Israel Hatred of Palestinians
Updated 2024-08-26
2024-08-24 Hamas urges anger and condemnation over Quran burning by Israeli soldiers Al Jazeera Arabic had aired footage, obtained from the cameras of Israeli soldiers, showing them ripping up pages from the Muslim holy book and burning them at the Bani Saleh Mosque in northern Gaza.
The channel also published a video from an Israeli drone showing the bombing of the historic Grand Mosque in Khan Younis. According to the Gaza Government Media Office, Israel has completely destroyed 610 mosques and three churches over the past 10 months in Gaza.
On Saturday, Hamas called on “the free people of the world” to act to defend Muslim and Christian holy sites in Palestine and end “the war of extermination” against the Gaza Strip. The Israeli offensive has killed more than 40,200 Palestinians and turned large parts of the besieged Palestinian territory into rubble.
The Council on American-Islamic Relations, a US advocacy group, said the desecration of Quran copies and targeting of mosques in Gaza prove that Israel’s “war on the Palestinian people in Gaza is also a war on Islam itself”. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/hamas-urges-anger-and-condemnation-over-quran-burning-by-israeli-soldiers/ar-AA1pn5Cz?
2024-08-22 Israel envoy to UN calls PA ambassador ‘a terrorist in a suit’ at Security Council meeting srael’s UN Ambassador Danny Danon calls the Palestinian Authority envoy “a terrorist in a suit” at a Security Council debate in New York.
“You have spent two decades in this place proposing resolutions which: stir chaos, sow division and avoid any hope,” Danon says to Riyad Mansour during a debate on the Middle East. “You have accomplished nothing but incite hatred and violence while claiming to be an advocate for peace.” https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/israel-envoy-to-un-calls-pa-ambassador-a-terrorist-in-a-suit-at-security-council-meeting/ar-AA1pgouN?
2024-08-20 Religious Zionism MK calls settler violence ‘a drop in the ocean’ compared to Arab terrorism Religious Zionist MK Zvi Sukkot characterized the serious incidents of violence committed by settlers in the West Bank as a “super marginal phenomenon, a drop in the ocean compared to Arab terrorism,” the Religious Zionist MK said on Sunday. .https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/religious-zionism-mk-calls-settler-violence-a-drop-in-the-ocean-compared-to-arab-terrorism/ar-AA1p8Pyy
2024-08-13 Investigation Details IDF Use of Gaza Civilians as Booby Trap Detectors Believing that “our lives are more important than their lives,” Israel Defense Forces soldiers have widely used Palestinians including civilians as booby trap detectors in Gaza, according to a new Haaretz investigation, the latest of numerous reports detailing IDF use of kidnapped Gazans as human shields.
The report, published Tuesday, features testimonies of IDF soldiers, who said commanders are fully aware of the practice of using captured Palestinians as human shields. One soldier said “there is pride in it,” referring to acts considered war crimes under Protocol I of the Geneva Conventions and international humanitarian law. https://www.commondreams.org/news/idf-human-shields
2024-08-01 ‘We don’t care enough’ about Palestinian lives, says former IDF paratrooper Serving as an IDF reservist in Gaza, Yuval Green says he witnessed destruction, looting and a desire for revenge by fellow soldiers, and will no longer serve. He describes his experience to Bianna Golodryga. In an earlier statement to ABC News responding to Green, the IDF said its actions “are based on military necessity,” and any misconduct by soldiers “will be arbitrated, and significant command measures will be taken”. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/we-don-t-care-enough-about-palestinian-lives-says-former-idf-paratrooper/vi-BB1r2vMk?
2024-07-21 Israeli Soldiers Flaunt War Crimes on Social Media. Why Aren’t They Held Accountable? Israel’s genocide in Gaza may go down as the first genocide in history where the perpetrators have documented, posted, shared and celebrated their crimes on social media. Over the past 10 months, Israeli soldiers in Gaza have taken photos and videos of themselves while they blew up homes and schools, and tortured captives.
