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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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[–] IndustryStandard@lemmy.world 11 points 11 hours ago

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

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

[–] vfreire85@lemmy.ml 24 points 15 hours 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.

[–] Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 13 points 14 hours 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.

[–] melpomenesclevage@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

I think every single zio scum needs to die before there can be peace anywhere in the world.

plus, chuck schumer is their puppet, and openly admits this. which should be reason enough to do any ill you can possibly think of to any zio any time you have the opportunity. if you're called to serve one in a restaurant, shit in it's food at the very least.

A future in which humanity thrives is not a future that can include a single living zio. if there are zios living in your sight, you cannot claim to be a good person.

[–] dzsimbo@lemm.ee 8 points 15 hours ago (1 children)
[–] FilthyHookerSpit@lemmy.world 2 points 14 hours ago

Yeah, I don't see the humor. Maybe doesn't translate well.

[–] Bloomcole@lemmy.world 15 points 16 hours ago

They had the right to defend themselves!
The mob only had peaceful intentions and he clearly looked at them funny.
What where they supposed to do, undergo this vicious, clearly antisemitic act?

[–] assassinatedbyCIA@lemmy.world 76 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Everyday I an increasingly disgusted by the actions of Israel.

[–] NauticalNoodle@lemmy.ml 28 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (6 children)

Your disgust has a scale that ranks higher than genocide?

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[–] selokichtli@lemmy.ml 71 points 1 day ago (3 children)

What the fuck is wrong with these people?

[–] Sauvandu60@lemmy.ml 11 points 15 hours ago

Zionism indoctrination since childhood.

[–] SulaymanF@lemmy.world 54 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Imagine a country where the KKK took over the government.

[–] beejboytyson@lemmy.world 8 points 18 hours ago

I can think of one...

[–] Bremmy@lemmy.ml 9 points 20 hours ago (1 children)
[–] OurToothbrush@lemmy.ml 27 points 18 hours ago (2 children)
[–] HalfSalesman@lemm.ee 2 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

Do you think that they'd displace other Jewish people if they were living there already? I'm pretty sure its the religious fanaticism fueling this.

[–] OurToothbrush@lemmy.ml 6 points 10 hours ago

Yes they straight up have displaced Jewish Palestinians.

[–] trashxeos@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 9 hours ago

You know that Palestinian Jews were a people before the formation of Israel, right?

[–] coronach@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 14 hours ago

Emboldened by religion. They work hand in hand.

[–] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 76 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day 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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[–] Viri4thus@feddit.org 90 points 1 day ago (19 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.

[–] chunkystyles@sopuli.xyz 7 points 19 hours 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.

[–] Viri4thus@feddit.org 7 points 18 hours 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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[–] TheOubliette@lemmy.ml 125 points 1 day 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.

[–] elatedCatfish@lemm.ee 2 points 8 hours ago

So, I’m prob one of those “Reddit liberals” you’re referring to who thinks Harris would’ve been at least slightly better than Trump hah. And my first thought when I saw this was “what the fuck is wrong with these people”….

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