Descendants of Holocaust survivors protesting Israel’s ‘genocide’ of Palestinians among those arrested in front of Sen. Chuck Schumer’s house in New York

by GreenRedBlueGold

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  1. “Not in our name” For sure: they have an argument Gaza being and open sky prison for 25 years while U.N is chaining human rights violations accusations.
    I guess at some point the “Butt Hamas Hamas Hamas” argument will end up to slowly crash itself on the usual wall of completely asymetric casualties on palestinian side. How many will be killed this time ? 10.000 ? More ?

  4. I don’t care what you’re for, I don’t think protests should take place in front of politicians’ houses

  6. These are brave American Jews who are cutting through all the zionist propaganda and seeing this for what it truly is. concentration camps and genocide of civilians. they will not stand silently by while someone commits the same atrocities their elders faced even if it is israel.

  7. I’m autistic, queer, and a leftist — I’d have been gassed or shot or worked to death in Hitler’s Germany. I know this because I turned off my computer and toured a camp.

    The issue is the settlements, and overly violent responses to legitimate dissent against them, fueled by extremists who don’t even serve in the IDF.

    I used to be a hateful person, but having actually had coworkers and friends who held the passport I came to have very different views.

    (Likewise, I have had friends who are Persian, Palestinian, Russian, Ukrainian… it breaks my heart when we were so close to a very different world THIS is how our Saturdays look.)

  8. I mean if hamas can return the hostages then Israel would stop bombing them. Curious why the Palestinians choose hamas over their own children.

  12. The Israeli government is not the Jewish people. Netanyahu is a criminal who should’ve been barred from running in the last election. His policy of containment in Gaza in response to the infitada [sic] is cruel and barbaric.

    I and most of my fellow Jews are horrified that one million innocent Palestinians are now hopelessly trapped in Gaza. Giving 24 hours notice to is sickening…but where do they go? The international Arab community has gone silent.

    Yet thousands of innocent Israeli civilians have already been butchered, raped, terrorized and murdered by Hamas. Did Hamas think Israel was never going to retaliate?

    Hamas is the culprit and must be destroyed utterly.

  13. How does the population keep growing so much under a genocide?

  14. Please stop destroying the word genocide. Israel is not committing a genocide. What we are seeing is war when one side is concentrated into what is essentially a city state. The reported causing figures are around 2000 this morning per CNN and if be shocked if it is off by a factor of 10. Hamas reported earlier that Israel killed 13 hostages, meaning Hamas is admitting Israel is targeting Hamas bases of operation.

    Israel cannot wage war without civilian casualties due to the nature of Gaza and Hamas’ tactics. There is a video going around alleging an Israeli airstrike on a humanitarian corridor, but the explosion looks more like a gasoline explosion than the type of high explosive from a air dropped bomb or artillery. This suggests to me that Hamas is trying to sabotage evacuation efforts.

    I don’t anticipate Israel annexing Gaza and displacing the Gazans. The war and occupation will displace them in the way all wars displace citizens. If I’m wrong I’ll eat crow, but I’ve not seen evidence to this point of genocide or ethnic cleansing.

    To summarize, war sucks.

  15. There is some scary-ass shit coming out of otherwise rational people over this. I know that’s not news to you guys. A “pretty nice guy” I have thought fondly of just said that it was okay when Jews commit genocide against Palestinians, because Islamic people are more homophobic than Jews. The rationalizations for murdering millions seem like an easy hop from the population ignoring the millions of COVID deaths. Humanity literally can’t put, or keep, anything in perspective any more.

  16. When these attacks by Hamas happened, reading about the extent of the casualties, my knee-jerk reaction was to be concerned about how far back this would set the Palestinian plea to the American public. And I’m sure it did with many people, but I am surprised to see how much support Palestine still has and how much criticism Israel is still facing in light of these attacks. And when Egypt Intel came out and confirmed almost immediately how Benjamin Netanyahu has been warned of these attacks beforehand and chose not to act on it, I think it was a major blow to his reputation. I’m glad that Israel and American politicians are still facing public pressure for Palestine and I hope people keep it up.

  17. Horror at the loss of innocent lives is to be expected and a heartening reminder that humanity pervades the vast majority of human sentiment.

    Unfortunately, the focus of public outrage at atrocities is governed by the present tense, so the genocidal music festival mass executions and slaughter of babies in kibbutz cribs are rearview mirror as Gazan civilians now die in connection with Israel’s utterly predictable response – a response strategically expected and knowingly prompted by Hamas as part of a long and well-planned operation still in its infancy. They want and need their people to be killed by Israel, knowing that media and compassionate citizens of the world will respond with increased horror and criticism each passing day. Hamas blew their wad of weapons and fighters, but their heavy lifting is done.

    The more difficult intellectual and emotional commitment of individuals and organizations that have followed these events as time marches is to the truth of the singular cause of this war and continuing loss of life: Hamas, which instigated the carnage *counting on* the exact results unfolding.

    The atrocities Hamas employed are presently irrelevant. The perversely complicated and unjust history of the region and it’s fabricated nation-states is presently irrelevant. What is relevant is that innocent people die in wars, and when war is waged by a government explicitly intent on the eradication of the nation and people it attacks its people will die in connection with the foreseen military response.

    Hamas bears full responsibility for every civilian death of this war. Difficult as it will be, that truth and Hamas’s explicitly genocidal objectives should govern all necessary actions against it while every reasonable attempt is made to spare – and I would argue assist and aid and ensure means of exit and access to basic necessities and care – ALL civilian lives.

    It’s a fucking nightmare, and my heart goes out to all involved and affected, especially the children.

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