“There is no intention of allowing the residents of the northern Gaza Strip to return to their homes." (Brigadier General Cohen, IDF)
Ethnic cleansing, live-streamed on social media. Don’t ever, ever claim you didn’t know it was happening.
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.
Live before the eyes of the world:
Israel wipes out the entire village of Mhaibib in South Lebanon, home to the 2,000-year-old shrine of Prophet Benjamin.
History reduced to rubble.
Centuries of heritage gone.
While the “international community” just watches in silence.
Last October, Israel produced this detailed computer animation of Hamas’ supposed headquarters under al-Shifa hospital.
Guess what! All of this is fantasy. This was never uncovered. It did not exist.
But it was used to justify destroying Gaza’s entire healthcare system.
Rockefeller insider gives a rare glimpse of the real reasons for the feminist movement.
"One reason was we couldn't tax half the population before Women's Lib. And the second reason was, now we get the kids in school at an early age, we can indoctrinate the kids how to think."
Isr*el is behind every major evil on the whole planet. People still don’t realise what they’re dealing with. The deepest depths of depravity all originate there and infect the globe
The world could have stopped the genocide in Gaza.
Instead, our political leaders allowed Israel to act with total impunity.
That is why they are now murdering hundreds of civilians in Lebanon, putting millions more lives across the region at risk.
When will our government wake up to the horrors they have normalised? When will they call out this reckless aggression? Or do Arab lives not matter?
We need a full arms embargo to Israel and economic sanctions, now. Our common humanity demands nothing less.
In his UN speech Netanyahu claimed there are rockets in every civilian home in Lebanon, effectively arguing all homes are a military target. This is 100% genocidal and this maniac must be stopped.