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‘Exterminate the beasts’: How Israeli settlers took revenge for a murder in the West Bank

What followed was a wave of shooting and arson attacks across 11 Palestinian villages in which a dozen homes and more than 100 cars were torched, thousands of animals were slaughtered, four people were shot dead and scores of others were seriously wounded.

Aceticon ,

These are their Western Values…

… same as 19th century Russia and early 20th century Germany.

bamfic ,

literally quoting heart of darkness?

solo ,

What is a pogrom? Israeli mob attack has put a century-old word in the spotlight - The Conversation - March 6, 2023

From Russia to Israel

effectively puts Israel in the place of the Jews’ historic persecutors. This is a highly uncomfortable position for many Jewish people, particularly in Israel.

In today’s Israel, minority rights have been suppressed as well, particularly in the West Bank. Palestinians in the West Bank, unlike the Jewish settlers next to them, face violence and discrimination in nearly every aspect of their lives. In other words, Israeli Jews and Palestinians are today not equal partners in an ethnic rivalry.

historical records show far more rioters were arrested and punished by Russia in 1881 than in Huwara this week, where only eight of the 400 Jewish offenders were arrested, only to be quickly released.

assassin_aragorn ,

It’s a terrible irony.

gedaliyah ,
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These groups are like the Israeli Hamas - religious fundamentalists who just want violence. The only thing that separates them in my mind is the lack of political power and billions in funding. Unfortunately, they are gradually increasing in both power and funding under the likes of Smotrich and Ben-Gvir.

juicy ,

Don’t compare the oppressors and colonizers to the freedom fighters.

vintageballs ,

Don’t excuse terrorists with fancy words like “freedom fighters”

PanArab ,

This is rich. I personally, fully support the Namibian freedom fighters.

www.nytimes.com/…/germany-namibia-genocide.html

German soldiers targeted people of two ethnic groups — the Herero and the Nama — because they had resisted land grabs by German settlers. Africans were shot, hanged, abandoned in the desert and died in concentration camps

Killing the indigenous people for resisting, is the shared western civilization value Isaac Herzog meant.

Eyck_of_denesle ,

Pogroms existed before Hamas. And may have also been the reason hamas was founded. Also any sources on billions of funding hamas has? These settlers are backed by a state who is allied with the biggest military power in the world. They do in fact have billions in funding. Russia arrests more people than israel ever does for its settlers. That’s how bad it is. And even when they are arrested they get to go out immediately.

Israeli state itself is like hamas

gedaliyah , (edited )
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Hamas has an annual budget between $600 million and $2.5 billion.

Alternate links for people without freedom of internet access:

France 24

US Congress

The Economist

Eyck_of_denesle ,

I can’t even access the website with an Indian ip. Don’t share no Israeli propaganda.

PanArab ,

That’s aid to pay the salaries and provide aid to people in Gaza. About ~$1000 per person per year, not much at all.

small44 ,

How settlers occupying a land that is not their take revenge?

solo ,

With help from the US. Here is an article from November 2023:

There’s a Wave of Violence in the West Bank. New York Charities Are Helping Fund It.

Tax-deductible donations are arming Israeli settlers with combat gear, surveillance systems, and more.

“The ties between New York state and war crimes being carried out by Israeli settlers are egregious,” said Jay Saper, a New York–based organizer with Jewish Voice for Peace. “It’s long overdue for the state to take action.”

Earlier this year, Jewish Voice for Peace and other anti-occupation groups launched a campaign to stem the flow of tax-exempt donations from New York organizations to West Bank settlements. The “Not on Our Dime” act, introduced in the state Legislature in May, grew out of the activist effort and sought to empower the state attorney general to revoke the nonprofit status of groups funding settlements. Dozens of state legislators almost immediately condemned it as “a ploy to demonize Jewish charities.”

applepie ,

US is deff enabling Israel's war crimes and human rights violations. And we will also have to pay the price for this shit.

TheUncannyObserver ,

No genocide to see here, ladies and gents! This is strictly peaceful Israelis forced to defend themselves!

andrewrgross , (edited )

I want to add a word that I never see that needs to enter the mainstream lexicon:

“Pogrom”.

Apparently, this isn’t a commonly known term, although it’s less obscure to Jews. A pogrom is a form of terrorism in which a population decides to get rid of or inflict their hatred on a marginalized ethnic group by routinely rolling through their towns or neighborhoods dolling out unrestrained violence. It is often accompanied by warnings and demands that the population relocate or face constantly escalating barbarism. It’s a form of persistent mass terrorism, usually sanctioned by the state.

