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Palo Alto resident Offir Gutelzon leads massive Bay Area protest against Benjamin Netanyahu

Original post made on Sep 19, 2023

Palo Alto based entrepreneur Offir Gutelzon led a massive, five-part protest yesterday, Sept. 18, across San Jose, Fremont and Union Square San Francisco, to boo Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's meeting with Elon Musk.

Read the full story here Web Link posted Tuesday, September 19, 2023, 8:38 AM

Comments (8)

Posted by dak
a resident of Midtown
on Sep 19, 2023 at 11:13 am

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So the same crowd that protests against the judicial reform are smearing Israel as an apartheid state. Nice.

They are the real autocrats who insist that the "right" minority rule over the majority.


Posted by What Will They Do Next
a resident of Old Palo Alto
on Sep 19, 2023 at 11:31 am

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"Around 2000" is not massive.


Posted by Comment
a resident of Downtown North
on Sep 19, 2023 at 12:35 pm

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Congratulations and hurrah protestors! Israeli democracy IS under threat. Bibi belongs in prison. And apartheid there is a reality.

The world needs to join this protest just as we need to protect our own.


Posted by Spectator at Large
a resident of Leland Manor/Garland Drive
on Sep 19, 2023 at 5:22 pm

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@What Will They Do Next

If it were Donald Trump he would call it YUGE!

More power to this group. Glad you showed up to protest.


Posted by Novelera
a resident of Midtown
on Sep 19, 2023 at 6:49 pm

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Excellent! Bibi should be in jail. From what I've read he only stays in power by catering to religious extremists and the "settlers" illegally seizing land. He has no business getting any welcome here in the U.S. and the huge foreign aid given to Israel should be curtailed until this judicial scam is stopped.


Posted by MyFeelz
a resident of another community
on Sep 20, 2023 at 3:00 pm

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People should be more worried about Musk's takeover of Twitter. instead of Netanyahu coming to kiss his ring. Why twitter is still a presence in social media is a mystery to me. Oh it's not twitter now, it's "X". Musk is in the process of myspacing twitter but at the same time, trying to cultivate a rareified air of status among snobs who can afford a blue dot. While it's still there, people will come to kiss his butt and try to get his global userlist. Birds of a feather flock together. Elon & Bibi are disgusting examples of the worst kind of humanity.


Posted by Noel
a resident of Crescent Park
on Sep 25, 2023 at 3:23 pm

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Home demolitions, land theft, illegal settlements, settler pogroms, sniper murders of jounalists and peaceful protesters and Apartheid are all imoral and illegal under international law. But sadly none of that is what these people are protesting about. They are not protesting the thousands of Palestinian innocents slaughtered in Israel's various "mowing the lawn" attacks of Gaza or the fact that more than a million Gazans live on the edge of starvation and without adequate access to clean drinking water as a deliberate result of these attacks. No, they are protesting that the dismantling of the Israeli court system (which has almost never functioned to protect Palestinian rights) will turn Israel into an immoral country, as if it ever has been. Yes, Netanyahu belongs in prison, but much more so for the numerous war crimes he has committed than for the petty bribery with which he is charged and is also guilty of doing. And yes, Netanyahu's cronies in government are openly violently racist but for the Palestinians, how much worse is that than the decades of prime ministers who bulldozed their homes, stole their land, broke their childrens arms for throwing rocks, sent snipers to shoot harmless protesters and committed numerous other violent and illegal crimes against the Palestinian people, but did so under some guise of "legitimacy" given them in part by the Israeli voters now protesting on the streets?


Posted by Noel
a resident of Crescent Park
on Sep 25, 2023 at 10:43 pm

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If you are interested in learning more about life for Palestinians under apartheid, check out this article by a Jewish American Israeli who is married to a Palestinian and lives in the occupied West Bank:Web Link


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