The Pro-Palestinian Protesters

Are They Naively Shooting Themselves in the Foot or Are They Part of a Psyop to Sow Instability?

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In a previous post I mentioned how the pro-Palestinian protesters in the United States are so incredibly tone-deaf that they end up turning off people to the message of their own cause.

I wanted to believe that these people had good intentions but are simply inept when it comes to making their demands heard. I wanted to discount the possibility that they aren't some kind of a psyop that they are doing on behalf of Vladimir Putin and the Kremlin in an effort to discredit Joe Biden so much that people will end up voting for Donald Trump.

But the more I see these people protest, the more I'm starting to have my doubts about them and their claim that they represent the plight of the Palestinians living in Gaza, many of whom have been displaced due to frequent indiscriminate bombing by Israel.

Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina is a historic African American church with a very tragic recent past. In 2015 a 21-year-old white supremacist named Dylann Roof went inside of that church with a gun while it was holding a Wednesday night Bible study group. Roof opened fire on the group, killing nine people and injuring one.

Nearly nine years after that horrible event, President Joe Biden stopped by that same church to give a speech condemning white supremacy. At that point, a group of pro-Palestinian protesters decided that it would be a perfect occasion to slip inside of the church and interrupt Biden's speech by yelling slogans like “Ceasefire Now!” As you can see in the video below, that protest went over like a lead balloon.

I wonder who the dim bulb was who thought that one was a great idea. They went to an event that was held inside of a house of worship, the same house of worship where those awful murders took place just a few years earlier. The event was held to denounce the rise of white supremacy, especially among the followers of Donald Trump's Make America Great Again movement. The majority of the protesters were white and they decided to do their protest in a majority African American church. That event made the protesters seem tone deaf at best and, at worst, seem to be so racist at a conscious or unconscious level that they felt that they didn't have to take the feelings of African Americans into consideration because they felt that they were fighting on behalf of the Palestinians in Gaza and their cause is way more important than the feelings of those inside of that church.

I lurked on Black Twitter and they definitely tweeted harsh things about the protesters, such as this one.

The tweets denouncing what had happened brought out the pro-Palestinian tweeters and it produced lots of racial disharmony between the two camps.

We still can't discount the possibility that it may have been a psyop that's designed to sow chaos, as this tweet says:

Russia is one likely suspect. The other is the Republican Party. These days the Kremlin has infiltrated the Republican Party so much that it's possible that they are working in tandem in an effort to get Donald Trump elected president.

After all, where were these pro-Palestinian protesters when then-President Trump made the controversial decision to move the US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, which outraged Palestinians at the time?

In addition, how did interrupting an anti-white supremacy event in a South Carolina church with a history of racist shootings help the Palestinians in Gaza? As far as I can tell, all it did was hurt the Palestinian cause.

You might argue that the Palestinian activists tend to be leftists while white supremacists tend to be right wing. As I wrote in a previous post about the Horseshoe Theory, the far left and the far right tend to have a lot more in common than people who are less politically extreme. So it's possible to be a white person with a feeling of white superiority who thinks that Palestinians are more important than African Americans.

But that incident won't be the last we will hear from these pro-Palestinian protesters. I live outside of Washington, DC, where this Saturday a pro-Palestinian protest is scheduled to take place on the Mall. (And, yes, they will be marching during the Martin Luther King holiday weekend, which will probably further antagonize the African American community even more.) I am hoping that they will leave the red paint at home this time but I have a feeling they will do other dumb stuff that will only turn people off to the message of their cause.

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