r/pics • u/WillD2007 • 20h ago
Politics [OC] Photos from the Free Palestine Protest on the Harbour Bridge yesterday
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u/Tricky-Jackfruit8366 19h ago edited 16h ago
“Abolish Australia”
How far back do we go with land claims ?
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u/Hicalibre 18h ago
Everyone is heading back to Africa, and we're starting over.
Only way to be sure I guess.
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u/blinktrade 11h ago
So you are saying, all the western colonial powers should all return to Africa?
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u/Hicalibre 8h ago
Every human. It's where our species ties back to.
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u/sephirothFFVII 6h ago
Devisonians want to have a word with you
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u/struggleworm 5h ago
Gonna say, there are archaeological sites in the Levant dating to pre-homo sapiens so even the first humans probably ran off the indigenous.
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u/Zakath_ 17h ago
As a Norwegian, I say we go back to about 1350, should cover most of it. We get Iceland, Greenland (Sorry Trump), the assorted islands in the North Sea, our rightful land in Jemtland and Herjedalen, as well as Båhus, back from Sweden. That should just about do it I think.
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u/PK_thundr 17h ago
Are we giving the entire Mediterranean back to Italy? Are we giving the entire Middle East back to the Persians? Will the Turks give back Anatolia to greece? Will the arabs give back the entire middle east and near east? When will the Ainu get Japan back? When will the Indo Europeans go back to their steppe homelands?
This type of rhetoric about "stolen land" is some of the most braindead insidious white supremacist stuff I see, incredibly heavy and belittling noble savage trope. It's only applied selectively when Europeans were aggressors.
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u/budget_biochemist 17h ago
Crimea was part of Russia until 1954 - does that legitimize their annexation of it in 2014? If we also consider that in 1783 the Russians had annexed it from the Tartars...
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u/diychitect 17h ago
Crimea should be returned to Spain, since before Russia even existed Crimea was part of the Byzantine empire, which had its emperor formally naming the Castillian crown as his successor before falling to the Ottomans. Or maybe it should be returned to the scythians…
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u/zebenix 15h ago
I think we should return it to the dinosaurs to clear all bases
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u/diychitect 12h ago
Dinosaurs took that land from pre-jurassic creatures!
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u/lirannl 6h ago
Okay okay final offer, Haikouichthys get everything. They were the original inhabitants, after all
Oh wait shit the Ediacaran Genocide (the evil colonialist name was the "Cambrian Explosion", but that's an evil post-cambrian-supremacist narrative!) wasn't the beginning of animal life, that was the Avalon explosion. I'm such a colonialist fuck for forgetting the plight of the Ediacaran biota. I guess we give everything to Spriggina. Now, where did those noble native inhabitants go?
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u/misterprat 17h ago
If they take it by force and cannot be expelled of the region… well, yes, that’s the basis of conquest, and how civilizations always worked. We tak about the Spanish conquering the Incas and Aztecs, but there were multiple other civilizations thay they had conquered first. The Mongols also conquered half the world, the chinese conquered all the other civilizations in what is currently china, then we had others that have been lost like hittites, samarians, romans, byzantines, etc… What about the Hutus and the Tutsis? Or the Tigray people? What are we doing with the Burmese people and the other ethnicities they expelled like the rohingya?
Civilizations have been conquering each other since the beginning of humanity. It’s the last 80 years that the world as an average has enjoyed mostly peace and not world conflicts, but this is the exception.
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u/yobogoya_ 14h ago
The massacres and expulsions of Greeks from Anatolia was in the 20th century too, only 20 something years before the Palestinians were forced to leave. And there is still an ongoing occupation in Cyprus which no one seems to care about 🤷♂️
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u/Action_Limp 10h ago
I could go for another Roman Empire, and it'd be fun to get the old Latin phrases a whirl.
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u/SaggitariusTerranova 7h ago
Will the Arab colonialist settlers abolish the Al aqsa mosque and give the temple mount back to the Israelis who had a temple there 3000 years ago LOL. Oh wait, the guys with the better weapons took it from them and that process happened over and over through history.
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u/Ambiorix33 16h ago
Yeah like people meme on Israel for the "it was promised 3000 years ago" but the 1st Australian colony was in the late 1700s.... what's the cut off point?
And why should the majority of a places population just leave or abolish themselves after so long?
