original title: ‘An Insane Number of Gen Zers Support Hamas’s Slaughter of Innocent Israelis’

  • Octagon9561@lemmy.ml
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    8 months ago

    Hamas is the new Viet Cong. Plain and simple. They both were founded to fight for the liberation of their respective countries from neocolonalism. Hamas isn’t any more “terrorist” than Che Guevara.

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      8 months ago

      Hamas is just like the original “Indian savages” who “unprovokedly attacked settlements.” “Terrorist” is a slur.

  • Hexbear2 [any]@hexbear.net
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    8 months ago

    What we call “terrorism” is the only means provided to the Palestinians to have a voice. They literally are in a concentration camp. The world’s faux outrage shocked pikachu-face on this one is disgusting. No one would object if a chattel-slave killed his owners or a holocaust camp victim started blasting Nazis.

    I’m gen X. I was fooled by the war on terror, and didn’t understand the protestors at that time who were of an age of having had lived through Vietnam. Now I know better and join in the protests today. Shame on me if I were to be fooled again. The insane propaganda we’re seeing on this Israeli genocide paralells what we saw after 9-11.

    I am so proud that Gen Z isn’t repeating the mistakes of my youth and falling for the propaganda. Based Gen Z. based-department

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      17 days ago

      Was in same situation during ‘War on terror’. Sollowed the lies like a naive child, never again.

  • Nationalgoatism [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    8 months ago

    Was at a solidarity with Gaza protest the other day in the same town as a small rural state University. The whole town plaza was filled with young people chanting from the river to the sea.

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    8 months ago

    “Do you support Hamas?” Is an insanely biased question which should not have been chosen considering Hamas is not the only liberation organizations, Israel’s war is on the Palestinian people as a whole, not just Hamas, and most people probably support Palestine but have been agressively propagandized to hate those “terrorists.” Nonetheless, glad to see my generation is so based.

    • bestagoner [none/use name]@hexbear.netOP
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      8 months ago

      This, exactly. Do I endorse Hamas’ entire political program and orientation? I don’t know Hamas intimately, or their current internal debates, or whatever, but it’s still safe to say no. I’m a secularist, an egalitarian, a socialist, etc., etc. But I recognize— as do the People’s Front for the Liberation of Palestine, for example— that Hamas currently plays a leading role in the armed resistance to the Israeli settler-colonial project in general and the occupation of Gaza in particular, as well as running all of the basic civil services (such as they exist) in Gaza.

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        8 months ago

        My thoughts exactly! If ever there was a perfect case where critical support is called for, this is it. We support them specifically in their struggle to liberate Palestine and protect the people of Gaza. Beyond that it is no secret that we have a number of ideological and political disagreements with that group.

        The trick that the Zionist propagandists in the western media are trying to pull is transparently clear: they are trying to equate the entire Palestinian liberation struggle with the ideology of one particular liberation group. And like everything they do, this too will backfire on them. All that this does is legitimize said group’s ideology, not discredit the Palestinian struggle. Because no sane and empathetic human being can help but side with the Palestinian cause.

        • ShimmeringKoi [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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          8 months ago

          ever there was a perfect case where critical support is called for, this is it.

          I’ve spent the last two years critically supporting the Russian Federation, which is like the critical support version of training with ankle weights on. Hamas is a feather.