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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".

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[-] Viri4thus@feddit.org 84 points 6 days ago

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.

[-] 50_centavos@lemmy.world 21 points 6 days ago

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.

[-] Viri4thus@feddit.org 8 points 6 days ago

It's filibuster to distract people. IDF has sock puppets on every social media imaginable.

[-] umbrella@lemmy.ml 11 points 6 days ago

tbf its now more people complaining about the people complaining about semantics.

[-] chunkystyles@sopuli.xyz 6 points 6 days ago

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.

[-] Viri4thus@feddit.org 6 points 6 days ago

"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...

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