(Sorry for being so gauche to reply to myself, but I thought it'd be helpful to separate criticisms in case anyone wanted to explain why they're unfair)
While pro-Palestine protests have decreased since the election (similar to most forms of political demonstration) they're still ongoing. Searching "December 2024 Palestine protests" shows…
(Sorry for being so gauche to reply to myself, but I thought it'd be helpful to separate criticisms in case anyone wanted to explain why they're unfair)
While pro-Palestine protests have decreased since the election (similar to most forms of political demonstration) they're still ongoing. Searching "December 2024 Palestine protests" shows plenty of results. For example, Columbia University Apartheid Divest held an “NYC all out for Palestine” protest on December 9th, more than a month after the election. People were arrested, professors were suspended, buildings were vandalized. It's hardly a sudden stop in protesting.
Or just search for protests on November 29th. Palestinian Solidarity Day happened to fall on Black Friday this year and it resulted in plenty of disruption, mostly covered locally.
There was definitely a spike during the election, but there were similar spikes in interest for other issues like abortion or gun control.
I don't see anything to support the idea that the pro-Palestine movement suddenly disappeared after the election. Maybe a better description of what happened would be something like:
"Pro-Palestine leftists that had protested Biden and Harris at a gradually decreasing rate continued roughly the same pattern after the election, but received much less attention from news outlets and people like myself".
(It also seems like it'd be reasonable to mention that Trump allegedly pushed through the ceasefire deal, fulfilling a goal of the movement.)
(Sorry for being so gauche to reply to myself, but I thought it'd be helpful to separate criticisms in case anyone wanted to explain why they're unfair)
While pro-Palestine protests have decreased since the election (similar to most forms of political demonstration) they're still ongoing. Searching "December 2024 Palestine protests" shows plenty of results. For example, Columbia University Apartheid Divest held an “NYC all out for Palestine” protest on December 9th, more than a month after the election. People were arrested, professors were suspended, buildings were vandalized. It's hardly a sudden stop in protesting.
Or just search for protests on November 29th. Palestinian Solidarity Day happened to fall on Black Friday this year and it resulted in plenty of disruption, mostly covered locally.
https://komonews.com/news/local/protesters-disrupt-black-friday-shopping-u-university-village-apple-store-palestinian-democratic-republic-congo-causes-complicity-genocide-child-labor-abuse-consumer-closed-trespass-warning-arrest-money
Less anecdotally, google trends shows that interest in Gaza and Palestine didn't drop that much after the election.
https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?geo=US&q=palestine,Gaza&hl=en
There was definitely a spike during the election, but there were similar spikes in interest for other issues like abortion or gun control.
I don't see anything to support the idea that the pro-Palestine movement suddenly disappeared after the election. Maybe a better description of what happened would be something like:
"Pro-Palestine leftists that had protested Biden and Harris at a gradually decreasing rate continued roughly the same pattern after the election, but received much less attention from news outlets and people like myself".
(It also seems like it'd be reasonable to mention that Trump allegedly pushed through the ceasefire deal, fulfilling a goal of the movement.)