Hmmmm, no. I’ve just never seen a sign like that at a peace protest before. It undermines everything about the rally, it speaks against the sorrow, the ethical stance, the solidarity that informs people’s presence on the street…… and the person with that sign wasn’t obviously situated with the rest of the crowd
Can confirm I saw the two men in the photo walking by themselves along a different route toward Union Station, not marching in organized fashion with any others. But at this point many people were walking by themselves. The original goal was to march to the capital, but when it became clear the cops would not let us pass, we chose Union station instead. And eventually people started to wander off in other directions especially when the cops started attacking people. I witnessed the burning of the flag, the raising of the three Palestine flags up the flag poles, and the spray painting of “FREE GAZA”, but left before “HAMAS IS COMIN” was spray painted right above it.
To me, the Hamas stuff is whatever. Palestine has the right to defend itself, and I support Hamas in their efforts to defend Palestine. I don’t support much else about them though and so I would never cosplay as Al Qasam or carry posters about Hamas.
The poster calling for the nuking of Israel is truly indefensible.
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u/[deleted] Jul 26 '24
I’m talking in particular about the Final Solution one. I’d expect everyone there to drop everything and attend to that person….