#faux Palestinians

[secular-jew]

The faux Palestinians are always appropriating someone else's history, because theirs began in 1967, with an assist from the KGB.

Here, they plagiarize the cover of a book on Armenians, and claim it's a Palestinian family in Israel.

[zevranunderstander]

two things that bother me about all zelda gerudo designs so much is that the female designs are just completely oversexualized for no reason (would be so fucking impractical in a desert) and that ganondorf's outfit is based on eastern asian fashion and not... middle eastern fashion?

[wickershells]

pissing me the fuck off honestly

[agentfascinateur]

When you consider who recently ran Public Safety in Canada, Ben-Gvir's inclusion is no surprise...

A far-right Israeli minister openly encouraging the alleged torture, abuse, rape and killing of Palestinian detainees remains listed as a “key international contact” on Public Safety Canada’s (PSC) website.

...

But Ben-Gvir was well known as a convicted racist and supporter of far-right terrorism long before PSC prepared the transition document. He was found guilty by an Israeli court for both offences in 2007, and was also a youth activist in the far-right “Kach” party, which PSC lists as a proscribed terrorist organization. Ben-Gvir’s criminal record was widely publicized at the time of his ministerial appointment in Netanyahu’s extreme right-wing government in late 2022.

Nothing honourable about Mr Blair. Or liberal.

[infiniteglitterfall]

this is the dumbest post holy shit, and it's just one of so many posts saying the exact same thing.

You've got two countries listed here whose people have been screaming all over social media about how badly Hamas and Hezbollah treat them.

One is a fascist dictatorship - in GAZA, not all of Palestine - and the other has likewise taken over big chunks of Lebanon and runs sex trafficking and literal slavery rings through them, as well as across Syria. In addition to cleansing an entire refugee camp, in SYRIA, of Palestinians.

Tell me you don't give a shit about Palestinians without telling me you don't give a shit about Palestinians. That should be the motto of this entire movement.

And the other two countries? Syrians were literally partying in the streets when Israel took out the leader of Hezbollah. So were Palestinians in the West Bank.

Israel has struck Syria once: to take out the IRANIAN embassy, because the fascist dictatorship of Iran was meeting Hezbollah and Hamas leaders there.

Because besides having collectively bombed Israel 34,841 times since 2001, an average of four times a day, both of those groups openly want to kill all Jews, and Iran is the one advising them and giving them the resources to do so.

Israel has struck Yemen twice: to cut off the oil the Houthis ship in to keep their dictatorship going across half of Yemen.

All your faves, in short, are brutal extreme-right terrorist dictatorships that have seized parts of these countries against the will of the people, who they torture and murder for dissent.

And they do this on behalf of Iran, which funds, trains, and uses them to quietly take over the Middle East and build an empire.

You pretend to be anti-imperialist. But you're stanning the most actively, violently imperialist shit on this earth.

Palestine. Lebanon. Syria. Yemen.

It was never about that damn hostages. When will you all wake up.

[triviallytrue]

Link

This is a well-known Palestinian user and vetter explaining that they are completely confident that the pornbotlike ask sent by an account with a verified fundraiser was a result of "embarrassing behavior/a mistake in online interactions."

This would be more plausible if it was a one time occurrence, but this blog sent the exact same ask to (at minimum) three separate accounts:

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These asks are all identical, to the letter - that's how I found them. This is, needless to say, very strange for any person to do on tumblr, least of all someone who is raising money to try and protect their family from a genocide. glitzyboo, for example, does not post images of themselves or reblog anything remotely close to NSFW, so it's very very odd behavior for someone to tell them they are "pretty enough" for anything. It is even more suspicious when you consider the very long history of porn bots sending sugar daddy scam asks on this site.

I don't know what is going wrong here - who is mistaken about what, what part of the process is breaking down, but the story told in the above post, that this was an embarrassing social faux pas that happened one time and was sent by a real person who was horny, does not hold up to scrutiny.

[papasmoke]

Hey, quick question, who's killing Palestinians? Is it Israelis, or is it Americans? I'd have replied, but you have replies restricted.

