Thousands of Israelis take to streets of Tel Aviv to demand cease-fire and Netanyahu's resignation

Protesters are demanding the government reach a deal to bring the hostages back from Gaza, for new elections and the resignation of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

AP News
@gwynnion Oh please 🙄 ... Are they shrieking "WE ARE HAMAS"? No? Then probably not.

Unlike Americans cosplaying terrorists.

@notroot @gwynnion you mean the anti-protest agitators?

Almost all actual violence has been committed by anti-protest agitators and the police. These protests are happening at over 60 campuses. You sound like the people that ignored Proud Boys driving into Portland every weekend for years stirring up shit looking for fights, but a couple videos of a dumpster fire or a broken window and you think the whole city was burned down by protesters.

You need better, less biased, information sources. Not just corporate and right-wing pearl clutching click bait.

@markmevans @gwynnion LOL like I'm gonna trust that lot! "By any means necessary," right? I assume that includes lying like the shrill pro-Hamas propaganda tools they are?
@markmevans @gwynnion Somehow Israelis protesting their own government is open to ridicule and disbelief, but I'm supposed to trust some entitled American children?
@gwynnion Unfortunately, in the christofascist mindset, people very well may think they are. 😫 There's so much colonial "we're here to save you from yourselves" that they can easily think that. 🤦🏻‍♀️
@faithisleaping @gwynnion The Christofascists only care about 144,000 Jews; the rest are immaterial to them, after the Tribulations start.
@gwynnion you can criticise Israel and its government without being antisemitic. Israelis do it all the time.
Celebrating Hamas, chanting “from the river to the sea”, and calling to “globalise the intifada” barrels through the line between legitimate criticism and antisemitism.
Elevate these Israelis’ voices
@gwynnion
Don't ask this question to PM #Netanyahu!

A secular democratic Israel with a functioning rule of law is the last thing he would accede to.
@gwynnion Only if they were in the U.S.
@gwynnion
No, but neither are these protestors arguing there should not be a state for Jews between ‘the river and the sea’
Nor are These protesters ignoring that there was a horrific trigger event pulled by the Gaza government this past October 7th, during a holiday weekend, of cultural, agricultural, religious, and national significance.
@gwynnion yes, according to most of US pols 😟

@gwynnion

Have you listened to it?

I didn't hear a single "genocide". Instead they are talking about Democracy.

And how BOTH sides are hostages.

Don't fuel the fire with your passive aggressiveness.

@gwynnion
I think the official term is "self-hating Jews" -- who are, by definition "antisemitic"
@gwynnion they do not deny Israel’s right to defend itself
@gwynnion My understanding is that this is a regularly scheduled protest calling on the government to do everything possible to "bring them [the hostages] home." A ceasefire in the service of this end is one way. What a pity that Israel's critics never linked these 2 goals. They would have had more mainstream support if they did.