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  • Let’s go over the poll and how bias the questions are.

    ISR4: Do you think it’s true that Hamas terrorists killed 1200 Israeli civilians by shooting them, raping and beheading people including whole families, kids and babies or is that a false story?

    This of course ignores the large number of military personnel killed by calling them civilians while also repeating the blood libel claim about babies.

    ISR5: Do you think Hamas fighters are more appropriately called militants or terrorists?

    Both of these words have a negative connotation in English normally you would use a neutral or positive word to gauge sentiment also the question above already calls them terrorists.

    ISR7: Do you think Hamas is designated as a terrorist group by the U.S. government or is that not the case?

    This is literally just a knowledge question but in the slides is presented as opinion. Bringing up the official designation just seems like an intentional attempt to bias any subsequent answers.

    ISR15: Do you think the recent attack on Israel shows there is widespread antisemitism and hatred of Jews among Palestinians or does the attack reflect the actions of only terrorists and fundamentalists and not the will of Palestinian people?

    These are the only two possibilities it couldn’t have anything to do with fighting occupiers.




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    8 months ago

    What do you mean by participating? Is just living on stolen land enough to deserve death? Even just visiting as well?

    Yes moving or visiting stolen land is putting yourself in harms way because occupied peoples have a right to violently resist occupation. Obviously, a non violent solution would be preferable but the lives lost during armed resistance are largely due to the existence of the occupation.

    That is just the human shield argument, but applied to Isreal.

    The pattern is typically settlers move in, settlers get into a conflict with the native population, and the settler state uses this conflict as justification for further expansion. Settlers are completely complicit in this.


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    8 months ago

    What do you mean? Settlers aren’t civilians they are actively participating in an armed occupation. This applies to tourists of colonial states too. Colonial states hide behind their noncombatant population to justify their atrocities.

    Edit: This is in no way advocating for large scale murder of settlers just a dismissal of their right to be free from conflict.



  • My personal experience was that the beginning of the Ukraine war was much worse. Zelensky was literally advocating policies that would lead to WW3 and the US media was completely uncritical in relaying Ukraine propaganda at first. Social media detractors were clamped down and fewer in number too. Communist groups were almost the only voices of dissent (the Ireland response was better than most though). Switzerland departed from it’s policy of “neutrality”. While still almost exclusively pro-apartheid the response to Israel has had far more detractors. There are many protests in support of Palestine across Europe and the US. This is just my experience so I may be forgetting things or be in a different media bubble.