September 2, 2024

You know as well as I do that Israel wouldn't have been able to commit this holocaust or invade Lebanon or bomb Iran without the enthusiastic steadfast unwavering zero-red-line ironclad support of the Biden administration. I'm not going to entertain your faux incredulity. It is transparent horseshit.

[secular-jew]

Wash, rinse, repeat.

[infiniteglitterfall]

friggin faux-Palestinian history, istg

I'm in the middle of writing a post about the difficulties of pinning down details and dates in Palestinian history. This one is just me stopping to vent for a sec.

I came across the Wikipedia page for GUPS, the General Union of Palestinian Students. This is an organization with groups at colleges all over the world. Ish. It's shrunk over the decades.

The page made a bold claim: that GUPS was officially founded in Cairo in 1959, but had really started in the 1920s.

I called bullshit. The only source cited was a dead link to the 2010 version of the SFSU GUPS page, which said the same thing -- no context, no source, and especially, no explanation of how Palestinian student organizing could have started before there were colleges or universities in Palestine.

There were two. They were tiny. And they both taught in Hebrew.

Certainly, there could have been Arab Palestinian students there, who learned Hebrew there, or already knew it.

But were there so many that they started a student group that apparently lasted 35+ years before getting a name??

I could not find one other source for this.

So I deleted it and called bullshit.

Within a day, someone who wasn't even logged in reverted my edit. They told me that I hadn't proven that it was wrong, I'd just said it was illogical.

I started looking up sources and putting together a more detailed edit. In the meantime, I started a topic on the totally empty talk page, politely calling bullshit.

I said that I hadn't been able to find any sources in English OR Arabic that confirmed this claim, and that I thought it was an error made on a dead page.

The same person, now logged in, replied:

"you still haven't refuted the claim. the claim is still on their web page."

BRUH.

IT'S AN ARCHIVE OF A DEAD PAGE. BY DEFINITION, IT DOESN'T CHANGE.

This is exactly how it feels to research any of this stuff.

Every single time, it turns out that people's unsourced online bullshit is absolutely wrong.

Every single time, people just respond by insisting on believing whatever claim some rando made on the internet.

The problem is not that Palestinian history doesn't exist, hasn't been written down, or hasn't been researched. Of fucking course it has!!

(I have literally seen people claiming the contrary in the most wild-ass fucking ways. Supposedly-pro-Palestinian people, acting like Palestinians are wooby powerless fuzzy babbies whose books were all stolen by the cruel Jews 80 years ago, who had no way to replace that historic knowledge, and who have just been standing around ever since. It is the most Western Paternalism shit ever, and it absolutely drives me up the wall.)

The problem is that this is a topic that a lot of people are passionate about. And unfortunately, a whole lot of people are unwilling to back down on literally anything that "feels" pro-Palestinian to them, whether it's true or not.

It's purely going on Vibes, but the Vibes themselves are based on how something compares to the Vibes they get from social media and stuff.

And those vibes are so extreme and vehement that any kind of pushback sounds like You Love Genocide And Kill Babies For Fun.

It's just a fucking vicious spiral.

It's like playing tennis against the tennis-ball-throwing machine. It's not a real game. Nobody is engaging with you. It's just the same shit over and over.

(I was trying to type "shot." But apparently I swear so much that instead of autocorrecting me to "ducking hell," my phone now INSISTS I meant to cuss.)

I ended up getting Google to give me the Arabic for GUPS, and then digging for sources about its actual origin.

It turns out Yasser Arafat formed the Palestinian Students League in Cairo in 1949, and that became GUPS in 1956. This is entirely fucking unsurprising in any way if you know anything at all about actual Palestinian history. Of fucking course he did. This also explains why the first search result I found about GUPS was from the PLO. Of fucking course it was.

