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A Palestinian student deleted her social media. Israel revoked her permit (www.972mag.com)

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[-] squiblet@kbin.social 118 points 10 months ago

“They asked me why I didn’t approve [friend requests], and why I deleted and blocked people on Facebook and Instagram,”

What an insane thing to be questioned about by police.

[-] NoneOfUrBusiness@kbin.social 49 points 10 months ago

Welcome to Palestine. In a way she's lucky she wasn't imprisoned just for being Palestinian.

[-] TonyTonyChopper@mander.xyz 4 points 10 months ago

where is the "literally 1984" crowd now

[-] KSPAtlas@sopuli.xyz 1 points 10 months ago

Literally 1984ed

[-] Altofaltception@lemmy.world 73 points 10 months ago

Israeli apologists love to remind us how democratic Israel is. This is China-levels of censorship.

[-] machinin@lemmy.world 59 points 10 months ago

Since the Hamas-led October 7 attack, Israeli authorities have conducted a major crackdown on freedom of expression, usually in relation to social media posts. Dozens of Palestinian citizens of Israel and residents of Jerusalem have been arrested for voicing opposition to the war, while Israel’s academic institutions have suspended and dismissed students and faculty members alike for similar offenses. The Knesset also voted to amend Israel’s Counterterrorism Law, enabling unprecedented surveillance against Palestinians.

Jailing people for speaking out against the war? Sounds like Russia. I think Genocide Joe has backed the wrong side in the conflict.

[-] zeppo@lemmy.world 56 points 10 months ago

It would be pretty difficult to do that considering the US government has been giving Israel billions a year in aid a long time before Joe Biden was President, and the vast majority of other US politicians support Israel as well. But sure, blame it on Biden I guess, maybe we can elect Trump, who will probably be asking his staff "why can't we just kill all the Palestinians with the nuclear?"

[-] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 34 points 10 months ago

There's a lot Biden could have done- and a fair amount that he could simply have not done.

Like, he could not vow unconditional support for genocidal maniacs. but, you know, details are unimportant. That other politicians also support Israel doesn't mean it's inappropriate to call Biden out for that.

[-] zeppo@lemmy.world 15 points 10 months ago

It's such a crappy situation that there's no way he could win. Anything other than siding with Israel would lead to claims of anti-semitism and criticism from the very powerful Isreal lobby, not to mention Republicans. A more nuanced position would be better, sure, but I don't know how politically feasible it is in the US. We can definitely criticize Biden but "Genocide Joe" always strikes as stupid especially since it's bashing Biden at a time when making him less popular would give us Genocide Donald, who would clearly be so much worse.

[-] rottingleaf@lemmy.zip 3 points 10 months ago

Anything other than siding with Israel would lead to claims of anti-semitism and criticism from the very powerful Isreal lobby, not to mention Republicans.

I'm not sure of that actually.

By far not all American Jews are Israel supporters in this case.
Not all Republicans as well.
There needs to be some way to raise their voice for those who are heavily against what's happening, which will give such a turn lots of supporters.

And, of course, I hope you do understand that people yelling about anti-semitism in this case are different from people yelling about "white genocide" in only one aspect - they are defending mass murder happening right now, while the latter are just relatively harmless racists.

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[-] Drinvictus@discuss.tchncs.de 16 points 10 months ago

Israel makes Russia look humane

[-] jonne@infosec.pub 23 points 10 months ago

Yeah, the Russia stuff was bad, but Israel IIRC surpassed the civilian death toll from the entire Ukrainian conflict in the first couple of days.

Part of this is probably due to Gaza not having air défenses, but still.

[-] Deceptichum@kbin.social 18 points 10 months ago

Most of it has to do with Gaza being a tiny open air prison, with no where to escape from the 'front line'.

[-] squiblet@kbin.social 9 points 10 months ago

Gaza is also much more compact and densely populated than most of Ukraine.

[-] Deceptichum@kbin.social 17 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Russia is also, literally committing genocide, there isn't a better here.

[-] agitatedpotato@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago

Theres definitely a faster one though.

[-] Deceptichum@kbin.social 7 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

And there’s definitely a larger one.

Let’s not try to compete over which genocide is better than the other. That’s a silly game.

[-] agitatedpotato@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

No one said it's better, but casualties and occupation time are pretty indisputable and if you think both of those are genocides, one is happening a lot faster. That's why Russia ends up looking 'humane' in comparison. All genocides are horrible, not all genocides are equally impactful and I don't think it really helps anyone to ignore that, at the very least not when the two in question are ongoing.

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[-] jonne@infosec.pub 3 points 10 months ago

They're objectively worse at it, so there's a silver lining there?

[-] Drinvictus@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 10 months ago

Oh no. I'm not comparing two genocidal countries. It's just funny how they are "comparable" and the Western world has one of the worst sanctions against one while they are funding the other.

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[-] apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world 59 points 10 months ago

"The bastion of democracy in the middle east." 🙃

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[-] assassinatedbyCIA@lemmy.world 48 points 10 months ago

Apartheid state apartheid’s

[-] NoneOfUrBusiness@kbin.social 41 points 10 months ago

I love how you don't see the Zionists on posts like these.

[-] Doorbook@lemmy.world 22 points 10 months ago

They are all busy in the story about hamas killing a boy that been reported only by one channel that even other Israeli news didn't verify or reported on.

[-] Serinus@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

Yeah, I doubt Hamas would ever kill a child. They're not Israeli, after all.

[-] postmateDumbass@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

And God said: "Just nuke the place. Let me try again."

[-] Strawberry@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 10 months ago

that does sound like yahweh

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[-] Jerb322@lemmy.world 39 points 10 months ago

Facebook jail irl

[-] metaStatic@kbin.social 9 points 10 months ago

Right to jail. Right away.

[-] Drinvictus@discuss.tchncs.de 25 points 10 months ago

"free speech"

[-] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 24 points 10 months ago

This is a weird story from a weird source. Not saying it isn't true but this is one of those posts that makes me want to know the source a bit better before Believing anything about it

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[-] Pregnenolone@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago

Average capitalist bootlickers. Social media was a mistake

[-] Siegfried@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

Was?

[-] hightrix@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

Yes. It was. It still is, but it was also.

[-] Plopp@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

Hey there Mitch at home.

[-] MadhuGururajan@programming.dev 1 points 10 months ago

Inception happened in the past?

[-] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 7 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

But you see it's not apartheid because she's not a citizen of Israel. And this is just one more isolated case of a few bad apples.

Also why did she block them? Did she have something to hide?

And then even if she has nothing to hide, why was she mean and hurt the police's feelings?

And then finally, she's a filthy Arab, how dare she wants to become a doctor? She will probably use scalpels to murder honest Israelis.

[-] Linkerbaan@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

Nazi's gonna Nazi

[-] reksas@sopuli.xyz 2 points 10 months ago

How the fuck is it anyone's business what someone does with their own social media account? Also, what would have happened if she had never even made account there?

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