To boast of their atrocities against civilians, Israeli forces have routinely filmed themselves demolishing residential blocks in Gaza, which they proceeded to share online. In June, an Israeli soldier filmed himself walking triumphantly amid the ruins and rubble of a destroyed neighborhood in Gaza, while boasting: “We were asked to clear the area. Blow it all up. What can I do, I’m an obedient soldier. Tomorrow there won’t be anything here.” https://truthout.org/articles/israeli-soldiers-flaunt-war-crimes-online-why-arent-they-held-accountable/
2024-07-18 Israeli Lawmakers Vote Against Palestinian Statehood Before Netanyahu’s US Trip While Israel’s troops wage what has been widely decried as genocide on the Gaza Strip, Israeli lawmakers on Wednesday overwhelmingly passed a resolution opposing “the establishment of a Palestinian state” west of the Jordan River.
The measure passed Israel’s legislature, the Knesset, 68-9. It was spearheaded by Knesset Member Zeev Elkin of New Hope – The United Right, who shared the key messages from the resolution on social media along with a photo of the final tally.
According to Religious Zionism-affiliated Israel National News: The proposal says, “The Israeli Knesset firmly opposes the establishment of a Palestinian state west of the Jordan. The establishment of a Palestinian state in the heart of the land of Israel will pose an existential threat to the state of Israel and its citizens, perpetuate the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and destabilize the region.” “It will only be a matter of a short time until Hamas takes over the Palestinian state and turns it into a base of radical Islamic terrorism, working in coordination with the axis led by Iran, to eliminate the state of Israel.” https://truthout.org/articles/israeli-lawmakers-vote-against-palestinian-statehood-before-netanyahus-us-trip/
2024-07-17 Israel Has Attacked Gaza “Safe Zone” at Least 10 Times Since Rafah Invasion Just over two months ago, Israel forced more than a million Palestinians who were taking shelter in southern Gaza to flee, once again, to an area it designated as a “humanitarian safe zone” — an area that the Israeli military has since attacked at least 10 times, new research finds.
According to London research group Forensic Architecture, the area in Al-Mawasi now sheltering thousands of Palestinians has been subject to Israeli attacks since May 6, when Israeli officials first delineated the “safe” zone.
The attacks started as early as two weeks after Israel forced Palestinians to flee to the area, a desert region with essentially no infrastructure, laying waste to tents and makeshift shelters set up to house people who Israel has displaced time and again in the past nine months.https://truthout.org/articles/israel-has-attacked-gaza-safe-zone-at-least-10-times-since-rafah-invasion/
2024-06-23 Survivor of Israeli raid speaks out: Mujahid Abadi says soldiers beat him despite injuries Al Jazeera has spoken to an injured Palestinian man who was used as a human shield by Israeli forces in Jenin, in the occupied West Bank. Mujahid Abbadi was strapped to the front of an Israeli military vehicle on Saturday which drove past several ambulances. For the first time, Abbadi explains what happened to him.
Al Jazeera’s Nida Ibrahim has more from Ramallah in the Occupied West Bank. The Israeli Military has said it would be conducting an investigation into the incident and said the conduct of its soldiers “does not conform” to its values. But Sari Bashi, who’s the Program Director at Human Rights Watch, says it is doubtful their investigation will lead to any kind of accountability. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvbLuEDjDKg
2024-05-10 UN Vote Was for Palestinian Membership, Not Statehood In a blow to the U.S., the U.N. General Assembly voted Friday to give Palestine, whose statehood it has already acknowledged, full U.N. membership, forcing the U.S. into another embarrassing veto at the Security Council, says Joe Lauria.
The United States will be forced into another embarrassing veto at the U.N. Security Council after the General Assembly on Friday voted overwhelmingly to ask the Council to reverse its rejection of full U.N. membership for Palestine.
Israel’s furious ambassador, Gilad Erdan, said the U.N. was founded to prevent the kind of tyranny of the Nazis who sought to annihilate the Jewish people.
“Today, you are doing the opposite … welcoming a terror State into its ranks,” he said. “You have opened up the United Nations to modern-day Naziism. It makes me sick.” https://consortiumnews.com/2024/05/10/un-vote-was-for-palestinian-membership-not-statehood/
2024-04-05 How Israel Weaponizes Water Even before Israel’s most recent attack on Gaza, 97 percent of the water in the sole coastal aquifer of Gaza was already unsafe for human consumption, writes Vijay Prashad.
