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What are you doing for Palestine? (discuss.online)

submitted 1 week ago by OmegaLemmy@discuss.online to c/progressivepolitics@lemmy.world

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I've felt a delayed sense of intense dread following the election of trump and watched as the Palestinian genocide only got worse

My family members care only with words, my friends are more interested in nationalism, our party is both authoritarian, pro-israel and also lying to their citizens about being Anti-Israel, and not a single major nation has done anything towards Israel that can directly affect it

I send my donations and I attend rallies, but to what end? Do they matter? People seemingly rather distance themselves than have actual progress, seemingly attempting to be at the moral high ground no matter what, even if it means ignoring a genocide, it's disgusting

I don't know what to do, am I meant to only provide a shelter to who can survive? What about the rest? I can't help but fucking shiver and its giving me a panic attack

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[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 12 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Even as we lose the material fight against stopping the palestinian genocide (which is horrific), we have decisively won in the realm of hearts and minds, look at polling all over the world.

Your voice is not in vain, history will be written about why the zionist narrative didn't take a suffocating hold on the conversation in places like the U.S. despite the narrative and the people pushing it on paper having every advantage.

Also something to consider, there is going to be blowback for the Palestinian Genocide for the rest of our lives, and many including Netanyahu desperately wanted that blowback globally to simplify into antisemitism instead of a more complex anticolonial understanding, the fact that normal people all over the world like you keep speaking up about being against the genocide and have done so from the start for the simple reason that you are against genocide makes jews all the over the world safer by taking momentum out of the cycle of bigotry, the louder we are the less this becomes about bullshit and the more it becomes about standing up together against genocide because genocide is awful.