Some disowning BLM after chapter endorses Hamas

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Supporters of the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement expressed distaste for the organization on Tuesday after a BLM chapter shared a statement supporting Palestinian people.

In a statement posted on social media, the BLM Grassroots chapter responded to the ongoing fighting between Hamas militants and Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) saying, "As the world is faced with deep questions about self-determination, as well all desire and pray for a world of peace, we must stand unwaveringly on the side of the oppressed. When a people have been subject to decades of apartheid and unimaginable violence, their resistance must not be condemned, but understood as a desperate act of self-defense."

"Black Lives Matter Grassroots stands in solidarity with our Palestinian family who are currently resisting 57 years of settler colonialism and apartheid. As Black people continue the fight to end militarism and mass incarcerations in our own communities, let us understand the resistance in Palestine as an attempt to tear down the gates of the world's biggest open air prison," the statement said. "As a radical Black organization grounded in abolitionist ideals, we see clear parallels between Black and Palestinian people."

Shortly after the statement was issued, a number of other social media users spoke out against Black Lives Matter.

Wow, I used to support BLM. I don't know if I can anymore. Do you guys even know what happened?" X user Aryeh Levine wrote.

Wow I've supported this movement from the beginning. Phone calls. Emails. Money. Wow wow. Barbaric murders. Women children raped and paraded named. infants taken from there parents. Elderly murdered lived on Facebook. Raped and beaten women being sat on and spat on. That's justified? I'm for human life. Whatever you are. Blown away," one comment said.

Another comment said, "As someone who has followed and supported this account for a long time, I find this post to be incredibly miseducated. I do not condone the way that the Palestinian people are treated, but this is not their fight. This is an act of aggression by an antisemitic terrorist organization, Hamas, that pre-exists the current conflict between Israel and Palestine. You can stand up against terrorists and still support a peaceful solution to the conflict in Gaza. Your explanation of what is currently happening is incredibly off base and, quite frankly, offensive."

Other social media users also responded to a post from BLM Chicago that said "I stand with Palestine."

Former White House official Ari Fleischer wrote, "This is disgusting. BLM celebrates murder. Never forget this."

X user Aviva Klompas wrote, "Utterly sickening from Black Lives Matter in Chicago. And they have used an image of a paraglider like the ones who swooped into an Israeli music festival and murdered, raped, mutilated, and paraded beaten civilians back to Gaza."

This is one BLM chapter, not the entire BLM movement. Let's wait and see what, if anything, other BLM chapters have to say, and also the BLM org as a whole.

The Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation has not condemned the posting by the Chicago org.

Both BLM Chicago and BLM Washington D.C. took down the posts following intense publish backlash.

The statement (as quoted above) doesn't mention Hamas or their most recent attacks. It merely supports the Palestinian right of resistance to occupation, in generalised terms. They could be referring to Hamas i suppose but it's inconclusive,

Considering the timing many if not most are concluding resistance refers to terrorism.

The statement (as quoted above) doesn't mention Hamas or their most recent attacks. It merely supports the Palestinian right of resistance to occupation, in generalised terms. They could be referring to Hamas i suppose but it's inconclusive,

BLM need to check social media, The arab community were against their movement in 2020.

Not just them, there's a real morbid comedy in seeing various LGBT+ groups rallying with signs like "queers for Palestine!" knowing what kind of reception they'd get from the people they're supporting.

The kids marching around in these protests might be too young to remember what ISIS did to LGBTQI+ people
HAMAS, Hezbollah, Islamic brotherhood, Taliban or ISIS...doesn't bode well for coming out of the closet

Eh, I sadly personally know quite a few of these people, they're middle aged like me, they're just captured by an ideology that flattens everything into simplistic oppressor and oppressed categories and sort of breaks down when their designated oppression totems are themselves problematic. There's a really clear example going on right now in iirc Michigan, where leftists cheered a Muslim majority city council getting elected, only to be shocked when they weren't on board with all the LGBT+ stuff.

As long as I have lived America has been criticized for being myopic in its view of the world with plenty of merit. This is what is going on here, they are viewing the Israeli-Palestinian conflict through the lens of America’s racial politics.