Sigh. Pro Palestinian Protesters disrupt Democratic Townhall.

[tulipsandroses]

I'm all for free speech but, uhm why are you not showing up at republican gatherings? It perplexes me.

[AltairIV]

1. Question

Are we sure this isn't a republican plant?

[Just_Vote_Dem]

3. That's my suspicion n/t

[W_HAMILTON]

5. How would you be able to tell the difference?

PS - The Horseshoe Theory is very much a real thing

[Think. Again.]

7. ...

[yardwork]

6. ALL the leaders of the so-called pro-Palestine movement are Russian plants.

And the GOP is now synonymous with Russia, so, yes.

Anyone participating in these disruptions who isn't getting paid by Putin is volunteering for him, whether they know it or not.

From day one, the purpose of these disruptions was to get Trump back in the White House and keep the Democrats without power.

[Think. Again.]

8. The disruptions, yes...

...but the protests were about trying to save innocent, non-hamas, Gaza lives.

[AloeVera]

13. Yes, they were.

Thank you for pointing that out. The student protests and the millions protesting around the world were about saving innocent lives. But in order to acknowledge the justice and basic humanity of their cause, one has to be able to assign the same value to those innocent lives as the lives of those dropping and funding the bombs. It always saddens me that too many people still can't seem to be able to make that leap. But many others have come around at last and that's great to see!

[Just_Vote_Dem]

14. Yep. In retrospect

I think Israel should probably have used more snipers and tanks rather than the amount of bombing that was done, doing that could have saved more innocent lives. But 20/20 hindsight...

[AloeVera]

16. The bombing was for the sake of destruction and revenge.

And if innocents were killed in the process, it was not assigned much importance.

But the bombing had a very real purpose: to make Gaza uninhabitable so that the ethnic cleansing can be carried out under the guise of "voluntary emigration".

Which doesn't seem voluntary to me if the choice is between Leave or Die.

Besides, bombing results in far fewer - as in none- military casualties than solely a ground invasion.

[Mosby]

21. Your demonizing Israelis without evidence.

This could all have been avoided if Hamas released the hostages.

Even Gazans are saying this now.

They are fed up.

Link to tweet

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[AloeVera]

38. Israel didn't have to destroy Gaza. It was a choice.

Even Israel's staunchest supporters must realize that by now.

The evidence you claim I don't have is the destruction of Gaza for the whole world to see.

The anti-Hamas protests are irrelevant to Israel's guilt in its war conduct. To draw attention to the protests is just another deflection and attempt to rationalize that conduct.

[BunkieBandit]

39. Hamas (Gazans) didn't hafta murder thousands of Jews.

Even Hamas' staunchest supporters must realize that now. It should not be a shock to how the Israelis reacted. These are not 1937 Jews in Europe. Damn.

[AloeVera]

40. War crimes are always a shock.

It should not matter which side is committing them! Damn.

[Think. Again.]

18. Well said.

[Beastly Boy]

33. Sorry to disappoint you, but these protests were not about saving Palestinian lives.

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A child could understand this: without releasing all the hostages there would be no peace. Not after what Hamas has done.

And Hamas was counting on the said protesters to obscure this obvious truth. Mission accomplished.

It was all about bashing Israel, and the protesters, naively or cynically, ( it really doesn't matter which one is more true than the other), fell for it. Guess who suffered as a consequence (hint: not the protesters). The people of Gaza, unsophisticated as they are, understood this better than all the intellectuals bemoaning their fate put together. Now, thousands of them are out on the streets of Gaza demanding Hamas ouster (https://www.npr.org/2025/03/26/nx-s1-5340645/palestinians-protest-hamas-rule-in-gaza). And tens of thousands of Israelis are now out on the streets of Tel Aviv and Jerusalem demanding Netanyahu's ouster. (https://www.npr.org/2025/03/25/nx-s1-5339490/israel-protests-netanyahu-hostages-gaza-war).

There is a very easy way to find out what the protesters' real motivation is: Will they come out in support of the Palestinians who want Hamas gone and the war to end? Will they come out in support of the Israelis who want Netanyahu gone and the war to end?