[najia-cooks]

[ID: Two large flatbreads. The one in the center is topped with bright purple onions, faux chicken, fried nuts, and coarse red sumac; the one at the side is topped with onions and sumac. Second image is a close-up. End ID]

مسخن / Musakhkhan (Palestinian flatbread with onions and sumac)

Musakhkhan (مُسَخَّن; also "musakhan" or "moussakhan") is a dish historically made by Palestinian farmers during the olive harvest season of October and November: naturally leavened flatbread is cooked in clay ovens, dipped in plenty of freshly pressed olive oil, and then covered with oily, richly caramelized onions fragrant with sumac. Modern versions of the dish add spiced, boiled and baked chicken along with toasted or fried pine nuts and almonds. It is eaten with the hands, and sometimes served alongside a soup made from the stock produced by boiling the chicken. The name of the dish literally means "heated," from سَخَّنَ "sakhkhana" "to heat" + the participle prefix مُـ "mu".

I have provided instructions for including 'chicken,' but I don't think the dish suffers from its lack: the rich, slightly sour fermented wheat bread, the deep sweetness of the caramelised onions, and the true, clean, bright expressions of olive oil and sumac make this dish a must-try even in its original, plainer form.

Musakhkhan is often considered to be the national dish of Palestine. Like foods such as za'tar, hummus, tahina, and frika, it is significant for its historical and emotional associations, and for the way it links people, place, identity, and memory; it is also understood to be symbolic of a deeply rooted connection to the land, and thus of liberation struggle. The dish is liberally covered with the fruit of Palestinian lands in the form of onions, olive oil, and sumac (the dried and ground berries of a wild-growing bush).

The symbolic resonance of olive oil may be imputed to its history in the area. In historical Palestine (before the British Mandate period), agriculture and income from agricultural exports made up the bulk of the economy. Under مُشَاعْ (mushā', "common"; also transliterated "musha'a") systems of land tenure, communally owned plots of land were divided into parcels which were rotated between members of large kinship groups (rather than one parcel belonging to a private owner and their descendants into perpetuity). Olive trees were grown over much of the land, including on terraced hills, and their oil was used for culinary purposes and to make soap; excess was exported. In the early 1920s, Palestinian farmers produced 5,000 tons of olive oil a year, making an average of 342,000 PL (Palestinian pounds, equivalent to pounds sterling) from exports to Egypt alone.

During the British Mandate period (from 1917 to 1948, when Britain was given the administration of Palestine by the League of Nations after World War 1), acres of densely populated and cultivated land were expropriated from Palestinians through legal strongarming of and direct violence against, including killing of, فَلّاَحين (fallahin, peasants; singular "فَلَّاح" "fallah") by British troops. This continued a campaign of dispossession that had begun in the late 19th century.

By 1941, an estimated 119,000 peasants had been dispossessed of land (30% of all Palestinian families involved in agriculture); many of them had moved to other areas, while those who stayed were largely destitute. The agriculturally rich Nablus area (north of Jerusalem), for example, was largely empty by 1934: Haaretz reported that it was "no longer the town of gold [i.e., oranges], neither is it the town of trade [i.e., olive oil]. Nablus rather has become the town of empty houses, of darkness and of misery". Farmers led rebellions against this expropriation in 1929, 1933, and 1936-9, which were brutually repressed by the British military.

Despite the number of farmers who had been displaced from their land by European Jewish private owners and cooperatives (which owned 24.5% of all cultivated land in Palestine by 1941), the amount of olives produced by Palestinians increased from 34,000 tons in 1931 to 78,300 in 1945, evidencing an investment in and expansion of agriculture by indigenous inhabitants. Thus it does not seem likely that vast swathes of land were "waste land," or that the musha' system did not allow for "development"!

Imprecations against the musha' system were nevertheless used as justification to force Palestinians from their land. After various Zionist organizations and militant groups succeeded in pushing Britain out of Palestine in 1948—clearing the way for hundreds of thousands of Palestinians to be dispossessed or killed during the Nakba—the Israeli parliament began constructing a framework to render their expropriation of land legal; the Cultivation of Waste Lands Law of 1949, for example, allowed the requisition of uncultivated land, while the Absentees’ Property Law of 1950 allowed the state to requisition the land of people it had forced from their homes.

