At least 57 Palestinians have starved to death in Gaza as Israel’s punishing blockade of food, water, and other critical aid to the besieged enclave stretches into its third month amid relentless bombardment.
Gaza’s Government Media Office said on Saturday that most of the victims were children, as well as the sick and elderly, condemning the “continued use of food by the Israeli occupation as a weapon of war” and urging the international community to exert pressure on Israel to reopen the borders and allow in aid.
I genuinely don’t know what to do while reading news about Palestine. Donations don’t help if the food isn’t getting through the blockade, the biggest powers of the Western world seem to be in support of or turning a blind eye, and I as a citizen halfway across the world feel absolutely helpless as I watch children willfully being bombed and starved to death.
You need to speak up more than, there isnt enough people speaking up about it. If there was more things would change.
If you feel helpless, doing and saying more will help lessen this feeling.
Joining protests and speaking up about this online has helped me tremendously. Yes I have been banned and/or silenced, but I feel good about myself because I am speaking my truth.
This is what you want you to feel. Zionism in its core is a project for genocide. They want you to feel helpless. Read their history, educate yourself and your family. Fight for your political rights, boycott for the best of your ability. Share the news.
If you have time, join the protest but make sure to cover your face and dont take your phone.
Pressure your local government to act against Israel’s genocide through sanctions and military support for Palestine. Write your representatives, turn out to protests, help your local political party that aligns with your goals.
My state law actually prevents any company from working with/for the government if they boycott Israel. Let’s say I’m a government worker who needs to hire a contractor for a project. This contractor is not a government employee. But if this contractor boycotts Israel then I, as a government employee, am not legally allowed to choose them for the project; I have to find a contractor who doesn’t boycott Israel.
It’s literally enshrined in state law, so local governments can’t overrule it even if they wanted to.
Laws can be changed. We need to pressure our state legislatures in removing these bullshit laws.
It’s insane that we have laws forcing us to work with and not criticize a particular foreign sovereign state. It’s literal madness, like it breaks my brain lol.
Pressure and protest them all the same. To repeal that law is just an additional goal.
Go to demonstrations, boycott, speak up about Palestine, message your representatives, vote only for politicians that condemns Israels attacks and have a credible policy of supporting Palestinian rights.
As for donations there is organizations that try to get Israeli war criminals prosecuted and challenge governments in court to stop arming Israel. See two examples below.
https://www.hindrajabfoundation.org/
https://elsc.support/
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Also we’re not all Americans. Left wing party here support Palestine (you know, coz they aren’t liberals).
Must be hard seeing your keyboard with your head so far up your ass.
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Yesterday one of you guys got banned for genocide apologia (saying shit like “Palestinian deserve it”).
Incidently, he was also a big fan of sarcastically pointing out how trump was so much worst than kamala.
Just admit you guys hate arabs
They like to drive the topic away from the genocide. This topic was relevant during the election. But now it is clear a comment to get people upset and stop them from discussing what they can do to stop this genocide.
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Drop the act. You think you’re using sarcasm to make a good point about how tankies are trumpers and Russians or something.
You’re not. You just proving yourself to be utterly moraleless by advertising the world you voted for a genocider. Not only that, but you’re bring up America as if it was the only country in the world. Guess what, idiot, you’re the only ones where support for genocide is a given on both side of the politican spectrum.
Your sarcasm cannot hide the fact you don’t really think about foreigners as human.
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I love that you meant that ironically.
In reality you’ree just describing americans. When your country have been founded by bunch of exiled bigots, you’re bound to have a certain kind of inherent suppremacism going on.
The american state is rotten to the core. Liberalism is mostly about the freedom to do business, and business owner always end up funding fascists. Liberalism leads to fascism
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What?
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Nice troll. Sorry your favorite genocider lost. It must have been so hard to be submitted to what you were perfectly content for your country to submit others.
Your own medecine must taste so bitter. Heartbreaking
Who’s medecine [sic]? You’re apparently angry at people who voted for Harris. How is this “our medicine”?
I would say it’s more on the people who voted for Trump, the people who threw their vote away on a third party, and people who did not vote.
Nobody will ever take you seriously so long as you pretend that Harris would be nearly as bad as Trump regarding Israel (or literally any of the other thousands of disasters that he’s unnecessarily created for us).
My friend in beyruth died last year around June. Remind me who was in charge then asshole?
Well it’s a good thing that I didn’t vote for Joe Biden in 2024!
Beside, I don’t really give a fuck who’s the genocider in chief. From an external POV you clearly both sucks and you should stop bringing out your genocidal country.
As a reminder, this is the internet, not America. Not voting for a genocidal candidate would be a given in any normal part of the world. Only in your country can the so-called left count on their voters to be prone-to-compromise cowards. If you had guts, they might have had to consider the electoral cost of bombing civilians populations.
But hey they could count on your loyalty.
K.
There’s nothing the average citizen can do. “The Powers That Be” will protect Israel at any cost, because Israel is a military beachhead in the Middle East for any potential military action against “The Muzlimz.”
We put it in black and white to Democratic candidates: you can choose to support Israel or you can choose to win this election. But you only get one. Make it a binary choice and see how they respond.
If they choose to support Israel, then we need to shift to a 3rd party en masse. Make it clear that we will circumvent them if they don’t change their position.
Not alone. The only way is to organize. They’re often at local Palestine protests, so the trick is to find those, then get connected to people at them.
Jewish Voice for Peace is often at them. Someone else named another organization above. PSL has had a lot over the last year and a half, too.
This. There always needs to be someone spreading the word. See if there are anti-Zionist organizations where you live.