Pogroms as a familiar concept emerged as a practice in Russia in the 19th and 20th century toward Jews, though they’re well known to have been used throughout history. Traditionally, Jews have been the historical target of pogroms for centuries, and it’s not a coincidence that Israeli Jews are using these tactics. These are familiar to them. They know exactly what they are doing. This is NOT independent acts of violence, this is a reenactment of atrocities faced by the grandparents and great grandparents of many Israelis Jews.

Pogroms are always horrific and depraved on their own. But the added context that these people are appropriating the weapons of extermination that they know well from the receiving end, it’s just… I don’t quite have the words to capture my horror.

These are pogroms. They are a relic of the medieval era and of the atrocities of the 1800s and early 1900s. They should stay in history, but they are being dusted off with deliberate intent by Itmar Ben-Gvir and the exterminationist wing of mainstream Israeli society.

These are not “Rising tensions” or “Settler violence”, they are POGROMS. We all need to say it.

More info: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pogrom

solo , (edited )

Yes, to my knowledge this is how pogroms started, against Jewish people. Latter on, the term expanded to other (ethic, religious among others) minorities as well. And for so-so many decades, zionists have been doing pogroms against Palestinians.

Note: when adding a wiki link in a topic even remotely related to zionism, please keep in mind of the following:

Course: Zionist Editing on Wikipedia - From Israel National News - Arutz Sheva - 2min video

veganpizza69 ,
@veganpizza69@lemmy.world avatar

I recommend en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lebensraum

schnurrito ,

Is this really such an obscure term in English? I definitely remember hearing it in school here in Austria, perhaps in the context of the November pogroms of 1938, but may have been from other contexts too; I don’t remember the details.

andrewrgross ,

I don’t really know. It shouldn’t be, but I have not seen any newspaper report “West Bank pogroms continue to increase post Oct. 7, despite international complaints.”

dependencyinjection ,

Pogrom.

Maggoty ,

Pogrom, Settler Violence…

Por que no los dos?

andrewrgross ,

My frustration is that I think terms like “settler violence” misinform people:

  1. the violence isn’t coming from a handful of lone-wolf settlers. It’s state sanctioned.
  2. this isn’t just violence like a bar flight or soccer riot. It’s deliberate, methodical, ethnic cleansing. It is a purposeful atrocity.

We need to hold the whole Israeli government and a bunch of specific NGOs accountable for all of this.

Maggoty ,

I think we need to better educate people then. Because settler violence is state sponsored by definition. It is ethnic cleansing by definition. It is the exact same violence covered by rational sounding lies that we can see throughout the non European world from 1500 on. It is a very predictable cycle.

Create tension with unpunished crimes, theft, assault, murder, doesn’t matter.

Repeat until the indigenous population lashes out. It does not matter how minor. Even just a threat will do.

Raise a posse and “defend” yourselves against them.

Tell everyone they started it when they lashed out.

Repeat until they’re stuck on reservations under military control and you control the vast majority of the land.

girlfreddy ,
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Sunday also saw Noor Abu Rasheed return home from Ramallah Hospital, her legs bandaged, to the dilapidated tent her family now shares next to their burned home. Two weeks after the attacks, she was with her family in the remains of their home as they cleared out the last of the blackened furniture. “My hope is to return to school and finish my exams,” Noor said, looking down at the place on her leg where she was shot. Then she looked up, and smiled. “If I stay alive,” she said.

Fuck. I can’t even imagine. :(

shish_mish ,
@shish_mish@lemmy.world avatar

Yeah, I just finished reading and I don’t understand why the world is not acting. Why can Israel act with impunity. The Western nations have clearly shown that the rules are different for non-white people and that their lives are not as valuable. The hypocrisy is shameful. These are people with dreams and hopes just like us. The language used by the government, describing Palestinians as vermin and animals emboldens the settlers. There seem to be few repercussions for killing a Palestinian, if any. Israel keeps saying ups this was a mistake and ups we bulldozed entire villages and ups, a mass grave. They say they will investigate but when they do, they find no wrong doing or just a misdemeanour or an error. The whole situation is a clusterfuck, any other country would be sanctioned at the least, and ostracised. And why are the other Arab nations not helping Palestine more? I understand the situation is complicated, but there are many diplomatic measures to put pressure on Israel without getting involved in the fighting.

ad_on_is ,
@ad_on_is@lemmy.world avatar

This is exactly what pisses me off about all of this… it’s 2024, we see live footage on various platforms, and the “leaders” make eurovision-like decisions all over the past few months.

It’s not 1945 where they used to make decisions based on hearsay, its 2024 ffs, with live footage.

