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EKB's avatar

None of these western protests were ever about the Palestinian people. It was an excuse to undermine western freedoms and defense. Some sick Islamo-Marxist hybrid that has glommed on to Jew-hatred as a fixation. The lack of support in the west for antiHamas protestors proves what we have all been saying for years now.

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Frédérique's avatar

Still don’t hear RELEASE THEM NOW being chanted - & - they were offered money for ANY information not a peep. The lid of antisemitism & anti Israel has come off & it’s going to be difficult to put it back on because of the global empowerment of the Muslim militia that’s now in situ globally & people remain caught in their everyday lives while the enemy from within grows in strength & though not working are playing the numbers game. As a young french Muslim woman tried to explain in 2020 - this is their land now

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Kelli's avatar

I hear you Frederique

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JohnWW's avatar

I wrote this letter to the SMH recently but needless to say they declined to publish it:

Apart from one report on 26 March this paper has had nothing further to say about what is a courageous move by Gazans. Reports from exiled Gazans are telling us that despite the risks there are tens of thousands out in public telling Hamas loudly and forcefully they have had enough. There are also a number of reports with photographs and video showing how Hamas terrorists are dealing with some of the leaders of these protests. As usual it is brutal and barbaric. Why is this not getting high visibility and continuous coverage from the legacy media?

By comparison there has been more coverage of the arrest and possible deportation of Mahmoud Khalil, the Palestinian student who was a key leader of Columbia University’s illegal encampments and an outspoken supporter of Hamas.

There has also been silence from the pro-Palestinian supporters in our campuses and city streets. All one can conclude is that their pressed care for Palestinians is just a cover for what they really want and that is the eradication of Israel and Jews in general. Reminder their slogan: “From the river to the sea. Palestine will be free”. Yes, free of Jews and then another failed Middle Eastern state.

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Kelli's avatar

It frustrates me no end. I have said it from the beginning, if people really cared about the plight of the Palestinians they would be supporting Israel in eradicating the scourge of ideology and Hamas. I stand by my that. All the bullshit virtual signalling is just noise.

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Tommo's avatar

Love this Kelli. On the money as always. Love the pic too! It paints a thousand words.

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Kelli's avatar

Doesn’t it just? Thanks Tommo.

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michael holt's avatar

...even a "thousand pounds" of words maybe! 😂

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Pithy Pragmatist's avatar

I would love to believe these protests are real, but the fact that not one Gazan has informed on the whereabouts of a single hostage makes me skeptical.

That said, all your points about the true motives of the college campus activists are spot on.

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CC's avatar

I can see your point, but they are kept very well hidden and only the most radical of supporters would be trusted to keep them. Just offering a possibility.

These same people could have been sheltered in the tunnels or bomb shelters but are left for news fodder for the war. It's important to have all that to outrage the world. 🙄

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Ciska Schenk's avatar

Motives ? Money and antisemitism. I've been trying to find like a non opinionated scientific publication about the Palestinian cause which digs deeper into the root causes of the conflict. There are non.

After that I ended up reading the Shaw Commission report about the events in Jerusalem in Augustus 1929

These kind of reports give a clear image of how we came to the current situation. Unfortunately common people fall for the Palestinian propaganda showing victims of the IDF, children, women and men - while they NEVER address Hamas. People get triggered by the images and quickly blame Israel. Over and over again. It makes me sick to the core.

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CC's avatar
May 9Edited

This is exactly my position. I kept getting screamed at "educate yourself!" when I tried asking questions.

MSM does a horrible job covering the conflict. The obvious bias and "freedom fighter" victim narrative is disgraceful.

They settle the dispute supposedly, Israel leaves the strip, no more international peacekeepers. My family served there. Sure wasn't an "open air prison" and there were people from all over living there.

Hamas was empowered to take control and used aid money to build terror tunnels.

Trading hundreds of jailed terrorists for one hostage and crying genocide while refusing to give up the hostages. Over a thousand people died in one day, shock that there is retaliation?

Why were the residents of Gaza left as a human shields instead of building shelters for them or allowing them in to the tunnels? Sympathy and victim narrative.

They are still holding hostages and the ones they released have been horribly abused.

I also listened to long interviews with the son of one of Hamas founders. Highly recommend.

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Ciska Schenk's avatar

Yep. We have to search well to find non biased information. I've listened to Mosab as well and other exceptional persons that do talk about the absurd reality of the "palestinian cause".

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Ana Anselma's avatar

Thank you for your work it is so important.The truth unravels and is revealed although not always published for the masses.

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Kelli's avatar

Thank you Ana. I have to believe that too.

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Ian Mark Sirota's avatar

The “Free Palestine” crowd is silent because it has never been about freeing Palestine. It has ALWAYS been about hating Jews, and the most appalling thing about is the number of Jewish useful idiots who support it.

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Kelli's avatar

Agree with you.

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Shirlea's avatar

The virtue signalling going apesh#t

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TRHOC's avatar

Thank you, Kelli. I hope many more people read this article.

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Kelli's avatar

Thank you TRHOC 🙏🏻🎗️

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michael holt's avatar

You said the "fatties" may only be "one upgrade away," but the term you may have been looking for is "supersize."

(And for the record, I like McDonald's, but I don't ask them to "supersize me.") 😂

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Kelli's avatar

Yes we don’t have supersize is Australia, I think it’s an American thing but yes that is exactly what I meant!

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Dave Bender's avatar

Someone posted a meme on this image/issue, asking for a photo caption. Someone said they were from a band: “Houthi and the Blowholes.”

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Kelli's avatar

Oh my god 😂😂😂

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Steve S's avatar

When I saw the pic of those two hefty ladies wearing free palestine tee shirts, it occurred to me where all the humanitarian aid food trucks had gone.

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Kelli's avatar

They are eating about the same calories per day as the aid that went into Gaza allowed for for the Palestinians. Irony much?

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GARY B KATZ's avatar

Western demonstrators: "Long live Hamas!" Gaza civilians: "Stop trying to 'help' us!"

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Derek Ertz's avatar

Anti-Israel and anti-semitism are more or less phenomena of the human mob mentality. These anti-Jewish rants on social media and public demonstrations are approximately 10% fundamentalist Muslims or their immediate sympathizers and 90% people there because it feels good. It feels good to the college students who were raised as narcissists by their parents (I’m a parent of 2 of them), are still at an impressionable age of neurological immaturity and survived COVID. Many of them had friends who died. They left home for college terrified of the world. Belonging to what seems to be a just cause even when so much of it is based on lies—it feels good to them. Nothing is more important to them. No matter the cost.

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Ciska Schenk's avatar

That is a very sad reality. Covid confinement could have been an occasion to change habits and get closer to one another. Start thinking about our own behavior and society. Instead people got traumatized while stayed home. Safe, warm, well fed and provided with all modern comfort en acces to internet. Sad sad reality.

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Kathryn O's avatar

Boobs for Palestine?

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Joel's avatar

😳😳🤦‍♂️

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