Woke Fatigue: Socialist Party’s Pro-Hamas Protest in San Antonio Fails to Draw Crowd

SAN ANTONIO, Texas — In another sign of woke-fatigue, a weekend Pro-Hamas protest organized by the Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL) only managed to draw about a dozen supporters in Texas’ second-largest city. The Saturday afternoon protest above the city’s famous riverwalk garnered little attention from the hundreds of tourists visiting the Alamo city’s famous nearby attractions.

Despite having a population of nearly 1.5 million residents in San Antonio to draw from, the protest advertised on social media by the local PSL chapter failed to attract hardly any socialist activists. The event was billed as an emergency protest to stop the starvation in Gaza and to call for an end to all U.S. aid to Israel.

Breitbart Texas observed the downtown San Antonio protest attended by a small group of people, some sporting the Palestinian Keffiyeh, carrying signs that read “Stop Starving Gaza.” Despite the loud anti-Israel chants magnified by a bullhorn, passersby offered the group of protesters little attention on the busy Saturday afternoon.

One member of the group of a dozen protesters was dressed in a dark costume, using a keffiyeh scarf as a head covering, and waved the Palestinian flag. Several members of the group offered speeches to the other demonstrators about the ongoing conflict in Gaza. The lack of attention received by the group may likely be attributable to the recent debunking of Hamas propaganda blaming the food insecurity in Gaza on Israel.

The food insecurity issues in Gaza are now known to be primarily caused by the substandard distribution of available food supplies by the United Nations and other humanitarian groups, rather than the availability of food rations in the region. Hamas and other armed groups have routinely attacked the humanitarian food convoys, further complicating the effort to push aid into Gaza…

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