Seeing the Gaza war as a golden hour to fulfill their ambitions, settlers have chased out entire Palestinian communities in the Hebron area.
    • Madison420@lemmy.worldEnglish
      222·
      10 months ago

      That’s been a common tactic, sometimes before a settlement is built they’ll move in cut down or burn olive trees and then come back to build like a month later.

      • Zagorath@aussie.zoneEnglish
        11·
        10 months ago

        I definitely did a touble-take at that domain name. Really good link though, thanks!

      • pingveno@kbin.social
        311·
        10 months ago

        Definitely avoid companies that are profiting from activity in the West Bank, but not all of Israel. Israel includes many ethnic minorities that would be harmed all the same.

        • bingbong@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          8·
          10 months ago

          The same applied to apartheid South Africa, but the boycotts still happened and benefitted the oppressed far more than it harmed them.

        • NoneOfUrBusiness@kbin.social
          82·
          10 months ago

          The thing is: The idea is to economically isolate Israel until they stop their occupation of Palestine. It’s the same idea as the sanctions on Russia. Just boycotting actively guilty companies isn’t enough to get them to stop.

          Also, Israel doesn’t for example, distinguish between produce made in Israel proper and in West Bank settlements unless they’re forced to (like the EU did); otherwise it’s all written as “made in Israel”. That means you can’t avoid settlement products unless you avoid Israeli products as a whole.

          • pingveno@kbin.social
            11·
            10 months ago

            I get that, but I have had the opportunity to talk to several people from Israel. They’ve grown up surrounded by this conflict. Inflicting collective punishment on them doesn’t sit well with me. This is a more multi-dimensional situation than the apartheid of South Africa or the invasion by Russia. This is as much a string of failures of leadership in Israel and Palestine as anything else.

            • NoneOfUrBusiness@kbin.social
              31·
              10 months ago

              This is a more multi-dimensional situation than the apartheid of South Africa or the invasion by Russia.

              It’s not really, though. If anything it’s worse because at least the Apartheid didn’t go as far as attempting genocide (which Israel has shown consistently to be their long-term goal in Palestine. They’ve grown up surrounded by this conflict because the brutal occupation of Palestine has gone on for more than 50 years.

  • twisted28@lemmy.worldEnglish
    155·
    10 months ago

    Where’s all the IDF college students defending Israels despicable behavior? Plus considering there’s multiple stories like this it paints a picture of the common Israeli.

    • NoneOfUrBusiness@kbin.social
      5·
      10 months ago

      While I wouldn’t go as far as calling it a picture of the common Israeli, you can assume that about 50% of Jewish Israelis support this behavior (since the current Israeli government is a right-wing coalition), and that this is a picture of all (with almost no exception) Israeli settlers. Make of that what you will.

    • Copernican@lemmy.worldEnglish
      47·
      10 months ago

      Can’t have a discussion on any news about the war anymore without a bunch of comments like this these days.

        • Eheran@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          10 months ago

          Wrong. It takes less than 10 seconds to find out that the definition of war is different to what you assume, yet here we are, you are so confident you even build arguments around it.

  • machinin@lemmy.worldEnglish
    122·
    10 months ago

    Why isn’t this showing under the active tab? It seems like there are many comments, lots of upvotes. What are the conditions to show up as an active post?