Funny story. Columbia’s student journalists were corralled and detained in the Pulitzer Prize building, to prevent them from recording or publishing events on campus during the last few days.

Tbf a bunch of the israeli prisoners most likely got bombed to death by their own military.

There’s a lot more dead Palestinian children than dead Israeli prisoners. Its also hard to pretend Hamas isnt a direct consequence of decades of oppression, or that half the population of Palestine are children and most never even had a chance in the decision yet they are the ones receiving most of the missles.

Or the difference in fire power. Israel could just pull out if they wanted to, the ratio of deaths between both nations is ridiculous.

Sure Hamas sucks but Israel is literally committing genocide with international help. So ya, one side is worse and ignoring the fact is being willfully ignorant. There is nothing to defend here, abusing prisoners is shit and it’s well known that Israel was just grabbing men off the street to toss in jail, so a lot of them probably did nothing to deserve it.

Between Israel and Hamas, Hamas is the lesser evil.

Yes very sad that israel keeps killing the hostages in Gaza. It seems that Netanyahu hopes to kill them all to remove any reason for protest.

Good thing that Hamas treated their hostages well in captivity though. They won’t lower themselves to the level of barbarism of israel.

We don’t get stories of Hamas cutting off hostages legs like israel does

“Just this week, two prisoners had their legs amputated due to handcuff injuries, which unfortunately is a routine event,” the physician said in the letter. He said inmates are fed through straws, defecate in diapers, and are held constant restraints, which violate medical ethics and the law.

Maybe the “most moral army in the world” should be held to a higher standard than terrorists.

Both sides have done some fucked up shit, but let’s not pretend a terrorist attack that killed ~1160 people is on any sort of equal footing with a thinly veiled genocide campaign that has so far wiped out over 35,000 people, about half of which were children.

Let’s not forget we learned soon after Oct 7 that Israel’s government/intelligence was aware of the impending attack and did nothing. I’d wager my next paycheck that Führer Bibi saw the opportunity for an excuse to wipe out Gaza and let it happen.

My issue is that leftists have no problem supporting Israel.

That’s why makes them worse.

Ah yes, Haaretz, a well known outlet of Palestinian war propaganda.

propaganda is when they’re torturing prisoners

Yeah I hate ISIS with the same passion as israel. But it’s always hilarious to see people make fun of fighters actually risking their lives on the ground to “come out in the open and stop fighting like cowards” against a drone flying 10 miles high in the sky controlled remotely from half the world away by a dude on an airbase in Texas.

Friendly reminder that Israelis helped run Abu Ghraib

However, similarities between the torture perpetrated against Palestinians now and against Iraqis 20 years before in Iraq come as no surprise. Israel and the torture techniques its intelligence services pioneered over decades of occupation played an important and largely overlooked role in the 2004 Abu Ghraib prison scandal, most notably through the use of sexual humiliation and rape.

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Among the contractors interrogating prisoners were employees of the private security firm CACI. One of the interrogators, Eric Fair, was stationed at the Abu Ghraib prison and in the restive city of Fallujah in 2004. He said interrogators in Iraq were taught to use a torture device known as the “Palestinian chair” by the Israeli military during a joint training exercise.

If he was guilty how is he out of jail now?

It’s a Haaretz article.