A series of striking videos have emerged from the Gaza Strip over the last week. Crowds of Palestinians, chanting slogans against Hamas, have taken to the streets in a rare public display of dissent. Some have criticised the mainstream Western media for treating these images with restraint, claiming a missed opportunity to spotlight what could be interpreted as a grassroots uprising against a regime they have long failed to critically interrogate.
Others have dared to raise the point: where are the Palestinian ‘solidarity’ activists now? The same keffiyeh-clad groups that filled the streets of London, Paris, and New York waving PLO flags and denouncing Israel as ‘genocidal’, seem conspicuously quiet when confronted with images of ordinary Palestinian Arabs in Gaza protesting not against Israel, but against Hamas itself.
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