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[–] febra@lemmy.world 0 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Yeah, and Germany is raiding pro-palestinian activists' homes using fully armed cops for pro-palestinian commentary they make on Instagram, but I don't see anyone plastering that all over western media. An acquaintance of mine was fined by the police for putting "From the river to the sea" in their instagram story. But again, we can't stroke our western moral superiority, or wave our finger at a western country. So let's talk about some third world dictatorship doing something that honestly everyone was expecting.

[–] jaek@lemmy.world -1 points 4 months ago

I live in a country with a nominally 'labor' government that has stood in the way of unions protesting the genocide in Gaza and is actively working to suppress union led protests.

We in the west are in for a very rude shock in the coming years. Today it's clamping down on protests for Palestine, tomorrow its teargas and truncheons for strikers.

A lot of people don't understand that if we don't stand up for the Palestinians, we won't have a snowballs chance when it comes to seriously protesting our own governments and the corporations that control them.