Free Palestine protest happening tomorrow in DC

why is that? Do you support the genocide of Palestinians?
Israel has consistently committed violations of international law, and perpetrated acts of ethnic cleansing and genocide, since the Nakba, of 1948.
It also has benefited from complacency and manipulation within Western media, and proliferated outright lies, to obscure such crimes from the populations in countries on which it has relied for support.
Much of the Israeli civilian and military leadership, including at the very highest levels, is fascistic.
The events relating to the occupied territories entirely derive as their root cause from such oppressive policies and events.
I suggest that if you are not willing to condemn Israel for oppression of the Palestinian people, then you should consider why you are participating in a leftist space.

So, you are marching for the end of Hamas?

Palestine is under the thumb of Israel. Hamas didn't shut off the water, electricity, and food for civilians. Hamas didn't bomb the refugee camp. Hamas didn't call for the evacuation of 2 million people in 24 hours. Hamas didn't ignore the advice of the US general that lived through the battle of Fallujah.
- Hamas didn't call for the evacuation of 2 million people in 24 hours.
  Yep, they just arranged a terror attack on sleeping towns and villages on a holiday morning, which ended in 1400 people killed, more than 1000 of them civilians.
  What you tote as a bad thing: asking ppl to evacuate - is actually trying to save innocent lives. What Hamas does in response? Forbids the people to move away, to have that human shield in place.
Hamas exists as a power within Gaza because of Israeli policies intended to make the Palestinian population appear to the world as extremist. Military operations of Hamas have entirely targeted its oppressor nation, and such activity could end as soon as such oppression also would end. Hamas has no particular presence in the West Bank, which is more populous than Gaza.
- No, Hamas hostility towards Israel will end only when Israel ceases to exist. It's written in their charter, it's obvious from their actions, their spokesman says it loud and clear. All this while the liberal westerners nod and mutter "you poor oppressed thing, of course you are"...

I have reviewed the comments text and vote counts.

I feel alarmed by the doubts and animus targeting a post that simply seeks support for the cause of Palestinian liberation.

Currently, the Palestinian people are being murdered by a genocidal apartheid state. The fascistic leaders of the state have boasted about their intention to inflict the genocide. They have consistently made racist characterizations and lied to cover war crimes.

Israel is actively perpetrating genocide against the Palestinian people.

Such are facts, and any condemnation for Hamas cannot justify support for Israel, or its genocide, or its occupation, nor can it invalidate the legitimate and essential demand for Palestinian liberation.

I cannot respect any participation in a leftist space that is tepid in condemnation of Israel, a genocidal apartheid state under fascistic leadership.

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Here's my money on a Kent state or hard hat riot flashback, the government is not going to take it well they never have..

There have been rallies in Detroit.