GIVE PEACE A CHANT
Zionists have no snappy slogans to compete with “Free Palestine!”
Since October 7, there have been weekly rallies for Israeli hostages outside the Vancouver Art Gallery. Hardly an event can go by without at least one passerby going into paroxysms of rage at the idea that we are holding a vigil for captives. Drivers roll down their windows to scream obscenities or, more often, simply “Free Palestine!” which is fine, I guess, but they do so with an emotion that seems far beyond rational.
I have watched people descend into absolute madness at the sight of a few Israeli flags. During a march down Robson Street, a woman standing on the second floor of a restaurant became the Tasmanian Devil, waving her arms, shrieking at the top of her lungs, apparently out of her mind that a group of Zionists had interrupted her meal.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but this level of intensity is unknown in any other cause. People don’t even bother protesting against Uighurs in concentration camps or half a million Syrians killed in a civil war in which their government targets its own citizens.
Even the Russian attack on Ukraine does not elicit this degree of passion. Actual Ukrainians do not seem to be as visibly incensed about the situation in Ukraine as people with no familial connection to Palestine — or possibly even the ability to find the place on a map…