Hands Off NATO!....But No Mention of Gaza?
Social media questioned the major protests against Trump and Musk that seemed to leave out key issue
There’s one thing that so-called conservatives and liberals in the U.S. have in common: they love Israeli genocide and, no matter how angry they could be about the other side’s domestic policies – they fall into line when it comes to Israel.
CNN reported that over 1,400 “Hands Off!” rallies broke out across the U.S., drawing demonstrators across major cities. Organizers said a million turned out.
The poster for the Saturday rallies said the country must come together and stop U.S. President Donald Trump and Telsa billionaire Elon Musk’s “illegal billionaire power grab.”
The poster read: “Hands Off: Medicaid, Medicare, Social Security, our jobs, our wallets, our bodies, fair elections, personal data, public lands, veterans services, cancer research, NATO, consumer protections, clean air, clean energy, schools, libraries, free speech, LGBTQ+ rights, immigrants, courts, more.”
Danny Haiphong, a popular podcaster, posted an image of the poster on X, and wrote, “Hands Off” protests said not one word about Yemen. Or Gaza.Or Lebanon. Or anywhere else US bombs rain down on civilians. The message is clear: the Democrat wing of the establishment has ZERO problems with Trump’s foreign policy as long as it pursues endless genocidal war.”
One commenter noted that the rally in Washington had speakers who talked about the Gaza genocide. Another noted how NATO managed to make it on the poster, but not Gaza.
“The Hands Off organizers included protesting in favor of NATO but left out the Palestinians and the genocide. That’s all you need to know about that massive multi city faux Liberal gathering of the milquetoasts,” the post read.
Gerald Celente, publisher of The Trends Journal, also posted on X, “Hey little loud-mouth clown boys and girls, how come you aren't "Angry" about Israeli Genocide and not yelling "Hands Off” to Trump’s and Netanyahu's support to keep slaughtering Palestinians? Why? Because you are Gutless and/or support it.”
Medea Benjamin, the head of Code Pink, spoke to Drop Site News, and said she was disappointed that Gaza and the U.S. bombings in Yemen were not agenda items for the protests.
She attended a rally in Washington, D.C., and told the site that the protests are short-sighted because “if we keep having all these wars around the world, will never have the money that we need to take care of people’s needs.”
TRENDPOST: Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., spoke at the rally in D.C., and told the crowd that the U.S. Founding Fathers wrote a Constitution that begins with “We the People,” not “We the dictators.”