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Being critical of what Israel is doing right now is completely fine and I am certainly a supporter of the palestinian struggle, but platforming a preacher calling for a "dark day" for all jews is not something that should be supported either. It's a shame that so many people can't seem to differ between jewish people and israel, it just makes it so much easier for israel to hide behind the "antisemitism" argument whenever their actions are called into question. However, antisemitism is still a big issue in the pro-palestinian camp.
If most of the anti Israel really cared about the Palestinians, you’d get the same amount of people protesting wrongs in Saudi, Yemen, Ethiopia, Somalia, Sudan, slave trade in Libya etc.
Instead you get 10-20x more interest because a lot of these protestors are actually antisemite using this as a platform to spew their hatred.
Are there decent people? Sure. However just by looking at the magnitude of difference between this conflict and any other conflict should tell you that something else is driving it
Did you also use this rationale pre-October 7th when the western world was entirely focussed on the war in Ukraine? And if so I'd be fascinated to hear what sinister reasons were behind the millions of protestors for that war because, obviously, as they weren't protesting literally every single conflict in the world they couldn't have genuinely cared about Ukrainian lives or the right for that country to exist.
It's really not as deep as you're making out, certain conflicts are more relevant and get more media coverage in certain areas. People don't have the time or the energy to protest every single conflict in the world and you can't hold that against them.