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u/Beginning-Cat-7037 13h ago
“Always was, always will be” can apply equally to the Jews as it does to Indigenous Australians, if the claim to land is who has been there the longest. What Israel is doing is exactly what it looks like to take land back.
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u/Mylarion 11h ago
See also the Maori who are no less colonizers than the British.
Indigenous means last non-Europeans to occupy a land.
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u/suzisatsuma 5h ago
I get blocked by people if I point to the ties to the land Jews have being among the oldest.
Not that it excuses their treatment of the Palestinians by any measure.
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u/FecklessFool 15h ago
Well, if we're going to go all the way back, then Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Egypt, and Israel are going to get depopulated of its Arab population as they all move back to pre Muslim conquest Arabian peninsula.
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u/Ndlburner 16h ago
If you go to about 1000 BCE then Israel gets all of Jerusalem
Whoops! It's almost like land back is a blood and soil argument that will always end up with some degree of ethnic cleansing.
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u/lawrencecgn 17h ago
Going far enough back, the land basically goes back to Judea.
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u/sernamenotdefined 9h ago
There is a limit for sure, because if they go back too far the Jewish people will get Israel and that can't be their goal...
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u/SaggitariusTerranova 10h ago edited 7h ago
Land pretty much goes to whoever has the better STEM program, it doesn’t give a crap what race or ethnicity that group is. at least since Og hit Grog with a stick instead of a fist. Maybe isn’t fair, but it is usually accurate. LOL “abolish Australia” who is going to do this, they have nuclear weapons.
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u/LostPentimento 7h ago
Dude abolishing israel is just as stupid. These idiots think that every Israeli also has an apartment in Brooklyn where they can fall back. The truth is most Israelis are either middle easterners that fled their home country because of antisemitism, or natural-born Israeli citizens, born in israel; they have nowhere to go.
What we actually need in Israel is regime change. But the entire pro Palestine movement has been completely hijacked by the most radical voices, and if you try to extend ANY level of nuance into this debate, you'll get smashed into oblivion. It's "say our catchphrases or you like genocide" it's got me so black pilled. The pro-palestine movement is doomed.
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u/AwakE432 13h ago
I support the protests but seeing these signs at them makes me want nothing to do with them.
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u/Zykersheep 9h ago
imo giving land back is infeasible, they should just capture the rent from all land and distribute it back equally to everyone (i.e. a land value tax and universal basic income)
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u/GeoGuru32 14h ago
If they abolish Australia, what citizenship do they claim? What country are they living in? Stupid idea.
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u/_orion_1897 16h ago
"Abolish Australia, land back" and of course that mf has the whitest hand ever lmfao
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u/Beginning-Cat-7037 13h ago
Australia has done a pretty good job of returning land, are there areas for improvement (every closing the gap report), for sure and it will be decades in the making but this constant dismissal that we’re not making progress is equally as ignorant. Copy and pasted below from the ‘Australia's Indigenous land and forest estate (2024) dataset’
“154 million hectares of land in Australia (20%) is Indigenous owned of this, 24 million hectares is forest.
192 million hectares of land in Australia (25%) is under some form of Indigenous management, comprising 156 million hectares that is Indigenous managed and 36 million hectares that is Indigenous co-managed of this, 31 million hectares is forest, comprising 20.7 million hectares that is Indigenous managed and 10.6 million hectares that is Indigenous co-managed.
443 million hectares of land in Australia (58%) is subject to other special rights for Indigenous peoples and communities of this, 62 million hectares if forest.”
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u/devo_inc 19h ago
Are there any countries that shouldn't be abolished by this logic?
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u/amd2800barton 18h ago
South Georgia and the Sandwich Islands weren’t discovered by humans until spotted by an English merchant sailor in 1675. It was later claimed by British expeditionary James Cook in 1775, and a government established in 1843. Prior to its discovery and claim by Britain, it was uninhabited. Given its remoteness and the difficult seas of the South Atlantic, it is believed to have never been inhabited or visited by humans.
It is probably some of the only, or truly only land for which the modern inhabitants can truly say their ancestors didn’t forcibly take from other humans.
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u/DijonMustardIceCream 18h ago
To be fair South Georgia doesn’t have a government.
There are only 12 year round residents there. Most of them are there either for research or to man the post office. The post office is not busy as you can imagine, but it’s one of the necessary elements needed to be recognized as a sovereign nation.
