You would think Israel, of all countries, ought to know how blatantly evil this kind of stuff looks.
They do, they just don't care.
They do, and that’s the point.
How disappointed the generation before them would be, having survived that same treatment only to become the monsters that they struggled to escape.
I’ll take history repeat for 1000.
Numbers are so 1940's, I thought they might have moved to QR codes by now.
Harder to draw quickly, gotta have them pre printed and then there is the ink costs and where on earth could Israel get the money for that?
The headline says "brands Palestinians". The article doesn't mention branding. They had numbers written on their foreheads. Most prisons identify prisoners by numbers. Probably not a great idea to just write it on their foreheads but if you have limited ways of marking prisoners it makes sense.
Israels soldiers are shit but how about we use accurate language to describe what they are doing. Lying helps no one.
I agree with your take. Shitty headline. When I think of “branding” , I think of hot iron burnt into flesh.
i would strongly urge you to familiarise yourself with figures of speech lest you're -- you know -- branded as an ignorant person.
Maybe the website should learn not to use language that is ambiguous in order to push an agenda. Looking at these comments there are already a bunch of people who are assuming brand to mean scarification by burning since they evidently only read the headline.
Yes, but I think it's also intentional to mislead for clicks.
For fuck sake, how blatant does it need to get before people recognize this for what it is?
You mean admit to it? They can just continue refusing.
The people who are willing to recognize it for what it is have already done so.
They couldn't turn the world today into a movie because the writing would be called too lazy and ham-fisted to be realistic.
"The Nazi analogies were so over the top, like we get it, they're bad people... It's insulting to the audience."
—average review
"You're watching it wrong! Those are protagonists!"
—US government in the comments
This is no longer a boring dystopia
... branding detainees with numbers, check... now, what's next on Hitler's to do list?
—Bibi, apparently
It's not a brand. It's a mark with a marker. And I think even Bibi and his legions of assholes might be sensitive about tattoos and actual brands.
wow what a distinction.
first of all Bibi is a Hitler apologist. the only thing he's sensitive about is the existence of brown people.
second of all it's the same exact shit. the point isn't the method, it's the dehumanization.
Writing a number on someone with a marker is not branding. This is stupid. The IDF is committing actual atrocities, and this article is about writing a number on people with a marker and referring to them by that number. Relatively humane prison systems refer to people by their inmate number as well.
What is even going on? This is literally a distraction from the actual terrible things regularly occurring. Think about it this way: within the horrifyingly violent context of Palestine right now, here is an entire article that could be headlined: "IDF Uses New Weapon Against Palestinians: A Marker." See how absurd that is when there are much more important events occurring?
Who wrote this? The IDF?
They did not hold a prison number sign. Or a piece of clothing with a number. They were marked with the number on their forehead.
No prison system kidnaps people and throws them in a "jail" without process, writes a number on their forehead, tortures them for months and then releases them because they were innocent.
And I do not mean a combination of those things.
I mean not one of those things is done in a prison.
Personally I'd be unwilling to write numbers on people and refer to them by that number, I just read a lot of accounts of the holocaust and that's too close for me to be around without feeling sick. Don't know how IDF can stomach this. But, you know, no end to the depth of human depravity and evil. I'm not a great person. Still couldn't do this.
They have become that which they hated.
Treating Gaza like an open air extermination camp and even branding them the way prisoners were tattooed in German camps.
History repeats itself
Every prisoner should have the right to be branded with their very own personalized NFT.
Yea but a number drawn with a sharpie would fade away. Have you thought of some more permanent way of inking those numbers in their skins? Not to mention that the forehead is a bit too much, it might make the guards uncomfortable. Have you considered someplace a bit more discreet, like maybe the wrist? /s
My grandfather had a number tattooed on his arm. Never again means never again for everyone.
Shame on Israel. Zionism is an evil racist ideology, distinct from Judaism
You can't make this shit up
Yellow star was already patented
I have a theory that people that willingly post links from this site are doing it on purpose to cause more harm to Palestinians. Hear me out.
No other news source has confirmed this act.
Everyone in the comments are assuming the literal and first dictionary definition of branding by physical mutilation.
People that actually read the article are pointing out that the headline is misleading but they are getting drowned out by pedantic discussions of semantics when it's clear the implication is physical mutilation.
There is so much heinous actions committed by the IDF but here we are talking about made up news. See where this is going?
There is something fucky going on.
Hmmmmm 🤔
As someone living in "Israel" im not shocked, I wouldn't be suprised if they put it on their forearms next time
"brands" by writing a number on the forehead with a pen
The right-wing religious nutters in Israel read plenty of NKVD and SS manuals.
Israel: Yes, again.
It's not a brand. It's marker. like they do to runners in some race. With all the other horrid shit Israel does to folks in Gaza, this is pretty small beer and hardly worth the electrons to post it.
The optics of it still ain't good cuh.
If your local police force rounded up all the males in a minority group and wrote the processing numbers on their foreheads do you think it might make the news?
I think an arm tattoo would be better...
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