April 15th Coordinated Economic Blockade to Free Palestine
April 15th Coordinated Economic Blockade to Free Palestine
On April 15th, people from over 30 cities around the world will launch a global economic blockade answering the call from Gaza to fight for a liberated Palestine. 75 years and 182 days into this U...
Thanks for linking to this! I'm so excited to see this happening and that my city is one of those where organization is happening.
Sadly, I can't get away from my job to take part. So I reached out to the chapter for my city to find out how I can donate to a legal fund for protesters who get taken by police. I encourage everyone who cares about this issue to do the same. Even better if you can get out there and make our voices heard. The genocide in Palestine must be stopped.
You're clearly very naive and cannot see the world as more than black and white.Now the Israeli state are the bad guys and the Palestinians are the good guys. So now it is OK to boycott jews again, shout about the eradication of the Jewish state and its people ("from the river to the sea") and talk about a one-directional genocide since "75 years and 182 days". This is either really really stupid or blatantly antisemitic. There is no excuse for what the Israeli government is doing atm. And I agree that there shouldn't be any nations or borders in the world at all. But making this into the mostly Jewish population as a group of occupiers is just wrong. It's actually not too different from what the Israeli government is saying when they identify basically all Palestinian civilians as hamas. Like I said, only black and white thinking :/Edit: Reading this again, I can see why I upset OP and others. This was unnecessarily harsh. Sorry. I guess it's my own frustration that the internet is full of one-sided debate upon this conflict. I'm still not comfortable with the rhetoric of this post but want to apologize for being so rude!
nobody's talking about eradicating Jews except you.
You sure about that? "From the river to the sea" is open to interpretation, but many (including Hamas) use it with a genocidal meaning. Everyone that uses this phrase should know about this meaning and know what it signals to others. So yes, people are talking about a genocide of Israeli people, i.e. Jews.
Many Jewish people are against Israel and boycott Israeli companies. Yes, we can shout about the destruction of the Israeli state because that is different than eradicating people. In some situations it is black and white, the Israeli state's goal is the death of Palestine, both the people and the nation. Numerous officials and policies have made this clear.
Yeah, you see the problem there? Hamas is also trying to kill all the Jews. And other Arab States also want to see them dead. They've made this very clear as well. Instead of favor one side we should try to moderate the conflict and help the voices of people who are in favor of a peaceful solution and not one where either side gets killed. We shouldn't let the most hateful parts of each side get so much power. Palestinians as well as Jews (and everyone else living there) should have a right to exist peacefully. You won't solve this by either giving the land to the Palestinians or the Israelis. Destroying the Israeli state would obviously lead to a genocide of Jews. You need to be very naive to think it wouldn't come to that once the Israeli military and polixe were to be dissolved. The Israeli government however should definitely be targeted. We need to find a way to take away the power the Likud and the Hamas currently hold.
The issue people are having with your comment here is that you are misrepresenting the OPs post. The only thing they are calling for here is an economic boycott of Israel to pressure the Israeli government to end their attacks on Gaza. Meanwhile you are rolling that up in strawman argument that says that's basically the same thing as wanting the obliteration of all Israelis. Don't be so quick to make bad faith assumptions. While left wing antisemitism is a real issue, as is antisemitism in the middle east, OP hasn't given you any cause to make that accusation here. I'd suggest editing your post to clarify that you were (I assume?) talking more generally about the topic rather than about the OP in particular.
Hm, I see what you mean. But the post is calling for an "end to Zionism" (in the video) and sees the whole Israeli state as non other than a genocide project (for the entirety of its existence, in the description). One of the top comments is the antisemitic slogan "From the river to the sea PALESTINE will be free". All in all, I don't feel comfortable with this at all. I mean, please organize against what the Israeli state is doing. But don't just adopt antisemitic rhetoric and paint this whole conflict as this one-dimensional.
Maybe it's my own bias, because as a German I'm much more sensible to the topic of antisemitism and especially in German leftwing politics, organizations like e.g. BDS have been identified as antisemitic for a very long time. Leftists from other countries often have a very different understanding of the same conflict. Not sure what to make of it though.
We are ready. And more campaigns will appear when the blockade is successful.