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When people tried to bring aid to Gaza as part of a flotilla, the same people who don't want the game boycotted were using the same terms to call them virtue signalling attention seekers.

They literally couldn't be doing more to make a difference than bringing aid to those who don't have it.

Haters are going to hate, no matter what is done, or advocated for, they'll have an excuse to denounce it.

Only they no their true motivation, but they are advocating on the same side as those inflicting the suffering on the people of Gaza, that is irrefutable.

Exactly what I said you would say about them. You literally just said people should not call for a boycott of the game but instead should do something that would make a difference, and when people do that, this is how you respond.

Thank God you're mindset is held by so few people in the country.

This is why calling for a boycott is necessary even if the game goes ahead, so that the mindset you demonstrate is not seen as being widely held. It's a disgusting lack of empathy for a people being persecuted and killed daily.

do you ever see any hope or positivity here at all here regarding this conflict? It’s post after post after post ONLY ever focusing on bad bad Israel.

Why the fcuk should I look to be accommodating towards Israel or those who either support them or at best, aren't overly bothered by what they are doing? They have killed probably over 100,000 Palestinians, displaced millions of them, attacked 6 other countries, started a war with Iran and another one with Lebanon.

They’re not remotely concerned about the possibility of the killings stopping, or being greatly reduced.

This from the last couple of days.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/q65x4meqRnk

“What really hurts them is the suburbs. We need to target them, flatten them and completely destroy them.”

Far-right Israeli national security minister Itamar Ben Gvir called on the army to “flatten” Beirut's suburbs “to the ground”, a direct incitement to mass civilian destruction.

His comments come as Israel's military campaign and invasion of southern Lebanon, which has killed over 3,000 people, displaced more than a million, and reduced entire neighbourhoods to rubble, continues unabated.

You might be indifferent to the suffering of all these people, you may not be bothered about the fact that western governments are complicit in a lot of Israel's actions, you can try to paint opposition to all these things as being anti-Israel, you're free to do whatever you want, but I too am free to do what I want and I will never choose to be ambivalent to such hateful and harmful ideologies such as that demonstrated by Ben Gvir.

If I was alive 80 years ago, I'd have been calling for support for Jewish people, just because it is descendants of those who suffered then that are causing the suffering now should never give them a pass.

Why do you think UEFA will use their rules to punish Ireland if they boycott the game, but don't use their rules to punish Israel for having teams in occupied territories?