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‘We’ve killed so many children — it’s hard to argue with that’ (+972 Magazine, 2025-05-01)
https://www.972mag.com/silent-vigils-gazan-children-israel/ ———
>> Since March, hundreds of Israelis have joined silent vigils for slain Gazan children, holding up their photos to try to break through the wall of apathy.
>> The idea for these silent protests took shape among several activists in Tel Aviv who were horrified by the scale of death and destruction after Israel renewed its assault on Gaza in March…
>> “It started spontaneously,” said Amit Shilo, one of the organizers of the vigil. “… My friend Alma Beck posted a story with one of the [… deceased Gazan] children, and I wrote to her, ‘Let’s take their pictures to the Saturday night protest.’”
>> The two of them printed 40 black-and-white photos at home from the Daily File, … “We thought it would just be five of us standing for ten minutes until someone attacked us and we went home — but dozens showed up,”
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It’s kind of hard to take them seriously when their very presence there is part of the genocide they’re protesting. Literally half of the population of Israel moved there since 2000. If you oppose the genocide GO HOME.
Never punish somebody for taking a political step in the right direction. This is not about you feeling good but it’s about them building change. We can argue if change is possible within Israel’s society, but it’s not on the people who decided to do something.
Nothing says racism quite like siding with the bloodsoaked European settler who claims to be sad while building their new home directly on top of warm-in-the-ground Arab children.
Purist brainrot is thinking that criticizing moralistic politics means siding with zionists and being racist. Same energy of calling anti-semitic any criticism of Israel.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Possession_of_stolen_goods
Tell it to the judge.
Who’s feeling good about themselves? What have these people decided to do?
protest?
People commenting on the internet from thousands of KMs away in their room: “this is not enough, they should have done more”. It makes you feel good, because you are making a moral point about the insufficient morality of others. It makes you feel better than them.
a) I don’t think the people who want to improve Israel should be the ones to GO HOME
b) half of Israelis were born there. I don’t believe anyone should be forced to leave the place they were born.
So that anyone with even a shred of decency is gone and only the most rabid genociders remain? I think organizing a protest - even as meek as this - is better than just running away.