Israel profited from its dispossession of millions of dunums of land; 40,000 dunums of vineyards, 100,000 dunums of citrus groves, and 95% of the olive groves in the new state were stolen from Palestinians during this period, and the agricultural subsidies bolstered by these properties were used to lure new settlers in with promises of large incomes.

It also profited from the resulting "de-development" of the Palestinian economy, of which the decline in trade of olive oil furnishes a striking example. Palestinian olive farmers were unable to compete with the cheaper oils (olive and other types) with which Zionist, capital-driven industry flooded the market; by 1936, the 342,000 PL in olive oil exports of the early 1920s had fallen to 52,091 PL, and thereafter to nothing. While selling to a Palestinian captive market, Israel was also exporting the fruits of confiscated Palestinian land to Europe and elsewhere; in 1949, olives produced on stolen land were Israel's third-largest export. As of 2014, 12.9% of the olives exported to Europe were grown in the occupied West Bank alone.

This process of de-development and profiteering accelerated after Israel's military seizure of the West Bank and Gaza in 1967. In 1970, agriculture made up 34% of the GDP of the West Bank, and 31% of that of Gaza; in 2000, it was 16% and 18%, respectively. Many of those out of work due to expropriated or newly unworkable land were hired as day laborers on Israeli farms.

Meanwhile, Palestinians (and Israeli Palestinians) continued to plant and cultivate olives. The fact that Palestinians do not control their own water supplies or borders and may expect at any time to be barred by the military from harvesting their fields has discouraged investment and led to risk aversion (especially since the outmoding of the musha' system, which had minimized individual risk). In this environment, olive trees are attractive because they are low-input. They can subsist on rainwater (Israel monopolizes and poisons much of the region's water, and heavily taxes imports of materials that could be used to build irrigation systems), and don't require high-quality soil or daily weeding. Olive trees, unlike factories and agricultural technology, don't need large inputs of capital that stand to be wasted if the Israeli military destroys them.

Olive trees are therefore the chosen crop when proving a continued use of land in order to prevent the Israeli military from expropriating it under various "waste" or "absentee" land laws. Palestinians immediately plant olive seedlings on land they have been temporarily forced from, since even land that has lain fallow due to status as a military closed zone can be appropriated with this justification. The danger is so pressing that Palestinian agronomists encouraged this habit (as of 1993), despite the fact that Israeli competition and continual planting had lowered olive crop prices, and despite the decline in soil quality that results from never allowing land to lie fallow. In more recent years, olive trees have yielded primary or supplementary income for about 100,000 Palestinian families, producing up to 191 million USD in value in good years (including an average of 17,000 tons of olive oil yearly between 2001 and 2009).

Israeli soldiers and settlers have famously uprooted, vandalized, razed, and burned millions of these olive trees, as well as using military outposts to deny Palestinian farmers access to their olive crops. It prefers to restrict Palestinians to annual crops, such as vegetables and grains, and eliminate competition in permanent crops, such as fruit trees.

This targeting of olive trees increases during times of intensified conflict. During the currently ongoing olive harvest season (November 2023), Gazan olive farmers have reported being targeted by Israeli war planes; some farmers in the West Bank have given up on harvesting their trees altogether, due to threats issued by organized networks of settlers that they would kill anyone seen making the attempt.

The rootedness of olive trees in the history of Palestine gives them weight as a symbol of homeland, culture, and the fight for liberation. Palestinian olive harvest festivals, typically celebrated in October with singing, dancing, and eating, have inspired similar events elsewhere in the world, aimed at sharing Palestinian food and culture and expressing solidarity with those living under occupation.

