• happybadger [he/him]
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    11 months ago

    My university had a Palestine rally yesterday seemingly announced a few hours before. 100~ Palestine supporters, maybe 5 zionist counterprotestors with at least one of them being a uniformed org member. It isn't otherwise a radical university and I'd expect equal if not inverse numbers of supporters. Like I went to it expecting to see a line of zionists shouting and it was just a few large sons trying to hold an Israeli flag straight.

    It's lovely to hear a huge crowd chant "Biden Biden you can't hide, we charge you with genocide". Zero hesitation from anyone in the crowd.

    • mar_k [he/him]
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      11 months ago

      At my university there were recently several genocidal phone calls/emails sent to some of our protestors. Literal stuff saying "we hope all Palestinian [slur words] are murdered" and worse. But they literally came from fucking Oklahoma (our uni's in New England). The threats only strengthened our resolve.

  • Yllych [any]
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    11 months ago

    can i get 250 bucks to show up with a pflp banner

    • blakeus12 [he/him]
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      11 months ago

      take the money, and walk straight over to the counter protest with a massive palestine flag

    • FourteenEyes [he/him]
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      11 months ago

      *after running a successful business in a low-income neighborhood for 36 months

    • mar_k [he/him]
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      11 months ago

      https://www.dailydot.com/debug/pro-israel-rally-microgrants-icc/?amp

  • SpiderFarmer [he/him]
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    11 months ago

    The biggest group of counterprotesters I saw were three middle ages people that brought beach chairs and a Trump flag. They sat there for maybe a half hour and then left. It takes zero actual effort to be pro-Israel. You can literally sit at home and watch slop and you serve the status quo thus so.

  • Maoo [none/use name]
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    11 months ago

    Demand payment up front, no contract, and then form a counter protest instead.

    • Justice@lemmygrad.ml
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      11 months ago

      Get the $250, pay 5 otherwise unlikely to attend people $50 for them to be at the counter protest for at least an hour (pay them after of course).

      This is how you fund activism under capitalism.

  • Grebgreb [he/him]
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    11 months ago

    look at what they need to achieve a fraction of our power

    • mar_k [he/him]
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      11 months ago

      Yeah I just saw that, when I first read about it on twitter they were still running. They did also say this:

      We are pleased to announce that we have successfully allocated funding to help thousands of students attend the event.

  • Umechan [he/him]
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    11 months ago

    Hey, some of us are over 40. Are we really the prime demographic for apartheid apologists?

    • mar_k [he/him]
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      11 months ago

      I mean if you look at Zionist rallies, the vast majority of people you'll see are middle to older aged white people. But if you look at pro-Palestine rallies, you generally have people of all ages and races

      • star_wraith [he/him]
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        11 months ago

        Right there’s actually quite a few over 40 folks at a lot of these rallies, it’s more the contrast between how bereft of youth the Zionist crowd is.

  • HumanBehaviorByBjork [any, undecided]
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    11 months ago

    the whole premise of zionism is so insane that they can't get young jews to buy into it without spending a lot of money on propaganda. it's part of the reason they hate the diaspora so much, because it's not supposed to be possible for jews to have a sense of community outside the ethnostate.

  • VILenin [he/him]
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    11 months ago

    Heya customs official! Now I know I don’t have a passport with me, but could you please accept my microgrant to let me through? Thanks

  • GVAGUY3 [he/him]
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    11 months ago

    Handing out red triangles to the attendees.