Comments on: What if they held an anti-Israel protest, and nobody showed (part 3)? http://www.yourish.com/2007/06/12/3280 Cutting straight to the point Mon, 13 Feb 2012 02:14:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 By: Michael Lonie http://www.yourish.com/2007/06/12/3280/comment-page-1#comment-26818 Michael Lonie Thu, 14 Jun 2007 02:17:41 +0000 http://www.yourish.com/2007/06/12/3280#comment-26818 Joanne, Such people are delusional about what is going on in Israel. Why would one expect them to not be delusional about their numbers too? Especially if they exist in a hothouse echo chamber, as they probably do. Joanne,
Such people are delusional about what is going on in Israel. Why would one expect them to not be delusional about their numbers too? Especially if they exist in a hothouse echo chamber, as they probably do.

]]> By: Joanne http://www.yourish.com/2007/06/12/3280/comment-page-1#comment-26787 Joanne Tue, 12 Jun 2007 18:37:14 +0000 http://www.yourish.com/2007/06/12/3280#comment-26787 Actually, I saw some photos (one of them panoramic) of the event, and there didn't seem to be anywhere near even 3,000 people. I read an estimate of about a thousand demonstrators in the crowd [sorry, I forget where I read that]. Seriously, photos of the event showed a big, yawning expanse of open lawn with a smallish crowd hovering at one end. It looked more like a garden party or a kid's birthday party. As one commenter said, "where's the clown, where's the guy with the balloons"? I think that the demonstration will probably backfire. What you see is a modest crowd and a vast emptiness behind them. The demonstration only showed very graphically its lack of support. It was almost a mockery. The organizers should've been more realistic about their likely attendance. They should have better gauged beforehand who intended to come, and then they should've picked a public space more suitable to the size of their crowd. Even a crowd of 1,000 can look impressive in a more constrained space. Actually, I saw some photos (one of them panoramic) of the event, and there didn’t seem to be anywhere near even 3,000 people. I read an estimate of about a thousand demonstrators in the crowd [sorry, I forget where I read that].

Seriously, photos of the event showed a big, yawning expanse of open lawn with a smallish crowd hovering at one end. It looked more like a garden party or a kid’s birthday party. As one commenter said, “where’s the clown, where’s the guy with the balloons”?

I think that the demonstration will probably backfire. What you see is a modest crowd and a vast emptiness behind them. The demonstration only showed very graphically its lack of support. It was almost a mockery.

The organizers should’ve been more realistic about their likely attendance. They should have better gauged beforehand who intended to come, and then they should’ve picked a public space more suitable to the size of their crowd. Even a crowd of 1,000 can look impressive in a more constrained space.

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