Israeli cruise ship turned away from Greek island by Gaza war protest (www.theguardian.com)
from Davriellelouna@lemmy.world to world@lemmy.world on 22 Jul 21:01
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venusaur@lemmy.world on 22 Jul 21:24 next collapse

20 points to Greece!

etuomaala@sopuli.xyz on 24 Jul 14:22 next collapse

This feels like a Harry Potter reference.

Jakule17@lemmy.world on 25 Jul 14:39 collapse

Douze points

Mrkawfee@lemmy.world on 22 Jul 21:29 next collapse

Good. Fuck them. Evil bastards.

They are feasting while they starve millions to death a few miles away.

JiveTurkey@lemmy.world on 22 Jul 21:34 next collapse

Good job Greece.

dubyakay@lemmy.ca on 23 Jul 03:10 collapse

It’s not Greece. It’s the protesters. The Greek government is notoriously close to the Zionists. About as stupid too.

JiveTurkey@lemmy.world on 23 Jul 03:12 next collapse

Sorry. Good job protestors.

HailSeitan@lemmy.world on 23 Jul 05:36 collapse

Greece is not identical with its government. Pedantry that collapses an important distinction is extra unhelpful.

the_wiz@feddit.org on 23 Jul 06:45 collapse

Funny you… you can separate Greece and its population, but the same rule doesn’t apply to Israel… really funny…

ayyy@sh.itjust.works on 23 Jul 07:07 next collapse

Do you understand what an international sanction is?

ChairmanMeow@programming.dev on 23 Jul 07:41 next collapse

Polls have repeatedly shown that the Israeli population is majority supportive of their government’s actions in Palestine.

KumaSudosa@feddit.dk on 23 Jul 08:19 next collapse

Greeks don’t live on stolen land built on theft, oppression, and active genocide. Israelis do.

lemmingrad@thelemmy.club on 24 Jul 10:20 collapse

I mean don’t tell the turks that :3

KumaSudosa@feddit.dk on 24 Jul 12:29 collapse

There is no way in hell that Greeks stole any land from Turks 😂

theacharnian@lemmy.ca on 24 Jul 08:54 next collapse

If Greece was doing what Israel is doing and my fellow Greek electors were responsible for electing for 20 years in free and fair elections the government that does it AND they were polling the government coalition responsible for doing it first for the next election AND in opinion polls overwhelmingly supported the genocide and I was one of the few brave souls doing the protesting, not only would I be ok with the conflation, I would be encouraging.

Holding autocracies to account is easy: send the dictator to the Hague.

Holding democracies (even flawed ones like Israel’s) to account is harder.

enbipanic@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 24 Jul 14:58 collapse

That’s what I’ve been saying this whole time! Watch people find a reason for racism :/ genocide is abhorrent, but can we really say we should hold everyone accountable by association?

Interact with real people from Israel and suddenly there’s a lot more to it than “Israeli bad”

Bet Americans would appreciate the same grace

Lucky_777@lemmy.world on 22 Jul 21:50 next collapse

Do this for all things coming out of Iseral.

3abas@lemmy.world on 23 Jul 09:58 collapse

And US and Germany and UK and France and Canada and every country financially supporting and politically shielding this genocide.

StormMission907@lemmy.world on 23 Jul 12:30 collapse

Canada is not supporting it all. Please dont include us in your list .

bold_atlas@lemmy.world on 23 Jul 13:08 collapse

Canada is still selling weapons to Israel via loopholes (i.e. selling them to the US who then passes them on to Israel.)

https://www.readthemaple.com/canada-sold-18-9-million-of-military-goods-to-israel-despite-pause/

Ixoid@aussie.zone on 23 Jul 02:09 next collapse

Turned away with a torpedo?

b161@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 23 Jul 04:25 next collapse

Bring out the orcas.

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Laser@feddit.org on 23 Jul 05:59 next collapse

Can’t even commit a genocide and go on a cruise undisturbed after, what has this world come to

the_wiz@feddit.org on 23 Jul 06:43 collapse

Are those soldiers or politicians on the cruise?

