9mo ago

Israel’s Brutality Is Increasing—and So Is Its Denialism

www.thenation.com Israel’s Brutality Is Increasing—and So Is Its Denialism

The atrocities at Al-Shifa Hospital are clear, but Israeli politicians say not a single civilian was killed. It’s just one of several outlandish claims Israel has made recently.

A human rights monitor documented the sniping of at least 13 children in and around Shifa Hospital, all between the ages of 4 and 16.

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The chokehold Israeli Intelligence / Propaganda wing has on reddits worldnews subreddit is freakin depressing (and scary in how total it is).
Post anything even remotely critical to anything Israel did and within minutes you'll have a dozen downvotes and people outright warping reality in their response to you, all on relatively recent accounts that only ever respond to posts related to Israel. They aren't subtle about it in the slightest.
And stories like them murdering foreign aid workers on purpose just get magicked away.
- Israel has an app that's used to target various sites etc. with propaganda. It has various material for people to post, guides on how to post/sign up to platforms, premade memes, etc. It's absolutely ridiculous.
  Caelan Conrad (I believe) used to have a video up on the subject, where they used and walked through the app, but it's mysteriously gone missing. Act.il's own YouTube channel remains, though.
  
  TIL, why my comments get downvoted. At this point, I'm not even mad.
  
  Meanwhile 1 billion Arabs in the world just shit post "genocide!" all day
  
  Oh so I'm Arab now?
  Wow.
  Who knew?
  
  Meanwhile 1 trillion Arabs in the world just shitpost "genocide!" all day.
  
  Meanwhile one quadrillion...
  
  There's probably 300 million Arabs in the world. There's a few billion people "in the world just shit post 'genocide!' all day" for very good reasons.
  
  Uh... Uh.... Uh.....
  The world doesn't have one ~~million~~ billion Arabs.
  Edit: Brainfart.
- Wow, just like when you post anything remotely supportive of Israel or derogative of the Palestinian backwards society on lemmy?
  How could it be?
- But on no account should you consider yourself wrong. That can't happen. Propaganda works only one way and not the other. Whenever there's evidence of Hamas storing weapons or launching rockets next to schools and hospitals, it's fake news. It's source that can't be trusted. But whenever something aligns with your beliefs that's 100% true, evidence not required. Even now you are claiming they killed foreign aid workers on purpose when there was no investigation and no such claim anywhere. But it fits your narrative.
- On the other hand if you post something against Ukraine and you are banned within minutes
  Lemmy freedom of speech at its finest :)
  
  Ukraine being clearly having the moral high ground as a sovereign state defending itself, yes, expect to be downvoted for trying to contract what we all see with our own eyes.
  
  Bro they literally started the war 😂
  
  WTF are you smoking, and where can I get some, comrade?
  
  Impressive. How do you go about starting a defensive war of conquest?
  
  By having the stupid idea of existing next to Russia (or a similar country).
  
  …why would you be against Ukraine, exactly?
  
  They’re a Russian stoog?
  
  Depends on the instance.
  
  You can still say there is rampant corruption in ukraine. They have embezzeled billions in aid.
  But it all seems miniscule in front of the existential crisi they are in.

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