By November 2023, it was already clear that the Israeli government had begun to deny Palestinians in Gaza access to water. “Every hour that passes with Israel preventing the provision of safe drinking water in the Gaza strip, in brazen breach of international law, puts Gazans at risk of dying of thirst and diseases related to the lack of safe drinking water’, said Pedro Arrojo-Agudo, U.N. special rapporteur on the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation.
“Israel,” he noted, “must stop using water as a weapon of war.” Before Israel’s most recent attack on Gaza, 97 percent of the water in Gaza’s only coastal aquifer was already unsafe for human consumption based on World Health Organisation standards. Over the course of its many attacks, Israel has all but destroyed Gaza’s water purification system and prevented the entry of materials and chemicals needed for repair.
In early October 2023, Israeli officials indicated that they would use their control over Gaza’s water systems as a means to perpetrate a genocide. As Israeli Major General Ghassan Alian, the head of the Coordination of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT), said on 10 October, “Human beasts are dealt with accordingly. Israel has imposed a total blockade on Gaza. No electricity, no water, just damage. You wanted hell, you will get hell.” https://consortiumnews.com/2024/04/05/how-israel-weaponizes-water/
2024-03-21 ‘Kill them all’: inside the Israeli blockade on Gaza aid Journalist Jeremy Loffredo goes inside the grassroots Israeli campaign to block desperately needed aid to the besieged Gaza Strip and elicits the shockingly candid views of the Jewish Israeli nationalists manning the barricades.
Setting out on a bus caravan through illegal Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank, Loffredo arrives at the Kerem Shalom crossing to Gaza, filming Israeli citizens as they physically block trucks loaded with flour and other essential goods. There, a reservist who served in the military assault on Gaza confesses to an array of war crimes, including blowing up the offices of UN centers dedicated to providing food to the local population.
Loffredo then joins nationalists on a march toward Gaza, where they hope to establish new settlements after the population is violently driven out. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LqRzfb2oMaM
2024-03-13 Discrimination This Israeli writer speaks out on how dehumanization of Palestinians has become the norm in Israeli culture. https://www.tiktok.com/@ajplus/video/7346346141912452383
2024-03-08 ‘No single loaf of bread’: These Israeli protesters are trying to prevent aid from going into Gaza https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/no-single-loaf-of-bread-these-israeli-protesters-are-trying-to-prevent-aid-from-going-into-gaza/vi-BB1jzUAL?
2024-02-19 IDF Soldier Video of blowing up 4 Palestinian house in Gaza https://www.instagram.com/reel/C3hoBssL19i/?fbclid=IwAR1XPWqQ8QczNd59gIVj9cwMj4pEv_VK7Dc_U-5JOhyYwTM3m055tuYZZUQ
2024-02-09 Israel Army Lands In A Soup; How IDF Ran Racist ’72 Virgins – Uncensored’ Channel On Telegram The Israel Army has admitted to running a racist, genocidal anti-Palestinian Telegram channel amid the war in Gaza. The ’72 Virgins – Uncensored’ channel was exposed in December last year by Israeli newspaper – Haaretz. The IDF had denied its role back then but launched an investigation which found that the channel was indeed being managed by IDF’s department. The channel posted over 700 gory pictures and videos showing killing of Palestinians, Hamas fighters in Gaza and destruction of the besieged Palestinian enclave until the end of Dec. Watch this video for more details. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMZ04XRaoLU
2024-01-29 Israel Ministers Call for Ethnic Cleansing of Gaza at Settler Conference Members of the Israeli government—including National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir and Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich—attended a far-right conference on Sunday calling for the “resettlement” of Gaza and increased Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank.
The conference, at which both Ben-Gvir and Smotrich repeated calls for the removal of Palestinians from Gaza, came days after the International Court of Justice ordered Israel to “take all measures within its power” to prevent its military from committing genocide in Gaza.
