Israeli rabbi says ‘kill everyone in Gaza, including babies’ (thecradle.co)
from CaractacusPotts@lemmy.ca to world@lemmy.world on 08 Mar 2024 19:46
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gibmiser@lemmy.world on 08 Mar 2024 20:19 next collapse

Jews in Israel and internationally, please Stand up to your government. You know this is wrong. Kill the babies? Listen to what they are saying.

Your government is fucked up. You have let fear and revenge drive your country to madness. Look in your hearts, would a loving and just God want this? I don’t care what any book says, look in your heart. You know this is wrong.

CaractacusPotts@lemmy.ca on 08 Mar 2024 20:23 next collapse

Every western government has been complicit in this genocide. USA most of all. None of this could have occurred had it not been for the funding and the diplomatic cover provided by our governments. It’s up to all of us to make it stop.

taanegl@lemmy.world on 08 Mar 2024 21:42 next collapse

Oh yeah? Pray tell, how do we do that? And mind you, you’ve also got Iran in play, Egypt is doing its thing, and they would both react in their own way.

Like would you suggest NATO troops on the ground? How do you think Hamas would react to that?

CaractacusPotts@lemmy.ca on 08 Mar 2024 21:55 collapse

What tactics has the West utilized against Russia that they have not employed against Israel?

Economic sanctions. Apply them to Israeli leadership in the military and in politics. Plus Business leaders and bankers. Prevent Israeli banking institutions “from accessing SWIFT, the international system for financial transactions, and restricting access to Western financial markets.” Ban Israeli access to international goods and services import as well as export. Let’s see how long their military can go without oil.

gibmiser@lemmy.world on 08 Mar 2024 22:02 next collapse

Well, I think the US public has been pretty vocal about this compared to most issues. People are really pissed at Biden. So don’t change the subject.

I think it’s time we start publicly shaming Israelis and Jews who don’t make strong statements condemning the murder of civilians and protesting the reckless-at-best and seemingly genocidal actions of their government.

CaractacusPotts@lemmy.ca on 08 Mar 2024 22:07 next collapse

publicly shaming Israelis and Jews

This is about Zionism. It’s not about Jews. If you make it about Jews you are falling for the Zionist tactic of equating the two. Do better

gibmiser@lemmy.world on 08 Mar 2024 22:56 collapse

Really I just meant the international community of Jewish people. Many of them have strong opinions about matters related to Israel.

gregorum@lemm.ee on 08 Mar 2024 23:22 collapse

As a member of the international community of Jews, I think what Israel is doing is monstrous and disgusting. But I am in no way responsible for what they do. I don’t live there, I’ve never been there, and I have zero ability to influence Israeli policy beyond expressing my disapproval, which I often do.

Stop spreading the misinformation that Israel = all Jews.

gibmiser@lemmy.world on 09 Mar 2024 01:22 collapse

I understand your frustration at what I am saying, but I believe you have more influence over the Israeli people than I do as a non-jew. Am I wrong? I just imagine that Israeli jews would take more seriously and be more introspective after receiving critical comments from a fellow Jewish person, who presumably is more in tune with the worries and historical context of the Jewish community than a non Jewish person is.

My opinion is more easily decried as antisemitic or ignorant and waved away. Yours is not.

When Christians do horrible things in the name of god, don’t you think being called out by other Christians is going to carry some more weight?

gregorum@lemm.ee on 09 Mar 2024 02:25 collapse

What would make you think this? Just because we happen to share an ethnicity doesn’t mean an entire nation will listen to me or give me any entitlement to tell them what to do. Nor is it my responsibility, as a Jew.

And people who make decisions based on ancient mythology aren’t exactly making rational decisions in the first place, so I don’t know why an appeal on that basis would work. I may be a Jew, but I’m also an atheist. The last thing this situation needs is more religion.

gibmiser@lemmy.world on 09 Mar 2024 03:49 collapse

Unfortunately, there’s no commonly accepted distinction between Jews who practice Judaism, Zionists, and ethnic Jews, At least not that I’m aware of. I do recognize that there is a difference, And if I were you, I would be pointing out the difference also.

I’m sorry, man.It sounds like this is rough for you to be tied to these people by the Jewish label. I hope sometime in this century. All this b******* gets sorted out For everyone’s sake.

gregorum@lemm.ee on 09 Mar 2024 04:21 next collapse

Yes there is— you just listed them. And what i find especially despicable is people like you who speak out of both sides of your mouth while disingenuously trying to appear “understanding” and civil. If you really felt bad for anyone, you wouldn’t be here making accusations and “just asking questions” in bad faith, trying to provoke an argument.

gibmiser@lemmy.world on 09 Mar 2024 04:37 collapse

I said commonly accepted. I’m sorry, but those distinctions are lost on the general public.And what we need is the general public to put pressure on politicians. But sure, whatever, Let’s get pissy and fight amongst ourselves. I’m sure that will help.

And don’t compare me to that just asking questions Tucker Carlson, bullshit. I don’t care where you live. I don’t think it’s a big ask for someone to stand up and say killing civilians is a bad thing.

gregorum@lemm.ee on 09 Mar 2024 04:51 collapse

It’s pretty arrogant of you to think you get to speak for the “general public”. And you weren’t asking for someone to stand up and say killing civilians is a bad thing— you have been saying that I, as a Jew, should lecture all of Israel about what they’re doing and they they should listen just because I happen to be a Jew also. Did you suddenly get struck by amnesia and forget what you’ve been saying this whole time? Because you can scroll up and review your past comments if you forgot what you said. Everyone else who’s read this far sure saw what you said.

You say you don’t want to be compared to Tucker Carlson, then I suggest you drop his bad faith, bs “debate” style.

gibmiser@lemmy.world on 09 Mar 2024 05:04 collapse

Yes, you should, as a Jew lecture all of Israel. The entire premise of Israel is based on the fact that Jews Have a divine Right and responsibility bestowed upon them by god. You are a Jew and therefore they should take you seriously based on that responsibility. Bestowed upon you by God, even if you don’t believe it, they supposedly do.

No I don’t expect you to change the world being one voice.I expect everyone together to raise their voices.And the overwhelming majority of voices together decrying atrocities to work against injustice can make the difference.

I can’t say “as a Jew think you guys are f****** morons,” but you can! So calm the f*** down, get over yourself, realize that I’m not accusing you of anything and stop being so f****** defensive and just do your part.

kux@lemm.ee on 09 Mar 2024 08:08 next collapse

For one, you can say fuck on the internet, and for two, who are you to give out such ridiculous orders?

gibmiser@lemmy.world on 09 Mar 2024 14:18 collapse

Speech to text censors stuff unless I go back and fix it.

And two yes I was being a bit of an asshole last night. See my new reply if you care.

kux@lemm.ee on 09 Mar 2024 15:57 collapse

it’s a reasonable reply, fair play to you

gregorum@lemm.ee on 09 Mar 2024 09:24 next collapse

Well you certainly have clearly articulated your ignorant prejudices and bigotries, but I still have yet to hear a reason why I, as a Jew, am responsible for the actions of Israel nor why my voice should matter to them just because I’m a Jew.

gibmiser@lemmy.world on 09 Mar 2024 14:12 collapse

Your not responsible for their actions and I dont think I ever said that.

Look, I’m sorry I came at you so hard last night. I was drinking and I’m pissed off that there is a genocide going on that I feel like I can do fuck all about. Guess part of me wants to put it on other people since I feel helpless about it.

In retrospect saying we should publicly shame jews around the world for not going out of their way to scream publicly about a government that does not represent them - is stupid. I’m just frustrated and mad. I do think Israelis in the country should stand up to their government but you are right, Israelis and other jews are two very different groups of people.

I do think your voice probably carries more weight to at least some Israelis, but again, it’s not your responsibility.

assassin_aragorn@lemmy.world on 09 Mar 2024 18:18 collapse

I applaud your willing to say you were wrong and that you were emotional and drunk. I still believe you were very wrong, but it’s laudable to admit to that and recognize it.

I used to drink way too much, so I understand, trust me.

wide_eyed_stupid@lemmy.world on 09 Mar 2024 09:43 collapse

Fuck man, I’ve been reading this exchange and you sound a bit unhinged. Some random Jewish person living half a world away has no influence whatsoever on the actions of Israel. Do note that the person you’re arguing with has already spoken out against Israel’s actions in this very thread! But there’s nothing more they can do about it. They’re just a rando online, nobody in any position in power is going to give a fuck about what they say. Or what you say. Or what I say, for that matter. Putting all this shit on their shoulders (or anyone else not in Israel - or in a position of power elsewhere) is deranged.

