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A community for everything related to Palestine and the occupation currently underway by the occupying force known as Israel.

Anti-Zionism is not anti-Semitism. Existence is resistance for Palestinians.

Please refer to Israel as Occupied Palestine, or occupied territories. The IDF is a fascist and ethnonationalist occupying force. Israelis are settlers. We understand however that the imperial narrative (which tries to legitimise Israel) is internalised in the imperial core and slip-ups are naturally expected.

We always take the sides of Palestine and Palestinians and are unapologetic about it. Israel is an occupying power whose "defence force"'s (note the contradiction) sole purpose for existing is to push Palestinians out so they can resettle their rightful land. If you have anything positive to say about Israel we do not care.

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[–] AnarchoBolshevik@lemmygrad.ml 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Some SS guards held “shooting competitions” in which they sought to demonstrate their marksmanship to their colleagues or to engage in a deadly display of their own masculine prowess. One SS guard at Auschwitz accepted a bet for a bottle of schnapps that he could kill a prisoner with a neck shot at fifty paces using his pistol, while Kurt Franz, an SS officer in Treblinka, sought to impress his colleagues with his “specialty” of “shooting Jews in the eyes.”⁴⁸

In reference to this practice, Abraham Bomba, a prisoner at Treblinka, commented, “The biggest pleasure for them [the SS] was to kill, to shoot at a special place they had in their mind. […] When they succeeded they were just happy.”⁴⁹

SS men in the Janowska camp aimed at the noses or fingertips of the prisoners as they carried stones around the camp.⁵⁰ In another version of this “game,” the SS forced a prisoner to hold a glass of water. “If the glass was hit, the person was allowed to live,” Michael Wind testified. “If the bullet hit his [the prisoner’s] hand, he was killed on the pretext that he was no longer capable of working.”⁵¹

Among these SS men, the ability to drink more than one’s colleague, to inflict a better beating, or to outshoot him became markers of superior manliness.

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[–] Imnecomrade@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I had a feeling there was a story of Nazis doing this. Thank you for the source.