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[–] DoctorPress@lemmy.zip 18 points 9 hours ago

A country known for making war crimes and genocides doesn't support human rights? Consider me as surprised.

[–] AcidiclyBasicGlitch@sh.itjust.works 7 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

I mean I get that's bad, and it's definitely a sign of civilization regressing, and with each step backwards, we continue to inch towards the day where we finally topple any evidence of progress that has been built, and we're lucky if we can even hold it together enough to emerge from the ashes of modern society as feral bands of mud people with some chance of perhaps one day making it back to this same point in another 2000 years or so.

But, is the "loss of women's rights" perhaps offset by the privilege of knowing that even if you lose your rights, you can still be shitty to people of a different ethnicity without concern of public judgment or accountability for your shitty behavior? And if so, isn't that what freedom is all about?

[–] kent_eh@lemmy.ca 22 points 14 hours ago

Women’s rights are on a sharp decline in Israel.

Yeah, that'll happen in a patriarchal theocracy.

[–] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 13 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

John Kerry warned that Israel can be Jewish, large, democratic, pick two. They picked Jewish and large. Now leopards are coming for faces.

[–] hayvan@piefed.world 27 points 15 hours ago

You mean fascists don't respect human lives? But muh LGBT equals! Muh only democracy in the region!

[–] EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com 24 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (2 children)

But I thought that we (U.S. people) were supposed to support them because they are a champion of democracy and human rights.

I'm calling bullshit.

[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 7 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

What have either the US or Israel got to do with democracy or human rights nowadays, anyway?

[–] goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 13 hours ago

Depends on who's trying to say they're good ones

[–] StupidBrotherInLaw@lemmy.world 4 points 16 hours ago

Most moral society now!

[–] ElcaineVolta@kbin.melroy.org 139 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

you're telling me this ethnostate is discriminating against people??

[–] hayvan@piefed.world 8 points 15 hours ago

I'm shocked! Shocked! Well, not that shocked.

[–] realitaetsverlust@piefed.zip 10 points 15 hours ago

Well, the exact same happens in murica. If you partner with ultra religious people, this is the bullshit that'll happen.

[–] mirshafie@europe.pub 21 points 17 hours ago

I don't doubt that Israel is backsliding on women's rights, but this "Women, Peace and Security Index" has got to be bullshit.

They have a bunch of parameters that try to capture the situation of women, and I'm sure that can be useful to gauge which way the wind is blowing for a single country, but it gets kinda ridiculous when Saudi Arabia gets a much better score than Turkey, China, India, Brazil, Iran, and Mexico.

Just a reminder that women were not allowed to drive in Saudi Arabia until 2018.

[–] Ioughttamow@fedia.io 55 points 21 hours ago (3 children)

Once they’ve killed all the Palestinians and journalists, the IDF will need someone new to shoot

[–] Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 18 points 18 hours ago

You joke but this is why fascism isn’t sustainable. You always need a scapegoat and eventually your gonna run out of them as you make your population more and more uniform.

[–] FaceDeer@fedia.io 20 points 21 hours ago

I'm sure they're efficient enough that they can start shooting new groups before they're completely finished the previous groups.

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[–] thejml@sh.itjust.works 78 points 23 hours ago
[–] MushuChupacabra@lemmy.world 66 points 22 hours ago

This is unsurprising.

Israel is not known for their love of human rights.

[–] Corporal_Punishment@feddit.uk 32 points 20 hours ago (4 children)

So all three major religions want to make the lives of women more difficult.

Who'd have thought.

[–] elevenbones@sh.itjust.works 5 points 13 hours ago

The three Abrahamic religions? ...weird they all worship the same god by different names.

[–] OppaGundamStyle@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

You’re not calling Judaism a major religion are you?

Islam, Christianity, Hinduism, have billions of followers each. Judaism has a few million.

[–] Soggy@lemmy.world 19 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (1 children)

It has influence disproportionate to the number of followers. (But Hinduism and Buddhism should be ahead of it anyway, this is a very Western perspective)

[–] IndustryStandard@lemmy.world 3 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Most Jews in Israel are Atheists.

[–] beernutz@lemmy.world 2 points 10 hours ago

Most Jews in Israel are Atheists. That's not even close to correct.

Most surveys suggest that roughly 15-25% of Jewish Israelis do not believe in God or describe themselves as atheists or convinced non‑believers, depending on wording and methodology.

[–] burntbacon@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

I don't know that I'd include judaism on a list of "three major religions." Hinduism and buddhism have much better claims on being in the top three.

[–] Corporal_Punishment@feddit.uk 3 points 8 hours ago

In terms of numbers then yes.

But in terms of disproportionate influence then no.

[–] mrdown@lemmy.world 3 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Yet the majority of the world are bootlicking israel

[–] EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com 3 points 16 hours ago (4 children)

Leadershit maybe, but the general public seems to have had enough.

[–] hayvan@piefed.world 1 points 15 hours ago

Leadershit are the ones making the difference right now. People's sentiment mean nothing unless they hold their leaders responsible. People are dying right now and still no action is being taken.

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[–] SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social 9 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Wow, I didn't expect bad people to be bad people 😮

[–] dan69@lemmy.world 2 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (1 children)
[–] SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social 2 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Only if you consider genocide and misogyny a bad thing I guess?

[–] dan69@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago (1 children)
[–] SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social 2 points 2 hours ago

Then they're so bad!

[–] assassinatedbyCIA@lemmy.world 8 points 17 hours ago

Make a fascist society, get fascist society problems.

[–] Jax@sh.itjust.works 23 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

The sky is blue, water makes things wet, blood is red.

Just saying things that are obvious, don't mind me.

[–] mrdown@lemmy.world 13 points 22 hours ago (4 children)

I am pretty sure sky is blue deniers exists

[–] Canconda@lemmy.ca 10 points 22 hours ago

There is the whole myth that ancient people couldn't see the colour blue. But that was because they didn't have a distinct word for it that didn't include other shades like purple.

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[–] LuckingFurker@lemmy.blahaj.zone 19 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Fascism does hate wömen, after all

[–] Predalien@sh.itjust.works 7 points 20 hours ago (1 children)
[–] LuckingFurker@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 20 hours ago

Exactly, bröther

[–] Tetragrade@leminal.space 15 points 22 hours ago
[–] Psythik@lemmy.world 4 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

I literally could not care less. Get fucked, Isreal. You voted for this.

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 5 points 19 hours ago

Hacker ticked off a list of historical accomplishments for women’s equality in Israel: the 1951 Equal Rights for Women Law, considered revolutionary at the time; Golda Meir serving as one of the first female leaders in the world in 1969; the military’s mandatory conscription of women.

Yeah, cause socialist zionists dominated political power during that period. As racist as they were towards Palestinians, equality was increasing. That's not the ideological reality today.

[–] flandish@lemmy.world 8 points 22 hours ago

who is surprised? they’re inhuman nazis treating people like trash.

[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 7 points 23 hours ago
[–] Canconda@lemmy.ca 5 points 22 hours ago

Leopards Eating Punim

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