Highly-abridged excerpt from the original article.

How pro-Israel trolls exploit the people of Sudan and the DRC

Barry Malone

Middle East Eye: 28 May 2026

While it is right to call out a lack of attention on forgotten conflicts, bad faith arguments reduce African victims to pawns in a propaganda war.

Those who defend Israel’s genocide in Gaza have a script.

“They use civilians as human shields in Gaza” is a common line. “The Palestinians shouldn’t have started a war they couldn’t win” is another. “The Israeli military is the most moral army in the world” is among the most absurd.

There are questions, too: “Do you condemn Hamas?” “Do you defend what happened on 7 October?” “Does Israel have a right to exist?” They are all traps.

Here is one, though, that is a little newer and centres on events happening far from Gaza and the occupied West Bank. It’s this: “What about Sudan and Congo?”

The implication is clear. You only attend protest marches about what is going on in Gaza because you want to blame Israel. The accusation is often accompanied by the refrain: “No Jews, no news.” And that’s what is at the heart of the charge.

If you don’t protest against the conflicts in Sudan or the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), you are antisemitic, and you are only moved to care about the Palestinian people because it serves your anti-western agenda.

The people who make that argument couldn’t care less about the conflicts in Sudan or the DRC, Yemen, Ethiopia, Rwanda, Myanmar. Searches of their posts on social media almost uniformly reveal that they have never mentioned either place, unless it is to score disingenuous points against the pro-Palestine movement.

What protesters in Britain, the US and elsewhere are demanding is that their governments stop diplomatically and materially supporting a genocide in their name.

Those who invoke Sudan and the DRC want that to be ignored. They want to scrub politics from the movement, and they want to render Gaza a tragedy with no cause.

It’s easy to see why much of this detail slips under the radar with the general public - even among those who have been driven to activism for the first time over Gaza.

But in a twist the pro-Israel bad-faith actors didn’t see coming, they appear to have partly provoked a good-faith response. Placards now appear at anti-genocide marches proclaiming: “Free Palestine. Free Sudan. Free Congo.”

“What about Sudan and Congo?” is not a plea for equal attention to victims of war. It is an attempt to strip solidarity of political meaning; to apply a moral test you can’t pass. And, above all else, it is an attempt to stigmatise criticism of Israel.

No Jews, not news

13 minutes ago, unblocktheplanet said:

“What about Sudan and Congo?” is not a plea for equal attention to victims of war. It is an attempt to strip solidarity of political meaning; to apply a moral test you can’t pass. And, above all else, it is an attempt to stigmatise criticism of Israel.

Its a legitimate question which no one seems to be able to answer .

Why do many people solely focus on Israel and are not at all bothered by real genocide going on elsewhere on the planet ?

Why do you only focus on Israel ?

You arent bothered about Palestinians , you have no concern when Hamas kills Palestinians .

Why do you only focus on Israel ?

The answer is because you are Anti-semites .

Articles like the above are the usual denials .

No Jews No News

41 minutes ago, Yellowtail said:

No Jews, not news

Maybe you should read the article, Yag, before you troll.

23 minutes ago, Jingthing said:

No Jews No News

Troll again. Not paying attention.

Let's drag it out in the open. Who on this forum considers me an antisemite, raise your hands.

6 minutes ago, unblocktheplanet said:

Let's drag it out in the open. Who on this forum considers me an antisemite, raise your hands.

Its ingrained Anti Semitism .

It was normal and acceptable when you were younger .

Still have the mindset that Jews control the World, the media, the banks and that Jews are responsible for two World wars, the Holocust and most other thing .

They cannot change , like the UKs Labour party, its ingrained in them

45 minutes ago, unblocktheplanet said:

Troll again. Not paying attention.

Not buying in to propaganda you posted.

45 minutes ago, unblocktheplanet said:

Let's drag it out in the open. Who on this forum considers me an antisemite, raise your hands.

I don't know your heart but much of what you post can be seen in that light.