Hundreds of Israelis have held silent vigils for slain Gazan children, holding up their photos to try to break through the wall of apathy.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/29456132

cross-posted from: https://hcommons.social/users/adachika192/statuses/114434671978793771

‘We’ve killed so many children — it’s hard to argue with that’ (+972 Magazine, 2025-05-01)

https://www.972mag.com/silent-vigils-gazan-children-israel/ ———

>> Since March, hundreds of Israelis have joined silent vigils for slain Gazan children, holding up their photos to try to break through the wall of apathy.

>> The idea for these silent protests took shape among several activists in Tel Aviv who were horrified by the scale of death and destruction after Israel renewed its assault on Gaza in March…

>> “It started spontaneously,” said Amit Shilo, one of the organizers of the vigil. “… My friend Alma Beck posted a story with one of the [… deceased Gazan] children, and I wrote to her, ‘Let’s take their pictures to the Saturday night protest.’”

>> The two of them printed 40 black-and-white photos at home from the Daily File, … “We thought it would just be five of us standing for ten minutes until someone attacked us and we went home — but dozens showed up,”

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  • jsomae@lemmy.ml
    37·
    3 days ago

    a) I don’t think the people who want to improve Israel should be the ones to GO HOME

    b) half of Israelis were born there. I don’t believe anyone should be forced to leave the place they were born.

    • ShimmeringKoi [comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
      1·
      1 day ago

      -Israel can only be improved by being dismantled, so actually by going home the people who want to improve Israel are doing the right thing

      -Many people were born in “Rhodesia”, too. That doesn’t mean everyone else has to tolerate a violent supremacist ethnostate right next door.

      The lesson here, for any countries that might be reading, is this: Decolonization is quite violent, like almost a tenth as violent as colonization. Don’t like that? Don’t colonize. If you think it’s fucked up to just be born somewhere and have to leave, I actually agree. it’s fucked up of settler governments to use people as human shields and weapons like that, but it also doesn’t oblige the colonized to suffer more occupation.

      • jsomae@lemmy.ml
        1·
        1 day ago

        You may have misunderstood something. Dismantling Israel doesn’t mean sending the population “home.”

        It’s fucked up of settler governments to use people as human shields and weapons like that

        This kind of argument smells bad to me. This is exactly the justification Israel is using for its genocide in Gaza.

        • ShimmeringKoi [comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
          2·
          23 hours ago

          You may have misunderstood something. Dismantling Israel doesn’t mean sending the population “home.”

          If you’re implying that actually the people being genocide would be the ones doing genocide if they get the chance, I have nothing to say to that level of settler hysteria.

          This kind of argument smells bad to me. This is exactly the justification Israel is using for its genocide in Gaza.

          There’s a reason it sounds like that, and that’s because every fascist accusation is a confession. Israel uses human shields, Israel uses mass sexual violence as a terror weapon, Israel burns babies alive and Israel hides military installations inside civillian infrastructure. Israel does everything they accuse the resistance of doing. This is fascism 101 shit.

          • jsomae@lemmy.ml
            1·
            23 hours ago

            I have honestly no clue what you’re talking about for the first one. I’m saying that dismantling Israel does not require the removal of the people who live there.

            every fascist accusation is a confession

            That sounds like the fallacy of the thought-terminating cliché. And it would apply equally well to you. I actually can’t imagine how you think saying that as part of an accusation would ever go well. Anyway you don’t need to convince me of Israel’s crimes.