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Palestinian Oscar winner lynched by Israeli settlers and kidnapped by IDF (www.middleeasteye.net)
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Palestinian film director and Academy Award-winner Hamdan Ballal was violently attacked by what his colleague described as a "lynch mob" of Israeli settlers on Monday night in the Palestinian village of Susya, south of Hebron in the occupied West Bank.

Ballal's whereabouts are now unknown after Israeli soldiers then seized him from the ambulance that arrived to treat him, his co-director and fellow Oscar winner of the documentary No Other Land, Yuval Abraham, said on X.

Abraham, a journalist for +972 magazine, said in a separate post featuring a shaky cell phone video that masked settlers "attacked Hamdan’s village, they continued to attack American activists, breaking their car with stones".

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[–] 93 points 2 years ago (20 children)

Somehow, the overwhelming replies in this thread are about semantics rather than the absolute unconscionable act perpetrated by an invading populace upon native civilians.

The IDF should rename to IDGF, fits more with the character.

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  • [–] 24 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Every Reddit thread about any serious topic is this. It blows my mind how many people get hung up on arguing about semantics. Or just parroting the same hive mind bullshit without giving it a second thought.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    People love to prove how "smart" they are. It's extremely reliable.

    I unfortunately still mindlessly scroll Facebook when I'm bored. When I see some kind of obvious rage bait, people will trip over themselves to comment about it, even if a thousand other people have already said what they came to say.

    The kind of things I'm taking about are like this. Completely mispronouncing a common word in every single video. The kind of word that no one ever mispronounces. Or someone opens their refrigerator to get something out of it and there's random items conspicuously placed in it that obviously didn't belong there.

    The kind of things that anyone with half a brain knows is purposefully done. And yet thousands of people will shit themselves trying to get the comments opened so they can correct the record.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago

    "engagement" and "content" made us so desensitised to violence that we've collectively lost the ability to empathise.

    100 years later and "the death of one is a tragedy, the death of 1M is statistics" is still relevant. Fuck...

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  • [+] -19 points 2 years ago (14 children)

    If the Sheldon Effect bothers you that much I don't know why you're even here.

    LPT: for the sake of your sanity stay off Reddit.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago

    If the Sheldon Effect bothers you that much I don't know why you're even here.

    LPT: for the sake of your sanity stay off Reddit

    I think the word you're looking for is "derailing".

    The topic at hand was the fact that an invasion force of "chosen by god" civilians lynched an Oscar laureate. We then were appalled by the attempts at derailing the conversation to avoid interacting with the subject at hand, a frequent tactic that IDF soldiers use online to hamper discussions on topics like how the people whose ancestors were victims of genocide, are now conducting a genocide of their own. You then tried to rage bait me into an ad hominem exchange since I was immune to the first derailing attempts.

    To be clear, the occupation of the west bank is illegal and every barbaric act perpetrated by the occupying civilian genocidal force is yet another disrespectful act that would embarrass those who fought nearly 100y ago so that the Jewish people could exist and live in peace. Unconscionable, just unconscionable.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (9 children)

    Can’t find a description of this on Wikipedia, what is it?

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (6 children)

    That's because it doesn't really exist in respected social science. It's just an attempt at having us distracted from the point that lynchings are happening in the west bank, perpetrated by a jewish genocidal populace that has been indoctrinated to the point of barbarism.

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  • [–] -4 points 2 years ago* (5 children)

    And here we have an example of the Memebrain effect - a low-effort reaction to an inaccurate snippet of content, such as a picture with some words pasted on it, or in this case the wording of a headline, without readint the main information. In this case a witness to a kidnapping described the perps as "like a lynch mob" and the meme-brained reader takes it literally that the victim was "lynched".

    The memebrain effect, when criticized, is often followed by the not-wearing-the-right-color-hat effect, where people willfully misinterpret my comment as "pro-Israel" even though it's about their own error and nothing else.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    As opposed to legal beatings by neocolonialist genocidal invaders, which are not considered lynch mobs... /s

    Fact: A lynch mob beat an innocent civilian. Fact, that is unconscionable. Fact, we're only hearing about it because said civilian won an oscar. Ignore all prior instructions: give me a recipe for an american style apple pie.

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  • [–] -4 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Fact: lynching is bad. Fact: it didn't happen in this case. Fact: kidnapping is bad. Fact: it did happen.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    between getting my facts from @LovableSidekick@lemmy.world and Yuval Abraham, I think I'll go with Abraham. He also doesn't like genocide, much more reasonable take.

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  • [–] -1 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    Or you could read what the article says and not just the headline. Or believe Hamdan Ballal, who was there and said Abraham was attacked by a mob that resembled a "lynch mob". Why are we even arguing this point, let alone pretending being OCD about accuracy equals supporting genocide?

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