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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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[–] TheOubliette@lemmy.ml 126 points 1 week 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 6 days 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”….

[–] Grapho@lemmy.ml 68 points 1 week 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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[–] Viri4thus@feddit.org 92 points 1 week 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.

[–] 50_centavos@lemmy.world 24 points 1 week 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.

[–] Viri4thus@feddit.org 12 points 1 week ago

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

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 week ago

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

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[–] assassinatedbyCIA@lemmy.world 78 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Everyday I an increasingly disgusted by the actions of Israel.

[–] NauticalNoodle@lemmy.ml 28 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Your disgust has a scale that ranks higher than genocide?

[–] brrt@lemm.ee 14 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

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

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[–] hector@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 week ago

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

[–] Thebigguy@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

[–] assassinatedbyCIA@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)
[–] Thebigguy@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 days ago

That’s good

[–] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 77 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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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[–] selokichtli@lemmy.ml 72 points 1 week ago (3 children)

What the fuck is wrong with these people?

[–] SulaymanF@lemmy.world 56 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Imagine a country where the KKK took over the government.

[–] beejboytyson@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

I can think of one...

[–] Sauvandu60@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 week ago

Zionism indoctrination since childhood.

[–] Bremmy@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] OurToothbrush@lemmy.ml 29 points 1 week ago (6 children)
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[–] vfreire85@lemmy.ml 30 points 1 week 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 15 points 1 week 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.

[–] dzsimbo@lemm.ee 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)
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[–] Bloomcole@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week 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?

[–] IndustryStandard@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week 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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