Chris speculates: "For a time, concern about the hostages overshadowed concern about Palestinian victims of Israeli bombing in Western media coverage. This may have slightly delayed the building of the solidarity movement . . ."
That isn't my impression. What I observed was that, while Zionists postered widely with pictures of the hostages, they gained no momentum. About 20-30 people where I live march around occasionally with Israeli flags and less than that appear at counterprotests. We get from several hundred to a couple of thousand in our events (not huge but by far the biggest protests over anything that I've seen in many years in Christchurch). We also get a lot of support from passers by and very little antagonism. It genuinely feels like we have public support, which I have never felt before to this extent. Comradely, John > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#29608): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/29608 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/104996214/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. #4 Do not exceed five posts a day. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/8674936/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