Laser@feddit.org on 23 Jul 07:03 next collapse

Yes

unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de on 23 Jul 07:26 next collapse

There is forced conscription in Israel, so yes most of them are usually current or ex IDF soldiers. Aka war criminals…

IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world on 23 Jul 11:59 next collapse

You are joking, but the answer is yes.

Most of the passengers served in the IOF, most of them likely war criminals

AFaithfulNihilist@lemmy.world on 23 Jul 12:18 next collapse

Apartheid countries that practice conscription have very few adult civilians.

TheCleric@lemmy.org on 23 Jul 12:35 collapse

Even if there weren’t forced conscription, actions like this force the people from the aggressor country to face the reality of what their government is doing. If they are not welcome to vacation destinations and everywhere they go they are reminded that their country is proudly slaughtering and starving people—if they’re not given any room to pretend things are normal, they will demand an ability to return to normal. They would pressure their govt to stop the genocide.

So even in the case that these people hadn’t been conscripted and were therefore partially responsible for the apartheid being inflicted on Palestinians, this would still be an acceptable action.

Stop the genocide

Make the perpetrators and any supporters uncomfortable and unwelcome until they change.

Things are not normal right now. There is literally another holocaust happening. As we sit here typing on our phones. And you are defending the perpetrators. Only thinking of these people here as “Jews” and therefore the perpetually victims no matter what is what’s actually antisemitic.

ayyy@sh.itjust.works on 23 Jul 07:05 next collapse

How do you know the religion of cruise boat vacationers? Do they discriminate by religion?

unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de on 23 Jul 07:24 next collapse

Every accusation is an admission of guilt with these kinda people.

sucius@lemmy.world on 23 Jul 09:16 next collapse

It says Israeli, no religion was mentioned.

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IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world on 23 Jul 12:00 next collapse

Yes, that boat was Jewish, got it wiener diced on birth, and doesn’t eat prok.

CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works on 23 Jul 18:30 collapse

got it wiener diced on birth

So the front fell off?

IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world on 23 Jul 18:50 collapse

I get the reference

sucius@lemmy.world on 23 Jul 12:54 next collapse

Yes, more than 25% are not Jewish

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Hacksaw@lemmy.ca on 23 Jul 23:00 collapse

Even if Israel was 100% Jewish that doesn’t mean being anti Israel is the same as being anti Jewish. Only if every Israeli is Jewish and every Jew is Israeli are the two equivalent.

Just see all the Jews who are against the current Israeli genocide to understand the distinction.

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Hacksaw@lemmy.ca on 24 Jul 00:25 collapse

Yes, you’re right. Taken completely out of context you just asked if there were many non-Jews in Israel. Absolutely. What does the context matter anyways? We should treat everything as an independent unrelated statement!

ayyy@sh.itjust.works on 23 Jul 14:41 collapse

Exactly. Conflating hatred of a cruise boat to “hatred towards Jews” is disgusting, and Im calling our that bullshit.

sucius@lemmy.world on 23 Jul 15:39 collapse

Ah alright. Got you

IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world on 23 Jul 11:59 next collapse

The cruise ship was circumcised, duhh.

/j

herseycokguzelolacak@lemmy.ml on 23 Jul 12:17 collapse

They are waving Israeli flags.

ayyy@sh.itjust.works on 23 Jul 14:44 collapse

Israeli is not a religion.

herseycokguzelolacak@lemmy.ml on 24 Jul 06:43 collapse

Israeli constitution disagrees with you: en.wikipedia.org/…/Basic_Law:_Israel_as_the_Natio…

ayyy@sh.itjust.works on 24 Jul 06:50 collapse

That’s not really what that says. You think this is a legitimate defense against genocide? Please answer yes or no.

herseycokguzelolacak@lemmy.ml on 24 Jul 09:31 collapse

The Israeli constitutions discriminates against non-Jews, and says that Israel is for Jews only.

dickalan@lemmy.world on 23 Jul 08:09 next collapse

You’re not an organic Jew, who is paying you to push this fucking bullshit that you like to spread around here, victimize yourself elsewhere you Fucking weirdo

the_wiz@feddit.org on 23 Jul 08:23 collapse

I am no jew, i am a German christian and i recognize the patterns the so called “Palestine supporters” are using to spread their hate for Israel’s actions towards jews. You all who celebrate that this ship was turned away would have been proud Nazis back in the day. Think about yourself and think about where you would have stand in the 40s.

