Een kwart van moslimjongeren in België vindt geweld tegen homo’s gerechtvaardigd (JOP Monitor). De helft van Turken in Duitsland vindt homoseksualiteit een "ziekte". De helft van Europese moslims wil geen homo's als vrienden (Koopmans).
Dat zijn de studies ik gisteren LETTERLIJK citeerde in @deafspraak, met verwijzing naar o.a. @Ruud_Koop_mans. Maar Petra De Sutter snoefde dat ik daarmee alleen maar blijk gaf van "zorgwekkende vooroordelen" over moslims. Dat was het échte probleem.
QED. Zo reusachtig blijft de blindheid van vele progressieven over de islam. Zulke woke ideologen staat nu aan de top van onze wetenschappelijke instellingen.
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@HuginnOdinsson@xtinamagwaza1@LizHurra@gathara Ummm… do you even understand how coalitional politics works!? Ben-Gvir is loathed by a large proportion of the Israeli electorate. What do you believe the Pro-Democracy Protest Movement is/was..!? 🤔
@HuginnOdinsson@xtinamagwaza1@LizHurra@gathara Ummm, yeah!? Ben-Gvir is from Otzma Yehudit… an ultra right-wing political party. Secular (hiloni) Israelis almost universally despise him.
@HuginnOdinsson@xtinamagwaza1@LizHurra@gathara So… word and actions are the same, eh!? No difference!? During the 2018 Gaza border protests, Sinwar exhorted crowds with threats of extreme violence, stating: "We will take down the border and tear their hearts from their bodies." Case closed, then!? 😁
@HuginnOdinsson@xtinamagwaza1@LizHurra@gathara But… NOT the 21% of the Israeli population that’s Arab-Palestinian..? Seems rather odd!? And the West Bank has a population growth rate of 2%, doesn’t it!?
@HuginnOdinsson@xtinamagwaza1@LizHurra@gathara How is it “deflection” to suggest that ethnic cleansing might require rather more ethnic cleansing..? Unless, of course, you’re using the term “ethnic” ideologically… 😆
@HuginnOdinsson@xtinamagwaza1@LizHurra@gathara Which “nationalists” are trying to expel the 20% of Israeli citizens who are Arab/Palestinian? Or the 51% of Israeli Jews that are Mizrahi? There’s not much “ethnic cleansing” of the “Motherland” occurring there, champ! 🙄
@paaccmann@xtinamagwaza1@LizHurra@gathara You do realise that 20% of Israelis are Arab/Palestinian and that 51% of all Israeli Jews are Mizrahi, right? What “ethnicity” is being “cleansed,” exactly!? 😁
De geallieerden hebben in één nacht (9–10 maart 1945) méér onschuldige burgers gedood, in één stad, dan Israël in heel de Gaza-oorlog van meer dan twee jaar. En dat was doelbewust, zonder waarschuwingen, zonder evacuaties, zonder voedselhulp. De blokkade tegen Japan heette letterlijk "Operation Starvation". Je hebt gewoon geen flauw idee wat oorlog of existentiële dreiging betekent.
In February 2024, @IChotiner interviewed Paul Spiegel who predicted the death toll in Gaza by August 2024 would reach up to 95,720 dead if the war continued as it was and up to 114,750 if things escalated more.
It only hit 40,000 in mid-august. 1/2 to 2/3 less than warned.
Did @IChotiner ever account for promoting wildly-off base figures?
That’s a flat lie.
In the last 10 years of his life, Muhammad conducted and ordered 27 raids (ghazawat) and 56 military operations (saraya). He took women who were captives of war as sex slaves, such as Safiyya and Rayhana. He ordered assassinations, such as that of Ka‘b ibn al-Ashraf. In the case of Banu Qurayza, the males who had grown pubic hair, meaning they had reached puberty, were executed, with traditional reports placing the number between 600 and 900.
He said, “I came to you with slaughter.” He said, “I was ordered to fight the people until they say the Shahada.” He also said, “I was made victorious through terror.”
So how exactly does he look like Jesus?
How many raids did Jesus conduct? How many women did Jesus take as slaves through those raids? How many assassinations did Jesus order? How many people did Jesus order his followers to fight until they converted?
Please, at the very least, do not lie.
Someone I've known for twenty years lives a couple of blocks away. He is not a partisan, he does not post about the Middle East, and he is not the sort of person who chants anything.
Out of the blue, he asked me: "Do you think there's a genocide in Gaza?"
No, I told him. By every metric that matters — legal, historical, statistical — there is not.
He looked at me the way you look at someone who has just told you the earth is flat. Netanyahu wants to eliminate the Palestinian people, he said. Everybody knows that.
Not a study. Not a court ruling. Not a casualty figure. Just a thing everybody knows.
I have spent forty years as a reporter learning that "everybody knows" is where investigations begin, not where they end.
Tomorrow on Just the Facts: Genocide for Dummies: a plain-language piece on what the word actually means under international law, how Gaza compares on every relevant metric, and why even the strongest case for the genocide charge still doesn't clear the bar the word requires.
By the way, I know the title will bother some readers, and I address that directly in the piece. My argument is not that the subject is trivial — it is that the word is being used by people who cannot define it, at a threshold they have never examined, with a confidence that bears no relationship to the evidence.
How many Arabs actually lived in the areas where Zionist settlement began?
In 1872, the Arab rural population in the Zionist settlement areas was 21-25,000,
The urban population, including Jerusalem, Jaffa, Haifa, Acre, Safed and Tiberias, was less than 40,000,
of whom about 20,000 were Jews and others.
Which means that the total Arab population was no more than 45,000.
This population included a huge concentration of Egyptian and other immigrants.
By 1947, this number had grown to over 400,000.
Source: Rural Arab demography and early Jewish settlement in Palestine by David Grossman