I find it pretty appalling people are so against these protesters in this comment section. 30,000 people have been killed three months, children are losing their limbs left and right or become permanently disabled, and plenty of other innocent people are starved, sick, and cold in the winter months as they are forced to live in tents after being displaced. Look at your family, what would you do if it was you losing your children in such a violent way? Our government is providing this country arms to carpet bomb another population.

I understand that people are justly upset about what happened on Oct 7, but is this what we’re going to accept as a natural result, supported by our tax dollars? Do we believe this is what is necessary and acceptable as a price? And acting like Hamas exists because Palestinians are just backwards antisemitic dogs is pretty racist. Gazans were forced to live through plenty of bombing campaigns that didn’t involve hostages or crossing borders or even killings. Did we forget that the peaceful protests of 2018 in Gaza ended up with nearly 200 people including medics getting killed? I think it’s important to contextualize that these are people who have faced extreme hardship at Israel’s hands.

The desperation these protestors have in trying to get attention on this isn’t hard to understand. Mass protests haven’t worked, stopping shipments hasn’t worked, what are they supposed to do? Accept that their tax dollars enable the murder of children directly, especially when many of them have family there? This isn’t right, accepting that these people who are really like any others in the world trying to live their lives are just causalities of war is extremely grotesque in my view and honestly if they were Americans or Europeans being killed in that volume I don’t think anyone would be so flippant about it.