Dr. Rewaa from Gaza wrote on her FB account a few days ago: "People who support the Palestinian cause have become a danger to us as Palestinians... Is it because you support my cause that you have the right to insult us or impose dictates on us who are affected?! You choose the easiest way to scream and spread hatred as if you were the ones drinking the cup of pain... When we talk about our conditions and what we have achieved, all you care about is being heard or being noticed... You made us feel disgusted that you are being counted against us. We need minds, not people who don't think or show off, but people who really have a sense of us!
Palestinians today, especially the people of Gaza, hate slogans of all kinds because they do not promote life but rather our death. It is enough to underestimate what we are living through and belittle our feelings...
There are those who rejoice when they see women masked with keffiyeh performing sexually suggestive dances on board boats supporting Gaza, and there are those who insult us when we talk about our suffering. We are weak and exhausted, and we do not have your excessive energy for arguments or sexy extravagances that try to attract attention to yourselves and not to our suffering".
Gazans are uniquely vulnerable and must be treated differently. E.g. if someone offered a loan to a Gazan, that would be a heinous act.
But Western "pro-Palestine" Communists take this principle to infantilizing levels: 'don't listen to Gazans if they say things we don't like, e.g. condemn Hamas. They don't mean it, they're just suffering.'