School students marching in support of Palestine

[Sausagenbacon]

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/world/palestine-march-tower-hamlets-east-london-israel-gaza-b1120876.html
Why are schools allowing/enabling students to do this?
Is it part of what schools should do, promoting frankly one-sided protest? And what will they decide to march about next? Just imagine being a Jewish student in the middle of this.
I find it sinister.

Change the record. We know what Israel is doing and why they are doing it. Why do more innocent children need to be dragged into this?

But surely the point is that murdering thousands of children is always wrong, and therefore marching in opposition to this is always right.

Because standing up is the right thing to do otherwise. Change the record? While children are being massacred? Gosh, check if you have a heart!

@Carverbill because the virtue signalling and the need to endlessly repeat the same phrases on these threads is ridiculous.

Of course children being killed is wrong but to use children to tug at heart strings is just wrong. This is an extremely complex conflict. There are wrongs on both sides.

The tide of public opinion is predicted to end the Gaza bombings, but the longer it goes on the more innocent people will be killed. Peaceful protest is an important way of signalling to governments that they need to stop supporting the Israeli government bombing.
This is a complex proxy war but the US and UK are still accountable to their electorates and analysts talk about the “diplomatic clock”. To allow the killing of thousands of people to go unchecked is to become complicit and it's commendable for young British people to take part.

https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-773065
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Peace-People

Give them some credit. They obviously understand that mass murder of children like themselves is wrong. It's not "tugging at heart strings". Just because they're young doesn't mean they're stupid or can't tell right from wrong.

So people are saying it is fine for children as you as this to miss a day of school. Then go on a march with some on a Megaphone shouting about terrorists. To which the young children have to shout back a reply. Older teenagers marching of there own choice is very different to what has gone on. You can't use young children children as tools to project your own views. That is not what children are for and it doesn't matter the side of the conflict or the topic of protest

If this was done as a vigil to all the children that has dead or something else more appropriate to these childrens age then that wouldn't be as bad. However it isn't a vigil, it is a lot of adults getting little children to protest in an adult way.

The emotional blackmail merry-go-round is working over time.

@Toothyfruity I would hope you would be encouraging that the massacring of all Children is wrong not just children one side of the conflict. We still have hostages missing and lot of small children and babies. Hamas is still refusing to allow the Red Cross to check their welfare or anyone in fact.

Shouldn't peace be the objective not one sided bias.

Oh come on! They are kids and you advocate manipulating them. That is plain wrong. What about teaching critical thinking skills. You are just showing a snap shot of complex historical events.

I'm not biased I'm against genocide and murder of children no matter who they are.

Watching genocide in real time is hard. I think the least we can do is protest against it and I take my children on those marches because it's important that they are clued into the world around them. I'd hate for them to grow up and not understand that murdering thousands of people, including almost 5000 children is wrong.

The mothers on this forum (not this thread, but this forum) justifying Israel's genocide against Palestine is an eye opener in that regard.

Can't just have a conversation without it. That is why so many people have just blocked the conflict board. A lot of people don't want to debate or have a conversation, they want to just hear their own voice. If they don't feel they have scored enough of their imaginary points they go for emotional blackmail. This got odd quickly with most people. I mean we all can't take child deaths this is mumsnet after all. However we can also talk about things without mentioning deaths every other post we write.

Are you for real? The protests are against the genocide. Are we supposed to discuss the protests without mentioning the thousands of murders in case it makes those who support those carrying out the bombings feel a bit icky? Jesus.

It's really disconcerting to see parents being prepared to let their children protest in both a psychological and physically damaging environment. I guess it's all down to the selective reasoning. Hypocrites. Saddest thing is, the kids don't even know they are being programmed.

Psychological and physical damage? Do you know what an anti war/genocide protest is?

I take my infant on these protests. You just walk down a road to show your solidarity. There's not much more to it. She napped through the last one.

I would also suggest we each take a shot every time the word genocide is mentioned. However we would be unconscious before we got past the first couple of pages with a lot threads. What is it with the word genocide and some people. We all get what is going on and are watching the news, have our own perspective and opinions of events. It is like they are trying to convince us or else just like saying the word.

Well, it is genocide so that's why people use the word.

@Trulywonderful I was just thinking the same.....

You take your infant on the marches. We'll that's your perogative but this thread is about school children entering into a political arena. All it is is self righteous virtue signalling. My question would be to the schools allowing this: how does this align with their PREVENT training programmes, which staff have to undertake? This is radicalisation. The very thing that training seeks to address.

Genocide and ethnic cleansing; neither which is applicable from Israel's stance.

If you think that facilitating children to march against the murder of thousands of other children is radicalisation then I think you're the one with the issue here.

Well I'd hardly expect Israel to announce that they're carrying out ethnic cleansing and genocide. I don't know any previous case where the perpetrator has named it on those terms.

However by using my eyes and brain I can see that this is exactly what they're doing.

A lot of posters are not having a conversation or debate about it though. They are not posting informed argument. They are just saying the same thing multiple times in there own posters. That isn't a conversation. It is just a statement. In most cases people have given even trying to post on the conflict threads. People want to be able to talk without the same thing being repeated a dozen times on one page of the thread. It is like some posters think we all don't know the current situation in Gaza. That has meant a lot of posters won't hear what people that go to protests what them to hear on these threads. So a big own goal really and not great for those of us the stick around because we do want to have a conversation about this stuff

Of course it's radicalisation. You're only rebutting that because you side with Palestine. You do not involve children in politics. In Gaza, the children and other civilians have no choice. It's awful. Fortunately, we haven't got to a state yet where, during peace time, children are programmed to suit political bias.