Israel/Palestine Thread

Genocidal language in support of Israel is accepted discourse outside of Israel,particularly among christian zionists in America. Is it that genocidal language doesn't really matter to some, rather it depends who is uttering it.

Here's more food for thought:

RSF / Reporters Without Borders - World Press Freedom Index
https://rsf.org/en/index?year

EXTRACTS ONLY

In 2026 IRELAND ranks 7 out of 180 (they aren’t killing journalists) :

“The overall climate for press freedom in Ireland is positive, with journalists able to work freely and without interference. Concerns remain, however, about the future funding of the media, including public service broadcaster RTÉ.

In 2026 ISRAEL ranks 115 out of 180 :

Safety
"Press freedom, media pluralism and editorial independence have been increasingly restricted in Israel since the start of the war in Gaza, on 7 October 2023, following the deadly Hamas attack. Close to 220 journalists have been killed by the Israeli army — including 70 slain due to their work — in its offensive on the Strip. Disinformation campaigns and repressive laws have multiplied in Israel, and pressure on Israeli journalists has intensified. 

In 2026, PALESTINE ranks 156 out of 180

“Palestine has become the most dangerous state for journalists in the world, with more than 220 reporters killed in Gaza by the Israeli army since 7 October 2023, including at least 70 who were likely killed due to their work. In the West Bank, where journalists were already the victims of abuses by both the Palestinian Authority and the Israeli occupying forces, arrests and obstructions to their work have intensified.

Interestingly, in 2026 China ranks 178/180.

Does that number include "journalists" who were actually working for Hamas though?

People like Abdallah Aljamal, who wrote multiple articles about an IDF operation in Nuseirat, where he himself was holding three hostages in his home. In reality the IDF actions were related to their search for the hostages. Aljamal's death was initially reported by pro Hamas sources like Rami Abdu of Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor as another journalist killed by the IDF, with no mention of the hostages rescued in the operation.

https://nypost.com/2024/06/09/world-news/gaza-journalist-held-3-hostages-in-his-home-with-his-family-israeli-military-says/

(His father, who was also killed in the rescue, was a well-known doctor and imam who went on working as normal, while his wife and son monitored the hostages. Another doctor murdered by Israel? Yet it took over two years for DWB/MSF to admit that hospitals were being used by Hamas)

There are many more cases of so-called journalists actually being operatives for Hamas or other islamist groups:

Just one:

There's a whole list here:

Two points on that:

Starting a war and then losing it does lead to deaths among your own civilians - especially when using those civilians as human shields is a significant part of your strategy. That's what happens in war.

But also, we already know that the profiles of those who died is mainly of teenage or adult males - which, given that Hamas uses boys as fighters indicates that the IDF was not just killing civilians randomly, much less targeting them.

Of course according to Hamas, there wasn't a single death from natural causes in the past two years, never mind deaths of fighters. Only women and children. Except that wasn't true.

https://www.euronews.com/2025/04/03/hamas-run-health-ministry-quietly-removes-thousands-from-gaza-death-toll-researchers-find

But did you not read they were being used as human shields?
There’s nothing really the IDF can do apart from shoot them all multiple times.

Those pesky ambulances used medical workers as their human shields.

Some, unfortunately, will never see Palestinians deaths as being of concern.

Gas. @volchitsa you have consistently attributed the opposition to the mass murder/ starvation/ destruction of tens of thousands of innocent men women and children in Gaza as "antisemetic ", which does nothing only implicate all Jews, Israeli or otherwise, in a genocide that virtually all independent aid orgs / human rights groups/ international investigators etc etc are telling us is happening.

Are we to believe your cynical misuse of a whole religion has evaporated and you are now defending Jews, rather than using them as collective human shields to cover for the crimes of wanted war criminals?

I agree with your sentiment in this story btw - but why the change of heart? Is it because the victim is a Christian Nun and not some poor Muslim lady from Gaza?

Hopefully Israel will actually take a legal case against the New York Times. It would be wonderful to have Israel's sexual torture of Palestinians, detained without a charge, in prisons discussed in open court.

"Israel" has announced it will pursue legal action against The New York Times following the publication of a column documenting widespread sexual abuse of Palestinian prisoners, in what media law experts are calling a legally baseless and politically motivated move.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar jointly instructed the initiation of a defamation lawsuit against The New York Times on Thursday, targeting a column by journalist Nicholas Kristof published earlier this week.

The two officials described the piece as among the most damaging falsehoods ever printed against Israel" in the modern press, accusing it of perpetuating a "blood libel" and drawing a false equivalence between Hamas and Israeli soldiers.

“Already ascendant, the Israeli far right has used the Hamas-led attack on Israel, along with the cover of Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza, to ramp up attacks on Palestinians in the West Bank and seize more land.”

Any Peace Accord must enforce the right of return to Palestine for the displaced.