Natanael@infosec.pub on 23 Jul 08:42 next collapse

This is the language that was used by countries not affected by war in WW2 to turn away jews that tried to escape.

WanderingThoughts@europe.pub on 23 Jul 08:52 next collapse

Meanwhile Israel is operating exactly as Nazi Germany in trying to eliminate an entire population. Those saying that this should not be commented on are complicit and actually are the same ones that would enthusiastically wave a German flag in the 40s. These are also the ones going after Jews today if they even try to criticize Israel. It’s disgusting and you’re basically accusing everyone of what you’re doing yourself.

dickalan@lemmy.world on 23 Jul 10:33 next collapse

Look, man I called what Israel was doing to Palestine a genocide when they first invaded, I really don’t know what point you’re trying to make here, genocide is being done by the Jewish people no matter how you sell it

Blumpkinhead@lemmy.world on 23 Jul 11:43 collapse

Genocide is being done by Israel, not the Jewish people.

melsaskca@lemmy.ca on 23 Jul 11:52 collapse

We should also remember that Hamas was the aggressor, not the Palestinian people. Hamas does not represent all Palestinian people just like Israel does not represent all Jewish people.

crapwittyname@feddit.uk on 23 Jul 12:59 next collapse

History didn’t start on October 7th. “Hamas was the aggressor” is a false statement. Hamas is one of the belligerents in a war of occupation that’s been going on for a long long time.

SectoidLexi@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 23 Jul 13:27 next collapse

Hamas attacking the country illegally occupying theirs does not make them the aggressor. Just a small correction.

Honytawk@feddit.nl on 24 Jul 12:05 collapse

Pretty sure the agressor were the countries claiming Palestine in order to turn it into Israel back in 1948.

IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world on 23 Jul 11:57 next collapse

I AM JEWISH, lived in Israel, and will say that clearly

fuck you

Free Palestine

You are implying that genocide is a Jewish thing because protesting it is a protest against Judaism. In such case you are a massive antisemitic troll.

ISREAL WILL AND NEVER BE A REPRESTATION OF JEWS.

theacharnian@lemmy.ca on 24 Jul 10:00 collapse

See, according to Germany’s political establishment and mainstream, you, an actual Jew, are antisemitic. The German establishment knows better than you. And there is absolutely nothing creepy or antisemitic in them telling you you’re a bad Jew.

Edit: not to mention that this person right here is probably feeling immense satisfaction at having been downvoted to oblivion. Because they are likely perceiving this whole thing as them taking a brave stand against antisemitism. This is them being pure rational Germans against antisemitic irrationality. That’s where we’re at.

herseycokguzelolacak@lemmy.ml on 23 Jul 12:16 next collapse

Germany is participating in genocide again. For the 2nd time in 100 years.

In 50 years there will be another monument in Berlin, apologizing for the victims of the Palestinian genocide.

redsand@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 23 Jul 12:21 next collapse

Zionist. The words for you are Zionist and Nazi. Go read the bible fake Christian. Hell or purgatory await, the choice is yours. Not really, you literally are not capable of reading the entire bible so it’s not much of a choice.

Envy@fedia.io on 23 Jul 12:49 next collapse

You're a german christian who sympathizes with ICE. You're clearly more than a fan of your grandparents' belief while the Fuhrer was around.

Seriously yall. Go back track through their profile. This is a person justifying the steps to genocide by being a "concerned german citizen".

