Warning: Cynicism
I am a part of a left org that has been putting efforts into showing support for Palestine. A lot of demos, speaking at city council meetings, pressuring agencies to support a ceasefire, etc.
I’m considering bringing it up to comrades that maybe this has run its course. The IDF has been moving South and is now in Rafah. The only thing the US has done is issue “concerns” that have been ignored; the US has not stopped funding the war. How much destruction is there left that we as American activists are even trying to prevent?
Tell me I’m wrong. I want to be wrong. I just see comrades putting their efforts into this for emotional and not practical reasons at this point.
If there are no protests then Zionists and Imperialists will have full control over mass opinion because they control mass media in an environment with atomized civilians.
Then everyone will be completely demoralised and the probability of anything happening moves closer to zero.
The protests are a reality check, a place for communion to for everyone to avoid getting gaslit by the government and corporations into complete apathy.
Perhaps if the protests continue then the probability of something happening will shift closer to 100%.
It’s also practice for mass mobilization, gets us used to disobeying civil society.