“The colonial meeting in Jerusalem poses a blatant challenge to the International Court of Justice decision, accompanied by public incitement to forcibly displace Palestinians,” the Palestinian Foreign Ministry wrote on social media. https://www.commondreams.org/news/israeli-ministers-settler-conference
2024-01-24 Israel’s scream as performance art and Palestine’s agony An art event staged in front of Tel Aviv Museum of Art in January 2024 called on the crowd to perform a sustained scream in unison to dramatize Israeli pain and frustration at the hostage situation. To me, this performance was emotionally and psychologically inauthentic, not only because it is rehearsed — i.e., the scream is not a real-life situation like the scream of agony heard coming from Palestinian crowds in Gaza as they are being shelled — but because it is truthful only in so far as it conforms to the artistic tradition of hasbara and its false narrative of Israeli victimhood.
Within the Zionist framework of victimhood and entitlement, Israeli protesters continue to voice their pain out of fear for the safety of their captives in Gaza and for being driven out of their kibutzim. They scream for “compensation,” whereas Palestinians have been screaming for “restitution” for decades. For those who don’t know the difference between the two terms, compensation refers to payment or something given to make up for a loss or injury, while restitution means restoring something to its original state or returning something that was taken. While both terms involve some form of payment or action, the key difference is in the goal: compensation aims to make up for a loss, while restitution aims to restore what was taken.https://countercurrents.org/2024/01/israels-scream-as-performance-art-and-palestines-agony/
2023-12-28 Israel embassy pulls ‘inappropriate’ video imagining Hamas attack on Seoul he Israeli embassy in South Korea has deleted a video it produced showing an imaginary attack on Seoul by masked assailants it seemed to liken to Hamas, after concerns raised by the South Korean government. The video, which was posted on the Israeli embassy’s social media channels on Tuesday, was deleted on Wednesday, South Korea’s Yonhap News Agency reported.
“The killing and kidnapping of Israeli civilians by Hamas cannot be justified, but the Israeli Embassy’s production and distribution of a video drawing parallels to the security situation in another country was deemed inappropriate,” South Korea’s Foreign Ministry said in a statement. “We have conveyed our position to the Israeli Embassy in South Korea, and the Israeli side has taken measures to delete the video in question.” Sanad, Al Jazeera’s fact-checking agency, verified the existence of the video, which has since been pulled down. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/israel-embassy-pulls-inappropriate-video-imagining-hamas-attack-on-seoul/ar-AA1m90wT
2023-12-27 IDF Soldier Allegedly Stabs Wounded West Bank Airstrike Victim in Ambulance Israeli troops on Wednesday allegedly stabbed and assaulted wounded Palestinian victims of an Israel Defense Forces drone strike that killed six people in a refugee camp near Tulkarem in the illegally occupied West Bank. Dr. Radwan Blaibla, head of Tulkarem Medical Syndicate, toldAndalou Agency that Israeli troops forcibly stopped and boarded ambulances rushing Palestinians injured in the airstrike on Nur Shams refugee camp to a hospital in Tulkarem. “One injured was stabbed in his neck by a soldier while in the ambulance, posing danger to his life,” Blaibla said. “Two others were forcibly taken out from an ambulance and were subject to kicking and beating by the rifles’ buttstocks on their injuries.” https://www.commondreams.org/news/palestinians-killed-in-the-west-bank
2023-12-21 What Israel Does With Palestinian Bodies Watch the full conversation with Said here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/palesti… Katie talks to Palestinian journalist Said Arikat as they talk about the horrible disrespect shown to Palestinian bodies by Israeli’s. Said Arikat is a Palestinian journalist and Washington bureau chief for Al-Quds, a daily Newspaper which has been published out of East Jerusalem (uninterruptedly) since 1951. In addition to his work as a journalist, Arikat is an adjunct professor at the American University. He served as the United Nations Chief Spokesman in Iraq from 2005-2010. He is a familiar face at U.S. State Department press briefings, where he has engaged in sometimes contentious exchanges with State Department Spokespersons. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFHlX7eaf6M
2023-12-18 Israel Killed Thousands of Children in Gaza. How Can So Many Israelis Remain Indifferent? The Gaza Strip is gradually being erased, along with its families, its people, its children, their smiles and laughter. What enables the majority of Jewish Israelis to support this systematic and mass erasure? What enables them to see it as the only suitable response to the massacre that Hamas and its accomplices perpetrated, to the military humiliation of Israel and to the indescribable suffering of the hostages, the wounded, the survivors, their families and the families of the What enables most of the Jews not to gasp in horror at the crowding of 1.8 million or 1.9 million people into about 120 square kilometers (46 square miles), a “safe area” that’s constantly being bombed? What’s preventing those Jewish Israelis from screaming when they hear about the thirst and hunger of 2.2 million Palestinian civilians and the diseases spreading due to the crowding, the water shortage and the out-of-action hospitals?hundreds killed?