LotrOrc@lemmy.world on 23 Jul 12:58 next collapse

Where would you stand in the 40s? You seem to be very okay with a genocide of Palestinians right now so just wondering

Just because something was done to you does not make it fair or give you the right to do it to someone else.

possumparty@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 23 Jul 13:17 next collapse

Oh shit, a German who supports the ethnic cleansing performed by ICE and the ethnic cleansing performed by Israel. That makes you a literal fucking Nazi.

SectoidLexi@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 23 Jul 13:24 collapse

You’re not even Jewish? You’re a German Christian and you’re out here trying to tell folks opposed to a genocidal regime what antisemitism looks like??? Get the fuck outta here.

crapwittyname@feddit.uk on 23 Jul 08:17 next collapse

I cannot believe that hatred disgust toward Jews anyone who supports the genocidal regime of Israel is celebrated here… It’s disgusting

Fify

jordanlund@lemmy.world on 23 Jul 09:45 next collapse

Don’t confuse hatred towards Israelis, Israeli policy, and Israeli supremacists with hatred towards jews in general. There is a difference.

Anti-Semitic comments should be reported, they will be removed.

Comments against Israeli policy and war crimes are allowed to stand.

KryptonNerd@slrpnk.net on 23 Jul 11:38 next collapse

Taking action against Israel is not antisemitic. As an anti-zionist Jew, I really don’t appreciate people conflating the two.

NIB@lemmy.world on 23 Jul 12:38 collapse

Is this taking action against Israel or against israelis. Would you be fine if your country’s government did something and then people who you dont know were aggressive towards you?

How does this action help Palestine in any way?

Greece is the most antisemitic, non muslim majority, country in the world. I am greek btw.

explodicle@sh.itjust.works on 23 Jul 14:23 next collapse

That’s been my whole life as an American. It’s part of the reason I try to convince my fellow Americans to stop voting for the terrible things we do.

theacharnian@lemmy.ca on 24 Jul 00:26 next collapse

Χέσε μας ρε που η Ελλάδα είναι η πιο αντισημιτική χώρα του κόσμου.

NIB@lemmy.world on 24 Jul 10:35 collapse

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antisemitism_by_country#Ant…

Το ADL είναι χαζός οργανισμός, τα νούμερα μπορεί να είναι λάθος, αλλά η σχέση ανάμεσα στα νούμερα νομίζω ότι είναι σχετικά σωστή. Υπόψιν, τα νούμερα είναι από το 2014-2015. Η Ελλάδα πάντα είχε θέμα με τον αντισημιτισμό και από τη άκρα δεξιά και από την άκρα αριστερά.

theacharnian@lemmy.ca on 24 Jul 11:00 collapse

The ADL counts opposition to Israel as antisemitism. Any metric based on the IHRA definition is just garbage and propaganda.

Edit: the ADL is worse than “silly”. They are enablers of antisemitism so long as the antisemites are pro-Israeli. Zero credibility.

Edit2: you’re quoting a list that lists 93% of Palestinians as antisemites. What a fucking sick joke.

NIB@lemmy.world on 24 Jul 13:50 collapse

The percentages are irrelevant, the relation between them is relevant. And Greece is the top, non muslim majority, country. Far above all other European countries.

Even if ADL is a joke, this should be an indication that things were never good in Greece, in regards to antisemitism. Especially since the data is from 2014-2015, probably near peak doomerism/evil jewish bankers/etc for greeks.

theacharnian@lemmy.ca on 24 Jul 14:08 collapse

Does Greece has an anti-Semitism problem? Yes, unequivocally. We also have a much bigger Islamophobia problem. Beyond that, the “rankings” are meaningless.

In terms of policy, our government is one that straight up kills migrants at sea and allies itself with a genocidal apartheid regime.

The people taking action here did a good thing. It’s people like this that save Greek honour.

lemmingrad@thelemmy.club on 24 Jul 10:22 collapse

If my government was committing genocide I would hide in the wood hoping not to get shot, not taking cruises, you fucking idiot

IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world on 23 Jul 11:55 next collapse

Basic thinking skill:

A) Was the cruise ship turned around because the men were circumcised

B) It’s from a genocidal state?

herseycokguzelolacak@lemmy.ml on 23 Jul 12:13 next collapse

They are committing mass murder, so I understand the anger.

