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.

Yeah carry on with your pointless protest today, show the country your lack of humanity and respect for the victims of a terrorist attack in Manchester. It does your cause no good whatsoever.

Wanting Palestine to be free from Israel is not equal to supporting Hamas.
Wanting Israel to stop bombing Palestinian schools, hospitals and refugee camps as well as building illegal settlements is not equal to anti-Semitism.

Anyone who wholeheartedly supports the actions of Israel at this point can only be one of three things. Willfully ignorant, entirely brainwashed or simply evil.

So true!

The words ‘racist’ and ‘facist’ have lost all meaning.

I don't think anyone's saying every muslim supports Hamas, Bundleflower, not least because they wouldn't be following the principles of Islam if they did

Unfortunately though it's been found that nearly half of British muslims do indeed support them, and while the actual terrorists may be small in number that's an awful lot of backing, enablement and potential facilitation

https://henryjacksonsociety.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/HJS-Deck-200324-Final.pdf

Why haven’t you included ‘anti-semitism’ in that?

I’d actually say I’m one of the more neutral posters on this thread so why would I be interested in shutting anybody down?

Some posters got close to the line with their views on Israel, those posts were rightly removed. Do you not see the double standards that when I pointed out there’s quite a lot of Islamophobia that you immediately jumped to insisting it’s not? Would you have accepted this the other way around? No you wouldn’t.

They're clearly not pointless, just look at the reaction on here for starters.
Protesting more deaths is not showing a lack of respect for other deaths, only a fool would think that calling for an end to genocide is somehow showing a lack of humanity.
Lack of humanity could be construed as ignoring or excusing the deaths of 10s of thousands of civilians.

Just no. Read the room and also stop believing Hamas' propaganda.

Yes and as Zack Polanski said:
Zack Polanski

“We need to not conflate the Jewish community and the ongoing genocide in Gaza. And actually putting those two things together, I say personally as a Jewish person makes me feel more at risk. I think you can both be absolutely clear that antisemitism and Islamophobia in our country is totally unacceptable and you can stand against the ongoing genocide”

Have we considered that Hamas would be more clearly viewed as terrorist and less as freedom fighters if they weren't actively fighting against the oppression of their people?

Hamas are bad. The actions that they have taken are horrific. But the waters around how people view them have been muddied because of the way people view Israel. The scale of crimes of one outweigh the other.

If Israel weren't so truly awful, no one would support Hamas.

There are an estimated 2 billion Muslims in the world, representing about 25.6% of the global population as of a recent Pew Research Center study.

It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to understand that Muslim extremists and supporters of jihad, though being a ‘small’ percentage of Muslims - a small percentage of 2 billion is still a fck load of people who hate us. Us being anyone who isn’t Muslim. Infidels if you will.

Shame these protesters didnt have the respect to cancel pro Palestine protests on the very day that Jews were attacked kn Manchester. Doesn't do their cause any favours imho

Where have I said that? I’ve given you the organisation with whom Israel is fightings statement of purpose.

What would like Israel to do? Just accept their fate?

If your neighbours whole intent a purpose in life was to execute you and your family, what would you do about that?

'The words ‘racist’ and ‘facist’ have lost all meaning'

They haven't. It just the racists and fascists don't like being called that and don't consider themselves to be that in many cases.
as it ever was. 'I'm not racist but...'

This.

Needs repeating often.

I'm not Jewish but would like to say amen to that.

Good way to prove the point.

I don’t think the Henry Jackson Society can be considered an unbiased source.

Could you let me know what Hamas propaganda looks like, please?

Well said! 👏🏻

So full of lies, go educate yourself

I wonder how many keyboard enthusiasts actually get off their arses and leave their houses to protest.

Indeed

Unless you're someone who was involved in campaigning for Gaza and is now feeling discouraged.

A ceasefire is on the table

Aren't people constantly complaining about the ongoing physical protests?