A Palestinian man who was detained by Israeli forces in occupied East Jerusalem said he has been physically abused after officers brutally beat him and branded the Star of David on his cheek, according to Israeli media reports.
If anyone wrote a fictional story like this, people would call it over the top, silly, far-fetched… reality is fucking dummer than fiction I guess. Not to excuse evil, this is evil, not dumbness.
Quote that stuck from a history class I took years ago:
'A key difference between fiction and history is that fiction generally has to make sense or it doesn't circulate and you aren't exposed to it. With history, whatever happens happens, and whether or not there's any rhyme or reason to it doesn't matter: it becomes history.'
Also reminds me of this post, which kinda puts into perspective just how fucking weird a lot of history was as it was unfolding. Studying it after the fact we can get a sense of "oh that must have been shocking" but we don't really get a sense of the absolute "...........what the actual fuck...?!" going through the heads of the people at that time:
Makes me wonder if the batshit insanity of the circumstances of Trump's presidency will actually be captured by history, or if it will just get boiled down to "...the US then elected a talkshow host famous for his orange face. It went poorly; and the next president was..."
Because historically, it was a disaster for Jews to not have their own nation, but be a (n often persecuted) minority in other countries.
Or it still is to this day, but now they have at least one more or less safe retreat on Earth. Yes, many other peoples still don't have that.
It’s okay because
No! Police violence and abuse are NOT okay. Saying this as an atheist, anti-religious, anti-fascist from Germany.
We can and should condemn the atrocious misbehavior of the police, while still supporting the right of the Israeli nation to exist, which is tied to the basic human right of Jewish people to live.
In the sense that I talked about Israel and no other particular nation, yes.
Not in the sense which you probably mean though. I even said "many other peoples still don’t have that" (safe retreat), which fits Palestine. Of course Palestinians, being humans, have the same basic human rights which I mentioned.
I'm not an expert in these things. I felt it would be impossible for me to give a nuanced take on all the important sides of the conflict. So I didn't even try, but still responded to the questions which were about Israel, likewise addressing Israel specifically.
I feel your edgy take kind of ignores the essence of my comment. I'd appreciate more balanced responses. Let's not react to unecessary hate and violence with a comment section which does exactly that.
It's not an edgy take. I don't agree with the "they don't have a home so it's ok that we took someone else's and gave it to them" stance you seem to have.
The compensation for persecution shouldn't be allowing the victims to persecute others....which is exactly what's happening with Israel and the Palestinians.
The right for the nation to exist has nothing to do with basic human rights, it's politics and power. You don't need a government to exist.
I don’t agree with the “they don’t have a home so it’s ok that we took someone else’s and gave it to them” stance you seem to have.
Yes, me neither. Glad we could clear this up. Personally, my favorite way forward after WW2 would have been to give them Bavaria, although this would have entailed other problems. Either way, we cannot reverse history and I think it's important for the Jews to have their own nation. No, that's not a free pass for things like this article.
The compensation for persecution shouldn’t be allowing the victims to persecute others
Obviously agreed. I think I already made that clear. But since we had this misunderstanding, it apparently was not so clear. So thanks for bringing it up, and using a few more words on it.
Forcibly taking land from a group of people who did nothing wrong to give it to another group of people is not OK, full stop.
I think it's important for the Jews to have their own nation.
It's not important for us to have our own nation at all because we are not a political party. Are we not able to live with other people?
Let's be clear about something: the nation of Israel and the Jewish people are two different things. Anyone who claims that their religion needs its own nation is not doing so in service of the religion or it's people, they are fighting for their own political power.
Forcibly taking land from a group of people who did nothing wrong to give it to another group of people is not OK, full stop.
Yes, obviously.
the nation of Israel and the Jewish people are two different things.
Yes.
Anyone who claims that their religion needs its own nation is not doing so in service of the religion or it’s people, they are fighting for their own political power.
I feel that's a bit too simplistic. 'Jewish people' can refer to religion, but also to culture, or descent. Neither of which have to overlap. Most importantly, it does not really matter how the individual identifies themselves to get into trouble for 'being jewish', but what others project onto this for their own political power.
I'd be happy to cease this point and agree there is no necessity if we have, say, 200 years of no persecution. I agree it should be possible to live in multi-cultural peace without distinct nations, but I also recognize it wasn't the case in the past. And I'm afraid it still isn't the case in the present in many places.
We can and should condemn the atrocious misbehavior of the police, while still supporting the right of the Israeli nation to exist, which is tied to the basic human right of Jewish people to live.
Sure we should condemn the misbehavior of the police which is part of the state (executive), right? So we should condemn the misbehavior of the the isreal state, right?
They sure fucking love Israel though, because the settlers love to lynch Arabs and Africans
What could be more white than stealing land from the non-white people already living there? Old school white supremacists hated Italians and Irish too, but this isn't the 1940s.
Most of ADLs database of hate is centered around white supremacism.
ADL exists to protect Jews.
Why would an organization centered around protecting Jews focus so much negative attention on white supremacists if white supremacists love Jews and Israel?
White supremacists love Israel, not Jews. That's why they constantly talk about so-called Judeo-Christian values.
Israel isn't some post-racial society. Whiteness exists there as it does in all settler states, because whiteness is an artificial construction of colonialism and is used by colonizers to turn the settlers against the colonized.
The wealthiest and most powerful Israelis are European, then Asian, then African. There's a clear racial hierarchy in Israel that you don't want to admit exists.