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[-] Boddhisatva@lemmy.world 73 points 2 weeks ago

So I assume the agents provocateur, are being identified and sought for their use of hate speech?

[-] 4am@lemm.ee 45 points 2 weeks ago

Why would the university go after their own contractors?

[-] roguetrick@lemmy.world 64 points 2 weeks ago

In response to questions regarding the video footage and reports that pro-Israel counter protesters said the statement, Vice President for Communications Renata Nyul said the “fact that the phrase ‘Kill the Jews’ was shouted on our campus is not in dispute.”

“The Boston Globe, a trusted news organization, reported it as fact. There is also substantial video evidence. Any suggestion that repulsive antisemitic comments are sometimes acceptable depending on the context is reprehensible. That language has no place on any university campus,” Nyul said.

Well, that guy doesn't want anybody to doubt he's a fucking jackboot.

[-] blazera@lemmy.world 26 points 2 weeks ago

"in response to absolutely no one saying the phrase is acceptable"

[-] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 47 points 2 weeks ago

Of course it was bullshit.

[-] Milk_Sheikh@lemm.ee 40 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I will tell you something about the Holocaust. It would be nice to believe that people who have undergone suffering have been purified by suffering. But it's the opposite, it makes them worse. It corrupts. There is something in suffering that creates a kind of egoism. And when such monstrous things have happened to your people, you feel nothing can be compared to it. You get a moral "power of attorney", a permit to do anything you want – because nothing can compare to what has happened to us. This is a moral immunity which is very clearly felt in Israel.

Uri Avery, speaking after the IDF’s massacre at Sabra and Shatila

Uri was a Zionist poster child - his immediate family fled to (then mandatory Palestine) after the Nazis took power; every other relative who stayed in Germany was murdered in the Holocaust. During his youth in 1938 he joined the Zionist terrorist group Irgun, in reaction to the first execution of a Jew for the attempted bombing of an Arab bus. He remained a member in the group until partway through most of WWII, when he leaned into nationalism publishing far-right news articles and opinion pieces.

The turning point for Uri was his time in the IDF during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war, and the ethnic cleansing and displacement that occurred, percolating through decades of his life until during the 1982 Lebanon War he became the first Israeli to meet Yasser Arafat for an interview.

[-] bartolomeo@suppo.fi 14 points 2 weeks ago

Not so fun fact about Ariel Sharon and the massacre at Sabra and Shatila:

As Minister of Defense, he directed the 1982 Lebanon War. An official enquiry found that he bore "personal responsibility" for the Sabra and Shatila massacre of Palestinian refugees, for which he became known as the "Butcher of Beirut" among Arabs.

He later became the 11th prime minister of Israel.

[-] Linkerbaan@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Every israeli minister is basically Netanyahu. There is nothing new about it.

[-] bartolomeo@suppo.fi 31 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

The video footage, originally posted on X by Working Mass, a Democratic Socialists of America media outlet covering Massachusetts, reveals two Jewish students holding an Israeli flag shouted the “Kill the Jews” after pro-Palestine demonstrators conducted a “mic check” — a call and response technique used to focus attention on an organizer.

The two pro-Israel counter protesters then asked the pro-Palestinian demonstrators if they agreed, saying “anybody on board; anybody for that?” The crowd of pro-Palestine protesters immediately started shouting and booing over them.

“You just chanted for it,” the pro-Israel counter protesters can be heard saying.

Gaslighting is psychological abuse and is used frequently in hasbara.

[-] dylanmorgan@slrpnk.net 24 points 2 weeks ago

I am shocked, SHOCKED that hasbarists are using agents provocateur and trying make the protesters look bad.

this post was submitted on 28 Apr 2024
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