Post by Marga Bouwens

🕊️ To Those with Power, Platforms, and Purpose—How do you Stay Silent? 📌Why isn’t this on the 8 o’clock news in the Netherlands? 📌Why does my country continue trading—yes, even in weapons—while war crimes go unsanctioned? 📌Why do European leaders, like @kajakallas, yesterday still say they ´see no solution´, no collective action, while genocide unfolds before our eyes? Why? 🙈 🙉 🙊 And then I ask myself: 📌How can they pray on Sunday morning, eat their croissants, take their children out into the fresh air from their sunlit homes with Wi-Fi-controlled washing machines? 📌How do they sleep at night? 📌How do they look in the mirror on Monday morning? How? 💤 🙈 🛏️ These aren’t rhetorical questions. They’re a call to conscience. To journalists: your silence shapes public perception. To policymakers: your inaction costs lives. To activists: your voice is needed more than ever. Many thanks! 📌I’m posting this because silence is complicity. Because I still believe in humanity, even when it feels like it’s slipping away. 📢 We must speak. We must act. We must demand accountability. Thank you to everyone reading this. If you're a policymaker, journalist, or activist—this is not just a post. It's an invitation. 📌 Policymakers: What mechanisms are in place to hold perpetrators accountable? What’s stopping us from using them? 📌 Journalists: What stories are being buried, and why? Who decides what makes the headlines? 📌 Activists: How can we unite across borders to amplify the voices of those silenced? 📢I welcome your thoughts, your expertise, your courage. Let’s not just scroll past injustice. Let’s confront it—together. 📢If you know organizations or individuals who should see this, please tag them. If you have resources, share them. If you feel something—say something. Many thanks to #HazemHelmeAbuAnza. Heartfelt thanks to all who refuse to stay silent, who keep going, who continue to report—sometimes at the risk of their own lives. Remember: There´s Always Hope! 🌹 🍀 TAGS: @AmnestyInternational @HumanRightsWatch @AlJazeeraEnglish @ICJ @UNHumanRights @BuildPalestine @MedicalAidForPalestinians @ReportersWithoutBorders @EuropeanParliament @TheIntercept @DemocracyNow @CAIRNational @PremierSchoof @DeRodeLijn #HumanRights #JusticeForPalestine #EndTheSilence #MediaResponsibility #PoliticalAccountability #LinkedInActivism #SpeakTruth #WakeUpEurope #NoMoreExcuses #Solidarity #PalestineGenocide #ActNow #JournalismMatters #PolicyWithPrinciples #Accountability #MediaEthics #PolicyChange #ActivismWorks #LinkedInDialogue #JusticeForPalestine #GlobalSolidarity #RubenBrekelmans #DilanYesilgoz #CarolinevanderPlas #VVD #BBB #DickSchoof #Nieuwsuur #NOS #PubliekeOmroep #ChrisStoffer #SGP #MirjamBikker #ChristenUnie #HenriBontenbal #CDA #KatiPiri #DENK #StephanVanBaarle #EstherOuwehand #MichielServaes #PartijVoorDeDieren #ja21 #GeertWilders #OxfamNovib #BenjaminNetanyahu #warcrimes #genocide