Why would would you still have pro Palestinian marches apart from now instilling more fear into the Jewish community

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Now we have what looks like a peace to be celebrated why are people still going to march for Palestine? The genocide has stopped in their opinion so shouldn't they be at least joyful or if that is not the case what do they really want? Do they want to keep marching until the Israeli state is no more?

Hard, really, to feel very celebratory about thousands of hungry people digging through rubble to find the dead bodies of their families and friends

Insane to think that to still care about the people whose families have been burned and starved ed and bombed to death and whose homes and all infrastructure around them have been destroyed should be interpreted as a wish to cause Jewish people fear

So why are there so many posts from you lot worrying about them then?
Many hundreds have been arrested for opposing genocide. They don't trust Israel and Trump - neither of whom have a great track record.
Not an amazing surprise to anyone.

Ugh I was about to say she would be an ex friend if any of mine behaved like that. But then realised that you described her as an ex… she might be starting an AIBU in a few weeks wondering why her good friend ghosted her out of the blue 😜

Well the Palestinians are celebrating in Gaza so it’s a bit strange if people can’t share their joy the war is over.

Yet you still check up on her.
You're a fan babe.

What?

Says who, hamas? You must stop believing everything they say. 'Collaborators' well they would say they wouldn't they.

They are murderers so they murder people.

No you are embarrassing yourself.
I guess you didn’t see Starmer also embarrassing himself yesterday either.

Yes that one threw me too.

I don't know what marches are planned or what the motivation is, but have you seen what Palentinians are going back to? They are going to need enormous support. The violence may have stopped, but this surely is just the beginning if you care about the Palestinian people?

Oh yes they are out.
Anything to say about Hamas now killing Palestinians ?
No I didn’t think so.

Oh it was just soooo cringeworthy. He shuffled around looking so very awks and out of place, rightly so. His only contribution was to please hamas with his silly recognising their state bollocks. That is nothing to be proud about.

Oh they were all collaborators. Hamas said so! And we all know how some believe all they spout.

@SomeoneSomewheree
Anything to say about this or are you just going to keep spouting your false rhetoric .

We don't have peace. We have a ceasefire and a prisoner exchange. That is very different.

We don't know if that ceasefire will hold. We don't know what either side has planned.

Diplomatic pressure needs to be maintained on both sides to ensure discussions are ongoing. It needs to move to a permanent two state solution or it isn't a solution at all.

How very telling to see yet another diatribe about what Palestine needs to be "free", with no mention at all of the importance of removing Hamas

It's not going to happen of course, because too many Palestinians don't want to get rid of them, but as an example of the marchers' only real interest being in hating Israel this one's as good as any

Because it's early days and no other cause is trending on social media more than the Palestinian cause yet.

Give it a few months and some controversial Government policy / cut backs and there will be a new protest cause trending.

If you want to get in early I would bet on ID cards being the next trendy cause. Maybe there's a market for a lanyard with a card saying No ID, could be more popular than keffiyehs?

Yes what will be next. Mind winter is coming, the marchers don't like the inclement weather it's usually a nice weather/ bank holiday associated hobby. They go quiet until spring generally.

Says the militia members, says the IDF - though both are murderers and murderers murder people.

Sky news report from about 10 days ago. Interviews Militia members and IDF soldiers!

https://news.sky.com/story/guns-cash-and-american-aid-investigation-reveals-israels-support-for-gaza-militia-13442260

Well quite.

One can care about the Palestinian people in a more practical, productive way than marching.

My MP said that marches are not of much value to him because although they demonstrate strength of feeling, there isn’t a clear call to action that he can act on. Ceasefire now is too vague.

I think marching is also a useful distraction for vaguely left leaning people, who would be otherwise be focused on holding the government to account on issues such as why so many families in the UK are struggling, and our broken public services.

@SumUp ’I think marching is also a useful distraction for vaguely left leaning people, who would be otherwise be focused on holding the government to account on issues such as why so many families in the UK are struggling, and our broken public services.‘

Well said.

Yes, thank you @HellsBalls

And I expect someone will come on shortly to say that at least UK families still (mostly) have homes, food banks etc, and Palestinians don’t.

My view is that we can care about and take some action on all of these things in parallel.

I'm going for 'not allowing face covering, including niqab' in public as the next battleground. Some European countries have banned it, others are considering it and it was a big take away from the marches that people were emboldened by their anonymity, bit like the internet.

ID cards are less useful when your face is covered so it would need to be considered for their introduction.

Oh ffs what utter bollocks 🙄🙄

Hamas exist and are powerful only because of the action of Isreal

they would exist but with much less power if Palestine was free from Israel’s guns and settlers

and had investment into hospitals and ports and schools and homes ( after this genocide they will need a lot more investments to sort the problem - if that had happened 10 years ago it would have been a lot cheaper to edge Hamas out )