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Pro-Palestine protesters shut down London’s Tower Bridge
(Jerusalem Post, 2024-10-20)https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/article-825262#825262
———“Pro-Palestine protesters shut down Tower Bridge in #London on Saturday, shortly after thousands attended a mass protest in Trafalgar Square and Whitehall.”
“… the Met Police stated that the groups had been dispersed and several arrests had been made.”
“A group named Youth Demand claimed to have been part of a coalition that organized the event and shut down the bridge.
“Youth Demand said it demanded that the UK government stop arming Israel…”“The other groups involved were the Palestine Solidarity Campaign, Prayers4Gaza, Palestine Pulse, Thanet 4 Palestine, and Ealing Friends of Palestine.”
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It really bothers me thay they use pro-palestine language, when what this is about is being against genocide.
What?
Are you drawing the line of what is acceptable to protest between protesting for an end to genocide and protesting for the rights of Palestinians to govern themselves, rather than be at the bottom of the hierarchy in an apartheid government?
No, I’m criticizing the reporting language.
Anti-genocide and pro-Palestine are the same thing in this case.
Being pro-palestine is not at the cost of anyone or anything else. There is no meaningful difference.
This is your brain on Zionist propaganda lol
I think you meant they are labelling the protest as pro - Palestine, rather than anti - genocide. But it looks like you are annoyed that anyone would say things that are pro - Palestine.
The Jerusalem Post weirdly filing this under the “Diaspora” category?
That’s a weird thing to say. How are protesters blocking a bridge affect British Jews specifically? They didn’t block it only for jews and leave it open for non-jews or something.
I know that Jewish diaspora institutions have been extremely unfairly targetted recently.
TW: attack
For example, in Montreal and in Toronto there have been disgusting shooting attacks against Jewish schools.
Thankfully, in the ones I know of, nobody had been hurt, even if it has had a chilling and terrorizing effect. But that’s entirely different.
A protest in broad daylight in a central space, I don’t understand what kind of “peril” any random Jewish person might be faced with. I mean you will hear rhetoric against Israel and if you show up with an Israeli flag to counter protest you will get yelled at. But that’s not any kind of special peril for the diaspora in general. Show up with a Turkish flag at a Kurdish rally and the same applies. That’s not a peril for diaspora Turks.
I do not dispute that antisemitism exists and is fucking dangerous. No dispute there whatsoever. But I am very confused if specifically people who are pro-palestine act it out against diaspora Jews. Like, I would assume the logical thing would be “we want you right here, safe and happy, no need for you to do aliyah and go settle in Palestine”. Every Jew who doesn’t feel threatened in the diaspora is one less potential settler in Palestine. Like antisemitism on its own is repugnant, of course, but even for entirely selfish/pro-palestine reasons, it’s clear that antisemitism against the Jewish diaspora directly harms Palestinians.
To put it differently: as a Canadian, I feel ashamed when my politicians say that Israel is the safest country in the world for Jews. Why can’t Canada be better than some war torn, militaristic apartheid state?
You cannot excuse what Israel is doing in Palestine by hiding behind antisemitism.