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!
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”….
I mean they did change the title, it seems
Palestinian Oscar winner missing after being severely beaten by Israeli settlers
The article still uses the term “lynch mob” and “lynched” but that’s in direct quotes. It is kinda misleading term it seems. I was thinking that the dude was killed too.
Everyday I an increasingly disgusted by the actions of Israel.
Your disgust has a scale that ranks higher than genocide?
Murder -> ethnical cleansing -> genocide -> Dantes Inferno!
I’m not quite sure that that’s the word you mean to use….
Which one? Sorry English is my 3rd language.
Oh you said ethical cleansing instead of ethnic cleansing. Those two words have incredibly different meanings
Ty whoopsies.
Maybe you can be aware of it but you can slowly appreciate it in all of its horror.
I hope some of this disgust has translated into more action than just posting.
I take part in BDS.
That’s good
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 don’t think the antisemites would support them.
What the fuck is wrong with these people?
Imagine a country where the KKK took over the government.
I can think of one…
Zionism indoctrination since childhood.
Religion brain rot
No, settler colonialism
Do you think that they’d displace other Jewish people if they were living there already? I’m pretty sure its the religious fanaticism fueling this.
Yes they straight up have displaced Jewish Palestinians.
My understanding is the existing Jewish population was integrated into Israel.
There was some integration (as second class citizens) and some displacement.
You know that Palestinian Jews were a people before the formation of Israel, right?
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.
For anyone wondering:
Aliyah: is the immigration of Jews from the diaspora to, historically, the geographical Land of Israel or the Palestine region, which is today chiefly represented by the State of Israel.
priklopil: Natascha Maria Kampusch (born 17 February 1988) is an Austrian author and former talk show host. At the age of 10, on 2 March 1998, she was abducted and held in a secret cellar by her kidnapper Wolfgang Přiklopil for more than eight years, until she escaped on 23 August 2006.
That’s a tough joke.
Yeah, I don’t see the humor. Maybe doesn’t translate well.
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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.
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Please don’t equate the actions of Israelis to all Jews.
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.
please don’t defend religions
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.
not all Jews are religious
i too am a human with an ethnic background
Yes, and you should not be blamed if a country co-opts your identity and commits a genocide, unless you support it.
You’ll get down voted to hell for this but you’re right, religions do not deserve defending, they’re not a force for good
To be fair Abrahams God is an idiot and can’t be what religion claims One or more of the traits is disproven in religion. Can’t be omniscient, omnipotent or omnipresent. I don’t even think God understands omniscient or he wouldn’t have made so many mistakes like “resting on the 7th day”? How does something that cannot be tired rest?
The Abrahamic God is not only an idiot, he’s also fictitious, and bad fiction at that.
Same goes for all gods or higher powers or prophets, it’s all man made bullshit and it’s always inevitably used to control and squeeze people
Actually with just infinite energy you can prove a god is possible but infinite energy is not possible.
Please tell that to the jews
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.
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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Yahweh’s original name was El. In the Canaanite pantheon he was a god of war and death. The Israelites did their best to get away from that, but that is the god they decided to make “the only god.”
Zionists are Atheists. How does this affect your view on Atheism?
Redditors get the wall as well.
This post made by dark agnosticism gang
all abrahamic religions always were. destroy them all. people still believing in gods in the 21st century are a liability to the welfare of this planet. the easiest solution is the obvious one. build a better world. start today.
The problem is: how do you get rid of religion? A state should not make it illegal.
Also many people who’ve experienced terrible shit find hope in religion (that’s the only pro for it imo)
civil liberties are for those who are civil. i’d put the entire southern US (and parts of the western red states) in reeducation camps without a bit of guilt if i knew it would ensure generations to come wouldn’t have to suffer living alongside people who deny basic reality. if the end result is less suffering, the ends justify the means. it’s just logic. sometimes you have to divorce yourself from reactionary emotions.
You would answer atrocity with atrocity and call it progress. Tell me, the families of those you “re-educate,” do you expect them to allow you to do this without a fight? And others of conscience who object, will you imprison them too? How many would you murder to reach your ideological purity? When you’re done, will you look in the mirror and recognize that you, too, are impure?
it’s not about me or you. it’s about the generations that follow us.
and yeah, if the ends justify the means, then the ends justify the means.
Confusing title, I would’ve expected those to happen in a different order
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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.
Ah yes we didn’t “kill him” we “almost killed him” thank you internet stranger. For if it weren’t for you, this article would’ve spread false narratives
How does it feel to be so absolutely wrong?
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.
I Ducked it but apparently killing someone is not necessary. Only mob violence without trial.
I mean, all of the “especially” bits are still significant, and affect the general understanding of the term.
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