Yemen, Yemen make us proud, turn another ship around!

[noblegiraffe]

"Yemen, Yemen make us proud, turn another ship around!" was being chanted on the streets of London yesterday and last week.

I'm just interested in whether people think this is a reasonable thing to be chanting or not, because there were quite a few people chanting it. So a quick poll:

I would tackle them to the ground and make a citizens arrest as has been suggested previously.

@QueenRania are they also calling for the hostages to be freed?

That's something I don't understand how the good people on these marches supporting Gaza and now the Houthis aren't also calling for the hostages to be freed?

I was hoping for a genuine answer.

The thought must have crossed your mind.

Totally not ashamed of myself. I don't support terrorism and terrorists who won't release hostages and who proclaim they want to obliterate the only democratic western state in the region and the only UK ally.

Leave the match. Not that I would be stupid enough to be matching anyway, as what happens in London has no impact at all on Israel and actually just costs the tax payers more millions of pounds so there's less in the pot to deal with other issues.

Over 150,000 people have been killed in Yeman due to civil war started by the houtis.... over 227,000 died due to starvation @headstone ..... boats not getting through doesn't helpnthe people of Yeman....

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yemeni_civil_war_(2014%E2%80%93present)#:~:text=The%20UN%20announced%20on%202,facilities%20due%20to%20the%20war.

https://www.hrw.org/world-report/2024

The Houthis have destroyed Yeman. Suddenly they are the good guys @headstone ?

Backed and funded by Iran. Another terrorist organisation that doesn't care for his own people

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-67614911

Not only are they not a small minority anymore, but the 'peaceful majority' know exactly who they're marching alongside now.
Yes
And they still keep marching

I agree with this. I was out at a social night with a group I am in. Only six of us. Three people there held views either denying the atrocities of 7/10 happened ( it’s all propaganda),or that ‘the Israelis have nothing to complain about’ regarding 7/10 ( ie they deserved it). One further person probably supported them but was quieter, but commenting that none of us were there so ( at 7/10) so we can’t say what happened.
I was the only person arguing against these views and was completely unsupported.

Or condemning the 7/10 atrocities.

We all know why they aren’t calling for this though, don’t we?

Even the minority there who may actually see Oct 7th for the atrocity it is, would not dare to hold a banner saying this, as they would be set upon by the rest of the marchers.

Thinking about the comment earlier about it not being a hate crime - the Houthis are not a proscribed terrorist organisation although there have been calls for this for a long time. Apparently it would make getting aid to Yemen more difficult if they were designated terrorists.

So chanting Houthi support on the streets can't be treated in the same way as chanting support for Hamas, who are a proscribed terrorist organisation and which would get you arrested.

@QueenRania actually I have seen the marches and how hostile they are in parts. I have also witnessed the protests that frighten and intimidate people in a couple of the towns local to me. Exclusionary to those without extreme views and inciting. And I bet a good amount have no idea what is going on in the Middle East. I don't think people who do this are thick... I think some are dangerous and that worries me more.

Once again we are back to the - unless you saw it, it didn't happen' argument. Wonder why I recognise that?

Oh how hypocritical !

why is it when only it affects western countries people all of sudden care about the poor Yemeni people ?
why is everyone so outraged because cargo ships are turned around or are taking a longer route? While we all know none of this happened prior to the conflict, not even when a big coalition led by the US and UK and France were participating in bloody civil war.

Interesting take, especially because many of us have been highlighting atrocities in e.g. Yemen, Syria and China for a while now, but we're accused of whataboutery and deflection from Gaza 🤔

It affects Yeman more. It will help starve them, therefore the Houthis action directly harms their own people...

'For Yemen, which imports up to 90% of its food and goods, the knock-on effect of rising food prices may be dire. Almost 70% of Yemenis rely on humanitarian aid and earlier this month the UN’s World Food Program announced a suspension of aid in Houthi territory after failing to reach an agreement with the Houthis on its operations. ' from

https://www.declassifieduk.org/who-are-yemens-houthi-rebels-attacking-israeli-ships/

Exactly. Now it suits, it's OK? Yeman has had a civil war, largely ignored where far more have been killed than in Gaza.... 150,000 dead due to war, over 270,000 due to starvation. The numbers are significantly higher than Gaza but done by their own terrorist group in their civil war. No one cared though.

This. Absolutely this.

Unacceptable to chant on streets of UK. I sometimes get scared of the protests and the numbers that gather. Then I remember for every 1million on the streets, there's 60 something million sane people at home and I feel better.

why is it when only it affects western countries people all of sudden care about the poor Yemeni people?

You’re asking why people care more when it is something that affects them? Well, duh, because it affects them.

I don’t think the people chanting support for the Houthis on the streets of London care about the poor Yemeni people though. If they did, they would definitely not be chanting support.

What seems to be happening there is “The enemy of my enemy is my friend”. A bit more scrutiny should reveal “the enemy of my enemy is also my enemy and also a terrible person”. Some people are determined to split this conflict into sides though, and anyone on their ‘side’ is de facto a goodie.

We are not turning Yeman into the new gaza though are we!

The Houthis have managed to kill over 150,000 in their civil war and a further 270,000 plus in resultant hunger etc.

By disruption to boats they will stop their own people being fed.

The people chanting appear to ignore all that. WHY?

Imagine a world @headstone where the politicians and leaders in some middle Eastern countries cared more about their own people. Ceasefire now would be brilliant if hamas, the Houthis, hezbollah all followed it too.

@headstone
@MissyB1

"Imagine a world where our politicians cared about civilians in the Middle East ( the non Israeli ones). Imagine instead of dropping bombs as the answer they asked for a ceasefire instead. This is what is going to happen, we use ‘targeted’ bombing it doesn’t work, so then we think fuck it and just turn Yemen into the new Gaza and the terrible cycle of western violence on Middle East civilians continues."

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So the whole Libyan civil war, Sudanese civil war, Somalian civil war, Syrian civil war could all been avoided by the Western Governments simply asking the waring parties for a ceasefire rather than getting involved? The real world doesn't work like that and this is either an extremely naive ill informed viewpoint or deliberate malintent blaming the West for ME problems?

Indeed.

Many on here are very naive. Ceasefire please...OK western nations whatever you say... problems of all the internal wars in various countries sorted.

Well surely people care because it affects them.