What enables this erasure and the slaying of children with both our active and passive participation? Here are some answers:
• For decades we’ve been educated to believe that only military force can ensure the state’s survival and ability to flourish, while denying rights to the Palestinian people.
• We’ve erased any “context” – incitement has made this word a synonym for support of Hamas and justification of its horrors.
• We Jews have assumed a monopoly on the suffering caused by the cruelty of the Other.
• We’ve chosen not to look at the unbearable pictures of trembling Palestinian children, faces gray with dust, being rescued from between bombed concrete walls. And there’s no way of knowing who’s more fortunate: those children or the ones who were killed.
• Every mass or gradual killing that we’ve been carrying out against the Palestinians for years, every theft, humiliation and abuse passes through thousands of media, psychological and academic filters. The sifted product is our conviction that the Palestinians are better off than the Somalis or Syrians, so they shouldn’t complain. https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/2023-12-18/ty-article-opinion/.premium/israel-killed-thousands-of-children-in-gaza-how-can-so-many-israelis-remain-indifferent/0000018c-788c-d55c-a7cc-fb8edb100000?
2023-12-14 Israeli Troops Film Themselves Trashing Palestinian Homes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bx8cCvvVGQc
2023-12-12 How Israel Humiliates Palestinians And Films It https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZXpp9rrDig
2023-12-04 SHOCK VIDEO: Israeli Hero EXECUTED By Settler Krystal and Saagar discuss an Israeli settler shooting and killing an Israeli man who stopped a mass shooting. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAPUBaC_tiE
2023-11-28 Israeli public opinion and the war on Gaza I Sidebar Veteran Israeli journalist Gideon Levy explains how Israeli public opinion has been conditioned to view Palestinian lives as less valuable, and how this has resulted in the lack of internal criticism towards Israeli war crimes. Levy also talks about the role of Israeli media and other things in this episode of Sidebar with Jamal Elshayyal. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZJ_Uw_Yu0w
2023-11-21 Anti Palestine TikTok In this video we examine a handful of short form content pieces from supporters of Israel, and connect this content to broader Zionist attitudes. this one’s not an easy watch but i hope it gives at least one person some context on what Israel is doing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdlJqlzOGgU
2023-11-20 ‘Annihilate Everyone’: Israeli TV Promotes Genocidal Song The Friendship Song. This really does have to be seen to be believed. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RV0pEUXMz6M
2023-11-10 The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Haters and Racists on Both Sides As I wrote in my 2014 article on Zionism, In Israeli society, anti-Arab racism and discrimination is rampant, whether the censors want that known or not. In a previous article I mentioned “Jim Crow” laws in Israel, and separate buses and schools for Israelis and Palestinians. A 2006 poll conducted by the Center for the Struggle Against Racism found that 68% of Jews polled in Israel would not live in the same apartment building as an Arab, 40% believed that “the state needs to support the emigration of Arab citizens,” almost half would not let an Arab in their homes, and 41% believed that entertainment venues should be segregated. In a similar 2007 poll the Center Against Racism found that more than half of the Jewish respondents believed that a marriage of a Jewish woman to an Arab man is “national treason.”