The only people who can change anything about it are Israelis themselves, their government or foreign governments (maybe large corporations? But why would they as long as they make money, right?) by putting pressure on Israel. Nobody else. Certainly not some poor schmuck you decided to berate on Lemmy. Get over yourself.

gibmiser@lemmy.world on 09 Mar 2024 14:16 collapse

I read your post and looked back and I apologized to the other poster. I was angry about the situation and drinking last night, not that drinking gives me permission to be an asshole.

jordanlund@lemmy.world on 09 Mar 2024 06:55 collapse

The difference between Jews and Zionists is the same as between Christians and Christo-Fascists.

Believers vs. Believers who believe they need to be in control because God picked them and all others are lesser.

Folks are welcome to believe what they want to believe, it’s when they want to use that belief to restrict other people that it’s a problem.

macrocephalic@lemmy.world on 08 Mar 2024 22:23 collapse

I think it’s time we start publicly shaming Israelis and Jews who don’t make strong statements condemning the murder of civilians and protesting the reckless-at-best and seemingly genocidal actions of their government.

Are you deliberately trying to use the same language as was used against Muslims 20 years ago?

gibmiser@lemmy.world on 08 Mar 2024 23:11 collapse

No, I guess I don’t get your reference, unless you are referring to 911?

If so it would be the Americans needing to condemn their government for invading Iraq, not the Muslims condemning 911.

Aceticon@lemmy.world on 09 Mar 2024 10:09 collapse

Lets not include Spain and the Republic of Ireland on it, who have even tried to get the EU to sanction Israel for this.

But yeah, the rest are a disgrace, after the US especially Germany, who once again because of the etnicity of the aggressors, unwaveringly supports their committing of genocide along etnic lines and were the political and media “elites” even deploy Goebbels-style propaganda on this against its own populations. It was pretty dissapointing for me to see that whilst the national socialist party of the german worker is gone (though at the hands of others, not because it was kicked out by the Germans themselves), their cold violent racist ways are alive and well, at least amongst the German “elites”.

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gmtom@lemmy.world on 08 Mar 2024 22:41 collapse

Linker, this may be the stupidest thing you’ve ever said.

PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee on 08 Mar 2024 21:58 next collapse

Not exactly like every Jew is Israeli, in fact Israel is the one trying to force the narrative that they are, because it reinforces that narrative to those Jews when people actually do antisemitic shit

It’s a settler recruitment strategy.

WaxedWookie@lemmy.world on 08 Mar 2024 23:57 collapse

Not to mention the view that being anti-genocide is antisemitic - a deeply stupid, dishonest, antisemitic position that gives the best possible justification one could give for the extermination of the Jews.

assassin_aragorn@lemmy.world on 09 Mar 2024 02:58 next collapse

and internationally

Jewish people have nothing to do with Israel. There is no greater burden on them than us

hannes3120@feddit.de on 09 Mar 2024 06:28 collapse

Perfect example of the antisemitism channeled by this war…

Same kind of bullshit of asking a random Muslim on the street to denounce IS when they bombed something…

assassin_aragorn@lemmy.world on 09 Mar 2024 18:14 collapse

Exactly.

feedum_sneedson@lemmy.world on 09 Mar 2024 19:55 collapse

Is that guy part of the government?

NOT_RICK@lemmy.world on 08 Mar 2024 21:40 next collapse

Only thing this obvious fascist is missing is the Hugo Boss uni

assassinatedbyCIA@lemmy.world on 08 Mar 2024 21:47 next collapse

Really making that ICJ genocide case easy huh.

PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee on 08 Mar 2024 21:54 next collapse

“But if you call it a genocide you’re an antisemite.”

-AIPAC

lazylion_ca@lemmy.ca on 08 Mar 2024 22:17 next collapse

Why? Was one of them prophesied to be a king someday?

macrocephalic@lemmy.world on 08 Mar 2024 22:20 next collapse

I mean, it’s not out of character historically.

cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 08 Mar 2024 22:30 next collapse

people acting like there aren’t extremists on both sides of the conflict…

CaractacusPotts@lemmy.ca on 09 Mar 2024 00:28 next collapse

Whataboutism

cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 09 Mar 2024 01:16 collapse
Olgratin_Magmatoe@lemmy.world on 09 Mar 2024 00:50 collapse

Bombing women and children en masse doesn’t make it a conflict, it makes it a slaughter.

They’re intentionally preventing food and water from entering Gaza. It’s a genocide.

cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 09 Mar 2024 01:16 collapse

it’s been a conflict for 70 years.

and the palestinian government is no saint either

the losers are the both the palestinian and israeli citizens turning our back on israel doesn’t help anything. weve long had two state solution policy. it’s a shame that the Israeli government has long since forgotten rabin’s courage and the palestinian/gazan government cares more about killing israelis than it does helping their people

Olgratin_Magmatoe@lemmy.world on 09 Mar 2024 01:43 next collapse

it’s been a conflict for 70 years.

Oh well in that case it’s ok for Isreal to bomb women and children.

and the palestinian government is no saint either

This is a whataboutism.

cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 09 Mar 2024 01:44 collapse

Oh well in that case it’s ok for Isreal to bomb women and children.

no where in my post did i say that…

prole@sh.itjust.works on 09 Mar 2024 06:58 collapse

Then what was the relevance of the sentence?

theneverfox@pawb.social on 10 Mar 2024 00:56 collapse

Half of the population is under 18.

Every new generation, this kind of conflict repeats - Hamas launches a more organized attack, then Israel bombs it into a warzone and redraws the borders.

Hamas, the Palestinian “government” recognized by Israel, is a hardliner terrorist group. After they were elected, Israel stopped holding elections for Palestinians… It’s been decades now.

This situation is scripted.

xc2215x@lemmy.world on 08 Mar 2024 22:35 next collapse

Yikes. Not a good look at all.

JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee on 08 Mar 2024 23:09 next collapse

This is what one guy said. It is not representative, as a lone data point, of all Jews, all Israelis, or the Israeli government. If you have more data points, feel free to share them, but this one Rabbi’s statement doesn’t prove any generalisation.

WaxedWookie@lemmy.world on 08 Mar 2024 23:38 next collapse

Serious question - where would we see signs of broad Israeli opposition to the genocide? I know Netanyahu is unpopular, but I don’t think the genocide is a major factor in that unpopularity.

FatCrab@lemmy.one on 09 Mar 2024 16:42 collapse

Unfortunately, I don’t think you’ll find that as much anymore. One of understated but equally awful side effects of Hamas’ very successful pogrom is, in targeting who it did among the Israeli population, it pushed a lot of Israeli society currently in Israel hard right even beyond standard rally around the flag effects. The Israeli left and peace activist movement effectively died last year.

Jimmyeatsausage@lemmy.world on 09 Mar 2024 00:59 next collapse

I don’t think he speaks for all Jewish people or all people in Israel…as far as the government goes…he might not speak for them, but he’s definitely harmonizing. As far as data points go, I submit everything that had happened since 1967, with a very specific focus on the last ~5 months.

Chozo@fedia.io on 09 Mar 2024 01:24 next collapse

Yeah because it's not like rabbis have any influence over a congregation of people or anything.

ShittyBeatlesFCPres@lemmy.world on 09 Mar 2024 01:29 next collapse

I don’t think we should sensationalize one rabbi talking out his ass but there’s a lot of other data points. Itamar Ben-Gvir (Minister of National Security) and Yoav Gallant (Minister of Defense) say genocidal shit all the time. They’re not random rabbis. South Africa’s case before the ICJ included a lot of direct quotes from leading government officials.

I don’t know anything about this organization — I just found this on Google — but an NGO called Law 4 Palestine apparently has a database that seems to cite sources pretty well. law4palestine.org/law-for-palestine-releases-data…

And look: I know that Hamas and probably every other Islamic fundamentalist group’s leadership has said equally awful shit (and worse shit, for that matter). Some of the Israeli quotes came at an extremely traumatic moment. But this is bigger than one rabbi. I don’t think it’s be hard to establish intent if Netanyahu, Ben-Gvir, and Gallant end up getting tried for war crimes.

Edit: I just want to add that most Israelis (and the Jewish diaspora) do not support the current government at this point. They were having mass protests before Hamas attacked.

kromem@lemmy.world on 09 Mar 2024 03:49 collapse

The he said/she said is getting really old.

It takes willful ignorance at this point to not recognize that both Likud and Hamas have influential representation frothing at the mouth at the idea of ethnic cleansing of the other side.

It certainly isn’t all Palestinians or Israelis, it might not even be all of Likud or Hamas.