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Ingredients:

For the dish:

2 pieces taboon bread, preferably freshly baked

2 large or 3 medium yellow onions (480g)

1 cup first cold press extra virgin olive oil (زيت زيتون البكر الممتاز)

1 Tbsp coarsely ground Levantine sumac (سماق شامي / sumaq shami), plus more to top

Ground black pepper

For the chicken (optional):

500g chicken substitute

5 green cardamom pods, or 1/4 tsp ground cardamom

4 cloves, or pinch ground cloves

1 Mediterranean bay leaf

1 Tbsp ground sumac

For the nut topping (optional):

2 Tbsp slivered almonds

2 Tbsp pine nuts

Neutral oil, for frying

Notes on ingredients:

Use the best olive oil that you can. You will want oil that has some opacity to it or some deposits in it. I used Aleppo brand olive oil (7 USD a liter at my local halal grocery).

If you want to replace the taboon bread with something less laborious, I would recommend something that mimics the rich, fermented flavor of the traditional, whole-wheat, naturally leavened bread. Many people today make taboon bread with white flour and commercial yeast—which you might mimic by using storebought naan or lavash, for example—but I think the slight sourness of the flatbread is a beautiful counterpoint to the brightness of the sumac and the sweetness of the caramelized onions. I would go with a sourdough pizza crust or something similar.

Your sumac should be coarsely ground, not finely powdered; and a deep, rich red, not pinkish in color (like the pile on the right, not the one on the left).

For this dish, a whole chicken is usually first boiled (perhaps with spices including bay leaves, cardamom, and cloves) and then baked, sometimes along with some of the oil from frying the onions. I call for just frying or baking instead; in my opinion, boiling often has a negative effect on the texture of meat substitutes.

Instructions:

For the onions:

1. Heat a cup of olive oil in a large skillet or pot. Fry onions on medium-low, stirring often, for 10 minutes or until translucent.

2. Add 1 Tbsp sumac and a few cracks of black pepper and reduce to low. Cook for another 30 minutes, stirring occasionally, until onions are sweet, reduced in volume, and pinkish in color.

For the chicken:

1. Briefly toast and finely grind spices except for sumac (cardamom, cloves, and bay leaf). Filter with a fine mesh sieve. Dip 'chicken' into the pot in which you fried the onions to coat it with olive oil, then rub spices (including sumac) onto the surface.

2. Sear chicken in a dry skillet until browned on all sides; or bake, uncovered, in the top third of an oven heated to 400 °F (200 °C) until browned.

For the nut topping:

1. Heat a neutral oil on medium in a small pot or skillet. Add almonds and fry for 2 minutes, until just starting to take on color. Add pine nuts and fry until both almonds and pine nuts are golden brown. Remove with a slotted spoon.

To assemble:

1. Dip each flatbread in the olive oil used to fry the onions, then spread onions over the surface.

Some cooks dip the bread entirely into oil; others press it lightly into the surface of the oil in the pot on both sides, or one side; a more modern method calls for mixing the olive oil with chicken broth to lighten it. Consult your taste. I think the bread from my taboon recipe stands up well to being pressed into the oil on both sides without tearing or becoming soggy.

2. Top flatbread with chicken and several large pinches more sumac. Bake briefly in the oven (still heated to 400 °F / 200 °C), or broil on low, for 3-5 minutes, until the sumac and the surface of the bread have darkened a shade.

3. Top with fried nuts.

Musakhkhan is usually eaten by ripping the chicken into bite-sized pieces, tearing off a bit of bread, and eating the chicken using the bread.

Some cooks make a layered musakhkhan, adding two to three pieces of bread covered with onions on top of each other before topping the entire construction with chicken and pine nuts.

[communist-ojou-sama]

This notion that the Zionist Enemy has somehow benefited from Oct. 7 is the height of faux-intellectual stupidity. Everything the Zionist enemy is doing now it would have done anyway with no "provocation", hence why Palestinian support for the resistance is unflagging. Oct. 7 was a deathblow to the entire Zionist project; to its credibility, to its economy, and to its diplomatic standing both in the region and in the world. This will become readily apparent in the coming months. (Though it's already obvious now, given that all of the supporters of the Zionist Enemy are decrepit, dying powers.)

[infiniteglitterfall]

straight up the worst of the responses. unsurprising that it's from a TERF.

israel the country isn't selling off these properties, you silly woodchuck.

palestine the country didn't attack israel, you filthy bus seat.

