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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.
I will welcome all american sisters and brothers with open arms.
No war but class war, brethren
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!
Poroperty is the only thing the assholes in power recognise.
Yeah it’s too bad for the businesses caught in the crossfire, sincerely, but this will actually have a greater impact. If business is impacted, then rich people stop making money. And they can’t stand that for even a second, so they start sending DMs to their contacts in politics.
Business does not equal rich. They could be struggling and that may be the final straw for them. The only people really benefiting from that are the insurance companies. Might be worth seeing where they have ties to.
I don’t even know what that’s supposed to achieve.
There’s a genocide happening where kids are being murdered daily with the support of worldwide governments. If your entire family and children were murdered what would you do?
I was referring to the trashing of local businesses and buildings. Unless they are zionist Israel enablers, I don’t know what smashing another country up is supposed to achieve. The mass protest on it’s own would get the same message across.
should we politely be respectful while our governments profit from genocide?
Seems this is a good time to go bat shit crazy
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.
It achieves nothing, so moderates love it.
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.
It probably wouldn’t be that hard to find out which businesses support Israel and its Zionism. Then, while most wouldn’t condone it, it would be more palatable. In these videos it just seems like a breakaway group smashing up random businesses that people may be already struggling to try and keep afloat. In many cases it may mean that their insurance premiums will go up, so the only people really benefiting from it are the insurance companies. May be worth looking up if any of those have links to Israel.
I’m not sure which businesses got smashed up, but knowing the area around central station there probably is no such thing as small business there. I’ve seen a photo of a Starbucks getting vandalized, so for now I will not be shedding any tears.
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.
