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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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Palestinian children: Stop bombing us
Israelis: Best we can do is silence
While the general apathy of the Israeli public really does worry me, I think this is still a good sign. We shouldn’t just be disappointed with Isreali citizens but also all the leaders in the „Free“ world who are standing by and letting this happen. The UK and USA could stop this if they wanted to they’re just refusing as well it’s pathetic really.
More like give us back the hostages so we can continue bombing you without caring
“Here is a picture of a dead Palestinian child we bombed. Look how empathic we are.”
50% of the population of Gaza is minors, never forget this. Any mass killing of Gazans is a mass killing of children.
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.
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.
-Israel can only be improved by being dismantled, so actually by going home the people who want to improve Israel are doing the right thing
-Many people were born in “Rhodesia”, too. That doesn’t mean everyone else has to tolerate a violent supremacist ethnostate right next door.
The lesson here, for any countries that might be reading, is this: Decolonization is quite violent, like almost a tenth as violent as colonization. Don’t like that? Don’t colonize. If you think it’s fucked up to just be born somewhere and have to leave, I actually agree. it’s fucked up of settler governments to use people as human shields and weapons like that, but it also doesn’t oblige the colonized to suffer more occupation.
You may have misunderstood something. Dismantling Israel doesn’t mean sending the population “home.”
It’s fucked up of settler governments to use people as human shields and weapons like that
This kind of argument smells bad to me. This is exactly the justification Israel is using for its genocide in Gaza.
You may have misunderstood something. Dismantling Israel doesn’t mean sending the population “home.”
If you’re implying that actually the people being genocide would be the ones doing genocide if they get the chance, I have nothing to say to that level of settler hysteria.
This kind of argument smells bad to me. This is exactly the justification Israel is using for its genocide in Gaza.
There’s a reason it sounds like that, and that’s because every fascist accusation is a confession. Israel uses human shields, Israel uses mass sexual violence as a terror weapon, Israel burns babies alive and Israel hides military installations inside civillian infrastructure. Israel does everything they accuse the resistance of doing. This is fascism 101 shit.
I have honestly no clue what you’re talking about for the first one. I’m saying that dismantling Israel does not require the removal of the people who live there.
every fascist accusation is a confession
That sounds like the fallacy of the thought-terminating cliché. And it would apply equally well to you. I actually can’t imagine how you think saying that as part of an accusation would ever go well. Anyway you don’t need to convince me of Israel’s crimes.
If you oppose the genocide GO HOME
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.
It’s sad that I had to clock through to see which mass killing of children they were referring to.
It’s not much but it’s a step in the right direction.
