no one is being silent about gaza. no one is ignoring palestine. quite literally everyone and everything is about palestine now. if i see one more self proclaimed leftist cry about how No One Cares About Palestine, i will commit arson. it is the only thing you people ever talk about - often at the expense of others. everyone everywhere is constantly talking about palestine.
If you’re tired of hearing about Gaza, imagine how tired Palestinians are of being bombed, starved, and displaced.
The fact that people are talking about Gaza doesn’t mean anything is being done to stop genocide. It’s been talked about because people were literally not talking about it for decades.
The U.S. continues to fund Israel.
Global leaders are not imposing sanctions on politicians and government enterprises, or halting weapons transfers.
Aid is blocked, hospitals are targeted, and 37,000+ are dead. The international system is failing, despite all the “talk” you’re tired of hearing about. Shots fired sunday (again) when Palestinians were desperate for flour. Israel confirmed they fired “warning shots” that killed at least 94 starving Palestinians. That’s just sunday.
People only started paying attention because the atrocities became too massive to ignore and now that attention is being framed as “annoying.” Spare me.
No one is stopping people from discussing other issues. What they are doing is reminding you that a live streamed genocide is unfolding with your tax dollars, and silence is complicity. Close your eyes, look away. Palestinian children will continue to starve to death. In fact, over the past 24 hours, 18 deaths have been recorded due to famine.
Forget about performance, what matters is pressure. Movements rely on public visibility to gain leverage. Visibility drives pressure. Pressure influences media, politics, policy.
Why are people more bothered by the reminder of genocide than by genocide itself?
This post is not about being tired of hearing about Palestine because it’s inconvenient. This post is referring to goyische leftists (white or not) who are so obsessed with Palestine that they will shut down talk of every other issue with “but what about Palestine!!!”
It’s useless virtue signalling and does nothing to actually help Palestine, and frankly, it makes the whole pro-Palestine movement look insane. If people have no capacity for empathy for other people and all they can say is “who gives a shit about (the Bibas boys/dead girls in Texas/insert other issue here), what about Gaza!! you’re not going to get people on board. Empathy is not a finite resource. The minute we start deciding who is more worthy of empathy than others is where we’re losing people.
If you checked the tags and reblogs rather than assuming what the post was about, then maybe you would have a better understanding.
you say this post isn’t about being tired of Palestine discourse, but the subtext of everything written is exactly that, frustration that people won’t shut up about genocide in a way you personally approve of. you say the problem is goyische leftists being “obsessed ” with Palestine, but isn’t that being annoyed that people keep bringing up Gaza when you’d rather talk about something else? it’s the same thing.
I’m not american either. That excuse doesn’t magically make you neutral. If anything, it makes it even more ironic that you’re tone policing people across borders while claiming to be detached from the structures involved. jf you’re not american, then you’re likely in a country also complicit, like through weapons sales, diplomatic cover, or media whitewashing, and that still makes this your problem too. besides, U.S. imperial policy is one of the main reasons this genocide continues unchecked.
you accuse others of “virtue signaling” and making the movement “look insane,” but what exactly are you doing here, if not signaling your own frustration that Palestine discourse is getting too loud or too messy for your tastes? talk about something else, then. bring attention to it. over here, we can do more than one thing at once.
public pressure via digital platforms does change the political landscape. It educates, radicalizes, and mobilizes, particularly in countries whose governments fund Israel’s war machine. also if all posting is performative then so is this post tf.
people aren’t saying “What about Gaza?” because they lack empathy for other causes. rhey’re saying it because Gaza is actively being erased, bombed, and starved in real time and because silence around it has been systemic, not just social. what’s not fucking clicking?
they’re not pitting Gaza against other tragedies. they’re pointing out that Gaza is uniquely and consistently treated like a footnote in press coverage, in government policy, in crisis aid, and even in activist spaces. you can’t flatten that into “competitive empathy” when the imbalance is structural.
saying “empathy is not a finite resource” is true in theory, but meaningless when political and emotional attention is finite, especially in social media driven ecosystems where algorithms reward trends and people move on quickly. Gaza gets minimized not because people don’t care enough, but because systems are actively invested in making sure it doesn’t take center stage. when people say “What about Gaza?” it’s to reclaim a space that’s constantly denied to Palestinians. for decades it has been ignored, now people are listening.
if you’re tired of people “making the movement look bad,” i would argue that calling genocide awareness “virtue signaling” does faaaar more to discredit the movement than any overzealous Palestine post ever could. there’s a difference between unproductive discourse and just being uncomfortable that a genocide is no longer being politely ignored.
if your empathy for genocide victims is conditional on how palatable the advocates are, you’re not a neutral party, you’re a passive enabler of ongoing violence. at least own it.
you end with “I don’t have faith in pro pals (que carajos es un pro pal) making any change.” That’s your right. but people don’t have the luxury of detachment when they’re being killed. if you don’t believe change is possible, that’s fine. but mocking people for caring “too much” is pure cynicism. and cynicism is easy. what’s harder is witnessing horror and still choosing to fight for something better even if it’s messy, emotional, or imperfectly expressed, as you have complained. sometimes all people can do is share and amplify others’ voices.
if you genuinely believe empathy isn’t finite, then stop acting like there’s a quota on how many times people can cry out for Gaza.
