• squiblet
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    11611 months ago

    “They asked me why I didn’t approve [friend requests], and why I deleted and blocked people on Facebook and Instagram,”

    What an insane thing to be questioned about by police.

  • @[email protected]
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    7411 months ago

    Israeli apologists love to remind us how democratic Israel is. This is China-levels of censorship.

    • @[email protected]
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      111 months ago

      If you look at the bottom, you see that Knesset has a Palestinian member who is allowed to talk about this issue. It’s not perfect (basic human rights should be in the constitution and absolute) but it is a lot better than how this would go on any of Israel’s neighbors.

  • @[email protected]
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    5911 months ago

    Since the Hamas-led October 7 attack, Israeli authorities have conducted a major crackdown on freedom of expression, usually in relation to social media posts. Dozens of Palestinian citizens of Israel and residents of Jerusalem have been arrested for voicing opposition to the war, while Israel’s academic institutions have suspended and dismissed students and faculty members alike for similar offenses. The Knesset also voted to amend Israel’s Counterterrorism Law, enabling unprecedented surveillance against Palestinians.

    Jailing people for speaking out against the war? Sounds like Russia. I think Genocide Joe has backed the wrong side in the conflict.

    • @[email protected]
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      5611 months ago

      It would be pretty difficult to do that considering the US government has been giving Israel billions a year in aid a long time before Joe Biden was President, and the vast majority of other US politicians support Israel as well. But sure, blame it on Biden I guess, maybe we can elect Trump, who will probably be asking his staff “why can’t we just kill all the Palestinians with the nuclear?”

        • @[email protected]
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          1511 months ago

          It’s such a crappy situation that there’s no way he could win. Anything other than siding with Israel would lead to claims of anti-semitism and criticism from the very powerful Isreal lobby, not to mention Republicans. A more nuanced position would be better, sure, but I don’t know how politically feasible it is in the US. We can definitely criticize Biden but “Genocide Joe” always strikes as stupid especially since it’s bashing Biden at a time when making him less popular would give us Genocide Donald, who would clearly be so much worse.

          • @[email protected]
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            311 months ago

            Anything other than siding with Israel would lead to claims of anti-semitism and criticism from the very powerful Isreal lobby, not to mention Republicans.

            I’m not sure of that actually.

            1. By far not all American Jews are Israel supporters in this case.

            2. Not all Republicans as well.

            3. There needs to be some way to raise their voice for those who are heavily against what’s happening, which will give such a turn lots of supporters.

            And, of course, I hope you do understand that people yelling about anti-semitism in this case are different from people yelling about “white genocide” in only one aspect - they are defending mass murder happening right now, while the latter are just relatively harmless racists.

            • @[email protected]
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              Where do you get “people might say mean things”? One of those reductions where someone acts like Trump being derogatory, inflammatory, thin skinned, insulting and lying is just silly little ‘mean things’? Obviously I mean that Trumps’ actions would be the same or worse, not ‘saying mean things’, though that is also significant. His inflammatory rhetoric and inconsistency does affect international relations.

              Anyway, it’s hard to find a national politician in the US who doesn’t side with Israel. I agree it would be nice if Biden took a more neutral stance, but Congress are the ones who appropriate money for Israel, not the President.

            • @[email protected]
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              211 months ago

              Seems like you are expecting Rome to get rebuilt in a day

              He’s probably put together more positive legislation at this point than Obama did, which is time consuming. With the level of political obstruction in the states, less bad seems acceptable.

              Or I guess instead of wrestling one bear at a time, Biden can take on two or three?

              • @[email protected]
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                311 months ago

                Yes, Biden is GNOCIDE because he doesn’t strongly oppose the ideology of 90% of the career politicians in the US. So we should just constantly slander him until we elect Trump, which will really, really help.

                • @[email protected]
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                  211 months ago

                  Not doing something is time consuming, when it’s entrenched in decades of policy and military strategy.

