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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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[-] Todd_cross@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Please don't equate the actions of Israelis to all Jews.

[-] Guns0rWeD13@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago

please don't defend religions

[-] Todd_cross@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 1 week ago

While Judaism is a religion, not all Jews are religious. Jews are an ethno-cultural group as well. I'm not defending the religion of Judaism, I'm saying don't lump the horrific actions of Israel and Zionists with people who are not supporting the genocide.

[-] Guns0rWeD13@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

not all Jews are religious

i too am a human with an ethnic background

[-] Todd_cross@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Yes, and you should not be blamed if a country co-opts your identity and commits a genocide, unless you support it.

[-] Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee 11 points 1 week ago

Zionists are often extremely antisemitic. The founder of zionism was so antisemitic that his quotes can be attributed to Hitler or Goebbels and people wouldn't tell the difference.

[-] Eddbopkins@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I'm Jewish. Am I doing anything to stop the death toll? No. Have you done anything to stop the death toll? No, probably not.....so yes all Jews. Maybe if all the people came together to Israel, Israel might pick different methods to achieve its goal instead of bullets and bomb shells and missiles.

[-] Count042@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Just because you aren't doesn't mean others are as apathetic to genocide committed in their name.

Secondly, Zionism is an inherently colonial apartheid project. The methods are required for the end goal. People don't want to leave their homeland and give up all their shit. If you want them too, which is ideologically required for Zionism, then those are the methods you're going to use.

The problem isn't the bombs and guns, it's the colonialism and apartheid. The methods are fixed when those are the goals.

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