Israel/Palestine Thread

There is no link between a shop in Belfast and the franchise in Israel. So the protest is either pointless, or virtue signalling hypocrisy from do-gooders who want their 15 seconds of social media fame.

What is there strategy exactly?

Demand a boycott of a shop whose Spanish parent company have sold franchise rights to a company in Israel, the store in question is in no way linked to "funding genocide" all the while the tech shops down the street are selling goods made in full or part by Israeli manufacturing facilities.

These people, smart they are not

The thread is not about me.

But they are virtue signalling hypocrites. They are protesting for the sake of it.

Well then so is anybody who has ever protested against anything. Let's leave it there.

The result of the voting tomorrow in New Jersey's 12th Congressional District election will be interesting. A surgeon, Adam Hamawy, who worked in Gaza is one of the leading candidates.

https://newjerseyglobe.com/congress/pro-palestine-super-pac-plans-to-spend-2-million-supporting-hamawy/

https://www.nj.com/politics/2026/05/this-nj-primary-has-it-all-gaza-dark-money-a-pro-palestine-super-pac-and-a-13-person-free-for-all.html

Background: A plastic surgeon based in Princeton, Hamawy, 53, spent eight years in the New Jersey National Guard’s Medical Corps and deployed to Baghdad’s 31st Combat Support Hospital during the Iraq War, where he operated on hundreds of service members and civilians.

He later became a lieutenant colonel and was part of the medical team that saved the life of Sen. Tammy Duckworth after her helicopter was struck by a grenade.

In 2024, he traveled on a volunteer medical mission to Gaza. He has never held elected office.

The pitch: Hamawy is running as the race’s unambiguous progressive, calling for Medicare for All, abolishing Immigrations and Customs Enforcement, dismantling the Department of Homeland Security and canceling medical and student debt.

He is also the only candidate who has labeled the war in Gaza a “genocide,” and has said he supports imposing a full arms embargo on Israel.

With a biography that includes combat vet, surgeon, and small-town doctor, he has pushed back on the progressive label arguing his message has broader reach.

“My message of healthcare, not bombs, is not just for progressives,” he told NJ.com. “It has resonated with moderates and even Republicans who want our tax dollars spent on the issues we face at home.”

If elected, he would be New Jersey’s first Muslim congressman.

Well if they want to protest, go to the Israeli embassy, if none exists locally, go to the local parliament buildings and protest to the political leaders.

Protesting outside/inside Zara in Belfast because "purchases there fund genocide" (which is 100% false) when they are doing what they are demanding others dont do in every aspect of their own lives is totally pointless.

Its a bit like complaining to Michael O'Leary because your aer lingus flight is delayed.

Anyone claiming opposition to what Israel is doing as "lefty" or "leftist", or any other nonsensical extraction thereof is an absolute bottom feeding fucking moron and isn't worth the time it takes to interact with them in any way.

It is an absolutely stupid framing that abandons all attempts at any kind of honest logic and says more about the wanker using those terms than it does about anyone's response to Israeli atrocities.

There's nothing "left wing" about viewing genocidal warfare as wrong. There's nothing "left wing" about opinions regarding the deliberate murdering of medical staff and aid workers as wrong. There's nothing "left wing" in seeing the targeting and killing of journalists as wrong. There's nothing "left wing" about being appalled at the shooting of people queuing in the baking hot sun for hours for meager scraps of food and water. There's nothing "left wing" about being against the stealing of other people's land. There's nothing "left wing" about being opposed to people like Benjamin Netanyahu, Itamar Ben-Gvir, Bezalel Smotrich and other mass murdering sociopaths, etc.

All of those reactions are simply basic human reactions to acts of blatant barbarity, regardless of who or what nation is carrying them out, and they don't have a political position.

Qatar and Afghanistan arent fashionable anymore.

From what I can see it's mostly a regurgitation of American binary politics they find on social media, I doubt many of them have opened a book on the topic.

Protesting at a shop in Belfast which has no link to Israel beyond the Spanish parent company selling a franchise licence to an Israeli company and demanding people dont shop there (Belfast) because it "funds genocide" all the while the said protestors have in all likelihood bought products which have direct links to Israel and are actually funding "genocide" themselves is simply fcuking pointless.

But i guess they need something to tell the girls in work about how great they were at the weekend.

How do these Israel supporters explain people such as Tucker Carlson, Megyn Kelly, Candace Owens and Marjorie Taylor Greene being hugely critical of the terrorist state and openly accusing it of genocide?

This type of argument that being anti-Israel equates to being a "lefty" might have washed ten years ago, but not any more.

....Or committing genocide

100% - Israel ticks all the boxes for anyone of a right wing authoritarian mindset.

Having said that, even many right wing people are recoiling from the activities of Israel, so those still actively supporting the regime are very much at the 'right wing extremist' end of the spectrum.

Im not.

The post you commented on was specifically about Zara in relation to Israel. The Zara protest is useless. Buying anything in Zara Belfast does not "fund genocide" as the protesters claimed in the video.

Protesting is useless if its misguided and directed at people, entities or shops etc which are not responsible for any wrong doing. Zara Belfast are not responsible for anything In Israel/Palestine nor are they "funding genocide"

Im not answering your question as I was previously warned for going off topic.