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Israel Accused of Running “Torture Camps” as Video Emerges of Soldiers Raping Palestinian Prisoner
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Anyone who is against RAPE is ANTISEMITIC!
Yes, this is the quite likely position of the Israeli government. After all, they are looking for the person who published the video of the crime - not as a witness against the criminals, but because that person exposed them.
Well fuck, guess I'm antisemitic then......
And that's another layer of fucked up to calling all critics antisemitic. It can normalise actual antisemitism when it bubbles up.
It's interesting how in an attempt to rebuke claims that being against Israel is antisemitic, we have now escalated to mocking the idea of Antisemitism as a whole every time there's disturbing news about Israel...
I am not a fan of this trend. Antisemitism still exists, and nowhere am I finding any indication that anyone is earnestly making the argument that Israel has the right to rape prisoners.
So what is the point of this comment, other than to preemptively normalize antisemitism as an acceptable response to Israeli human rights abuses?
EDIT: You'll downvote this, but you'll upvote the "guess I'm antisemitic" comment, don't act like you don't see the creeping normalization. No fucking different than right-wingers "I guess x is racist, so I'm a racist now" narratives. I know you think you're joking, but when people tell me who they are, it's still prescient to believe them.
Mocking the kinds of abhorrent claims of "antisemitism" that Israel makes is not even remotely the same as mocking the idea of actual, real life antisemitism.
That is the reality if the Israeli government keeps pretending that all their human rights violations are in the name of Jews everywhere. You can't hold on to being the victim if you are the one abusing now.
That's not what's being done and you know it
Being against Israel isn't antisemitic. Zionism is a nationalist movement. Nationalism sucks. You're welcome.
It literally happened a little over a week ago.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/israel-hamas-war-idf-palestinian-prisoner-alleged-rape-sde-teinman-abuse-protest/
Paragraphs 5-7. I recall there being a video of the moment but I don't know if it is included in the linked article.
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An Israeli lawmaker was asked if anal rape with a stick was legitimate and the Israeli lawmaker replied "Yes" and clarified that "Everything is legitimate to do" so long as the recipient is Hamas. Is he in the majority? No, but someone is earnestly making the argument.
Here's the thing. The fact that I'm making the effort to demonstrate this utterly fucked up reality is, I guarantee, going to convince someone here that I'm antisemitic. I don't think it will matter to them that I have family that is Jewish or that I'm 50% Ashkenazi by blood.
The fact that this is happening, and that any Israeli lawmaker would defend it, literally makes Jews worldwide less safe. It gives real, actual antisemitism more perceived legitimacy.
Edit: Video Link. Couldn't find anything outside twitter/insta/tiktok, none of which I ever visit directly. Kind if telling that American news outlets don't have it posted anywhere I could easily find but whatever. While I've had folks attest to the accuracy of the translation, I don't speak Hebrew so feel free to continue to pretend it isn't happening.
https://x.com/ireallyhateyou/status/1817904053462196523