The procession often leads to violent confrontations between ultranationalists and Palestinian residents
So lynchings and group beatings are downplayed as "confrontations".
The article also mentions that it's "young" people to try and excuse it, but then goes on to mention that fuckface Ben Gvir was in attendance earlier in the day.
To add a little bit of insider context to AP News that is supposed to be one of the journals of record - the past few years they've fired anyone that was critical of Israel to maintain their "neutrality" but there were no changes to their editor board who are bias towards Israel.
Clickbait title with the article jumping to conclusion
Among a list of demands made by the Football Federation of the Islamic Republic of Iran is that only officially recognized national flags should be displayed during the team’s games, extending to those flags carried by fans in the stands.
If you click on another article about the "Pride Match", it talks about how poorly ticket sales are - seems that FIFA (and sports news outlets reliant on FIFA) want to drum up 'hubbub'.
World Cup Pride Match tickets still available as final sales phase opens
There were plenty of tickets available for the World Cup‘s first-ever designated Pride Match when FIFA’s “last-minute sales phase” began Wednesday.
Sure, I agree with that rephrasing. If your only measure is whether violence would break out, then sure. Russia is more likely to go to war with Canada over the arctic territores than Israel.
But considering that the reports put Israel high up there with external interference, then, yes, i wouldn't use "friendly" terminology with a genocidal supremacist state that supports rightwing politicians in our neighboring country during elections. Definitely more detrimental than a bunch of hick truckers not liking masks.
Like, sure, I'll agree that Hezbollah have definitely not been a net benefit to Lebanese and they've used the resistance rhetoric to kill and assassinate Lebanese (civilian and politician alike).
But I can't say that they've ever been the aggressor against Israel. Even if you look at the 2006 war that 'started' with Hezbollah kidnapping Israeli soldiers patrolling the border, they did it with the purpose of negotiating the release of hostages that Israel held and tortured for many years after their withdrawal from their occupation of South Lebanon.
And to also try and compare glorified bottle rockets to the ultimately destructive bunker busters lined with uranium that Israel launches at civilian infrastructure in a non symmetrically proportionate response - it's not a 1:1 comparison and that needs to be highlighted and underscored.
To use your argument, it's not an "either" argument of "more of an ally". Israel is not an ally to Canada and never was - let's not excuse or normalize double standards.
Canadian security agencies literally flag it as 1 of 6 countries (amongst Russia, China, India) trying to meddle in Canadian affairs and push disinformation.
It's funny how once China is involved, the Government all of a sudden cares about consumer privacy and data protection.
All modern vehicles collect a ton of telemetry through their telemetry units and these companies are being advised by consulting groups to monetize the data.
Hell! Even Israeli intelligence is hacking into these telemetry units because their security is piss poor
The US definitely is! Maybe not sending members of Congress as far as I know, but fully supporting separatists. That's why I asked OP if they accept it, since they seem to be up in arms about China pulling a stink about Canada doing the same with Taiwan.
Or just direct involvement of Zionists (which, given their record on pedophilia, there's a Venn Diagram overlapping with Epstein).
BBCs editor for the Middle East (Raffi Berg) is a hardcore zionist who has support from advisor Robert Gibb (worked with the Jewish Chronicles and is very right wing, appointed by Boris Johnson) the executives at BBC
LOL! And here I thought Lemmy was like old reddit. But reactionaries is the new norm online I guess. Nobody needs your bad vibes dude, glad there's a block option.
Hahaha I don't care about the Star, just the story because it hasn't been reported on and it's as important as ever. Whitewashing with true stories is a common tactic used by the media, we all know that.
It's ok bud, not everything is psy-op. This is Lemmy, not Reddit.
Unless you just want to angrily wave your fist at clouds...
It happens in so many counties where migrant workers are taken advantage of and scapegoated simultaneously, while employers and government policies are rarely ever criticized as the cause.
Not sure why people would rather blame someone simply for trying to improve their material conditions than the actual institutions taking advantage of them.
I'm not a fan of The Star's owners - and a quite a few of their journalists/editors - either, but they have most recently reported on the exploitation of migrant workers in Canada that's been documented for several years.
$730 million for public diplomacy — the broad category known in Hebrew as hasbara — nearly five times the $150 million they allocated the year before.
Hasbara is about changing perception of the general public. The only reason we see some shift in government officials changing their course is because of how toxic support from Israel is seen (so much so that they can lose elections because of it).
So long as Israel can perform public advocacy to at least get to a place of neutral outlook (or become a sideline topic), then they'd have achieved their goals.
Israel's current stated goal is to increase Arab-phobia and Islamophobia through populism and anti-immigration rhetoric to be greater than people's disdain for Israel.
Signal mentioned that their apps were best for security and a web browser had too many vulnerabilities that they couldn't guarantee.
They prefer to manage their own apps - a signal desktop app being one of them.