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Palestine
A community for everything related to Palestine and the occupation currently underway by the occupying force known as Israel.
Anti-Zionism is not anti-Semitism. Existence is resistance for Palestinians.
Please refer to Israel as Occupied Palestine, or occupied territories. The IDF is a fascist and ethnonationalist occupying force. Israelis are settlers. We understand however that the imperial narrative (which tries to legitimise Israel) is internalised in the imperial core and slip-ups are naturally expected.
We always take the sides of Palestine and Palestinians and are unapologetic about it. Israel is an occupying power whose "defence force"'s (note the contradiction) sole purpose for existing is to push Palestinians out so they can resettle their rightful land. If you have anything positive to say about Israel we do not care.
Zionists that confront pro-Palestinian protesters are often trying to draw reactions to disrupt or invalidate the protest:
They try to draw in police by lying about their own safety. For example, walking into the middle of a crowd and then yelling about how they now feel unsafe because of some pro-Palestine chants.
They try to get a semi-violent reaction for the same reason. A Zionist getting upset and grabbing at someone else's phone will not elicit a police or fash intervention but a response that pushes the Zionisy away or tries the same on them will more often get that police or fash intervention.
They bring their friends and take videos of the reactions they're trying to elicit in order to try and delegitimize the pro-Palestinian protesters. If they can't get anything they'll do things like ham it up with a monolog everyone's ignoring or try to tell a story for the camera. Selective editing is their favorite tool.
She is probably a combination of frothing Zionist fash and trying to get a reaction. The two are compatible and the former is who does the latter most often in my experience.
Why else intentionally cart one’s toddler human shield into the middle of a protest and cry crocodile tears.