But the fact there’s agents advocating genocidal actions within the governments of each side of the conflict is pretty much indisputable at this point.

The fact a humanitarian crisis has become such a tribalistic litmus test is pretty ridiculous and gross. (And I’m referring to both ‘sides’ of that tribalism in case anyone thinks this is a unilateral criticism.)

captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works on 09 Mar 2024 03:14 next collapse

Sure does make me think we shouldn’t have arms deals with theocracies though.

kromem@lemmy.world on 09 Mar 2024 03:45 collapse

That rules out most of the Middle East, including Saudi Arabia.

While it would be nice to live in a world where strategic defense partnerships could be selected from better bedfellows, it’s not like there’s a plethora of good options to choose from in the area.

captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works on 09 Mar 2024 04:06 collapse

If it were up to me all arms sales to the Middle East would stop. I see absolutely no benefit to anyone within 1,500 miles of the Red Sea having access to so much as a single 9mm handgun cartridge.

kromem@lemmy.world on 09 Mar 2024 06:41 collapse

While I agree in principle, I kind of get (especially after the invasion of Ukraine) why USINT has had a hard on for strategic opposition of Russia all these years.

I have a feeling if it was up to both of us we’d just not have arms sales or production anywhere and have those resources instead invested into research and development of things to help advance humanity. But in a world not up to either of us, I can understand hard choices even if they don’t sit well with me.

anticurrent@sh.itjust.works on 08 Mar 2024 23:39 next collapse

If it came from an arab or muslim religious figure, western media mainstream media wouldn’t shut up about it for weeks. but an Israeli figure calling for extermination of an entire ethnic group passes under their radar and keep giving moral and legal ammunition to Israel to carry on its genocide in Gaza.

kromem@lemmy.world on 09 Mar 2024 03:42 collapse

Really? Because searching with the roles reversed I definitely see similar statements had been made but only see coverage by ideologically aligned sites:

m.jpost.com/diaspora/antisemitism/article-787452

timesofisrael.com/egyptian-minister-quotes-koran-…

m.jpost.com/…/California-Imam-calls-on-Allah-to-a….

www2.cbn.com/…/palestinian-authority-issues-call-…

timesofisrael.com/kill-all-jews-urges-hamas-tv-ho…

The only mainstream sources along a similar thread were within days of the Oct 7th attack:

www.theatlantic.com/international/…/675602/

newsweek.com/hamas-terrorists-have-genocide-their…

So it just looks more like the mainstream press isn’t interested in reporting what religious zealots say outside of very narrow windows of relevance to major recent news stories (and even then rather sparingly).

Linkerbaan@lemmy.world on 09 Mar 2024 09:03 collapse

That’s a lot of very outdated and out of context links you put there.

Also some there interpret anti semitism very liberally.

kromem@lemmy.world on 09 Mar 2024 12:45 next collapse

You are so caught up in your agenda that you aren’t even thinking though what you are saying.

Would it make more sense to discuss a pattern of behavior in the media by linking to multiple examples over an extended period of time or to only show examples within a narrow period of time?

Also some there interpret anti semitism very liberally.

In this case, people call literally tell from the URLs in the comment that your sealioning on this particular point is BS.

Linkerbaan@lemmy.world on 09 Mar 2024 12:52 collapse

Except your examples are not examples of anti-Semitism. As everyone knows now Zionists call every criticism of israel anti-semitic.

Take Ryna Workman, the president of the NYU Law Student Bar Association who sent a message to “y’all” expressing “my unwavering and absolute solidarity with Palestinians in their resistance against oppression toward liberation and self-determination. Israel bears full responsibility for this tremendous loss of life. . … I will not condemn Palestinian resistance.”

Did this man say “I want to kill all the Jews” according to you?

kromem@lemmy.world on 09 Mar 2024 14:54 collapse

You have a weird hangup here dude. You aren’t at all engaging with my comment about media coverage, but are instead pulling a random excerpt from the opinion piece a few days after the Oct 7th attack to discuss…what?

The opinion piece doesn’t even call that ‘antisemitism.’ You cut off the lines immediately before it, which makes no claim in line with what you allude:

The Harvard students hardly stand alone in their abhorrent willingness to cast Hamas as freedom fighters rather than bloodthirsty terrorists. Equally offensive statements blaming Israel and effectively applauding Hamas abound at other universities and colleges too numerous to list. Take Ryna Workman, the president of the NYU Law Student Bar Association…

The author of that opinion piece is entirely entitled to the opinion that victim blaming terrorist attacks on civilians is offensive to them, just as there’s plenty of opinion pieces to the other direction that denying human rights violations is offensive to a lot of other people. That’s kind of the point of opinion pieces - to express an opinion.

But the brunt of the examples I provided in the main part of my comment (the many examples of religious leaders calling for the ethnic killing of the people they don’t like) were completely in line with the OP article.

The last two were simply included as examples of how little the mainstream press covers “these people call for genocide” claims from any side except when relevant to recent news - and to that point one of the only two mainstream pieces was an opinion piece.

You’re basically making my central point in citing the Newsweek opinion piece’s shortcomings - that contrary to the theory of the person I replied to, there’s little to no coverage of religious figure calls for violence outside of limited sets of articles with clear agendas.

Linkerbaan@lemmy.world on 09 Mar 2024 15:13 collapse

You pasted random Hasbara from internet that you didn’t read and called criticism of israel anti-Semitic. If anyone is pushing an agenda it’s you.

Not condemning Hamas equals calling for the genocide of all Jews?

Joke articles.

kromem@lemmy.world on 10 Mar 2024 00:27 collapse

You pasted random Hasbara from internet that you didn’t read and called criticism of israel anti-Semitic.

Citation needed, as it appears we’re just making up straw men now. In this comment thread, I literally didn’t even write the word ‘antisemitism’ outside of quoting your use of it.

yarr@feddit.nl on 09 Mar 2024 23:21 collapse

Yeah, that’s not true coverage of the topic… give me a break.

Linkerbaan@lemmy.world on 09 Mar 2024 23:42 collapse

Did you read any of his links? Quote me the part where people say something anti-semitic.

kromem@lemmy.world on 10 Mar 2024 00:29 collapse

In a July 21 lecture posted on the Davis Masjid YouTube channel, Muslim preacher Ammar Shahin spoke in English and Arabic about how all Muslims, not only Palestinians or Syrians, will be called upon to kill all the Jews on “the last day.”

In a video translated by the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI), Shahin also stressed that the Hadith (oral tradition of sayings attributed to the prophet of Islam) does not say where the final battle will take place. “If it is in Palestine,” for example, “or another place,” hinting at the possibility that such a battle could happen in the United States or Europe as well.

He also prayed that al-Aksa mosque be liberated from “the filth of the Jews.”

From this link: m.jpost.com/…/California-Imam-calls-on-Allah-to-a…

In a clip of the kids’ TV show “The Pioneers of Tomorrow,” broadcast on May 2 and uploaded Thursday by the MEMRI media watchdog, the host of the program, a young girl in a hijab, interviews two very young children, one of whom says she hopes to be a police officer like her uncle Ahmad.

The host asks what policemen do, and, after establishing that they catch criminals, adds that “they shoot Jews, right?” and stresses to her young guest that “you want to be like him.”

“I will shoot the Jews!” the little child says.

“All of them?” the host asks.

“Yes,” the girl says

“Good,” the host answers.

In a previous segment, a co-host of the show, an anthropomorphic bee character, talks on the phone with a child in the West Bank Jenin refugee camp, and encourages him, if Jews come into the camp, to “punch them” and “turn their faces into tomatoes in order to liberate Palestine.”

Yeah, nothing antisemitic here.

yarr@feddit.nl on 10 Mar 2024 01:01 next collapse

LOL that’s what I’m talking about… I can see the reply already “that’s not true anti-semitism…”

Linkerbaan@lemmy.world on 10 Mar 2024 10:04 collapse

Were there people that call themselves “Jews” attacking the Al Aqsa mosque and violently shooting Muslims one year ago? Do you think he is referring to that? Or is he calling to Genocide all Jewish children there?

www.youtube.com/watch?v=QR-c5QsoPxI

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kromem@lemmy.world on 10 Mar 2024 12:20 collapse

Were there people that call themselves “Jews” attacking the Al Aqsa mosque and violently shooting Muslims one year ago? Do you think he is referring to that?

Considering the first article is from 2017 and the second from 2014, no I don’t think either are referring to the Al Aswa mosque violence in 2023.

If they were, that would be really surprising.

