During BLM protests, the major news networks kept framing upcoming BLM protests as dangerous for white people. "The Black people are coming to your town!" even though many of (most of!) the BLM marchers were white?🤔
Now I'm seeing a similar dynamic with Gaza ceasefire protest coverage. But it's getting harder to ignore the fact that many (admittedly not most) of the folks asking for human rights to be respected, are Jewish and/or Israeli. ♥️👍🏿
@mekkaokereke honestly I think the major difference is that they couldn't find a group to hate for the white BLM protestors (besides the obvious group, "BLM protestors").
I wouldn't be surprised if they're willing to admit that many of the protestors are Jewish but still frame them as dangerous in an anti-Semitic way... they're supportive of Israel (for as long as the Israeli government is killing brown people for them) but not of Jewish people
I was marching in the huge London march yesterday. I was with the Jewish bloc, ready to help protect them if there was trouble. The main thing they got was hundreds of Muslims coming up to them to thank them for coming out, and to share experiences of being marginalised.
The one person who caused trouble was White, a journalist who kept trying to provoke them by asking if they supported Hamas or Israel's right to defend itself.
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