A 2010 poll of Israeli high school students conducted by researchers at Maagar Mochot and Tel Aviv University found that half of the students oppose equal rights for Arabs in Israel, and more than half would ban Arabs from serving in the Israeli Knesset. Another 2010 poll of Israeli youth conducted by the Friedrich Ebert Foundation and the Macro Center for Political Economics found that 46% of the youths would revoke whatever rights Arabs actually do have in Israel. 60% of the youths believed that “strong leadership” was more important than the rule of law, and, when asked how they feel about Arabs, 25% answered, “hate.” (Those who would actually admit it, that is.) And a 2012 poll conducted by Israeli pollsters Israel’s Dialogue also showed large percentages of Israeli Jews approving of official discrimination policies against Arabs and denying Palestinians the right to vote.
Have things changed at all since then? Nope. In 2016, the Times of Israel wrote: Nearly half of Jewish Israelis agree that Arabs should be expelled or transferred from Israel, and a solid majority (79 percent) maintain that Jews in Israel should be given preferential treatment, according to a Pew Research Center in Israel survey published on Tuesday. The poll, with 5,601 in-person interviews of Israeli adults, conducted between October 2014 and May 2015, found that Israeli Jews increasingly believe the West Bank settlements help, rather than hurt, Israel’s security – and most (61%) believe Israel was given by God to the Jewish people.
In 2021 the Haaretz newspaper wrote on a 2020 University of Jerusalem survey: The center surveyed 1,100 teens aged 16-18 who constitute a representative sample of Israel’s different “tribes” – secular, religious Zionist, Haredi and Arab. The questionnaires were filled out between May and July, 2020, before the second coronavirus lockdown… The survey found that a significant portion of teens view other groups as unfriendly or as having low abilities. About 60% of Haredi teens and 40% of religious Zionists view Arabs that way. Similarly, around half of Arabs and 37% of secular teens view Haredim that way. Fully 49% of religious Zionists and 23% of secular Jews favored stripping Arabs of the right to vote…Religious Zionists also expressed the lowest support for the idea that minorities deserve equal rights.
Secular Jews and Arabs were the most willing to meet members of other groups, Haredim the least. Religious Zionists were specifically unwilling to meet with Arabs. Only secular Jews expressed relatively high willingness to improve relations with all the other groups. Arabs are the group most feared and hated by Jews of all kinds. This view was expressed by 24%, 42% and 66%, respectively of secular, religious Zionist and Haredi teens. For secular and Arab teens, hatred is dispersed among several groups; among Haredim and religious Zionists, it is more focused on Arabs. https://www.activistpost.com/2023/11/the-israeli-palestinian-conflict-haters-and-racists-on-both-sides.html
2023-10-02 How Israel teaches its children to hate. Israel’s school textbooks propagate racism and extremism among its children. Nurit Peled-Elhanan examined 17 Israeli school textbooks and exposed their indoctrination and cultivation of anti-Arab racism. “Inculcation of anti-Palestinian ideology in the minds of Israel’s youth is achieved in the books through the use of exclusion”, Asa Winstanley. When they mention Palestinians, it is in an overwhelmingly negative and demeaning light. Palestinians are often depicted negatively as ‘terrorists,’ ‘refugees,’ and ‘primitive’ farmers. Israeli murderers are celebrated as heroes. Israeli textbooks use military-related terminology to instill a combat mindset. The majority of Israeli crimes against Palestinians are not mentioned. Some textbooks downplay or justify Israeli crimes against Palestinians. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGuDdfyEwrE&t=1s, https://english.palinfo.com/video_articles/
2022-08-17 Why Did 72% of Israelis Want Attack on Gaza to Continue? Shir Hever, a political economist who grew up in Israel, talks about the extreme right-wing radicalization of most of the Israeli Jewish population https://theanalysis.news/why-did-72-of-israelis-want-attack-on-gaza-to-continue/
2017-10-01 Empire Files: Israelis Speak Candidly to Abby Martin About Palestinians On the streets of Jerusalem, Abby Martin interviews Jewish Israeli citizens from all walks of life. In several candid interviews, disturbing comments reveal commonly-held views about Palestinians and their future in the region. Israeli-born human rights activist and anti-Zionist, Ronnie Barkan, explains why these attitudes dominate Israeli society. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1e_dbsVQrk4&t=469s
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