The Israeli government has not confirmed the specific claim that Hamas attackers beheaded babies during the attack on Saturday, contradicting an earlier statement by the Prime Minister’s office. An Israeli official stated that while there have been cases of Hamas militants committing brutal acts, they cannot confirm the identity of the victims, such as whether they were children, soldiers, or civilians. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had indicated the beheadings occurred, but his office later released photos showing burned bodies without specifying their ages. Explosive allegations about decapitated children emerged earlier in Israeli media, and the Israel Defense Forces described the scene as a “massacre.” However, Hamas denied the allegations, and CNN could not independently verify the claims.

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    “Antizionism” is a made-up term to mask one’s antisemitism. An antisemite cannot today say that they want Jewish people to cease to exist, they’d love to be able to say it but they just can’t, so he/she will instead adopt another banner that’s being made more and more acceptable by mainstream media: “antizionism”. It’s technically less “extreme” (in the sense that it doesn’t target an entire ethnicity anymore, at least on paper), but it’s still evil and it’s basically saying that either 1- Israel should be destroyed or 2- Israel should cease to exist by making all Israelis leave their country. It’s the tankies’ favorite term too.

    It’s one of many disgusting play with words that mainstream media is feeding us with. Just like we are made to say “pro-life” instead of simply “antiabortionist”, because words have power. When those people are saying that they’re “pro-life” they start feeling good about themselves, and they don’t feel like they are taking something away from someone, unlike “antiabortionist”, while both actually mean the same. That’s exactly the same with “antizionism” and antisemitism.

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      So Jewish anti-Zionists are just self-hating antisemites then? Would you rather people call themselves ‘anti-Israel?’ I can support the Jewish people and also believe that it was wrong to unilaterally force a people out of their home, force them into small territories and bomb them for decades.

      2- Israel should cease to exist by making all Israelis leave their country

      Why is the only solution a mass displacement or genocide? ‘Zion’ and ‘Israel’ are constructs, like all nation-states, a new political paradigm can be created without another Nakba or Holocaust.

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        Why is the only solution a mass displacement or genocide?

        Because people who argue in bad faith love to create false dichotomies.

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            The balloons filled with piss. It’s too bizarre not to be real. Gotta be messy though. I know Israeli kids throw trash at Palestinians on the West Bank, so they have to put nets up. I imagine piss balloons are a possibility.

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      Did you just make that up? Or do you have a source for that screed?

      Free Palestine 🇵🇸

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          Just because you think it was a bad idea for the UN to drop a group among an already established population that didn’t ask for it, and force them from their land (Nakba ) that they’d been on for generations; doesn’t make you anti-Semitic.