World News

32315 readers

961 users here now

News from around the world!

Rules:

Please only post links to actual news sources, no tabloid sites, etc
No NSFW content
No hate speech, bigotry, propaganda, etc

founded 5 years ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

442

Israeli rappers call for death of Dua Lipa, Bella Hadid and Mia Khalifa in chart-topping anthem (www.independent.co.uk)

submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

132 comments fedilink hide all child comments

The headline has been altered by independent.

Here's a link to an archived version

https://web.archive.org/web/20240216063443/https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/news/harbu-darbu-bella-hadid-dua-lipa-mia-khalifa-b2497225.html

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 39 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

I remember it very well. They did plenty of cringe stuff including burning Dixie Chicks CDs, sure.

But I don't remember them having a chart-topping song about murdering women in other countries they were not at war with, let alone women who were citizens of nations that are their own allies.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Ok, maybe not that blunt, but it was there. The blueprint and the absurd patriotism that wandered into hostile.

France was a US ally too. And the rhetoric coming out wasn't from some young men that make pop music but from grown men politicians.

US exceptionalism is one of the factors that has led us here, is what I'm saying.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Sure. The US appetite for supporting Israel is a major factor.

But renaming your chips is not as bad as publicly calls for assassinating people being at the top of your charts.

Israel are going full mask-off genocidal. There are "blueprints" in many other genocides.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Do you really think there weren't people in the US, prominent people, people in politics and in the media, calling for the death of innocent Muslims?

There were tons of public calls for some of the most brutal forms of reprisal. There were mass burnings of the Koran.

Did you miss the bit where the US invaded an entire country that had, it turns out, nothing to do with the terrorist attack at all?

I'm not saying any of what is happening in Israel is right. Far from it. But the idea that the US is somehow in a position of moral superiority here is wild.

You seem to be adopting a revisionist past where actually all they did was rename some fries in the cafeteria of their actual government.

The absolute torrent of global hatred that spewed out through the mainstream US media dwarfed what we are currently seeing from Israel, in terms of both soft insinuation and outright calls for death.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago

But the idea that the US is somehow in a position of moral superiority here is wild.

It's not an idea I'm espousing. I think perhaps we're misunderstanding each other.