Israeli forces in the Gaza Strip opened fire as people headed towards a food distribution site a kilometre away at around sunrise on Monday, killing at least three people and injuring dozens, health officials and a witness said. The military said it fired warning shots at “suspects” who approached its forces.
The shooting occurred at the same location where witnesses say Israeli forces fired a day earlier on crowds of people heading towards the food distribution hub in southern Gaza run by the Israeli and US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation.
The Israeli military said it fired warning shots on Monday toward “several suspects who advanced toward the troops and posed a threat to them,” around a kilometre (1,000 yards) away from the food distribution site at a time when it was closed. The army denied it was preventing people from reaching the site.
I wrote a comment and it was removed for “anti semitism”
Mods it’s not antisemitism to attack the genocidal colony that is mass murdering children
For the record it said
Israel has no right to exist. They are a colony of depraved monsters
Stop using “anti semitism” to censor legitimate condemndation
LemmyWorld + Feddit.org alliance bands together to not allow people to say an Apartheid has no right to exist.
Yes it appears so. Not sure how much of it is down to the narcissistic Germans who think they are being righteous by repressing and censoring pro Palestine voices.
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Nah, see, this is the rhetoric that compounds the problem. The Israeli government is currently run by ultranationalists who are engaged in a genocide. They need to be stopped. That’s an objective and reasonable statement, backed up by evidence and moral justification.
To say that the nation and its people are monsters who do not have a right to exist, that’s anti-Semitism.
I’m an American. Donald Trump is a criminal, and belongs in prison. He should be stopped. If you have a plan to stop him, I’ll probably support it (within reason). If you were to say, “America has no fucking right to exist. They are a colony of deprsved monsters,” I could understand why you think that given the actions we have directed or supported internationally, but I would have to disagree.
Israel is a nation of many people. Those people have a right to exist, just as Palestinians have a right to exist. Existence doesn’t have to be a zero sum game.
Are you aware of the origins of Israel and what was there pre WW2?
Are you aware of the origins of North America and what was there pre colonization?
Are you aware that many people condemn the American colonizers for that genocide too?
Yep, I’m one of them. Are we saying that the United States doesn’t have a right to exist? Canada and Mexico have their own skeletons in their closets, too. Which countries have a right to exist? The Palestinians were “displaced” by the British, who took control from the Ottomans, who conquered the land from the Egyptians, the Mongols, the Crusades… how far back are we going to go?
Or maybe we accept that a nation is constructed of modern people who are not responsible for the sins of their forebears. Maybe we can criticize genocidal tyrants and war criminals without dehumanizing an entire citizenry and calling for their extermination. Because if both sides are calling for the eradication of the other, then the historical claim to the territory is irrelevant. If both sides justify violence with divine provenance, then neither side maintaims the moral high ground.
Israel is engaged in a genocide. They should be stopped, with violence if necessary. But condemning the people’s right to exist blunts the criticism of genocide. It makes it appear to be a holy war between two violent terrorists, when that is far from the reality.
Lol the immediate tu quoque fallacy gives you away.
Immediate? Immediately after not being active in this thread before?
And accusing me of that particular fallacy makes no sense either considering my post merely pointed out that the person I responded to did not have a great point in trying to catch anyone in an inconsistency between their treatment of the US colonization vs. the founding of Israel.
Ok bud. I’m not explaining this.
Israel is a terrorist group which has occupied Palestinian land. Their blatant obvious theft is known by all with historical knowledge. Israelis need to return the land to the rightful Palestinian owners as soon as possible. Maybe the Palestinians will let them rent their house.
Most obvious example of actual terrorism in the world, perpetrated by the Israelis of course. Disgusting colonizing genocidal bastards, hard at work to ensure evangelical christians get their wish.