The genocide is still ongoing and many things are still developing in Palestine, but we are removing the limitation on only posting things related to the operation Flood of Al-Aqsa to this thread, you can now freely post over Lemmygrad again.
Please don’t stop talking about Palestine.
Due to popular demand, please keep all posts about the operation to this megathread, sitewide.
How in the world is the public supportive of Palestine? If they aren’t supportive of communism and general anti-imperialism/anti-colonialism, how are they supportive of Palestine?
We cannot allow Amerikan “news” media to dictate to us where the masses are at. Zionist outlets want us to believe that the Amerikan masses are on board with ethnic cleansing writ large.
I know otherwise reactionary people – coworkers, customers, etc. – who loathe the state of Israel for what it is doing. News media would have us believe that these otherwise reactionary folk are anti-Israel merely because they are antisemitic or some other such hogwash.
This is a litmus test for basic human empathy, and I think more people are passing than failing. The Amerikan news empire does not reflect the will or the ideas of the people, it attempts to shape them. By virtue of their class interests, bourgeois “journalists” are always tailing us and tailing workers.
Anti-imperialist journalists and their outlets like Abby Martin (Empire Files), Brian Becker (The Socialist Program), SomeMoreNews, MintPress News, Multipolarista, and more, are gaining traction and have been for a while. Paywalls and opaque anti-worker rhetoric are making rags like WaPo obsolete to the masses.
We also can’t use astroturfed hellsites like Reddit to guage where people are at. Contrariwise, we shouldn’t necessarily use anecdotal grass-touching evidence as indicative of a larger trend, either. My experience on the ground has been far more akin to comrade @redtea@lemmygrad.ml than bearing witness to the countrywide cavalcade of [proletarian] Zionist warriors Western news media typically wants us to believe exists, though.
the situation in gaza is so precarious and israel commit so many crimes that is very hard to wash everything, so there is that notion that israel isn’t so nice, free and democratic so to speak
It’s the impression I got. Maybe it depends where you are. A segment of the Imperial core supports Israel, I know. But a significant section seems to be aghast at the idea of cutting of water and electricity to civilians and so many children. Okay, that horror might not manifest as outright support for Palestinians liberating themselves. Libs are gonna lib, after all. But the mood definitely feels like it’s leaning more towards Palestine than Israel where I am. I do think people feel scared to express whatever support there is, though.