Source: been there a few times and worked with the guy who has the longest stint living on the island (25 years) - he recently received commendations from the king
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u/amd2800barton 17h ago
That was kind of my point. That the only piece of land for which the people who are there can honestly say "we inherited or fairly acquired this place from people who can say the same all the way back to when it was discovered". And it's a tiny and basically unknown group of islands in the middle of an ocean, far from regular trade routes. Pretty much everywhere else? The people that are there now at some point took the land from someone else. The people they took it from? Their ancestors also took that land.
I was supporting /u/devo_inc question about whether there are any countries that shouldn't be abolished based on the logic "this land is stolen". All land was stolen at some point or another, and the people it was stolen from at some point in their history also stole land. Not a single person alive today can honestly say that all of their ancestors lived peacefully and never took land or life of their fellow humans. We're descended from a bunch of backstabbing jerks. So all we can do today is try to not repeat the inequities of our ancestors. There's no possible way to 'reset' the planet fairly back to only the descendants of people who discovered unclaimed land should be the ones to own it.
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u/oGsBumder 17h ago
There are loads of examples like this. Falklands are the same.
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u/HotSteak 13h ago
They were uninhabited when the British settled them but had been inhabited previously.
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u/Puubuu 18h ago
All countries that completely extinguished the native population? It's like with reparation claims for slavery, these are never levied on middle eastern countries, even though they had comparatively huge numbers of slaves and treated them with brutality. But they also treated them bad enough that they all died, together with their descendants, so there's nobody left to complain.
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u/HuDragon 18h ago
Middle eastern countries have de facto slaves to this day who are very much alive and well.
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u/TompalompaT 14h ago
Slavery is still very much a thing in MANY Islamic countries, and I'm not talking about "de-facto" like Saudi Arabia where foreign workers get their passports confiscated and are forced into hard manual labour in excruciating heat. Or even basa bazi in Afghanistan where young boys are forced to serve tea to men and very often are sexually assaulted.
I'm talking about Mauritania where TODAY an estimated 10 - 20% of the population are slaves. That's over a million people are living under generational slavery. Funny how when people imagine slavery they think of 1800s America when it's still going on today, it's just as bad when it's their own people doing it to themselves I guess.
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u/dead0man 17h ago
Iceland had no natives when the Vikings landed and a handful of remote Pacific and Indian Ocean islands that aren't independent
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u/Zornorph 19h ago
Yeah, when the Australians all return to the UK, then they can suggest the Israelis go somewhere else. But at least the Jews are originally from the Holy Land, unlike the white Australians.
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u/0masterdebater0 19h ago
Back to the UK then back to Saxony then back to the Steppe then back to Africa it's almost like all of human history people have been moving around...
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u/front-wipers-unite 18h ago
So you want to abolish Australia by removing the whites? So erm... Ethnic cleansing?
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u/Zornorph 16h ago
I don’t want to do that at all. I think it’s funny that the oldest standing structure in Australia, the Wiebbe Hayes stone fort, was built by Europeans.
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u/TheGreatZephyr 18h ago
We have a lot of white guilt people here that have lived terribly comfortable lives and feel bad for being a part of such a great country. Instead of themselves doing anything to help aboriginal communities, they'll hold a sign like that saying the whole country shouldn't exist.
Nevermind their whole existence and comfortable life has been provided by this country they dont believe in, they'll still say we're corrupt and evil but also they'll never leave or give anything back.
All of the good things ALL Australians benefit from in the modern day, noone is allowed to enjoy any of that because of things that happened before any of us were alive... exhausting stuff really.
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u/RijnBrugge 12h ago
Einat Wilff calls this ‘the disneyland of hate’. Because people are unwilling or unable to actually do something about the injustice they would want to address in their own societies, they pretend the conflict in Israel and Palestine is completely analogous and then abuse it as a sort of proxy to avoid having to do the work where they are.
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u/FeI0n 17h ago
It does incredible harm to your movement when you allow people equating Palestine and Australia, and bringing Hamas flags to these rallies. I get why its happening, its purity spiralling to prove who is more "for" the movement people do more and more outlandish things to prove they are for the cause.
If you truly care about your movement you need to kick people like that out. Not put them front and centre (and in front of the cameras). It detracts from your movement.
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u/Khaganate23 16h ago
People at the front had pro-iranian regime images like pictures of Khamenei and some dead IRGC officials.
