Protesters are demanding the government reach a deal to bring the hostages back from Gaza, for new elections and the resignation of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

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.”

  • Excrubulent@slrpnk.netEnglish
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    6 months ago

    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.

    • scarabic@lemmy.worldEnglish
      9·
      6 months ago

      Let’s compare a couple of points of view:

      1. “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.

      2. “…” —> 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.