TheCleric@lemmy.org on 23 Jul 12:24 next collapse

lol I seriously thought this was satire when I read this comment. Then I remembered people are this dense

SectoidLexi@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 23 Jul 13:20 next collapse

*Hatred towards racist genocidal settlers FTFY

Ougie@lemmy.world on 23 Jul 13:35 next collapse

I hate Daniella Weiss but I love Larry David, does that make me an antisemite? You’re the disgusting one, learn to differentiate. You ate nazi propaganda with a spoon in the 30s and you’re eating the same from the zionists now. Time to get your shit together. What does Jesus say about starving children, Christian? Why are you condoning genocide, Christian?

pixeltree@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 23 Jul 14:19 next collapse

Israeli != Jew

You’re being pretty antisemitic implying are jews are part of that genocidal country

theacharnian@lemmy.ca on 24 Jul 00:25 collapse

What is disgusting I that you are conflating legitimate non violent pressure to the citizens of a genocidal state to do their duty as citizens with hatred towards Jews.

Sauvandu60@lemmy.ml on 23 Jul 12:31 next collapse

Good riddance.

Mediocre_Bard@lemmy.world on 23 Jul 13:46 next collapse

I remember from history class that a boat of Jewish refugees was turned away from several ports during WW2. Wild to have lived long enough to see that reason completely flip and have a decadent cruise turned away for supporting genocide.

Siegfried@lemmy.world on 23 Jul 14:01 next collapse

In any case, Jews =/= Israeli

Mediocre_Bard@lemmy.world on 23 Jul 19:18 next collapse

Well, yeah. But the Israeli population is 75% Jewish and their leadership even more so. I’m holding my neighbor responsible for genocide, I’m holding Israel responsible for genocide. A critique of Israel is not an attack on Jews.

SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca on 23 Jul 19:57 next collapse

Israel exists because there wasn’t anywhere in the world that would grant Jews asylum in WW2. Rejecting boatloads of Jews is continuing the strong case for the need for a Jewish state.

And you can’t call Jews living in Israel “colonists” as if they can “go back to Europe” now. They can’t leave Israel now,

On one hand there’s a large number of people that want to “wipe Israel off the map” and on the other hand we have European countries not allowing Jews to enter. So what is the meaning behind “wipe Israel off the map” now?

I used to think a Jewish state wasn’t necessary, though I didn’t have a problem with there being one. I figured we’d never go back to a to the dark times of the past. But now I’m absolutely convinced that a Jewish state is 100% necessary. So… congratulations, protesters?

drhodl@lemmy.world on 23 Jul 21:06 next collapse

I’m 70 years old and have always supported Israel until now, but I am starting to believe that the world would be better off without Israel. They function with a complete absence of honor and humanity, and completely lack the ability to compromise fairly. Israel is an irritant to a peaceful world.

SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca on 23 Jul 23:43 collapse

So you want to kill all the Jews in Israel?

lemmingrad@thelemmy.club on 24 Jul 10:19 next collapse

What is it with your obsession with jews? There are also christians and other religions in the tsahal and they deserve death too

SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca on 25 Jul 01:39 collapse

Do you think Muslim Israelis deserve to die too?

Honytawk@feddit.nl on 24 Jul 11:57 next collapse

They didn’t even use the word “Jew” in their reply. So why are you conflating the 2?

Holy mental gymnastics, Batman.

SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca on 25 Jul 00:17 collapse

The thing is with dog whistles is that the people that use them think they’re being clever and fooling everyone. But it doesn’t really fool anyone, and those that use the dog whistles pretend to be offended when you start talking about the subject they’re really talking about.

Seen it hundreds of times with the MAGAs and y’all are no different from them.

agelord@lemmy.world on 24 Jul 12:28 next collapse

You’re showing the mental capacity of a four year old.

Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz on 24 Jul 12:38 collapse

Elimination of Israel != elimination of the people living there.

Quite the opposite; Israel, as a settler colonial project, necessitates the elimination of many of the people living there.

SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca on 25 Jul 00:20 collapse

We’re in a thread under an article celebrating how Israelis aren’t welcome in other countries.

So that indicates eliminating Israel isn’t just about ethnically cleansing Jews from the area, since you don’t want there to be anywhere else for them to go. So what does “eliminating Israel” mean now?

Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz on 25 Jul 11:22 collapse

Who said eliminating Israel required ethnically cleansing Jews? There were jewish people living in Palestine before Israel, there will be Jewish people living in Palestine after Israel.

lemmingrad@thelemmy.club on 24 Jul 10:18 next collapse

Who cares about what you think, you’re a genocide denialist. There’s zero point in wasting time talking with pedophiles about the merits of fucking kids.

Israelis are very welcome to turn themself in to international justice and get trialed for their war crimes.

agelord@lemmy.world on 24 Jul 12:27 next collapse

The Israelis are colonists who are committing a genocide in order to expand their colony.

Iceman@lemmy.world on 24 Jul 12:55 next collapse

They are called colonists because they are litterly colonizing land in occupied territories. The government consists of parties that openly call for this.

IndustryStandard@lemmy.world on 24 Jul 13:11 collapse

Zionists had been colonizing Palestine for decades before the Holocaust. Your statement is patently false.

SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca on 25 Jul 01:36 collapse

Do you consider all immigration to be “colonization” or is it just when specific ethnicities do it?

IndustryStandard@lemmy.world on 25 Jul 09:50 collapse
enbipanic@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 24 Jul 14:55 collapse

Also:

Israeli=/=Israeli government

I don’t care if you think all Israeli’s approve of their government, ultimately those are different things.

JayDee@lemmy.sdf.org on 23 Jul 20:52 collapse

Refugee ships also still get intercepted and turned away from various countries. It is nice seeing the violent bigots turned away for a change, though.

seejur@lemmy.world on 24 Jul 12:38 collapse

Tbh most are migrating for better opportunities, not persecution, but yeah, out of all the boats that are turned away, this one is by far my favorite

Katana314@lemmy.world on 24 Jul 13:05 collapse

I hear this a lot, but I don’t think it’s the gotcha people claim it is. Most genocide in the modern day tries to aim for economic strangling by eliminating/stealing what few opportunities exist for some populations. See, for instance, the IDF’s efforts to starve Gaza rather than shoot every single Palestinian. Or fascist America’s efforts to deny jobs (even the ones that are not in competition) to disabled or minorities.

I don’t see it as “I’ma move and get rich”, I see it as “I’ma move and not starve on the street”.

seejur@lemmy.world on 24 Jul 16:58 collapse

That’s sadly not true, at least in Europe: since most people cannot enter legally, they have to resort to illegal way, and smuggler know this, and strangle them with bribes, extra fees etc. Most “trips” to enter through Italy for example for this reason cost thousands of dollars, not something a poverty stricken family can afford. Most economic migrants are from middle class in their own countries, who are attracted by the false promises of TV shows about how everyone in Europe or other countries depict themselves, but again, are decently well of on their own countries. Source for prices: International migration and illegal costs: Evidence from Africa-to-Europe smuggling routes - ScienceDirect share.google/YgcY5iFUeuZLvPmPH

For the US, on the other hand, since you have a river vs a desert + sea, can be a lot cheaper

drhodl@lemmy.world on 23 Jul 21:01 next collapse

People actively committing genocide, should not be free to have a pleasant cruise holiday! Fuck That!

Resonosity@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 24 Jul 12:39 next collapse

Bravo Greece!

IndustryStandard@lemmy.world on 24 Jul 13:11 next collapse

Thank you Greece!

frenchfryenjoyer@lemmings.world on 24 Jul 14:06 collapse

Brilliant work Greece for standing up against genociders!