What did you do during the genocide in Gaza?

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This is a brilliant article.

This will be taught in schools one day and our grandkids will ask us but what did you do when you knew this was happening?

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/may/22/israel-gaza-genocide

I told my children not a single Gazan helped the hostages to escape or cared for them in captivity. And that many global so called charities said nothing about the plight of the Bibas children
Even Germans during World Ward 2 risked their lives to save Jews

Tell the truth.

About the relentless expansion of Islam into areas inhabited by people considered to be inferior - "kufar" or "infidels".

About the barbarity shown to any who resist, but in particular the Jews.

About the mind-boggling gullibility of their sympathisers and enablers in the west.

I agree with you wholeheartedly.

Aside from your dubious narrative....

Yasser Arafat called out to the Muslim world to help him in his fight when he was dragging Lebanon into civil war after using it as a base to attack Israel - he went there after using Jordan & trying to assassinate the king when he objected..
You also fail to mention the support given to Iran and it's proxies by Russia, or the American aid dollars that prop up Egypt, and indeed gaza.

Same thing you probably did during all other genocides that have taken place over the last couple of decades or so - including the ongoing on in China. What makes this one different or did you post about all those too?

Yep

Maybe you weren’t born in 1982 when Israel allowed/promoted/participated in [recollections may vary…] the massacre of thousands of Palestinian refugees in Lebanon…?

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/the-forgotten-massacre-8139930.html

strange no one is asking about what we did during the genocide of rohinga Muslims in China as well......probably because it didn't involve Jews

Well quite...or does anyone remember the Rwandan genocide during the 1990s...what were we all doing then?

In my own lifetime there's never been a period where there hasn't been a war or conflict going on somewhere in the world....war is absolutely horrible obviously but I can't see why this one will specifically be discussed in the future rather than any other?

You know I think the internet and social media makes us feel like the world is small and that we play a bigger part in it than we actually do. If you're an average person in the UK, you really have pretty much zero ability to change anything.

Why would anyone ask this?
No one has asked this regarding Rwanda.
Why haven’t you included Sudan?

Well said, and this trouble will be ramping up in the West as well.

I spoke about the genocide with friends and colleagues. I wrote to my MP and I gave money towards organisations that raise awareness about Gaza.

It's really sad what is happening and we will all look back and think how could be have done better.

I did nothing. I used to judge people for doing nothing. But since brexit I have felt utterly powerless. I couldn't even influence politics in my own country let alone war or genocide somehwere else.

There are powers above me who take no heed of my views or aims. The press manipulates me - I can't even verify what's real or not.

I pray for peace and that is all.

What exactly do you think the average normal person could 'have done better' exactly? Why is this war different from any other war?
Also, all these speaking about prayer - that clearly doesn't work and just makes you feel better.

Maybe you don't know the preceding history of Lebanon, or perhaps wonder why Yasser Arafat was there.

Are you joking 😱 "Netanyahua a great and genuine leader" wtaf!!
Bet he never leaves Israel ever again.
The Hague is awaiting him!!

Racism is certainly not OK. How is that relevant to anything I’ve posted?

Palestinians are not a race btw.

What have I said that has reinforced the prejudice and hatred of Palestinians that has not been factually accurate?

Facts matter.

What history will say is the same as any of Israel’s conflicts.
When a state or country threatens them, they react with impunity.
If you poke a sleeping bear, you are not in for an easy ride.
Hopefully people will come to understand Religion is an ideology and not something that should exist in laws and institutions of the modern world.

I recognised that the only way for the conflict to end and the destruction and civilian deaths to stop was the removal from power of Hamas.

He’s already left and gone back a few times.

You should actually listen to him talk, maybe watch some old interviews, read up on his background. He is a genuine leader IMO, who wants to protect his people, in direct contrast to our leaders! He has a lot of military and counter terrorism experience and is obviously highly intelligent.

TBF it wouldn’t have made a difference who was Israeli PM during this conflict, they would be hated and vilified whoever they were.

I think the infighting and attempts to discredit Netanyahu with the false corruption claims, are definitely connected to this current conflict.

@BreezyBertha he is highly intelligent, I’ll give you that.

For anyone who thinks social movements can’t create change. They can and they have. Off the top of my head, the civil rights movement, the suffragette movements, international and US movements against war in Vietnam, international and internal movements against apartheid in South Africa.

In fact research shows that nonviolent campaigns are twice as likely to achieve their goals as violent campaigns.

www.bbc.com/future/article/20190513-it-only-takes-35-of-people-to-change-the-world

Really wish Palestinian leadership had taken note of your last paragraph.

Declined to believe the pro Palestinian propaganda, reflected on who started the current conflict by murdering over a thousand people, many of them simply attending a music concert, wondered why on earth the ordinary Palestinians don’t rise up against Hamas

I remember Rwanda. I think of it often. Its my mental yardstick to remember the absolute nadir of what humans are capable of. I think of it all the time when people say what's happening is more awful than anything that's ever been done.

I dont think many on here know much about it. Lists of names being read out on the radio. Neighbour's going to each other's houses with machetes to seek out people to murder. Road blocks manned by militia bent on murder.

And then... somehow... a reconciliation of sorts. People moving back to neighborhoods with murderers nearby. Gacaca courts.

The darkest depths of humanity and somehow, a recovery ( not total I know, but the murdering has stopped. )

Actually it's a message of hope after all.

Hmm. Social movements....communism - great in theory, diabolical in practice. The labour party - started with great intentions, turned into the thing it was created to oppose.

When does 4legs social movement ( good ) become 2legs populism (bad)?

I realised that Anti Semitism is alive and well. I realised I am not comfortable in sharing my Jewish background and I’ve taken down my mezuzah because I’m scared. I have also become a stronger Zionist in that the existence of the state of Israel is even more important than it ever was

However, I’m also beyond disgusted at how the Israeli government has acted in terms of not allowing aid in and perpetuating even more suffering to civilians who do not deserve it. I am kept awake at night by the fact that Gaza has been flattened and that I can’t see how it can be rebuilt. I’m appalled that the neighbouring countries such as Egypt aren’t rushing to help and I’m utterly exasperated that the Jewish idiots in the West Bank are continuing with their violence and ludicrous expansionist ideas which really isn’t helping the situation