The Zaka volunteer group began collecting bodies in the devastated communities of southern Israel immediately after the Hamas attack, while the IDF sidelined soldiers trained to retrieve remains. An investigation reveals cases of negligence, misinformation and a fundraising campaign that used the dead as props ... According to the non-Zaka observer, the body was part of a staged setting – an exhibit designed to attract donors, just when the race against time to gather and remove the bodies of victims of the massacre was most urgent. ... As part of the effort to get media exposure, Zaka spread accounts of atrocities that never happened, released sensitive and graphic photos, and acted unprofessionally on the ground. ... It appears that all the rules have been broken since October 7. Videos and graphic photos from the horrific sites filled Zaka Jerusalem's social media accounts: rows of bodies in bags, bloodstains, and much more. These posts had a common denominator: pleas for fundraising. The timing was critical. Before October 7, the organization faced insolvency. In the time since, says a source at Zaka, they have raised over 50 million shekels ($13.7 million). ... This horrific incident, which the Zaka volunteer alleged occurred in Be'eri, simply didn't happen, and was one of several stories that have been circulated without any basis. There is no evidence for this incident, and no one in the kibbutz has heard of this woman. A Zaka senior official admitted in a conversation with Haaretz that the organization knows the incident didn't occur. ...
On most Israelis being of Middle-Eastern or North African descent:
Mizrahi Jews constitute one of the largest Jewish ethnic divisions among Israeli Jews. Mizrahi Jews are descended from Jews in the Middle East, North Africa and Central Asia and parts of the Caucasus, who had lived for many generations under Muslim rule during the Middle Ages. The vast majority of them left the Muslim-majority countries during the Arab–Israeli conflict, in what is known as the Jewish exodus from Arab and Muslim countries. ... As of 2005, 61% of Israeli Jews were of full or partial Mizrahi ancestry
Bit of a tangent, but this is partly why Israel's security services are/were so feared in the middle-east. They simply employed 'Arab'/Mizrahi Jews, who were indistinguishable from other Arabs and often knew the culture.
On Mizrahi Jews being more likely to support (far-) right parties:
Why the right-wing Mizrahi vote is misunderstood in Israel ... Israeli Jews from the Middle East and North Africa vote en masse for Likud and its right-wing allies, despite being told it's against their interests.
If you want you can look up (recent) Israeli cabinet ministers on wikipedia, you'll often find they have Middle-Eastern or North African ancestry. Often these are some of the most right-wing politicians. For example:
May Golan ... is an Israeli politician and activist ... In 2023, a group of former Israeli ambassadors said they were “shocked” by the appointment of Golan as Israel's new women's advancement minister, saying that “Golan’s appointment is outrageous as she is a racist and divisive figure .... She is the child of a single Orthodox Jewish mother ... from Iraq ... Golan was known for a number of inflammatory statements she made about African asylum seekers in Israel, referring to them as rapists and infiltrators who would spread HIV among the Israeli population. Golan says “If I am racist for wanting to defend my country and for wanting to protect my basic rights and security, then I’m a proud racist”
Itamar Ben-Gvir ... is an Israeli lawyer and far-right extremist... who has served as the Minister of National Security since 2022 ... His father was born in Jerusalem to Iraqi Jewish immigrants. He worked at a gasoline company and dabbled in writing. His mother was a Kurdish Jewish immigrant ... has faced charges of hate speech against Arabs and was known to have a portrait in his living room of Israeli-American mass murderer and Jewish extremist Baruch Goldstein, who massacred 29 Palestinian Muslim worshipers and wounded 125 others in Hebron ... Ben-Gvir took part in the clashes between Israeli Jewish settlers and the local Palestinian residents, brandishing a gun, telling the police to shoot at Palestinians throwing stones at the scene, and yelling at them that "We're the landlords here, remember that, I am your landlord." This was a message that was later repeated by him in a tweet on the morning after the 2022 election in his victory tweet.
6 million Jews / 9.5 million pre-war European Jewish population = 63%
In Gaza at least 30000 people have been killed, and that at least is doing a lot of heavy lifting, in less than five months.
Operation Rheinhard:
Using an unusual dataset originating from railway transportation records, this study identifies an extreme phase of hyperintense killing when 1.47 million Jews—more than 25% of the Jews killed in all 6 years of World War II—were murdered by the Nazis in an intense,100-day (3-month) surge.
1.25/9.5 = 13.6% of the Jewish population in Europe in 100 days.
I get people are angry and why people make the comparison, but it's quite easy to debunk that it was on a similar scale to what the Nazis did. The numbers don't lie.
Nazi/Holocaust comparisons undermine any criticism you make of Israel, because what they did is so clearly on a different scale. If you want to win the argument, it's better to avoid these hyperbolic comparisons.
If Trump loses the election, I'm still hedging my bets, it's going to be glorious seeing all the rats flee or turn on each other. Clearly we're already seeing some realise the ship may be sinking.
It is a pathetic, dog-like face, the face of a man suffering under intolerable wrongs. In a rather more manly way it reproduces the expression of innumerable pictures of Christ crucified, and there is little doubt that that is how Hitler sees himself. The initial, personal cause of his grievance against the universe can only be guessed at; but at any rate the grievance is here. He is the martyr, the victim, Prometheus chained to the rock, the self-sacrificing hero who fights single-handed against impossible odds. If he were killing a mouse he would know how to make it seem like a dragon.
The trick is to touch them with the back of your hand, so that the shock causes you to clench your fist and arm, and punch yourself in the face for being a fucking moron who almost killed himself.
I use a VPN. Good luck whoever decides to DDoS the CIA, FBI and/or NSA.
FBI/NSA/CIA man: don't pay attention to me, as you can see all I do is torrent shit movies and watch porn.