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Assal Rad @AssalRad
Headline after headline fails to mention that seizing the ships and kidnapping humanitarians violates international law. Instead the articles repeat Israeli propaganda.
This is how Western media normalizes Israel’s crimes.
embedded screenshot 1 (BBC News headline):
Israeli naval ships intercept Gaza-bound flotilla
embedded screenshot 2 (Reuters headline):
Live: Israel says it has stopped several vessels from Gaza aid flotilla
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Activists say Israeli navy has begun intercepting a Gaza-bound aid flotilla
embedded screenshot 4 (CNN headline):
Israeli military intercept and board several aid ships bound for Gaza, organizers say
Again: I think this flotilla helps the people that are part of it, with there helplessness concerning the dire situation in Gaza. It also helps everyone who wants to say: “Look! Israel is even more evil than we thought!“. Which helps antisemites who sometimes „by accident“ say „the Jews“ instead of „the IDF“ or „Netanjahus fascist government“.
There are signs appearing on German shops again: „Jews(!) are not welcome here.“ There was a synagogue attacked in GB yesterday. Attacking Jews because of a fascist government in Israel is like beating up every guy called Vladimir because of Putins war on Ukraine. People are beaten because they wear a Star of David. That’s like beating people wearing green, because Hamas uses green headbands.
What actually helps, is writing letters after letters (not emails) to your local representative, telling them in clear but polite words what you think. The rightwingers in Germany do it all the time and the public broadcasting bends over backwards to appear „balanced“.
What may help is support the organisations that have at least to some degree access to Gaza and the West Bank.
What’s not helping, is putting a handful of truckloads of aid on boats with some lesser known stars and sending them on a journey that had no chance of ever reaching their proclaimed goal.
So, everyone is just supposed to sit down and twiddle their thumbs while Israel finishes off the rest of the Palestinian population and steals their land, saying “Oh, bummer, but it was inevitable”?
Why are you shifting the blame from israel? Many of the antisemitism act are direct result of israel genocide. You should blame israel who try to associate antizionism to antisemitism
I saw a video of gazan fishing ton of fish because israel intention was shifted to the flotillas
People who take part in these crimes are responsible for committing them. People who defend those crimes are guilty of defending them. No person is responsible for the crimes of the IDF and Israeli government just because this person is born in Israel or of Jewish descent.
I don’t go beating up Germans with Russian grandparents, because Putin is trying to eradicate Ukraine. It’s not their fault.
You don’t get it. I do not justify it. I acknowledge that is it wrong and i also acknowledge the issue so we csn fine a solution to reduce hate crimes for everybody. Something that they don’t tell you is that both antisemitism and antimuslims increased because of the genocide in Gaza