Palestinian Oscar winner lynched by Israeli settlers and kidnapped by IDF
Palestinian Oscar winner lynched by Israeli settlers and kidnapped by IDF
Hamdan Ballal, co-director of the Oscar-winning 'No Other Land', returned from Los Angeles three weeks ago
Palestinian film director and Academy Award-winner Hamdan Ballal was violently attacked by what his colleague described as a "lynch mob" of Israeli settlers on Monday night in the Palestinian village of Susya, south of Hebron in the occupied West Bank.
Ballal's whereabouts are now unknown after Israeli soldiers then seized him from the ambulance that arrived to treat him, his co-director and fellow Oscar winner of the documentary No Other Land, Yuval Abraham, said on X.
Abraham, a journalist for +972 magazine, said in a separate post featuring a shaky cell phone video that masked settlers "attacked Hamdan’s village, they continued to attack American activists, breaking their car with stones".
Reddit liberals are in here trying to make this about their own misunderstanding if a term.
If this was your first response to hearing about occupiers attacking and disappearing someone, reconsider your priorities.
But if liberals don't litigate and diminish every act of fascist violence how will they meaningfully interact with politics? They don't got a vote coming for another two years!
The problem is this case is that 'a lynching' implies that the mob is going against the authorities, which is absolutely not the case when it comes to settler violence. The Israeli soldiers are there to protect and facilitate the settlers in their attacks against Palestinians. Under no circumstances does the IDF deserve the benefit of the doubt and the article makes it clear that they are the ones who abducted Hamdan anyway.
So, I’m prob one of those “Reddit liberals” you’re referring to who thinks Harris would’ve been at least slightly better than Trump hah. And my first thought when I saw this was “what the fuck is wrong with these people”….
Somehow, the overwhelming replies in this thread are about semantics rather than the absolute unconscionable act perpetrated by an invading populace upon native civilians.
The IDF should rename to IDGF, fits more with the character.
Every Reddit thread about any serious topic is this. It blows my mind how many people get hung up on arguing about semantics. Or just parroting the same hive mind bullshit without giving it a second thought.
It's filibuster to distract people. IDF has sock puppets on every social media imaginable.
tbf its now more people complaining about the people complaining about semantics.
People love to prove how "smart" they are. It's extremely reliable.
I unfortunately still mindlessly scroll Facebook when I'm bored. When I see some kind of obvious rage bait, people will trip over themselves to comment about it, even if a thousand other people have already said what they came to say.
The kind of things I'm taking about are like this. Completely mispronouncing a common word in every single video. The kind of word that no one ever mispronounces. Or someone opens their refrigerator to get something out of it and there's random items conspicuously placed in it that obviously didn't belong there.
The kind of things that anyone with half a brain knows is purposefully done. And yet thousands of people will shit themselves trying to get the comments opened so they can correct the record.
"engagement" and "content" made us so desensitised to violence that we've collectively lost the ability to empathise.
100 years later and "the death of one is a tragedy, the death of 1M is statistics" is still relevant. Fuck...
Everyday I an increasingly disgusted by the actions of Israel.
One of the best proofs that the Zionist genociders use antisemitism as a shield is that if they wanted to go after an actual antisemite with an Oscar, all this time they could have lynched Mel Gibson and everyone would support them.
I guess this is a severely watered down use of the word "lynched", because you're not alive to be kidnapped after the traditional meaning.
because you're not alive to be kidnapped after
here in america there are strict reconstruction era lynching standards to uphold and pass along to future generations. yessiree bob! a fine US export, to be sure.
Americans should be ashamed of themselves. How could they allow the American definition of this word not be the dominant (only) definition of this word. This is what happens when you break ties with allies. The cracks in the American empire are already forming...
there can be no peace while the structure of the state of israel, the ideological apparatus that sustains it, and the support of the colonial nations of the west, remain standing. and jewish people themselves should know that.
there used to be a joke about how israel is like a former well educated university professor who made the aliyah after being ran over by a german truck driver, and used to throw stones at the poor palestinian 14-year old washergirl who lives in the backlot. now the father of the girl threw some stones back and the professor went full priklopil keeping the whole family at his basement, trturing and rping them on a daily basis.
That's a tough joke.
Yeah, I don't see the humor. Maybe doesn't translate well.
I don’t think you know what lynched means. They killed him then kidnapped him? What is the IDF into necrophilia?
It can mean mean any sort of extra-judicial punishment. I agree it's not the best choice of words, but context makes it pretty clear that he was not killed.
"Lynching is an extrajudicial killing by a group." Wikipedia (content warning - prominently displayed picture of a lynching victim)
Well we don't know if he was killed, but its much more than a non-zero chance at this point. They're tortuing him at the very least, just by the assault and kidnapping. Likely worse is happening, if not already.
honestly, these days can we be absolutely sure they are not?
regardless of the probable misuse of the term, this story (if otherwise accurate) has fucked up my day in an outsized way.
I'm sorry! It is really hard. I hope they're still alive...
@doomsdayrs@lemmy.ml Before reporting me maybe reread what I actually wrote.
@OurToothbrush@lemmy.ml I hope you can see my comments are on the title not making sense and then ripping on the military. IDK what @doomsdayrs@lemmy.ml is reading to think I support the them or their imperialist country.
Here is the video of the beginning of the attack. Posted by Yuval Abraham on Twitter:
They had the right to defend themselves!
The mob only had peaceful intentions and he clearly looked at them funny.
What where they supposed to do, undergo this vicious, clearly antisemitic act?He was not lynched. Lynching implies killing. He was assaulted, yes, but not lynched.
The previous commenter is buried way down so here is again
He was assaulted by a lynch mob.
The difference is basically just grammar.
How does it feel to be so absolutely wrong?
Technically you have a kidnapping not a lynching. Lynching leave more evidence.
Edit: Why am I getting downvoted? Lynchings end in hanging for all to see it’s what defines them. Am I wrong?