Notice how this gets so much less attention that it did during the campaign even though its only gotten worse. Just remember: many of the people who claim to care, don't. And if you actually want to stop this, it needs to start with putting people in power who actually care about stopping it. If there isn't one in the general, that means this didn't happen during the primaries.
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Notice how this gets so much less attention that it did during the campaign even though its only gotten worse.
Don't worry, when the American mid-term elections start next year Palestine will be relevant again.
Republican's will be gleefully listing off the next minorities they are sending to Freedom Camp in El Salvador. While Democrats are bombarded with endless purity tests and FUD so the Republican candidates can win.
An easy solution would be for the Democrats to condemn the GENOCIDE (its a bit more then a purity test) and break ties with Israel.
They lost because they put the interests of a foreign nation above their own constituents, I hope they have better sense then to do it a second time.
Not only did the Greens condemn Israel even the Libertarian party openly called out the Genocide, eveyone even democrats who dont have corporate sponsors are more than willing to condemn Israel.
BAN AIPAC
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I genuinely don't know what to do while reading news about Palestine. Donations don't help if the food isn't getting through the blockade, the biggest powers of the Western world seem to be in support of or turning a blind eye, and I as a citizen halfway across the world feel absolutely helpless as I watch children willfully being bombed and starved to death.
Go to demonstrations, boycott, speak up about Palestine, message your representatives, vote only for politicians that condemns Israels attacks and have a credible policy of supporting Palestinian rights.
As for donations there is organizations that try to get Israeli war criminals prosecuted and challenge governments in court to stop arming Israel. See two examples below.
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Pressure your local government to act against Israel's genocide through sanctions and military support for Palestine. Write your representatives, turn out to protests, help your local political party that aligns with your goals.
My state law actually prevents any company from working with/for the government if they boycott Israel. Let’s say I’m a government worker who needs to hire a contractor for a project. This contractor is not a government employee. But if this contractor boycotts Israel then I, as a government employee, am not legally allowed to choose them for the project; I have to find a contractor who doesn’t boycott Israel.
It’s literally enshrined in state law, so local governments can’t overrule it even if they wanted to.
It's insane that we have laws forcing us to work with and not criticize a particular foreign sovereign state. It's literal madness, like it breaks my brain lol.
My state law actually prevents any company from working with/for the government if they boycott Israel.
Laws can be changed. We need to pressure our state legislatures in removing these bullshit laws.
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This is what you want you to feel. Zionism in its core is a project for genocide. They want you to feel helpless. Read their history, educate yourself and your family. Fight for your political rights, boycott for the best of your ability. Share the news.
If you have time, join the protest but make sure to cover your face and dont take your phone.
There's nothing the average citizen can do. "The Powers That Be" will protect Israel at any cost, because Israel is a military beachhead in the Middle East for any potential military action against "The Muzlimz."
Not alone. The only way is to organize. They're often at local Palestine protests, so the trick is to find those, then get connected to people at them.
Jewish Voice for Peace is often at them. Someone else named another organization above. PSL has had a lot over the last year and a half, too.
We put it in black and white to Democratic candidates: you can choose to support Israel or you can choose to win this election. But you only get one. Make it a binary choice and see how they respond.
If they choose to support Israel, then we need to shift to a 3rd party en masse. Make it clear that we will circumvent them if they don't change their position.
This. There always needs to be someone spreading the word. See if there are anti-Zionist organizations where you live.
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Israel starving people to death is evil. Some day you will be repaid for this.
I really hope so. I just can't believe we (humans) have let these ethno supremacist ideas survive in our world for so long.
I just don't know how you fix societies as broken and sick as Israel has become.
Meanwhile, the historically worst entho supremacist state of Germany uses its own history of genocide as an excuse to support a Jewish Ethnostates genocide. With the rest of the western world nodding it's head and America leading the way.
The western world has lost all moral credibility it ever pretended to uphold.
Some day you will be repaid for this.
Climate change is coming. And it will take no prisoners.
Committing genocide to steal land that will be uninhabitable in 20 years is peak insanity.
Albert Einstein's letter to the NY Times was 100% correct. In addition, WW II history of the ghettos continues in the Middle East.
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I completely lost touch with what goal both sides have. Could anyone fill me in? What is either sides end game? Does Hamas still have hostages? Why does Israel continue the hard push and where to? Etc.
Israel still wants to exterminate Palestinians so that they can fully expand into the area.
Hamas wants Israel to fuck off out of Palestine. Depending on how extreme the individual person, they may also want Israel gone entirely, or the same to all Jews. But that's not the position of most Palestinians.
(The genocide is not the position of most Israelis, either, but enough are okay with it happening.)
It's simpler that that: profit.
Israel will cleanse the area to make it safe and profitable for land developers. Casinos, hotels, golf courses, etc.
Trump openly stated it.
This framing kind of sucks, but it's close.
It's still a land grab, and they're actively grabbing land in the west bank, in Lebanon, and in Syria.
They're fascists that have purposefully fomented this violence as the apartheid state. They want the land and some justification they can wave around. This is why Oct 7th exists.
The irony is, the more successful they are in their depraved violence and theft, the more they will become a pariah globally. I can't see the future, but this feels like a fascist death spiral that will end Israel.
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Palestinians want to be left alone, and Israel wants them all dead because Israel decided the land belongs to them.
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