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The only one i've seen recently was a cursed Palestinian-flag-over-top-a-Ukrainian-flag. Looked horrible and confused me for a second, especially since the flags weren't going the same direction.
There's the a fair amount of people who actually support both Ukraine and Palestine. They're probably also constantly confused with how the world is moving.
It’s not that complex. Pro-Ukrainian propaganda was significantly more successful than Pro-Israeli propaganda. Ukraine was a flash in the pan for many people, whereas the Palestinian genocide was broadcasted directly to the eyes of many people. Russia and Ukraine at least had the optics of a war with two armies fighting each other. Many people don’t see Hamas as Palestine’s standing army.
They'll figure it out once they stop confusing window cleaner for juice.
I would say it’s an extremely small group of people who aren’t very politically engaged that support both. The more into geopolitics you are, the more likely you are to see the dividing line between global south and global north and know to back one side (ie, support Israel + Ukraine or support Palestine + Russia). It’s only the most surface level passive people who could hold the contradictory position of supporting Ukraine + Palestine
I know a number of Ukraine + Palestine supporters. They’re soft on Palestine, because Hamas Scary, but support a single state end to the occupation. I think it’s a default woke-lib position, to support the small against the large, the invaded against the invader, and the colonized against the colonist. It betrays a misunderstanding of the facts, but I don’t think it’s hard for well meaning people to get there.