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OP is protesting against Amazon providing infrastructure for selecting targets for the IDF to bomb. I'm not aware of Amazon providing services to Hamas, so that the OP is not protesting there isn't that surprising, nor does it imply that OP isn't protesting against Hamas attack.

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Speaking about pro-palestinian activism in general, not particularly OP, who I don't know:

If one is an activist, a group commits atrocities and there's no private business related to them, then one sits and do nothing?

The people I see protesting against Israeli invasion of Gaza I failed to see protesting Hamas brutal and inhumane attacks weeks earlier. It seems to me they were silent.

I'm having a really hard time understanding the logic of this kind of activism. It seems to me ideology driven, not humanitarian.

There's nothing to protest against - the government does not support or aid Hamas, and corporations do not support or aid Hamas.

What change would the protests do?

So if it's not possible to boycott an American or Israeli business, there's nothing an activist could do to manifest his support to humanity when innocent people are slaughtered inside their houses by savages?

What support, specifically, would you like to see?

Directly after the attacks the government was overwhelmingly in support of Israel. People do not protest when what they want is already happening.

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