Accounts on IG that I followed as a lib like so.informed, Greta Thunberg, and AOC support Palestine, but endlessly make clear they see Palestinians and the liberators of Palestine as strictly separate entities. It’s sickening going into the comments but at least full on Zionists get ratioed.
“We support Palestine as long as they protest in a way that is easily ignored” isn’t supporting Palestine. I am not a Palestinian nor have I lived in Gaza, though I do have friends in Gaza right now. I have no right to tell people there how to protest and fight against people who have kept them in a concentration camp since the day they were born.
They tried peaceful protests, they got killed and ignored.
“…but I condemn Hamas!” is like having to couch any criticism of the US military with “…but I support the troops!”. It’s a meaningless platitude that shows you care more about having a sanitary acceptable opinion than anything else.
Exactly, no one asks for a denunciation for the people that ran a literal rape dungeon in Iraq called abu ghraib. We should, but no one does. Yet somehow, everyone becomes an expert on fighting oppression all of a sudden.