Why aren’t there bigger anti-war protests?

I have been on a few anti-war, free Palestine protests in central London. I stopped going to Starbucks, I stopped drinking Diet Coke and I don’t buy Reebok shoes any more. I have liked many social media posts, commented on them and started to follow new groups who have one shared goal. But despite the encouragement of seeing many decent people around the world of different racial and religious backgrounds protest, boycott and even take direct action against the powers that be, when I see images of dead children, I wonder why there are not more people protesting. The protests in London were big, but surely with such horrific, irrefutable evidence of suffering, they should be huge, with millions of people. The recent protests in Turkey, inspired by the arrest and incarceration of one man, are unprecedented and perhaps justified – but where is even one huge passionate protest for the thousands of dead children of another Muslim nation? I expected more from the wider world Muslim populations (including myself) and the world in general. Reading the piece by Rashid Khalidi (Does Columbia still merit the name of a university?, 25 March), it made me think of another reasonable question: do humans still merit the name of humanity? Mehmet Onur Guildford, Surrey • Do you have a photograph you’d like to share with Guardian readers? If so, please click here to upload it. A selection will be published in our Readers’ best photographs galleries and in the print edition on Saturdays.