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It is different in Central and Eastern Europe, as the battlefield is much closer and we have extensive experience with being under the Russian yoke in the past.

It is different in Central and Eastern Europe, as the battlefield is much closer and we have extensive experience with being under the Russian yoke in the past. But I think that any movement can have just one massive cause celebre, and the Palestinians cornered the market for that cause among the Western Left. Already in Spain, there is barely a Ukrainian flag to be seen among the hundreds of Palestinian flags. It works the other way as well, former Soviet Bloc nations usually don't care about the Palestinians at all, or are pro-Israeli. The size of a local Muslim community probably matters, too. Muslims care about their brethren in faith, at least verbally. In the recent General Election in the UK, the most Islamized constituencies punished neutral Labour candidates and turned out heavily in favour of pro-Palestinian candidates of third parties. It cost Labour some previously left-wing seats, though it didn't threaten their majority in the UK as a whole, as the Muslim population is highly concentrated in a few urban areas and can influence only several seats country-wide.

bamboozled 2y ago
Well I'm talking about countries like the USA, Australia, Japan, where people are very far away from both battlefields yet seem extremely concerned about Gaza and almost not slightly concerned or informed about Ukraine, Uighur and other current genocides. I jut think Iran and terrorists put way more focus on information campaigns than democratic nations do. It's not in our DNA to tell stories so we're behind the eight ball. These information wars are scarily powerful though, the number of "useful idiots" per day seems to be getting bigger all the time. I've been reading articles about the western world finally waking up to it. In a way, social media seems to be a backdoor into our world, but it's often outlawed in dictatorships and autocracies...I wonder why? :)

bamboozled 2y ago

Well I'm talking about countries like the USA, Australia, Japan, where people are very far away from both battlefields yet seem extremely concerned about Gaza and almost not slightly concerned or informed about Ukraine, Uighur and other current genocides. I jut think Iran and terrorists put way more focus on information campaigns than democratic nations do. It's not in our DNA to tell stories so we're behind the eight ball. These information wars are scarily powerful though, the number of "useful idiots" per day seems to be getting bigger all the time. I've been reading articles about the western world finally waking up to it. In a way, social media seems to be a backdoor into our world, but it's often outlawed in dictatorships and autocracies...I wonder why? :)