Hamas doesn't govern Palestine. Hamas staged a violent coup to throw the Palestinian government out of the Gaza Strip in 2007, and has run it as a dictatorship ever since.

The Gaza Strip didn't attack Israel, either. The people of Gaza are fucking livid that Hamas staged a brutal massacre in Israel, a very clear act of war - while Hamas leaders were watching and celebrating from a penthouse in Turkey or somewhere - and then told Gazans repeatedly to die. Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh said, "the blood of the women, children and elderly... we are the ones who need this blood, so it awakens within us the revolutionary spirit, so it awakens with us resolve."

"With regard to Israel’s response to the massacre, which has caused the deaths of many civilians in Gaza, Hamas leader Ghazi Hamad said, 'Will we have to pay a price? Yes, and we are ready to pay it. We are called a nation of martyrs, and we are proud to sacrifice martyrs.'"

framing this from the beginning as if the synagogue was somehow ~complicit~ is pure christonormativity. anyone who knew one thing about Jews or Jewish culture could guarantee you that this synagogue is absolutely getting dragged from within right now just for renting the space to a real estate company selling any of this shit. there is zero possibility that its congregation isn't throwing an absolute fit at whoever agreed to rent the room. (even though it's also bananas to expect them to screen all the real estate listings before an event. like, imagine if we approached any other real estate fair this way. how many american real estate properties right now were foreclosures from predatory real estate practices? how many are from de facto redlining? how many of you are rolling your eyes right now because you think I'm proving your point, while in practice you continue to only protest events at synagogues? the same way so many of you smirkily try to prove your integrity by calling for America's destruction along with Israel's? because you fucking know that you're in zero danger of having to watch your kids and/or pets killed in front of you before you're burned to death and your body is booby-trapped with explosives? because nobody has the numbers to take a massive country like this down in the artisanal hand-crafted way that Hamas uses?)

if the entire faux-Palestinian movement weren't founded on deeply antisemitic astroturfing, y'all would be outraged that this obviously scammy REAL ESTATE COMPANY dared to rent out a SYNAGOGUE, in an extremely obvious attempt to market specifically to Jews, and then BOLD-FACED LIE TO THEM REPEATEDLY. But no. Of course not. Because you absorb the vague sense, from mainstream culture, that Jews are kinda shady, kinda greedy, kinda dishonest, maybe kinda conspire together to get power. From birth. And you'll die before you unpack it. So instead, we have a movement that tells Jews -- like the protestor quoted in that article -- that the entirety of Israel is "stolen land." A position that Palestinians do not take. But that Hamas absolutely does -- and always has, because its goal is to control the entire region, and because Jews Are Evil (And Kinda Gross). A movement that pressures them to "take back their Jewishness from Zionism." Which is a fancy version of "I have no problem with the good Jews, but Not All Jews Are Like That." Which is one of the obvious tells that this is absolutely not a grassroots social justice movement. (Other obvious tells: The complete and utter lack of centering activists in Gaza. The lack of platforming the movement in Gaza, of even mentioning the protests in Gaza. And the centering of Hamas as "the Palestinian resistance," which is what it calls itself. The people of Gaza call it things like "the merchants of blood." which tbh is absolutely fucking badass, the people of Gaza are badass as hell.) A movement that protests every real estate event of any property in Israel. Including the one at a different Montreal synagogue two days before this one, by a completely different company whose policy is that they never sell West Bank property. A movement that held another protest in Montreal that same Tuesday, against an event organized by Hillel and an Israeli student club at Concordia University (which posts on the OP blog claimed was "a Zionist lobbying group") where Israelis were going to talk about the massacre, about how to handle antisemitism, and how to handle rhetoric calling for the elimination of Israel. (Or, as this trash patty of a movement put it, "GENOCIDE ADVOCACY BY BABY-KILLERS.") A protest at which people chanted, "Death to Israel, Death to Jews." (That was the week before people attacked the Hillel room on campus, on their way back from a protest. Don't get confused.)

