Israel/Palestine Thread

Well he didn't just criticise Israel though, he literally said in a tweet that he supports hamas. I don't think people should be arrested for tweets though, unless maybe if they are a direct incitement to violence or terrorism

Woman punched in the face twice by a male scumbag police officer. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SUln5weESQ

It’s honestly unbelievable, the level of mental gymnastics from some posters here. A constant stream of posts about Israel’s right to self-defence, the poor, helpless state trapped in a hostile region, forever on the brink of extinction, somehow incapable of responsibility for its own actions. “They made us do it”

But on land theft, illegal settlements, and the forced removal of people in the West Bank, things that have absolutely nothing to do with self-defence, the strongest response is that it’s viewed “generally negatively.” And that’s it.

Spending post after post justifying mass civilian deaths as self-defence, while barely shrugging at decades of occupation and land seizure, is complete bias in what is being excused and what is being minimised. Saying something is viewed “negatively” means very little if it never actually changes the conclusions being drawn.

Attempting to justify the deaths of tens of thousands of people, most of them civilians, while treating occupation, displacement, and ethnic cleansing as some kinda footnote is completely disingenuous and hand picking to suit a narrative. Ignoring it is either a serious misunderstanding of the situation, or a willingness to excuse almost anything as long as Israel is the one doing it.

There is a constant narrative that Israel is the victim in all of this, acting reluctantly and defensively. But how do people reconcile that with the reality of ongoing land theft, settlement expansion, and the steady removal of Palestinians from parts of the West Bank. A state that is actively taking land and entrenching an occupation cannot at the same time present itself as a purely defensive party reacting to threats from outside.

Using self-defence as a permanent get-out-of-jail-free card doesn’t work when one side is the only one expanding territory, stealing land, and flattening cities. At some point, when constantly bombing, occupying, and forced displacing people, the self-defence argument stops being an explanation and starts being an excuse.

Israel is hoping to establish a military base there. It is opposite Yemen and would enable them to control access to the Suez Canal from the Asian side.

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A German journalist named Anna Liedtke reports that she was raped by Israeli forces after she was abducted from the Global Sumud Flotilla while attempting to deliver aid to starving people in Gaza this past October. Unsurprisingly, as of this writing there appears to be a near-total media blackout on Liedtke’s story in the German press.

Activist Greta Thunberg has been arrested by British police because in the UK it is considered an act of terrorism to hold a sign which says “I support the Palestine Action prisoners. I oppose genocide.” 

Zionism is the single greatest threat to free speech in the western world.

Are church bells next, no more the Angelus as they are anti-semitic!

Israeli minister Itamar Ben Gvir’s party is advancing new legislation to restrict the Islamic call to prayer in mosques.

In a statement issued on Sunday, the Jewish Power party said it was working on a bill that would ban the call to prayer unless it is licensed by the state.

Approval would depend on criteria set by the authorities, including volume levels, noise-reduction measures, a mosque’s location, its proximity to residential areas and the impact on nearby residents settlers .

Disgraceful. He should be flying to the Hague.

I got warned a number of times years ago on this very site for calling Israel a terrorist state. This one from almost 18 years ago