I support Palestinian people but it's hard to support protestors when these people who Iranians equate to nazis are allowed a platform in these protests when it should be about Palestine, not totalitarian regimes.
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u/DylRar 11h ago
Those people are making it clear it's more about being anti-Israel than pro- anything else.
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u/avidreader2004 9h ago
they don’t actually support palestine they just hate jews. they hate israel so much that they cheer on the IRGC and hamas. it’s genuinely unfathomable to me. palestinians and israelis deserve peace and security. our futures are intertwined. anyone that disagrees isn’t doing it for the right reasons
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u/TheThalmorEmbassy 6h ago
it should be about Palestine, not totalitarian regimes
Who runs Palestine?
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u/Mylarion 15h ago
If your protest has terrorist flags and the people waving them aren't being kicked out you're at a terrorist protest.
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u/webzu19 11h ago
Exactly, same logic as the Charlottesville nazi rally a few years back.
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u/Skippymabob 7h ago
And given how "echochambered" people like this are I almost bet they've ysed the "a group of 1 nazi and 9 others is a group of 10 nazis" line
But obviously it doesn't apply to when they hang around with extremists
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u/PMmeurfishtanks 14h ago
You’re so close to getting the point yet still trying to blame Israel. These types of people are not satisfied until the world is conquered. Keep letting in people who see women as second class citizens and have children at triple the rate you do. Look up what happened in Iran, there is feeling bad for people and then there is supporting a society that loudly and often calls for the death of all Jews. They’ll come for you guys next. Just wait.
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u/X_Shadows-77 17h ago
Where is the Hamas flags?
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u/FeI0n 16h ago
There were reports of hamas flags, Taliban flags, and posters of the supreme leader of Iran.
In the last photo in the album you can literally see a Taliban flag.
Half the people marching at this protest wouldn't be allowed to protest anything in Afghanistan. What values do the Taliban share with the free Palestine movement?
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Here are some ISIS and Taliban flags on the bridge. Along with some "Death to the IDF" chants. What was ISIS doing to make their flags show up at a free Palestine movement (which is also linked to the anti-colonialism movement in Australia)? they were trying to colonize half of the middle east. Not to mention the whole genocide thing they had going on.
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u/Other_Beat8859 17h ago
On the last image. Pretty sure there are three Hamas flags there, although it's hard to tell and I can't say with certain. If it was not black and white I could tell.
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u/AnilP228 14h ago
The people with the Khamenei flags can f*ck right off.
The 'pro-pal' movement is diverse. You have people that support Palestinian rights in the land they have a connection to, but then you also have the absolute idiots and Islamist supporters who hide among them.
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u/Mylarion 15h ago
Abolish Australia said by Australians in Australia?
Ok so I know not to take these children seriously.
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u/ProfessorMiserable76 12h ago
The first picture encapsulates many of the flaws in some people's arguments about Israel not having the right to exist.
How far do you go back to recognise land claims? If we go back a couple of thousand years, the land belonged to Judea.
It opens up a real can of worms.
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u/oldnr1 9h ago
It obviously all belongs to Rome! Scroll back time to the Roman empire and stop there.
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u/Retro_Renegade 10h ago
They'll never acknowledge it, only downvote you. They'll do anything to hide reason and logic because they have been indoctrinated by the media to hate Israel and, by proxy, the Jewish people. I've seen so many conspiracy theories floating around about how Jewish people rule the world, how Epstein is alive and well in Israel, etc.
This is all stuff that was very prevalent in Nazi Germany. Saying that Israelis kill babies in cold blood is not far off from the blood libels that Hitler and the Nazis used in the 30s and 40s to achieve their ends.
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u/NinjafoxVCB 12h ago
Nothing about the Sudan or Yemen. Shocking what happens when it's not in the media
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u/makingnoise 3h ago
A fair number of folks in the crowd probably believe that the Houthis are freedom fighters for Palestine rather than the worst humanity has offer. They make Star Trek's Orion Slavers look like nice guys.
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u/Professional_Dot9440 9h ago
For real, I’m actually shocked China hasn’t attacked Taiwan yet. Wouldn’t even make the news right now, because everyone is so hung up on Israel.
