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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.

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[–] Trudge@lemmygrad.ml 42 points 8 months ago (1 children)

How can there be many instances of sexual violence without a single perpetrator or victim?

This is even more outrageous since there are Palestinian men, women, and children who have stepped forward as victims of SV but we are still just talking about imagined crimes again Israelis.

[–] FuckyWucky@hexbear.net 19 points 8 months ago

Israeli (and American) pressure probably

[–] LoomingMountain@lemmygrad.ml 19 points 8 months ago (1 children)

The Israeli authorities didn't let the researchers talk to any of the alleged victims personally so, yeah, there's that.

Israeli state: "These people have been raped and coerced by Hamas!" Investigators: "can we talk to them directly?" Israeli stats: "no."

[–] Blursty@lemmygrad.ml 10 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Do you have any source for this. I don't doubt it but I need to debunk this crap that I don't believe is true.

[–] LoomingMountain@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I'll look for it. I saw it in a newsarticle from my country's region, which is pro-western, anti-israel.in theory but sending weapons nonetheless in practice kind of country.

https://www.vrt.be/vrtnws/nl/2024/03/05/israel-gaza-hamas-seksueel-geweld-vrouw-vn-rapport/

Ok so this is the full link (in Dutch).

and here's a screenshot.

The last sentence of this screenshot literally translates to: researchers spoke to Israeli institutions but were not able to speak to victims directly.

[–] Blursty@lemmygrad.ml 13 points 8 months ago (2 children)
[–] sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 9 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Book marking this so i can link it to nerds on lemmy.world

[–] Blursty@lemmygrad.ml 13 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)
[–] SoupBrick@yiffit.net 5 points 8 months ago

Nice find. Horrible news that this is being accepted as evidence. Most likely to cook the history books.

[–] Blursty@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 8 months ago

This is the report.

There is so much bullshit sounding biased crap in this report that I can't believe any of it is true.

"The vast death toll from the 7 October attacks in multiple locations overstretched the response capacities of the Israeli authorities"

various forms of violence occurred, with extensive brutality, including postmortem mutilation and booby-trapping of corpses;

Does anyone have any sources of rational discussion on this document or information on how it was produced?