On Friday evening, a group of protesters gathered in Birmingham near the corporate campus of Drummond Company Inc., an Alabama-based coal producer.
Usually when you hear about a leftist protest at a coal-mining company, you’d think it has to do with corporate profits or climate change hysterics.
But not this time.
According to Chris Izor, one of the protesters, they were there to call attention to coal shipments to Israel. They even went as far holding up signs that say “Drummond Fuels Genocide” that were painted green, red and black of the Palestinian flag.
Yes, this group is upset that an Alabama-based coal company is selling coal to America’s best ally in the Middle East, a beacon of Western Civilization in the region, and a country that’s at war with an evil terrorist group that massacred over 1,000 innocent Israeli civilians.
Beyond the obvious, let’s go over the facts of why it’s completely irresponsible to call Israel’s war against Hamas a genocide.
Since May, the Israel-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) has distributed more than 100 million meals to Gazans.
Overall, Israel has helped bring into Gaza approximately 96,000 trucks containing nearly 1.5 million tons of food, 46,000 tons of medical supplies, 60,000 tons of water, and around 170,000 tons of shelter equipment.
If Israel is trying to cause a famine or commit a genocide, they’re apparently very bad at it.
But these facts don’t stop protesters from spouting utter garbage.
“As members of the community, we feel some responsibility to make sure that companies based in our state aren’t endorsing, supporting, funding or fueling human rights abuses abroad,” Izor told Inside Climate News.
“We have a responsibility, particularly in a place that is the heart of the civil rights movement, to call it out and to be part of the movement in opposition to that.”
So not only are the protestors falsely claiming there’s a genocide – but they now say this is like the American civil rights movement.
You know who doesn’t care about civil rights of innocent civilians? Hamas.
Not only did they not care about the innocent men, women, children, and elderly they butchered on October 7th, 2023, but they also don’t allow any civil rights for the people of Gaza.
Minority rights, free speech rights, religious rights, and women’s rights don’t exist in the slightest in Hamas-controlled Gaza regions. And if you’re gay or even Jewish, you have absolutely no rights, according to them.
It really is a shame that leftist protesters are blinded by their Marxist view of the world that they can’t see the obvious.
I hope Alabama leaders continue to support Israel’s self-defense, which will ultimately be better not only for Israelis, but everyone who lives in the region, including the innocent Gazan civilians.
Yaffee is a contributing writer to Yellowhammer News and hosts “The Yaffee Program” weekdays 9-11 a.m. on WVNN. You can follow him on X @Yaffee
