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Foreign secretary’s call comes after group releases video of British-Israeli hostage it says died after being wounded in Israeli airstrike

David Cameron has urged the BBC to describe Hamas as a terrorist organisation, reviving an accusation that the corporation shies away from a valid description of the Islamist group that is holding Israeli hostages.

The UK foreign secretary told the BBC’s Laura Kuenssberg that the organisation should reconsider its guidelines in light of a video released by Hamas showing the British-Israeli hostage Nadav Popplewell, who the group said had died in Gaza.

Hamas released a statement on Saturday saying the 51-year-old had died after being wounded in an Israeli airstrike a month ago. The video showed him with a black eye.

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[-] TonyTonyChopper@mander.xyz 5 points 6 months ago

Was George Washington a terrorist?

[-] Saprophyte@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

Yes.

https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/verify/george-washington-slaves-complicated-history-fact-check-mount-vernon-slavery-tie/65-80249298-e0cb-4c31-b8b4-7f18105607fa

Our experts confirm Washington secretly rotated his slaves out of the state, sometimes just sending them over the river to New Jersey, so they couldn’t claim their freedom.

“He actually instructs his secretary to do it in a way that will deceive them, meaning the slaves and the public,” MacLeod said. “So, he doesn't want his actions to become common knowledge because he knows that there are so many abolitionists in the city that it could become a PR disaster for him.”

In 1793, Washington signs the Fugitive Slave Act into law, which helps slaveholders recapture enslaved people who have escaped.

[-] m0darn@lemmy.ca 3 points 6 months ago

I was about to say that slave 'ownership' doesn't make him a terrorist, but yeah it does because i don't think it's possible to enslave a person without terrorizing them.

[-] wildcardology@lemmy.world -2 points 6 months ago
[-] TonyTonyChopper@mander.xyz 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

What do you mean if. We've had 200 years to mull it over.

[-] wildcardology@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

I don't know anything about George Washington.

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