04/10/2025 17:33

You are wrong. Look up the history. Israel withdrew from Gaza. I really don't know what else to tell you. It happened. It's a fact.

I understood when they withdrew they even dug up their dead from graves as they knew that the Palestinian people would dig up deface and destroy the Jewish dead.
They withdrew and left the area in a good condition.
It has been over the years destroyed by Hamas/Palestinian to make life for Palestinians look like victims along with any aid that should have gone to Palestine going instead to Hamas to make war.
Hamas have basically shit all over the people of Palestine ,they don’t give a fuck about them and will use them and their bodies.
Their only aim the destruction of Israel.
There are so many useful idiots that let this continue and play the useful idiots to Hamas.

Questionairballoon · 04/10/2025 19:19

Notabikerchick · 04/10/2025 19:08

I have little sympathy left for Gaza

says a lot about you!

Questionairballoon · 04/10/2025 19:20

IsEveryUserNameBloodyTaken · 04/10/2025 19:18

I understood when they withdrew they even dug up their dead from graves as they knew that the Palestinian people would dig up deface and destroy the Jewish dead.
They withdrew and left the area in a good condition.
It has been over the years destroyed by Hamas/Palestinian to make life for Palestinians look like victims along with any aid that should have gone to Palestine going instead to Hamas to make war.
Hamas have basically shit all over the people of Palestine ,they don’t give a fuck about them and will use them and their bodies.
Their only aim the destruction of Israel.
There are so many useful idiots that let this continue and play the useful idiots to Hamas.

do you like making up your own history? 😂

the Israeli government isn’t secretive about its plans to occupy and turn Gaza into property empires. It’s disgusting and shameful.

quantumbutterfly · 04/10/2025 19:20

Bananadramaa · 04/10/2025 19:16

Better not feed it

They'll be coming for the word paranoia next👀

JaneVapeman · 04/10/2025 19:23

@thepariscrimefiles Europe and UK is surely closer to Ukraine than Palestine ?
What are the countries in the region doing who border Palestine and are v close by ? Egypt etc ?

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Jennaveeve · 04/10/2025 19:24

Questionairballoon · 04/10/2025 19:20

do you like making up your own history? 😂

the Israeli government isn’t secretive about its plans to occupy and turn Gaza into property empires. It’s disgusting and shameful.

Utter nonsense. Trump said he’d build hotels there - the Israeli government said absolutely nothing of the sort.

Justagirl95 · 04/10/2025 19:24

IsEveryUserNameBloodyTaken · 04/10/2025 11:29

Arrogance and stupidity are a terrible combination.

What do you mean by that? Are you saying you support genocide?

Justagirl95 · 04/10/2025 19:25

inamarina · 04/10/2025 12:54

129 of the IAGS members voted on that resolution, out of approximately 500, so less than a third.

There also don’t seem to be any strict academic or professional prerequisites to become a “genocide scholar”.

According to their own website, “IAGS members are academic scholars, human rights activists, students, museum and memorial professionals, policymakers, educators, anthropologists, independent scholars, sociologists, artists, political scientists, economists, historians, international law scholars, psychologists, and literature and film scholars.”

Not sure their opinion has quite the importance you’re ascribing to it.

I appreciate the response, thanks for giving statistics! Can you cite your sources please?

MyHeartyCoralSnail · 04/10/2025 19:26

thepariscrimefiles · 04/10/2025 19:16

The UK and other European countries have provided significantly more support and aid, including military aid, to Ukraine and Ukrainians. There was a special visa route for Ukrainians to come to live in the UK and the outpouring of sympathy was pretty universal.

There has been nothing like that for the Palestinians and, even if the UK did provide more aid, there is no way of getting it through to the Palestinians in Gaza.

It’s estimated between 150,000 to 300,000 people have been killed in the most recent war in Sudan over a 2 year period with an estimated 14 million displaced . What protesting are you doing around that?

dairydebris · 04/10/2025 19:26

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What on earth do you mean 'infested'?

Should mumsnet look into an infestation of... what exactly?

PeanutCrush · 04/10/2025 19:27

Questionairballoon · 04/10/2025 19:12

You misunderstood the poster. Protesting for Palestine is nothing to do with Judaism. Protesting for Palestine is about protesting against the terror being inflicted by the Israeli government.

I always feel more hopeful about the future when I see fellow Jews protesting for what is right, as we should.

Oh I didn't misunderstand anyone. It's crystal clear - the ' right ' type of jew vs the ' wrong ' type. Just Another example of anti Semitic thinking.

dairydebris · 04/10/2025 19:27

Questionairballoon · 04/10/2025 19:14

Who said the entire state is evil? Lmao I literally said Israelis themselves are protesting against their government.

The OP said the state is evil.

Is that something you want to defend?

TravelPanic · 04/10/2025 19:28

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