Rachel Corrie, 1979-2003 (she died 22 years ago today)
Rachel, an American #peace #activist, was killed when Israeli soldiers crushed her with a #bulldozer
She was trying to prevent the demolition of a Palestinian family's home in #Rafah by Israeli occupation forces, before they left Gaza and turned it into a giant concentration camp.
#Israel #Gaza #NeverForget #RachelCorrie #HumanShield #Politics #Gaza #Occupation
@palestine@lemmy.ml @palestine@a.gup.pe @israel
cross-posted from: https://freefree.ps/users/faab64/statuses/114173645700895705
Imagine being the kind of mind that downvotes this comment. Like why are they downvoting? "I disagree with this verifiable fact"? "I refuse to believe this is true"? "Maybe if I downvote this people will question the validity of this fact"?
They're the kind of people who straight up make a full governmental funded guide about what Israeli people should say online.
This is an attempt to give this regurgitated bullshit credibility by having as many people as possible saying the same information online, since "if all these people are saying it then it must be true"
the term “zionist” is essentially a racial slur… zionism is just the movement for a jewish homeland, but many many zionists are against that being established in Israel….
and many Israeli’s aren’t zionists….
even Bob Marley used to sing about zion… there was a movement to establish that in Ethiopia…
tl;dr it’s not the Zionists, it’s not the Jews… it’s Israelis but even a lot of them are against the whole fascist murdering thing….
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so, whenever someone writes about “those damned Zionists” they’re taking a legitimate criticism and turning it into a racist one….
I would say wanting to start an ethnocracy is inherently racist.
it’s a religion, btw
Yeah, well, same applies to theocracies.
But what’s your point? Does that make it OK? Are you saying Jewish isn’t an ethnicity?
i’m saying wanting a peaceful homeland isn’t bad. Displacing and killing people is bad.
conflating the two is bad.
What if wanting a peaceful homeland requires displacing and killing people? Or is that considered "conflating the two" in your eyes?
displacing and killing people is VERY BAD ….
wtf? i’m talking about NOT doing that….
it’s possible to do without killing or displacing people… less so now than it was in the 1940’s, though….
Wanting a homeland by displacing someone else's homeland and blaming then for not accepting it is exactly the problem. Fuck off, colonizer.
there are many places that are uninhabited, or less populated. there were countries willing to accept them, post holocaust….
i said absolutely jack shit about displacing native populations.
fuck off, edgey teen pretending like they understand anything by just calling everyone a colonizer…
Not true - https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2024/05/30/israeli-views-of-the-israel-hamas-war/
You're talking about a society that had a pro-rape January 6th: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/israel-prison-idf-soldiers-arrest-palestine-rape-b2587997.html
sounds like a very small selection sample, and people in israel might not want to be seen speaking against the war….
Gee I wonder why.
because Netanyahu is a fascist
What about other Israeli prime ministers?
i can’t give you a rundown of exactly how evil each prime minister of israel has been… but Bibi has been particularly extreme, by israeli standards
Zionism originated among Protestant Christians who wanted a solution to the Jewish problem as they saw it and to create the conditions for the Second Coming of Jesus Christ. It originally faced pushback from Jews before being accepted centuries later by secular and nationalist Jews, and only much later on did it become religious.