They spread fakenews about beheaded babies without any proof and justified the killings. But the footage that clearly shows acts of crime isn’t remotely considered to stop this cruelty.

TokenBoomer ,

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/1ea42b84-3fab-44dd-8f4d-8e44a91f006a.jpeg

applepie ,

Arabs are in the pocket of the US, they would never sacrifice anything for this cause esp not US weapon supplies.

US too will have to face consequences for Israel's actions as we are the necessary condition for these war crimes.

Linkerbaan ,
@Linkerbaan@lemmy.world avatar

Simple watch this:

Stop voting for Genocide Joe vote third party.

TrickDacy ,

So trump can make it wayyyy better/s

Third party hasn’t been remotely close to having a chance in recent history, so this shitty anti-thought is just handing the reins to trump, who will very obviously make it way worse. But then again that’s what you want, isn’t it linker?

applepie ,

Votingn for either party is continuing this bullshit indefinitely.

Not voting, is what they want you to do ifnyiuaint voting for their team

Third party vote is a vote of no confidence for the current regime. Voting for either provides the regime with legitimacy.

TrickDacy ,

Wrong Wrong Wrong

I will never ever be convinced by the absolute hogwash Zero validity to it whatsoever.

applepie ,

Only wrong if you are emotionally or otherwise invested in the two party system... Which has failed to provide any results for working people since at least 1970s.

TrickDacy , (edited )

No third party got enough votes to do anything but Fuck up one campaign or or another, at least for a few decades that’s been true. Exactly what good does that do? Absolutely no one will get “the message” from your 4% of the population (I’m being pretty generous there. Don’t get your hopes up) protest votes. All you can do is help trump by doing that

The protest vote has failed to achieve anything since the always. Is it possible you don’t know that? Or is the goal specifically to help trump?

applepie ,

Biden's blind Israel support is helping trump more than my shit post tbh

TrickDacy ,

You people going around spreading anti Biden sentiment like to pretend to be martyrs, but you’re 1000% hurting Palestinians more than Biden ever could. You pretend it doesn’t matter that you’ll elect trump and the horrors will grow in size, but it fucking matters. It will be your fault. Your conscious will not be clean no matter how many times you pretend otherwise

applepie ,

Yes american politics enabling Israeli war crimes is my fault

And if I don't vote biden, it is even more so my fault.

Cheers!

TrickDacy ,

No make sure trump is elected and sleep like a baby about all those Palestinians you murdered

applepie ,

Mental illness spotted.

TrickDacy ,

Yes sociopaths probably do think empathy is a sickness

Linkerbaan ,
@Linkerbaan@lemmy.world avatar

Genocide denier lecturing people on how they are “hurting Palestinians” lmao.

TrickDacy ,

Of course! Everyone loves genocide unless they agree with you that Biden personally orders bombings of Palestinians. that’s all that matters.

Trump’s gonna love sending extra genocide money once you hand him the election (totally accidentally too)

assassin_aragorn ,

That would just make things worse. Trump would be worse for those protesting Israel’s actions and for Palestinians themselves.

wapo.st/3wSKnDY

Linkerbaan ,
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It’s because of this Pavlovian BUT TRUMP reaction that israel is committing Genocide right now.

Than you for proving my point.

assassin_aragorn ,

My link is literally Trump talking about Israel and Palestine. It isn’t a “but Trump is bad” article, it’s directly relevant to this issue.

Linkerbaan ,
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The israeli Post pretending that Biden isn’t currently having pro Palestine protesters brutally beaten up by the cops is conveniently not highlighted

Both of them would do what Biden is doing right now.

assassin_aragorn ,

The president does not control the police nor campus police or campus administration. It would be a hell of a lot easier across the board if they did.

Can you prove that the Biden administration is behind the persecution of the protestors, specifically, and not individual police departments? Trump sounds like he would want to order the national guard or military to do this.

Linkerbaan ,
@Linkerbaan@lemmy.world avatar

it’s absolutely hillarious that you require concrete evidence of actions Biden doing something yet Trump only has to say words. The Democrats used the police violence! They pumped rubber bullets into peaceful protesters like no tomorrow! Biden condoned the police violence and praised it. Painting all protesters as a violent mob. Genocide Joe went full fascist mode during the demonstrations and we’re somehow still in pretend land.

Biden condemns campus protest violence: No ‘right to cause chaos’

Furthermore the Democrats were literally bribed by the israelis to call in the police on the protesters to violently shut them down. Many of the Zionists bribing the Democrats are the exact same people that bribe Republicans.