Linkerbaan@lemmy.world on 10 Mar 2024 12:39 collapse

That was only in 2023? Strange I recall seeing it quite a few times

Binzy_Boi@supermeter.social on 09 Mar 2024 00:00 next collapse

...why is the picture the backrooms?

harderian729@lemmy.world on 09 Mar 2024 01:53 next collapse

Sigh. As much as I hate Zionists, I’ll be the first to say this is not indicative of everyone in Israel nor should all Israelis be criticized for statements like these.

It’s the same thing as if an American pastor said shit. They do it all the time and it doesn’t matter (much).

CaractacusPotts@lemmy.ca on 09 Mar 2024 02:22 next collapse

Rabbi Eliyahu Mali and his Yeshiva are sponsored by Benjamin Netanyahu’s government

Mango@lemmy.world on 10 Mar 2024 03:36 collapse

Ahhh yeah the good cops can totally change the system from within!

/s

nutsack@lemmy.world on 09 Mar 2024 04:45 next collapse

straight from the book of joahua in the old testament

cosmicrookie@lemmy.world on 09 Mar 2024 07:36 next collapse

Here is a list of the killings in Joshua.

The Jericho Massacre

Achan and his family are stoned and burned to death

The Ai Massacre

God stops the sun so that Joshua can get his killing done in the daylight

Five kings are killed and hung on trees

Joshua utterly destroyed all that breathed as the Lord God commanded

The genocide of twenty kingdoms

The Anakim: Some more giant killing

www.skepticsannotatedbible.com/dwb/jos.html

nutsack@lemmy.world on 09 Mar 2024 07:43 next collapse

thanks God

mightyfoolish@lemmy.world on 09 Mar 2024 21:33 collapse

To be fair to the old testament it’s not factual history. Those no proof of a Unified Kingdom of Israel and no proof for any of Joshua’s conquests. Even though we have evidence of much older kingdoms in the area such as Yamhad.

If anything the old testament has history reversed. In 722 BC the Assyrians destroy Israel (circa 1000 BC with capital always in Shechem). The refugees move to Judah (circa 900 BC). The Israelites took their religion and rebased it on Jerusalem AFTER Israel got sacked. This means a “Jewish” identity for Israel could not have taken off until the 600 BCs at the earliest. 4000 years of Judaism history my 🍑.

Maccabee came in the 200 BCs and forced people into what we now call Judaism. The reason why a complete Bible cannot be found from the BC era is because the Bible wasn’t finished yet.

  • The oldest fragment of the old testament says that the mountain around Shechem is the holy place.

  • The Bible says that a lot of the Judahites were bad but all of the Samaritans are bad.

kromem@lemmy.world on 09 Mar 2024 08:55 next collapse

The book of Joshua is archeologically completely anachronistic and false in the Southern Levant.

The early Israelites have only been found to have been peacefully cohabitating with the Canaanites and Philistines in the early Iron Age after they emerged as a population.

Personally, I think like a number of the pre-Judahite stories, that this was coming from an Aegean/Anatolian sea peoples forced relocation into the Southern Levant that ends up absorbed into the Israelite history.

‘Yeshua’ in Greek can go as either Jesus or Jason.

The Argonauts allegedly had a prophet Mopsus that died in the desert as they traveled by foot from a conflict in North Africa (not long before one of their elite warriors was killed by a shepherd casting a stone from a sling, actually).

There’s no walls at the Biblical Jericho at the time these events were supposedly taking place, but Mycenae around 1200 BCE has its walls fall down (and it seems not to have been an earthquake, which was a recent surprise).

There’s no evidence of the Israelites being a bunch of tribes conquering nearby cities and certainly not several across an ancestral homeland, but the sea peoples were a confederation of different tribes conquering their various home cities (at a time of various natural disasters were conveniently undermining powerful kingdoms, which was likely a factor in why they were so successful and why this period ends up mythologized with divine interventions).

At one of those battles the sea people were described as being without foreskins. This seems to be the same one day battle against Egypt that Odysseus claimed to have fought right at after the Trojan war.

The parallels get really incredible when you dive deeper into some of them. The recent Aegean style pottery made with local clay in Tel Dan, the only apiary in the “land of milk and honey” importing bees from Anatolia and worshipping an unknown bee goddess, and the song of Deborah (‘bee’), prophet and leader of the Israelites, talking about “Dan stayed on their ships” is super fucking interesting for example.

I think a lot of what we think we know about the Mediterranean at the fall of the Bronze Age is due to be turned on its head as the historians of antiquity like Herodotus, Hecateus of Adbera, Atrapanus of Alexandria, Tacitus, and Manetho end up validated with a number of things modern historians have been making fun of with an air of superiority (bizarre given the relative access to documentary and oral traditions and the relationship of that to the likely impacts of survivorship bias).

Simulation6@sopuli.xyz on 09 Mar 2024 11:16 collapse

Or maybe not. There are a lot of weasel words in your write up, seems, alleged, etc, and not many mentions of hard evidence.

kromem@lemmy.world on 09 Mar 2024 12:37 collapse

It’s a summary of around five years of sometimes rather nuanced research.

If there’s a particular area you want more details on, feel free to ask. But to actually include all the nuanced details for the summary above would take about 20 pages, and I really don’t think most people here care enough to wade through all that (nor do I care to write all that out on my weekend).

If you want a third party suggesting at least part of what I wrote above with some of the cited literature, you might want to read over this: armstronginstitute.org/736-were-the-seafaring-den…

feedum_sneedson@lemmy.world on 09 Mar 2024 19:42 collapse

You need hard evidence for events that were essentially before the beginning of written history, but apparently this isn’t necessary for their assertions. Weasel words, indeed.

kromem@lemmy.world on 09 Mar 2024 22:05 collapse

Huh? Written history begins around 2,000 years before these events. What are you talking about?

A number of the relevant pieces of information are the details in contemporary written accounts from Egyptian or Hittite sources which range from royal records of conflicts to letters written between countries.

That’s how we know for example that there was actually a single day battle between Egypt and the sea peoples with Libya which Egypt wins and takes captives from seven years before an usurper Pharoh conquered Egypt. There’s literally dozens of pages written about that battle by Merneptah. Which then bears a striking resemblance to the mythical story in the Odyssey of Odysseus fighting a one day battle against Egypt where he’s taken captive exactly seven years before “a certain Phrygian” shows up to try to ransom him to Libya.

We even have records from Ramses III which describe the end of the 19th dynasty around the time of this usurper as Egypt having been conquered with outside help, switching to a form of government of city state governors, and “making the gods like men.” Claims that resemble the Phoenician form of city state government emerging at this time and the claims of Phoenician euhemerism “from around the time of the Trojan War” in Philio of Byblos.

feedum_sneedson@lemmy.world on 10 Mar 2024 05:01 collapse

Yeah, but it’s pretty shit. It’s far from reliable, the Bible counts as part of the historical record and we are reasonably sure there weren’t really any giants.

The rest is all Biblio of Biblios, I’m now aware what me rattling off a bunch of science information must sound like to people.

I was supporting your position anyway, you massive, swinging autist.

yarr@feddit.nl on 09 Mar 2024 23:19 collapse

Why is it that followers of holy books always have a section or two that should be ignored when it’s convenient?

‘the word of God’, but you can toss out whole sections without a second thought, meanwhile, if you break what’s said in the other section you’re definitely evil

nutsack@lemmy.world on 10 Mar 2024 03:58 collapse

because religion is fake

RemembertheApollo@kbin.social on 09 Mar 2024 02:02 next collapse

1944 was how long ago? That's how long it took for a jewish person to sound just like a rabid Nazi.

ParadoxSeahorse@lemmy.world on 10 Mar 2024 11:21 collapse

80 years mate

Daft_ish@lemmy.world on 09 Mar 2024 05:17 next collapse

The last us president advocated for nuking people. I don’t think nukes can selectively avoid babies. Surely that guys worse than even this disgusting rabbi. Unless you think we make the rabbi president?

cosmicrookie@lemmy.world on 09 Mar 2024 07:38 collapse

Sometimes bad is just that. No need to classify as worse or better. Its just bad.

Daft_ish@lemmy.world on 09 Mar 2024 08:22 collapse

Just saying. There are millions of psychos in this world, why focus in on this one?

cosmicrookie@lemmy.world on 09 Mar 2024 08:35 collapse

This one is backed by Netanyahu though, even though he has been controversial for a long time

Daft_ish@lemmy.world on 09 Mar 2024 08:37 collapse

Know who else Netanyahu backs…

LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world on 09 Mar 2024 18:35 collapse

Cinnamon buns taste better after you put them in the microwave.

