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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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[–] [email protected] 28 points 3 days ago (3 children)

there can be no peace while the structure of the state of israel, the ideological apparatus that sustains it, and the support of the colonial nations of the west, remain standing. and jewish people themselves should know that.

there used to be a joke about how israel is like a former well educated university professor who made the aliyah after being ran over by a german truck driver, and used to throw stones at the poor palestinian 14-year old washergirl who lives in the backlot. now the father of the girl threw some stones back and the professor went full priklopil keeping the whole family at his basement, trturing and rping them on a daily basis.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 days ago

For anyone wondering:

Aliyah: is the immigration of Jews from the diaspora to, historically, the geographical Land of Israel or the Palestine region, which is today chiefly represented by the State of Israel.

priklopil: Natascha Maria Kampusch (born 17 February 1988) is an Austrian author and former talk show host. At the age of 10, on 2 March 1998, she was abducted and held in a secret cellar by her kidnapper Wolfgang Přiklopil for more than eight years, until she escaped on 23 August 2006.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago (1 children)

That's a tough joke.

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[–] [email protected] 113 points 3 days ago (11 children)

Reddit liberals are in here trying to make this about their own misunderstanding if a term.

If this was your first response to hearing about occupiers attacking and disappearing someone, reconsider your priorities.

[–] [email protected] 60 points 3 days ago

But if liberals don't litigate and diminish every act of fascist violence how will they meaningfully interact with politics? They don't got a vote coming for another two years!

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[–] [email protected] 78 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Everyday I an increasingly disgusted by the actions of Israel.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

Your disgust has a scale that ranks higher than genocide?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Murder -> ethnic cleansing -> genocide -> Dantes Inferno!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago

Maybe you can be aware of it but you can slowly appreciate it in all of its horror.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I hope some of this disgust has translated into more action than just posting.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I take part in BDS.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

That’s good

[–] [email protected] 86 points 3 days ago (18 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.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 days ago

It's filibuster to distract people. IDF has sock puppets on every social media imaginable.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 days ago

tbf its now more people complaining about the people complaining about semantics.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days 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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[–] [email protected] 70 points 3 days ago (3 children)

What the fuck is wrong with these people?

[–] [email protected] 52 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Imagine a country where the KKK took over the government.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago

I can think of one...

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 days ago

Zionism indoctrination since childhood.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Religion brain rot

[–] [email protected] 25 points 3 days ago (5 children)

No, settler colonialism

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[–] [email protected] 67 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

One of the best proofs that the Zionist genociders use antisemitism as a shield is that if they wanted to go after an actual antisemite with an Oscar, all this time they could have lynched Mel Gibson and everyone would support them.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 days ago

Here is the video of the beginning of the attack. Posted by Yuval Abraham on Twitter:

https://i.imgur.com/DhEmoMK.mp4

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