"France mourns Ukraine loudly. Gaza, on the other hand, must be whispered. The Palestinian flag cannot be seen here. It is hidden, feared, criminalised. If you’re lucky, you find it painted in graffiti, a shy declaration of solidarity hastily sprayed like a secret.
Should I be surprised?
After all, France is a colonial empire that never dismantled itself, but only rebranded. From Algeria to Vietnam to Syria, France’s hands are stained with the blood of those who dared to resist it.
When France supported the #Zionist movement in the 20th century, when it trained Israeli officers, when it helped militarise a settler-colonial state on stolen land, it wasn’t out of ignorance. It was out of solidarity, white solidarity, with another colonial project.
France condemned the Russian invasion of Ukraine within hours. It opened its borders. It cried on TV. It cancelled concerts and imposed sanctions. Why? Because Ukraine is white.
But when Israel flattens entire neighbourhoods in #Gaza, when it bombs hospitals, starves children, cuts water, drops banned weapons, and grinds families into bone dust, France hesitates. It equivocates. It blames #Hamas.
And yet, here in #France, we are told to lower our voices. We are told that shouting “#FreePalestine” might be anti-Semitic.
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I survived the Gaza genocide only to witness firsthand Western complicity
I was evacuated to France, where I saw the reason why the world is allowing my people to be slaughtered.Nour Elassy (Al Jazeera)
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in reply to Proletarian Rage • • •Gaza has become their moral exception. Their blind spot. Their expendable other. The news every newsroom twists itself to avoid.
But here is the truth: #Palestine has no army, no jets, no ships, no nuclear weapons. What we have is resistance. #Hamas is not a state military. It is the outcome of decades of siege, occupation, apartheid, and abandonment. And while #European leaders rush to condemn Hamas at every opportunity they get, they refuse to condemn the occupation that birthed it. They erase our right to resist, while glorifying the Ukrainian resistance, heaping on it weapons and praise.
In #Ukraine, Molotov cocktails are “heroism”. In #Gaza, stones are “terrorism”. That’s hypocrisy. That’s the algorithm of white empathy.
What is happening in Gaza is not a war between two armies. It is the wholescale destruction of an occupied people by one of the most advanced armies in the world. It is genocide aided by Western arms, protected by Western silence, and beautified by humanitarian lies.
I passed through Israeli checkpoints where soldiers looked at me as if I were not human.
Do not tell me this is just #politics. It is #racism. It is hypocrisy. The #genocide of my people is being watched from balconies draped with Ukrainian flags.
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I survived the Gaza genocide only to witness firsthand Western complicity
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in reply to Michael Richardson • • •But the article is about a European country. Maybe it's better to focus there.