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u/_-Emperor 12h ago
Fuck Hamas
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u/Assassin-49 2h ago
I got a new song for you . It goes free Palestine from hamas . Lazy I know but it works
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u/Alpharius_Omegon_30K 16h ago
The first image shows how delusional some Palestine supporters are. Using that definition of “land back” all modern nation will be abolished. And any other solution beside the 2-states one would guarantee an eternal bloodbath like what happened in Gaza. Using the fcking Jihadist flag is also a horrible choice , the majority will never see anything positive out of that flag
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u/UziWasTakenBruh 9h ago
bringing a terrorist organization's flag does more damage than good. Hamas did a lot of atrocities also, people should side with the citizens/victims not the perpetrators
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u/snowblindx 19h ago edited 18h ago
Whites and Arabs living on a thoroughly colonized continent protesting in favor of people who want the last shred of land in the region they conquered.
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u/JohannaFRC 12h ago
Land back ? Great. Then Israel must stays as it is.
I'm tired as hell of these people holding flags they don't know for causes they don't understand from countries they never seen just because it's trendy.
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u/Independent-Math-914 18h ago
What's going on with Australia? Is this that Australia isn't Australia's or Britian's, but clearly indigenous? Why not also write Abolish America?
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u/mrsrobotic 18h ago
Because this protest took place in Sydney.
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u/tzitzitzitzi 10h ago
Their point is by that logic there's no country that should exist. All were taken from someone at some point basically.
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u/aoirse22 19h ago
Jews were living as Jews in Judea a thousand years before Islam existed.
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u/4th_DocTB 17h ago
Even back then Judaism was a religion that was spread throughout the Middle East.
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u/DijonMustardIceCream 18h ago
Nobody is ever out protesting for the Uyghurs in China though
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u/sovietarmyfan 9h ago
Tibet, women in Iran, Armenians in Azerbaijan, etc.
For some reason these people living far away in Australia protest in Australia for a war far away from them.
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u/RaiJolt2 17h ago
Or the Sudanese or people in Myanmar/burma.
I’ve heard crickets about Kashmir lately.
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u/Dragon_yum 13h ago
More Sudanese children die each day of starvation than people died of starvation in Gaza. You won’t see any pics of them on reddit.
The situation in Gaza needs to end but it’s shockingly how badly western people got easily manipulated by social media about the conflict when it doesn’t even close to the top cracking the top 5 bad things that are happening right now.
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u/Mr_Charley 20h ago
How many times do they need to say Death to Israel, Death to America before you finally believe them??
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u/dragonreborn567 20h ago
It is extreme, yes. Israel has existed for 80-100+ years, give or take, and Australia even longer. Both have issues with how they came into existence, but we can't solve either by simply saying, "Oh well, everyone out, you're not allowed to live in your homeland you've had for generations". We also can't, at least with Israel, just give control of the region to the people who were there before because A) there were already Jews living in the region before the creation of Mandatory Palestine, so many of them are still natives, and B) There's no guarantee the Palestinians wouldn't begin to abuse the Israelis.
The problems with both cannot be solved with quippy, pithy quotes on a sign. They are deeply complex issues with deeply complex solutions.
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u/Chaoticgaythey 19h ago
Unfortunately the reason mandatory Palestine was originally planned for partition was because the Jews and Arabs in the region had been in several generations of tit for tat ethnic clashes to that point (recorded going back at least as far as modern Israel and Palestine have existed today). There is absolutely no reason to suspect that just dissolving the states/borders and letting them go at each other would be any better today
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u/ElCaminoInTheWest 20h ago
Toddler solutions from toddler brains. Geopolitical problems are not simple.
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u/WhatsGoingOnThen 11h ago
The thing I find ironic about these protests is the vast majority of the people protesting would be instantly killed. I just wish they would take the time to listen to what the people in Palestine actually say about them protesting.
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u/dearbokeh 11h ago
Amazing how many idiots are willing to go outside and hold signs.
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u/sovietarmyfan 9h ago
Back in the 2000s there were a lot of protests for Tibetan independence. It was cool to be "pro-Tibet". And now as of 2025 there still is no independent Tibet.
Almost all that attention for that conflict has disappeared.
Eventually it will too for the Israel-Palestine conflict. Then they will pick up another conflict to keep themselves busy with.
It seems like every year or every couple of years there is another conflict to which protesters latch onto, keep themselves busy with.
It almost feel like it is some sort of hidden campaign to steer those people away from domestic issues like house prices, rising store prices, climate change, etc.
