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[badgerx16]

3 hours ago, benjii said:

 

Yes, fair points.

I think parts of it are accurate for some of the protestors. I think, as you say, there are different motivations for others, although I think those motivations for all are very rarely motivated by a general dislike / enmity towards Jews.

I think another factor is how intimately the UK state is associated with this whole situation. We controlled Palestine, we signed the Balfour declaration, we washed our hands of it administratively in the face of Zionist terrorism, but politically , in the decades since, we have always been perceived as being at the right hand side of the US when it comes to support, military supplies etc. This is part of the reason why this issue attracts a lot more UK attention than, for example, Sudan or Myanmar.

 

Another point is that in almost all the other conflicts the UK are tacitly, or even actively, opposed to the aggressor / oppressor regime; Russia, the junta in Mysnmar, the Assad regime in Syria, etc. In the Gaza conflict we are supportive of Israel's right to self defence, and in some eyes of the actions of Netanyahu and his cronies.

In this case, we are failing to stand up for "the little guy".

Edited 16 hours ago by badgerx16

[benjii]

16 minutes ago, badgerx16 said:

Another point is that in almost all the other conflicts the UK are tacitly, or even actively, opposed to the aggressor / oppressor regime; Russia, the junta in Mysnmar, the Assad regime in Syria, etc. In the Gaza conflict we are supportive of Israel's right to self defence, and in some eyes of the actions of Netanyahu and his cronies.

In this case, we are failing to stand up for "the little guy".

What probably compounds this is that the "big guy" in this metaphor has a vast army of people who insist that it is, in fact, him who is the victim of terrible oppression and hate, not just in his own back yard but in various other countries where he does very well and not based on his actions but on some accident of birth.

Edited 15 hours ago by benjii