Surprise me and tell me that they will.

[Think. Again.]

34. Surprise!

[Beastly Boy]

35. Was it sarcasm?

Considering what follows the header, I am not sure.

[Hekate]

36. Also about getting TRUMP elected. Which they helped to do quite handily. Are they happy now?

[Think. Again.]

37. No, the Pro-Palestine demonstrations were about saving innocent, non-hamas Gaza lives...

...the rightwing infiltrators might have had other goals, especially if they knew how gullible and naive some of the public would be to fall for their instigations.

[al bupp]

11. That is simply complete BS

Said w/ all due respect.

[Think. Again.]

19. No, infiltrating legitimate protests....

...to discredit them and turn naive public opinion against worthy causes is a decades old rightwing tactic.

[al bupp]

25. What you assert has certainly happened

However, I was replying to the comment the said that all the protest leaders of the pro-Palestine movement are Russian plants. That statement is simply false propaganda.

[Think. Again.]

26. I did mistakenly reply to you thinking you were calling MY post BS. My apologies.

[al bupp]

30. No worries

[GreenWave]

28. With irony being that using absolutes often streamlines things for totalitarians.

[al bupp]

31. Good point

Props for associating irony w/ totalitarianism the latter of which seems rarely ironic in it's own right, but when both are combined is also pretty ironic!

[Mosby]

17. You know thats ridiculous right?

Link to tweet

Is she a Russian operative?

"Creating systemic barriers....to make it impossible for Zionists to function without consequence and confrontation".

That's exactly what that asswipe did in this town hall.

[Think. Again.]

20. Yes, disrupters do that.

[yardwork]

23. The identical consistency of messaging has been a tell since Oct 8.

Simultaneous use of phrases, images, and graphics "spontaneously" breaking out worldwide the day after Hamas attacked.

[Mosby]

24. I get your point, just don't agree.

The consistency of the messaging was coming from CAIR, SJP, JVP and others, not Russia, though they could be playing a role, I don't know.

[Just_Vote_Dem]

2. Especially since right now we're the minority party

And can't affect any legislation that they want.

[kysrsoze]

4. If they are legitimate pro-Palestinian protesters, they're barking up the wrong tree.

I didn't like Biden's Israeli policies, but they should have known full well what was coming to them if they voted for President Assface. And now, for them to be protesting Dems, I only have one response...

[Think. Again.]

9. If they were legitimate Pro-Palistinian protesters...

...they wouldn't be wasting their time with this.

[dutch777]

12. Yes, sad if they are legit protestors and not Russian plants as some suspect.

[Think. Again.]

22. It was just a continuation...

...of the rightwing attempt to make the Pro-Palestinians look bad to the gullible public.

[brush]

29. Seems they don't understand the Dem party and Biden are not in charge anymore.

They should be disrupting rethug townhalls...if they can find one where a Rep shows up.

I sympathize with their views on warmonger Netanyahu's continued bombing in Gaza but if their still blaming Biden and protesting against his backing of Israel, they're uniformed about how things work with a change in admins. Many foolishly backed trump in the election and he's way worse than Biden/Dem policies ever were.

They don't seem to know that yet. trump wants Gaza for free so he can develop seaside villa, resort hotels and golf courses...with the poor Palestinians in Gaza gone to who knows where.

[al bupp]

10. How do you know that they aren't?

It might be b/c the GOP has stopped having town halls. As for showing up at Dem gatherings, if it their rep, they have every right to make their views known and to disagree w/ the rep.

[AloeVera]

15. Yes. They even have the right to be more upset if their concerns...

...are brushed off or ignored. Or if they are condescended to or subject to non-answers and their feelings trivialized. Not saying that happened here - I don't know- but it's been the pattern.

[RJ-MacReady]

27. The party needs to disavow these people

They have shown they are not allies nor should we even try to placate them.

[BlueTsunami2018]

32. That's useful.

Being that we have zero power right now.

Are these people stupid or just astroturfers?

[NNguyenMD]

41. Turkish Phd student with a valid visa was detained by ice for her views on Gaza...

That’s something worthy of protesting a Republican Trifecta government for