Daft_ish@lemmy.world on 09 Mar 2024 18:37 collapse

I think you might be the first helpful person I’ve met on lemmy. Thank you.

LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world on 09 Mar 2024 20:05 collapse

It’s a build your own love story world. We have to write a good one otherwise AI will beat us to a bad one haha

intrepid@lemmy.ca on 09 Mar 2024 06:17 next collapse

People calling for genocide and murder of children are those who are far removed from humanity. They’re a nasty burden that the modern society hasn’t learned to deal with yet.

mods_are_assholes@lemmy.world on 10 Mar 2024 07:50 collapse

Oh we know how to deal with it, the problem is such psychopaths have a tendency to climb power structures easily to protect themselves from consequences.

SuddenDownpour@sh.itjust.works on 09 Mar 2024 06:36 next collapse

Very normal country.

jeena@jemmy.jeena.net on 09 Mar 2024 06:46 next collapse

No need to call for it, they are already doing it.

cosmicrookie@lemmy.world on 09 Mar 2024 07:32 next collapse

They are turning into Nazis arent they? And i thought iron sky was far fetched. Instead, the Nazis have just infested the Jews!

SecretSauces@lemmy.world on 09 Mar 2024 11:57 next collapse

The irony is ridiculous

Linkerbaan@lemmy.world on 09 Mar 2024 12:15 next collapse

Always been.

There were (and are) many Holocaust survivors which refused to go to Palestine to kill people and steal their land. And actively speak out against israel

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TokenBoomer@lemmy.world on 09 Mar 2024 18:57 next collapse

Thanks for the new YouTube recommendation

rottingleaf@lemmy.zip on 10 Mar 2024 04:45 collapse

It’s more like people are all over the place between these extremes.

TokenBoomer@lemmy.world on 09 Mar 2024 19:35 collapse

Their Lizard People. Iron Sky 2

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corstian@lemmy.world on 09 Mar 2024 07:54 next collapse

Yeah they have a fair history becoming the thing they fought against.

INHALE_VEGETABLES@aussie.zone on 09 Mar 2024 11:53 next collapse

How do you mean?

Tinidril@midwest.social on 09 Mar 2024 14:04 next collapse

Every firstborn son in Egypt will die, from the firstborn son of Pharaoh, who sits on the throne, to the firstborn of the slave girl, who is at her hand mill, and all the firstborn of the cattle as well.

rottingleaf@lemmy.zip on 10 Mar 2024 04:48 collapse

You seem to be so enthusiastic about demonizing Jews that you even ignore that this is a story about enslaved people trying to leave.

I think people working on plantations from dawn to sunset till they can work no more would identify quite a lot with this passage.

Tinidril@midwest.social on 10 Mar 2024 15:48 collapse

Oh , the irony.

rottingleaf@lemmy.zip on 10 Mar 2024 16:11 collapse

There can’t possibly be any irony, since I’ve explicitly said “Jews” and not Israelis.

Your attempts to blend in with normal people are, of course, disgusting, but also as subtle as a Nigerian spy in Siberia.

corstian@lemmy.world on 12 Mar 2024 12:17 collapse

Judges 19 to 21, where after the rape and death of a single person, many thousands are killed, and hundreds more are raped in response.

Bobmighty@lemmy.world on 09 Mar 2024 18:42 collapse

If suffering was a teacher, humanity would have achieved utopia long ago.

feedum_sneedson@lemmy.world on 09 Mar 2024 20:11 collapse

I think we’d all just really hate school.

jabjoe@feddit.uk on 09 Mar 2024 09:20 next collapse

There no hate speech laws this breaks? He’s literally calling for violence on a group of people.

kense@lmmy.dk on 09 Mar 2024 10:16 next collapse

He’s saying the quiet part out loud…

SuddenDownpour@sh.itjust.works on 09 Mar 2024 10:59 next collapse

Israeli laws outlaws hate speech and “expressing support for illegal or terrorist organizations”.[9] Section 173 of the legal code makes it a crime to publish any “publication that is liable to crudely offend the religious faith or sentiment of others.”[29]

According to Wikipedia. The problem, of course, is that it won’t be enforced as long as hate speech is directed against specific groups of people.

Treczoks@lemmy.world on 09 Mar 2024 19:15 next collapse

…or spoken by other specific groups of people.

rottingleaf@lemmy.zip on 10 Mar 2024 04:42 collapse

A few guys saying similar things got jailed and busted as a terrorist organization in the 90s, the thing is - Israeli institutions have degraded a lot. They have bloodthirsty imbeciles at helm.

Maggoty@lemmy.world on 09 Mar 2024 19:17 next collapse

Lmao, not where Palestinians are concerned. Welcome to Apartheid.

HiddenLayer5@lemmy.ml on 09 Mar 2024 21:31 collapse

Haven’t you heard? All Palestinians are terrorists so this is fine.

Yes, even the babies. Actually especially the babies. /s

maculata@aussie.zone on 09 Mar 2024 10:00 next collapse

Ah yes, genocidal fascism reappears. Marvellous. (Not)

Holzkohlen@feddit.de on 09 Mar 2024 15:24 next collapse

How very biblical

FattestMattest@lemmy.world on 09 Mar 2024 18:40 collapse

It does seem old testament…

ATDA@lemmy.world on 09 Mar 2024 15:41 next collapse

Do unto others I guess?

blazera@lemmy.world on 09 Mar 2024 15:52 collapse

Judaism doesnt follow New Testament

TokenBoomer@lemmy.world on 09 Mar 2024 18:52 next collapse

The Golden Rule predates both.

CosmicCleric@lemmy.world on 09 Mar 2024 19:58 collapse

The Golden Rule predates both.

Wow, Egyptians, 2000 BCE. Thats setting the ole Wayback Machine to high.

TokenBoomer@lemmy.world on 09 Mar 2024 20:06 collapse

Wow, perhaps, but if you think we’re going to leave you here, you are most definitely in DE-NILE!

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Pipoca@lemmy.world on 09 Mar 2024 20:30 next collapse

There’s a story in the Talmud about Hillel the elder, a rabbi who died in 10 CE:

There was another incident involving one gentile who came before Shammai and said to Shammai: Convert me on condition that you teach me the entire Torah while I am standing on one foot. Shammai pushed him away with the builder’s cubit in his hand. This was a common measuring stick and Shammai was a builder by trade. The same gentile came before Hillel. He converted him and said to him: That which is hateful to you do not do to another; that is the entire Torah, and the rest is its interpretation. Go study.

rottingleaf@lemmy.zip on 10 Mar 2024 04:39 collapse

Yep, it’s generally a stereotypical Hassidic thing to quote Hillel at random moments

rottingleaf@lemmy.zip on 10 Mar 2024 04:37 next collapse

Which is why it’s thankfully still not as genocidal as both its offsprings.

mods_are_assholes@lemmy.world on 10 Mar 2024 07:49 collapse

The Golden Rule predates the New Testament by a significant margin… In fact nearly every culture has this concept of mutual reciprocity, even if not explicitly stated.

blazera@lemmy.world on 09 Mar 2024 16:01 next collapse

Whenever some Christians are engaging in hate, they avoid people condemning the whole religion thanks to Jesus’s very anti-hate teachings. Judaism doesnt have that. All of the Old Testament’s calls for violence against enemies stand without revision, and no sin is forgiven without sacrifice.

FatCrab@lemmy.one on 09 Mar 2024 16:23 next collapse

Yea, Judaism has no such thing as a deep and extensive set of rabbinical discourses that are as fundamental as the Torah. Really solid and thoughtful observation.

Linkerbaan@lemmy.world on 09 Mar 2024 18:39 next collapse

This is a Lemmy sir, we don’t read religious books we just repeat what other people say about them

afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world on 10 Mar 2024 02:25 collapse

With like 50 pages arguing about how much a woman is worth based on the state of the hymen. No one ever likes to mention what the Talmud has to say on the subject.

Care to share with the people at home the argument about why the Talmud says you can’t marry on a Friday and the counter argument and the counter counter argument?

FatCrab@lemmy.one on 10 Mar 2024 18:08 collapse

Why? What in the world does your arbitrary cherry picked items have to do with the topic at hand? Are you trying to say that that is the entirety of talmudic discourse and that concepts of charity, stewardship, kindness, and growth are nowhere explored in the Talmud? I’m not saying there aren’t many troubling aspects to Jewish liturgical Tesoro tradition. What I am saying is that they’re about in par with any religion and shit like the OP posted is pretty fucking ignorant and dumb.

afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world on 11 Mar 2024 14:57 collapse

Care to share with the people at home the argument about why the Talmud says you can’t marry on a Friday and the counter argument and the counter counter argument?

afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world on 09 Mar 2024 17:18 next collapse

’s very anti-hate teachings

Jesus had plenty of hateful messages, they just don’t get quoted as much.

vala@lemmy.world on 09 Mar 2024 19:03 collapse

Can you give examples?

