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Just to be clear, this was an elderly Palestinian man cowering under a bed who came out with his hands up and was murdered by an Israeli soldier who brags about it after.

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[–] [email protected] 240 points 6 months ago (4 children)

https://www.newtimes.co.rw/article/104771/National/dehumanisation-how-tutsis-were-reduced-to-cockroaches-snakes-to-be-killed

We've seen this before. Dehumanize a people to the point where everyone is considered scum and this is what happens.

[–] [email protected] 163 points 6 months ago (3 children)

This is literally one of the steps to building a fascist state. Israel is speed running to a fascist theocracy.

[–] [email protected] 99 points 6 months ago (1 children)

they already are. it's time for regime change

[–] [email protected] 27 points 6 months ago

Every time they start talking about it something like this happens and everyone there "rallys around the flag"

[–] [email protected] 56 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Israel has never not been a fascist state. Religion is humanity's oldest lash. Each of the abrahamic religions after Judaism is a heretical revolutionary cult against the political structures that each prior religion corrupted itself into.

[–] [email protected] 52 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

A NYT letter to the editor signed by many prominent Jews, including Einstein, more or less blatantly called Tnaut Haherut Nazis.

Haherut is now Likud, and that letter was written in 1948.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Each of the abrahamic religions after Judaism

I'm no scholar, but aren't there only two and their various sects? Would have been shorter to just name them, unless it was to tie them to their Abrahamic roots and then I'm curious why you don't include Judaism.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago (2 children)

You could argue it's all the same religion, different sects but the same exact God, just different names for it.

Or wasn't the exact same God who talked to Abraham in all of these religions?

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I'm no scholar

I wasn't going for short, I was trying to communicate a specific idea. To answer your questions read the rest of what I said.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

I did misread initially, thank you.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 6 months ago

Just what Trump and the GOP is doing with immigrants in America.

[–] [email protected] 62 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

I remember around 10 years ago, there were some videos of what the youth were taught in school, and interviews with young adults about their opinion of Palestinians.

To sum it up, they were taught they were filth, sub human, in ~grade school ages. Young adults "sympathized" that they had tough lives, but they should go elsewhere, anywhere else, and that if they didn't, they should die.

It was in the context of that anti missile defense, and living in Isreal with frequent missile/terror attacks, and how Palestinians were segregated, had long lines to enter the city, couldn't use the same roads, kids throwing rocks at cars, etc.

So yeah, this genocide is hardly surprising. They've been dehumanizing the Palestinians for generations, straight up indoctrinating their children. So the IDF murdering them like some rabid dogs was exactly the goal.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 6 months ago

Holy moly, this sounds hauntingly familiar.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago (3 children)

And that is all really ridiculous brainwashing, considering that all those people look very similar. You could take random Israelis and Palestinians and dress them up all in the same clothes, and then ask people which person was which ethnic group and they might not be able to tell them apart.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago

Same thing with the Hutus and the Tutsis during the Rwandan Genocide, or Turkish and Armenian people, except even closer than that probably. It's ridiculous.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

JR, an artist that plastered large portraits of Palestinian and Isrealis in both cities. Groups tried to tear down portraits of the opposing group. They had to stop because they realized they really couldn't tell who was Isreali or Palestinian by their faces alone. This was in 2007.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/JR_(artist)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

There was a paper that attempted to provide some genetic evidence for this, but it, and the author, were attacked, the paper unprecedentedly deleted, and the author shortly thereafter apparently smeared with false embezzlement charges. Make of that what you will.

He is a bit of a nut job when it comes to the Basque language, though, hilariously.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonio_Arnaiz-Villena https://www.theguardian.com/world/2001/nov/25/medicalscience.genetics https://www.bmj.com/content/324/7339/695.1

[–] [email protected] 20 points 6 months ago (7 children)

This is my favorite Black Mirror episode because, unlike most of the episodes, it has literally been done before except we don't need the technology they used. People are cruel and stupid enough to just listen when you say other people are monsters without requiring much else.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 months ago (1 children)

The UN has also compared the rate of killing to Rwanda. Specifically worse than in any conflict since Rwanda.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

Bibi: We have to pump those numbers up if we ever want to beat Rwanda

[–] [email protected] 65 points 6 months ago (3 children)

there is no amount of Palestinian death that will ever slake the bloodthirst of the I"D"F and the genocidal state they murder for.

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[–] [email protected] 37 points 6 months ago

Zionists are Nazis.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 6 months ago (2 children)

YouTube link to video (non graphic)

These IDF soldiers truly can't help themselves from posting their war crimes on TikTok.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

YouTube link to video

Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Now you're Internet famous. See you in the Hague!

[–] [email protected] 26 points 6 months ago

Woah, interdimensional communication! I just want to say you're lucky you get to live in the universe where justice is actually served to those that deserve it!

[–] [email protected] 29 points 6 months ago

If you look up who is signed up to what part of the Geneva convention, I suspect you won't be at all surprised to see various countries in the news right now and which bits they're not signed up to.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 27 points 6 months ago

It was RIGHT THERE

NAZIONIST

[–] [email protected] 22 points 6 months ago

Apparently the kibbutzim are quite bad for "radicalising" children into this kind of hyper-nationalist, fascist mentality. That's an ironic legacy for a series of communes, but maybe it's a byproduct of their insularity?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago
[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Where's the source for this happening? The article claims there was a video, but I don't see a link it.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 6 months ago

It’s embedded, just press play to watch.

If it’s not showing for you, the direct link is https://www.instagram.com/middleeastmonitor/reel/C4TA6FZM90i/

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago

Isn't this a Black Mirror episode? Back when it was still pretty good

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