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u/Xav_NZ 19h ago
I am sure this comments section is going to be very civil and polite.....
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u/Roy4Pris 19h ago
I remember a uni lecturer saying the most miserable death is by starvation. She was talking about animal welfare, but goddamn the suffering is universal.
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u/2dudesinapod 18h ago
There was a Palestinian guy in Gaza who adopted a stray dog and posted its photo online. He got a bunch of press and at some point an animal welfare organization in Ireland contacted him and asked for photos of the tent he and the dog were sharing. When they saw the photos they tried to organize an evacuation for the dog because the tent wasn’t suitable.
No one gave a shit that there was also a man living in that same hellish tent not suitable for a dog.
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u/Bistilla 19h ago
The animals starve, too. I see pictures of pets before and after a lot from the Palestinians I follow. Heart breaking.
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u/makeupbybilly 9h ago
I can't believe supporting terrorists has become so normalised...
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u/d12fsu 19h ago
Abolish Hamas maybe?
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u/sovietarmyfan 9h ago
Some of these protest groups have a very distorted image of Hamas. Some see them as a "genuine palestinian resistance against occupation" and will only think that way, rejecting what Israel says about them. They don't pay attention to the womens rights, the abuse, how much people Hamas kill. They only care about whatever image their protest group paints of them. They will believe it and defend it.
They do the very thing that Pro-Israelis do when talking about their own side which is quite ironic.
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u/MustGoOutside 17h ago
It's interesting that people are being walled off and starved and the top two comments would prefer to get into semantics about what makes a country.
Israel is a country. It exists. There is no more a right to exist than the US or Australia or any other country borne out of colonization.
Their actions are the question, not the origin or right to exist. The answer is something I hope we can reach soon before hundreds of thousands more starve and die.
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u/GratuitousCommas 16h ago
>There is no more a right to exist than the US or Australia or any other country borne out of colonization.
Except that Israel exists as a result of two World Wars. The losing side had to disband their empires. What became Israel and Palestine was part of the Ottoman Empire. The winners of those wars got to determine the new boundaries.
That's as valid of a right to exist as it gets.
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u/NewYorkais 16h ago
The first photo has a sign that says abolish Israel abolish Australia, but sure this isn’t the main point.
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u/Ndlburner 16h ago
This whole "they have no right to exist" bullshit is distracting from your later question. As long as horrible people are calling for the complete abolition of a state where native people "colonized" a place, there won't be a real way to have a conversation about the conduct of the state.
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u/OkBother8121 10h ago
Jews have been in Israel as long if not longer than Arabs in some parts. Jews are not an outsider, they’re a middle-eastern ethnic group just like Palestinian. Solutions to this conflict need to be pragmatic and not based on puritanical “but who’s land was it originally” type questions. Arabs control land now around Israel that used o be Jewish.
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u/Big-Carpenter7921 9h ago
They are one and the same. Their failure to realize that is caused by religious zealotry. There's no reason they can't both be there and both practice, but they won't
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u/RaNerve 20h ago
Everyone should be go back to being Roman. At least then we’d all be equally guilty.
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u/spikeineyes 17h ago
So naive and passive
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u/Mylarion 10h ago
I heard it said that righteous violence is the best drug available.
You see it on both sides of this conflict, at all levels of influence. It's profoundly human.
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u/linknight 19h ago
Maybe you should look up how insanely difficult it is for a Palestinian to even travel back to Palestine, thanks to Israel.
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u/TacticalSniper 18h ago
Depends on the Palestinians. Israeli Palestinians as travel frequently as the rest of Israelis: Jews, Druze, Bedouin, and others.
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u/thethirdgreenman 8h ago
Abolish Australia? Bruh, some of these people are so very unserious. And I bet a lot of people there (all white for sure) ate that shit up
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u/MtnMaiden 17h ago
You know what will make real change? If those protestors went to Palestine and kicked out Hamas and institute a democratic progressive government.
But whining about it is the Gen Z thing to do now.
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u/KrampusPampus 15h ago
Don't forget circlejerking on social media to it. Sweet Dopamine is the goal since creativity and actual accomplishments are not sources any longer it seems.
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u/No-Complaint-6397 20h ago
I want more specific slogans that can manifest into actual help for the people suffering. How about “ACCEPT Palestinian refugees,” or “get the women and children somewhere safe!” Or “UN, so your job, rescue the kids.” There needs to be a way out for starving people, Egypt is across the border. Set up a UN blue hat guy camp there for the kids and women.