TokenBoomer@lemmy.world on 09 Mar 2024 19:41 next collapse

Jesus Hates Zombies

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afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world on 09 Mar 2024 20:08 collapse

Sure.

  • He is quite clear that no one can speak or reach the father except through him. And that he is the light and way and none other. Not exactly a message of religious tolerance.

  • He affirms all the ancient sexual rules of the OT and even argues that they don’t go far enough. Specifically forbidding a divorced woman from marrying. Not exactly sexually open.

  • When dealing with other ethnic groups he is continuously in contempt of them. Racist

  • The idea of an eternal hell didn’t exist in widely read Jewish writings, we know of only one mention in one book, and plenty of other writings that describe the afterlife much differently. Now comes Jesus who specifically states that ever lasting torment exists and he will judge who gets into heaven or the other place.

  • Not even the family is respected as an institution. We are told that your love for him must be so great that the love of your own family wouldnt measure up to it.

  • The single parable he mentions about slavery doesn’t condemn slavery and in fact demands that humans act as slaves.

The doctrine the man supposedly preached was that a select few that abandoned their property, their obligations, their family, knew his secret message, and loved him would inherit the kingdom of God and everyone else would go to hell. If you want to worship slightly different, have a sex life, own something of your own, think for yourself, or are unlucky enough to be from a different ethnic group torment awaits you

yarr@feddit.nl on 09 Mar 2024 23:20 collapse

He is quite clear that no one can speak or reach the father except through him. And that he is the light and way and none other. Not exactly a message of religious tolerance.

By the same standard the pope is hateful. You may or may not agree with this, depending on your opinion of the pope.

afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world on 09 Mar 2024 23:54 collapse

Well less hateful since he seems to believe that Jews and Muslims don’t go to hell since they have their own deal worked out and despite his many many flaws he isn’t particularly known for racism.

Still an ass

yarr@feddit.nl on 10 Mar 2024 01:00 collapse

“A huge asshole, but at least he’s not racist!” – damned by faint praise

kerrigan778@lemmy.world on 09 Mar 2024 19:06 collapse

“That which is hateful to you, do not do to your neighbor. That is the whole Torah; the rest is the explanation. Go and study it.”

dangblingus@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 09 Mar 2024 16:35 next collapse

Apostasy. The religion of Judaism abhors murder. That Rabbi should be defrocked.

AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world on 09 Mar 2024 16:52 next collapse

Are rabbis even frocked?

Everythingispenguins@lemmy.world on 09 Mar 2024 18:24 next collapse

It you frock one

feedum_sneedson@lemmy.world on 09 Mar 2024 20:10 collapse

degloved
defenestrated

AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world on 09 Mar 2024 19:51 next collapse
FreakinSteve@lemmy.world on 09 Mar 2024 20:08 collapse

No it doesnt.

phoneymouse@lemmy.world on 09 Mar 2024 16:47 next collapse

Sounds like terrorism

BleatingZombie@lemmy.world on 09 Mar 2024 19:33 collapse

Sounds like genocide

afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world on 09 Mar 2024 17:17 next collapse

Ah yes organized religion

rottingleaf@lemmy.zip on 10 Mar 2024 04:25 collapse

Judaism in theory is not one (like there’s no religious leadership, no central authority, and no clear idea who should be burned as a heretic). But in Israel they have the main rabbinate (maybe even two, I don’t remember) and have built a pretty hierarchical structure, not really resembling Jewish religious organizations anywhere else.

afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world on 10 Mar 2024 04:58 collapse

Just because it is not the RCC doesn’t mean it isn’t organized. There is a spectrum between random people building ancestor shrines and the pyramid structure the Catholics have. Judaism lies much closer to organized side of the spectrum.

And I’m this particular case, with the government directly funded this shaman with tax dollars, we can be even safer to say that.

rottingleaf@lemmy.zip on 10 Mar 2024 07:51 collapse

There is a spectrum between random people building ancestor shrines and the pyramid structure the Catholics have. Judaism lies much closer to organized side of the spectrum.

That’s what I said, it doesn’t. There’s no hierarchy in Judaism, at all. Except for Israel, again.

Anyway, every religion gets turned in all the ways the encompassing society wants it turn. Say, speaking of “Taoism in China” is impossible, because that’s a myriad of things, both in terms of the cult itself, and the structure, and whatever else.

DAMunzy@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 09 Mar 2024 18:30 next collapse

Sounds like a good idea. 🤪

h3mlocke@lemm.ee on 09 Mar 2024 18:59 next collapse

🤦‍♀️ “Let’s do what we’re already doing!”
Like wtf

DigitalFrank@lemmy.world on 09 Mar 2024 19:25 next collapse

“They make a desert and call it peace.”

AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world on 09 Mar 2024 19:27 next collapse

Same thing they did to the Canaanites. They haven’t changed their MO since The Bronze Age Collapse.

feedum_sneedson@lemmy.world on 09 Mar 2024 19:37 next collapse

😂
“they”
totally the same people

AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world on 10 Mar 2024 03:09 collapse

Israelites enforcing the word of EL? The Canaanite God of War? Yep. Same exact philosophy that has been handed down since The Bronze Age Collapse. Their blood may, or may not, be different. Their ideology is exactly the same. Genocide of their cousins.

Just accept that Israelite “history” from Exodus on is mythology, as in the authors lied, which was common at the time, and you’ll see how these ideas are exactly the same, as are the people espousing such hatred for their fellow humans.

rottingleaf@lemmy.zip on 10 Mar 2024 04:40 next collapse

as are the people espousing such hatred for their fellow humans.

You are likely European by ancestry while writing that, be more self-conscious or something

feedum_sneedson@lemmy.world on 10 Mar 2024 05:08 collapse

I think this is basically antisemitism. It has to be pretty blatant for me to play that card, but come on man.

AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world on 14 Mar 2024 15:22 collapse

Anti-Semitic? Nah. The Palestinians are a semitic people.

Anti-intentional-ignorance, yeah. I don’t care when your fantasy book was written, if you’re going to put “holy books,” aka the fictional ravings of people that wanted to control others, ahead of science and history, then I have no time for you, other than to put a bullet in your head so that you stop harming the rest of the world.

feedum_sneedson@lemmy.world on 14 Mar 2024 18:18 collapse

me no rikee

FreakinSteve@lemmy.world on 09 Mar 2024 20:08 next collapse

Which is fun because under further review it turns out that the Hebrews were Canaanites themselves. They genocided their own neighbors.

AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world on 10 Mar 2024 03:08 next collapse

Israelites enforcing the word of EL? The Canaanite God of War? Yep. Same exact philosophy that has been handed down since The Bronze Age Collapse. Used against their cousins again.

Just accept that you’re Israelite “history” from Exodus on is mythology, as in the authors lied, which was common at the time, and you’ll see how these ideas are exactly the same, as are the people espousing such hatred for their fellow humans.

mods_are_assholes@lemmy.world on 10 Mar 2024 07:51 collapse

They genocided their own neighbors.

That’s pretty much how everyone acted in the bronze age tho…

FreakinSteve@lemmy.world on 10 Mar 2024 19:16 collapse

Sure but we didnt need to build an international religion out if it which should have disappeared at least 200 years ago

mods_are_assholes@lemmy.world on 11 Mar 2024 01:12 collapse

I really do want to get into this conversation with you because I can already tell your understanding of religion and history comes from sassy youtubers but I know from experience it never really goes anywhere because people like you can’t confront the fact that your worldview is tainted by irrational bigotry.

But I’ll leave you with this nugget: Organized religion is the only reason we were able to transition from small nomadic tribes to densely populated cities and literally kickstarted the historic era. For the VAST majority of written history religion and governance were basically the same thing.

FreakinSteve@lemmy.world on 11 Mar 2024 05:10 collapse

I sure do get tired of motherfuckers insulting us for not accepting that bronze age bullshit. Religion killed 1/3 of Europe with one decree alone during the Black Plague. Imagine how much faster civilization would have advanced without a bunch of psychotic delusional retards running around yelling KILL ALL THE INFIDELS!!! Religion literally kept people from washing their hands or learning to read. Everything you claimed was a positive was in fact the opposite… the civilization that happened was in SPITE of religion when it wasnt seriously hindered and delayed by religion. It doesnt take any YouTube bullshit to know this.

mods_are_assholes@lemmy.world on 11 Mar 2024 08:31 collapse

Thank you for proving my ‘sassy youtubers’ assesment of your knowledge on history.

