I think the reason people don’t care as much as you’d like is a bit more complex than people are heartless, cruel and evil.
There is most definitely an anti-Muslim sentiment across the western world, particularly those leaning more right; I think the protests in some ways did more harm than good, at a time where anti-immigrant sentiment is growing; large numbers of black clad people waving a foreign flag calling for the destruction of what is the only ‘western leaning’ country in the Middle East, abetted by the same people who do Just Stop Oil, pro-trans, etc, your ‘Gretas’, cancelling and labelling fascist and bigot anyone who disagrees with them, blue haired non-binaries and earnest young middle-class women isn’t helping; all poorly policed and often openly anti-Semitic, as university and college campuses are occupied by young people who apparently can’t find Israel on a map. I think the indifference to Congo and Sudan rather reinforces ‘No Jews, No News’.
I think how the origins and state of Israel is being simplistically if not falsely portrayed, exploiting those who believe everything they see on TikTok, not helped by the scale of the propaganda across our SM, Dr Fafo being a prime example. Even I spotted images I knew I’d seen before (Syria).
I think Hamas being actively supported by a regime that openly wants us, the West, dead, doesn’t engender sympathy towards those who support Hamas; the relative indifference to the Palestinians’ situation across the Islamic world has been noted. Many think Israel is doing their dirty work for them. I think had the likes of Amnesty, the UN et al immediately and emphatically denounced the actions of Oct 7, there might have been a different sentiment, but they didn’t, two organisations who incidentally have discredited themselves somewhat over the past couple of years.
I think many pro-Gaza supporters have forgotten who started this particular war, or at least think the rest of us have. The staggering stupidity of Oct 7, then filming it, then putting it online! Gazan parents celebrating their children’s ’martyrdom’ paints a picture of people who value their lives less than we do ours. Wildly disproportionate hostage/ prisoner swaps reinforce this idea. The shameful and egregious way some of the hostages were released reminded us that Hamas still command enormous support in Gaza.
Hamas are the chief perpetrators of Gaza’s suffering. They have, or had within their remit the possibility of stopping all this but have chosen not to, but this is a proxy war, fundamentalist Islamic ideology versus the western liberal canon.
You can pile in wailing about how wrong I am etc, but I am explaining why I think there is considerably less concern for Gaza than you would imagine there should be.
Personally I believe that it is a horrific waste of lives on both sides, but I won’t be joining you in your blind condemnation of Israel. With Gaza, my support lies with the brave individuals now standing up to Hamas, facing imprisonment, torture and death for doing so. Gaza deserves and needs better, but first they need to throw out Hamas.