                  I don’t know if you noticed but the US is all about force projection and proxy wars. Destabilize strong small governments in remote regions, upend the local economies, and cause dependence on US capital.

                  How is any president going to starve those dogs without getting bitten?

                  Obviously something needs to be done about it, but lying all that blame at the feet of one dude is pretty dumb.

                • @[email protected]
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                  211 months ago

                  Great! Let’s talk shit about Biden and all vote for 3rd party candidates while the fascists rally around Trump. This is going to work out great.

      • NoneOfUrBusiness
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        Reagan stopped the bombing of West Beirut with a phone call.

        The situation reaching this stage is uniquely Biden’s fault.

        • @[email protected]
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          911 months ago

          People often give that Reagan example but it doesn’t even remotely prove that Biden could stop it, in a different situation 40 years later.

          • NoneOfUrBusiness
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            It means he could’ve done more than what he’s doing right now. A lot more. He’s not obligated by anything to support Israel’s genocide.

            • @[email protected]
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              211 months ago

              I agree he can do more, but at this stage Israel is feeling so impudent and even if Biden tells them to stop, they will continue with what they are doing without a hitch.

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                311 months ago

                Hey Bibi, I’ll be shutting down your supply of iron dome missiles, shutting your access to the US arms stockpiles in Israel and cutting off all US money going into the country unless you stop your bombing campaign against the Palestinians in Gaza.

                Try that script in a phone call and see how long the bombing continues.

              • NoneOfUrBusiness
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                They can’t. Israel is very much dependent on US direct and indirect aid (See: the US going all over the place getting Arab countries to naturalize relations with them) to survive.

      • @[email protected]
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        2311 months ago

        Yeah, the Russia stuff was bad, but Israel IIRC surpassed the civilian death toll from the entire Ukrainian conflict in the first couple of days.

        Part of this is probably due to Gaza not having air défenses, but still.

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          Gaza is also much more compact and densely populated than most of Ukraine.

    • @BlackSkinnedJew
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      The christofascist elite of the US and the zionist Jewish elite are good friends since decades ago, did you really believe the president of the US it’s free to do whatever he wants? He have owners and the interests of the owners can’t be touched.

    • @[email protected]
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      2211 months ago

      They are all busy in the story about hamas killing a boy that been reported only by one channel that even other Israeli news didn’t verify or reported on.

    • @[email protected]
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      Because there is nothing to go off?

      The entire story is anonymized. No way to verify.

      And israel might be shit at freedom of speech but better than all of Palestine on that front. If you are pointing out two evils, israel is the lesser one lol

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        311 months ago

        Not agreeing on comparing the evils, but there is a true point in that such stories are hard to verify. We should remember that regardless of our stances in the conflict.

      • @[email protected]
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        311 months ago

        While I’m aware this story happened in a different context: Anyone who has a „wrong“ sounding name is invited to try their luck at Tel Aviv Airport. Bonus points if you’re not white. Extra bonus points if solo traveling female. There’s nothing special about this story in a sense that they do these kinds of interrogations every day, including stalking people’s social media & deporting people critical of the Israeli government.

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          -211 months ago

          Dont get me wrong. I am a brown man. I would never go to israel because it is at war with brown people next door and it does aggressive racial profiling.

          But this story is just sensationalist bullshit that cannot be verified or argued against.

  • Phoenixz
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    2311 months ago

    This is a weird story from a weird source. Not saying it isn’t true but this is one of those posts that makes me want to know the source a bit better before Believing anything about it

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    But you see it’s not apartheid because she’s not a citizen of Israel. And this is just one more isolated case of a few bad apples.

    Also why did she block them? Did she have something to hide?

    And then even if she has nothing to hide, why was she mean and hurt the police’s feelings?

    And then finally, she’s a filthy Arab, how dare she wants to become a doctor? She will probably use scalpels to murder honest Israelis.

    /S

  • @[email protected]
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    211 months ago

    How the fuck is it anyone’s business what someone does with their own social media account? Also, what would have happened if she had never even made account there?