The Gaza War evokes Vietnam's struggle and its previous strong solidarity with Palestine. Because of the horror of the Israeli war on Gaza and the escalating death toll, Vietnamese youth began to raise their voices in support of the Palestinians.
Many of Vietnam's youth are focused on achieving success in their country's fast-growing free market economy. Many are inspired by Israel's startup culture while knowing little about the dark side of Israel's long occupation of Palestinian territories. But the decades-long relationship between the two countries has been overshadowed by the recent promotion of Israeli business culture to a younger generation of Vietnamese.