American business leaders and billionaires set up a Whatsapp group to shape public opinion on Israel’s war in Gaza and urged New York City’s mayor to use police to disperse a pro-Palestinian protest at Columbia University.

American business leaders and billionaires set up a Whatsapp group to shape public opinion on Israel’s war in Gaza and urged New York City’s mayor to use police to disperse a pro-Palestinian protest at Columbia University.

The group was set up on 12 October, days after Hamas’s surprise attack on southern Israel, to “change the narrative” on Israel, including by conveying “the atrocities committed by Hamas… to all Americans”.

Among the business leaders in the group were the CEO of Starbucks, Howard Schultz, Dell CEO and founder Michael Dell, and Joshua Kushner, a financier and brother to Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner.

assassin_aragorn ,

You’re confusing a lot of groups together here. Trying to influence the NYC mayor and public opinion is very different from bribing Democrats as a whole. IIRC the mayor is quite right wing too, like a Manchin type.

There’s also a significant difference here – Trump is saying what he would do. You’re claiming what Biden has already done, and your evidence is a public statement that he made – which don’t get me wrong, was a shitty one to make. You haven’t proved though that Biden or Democrats as a whole told the police to do that and shoot with rubber bullets and painted them all as violent. In your own link, Biden makes a very clear differentiation between peaceful and violent protest, and he says the former is a bedrock American principle. Your own link contradicts what you’re describing and doesn’t support your claims. It says blatantly that Biden won’t use the national guard, which is the actual enforcing power that the president has.

Come on, there’s plenty to criticize Biden and Democrats on with Israel without making leaps and lumping everyone together. I have respect for a lot of the points and arguments you’ve made in the past, but this isn’t it. This is just sensationalism not grounded in reality.

Linkerbaan ,
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I could bring up Biden being the top recipient of AIPAC money as well.

I have also proven that the Democrats were intentionally violently repressing peaceful protests against Genocide.

I even posted a video of them pumping rubber bullets into protesters before look lemmy.world/post/14942817

There is plenty to criticize Biden and the democrats on regarding israel. The Democrats violently repressing peaceful protests CCP style is one of those things.

Fearmongering that Trump would do something does not have the same impact if the Dems are already doing it.

Third party all the way.

SwingingTheLamp ,

I have no direct evidence, but it’s not at all far-fetched. The Obama administration set up a coordinated effort to share intelligence and plan tactics for the crackdown on Occupy Wall Street across the FBI, state and local police forces, and the banks themselves. The uniformity and brutality of the response to the university anti-genocide protests is… curious, at least.

kaffiene ,

No. This shit had been going on well before Trump

Linkerbaan ,
@Linkerbaan@lemmy.world avatar

And it’s going to continue going on because both sides are controlled by israel.

kaffiene ,

Not entirely. There’s a lot of pro Israel money but a shift in public perception may well shift the political calculus

Linkerbaan ,
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Biden has been trying to throw his election chances for the past 7 months. And the Republican side isn’t shifting much to begin with they love killing brown people. At this point the only thing that will shift is how hard Biden tries to gaslight people that he is wagging his finger at Netanyahu.

kaffiene ,

Not going to disagree with the fact that Biden seems to be doing his best to lose

TokenBoomer ,

You can be damn sure if Biden’s poll numbers dropped to 20% he’d pivot so fast and the media would laud that as courage.

kaffiene ,

Thereby electing Trump

TheBat ,
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Israel is enabled by the USA for the last 75 years. They vetoed every resolution even condemning Israeli atrocities.

jonne , (edited )

There’s multiple reasons:

  • Zionists have made it a priority to make sure they have their people / sympathisers in high places in politics and media. Anyone who even hints at considering calling Palestinians people gets pushed out.
  • Israel is a laboratory for ‘policing’, anti-terrorism and surveillance tactics. This technology and know-how is indispensable for both the ‘democracies’ in the West and dictatorships, including Arab dictatorships that pay lip service to the Palestinian cause, but don’t actually do anything. If crowd control tactics work on Palestinians, they work on leftie protestors and civil rights movements in the West and popular democratic movements in authoritarian regimes.
  • people don’t want to be called anti-semites (especially in Europe, where every country has a horrific history with that), which is why they’ve been trying very hard to conflate Zionism with Jewishness.
  • there’s also a global right-wing nationalism on the rise, where people like Modi, Orban, Trump, Netanyahu, … sort of espouse the same rhetoric that used to be limited to white supremacy, but it’s just applied to their ethnicity/race/religious group. The neo-nazis are still anti-semites, but they see Israel as the place they can ship all the Jews to when the time comes. Israel’s actions making Jews outside of Israel a target for retaliation plays into that as well.
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