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hope-ur-ok · 4 months

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Something I really don't understand are the assumptions people on the side Israel seem to hold about everyone who is free Palestine, I.E. that we don't think the hostages should be returned or that we think all Israeli citizens deserve to die for the crimes of their government. Like I'm sure there are people who think that, which is gross and frankly unacceptable, but the fact that they approach everything said in support of Palestine from that angle isn't okay either. All that they are doing is trying to simplify everything in a way that makes Israel the indisputable victim and everyone who opposes them into an antisemitic monster when the reality is that most of us just believe in the value of ALL human life and don't think more than 23,000 peoples lives are acceptable collateral damage. Like we just think that Palestinian civilians should have basic access to food, water, healthcare, and shelter and should not be facing arrest just for being Palestinian as if that somehow makes them inherently dangerous, where are you getting the batshit assumptions from in statements like that?

#every time I have made a post in support of palestine I get anon messages accusing me of thinking the hostages shouldn't be returned #or that i don't care that a little more than a thousand israeli civilians died on oct 7 #as if me saying that I believe in a need for a ceasefire means i think that their lives are unimportant #this is literally how all the conversations go #me: 'i dont think that thousands of people should be dead while thousands more are injured and starving'#an anon in my inbox: 'oh so you think all jews deserve to die'#like no - shockingly - a person who believes in human rights is just calling out the fact that a huge group of people #have had their basic rights taken away by the israeli government #and they are now being forced to live in intense fear of death and starvation #anyway i was sent into an anger spiral about this seeing what people are saying about the ICJ trial #this is by no means a comprehensive post of my thoughts I just needed to get them out

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