Despite growing international condemnation, Israel has rejected calls for a ceasefire of its continued assault on Gaza. "Israeli forces carried out indiscriminate attacks, killing and injuring civilians, and in some cases that we documented, … entire families were wiped out," says Amnesty International researcher Budour Hassan, who shares testimonies of Gazans from a new report on Israeli war crimes. Meanwhile, Israel continues to attack civilians in the occupied West Bank, and the number of Palestinians held in Israeli jails since October 7 has doubled. "This level of pressure, of coercion, of oppression that Palestinians have been facing in the West Bank … has received such scant attention because all eyes now are on Gaza," says Hassan. Transcript: https://www.democracynow.org/2023/10/25/palestine_amnesty_international Democracy Now! is an independent global news hour that airs on over 1,500 TV and radio stations Monday through Friday. Watch our livestream at democracynow.org Mondays to Fridays 8-9 a.m. ET. Support independent media: https://democracynow.org/donate Subscribe to our Daily Email Digest: https://democracynow.org/subscribe
  • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.worldEnglish
    272·
    9 months ago

    So many people running whataboutism interference for the apartheid regime in this thread 🤦

    We get it! Nobody sane is saying that the atrocities of Hamas are excusable! That doesn’t free the Israeli government from responsibility for their decades of oppression, genocide and systematic displacement of the Palestinian people, though.

    • JokklMaster@lemmy.worldEnglish
      33·
      9 months ago

      I have seen many people say that terrorism from Hamas is excusable due to the actions of the Israeli government. Obviously the Israeli government has done many things they absolutely should not have, but that does not excuse terrorism like many people on Lemmy have said.

      • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.worldEnglish
        11·
        9 months ago

        I have seen many people say that terrorism from Hamas is excusable

        Correction: a tiny minority of the most deranged tankies. I specified nobody SANE.

        excuse terrorism like many people on Lemmy have said.

        Same tiny minority of tankies. There’s a lot of tankies here but even amongst them, the condemnation of Hamas’ actions is near-universal.

        The same isn’t the case with supporters of the Israeli government. They are wont to say "Israel has a right to defend itself " as if decades of oppression, genocide and displacement coupled with extremely disproportionate responses are just necessary self defense 🤦

    • Redrum714@lemm.eeEnglish
      316·
      9 months ago

      If you live in a country ran by terrorists and you support said terrorists, don’t be surprised when you get labeled as a terrorist.

      • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.worldEnglish
        14·
        9 months ago

        So I guess that would make all Americans fascists from 2017 to 2019 at the earliest? 🙄

        Newsflash: there’s absolutely no proof that Hamas enjoy majority support, let alone the universal support you seem to assume. If they did, they’d probably have had an election much more recently.

        • anarchost@lemm.eeEnglish
          2·
          9 months ago

          Their argument is terrible, but it would actually apply better to Americans than Gazans, because at least Americans have some freedom of travel. (Of course, most couldn’t just emigrate to Canada or Mexico due to many issues, the biggest of which is money, but they wouldn’t be held back by the USA because they were never granted a birth certificate, for example.)