Human rights organisation Amnesty International on Tuesday accused Israel of committing a “live-streamed genocide” against Palestinians in Gaza by forcibly displacing most of the population and deliberately creating a humanitarian catastrophe.

In its annual report, Amnesty charged that Israel had acted with “specific intent to destroy Palestinians in Gaza, thus committing genocide”.

Israel’s foreign ministry rejected the accusations of genocide as “baseless lies” and accused Amnesty International of being a “radical anti-Israel organisation”.

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    I remember when Israel loudly and vehemently denied they were sterilizing ethiopian jews who had emmigrated to Israel. That it was ridiculous and slanderous.
    https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-21621388 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/feb/28/ethiopian-women-given-contraceptives-israel

    And then they had to admit they had done it on an industrial scale to their 120,000 ethiopian jews.
    https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/01417789211016331?icid=int.sj-full-text.similar-articles.6

    https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2013-01-27/ty-article/.premium/ethiopians-fooled-into-birth-control/0000017f-f512-d044-adff-f7fb92c30000

    And now they rolled back their admission and claim their “investigation” of themselves was “inconclusive”. https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/antisemitism/article-836206

    So Gaza is not the Israeli governments first genocide. They lie about everything. When they say something is “baseless lies”, they base it solely on whats convenient to them, not any sort of truth.

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    Remember when the Israelis were caught red handed by an Al Jazeera camera crew bombing the Gaza City hospital. And then we had a weeks-long struggle session of media figures asserting that it was unclear whether Hamas had actually bombed the hospital themselves. And then the IDF bombed the Al Jazeera offices in Gaza. And then the IDF very deliberately and explicitly bombed the Gaza City hospital over and over again. They kidnapped the chief surgeon, shoved him into a torture prison, sodomized him until he was uncontrollably bleeding, and released him to die of his wounds several days later?

    And this was all under the Biden Administration, back when our policy was ostensibly about ending the violence?

    Fucking crazy times. I wonder if Amnesty International is going to get tarred as antisemitic over this statement or if the Israelis have given up caring in their orgy of bloodshed.

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      Antisemitism has lost it’s meaning. Any time you raise your voice against any kind of powerful people, it’s discrimination why?

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        The Zionist conflation of anti-zionism and antisemitism is directly responsible for the increase of genuine antisemitism worldwide

        Exactly why it’s so important to call out that conflation at every opportunity

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        You can thank Israel for muddying the waters, using antisemitism as a shield so they can commit a live streamed child holocaust on a captive population.

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          Antisemitism has always been a tool of Israel. The first prime minister was quoted as saying

          If I knew that it was possible to save all the children of Germany by transporting them to England, and only half by transferring them to the Land of Israel, I would choose the latter, for before us lies not only the numbers of these children but the historical reckoning of the people of Israel.

          Literally pro Holocaust to ensure the success of the Zionist project

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        Antisemitism has lost it’s meaning.

        You can go on Twitter and find some ripe fucking comments. The hair brained “Protocols of the Elders of Zion” conspiracy-theory angle of antisemitism is alive and well. It’s just got nothing to do with Israelis butchering any Arab or Persian they can get in their crosshairs.

        Any time you raise your voice against any kind of powerful people, it’s discrimination why?

        Associating Jewishness with Powerfulness is a nut of a lot of the conspiracy theories.

        The game is always to conflate “Israelis are being called powerful because they are Jewish” and obscure “Israelis are being called powerful because they have a strong military and the full support of the US national security apparatus.”

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          That is a problem the Zionists introduced tho. By labeling every small criticism against their oppressive and genocidal agenda as “antisemitism”, it blurred the lines and the idiot conspiracy theorists on Twitter get roped into the same crowd as someone asking Israel to stop their genocide.

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        Not even just for them-- its just for white european jews. Israel secretly birth-control drugged their population of ethiopian jews and told them it was vitamin shots.

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        It means raped or sexually abused nowadays. The biblical term of sodomy encompasses all forms of sexual behavior that would go against the word of the Lord and would thus be immoral, even consensual homosexual activities, but nobody uses it like that anymore.

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          And consenting heterosexuals in the U.S. Blow jobs are also considered sodomy, even amongst consenting adults.

          “Sodomy is defined as any sexual act involving the sex organs of one person and the mouth or anus of another.”

          Source: https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/sodomy

          The Supreme Court (finally) struck down the remaining anti-sodomy laws in 2003 in Lawrence v. Texas but most states had either repealed their laws or had their law struck down by their state’s Supreme Court. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodomy_laws_in_the_United_States

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            Yeah, that stems from the original sense of the word. The story goes a bit like this:

            In Genesis 19, Sodom is visited by 2 angels and they were pressured by the men of Sodom to have sex with them. This lead to the interpretation of homosexual activities being an original sin, but there are accounts in the bible that it was not meant that way. Mainly Ezekiel 16:49 which reads

            Now this was the sin of your sister Sodom: She and her daughters were arrogant, overfed and unconcerned; they did not help the poor and needy.

            So, the sexual advances were likely meant to serve as an example of decadence rather than a stipulation that homosexual activities are sins. But it was simply easier to hate on a marginalized group rather than undergoing the onerous task of actually becoming a better human being.

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        Sodomy means penetrated with an object. not necessarily with a penis. Using a broom handle, a large metal rod is sodomizing

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        The term sodomy on its own usually means anal sex, but in this particular case, the verb form “sodomize” is indeed referring to

        spoiler

        anal rape.

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    Being accused of being a “radical anti Israel organization” is definitely something I would want on my resume.