Election Year or Fear!

[ramAnag]

Not disagreeing that many Jews appear to be outraged by what's going on, but they aren't the ones flying the flags and the original comment from rA was about flags, and in my view the Palestine flag is becoming the default flag of 'The Left'

I’ll just respond to that point then, as the rest is really aimed at Swale’s response.

I don’t agree that it’s the ‘default flag of the Left’. I don’t even agree that you have to be ‘left wing’ to recognise that the Israeli governments response to Gaza has been outrageous.

Last Sept/Oct, while in Spain, I was genuinely surprised at the number of Palestinian flags in evidence and they had not been put up by militant left wing adventurists, but by ordinary folk who were appalled at what they’d seen. Indeed one of the villages concerned is nicknamed and celebrated as the ‘Village of the Three Cultures’, those being Christian, Muslim and Jewish.

I’m sure a minority will fly the Palestinian flag for the reasons you suspect, but in general I’d compare it more to the outbreak of Ukrainian flag flying of two or three years ago…just ordinary, concerned people expressing their disgust at the behaviour of a more powerful bullying ‘neighbour’.