Liberals care about Palestine/Hamas because they are not white.
One side has to be the oppressor. And the other side has to be oppressed. There's no other way out of this.
According to liberals, white people are always the oppressors.
Palestine is comparatively less white than many Israeli citizens, and of course, that's enough for the liberal hivemind. A non-white country in war with another who has a lot of people who have fairer skin?
Of course Isreal is committing genocide! How can white people ever be attacked?
It's the same reason why they accuse Israel of "colonizing" Palestine, similar to the European colonization of America.
If Palestine citizens were the ones who're white instead, they would have cheerfully supported Israel.
This is a story about an angel named Alina, who made the world a more magical place. They say she was kind-hearted, had plans and dreams to help people on their life journeys. She found peace. She was happy when she went to the Nova festival with the love of her life, Yonatan. Yonatan got his first job, an important job at the Nova festival as the party photographer. When the terrorists entered the party area Alina spoke to her mother and told her that they were in a car and there were rockets being fired at them. At 8:30 she managed to call again and tell her, "I love you", and hung up. They had to abandon their vehicle - there was nothing left of it and Alina hid in a security trailer in the complex, along with a group of security guards and other people, some of whom were injured. Around 9 o'clock Alina sent a message to her brother that they were running from place to place and being shot at. Alina thought that the ambulance was a safe place and went to hide under it. But when the monsters discovered people inside it they fired an RPG. None of them had a chance and they were all burned alive. 24 difficult days passed until Alina was identified - her family received one earring and her bracelet burned and charred. Yonatan's body was found shot in the fields and his camera was not found. This is a story about Alina the angel. The kind-hearted Alina with the sparkling eyes. A story about the great evil that interrupted everything that Sabbath, about the evil that took Alina who will dance forever among the stars. Her spirit will shine above us forever.
But not Palestine? Not Hamas - the elected government of Gaza?
How about Russia? They bombed maternity wards and orphanages. Why aren’t the leftists demanding their war crime trial? The double standards are getting old.
Everything you complain about with Israel (if true) is exactly what Hamas and the Palestinians have been doing to them as well.
“Israel has wiped out entire families!” So did Hamas.
“Israel is bombing Gaza!” Palestine is bombing Israel (and, ironically, Gaza as well).
“An IDF soldier raped someone!” Hamas employed mass rape as a weapon of war against Israeli women.
“Israel is trying to wipe out Palestinians!” Hamas is trying to wipe out Jews.
We can keep going on this. The list goes on. Not only that, but multiple other countries have employed such tactics against their own people and other countries. Not a single cry for war crime trials.
I tried to post on instagram some years ago and I saw a Native American activist who fully supported Palestine, like she literally had “free Palestine save muslims” on the top of her profile. I was new to the English speaking community so I was.. a bit surprised. I didn’t think that these kind of things even exist on the internet.
When 7/10 just happened, I was thinking about her. It wasn’t my first thought of course, but my mom asked me, “but all the Americans support Israel, right?”. That’s when I remembered her. I was wondering what she thinks about it now. Did she wake up? Did she realize everything?
Of course there’s no hope of it. I opened tumblr and I saw my mutuals and just cool people I follow posting all the awful antisemistic stuff.
I haven’t visited instagram for a while. I don’t want to see how that activist is doing now. Because I think I already know what I will see.
And of course that’s right. Free Palestine. From HAMAS. Save muslims. From islamists. (And from themselves).
The "Free Palestine" movement is genocidal. Straight up. It's not just a few select slogans they use or some fringe members.
The very name of the movement is genocidal.
I had a conversation with my former roommates last semester where they refused to understand why "Free Palestine" in and of itself as a statement is a problem.
To them, it's a liberation movement. But the first issue arises when we ask who or what is being liberated.
What, in modern geographical terms, is Palestine? Where is Palestine? Who is the ruling party of Palestine?
Anyone with even a bit of knowledge would realize that this is a trick question. There isn't any country actually called Palestine.
When people refer to Palestinians, they typically talk about the people either in Gaza or the West Bank, which are two separate entities with two separate governments.
So who are we supposed to be freeing? Gaza, which has its own government in the form of Hamas? Or the West Bank, which has the PA as its governing group? (By the way, the PA has this little thing called pay-for-slay I suggest you look into, but that'd be a post for another time.)
The actual term "Palestine" most commonly is used to refer to the entire area of where Israel, Gaza, and the West Bank are located.
Which brings me to my main point. When people call to "Free Palestine" they aren't calling for a two-state solution. Identically to their call for "from the river to the sea", this slogan calls for the complete destruction of Israel.
A lot of people have already spoken on the issue of why "from the river to the sea" is genocidal in nature, so I won't be going too in depth on that. My point is more so that those two phrases are equivalently malevolent in nature.
There's also the people who call themselves "pro-Palestine". If we take into consideration what "Palestine" as a term means, we're left with two interpretations.
First, they just use that instead of "Free Palestine", making their use of it still equivalent for wanting the entirety of Israel gone.
Second, they want Palestine to "win" in the war.
Now, since we've established that there isn't actually a country called Palestine right now, they're either rooting for the PA or Hamas to win.
As I recommended before, it'd be fantastic if you could just take time to read up on what pay-for-slay is. As a quick summary, that's exactly what it sounds like. The PA pays people money for killing Israelis/Jews. (That's the very vague version, since this isn't the point of the post.)
Therefore, you can probably imagine what would happen to Israelis if the PA were to take over Israel (G-d forbid).
If, G-d forbid, Hamas were to take over Israel, we'd end up with a series of atrocities akin to the horrors of Oct 7th. How do I know? Hamas leaders have repeatedly promised to repeat Oct 7th again and again and again.
Both the PA and Hamas have killed their own people for suspected collaboration with Israel, in rather cruel ways. So you can probably imagine what'd happen to Israelis in both scenarios.
I have seen very very few people who align themselves with either phrasing of the movement actually calling for two states, or for any viable solution. (And no, a ceasefire that leaves Hamas in power is not a viable solution. We had a ceasefire until the moment they attacked on Oct 7th.)
(I say "very few" as an allowance that some may exist, but in reality I haven't seen any.)
If your solution involves the dissolution of Israel and giving power to either the PA or Hamas, congratulations. You are actively backing a genocidal "solution".
And much like a previous "solution", most of the victims of this proposed genocide would be Jewish.
She planned to travel the world, she loved her family more than anything, there were always friends around her. She had already defeated terrorism when a terrorist ran her over in an attack and underwent a long rehabilitation and then she arrived at the Nova festival, this is the story of Raz. She called her parents on the morning of October 7 and said "missiles are being fired at us", she and two other friends who were with her managed to get to the car and drove to the Be'eri junction, where they decided to get into a shelter. She had time to call her parents and told them she loved them, she explained that she was in a safe place and as soon as the rocket fire stopped she would continue driving home. She did not know that at that exact time, thousands of armed terrorists were crossing the fence and advancing in their direction. Around 8 in the morning Raz called the police and begged for help, but no policeman could come, She was focused and explained calmly where they were and added that there were dozens of people hiding there, But they couldn't help, the chaos was too big and the call ended. at 08:15 Her phone was already disconnected and she didn't respond anymore. Raz was brutally murdered in the shelter, 10 days before her 22nd birthday. In her last moments she tried to do everything to get help and to save others. This is the story of Raz who had big dreams and goals, the funny Raz, who loved to sing and spread kindness, always volunteered and helped others, like there in the shelter, just moments before the monsters got to her too. May her spirit shine upon us forever.