yeah, yeah, yeah, Israel doesn't need to defend itself against anything. That's why Hamas was able to bust through its defenses and destroy 22 towns in one day. That's why Hamas can kill more people BY HAND, in one day, than Israel with all its bombs. Because Hamas is a bunch of scrappy barefoot nobodies. Hamas hasn't been getting $100M annually for weapons, plus free military training, from Iran, for years. It doesn't have a military academy or naval commandos. It didn't get $350M from Iran this year so it could stage its attack - which, per capita, definitely doesn't rival the military budgets of Iraq and Ukraine. And Iran certainly doesn't have either the motive or the money to massively step it up, now that Hamas has proven that it can wildly exceed even its own fever dreams. Why would it ever do that. This was clearly intended to be a one-off. It was probably someone's birthday. You know, like how you'll do a lot of weird shit just cause your friend picks it to celebrate their birthday. Hamas leaders haven't publicly committed to repeat the attack over and over until Israel is violently destroyed. It's not a part of the Muslim Brotherhood, which was literally founded by Nazis, and it doesn't have Nazi language in its founding documents, and it hasn't repeatedly called for people to rise up and slaughter Jews, and none of its fighters called home during the attack to boast about having killed 10 Jews with their bare hands. Everything is fucking fine! You're totally right!

[leviathan-supersystem]

on one hand it's tempting to point out to the drooling cretins who bring up lgbt rights as a ~gotcha~ against palestinian liberation that the palestinian territories don't have homogeneous laws on lgbt rights, and while homosexuality is outlawed in gaza, it's legal in the west bank and has been since 1951 (before israel legalized it in 1988 btw) but on the other hand even bringing this up is beside the point. even if palestine were every bit as unanimously homophobic as faux-progressive zionists like to pretend, israel's actions would still be utterly indefensible.

[historicity-was-already-taken]

That’s what makes anti-Semites so interesting, from an anthropological standpoint. They hardly ever have anything new or original to say, but when they stumble over a variant that’s new to them, they act like they just made the greatest discovery of all mankind. Like they’re the radical messiah, whatever radicalism means to them. Like university students think they’re so hardcore putting up fliers accusing Jews of cannibalizing Palestinian children and harvesting their organs, but really, that’s just old shit that’s been rattling around Western anti-Jewish speech/rhetoric since the LITERAL 12th century.

The more I study the history of anti-Semitism(s), the more desire I have to write a sardonic faux-anthropological study of anti-Semites. Like, create a taxonomy and shit.

Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m gonna go make mean faces at a communion wafer.

[the-garbanzo-annex-jr]

The story:

The BBC has apologised for reporting Hamas claims that the Israeli army was responsible for carrying out “summary executions” in the Gaza strip without seeking sufficient corroborating evidence. The story, which appears to have been based on a report from the news agency AFP [Agence France-Presse], centered on a statement from the Hamas terror group. It accused Israeli troops of illegally killing 137 Palestinian civilians since the war started on October 7 and burying them in a pit in northern Gaza. The BBC said that it had failed to “make sufficient effort to seek corroborating evidence to justify reporting the Hamas claim”. It added that its accusations were attributed and its story contained a response from the Israeli military saying that it was unaware of the incident and that Hamas was a terrorist organisation that did not value truth. Some staff considered that by posting the report on its corrections and clarifications web page, the BBC had not gone far enough to rectify its mistake. “Unless this apology is public and broadcast in the same arena as the original mistake, the damage is done,” said one Jewish employee. A second staffer added: “They have taken the Hamas line — a terror organisation — at face value, far too much since October 7. And nothing has changed. And again it’s an apology about a very serious accusation against Israel hidden on a corrections page.” The BBC has previously apologised for a television report that Israeli troops had targeted medical staff during a raid on a hospital in Gaza in November. The previous month it had admitted that it was wrong of one of its correspondents to speculate that that a rocket that fell outside al-Ahli hospital in Gaza had been fired by Israel.

So there you have it: a completely bogus report, originating from Hamas, that the BBC apologized for because it didn’t do “due diligence”.

[secular-jew]

More lies by Pallywood and their operatives.