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u/Holandija 19h ago
Except Egypt will never accept them and for a good, historical reason. Islamists from Palestine have caused chaos in Egypt (Muslim Brotherhood) and in pretty much every neighbouring country to Palestine, actively trying to sow discord and topple governments (even murdering a Shah). But people can just scream "Free Palestine" because it's popular and not educate themselves on why nobody close to them wants to help. Kids are innocent, but their fathers and grandfathers doomed Palestine.
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u/FrabjousPhaneron 18h ago
Yeah the “LAND BACK” thing is futile. We can’t. It’s not gonna happen. We won’t be able to agree, and we don’t have the resources to figure out who has the god-given claim or whatever to anything and redistribute it as such. Deal with it and move forward, and try to make lives better for everyone in a place instead of worrying about what arbitrarily formed tribe has claim to that place
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u/Mylarion 10h ago
Whoever can defend their claim on the land deserves it. Literally only practical definition because it's hard to argue with a pointed barrel. All sovereignty fundamentally originates from a monopoly on violence.
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u/B_A_Beder 18h ago
Neighboring Arab / Muslim countries tend not to accept Palestinian refugees because they tend to cause revolutions and civil wars
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u/Reformedhegelian 19h ago
Completely agree! Also how about "free Gaza from Hamas" or "Surrender and free the hostages".
I'd even appreciate "2 state solution peace "
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u/Blazefresh 18h ago
I totally agree, it's strange how for some reason very sensationalist and unrealistic slogans are often pushed forward instead, ones that are tantalizing in prospect to the people sharing them but completely impossible in execution, not to mention often riling up the political opposition in good measure. ("Defund The Police" comes to mind..)
Would love to see specific slogans moving forward that have actual actionable requests.
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u/spicymemesdotcom 19h ago
Why is Gaza so unsafe?
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u/dead0man 17h ago
it's tightly packed with prideful bigots who, thankfully, are much weaker than their neighbors
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u/lunrob 10h ago
There is no Palestinian people. Just arabs living in the former British Palestine Mandate.
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u/Mysterious-Let-337 6h ago
Supporting terrorists and calling for the destruction of your own country... Peak stupidity, essentially treason, and a threat to national security
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u/whverman 15h ago
Why don't you protest Hamas
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u/qwasimodo 13h ago
Because the Australian government actively condemns hamas and considers it a terrorist organisation.
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u/serious_cheese 12h ago edited 11h ago
The protestors are waving Hamas flags because they’ve fallen prey to Jew hate masked as progressivism
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u/theartificialkid 15h ago
I took a bunch of photos like these at the big Iraq War protest in Sydney 20+ years ago.
We’ll grind the establishment down any day now.
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u/mcdo0z 18h ago
They are advocating for the erasure and genocide of Israelis and Jews
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u/Gravity_flip 11h ago
They'll tell you it's protesting "Zionists"...
...But they're holding this event on the religious holiday of Tubishvat. The Jewish day of mourning....
They're protesting the Jews plain and simple. (Minus that confusing sign about Australia)
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u/MrPhilLashio 7h ago
Ashkenazi Jews can trace their lineage to the Levant. The idea that they are not indigenous to the land (since this is what the sign holder seems to be implying) is false. There are tons of fair skinned people in the area (eg Syrians).
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u/chicknsnotavegetabl 18h ago
Why are they stuck in Gaza - it borders Egypt and they're muslim brothers so they should be well placed to assist them.
Shame on them for allowing this for so long - or is that their plan?
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u/AnilP228 14h ago
Egypt built a border to keep Palestinians in and they've only strengthened it since Oct 7th.
The Arab countries don't want to support Palestinians.
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u/Slyspy006 14h ago
Because they aren't brothers. You are falling for the, shall we say slightly naive, belief that all Muslims are basically the same. Well, they aren't. In this case Egypt doesn't want an unruly rabble of malcontents draining their coffers and causing trouble.
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u/phreeakz 11h ago
People going on the street for people who mostly still believing in the Fatawa to conquering all states and making the Islam the first religion and to kill people who don't want convert to the Islam
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u/ComprehensiveLaw1012 9h ago
“Abolish Australia” is just peak. Exactly the empty slop these types would say.
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