Nice one, Italy
I am so god damn proud and they should be too. I hope we germans can at least follow suit. Sadly even our most “neutral” news source has become a propaganda piece of the status quo aka “please be not so obvious about doing genocide, my dear friend Israel”.
I am not going to start about our government, just gonna say being Anti-Zionist is being painted as an right wing extremist and anti-semitic view.
But i hope the people will rise up. I am looking forward to the protests on saturday. It feels so far away, I would love to join Italians today.
Incredible, isn’t it - the actual right wing extremists support Zionism, but being against that gets you painted as “too far right”. I’m from America so I’m used to there being no such thing as left, but goddamn
I feel with you, being Anti-Zionist in the U.S. gotta suck even more.
One thing that has goven me hope is how more people than one might think are ready to change their views once they looked at the oppression and the resulting suffering. They do not need to instantly recognize it as a genocide and still will lose faith in Zionism. I showed my Zionist mom “No Other Land” and she was shocked. I was shocked she watched until the end but oh so proud.
On the off chance of losing some, i am now convinced that i can make more people look at the horrors and help them to form a more educated opinion, that hopefully leads to action.
Heads up mate, not all is lost and you yourself are the evidence that people in the U.S. can be on the left. We can’t let ourselves be beaten down be the mainstream-narrative that is designed to uphold the status quo. These forces are also present right here in the internet so we will have to take it to the streets eventually.
I can’t help where I’m from, but I can control where I end up at least. Took my family back to the UK a few years ago, since we’ve only been Americans for a generation or so. Reason being, I don’t have much hope that the US can improve materially without a full-on regime change - I think obviously the American system contained the seeds of its own destruction from the outset, but the final straw (pardon the mixed metaphor) was Citizens United, which ended up being basically golden handcuffs for all elected officials. Only they can reverse it, and they won’t because it’s their money. It would take some eucatastrophe to undo all that, so I’ll just have to take to the streets elsewhere when the time comes.
Well done Italy, although I don’t agree with the trashing of things and vandalism. I don’t even know what that’s supposed to achieve. The only thing I can think of is that it will make the German, British and American governments claim that they’re right for clamping down on the protests for Palestine.
But with the noise that is being made worldwide, and the headaches that other governments are having to deal with, coupled with Netanyahu’s killing of journalists to stop the news getting out and so he can feed his propaganda having the opposite effect, hopefully things will begin to happen and Israel will start to feel some serious pressure. Fuck Trump, fuck Netanyahu.
FREE PALESTINE!
Well done Italy, although I don’t agree with the trashing of things and vandalism. I don’t even know what that’s supposed to achieve.
I don’t agree with respectability politics. I don’t even know what that’s supposed to achieve.
I don’t agree with the trashing of things and vandalism
This is the minimum for it to have any effectiveness. Polite protests will achieve nothing, they will only be ignored. Especially in such an entrenched right wing and center government like Italy.
Governments will paint this negatively either way, they just can’t wait for that story of someone getting hurt or of disruption to “hard working people trying to get to work”, or painting the protesters as anti-semitic.
This and also the protest is about our country supporting the slaughter of 20 thousands children so far.
Considering this I’d call it a peaceful protest.
should we politely be respectful while our governments profit from genocide?
Seems this is a good time to go bat shit crazy
