Why we need a grassroot revolution.

 By Pat Hackett 

In 2025 the world is watching a whole nation fighting starvation and being deprived of basic needs for survival and doing little about it. This is the continued plight of the Palestinian people from apartheid to genocide.

This is not a problem that the west including Britain is an uninvolved bystander as briefly described in the myths but a problem that our leaders are not dealing with. (If Britain can send in reconnaissance planes over Gaza why can't they send in food in defiance of the Israeli government. Britain must simultaneously stop sending military support to Israel. Britain could really step up by having a less negative role and supporting existing international laws.)

Furthermore there is not an effective pathway for the population to timely change the course of this using the accepted routes because of institutionalised failings in our politicians and main stream media preventing democracy to work effectively. 

Institutionalised failings:-

For these reasons we need a grassroot movement to pressurise and expose the institutionalised failings and mistakes that have been made.

Politicians are frightened to shout out against the Zionists and illegal Settlers because they are afraid of being labelled anti Semetic or sidelined or even expelled from the Party.

This fear seems to be true of most of the Politicians of all the main Parties in Britain.

Several years ago the Tory Party with the Press labelled those in the Labour Party who attempted to expose the apartheid in Palestine as anti-semitic. Then later the Labour Party demonised those same individuals within the Party again with the help of the main stream media. To get elected it seemed that this new Labour Party had to prove that they would fall in line with the institutionalised failings that prevailed and label anyone opposed to zionism as being anti-semitic.

It seems Politicians and the MSM have been the source of most of the myths that have been prevalent in the population and the irresponsible side of the social media that the MSM like to compare themselves with.

Previously these viewpoints where denied by writing them off as conspiratorial. Now more and more people are seeing that exposing institutionalised failings in ones own country is essential and a revolution in thinking from the grassroot level is required. 

The institutionalised failings that prevailed  labelled anyone opposed to zionism as being anti-semitic.

 Solutions are needed now.

A grassroot revolution is needed to make sure this never happens again where not only our politicians and main stream media have been inactive in preventing this but they also appear very much to have had a shared responsibility in this happening by supporting Israel or their propaganda. However it is only the politicians with the help of the media that could now stop funding and aiding the military actions of Israel, and instead act swiftly to allow aid to enter Gaza.

They must act now but sadly it seems they will only act if people continue to protest, continue to educate and continue to boycott products that support the actions of the Israeli government and those that support them. 

Don't be deceived into thinking that the politicians and media are not aware of the pressures that come from the peace protests, of the boycotting or the responsible social media but it seems they are unsure of how to respond.

Adverts about BBC Verify are one way of impling the myth that a narrative can't be false or misleading if the facts are verified. (Facts can be selective and presented with different emphasis and order of occurrence for example). These adverts can also be a way of attempting to distract you from responsible social media that may expose the false narrative.

In spite of attempts to marginalise the support for Palestine and its people this age is being defined by this conflict.

The peace protests won't stop.

The peace protesters that we see on our streets supporting Palestine around the world cannot be categorised by age, gender, colour, race, or even religion.

The peace protesters, however not only include those who march or protest in our streets, but also those who support in different ways by writing and educating on the history of the apartheid to the ongoing genocide.

When a diversity of people around the world protest in a show of humanitarian support, we might not know them personally but they aren't written off as strangers.

This diversity is the evidence that supports that this opposition to the apartheid and now attempted genocide is not going to stop until the Palestinians are free and our politicians and MSM support for the regime responsible stop and in fact change direction in providing both aid and a responsible and timely narrative.

People can protest on the streets to encourage our Politicians to take the moral and humanitarian approach but our Main Stream Media have been doing their best to undermine democracy and minimise any positive impact that these peace protests could have. 

*At first they reported politicians saying our humanitarian protests were hate marches with hate speeches.

• They reported claims that Jews were frightened to walk the streets of Britain.

• With these claims being impossible to substantiate they made protestors near invisible by ignoring weekly protests of thousands of people marching peacefully unless they believed they had spotted a scuffle. This was particularly true of making invisible any Jews that were marching with the peace protesters. That would expose some of the myths about religion and Jews as previously discussed. Furthermore the BBC ludicrously claimed impartiality. Ludicrous because being impartial when looking at the aggressor and the victim in this barbaric situation is being inhumane, but they have sunk deeper than that by not being impartial but by favouring the false narrative.

* Raising questions on debate nights can equally demonstrate how democracy is in question 

In summary 

There is lack of leadership and channels for necessary democratic change. Change therefore can only come from grassroot revolution.

Revolutions are not always peaceful but peaceful non violent actions include street protests, sharing educational material through responsible social media platforms, and also checking to see whatever we buy if it is on the boycott list. In these ways way we can turn the tide pressurizing our media and politicians to follow which they will eventually do.

The incredulous problems in Palestine are occuring at the same time us other conflicts around the world and it is clear that the belief that a nuclear deterrent will bring the world to a modern age of peaceful prosperity is far from reality. Instead we are seeing growing inequality rising in which more and more power and influence is in the hands of a tiny minority. This influence is aimed at encouraging over self ambition in society to persuade people to blame those less fortunate while at the same time the pursuit of indiscriminate growth to benefit the Oligarchs is leading to further problems of global environmental damage in pursuit and exploitation of the worlds resources in proxy wars such as Ukraine and the middle east. The horrific Palestinian issue is part of this collapse of our leaders chasing unattainable goals.

Grassroot support for the Palestinians can only grow so the humanitarian call round the world will eventually change who our leaders are. The question with great concern though is how quickly.

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