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Historically civil rights protest movement have been disruptive. Protesting a genocide arguably be even more disruptive.

- Stonewall Riots (1969)

- Soweto Uprising (1976)

- Tiananmen Square protests (1989)

- Women's Suffrage Movement

- Anti-Apartheid Protests in South Africa

US politician are hostages, opposing Israel on the political stage puts your life at risk.

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That the rich digerati have taken up the cause of the ongoing Palestinian man-made famine and genocide diverges from actions of similar demographics in the past. The genocides in Rwanda and Bosnia received little notice in the global press and received little global action. This is positive progress. Even if the effect of an individual protest causes no direct change, it is important voices are heard and directed toward the political class and the owners of capital who buy influence over the political class. Unfortunately though, far-right Christian fundamentalists hold too much clout in America for mystical theological reasons and will never chide Israel for any behavior, no matter how abhorrent.

Not to agree or disagree with what you are saying here, unlike Rwanda and Bosnia, which were horrible enough, every single day of the apartheid and genocide operations are funded and aided by US. And in this instance the Nimbus program is actively complicit in it. If I were to use the trolley thing here, Rwanda and Bosnia were inaction, but this is fueling and arming the trolley to be a killing machine.

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