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He probably means he disagrees with her about this issue and didn't show up to support a pro-Palestine rally.

I'm gonna get downvoted for this but this is just wrong.

Climate change is science, not politics. We are trying to address it from multiple angles at the aame time (such as political angles, scientific angles, lifestyle angles, etc)

So the fight to make our politicians accept that climate change is sceince and not politics is, ironically, a political fight but climate change and the movments to stop it are not only political.

As Hbomb said, "People who say they don't like politics in games actually like politics in games the most, they just wish they were seeing different politics in games, and that's who Caesar's Legion is here to stroke off!"

and people told MLK Jr. similar things when he spoke out against the Vietnam War. Activists fundamentally fight for justice, and as King said, "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere." It might make sense in the short term to look the other way and conform, but when something so terrible happens due to actions from a western ally, it's good in the long term to have principles.

I think the far left and far right have a similar problem here, in that you have to be "all in" on the group's talking points, for danger of being ostracised by your peers.

Activists don't need to be one-track minded. They rarely are. I'm a vegan, socialist, anti-fascist who is against the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians and for climate justice globally. There's very strong overlap in these positions. There's a reason you won't find a lot of Republican vegans, or pro-Israel socialists.

Yes, sometimes people don't put in the time to investigate these issues, and I commend you for knowing the limits of your own knowledge, I've recommended to people before that it's better to just say "I don't know enough about this issue" instead of arriving at an under-researched position. However, it's not necessary to criticize people who are actually activists, learn about these issues, and go out into the world and advocate for change, so long as they're advocating for the right thing.

The topic being brought up might ostracize people, but it will also put the topic into people's minds. People like you might not know what the correct position is here, but you hear the constant pro-Israel propaganda pumped out by the U.S and might arrive at a subconscious conclusion that aligns with the imperial core.

If you hear people speaking out against the apartheid state of Israel, especially people who align with your values, you might be inclined to look into it more, or at the very least not automatically accept U.S propaganda on the issue.

War is terrible for the climate. All that extra fuel burning, and in machines not designed to do it efficiently

Well focus is generally useful for getting things done so one way to address climate change would be to stick to climate change discussion at climate change discussion events.

I remember we used to have anti-war rallies.

I don't recall them being painted as pro-Iraqi.

Can't we just go back to that, rather than being asked to pick sides in an issue where 99% of us have no skin in the game?

Why is is always Israel vs Palestine that gets trotted out for us? I don't remember being asked to picked sides in the Second Congo War, and that killed 5 million people over five years.

It's just divisive bullshit.