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.”

  • Grandwolf319English
    475·
    7 months ago

    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)

    • Excrubulent@slrpnk.netEnglish
      233·
      7 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·
        7 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.

    • Maggoty@lemmy.worldEnglish
      121·
      7 months ago

      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.

    • Neon 🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦🇪🇺🏳️‍⚧️🇹🇼🇮🇱🏳️‍🌈@lemmy.worldEnglish
      15·
      7 months ago

      I’m not sure that can ever happen. the student protests:

      1. a lot of people don’t really have an idea what’s going on. Maybe they just wanna feel part of it after years of isolation during Covid, but they’re not interested in the Protest and the Topic itself. Endorsing such a “fake” protest would discredit the Israeli protest
      2. there are people on these student protests who are hardline radicalized and want the entirety of Israel removed and also deny the Hamas attrocities as “zionist propaganda”. They aren’t interested in a Solution invoving Israel. only if they are removed from the Protests can the two groups work together.

      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.