Thousands of Israelis take to streets of Tel Aviv to demand cease-fire and Netanyahu's resignation
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1:21 video shows the scale of the protest.
Shulamit Ron, Demonstrator: "We hope the world hears us: the people of Israel are not the government of Israel. We don't agree with the policy; we don't agree with the way they behave; and we want to have a different future."
Roi Tzohar, Demonstrator: "The Israeli people are hostages to their right-wing government. The people of Gaza are hostages to Hamas. And, basically, there has to be a way to overcome that and to stop the fighting and the killing. This [demonstration?] is to give everybody hope."
There's a protest I can get behind...
Hear, hear! This is fantastic. The people who can change the state of Israel are the Israeli people. I hope their voices are heard.
Just a bunch of God damn Anti-Semites... Waaiit a minute...
They should ship the NYPD or Texas Rangers over there to crush this dissent.
Whoa, who would've guessed there are so many anti-Semites in Israel!?
Would be awesome if there was some kind of endorsement from these people for the student protests. “We got the Israel’s people’s support” should shut down any anti semitic claim (for sane people at least)
I think Israeli apologists have become a little too conditioned to jump to weaponised charges of antisemitism. It's been so easy and effective to deploy for so long that it's a bit of an addiction, and they're just going to keep slamming that button expecting it to keep paying out even though it's not working any more.
Let’s compare a couple of points of view:
“I don’t feel safe walking through the middle of these protests!” - bad faith assholes trying to make the protests antisemitic. Of course, he could just not walk right through them.
“…” —> dead silence of a slaughtered Palestinian child whose entire apartment building fell on her in her sleep.
One of these points of view has a voice right now, because one of these actors is alive right now.
There's already Jewish groups in the protest crowds.
They already just lump them in as Anti-Semitic. The ADL even complained that a Jewish led protest had the temerity to march past a synagogue.
I'm not sure that can ever happen. the student protests:
I think it'd work better if the Student Protests endorsed the Israeli Protest. This way it would show the World that they're interested not in a destruction of Israel but in a peaceful end to this War. This way they would also force all the radical People out of the Student Protests and thus give them more credibility and even pave the way for the Israeli Protests to endorse the Student ones.
All of you antisemites should be ashamed of yourselves! I'm Jewish, so I can say it though.
Fuck Netanyahu and fuck this genocidal war
I'm Jewish, so I can say it though?
Do you think pointing out a genocide is like the N word or something?
I think they were being sarcastic, playing with the criticizing Israel's government = antisemitism nonsense
Ah ok, you know it's hard catching sarcasm when the internet is full of crazy people. That's why /s exists. Specially hard when this is an actual card played by pro-israel jews.
Will the White House label them anti-Semitic as well?
Bingo!
The same White House that halted Ammo Shipments to Israel?
The same one that sanctioned a Israeli unit linked to atrocities?
Admit it, you're just contrarian, you can never be satisfied
You're misrepresenting both of those:
The Biden administration paused a shipment of US-made ammunition to Israel, according to a source familiar with the matter, who did not disclose why the decision was made. The hold is not connected to a potential Israeli operation in Rafah and doesn’t affect other shipments moving forward, the source said. -CNN
The Biden administration has determined that three military battalions with the Israel Defense Forces committed "gross human rights violations" against Palestinian civilians in the West Bank but will remain eligible for U.S. military aid regardless because of steps Israel says it's taking to address the problem, ABC News has learned. -ABC News
Biden is doing great!
Netanyahu should at the very least call an election as a referendum of his recent choices.
Without knowing Israel's political landscape, I'm inclined to agree, but I don't think 'a referendum on our policies' is part of the right-wing playbook
It would not surprise me in the least to see future history books list one of the reasons for Netanyahu's escalation of genocide include that he wanted to stop the corruption trial he's in the middle of right now.
Yeah, conservatives is all about:
“51% of you have us power a long time ago, this is all on you.”
Israelis will be lucky if Netanyahu ever calls an election again until he dies.
It would be easier to get trump to respect the gag order he’s under in his court cases
The whole reason Netanyahu won’t stop this war is because the second he does he’s removed from office by their courts.
But we changed the definition of antisemitic. They can't do this! \s
Either these people all antisemites, or Dana Bash on CNN lied to me.
😮
But Dana would never!
I do think there is a difference between people and their governments and I while I do hope that Israelis do not agree with their government with their actions to the Palestinians and and the people of gaza there was a poll conducted a couple of months ago that showed 58% of believed that the IDF wasn't using enough force and another 37% believed that they were using the appropriate amount of force. I'd like to believe that it's changed since then but I'm not sure.
Source
If the polls are meant for propaganda instead of informing anyone of the truth. It's not hard to stack polls even if you accept all responses. Just add the bias to the study population selection.
I hope ‘resignation’ is code for some far, far worse and drawn out.