Religion literally kept people from washing their hands

See? That’s what I mean.

FreakinSteve@lemmy.world on 12 Mar 2024 06:19 collapse

I understand why you said that because you took an oversimplification as an absolute, but there is medical history of people including doctors not washing their fucking hands for surgeries because science is a lie and God would decide who lives and dies.

mods_are_assholes@lemmy.world on 10 Mar 2024 07:51 collapse

Well they didn’t call for the slaughter of all cattle and livestock so, progress?

njm1314@lemmy.world on 09 Mar 2024 19:43 next collapse

Man if every one in the world judged every American based on what one crazy preacher said we’d be in some trouble.

CaractacusPotts@lemmy.ca on 09 Mar 2024 19:52 next collapse

Rabbi Eliyahu Mali and his Yeshiva are sponsored by Benjamin Netanyahu’s government

njm1314@lemmy.world on 09 Mar 2024 21:16 collapse

I’m guessing you’ve never seen CPAC.

Mycatiskai@lemmy.ca on 09 Mar 2024 20:02 next collapse

Well, the prime minister, the finance minister and the head of defense all have said similar things over there in Israel. At some point you have to believe that what they are saying and their actions are speaking for themselves and their words and actions are saying “no one is innocent and even if they were we are still going to kill them all so we can get the land.”

Pipoca@lemmy.world on 09 Mar 2024 20:19 next collapse

I mean, it’s kinda like judging America based on Pat Robertson, the Westboro Baptist Church, Steve Bannon, Steve Miller, and Trump.

Yes, we should beleive people like Trump when they say how awful they are. The fact that he was elected and is the presumptive Republican nominee says a lot about the American right, right now. But it definitely doesn’t mean that Americans in general are awful people.

Mycatiskai@lemmy.ca on 10 Mar 2024 00:38 collapse

Are these people:

Pat Robertson, the Westboro Baptist Church, Steve Bannon, Steve Miller, and Trump.

Currently in charge?

Because Ben Gvir, Smotrich, and Bibi Netanyahu are all literally in charge of the country commiting genocide right now.

rottingleaf@lemmy.zip on 10 Mar 2024 04:23 collapse

What’s the purpose of that “currently”? Because if you meant that what’s in the past is less real, it’s not. Just removed from us by one coordinate.

Killing_Spark@feddit.de on 10 Mar 2024 05:56 collapse

It means there was a majority of people who decided these people shouldn’t be in charge after witnessing what they did when they were in charge?

rottingleaf@lemmy.zip on 10 Mar 2024 07:54 collapse

That wasn’t the case when they were in charge, obviously.

JustZ@lemmy.world on 10 Mar 2024 06:43 collapse

Their party is about to get shit canned, because Israel is a democracy and these people don’t represent the people.

snek@lemmy.world on 10 Mar 2024 07:18 collapse

Israel is a democracy despite that almost everyone who has power in the government is a racist genocidal maniac?

ahriboy@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 10 Mar 2024 07:43 collapse

There’s no democracy in MENA.

BananaTrifleViolin@lemmy.world on 09 Mar 2024 21:05 next collapse

Yeah, although if the American state were sponsoring said crazy preacher it would be an issue. The Rabbi and his Yashiva are sponsored by the Israeli government as the article makes clear.

njm1314@lemmy.world on 09 Mar 2024 21:15 collapse

I don’t know if you haven’t been paying attention to Mike Johnson and some of the Republicans lately but well…

JustZ@lemmy.world on 10 Mar 2024 06:43 next collapse

I never understood why some people would say it was anti semitic to criticize Israel in certain ways, like people say the BDS movement is racist, but it’s exactly things such as this that made me start to see it, and now I can’t unsee it. People rabidly hold Israel to a different standard and only one explanation consistently makes sense.

One Jewish nutbag bloviating his hatred into the void is asserted by some as evidence the the whole of Israel has evil, genocidal intent.

Targeted bombings of tunnels, valid military targets, with cell phone warnings, pamphleting, and roof knocking is described as indiscriminate.

Not giving foreigners the same rights as natively born or naturalized citizens is called literal “apartheid.”

Israel must stop bombing immediately or America should burn our alliance and feed the Jews to Iran, only Israel though, for Hamas it’s all “keep up the good work! Death to America!”

snek@lemmy.world on 10 Mar 2024 07:19 next collapse

Palestinians in Gaza are natively born. They are not foreigners.

mods_are_assholes@lemmy.world on 10 Mar 2024 07:43 collapse

Fucking thank you, I am so tired of people marginalizing already heavily oppressed victims.

BlackRoseAmongThorns@slrpnk.net on 10 Mar 2024 08:22 collapse

Gazans aren’t foreign dumbass

JustZ@lemmy.world on 10 Mar 2024 14:05 collapse

Dumbass they are to Israel.

snek@lemmy.world on 10 Mar 2024 14:49 collapse

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mods_are_assholes@lemmy.world on 10 Mar 2024 07:41 next collapse

No but most Americans feel free to judge me on my religion based on what a handful of crazy preachers say.

njm1314@lemmy.world on 10 Mar 2024 15:45 collapse

Yeah the problem there is the word handful.

feedmecontent@lemmy.world on 10 Mar 2024 13:28 collapse

In what way aren’t the crazy preachers representative of a massive segment of the population here?

njm1314@lemmy.world on 10 Mar 2024 15:45 collapse

I gave you the grand old party.

Socsa@sh.itjust.works on 09 Mar 2024 20:16 next collapse

So basically he said the same exact thing Hamas says about Jews?

CaractacusPotts@lemmy.ca on 09 Mar 2024 20:26 next collapse

The difference is that Israel is considered an occupying power and has responsibilities under international law as such. <img alt="" src="https://lemmy.ca/pictrs/image/0e860517-df1b-4ba4-9bc0-08b0c4e63906.png">

Socsa@sh.itjust.works on 09 Mar 2024 20:30 collapse

“The difference” is that Israel’s formal position is not the elimination of Palestinian Arabs. Zionism as we know it primary exists because of widespread genocidal attitudes towards Jews.

I’m not defending Israel’s heavy hand here by any means. I am just tired of everyone on the internet feeling free to just ignore all the historical context wrapped up in this conflict.

CaractacusPotts@lemmy.ca on 09 Mar 2024 20:45 next collapse

Israel’s formal position is not the elimination of Palestinian Arabs.

The UN has found credible evidence to the contrary <img alt="" src="https://lemmy.ca/pictrs/image/cf5630da-3707-4c9c-8765-64ff88a35272.png">

aljazeera.com/…/un-report-finds-israeli-occupatio…

Zionism was from the very beginning a settler colonial enterprise. Yes genocidal attitudes towards Jews may have been used to promote the idea, but the end goal was always possession of land.

In its initial stage, Zionism was conceived by its pioneers as a movement wholly depending on mechanical factors: there is a country which happens to be called Palestine, a country without a people, and, on the other hand, there exists the Jewish people, and it has no country. What else is necessary, then, than to fit the gem into the ring, to unite this people with this country? The owners of the country [the Turks] must, therefore, be persuaded and convinced that this marriage is advantageous, not only for the [Jewish] people and for the country, but also for themselves.

…palestine-studies.org/…/zionist-settler-colonial…

Socsa@sh.itjust.works on 09 Mar 2024 20:49 collapse

It’s worth noting that the ones who rejected that mandatory Palestine map were the Arab Palestinians.

CaractacusPotts@lemmy.ca on 09 Mar 2024 20:54 collapse

If it’s worth noting, you should cite sources.

rottingleaf@lemmy.zip on 10 Mar 2024 04:35 collapse

I’ve come to hate people asking for sources in the interwebs. If you ask me for the sources for Gleiwitz or Mainila, or anything else, it’ll be as hard to find as on this subject.

People who are ready to invest their time in writing a short comment may not be ready to do that for finding sources for you. And that’s valid and doesn’t mean you’ve won an argument or something. Arguments can’t be won or lost anyway.

And people who are really ready to find sources are mostly not the good ones, it’s, say, genocide denialist Turks\Azeris and the sources they link are trash or don’t support what they say.

So you are making it seem that the other side has no sources when they may have and not giving sources seem worse than giving garbage sources.

And on your question - the Wikipedia article has some sources which seem fine.

CaractacusPotts@lemmy.ca on 10 Mar 2024 07:04 next collapse

Flaky… understood.

