Andreo Baba

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

My first encounter with Israelis was when I was backpacking through South America in my twenties, and I remember being shocked by how consistently awful they all were. I guess after their mandatory military service they tend to go traveling for a bit, and whenever I'd run into them they were reliably some of the nastiest people I'd ever encountered.

They weren't ever nasty to me, though. I am a white westerner, and I never had a problem with them. They were nasty to the impoverished brown-skinned people who were hosting us. They were obnoxious and bullying toward local guides, they'd leave the place in a mess, and they were always trying to screw over the locals for a better deal or extra meals or favors. One time they tricked a hostel into putting up a sign in Hebrew for other Israeli backpackers which said ugly things about our hosts (they told the hostel owner it was a great review), which I only know because they were laughing hysterically about it and told me. They consistently treated the people who were looking after us like they were much lesser than us. Their pushiness and entitlement were just unbelievable.

It was a very educational experience for me. I knew the Palestinians were being treated unfairly because my father had told me so, but I also had a great love of Jews and Jewish culture. I had visited Auschwitz and Dachau and Anne Frank's house in my travels, and I remember having some romantic ideas about kibbutzim. This was my first time directly encountering the reality that there is something unhealthy about Israeli society. Not Jews or Jewish culture, but Jewish Israelis.

Now I see evidence of this on my news feed every day, in the IDF soldiers prancing around in the undergarments of dead and displaced Palestinian women, in the AI translations of Hebrew tweets, in the polls which show widespread Israeli approval for the atrocities in Gaza, in Israeli TikTok videos mocking the suffering of the Palestinians, in the Israelis showing up in my comments justifying the worst things in the world in the most depraved ways imaginable.

My encounters with Israelis in South America were an early taste of ugly things to come. Everything I glimpsed then I've been seeing online over the past year. I keep thinking about those obnoxious pricks I met all those years ago, and about how they didn't know at the time that they were giving me very useful information for me to make use of in the future.

When Israel supporters tell you to shut up about Gaza until you've been to Israel and met Israelis, just ignore them. Don't go to Israel; you're a westerner, they'll be nice to you. Go to one of the tourist spots in the global south that Israelis like to visit, one with lots of brown-skinned people who've been colonized by the west, and watch how they treat people there. That will show you what Israelis are really like.

[Typical African @Joe__Bassey]

Here is what Gaddafi said about Israel 🇮🇱 occupation.

[Adam @AdameMedia]

Any politician that enabled this should be hounded out of office.

Any celebrity that endorsed this should be cancelled.

Any business that supported this should be boycotted.

[Pelham @Resist_05]

The day after the worlds highest court the ICJ rules Israeli settlements to be ILLEGAL…

Israeli settlers attack Palestinians with baseball bats under police protection in Massfer Yatta in the occupied West Bank…🇵🇸💔

[Adam @AdameMedia]

An Israeli shoots a young, innocent and unarmed Palestinian in the back, for fun.

For. Fun.

[ONE @One_Dawah]

This is Emaan ☝🏻

[The Saviour @TheSaviour]

BEFORE AND AFTER

ENOUGH IS ENOUGH

[القرآن الکریم @Al_Quran_011]

reposts, it will help you❤️🎧🕊️

[القرآن الکریم @Al_Quran_011]

reposts, it will help you❤️🎧🕊️

[Sarah Wilkinson @swilkinsonbc]

Barefoot with a backpack; that’s all most displaced Palestinians people have left as again they’re forced to leave Al Shejaiya in the north of Gaza

[Dr. Anastasia Maria Loupis @DrLoupis]

“I have ordered a complete siege of Gaza. No electricity. No food. No fuel. No water. We are fighting human animals and we act accordingly”

Jewish defense Minister Yoav Gallant🇮🇱

[The Saviour @TheSaviour]

You can destroy their MOSQUES,

But you will NEVER destroy their FAITH!

🙏🇵🇸

[Abier @abierkhatib]

Remember when they called Palestinians “ animals”

Well… there’s a sample of the “children of light”

[ulver jonsen @UlverJ]

@DRNyheder Medietavshed.
De sidste uger er to moskeer blevet angrebet med skydevåben. Den ene gang fik de overmandet terroristen, det andet sted blev en muslim skudt.
Flere steder er hagekors gentagende gange blevet malet på moskeer. Alt sammen de sidste to uger.

[Andreo Baba @andersbaba]

@realisterne1dk @DRNyheder Det er simpelthen faktuelt forkert 🤣🤣

[Adam @AdameMedia]

They tried to warn you about AIPAC in the 80s.

No one listened.

[Elise Bjerkrheim @EBjerkrheim]

Betalte rejser til Israel til journalister og debattører rejser alvorlige spørgsmål om den journalistiske objektivitet og troværdighed i formidlingen af den igangværende krig mod Gaza.

Rejserne er særligt problematiske i en krig, der i den grad også er en krig mod den frie presse. Israel har forment internationale medier adgang til Gaza, slået over 100 journalister ihjel og lukket nyhedskanalen Al Jazeera i Israel. 

I nyhederne ser vi ikke lokale journalister fra Gaza rapportere om situationen i Gaza. Til gengæld ser vi masser af officielle israelske repræsentanter.

Den palæstinensiske journalist Hossam Shabat skriver: »Det største problem er ikke, at vestlige journalister ikke kan komme ind, men det faktum, at vestlige medier ikke respekterer og værdsætter palæstinensiske journalister.« 

Dette har ledt til en bemærkelsesværdig ensidig mediedækning herhjemme, medvirket til at fjerne dialog og nuancer og har været med til at skævvride danskernes virkelighedsopfattelse.

Der synes at være behov for selvransagelse ikke bare blandt de danske meningsdannere, der har takket ja til en rejse, men også på redaktioner og i mediehuse.

Der er potentielt tale om et større strukturelt problem, som påvirker danske mediers dækning af igangværende krige og konflikter.

Ifølge god presseskik må medierne ikke hindre offentliggørelse af information af væsentlig betydning for offentligheden eller lade sig presse af krav fra andre, der kan rejse tvivl om mediernes frie og uafhængige position.

Det er på tide at få frem i lyset, om mediernes medarbejdere har været på rejser betalt af Israel. Særligt hvis de dækker den aktuelle krig eller på anden vis er meget aktive i debatten herom.

Offentligheden fortjener medier med uafhængighed og integritet og ikke mindst en retfærdig og nuanceret dækning af internationale konflikter.

https://t.co/eNOMUbZNWJ

[Suppressed News. @SuppressedNws]

Israelis are dumb, they are claiming that the 🇵🇸woman was arrested because she stabbed civilians on a bus however,

IMG1- The reference Israelis are using , date of incident is 17th of April.

IMG2- Uploaded on Instagram on the 5th of April which is actually before the date that is published for the incident they claim this Palestinian woman is involved in.

Yes, they lied again.

[Suppressed News. @SuppressedNws]

IT NEVER STARTED ON THE 7TH OF OCTOBER.