Over the past six months, skepticism surrounded calls for "ceasefire." The timing of these calls made their sincerity questionable. The individuals advocating for a ceasefire did not begin their calls immediately on October 7, Putin’s Pogrom; instead, they started the chants about a week later, when it became apparent that the “Palestine Supporters” had once again led Arab refugees on a suicide mission.

In the 2023/2024 context, the term "ceasefire” appears to apply selectively. At various rallies in the United States, Canada, and UK, there have been videos showing the individuals openly supporting terrorist groups like Hamas and Hezbollah. Video after video depicts “ceasefire” rallys chanting for slave owning Houthis. Even as these terrorist supporters are caught acting violent towards police, cheering on H@mas as a resistance group, they feign that they want peace. Who knows what they think peace looks like?

The worst of the celebrities showed how little this is about a “ceasefire” when they wore red pins reminiscent of a violent event involving an IDF reservist in 2000. This was just another piece of evidence about the impartiality behind the mindless chants. The celebrity reaction points to flat out bad ethics. Rotten people. Even if one pretends that Billie Eilish, Mark Ruffalo and other evil, rich, manipulators wore red pins without knowledge over their offensive nature, the reaction says it all. A decent person would say, “I’m sorry. I did not know this pin reminded you of that time Palestine Supporters disembowled a Jew for entering the city. When hundreds of Palestine Supporters were willing to kill their own police force just to take turns torturing and disemboweling a Jew.” Instead, these celebs gaslit the people who called them out, stayed silent or worse.

All of that said, when a “ceasefire rally” turned into a celebration after Iran shot 300+ drones and missiles at Israel, the rational people were not surprised. A day later, the only casualty of Iran’s attack was a 7 year old, Muslim Israeli, who the “ceasefire rally” have completely ignored.

tl;dr This article states the obvious for those who missed it: https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/article-797034

Response to Iran attacks shows protests were never really about ceasefire -analysis

Iranian attacks on Israel reveal anti-Israel activists' true motives, exposing calls for ceasefire as a guise to support Hamas.

By MICHAEL STARR; APRIL 14, 2024 20:09

As with the October 7 Massacre that began the Israel-Hamas War, the Iranian drone and missile attacks on Saturday night served as a 'mask off' moment for anti-Israel activists, emphasizing that the protests and advocacy for a ceasefire are not about stopping violence but aiding Hamas.

On October 7, Anti-Israel activists pulled off the thin-veneer of peace advocacy to reveal their antisemitism and violent designs, gleefully celebrating the massacre, rape, torture, execution, and kidnapping in Israeli towns.

Somali-American writer Najma Sharif infamously wrote on X "What did y'all think decolonization meant? Vibes? Papers? Essays? Losers."

One X user called Missfalasteenia said that her mother was making knafa to celebrate the pogrom.

With Israel's response and operation to eliminate Hamas, activists soon swiveled from celebration of what journalist Richard Medhust cheered as a "military operation" to claims it was not a war but a campaign of ethnic cleansing and genocide against the Palestinians.

The call for a "permanent ceasefire" became  ubiquitous among activists, Pro-Palestinian politicians, radical celebrities, and anti-Israel organizations. "Permanent ceasefire" resolutions were advanced everywhere from dozens of US city councils to the parliaments of Canada and the United Kingdom.

Calls for ceasefire simultaneously promotes violence 

Yet even as pro-Palestinian activists pleaded for an immediate ceasefire, they simultaneously promoted violence.

Rutgers University anti-Israel groups like chapters of Students for Justice in Palestine consistently called for ceasefire yet at the  Rutgers University Student Assembly town hall on April 5 chanted out for "Intifada, intifada! Long live the intifada! Globalize the intifada!"

Palestinian Youth Movement Houston has repeatedly marched in support of a ceasefire in Gaza, yet on April 5 took part in a Al-Quds Day event in which participants praised the October 7 pogrom and PYM Houston organizer Mohammad Nabulsi praised terrorists.

Within Our Lifetime (WOL) has also repeatedly engaged in massive disruptions in New York City which often included calls for ceasefire, but on March 30 WOL organizer Abdullah Akl leader activists in a chant calling for Hamas spokesman "Abu Ubaida, our beloved, strike, Strike Tel Aviv."

This is not a contradiction for pro-Palestinian activists for the same reason they are advocating for "ceasefire" rather than "peace." Peace requires compromise, recognition of Israel, and solution in which Israelis and Palestinians are able to live side-by-side -- whereas a ceasefire is temporary, and allows for hostilities to be resumed when it is in Hamas's favor, on another October 6.

Pro-Palestinian activists are trying to keep Hamas alive so they can commit another October 7, another act of Sharif's "decolonization."

This is why Rutgers activists and many others can call for ceasefire but also that "Intifada"  is the 'only solution," because ceasefire is what is needed because they "don’t want two states, we want ’48!" When WOL calls to "Lift the siege on Gaza, end the occupation in Palestine, right of return for all Palestinians, liberation for Palestine now," this is not a list of unrelated demands, but a sequence of events that they wish to unfold.

The Iranian drone strikes on Saturday served to emphasize the connection between the temporary convenience of the proposals for armistice and the continuation of October 7 when Hamas survives.

Canadian Palestinian groups like Ottawa 4 Palestine, which have called for ceasefire, cheered when they heard Iran had launched drones during a Saturday Toronto protest.

"It was never about a ceasefire," Thornhill MP Melissa Lantsman said in response.

The Saturday Toronto protest was supposed to be against genocide and the bombardment of Gaza by the IDF, but the Canadian activists made it clear that as this so-called genocide unfolds, they believe that they are advancing to their objectives.

Since the October 7 Massacre occurred, Pro-Palestinian activists have been increasingly modifying their slogan "from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free," to "from the river to the sea, Palestine is almost free." as the Canadian activists marched on Saturday, they repeated this slogan.

All it takes is the  feeling, as on October 7, that they have advanced further on their goal for them to drop the pretense that they want an end to violence for both sides.

At a Saturday Chicago conference for the March on the Democratic National Convention 2024, activists again cheered to news that Iran attacked and that Iraqi and Yemeni forces had joined in the barrage.

“From the water to the water, Palestine is Arab," and "glory to the martyrs," were the chants that filled the room after news of the Iranian attack.

As soon as these so-called anti-war activists momentarily felt their objective of "decolonialization" was within closer reach, they called for further violence.

It was never about ceasefire, it was always about the survival of Hamas, and the continuation of what they started on October 7. We shouldn't wait for another Iranian attack to realize the truth behind these cynical attempts.