Socsa@sh.itjust.works on 10 Mar 2024 12:09 collapse

For me, it’s more kind of shocking that so many people feel like they can confidently comment on these events without basic knowledge of the very well known history surrounding them. Someone who has such large gaps in their knowledge probably isn’t worth debating further, and simply highlighting those gaps should provide pretty good view to anyone else reading this conversation about what level they are operating on.

This is especially notable when you see accounts which literally do nothing besides comment on this conflict.

rottingleaf@lemmy.zip on 10 Mar 2024 13:06 collapse

I think you are putting unneeded conditions where there should be only one - whether you want to participate for your amusement.

Arguments do not expose truth. Arguments are not won or lost. If the arguing sides are trying to impose some position, to win some fight, then the argument is garbage.

Nothing shocking here either. They do what they want with their time.

mods_are_assholes@lemmy.world on 10 Mar 2024 07:44 collapse

“The difference” is that Israel’s formal position is not the elimination of Palestinian Arabs.

Sure, it’s not what they say they are doing, but genocide is literally what they are doing.

Why does it matter what they say when it does not mirror their actions?

Don’t forget a song recently praising genocide hit #1 on the charts

eran_morad@lemmy.world on 09 Mar 2024 20:52 next collapse

Does that make it any less abhorrent?

SwingingTheLamp@midwest.social on 10 Mar 2024 04:56 collapse

And we condemn Hamas, so…

eran_morad@lemmy.world on 09 Mar 2024 20:47 next collapse

Abhorrent.

Jollyllama@lemmy.world on 09 Mar 2024 21:30 next collapse

This is a Jewish Israeli extremist. Dont judge all of us based on this abhorrent example.

CaractacusPotts@lemmy.ca on 09 Mar 2024 22:17 next collapse

I have taken pains to point out that Zionism does not equate Judaism. Three of the men from whom I have learned the most about this conflict are all Jewish, Noam Chomsky, Norman Finkelstein and Ilan Pappé.

yarr@feddit.nl on 09 Mar 2024 23:17 next collapse

This is a Jewish Israeli extremist.

… who teaches at a yeshiva that gets its funding from the Israeli government… guess he’s not so extreme he can’t get government funding. Embarrassing. Even in the relatively thoughtless USA we would cancel that sponsorship in a second.

duffman@lemmy.world on 10 Mar 2024 01:03 next collapse

Do Israeli institutions not have mechanisms to dismiss officials who vocalize rhetoric like this?

yarr@feddit.nl on 10 Mar 2024 01:04 next collapse

No clue. I’m just pointing out the existing association. He could be 1 in 1000 or he could be in 1 in 4.

Jollyllama@lemmy.world on 10 Mar 2024 12:21 collapse

In my experience 1 in 4

rottingleaf@lemmy.zip on 10 Mar 2024 04:21 next collapse

They have mechanisms to dismiss the rest

mods_are_assholes@lemmy.world on 10 Mar 2024 07:40 collapse

Sure they do, but do they want to is the real question.

DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe on 10 Mar 2024 01:24 next collapse

(x)

rottingleaf@lemmy.zip on 10 Mar 2024 04:21 next collapse

Actually those yeshivas to get funding from Israeli government are more likely to be extremist.

Jollyllama@lemmy.world on 10 Mar 2024 12:20 collapse

Israeli democracy often resembles more of a Jewish “theocracy” I say that as a former Israeli voter. There is a huge coalition of religious politicians that work together to keep money flowing to the orthodox haredi voters whonare invaluable to them.

fine_sandy_bottom@discuss.tchncs.de on 10 Mar 2024 05:13 next collapse

Ok, well if that’s the case what is your community going to do to ensure he does not receive support from you, and that he can not recruit from within you, and that your community does not produce more extremists like him?

Usually in this type of situation the answer is to act outraged on social media.

Killing_Spark@feddit.de on 10 Mar 2024 05:53 next collapse

And more importantly, is it ok if we carpetbomb his neighbourhood?

BlackRoseAmongThorns@slrpnk.net on 10 Mar 2024 08:14 collapse

Not the OP, but sadly, the israeli state has a vested interest in supporting rabbis like him who act as an arm of extreme statist propaganda.

Even though the “disciples” of these kinds of rhetoric are not likely to serve in the military, they will egg on the existing population and do their spiel of making bullshit stories up.

And while I’d love to be in a position to go all “not all of us are like that”, and while I’m aware there are some Israelis who fight to get food in gaza, my entire family and most of my friends and colleagues spout this kind of extreme rhetoric, and i honestly feel like I’m slowly losing my mind over it.

There is not much willing in any community, and not much hope anything will change internally for the time being.

Jollyllama@lemmy.world on 10 Mar 2024 12:17 next collapse

Most of my family believes similarly to this Rabbi. I feel like if I try to defend the Palestinians or put an ounce of blame on the Israeli occupation I’ll be excommunicated.

I instead try to teach the undecided, usually the ones who have been ignorant to the situation or those who haven’t yet “taken a side”. I grew up in an orthodox Jewish settlement on the west bank so I belibe I can speak with some amount of authority.

fine_sandy_bottom@discuss.tchncs.de on 10 Mar 2024 12:40 collapse

Your situation sounds pretty miserable and you do have my sympathy.

I’m naive to the nuance of the Israel / Gaza / extremist situation. My comment was just a tongue in cheek commentary on the nature of ideologies and extremism.

Ideologies tend to attract and / or produce nutters, provide them succour, but then disclaim their behaviours.

Crass_Spektakel@lemmy.world on 10 Mar 2024 06:39 next collapse

He is not just an extremist but also an Idiot.

Killing everyone in Gaza is just dumb because there are also several 10.000 Israeli soldiers in Gaza.

But meh… we already learned that extremism breads brain rot. Hamas is proof of it.

Crass

Railcar8095@lemm.ee on 10 Mar 2024 12:16 collapse

Drax? Is that you?

pickman_model@lemmy.world on 10 Mar 2024 08:30 next collapse

No judgement to you all from me. War is a conductive environment for extremism. War is hell, after all.

TORFdot0@lemmy.world on 10 Mar 2024 14:27 next collapse

It’d be like asking Hamas the same question, clearly we shouldn’t judge the Palestinian innocents on Hamas’ views, nor should we judge Israel on this guys views

juicy@lemmy.today on 10 Mar 2024 15:16 next collapse

Don’t worry, we’re judging you (Israel) by your actions, which… checks notes… are in full alignment

Squizzy@lemmy.world on 10 Mar 2024 15:24 collapse

I’ll judge Israelis on the actions and words of their representatives and armes forces.

Doesn’t seem that much different to this extremist.

abuttandahalf@lemmy.ml on 10 Mar 2024 20:21 collapse

Majority held views among the population are in support of Gazan genocide and withholding all food from entering Gaza. The settler society at all levels understands its interests demand genocide.

Squizzy@lemmy.world on 10 Mar 2024 22:14 collapse

Exactly my point, this extremist does speak for the majority.

turkishdelight@lemmy.ml on 10 Mar 2024 08:02 next collapse

This is nothing new. Israel doing has been doing this for decades.

bier@feddit.nl on 10 Mar 2024 14:33 collapse

It’s basically the same as what Hamas has been saying forever. Basically both sides want eachother wiped out.

roguetrick@lemmy.world on 10 Mar 2024 13:32 next collapse

1 By the rivers of Babylon we sat and wept when we remembered Zion.

2 There on the poplars we hung our harps,

3 for there our captors asked us for songs, our tormentors demanded songs of joy; they said, “Sing us one of the songs of Zion!”

4 How can we sing the songs of the Lord while in a foreign land?

5 If I forget you, Jerusalem, may my right hand forget its skill.

6 May my tongue cling to the roof of my mouth if I do not remember you, if I do not consider Jerusalem my highest joy.

7 Remember, Lord, what the Edomites did on the day Jerusalem fell. “Tear it down,” they cried, “tear it down to its foundations!”

8 Daughter Babylon, doomed to destruction, happy is the one who repays you according to what you have done to us.

9 Happy is the one who seizes your infants and dashes them against the rocks.

Not quoting this to express my support, just reminded me of of the genocidal Psalm 137

juicy@lemmy.today on 10 Mar 2024 15:20 next collapse

Biden and Netanyahu: Way ahead of you, buddy!

cumskin_genocide@lemm.ee on 10 Mar 2024 16:11 next collapse

It makes sense since Israel is a theocracy

A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world on 10 Mar 2024 19:28 next collapse

This would be international outrage if a palestinian said this about Israelis

LemonLord@endlesstalk.org on 10 Mar 2024 19:41 collapse

They want the land. Not the people.