6d ago

We Must Free Palestine 🇵🇸

Not everything is black or white.

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How does buyeuropean even suggest any stance towards anything happening in West Asia?
Edit: i just wanted to snark at weird people in the OP and i didn't think this would be somehow controversial. i'm on your and palestine's side but i'm in no mental shape for this discussion and trying to explain what i mean further so i'm out.
- Because boycotts are a relevant and powerful tool and part of being a thoughtful consumer is being educated on the ethics of the companies you’re monetarily supporting. That would be my guess anyway.
  
  I don't disagree at all, I just don't see the connection between being a thoughtful consumer and any opinion on what Israel is doing in Palestine whatsoever. Those are two different things in my mind. I am very open to being educated.
- I assume because most European countries have, at least until very recently, been staunch supporters of Israel.
  
  Same for the US though, no?
- Because we send weapons there? You can either be isolationist OR sell guns, not both
  Israeli do "buy europeans" all rightL https://www.ontheditch.com/weapons-worth/
From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free!
- ***Edit: Context was added. Original text was just the first half.
  Both groups use this slogan. You may want to add context when you use it.
  
  Thats actually true fair point
Wrong place here
- Israel is included in Eurovision and the European Union includes Asian land within its borders so it’s relevant to discuss how we want to steer this ship.
  
  No it's not. That the ebu invites Israel and Australia is just idiotic.
- Europe is a major buyer of goods produced in Occupied Palestine. The Occupation regime of west palestine gets material support for their ongoing genocide through tariffs and taxes on these products. Buying products labelled "made in Israel [sic]" materially supports the murder and systematic starvation of children.
  Further a lot of "made in europe" products source their stuff from occupied palestine, please refer to https://bdsmovement.net/ if you want to help cut off aid to the genocidal entity.
- Why? Israelis do "buy european"
  https://www.ontheditch.com/weapons-worth/
Fuck Israel, genocidal scum!
Am Israel Chai 🇮🇱
- Settler 🤮
I'd be putting Belgium at the top of that list.
- Belgian here.
  The corrupted socialist party have been surprisingly strong on the matter. The rest of them are willing to give lip service, but they don't care much about genocide victims.
  On the street though most people are against genocide
- They use the word "will" a lot in that article and "caveats" a few times. So perhaps Belgium will make it to onto that list but with some caveats.
  
  The caveats seem to be around the administrative stuff, like setting up an embassy. Being afaict the first western country to put any noteworthy sanctions on Israel deserves a place at the top of the list, IMO.

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