A Palestinian man who was detained by Israeli forces in occupied East Jerusalem said he has been physically abused after officers brutally beat him and branded the Star of David on his cheek, according to Israeli media reports.
If anyone wrote a fictional story like this, people would call it over the top, silly, far-fetched… reality is fucking dummer than fiction I guess. Not to excuse evil, this is evil, not dumbness.
Because historically, it was a disaster for Jews to not have their own nation, but be a (n often persecuted) minority in other countries.
Or it still is to this day, but now they have at least one more or less safe retreat on Earth. Yes, many other peoples still don't have that.
It’s okay because
No! Police violence and abuse are NOT okay. Saying this as an atheist, anti-religious, anti-fascist from Germany.
We can and should condemn the atrocious misbehavior of the police, while still supporting the right of the Israeli nation to exist, which is tied to the basic human right of Jewish people to live.
We can and should condemn the atrocious misbehavior of the police, while still supporting the right of the Israeli nation to exist, which is tied to the basic human right of Jewish people to live.
Sure we should condemn the misbehavior of the police which is part of the state (executive), right? So we should condemn the misbehavior of the the isreal state, right?
No, we don't need to support Israel and we shouldn't, this is literally the same excuse white colonists used to justify their extermination of the natives
Edited the post to show the image of Israeli barbarism.
This is happening NOW in Palestine.
This is happening to innocent people.
There is NO EXCUSE.
Zionism and Israeli barbarism must end.
It's been happening for decades and the US still covers it up as always and defends the apartheid. Not even Joe Biden will do anything about it but hey, that's what you get with 80 year old boomers who probably would sacrifice everyone's lives to defend that apartheid state
the victim was being arrested for drug crimes when this incident happened (not for a violent crime as far as I know).
according to the israeli police, the cameras on the 16 officers where off because of a "technical error".
the extreme violence applied to the the victim by the 16 armed officers was necessary to restrain him, because he acted violently.
the star-of-david-shaped injury was caused from the shoelaces on an officer's shoe, which means that at some point the officer's foot was either pressed hard against the victim's face, or they kicked the victim's face.
source (in hebrew, includes an image of some of the victims wounds and an image of the shoelaces)
I do find it beliveable that the star of david was unintentional (the actual shape, not the kick to the face), which of course doesn't make this case any more justified, but it wouldn't suprise me that much if it was intentional.
This is more propaganda trying to justify the colonial brutality of Zionism.
-They refer to the victim as “the Palestinian”, dehumanizing him and thus trivializing his injuries.
-The idea that 16 different officers’ body cameras all fail simultaneously is suspect, to put it mildly.
-The fact that it took 16 highly trained people to restrain one person is difficult to believe. I will say, I am glad(? Bad word, but I can’t think of the right one) that they didn’t just murder the man and cover it up.
-This was a planned raid in Occupied East Jerusalem.
The officers knew who this man was, and where he was.
-The graphic of boot shoelaces is unbelievable. Fabric laces don’t cause that type of skin damage while keeping the surrounding skin untouched.
Reminder that aljazeera is a Quatari state funded media outlet that tends to sensationalize violence against Palestenians and ignore cases where organizations like Hamas perpetrate violence. this is done to support their agenda of eradicating a Jewish state on a land that is home to the Jewish people and is also a place where many Palestenians call home. Aljazeera at it's heart is an anti-semetic organization, run by a government that does not care for Jews, and therefore their anti-zionist reporting often ventures into anti-semitism.
Violence like this is deplorable and should never happen, when it does, should be sanctioned. I do not think this source is unbiased in their reporting and does not make earnest work towards supporting peaceful outcomes in the region.
Why would he? Every single thing said is still true.
If you decide to post a shitty and known to be very biased source, that's your problem and you have to simply live with the fact the you are questioned until providing additional sources.