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[-] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 84 points 1 month ago

We should honestly just replay their media with subtitles or voiceover in western media. Make people watch them saying this shit on the evening news and get their kids to cry because of the evil man in the TV.

[-] tomi000@lemmy.world 16 points 1 month ago

Do you have an example at hand? Genuinely interested

[-] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 31 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

There was this one a few days ago of a popular podcast calling for the killing of all inhabitants of Gaza. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/sep/06/israeli-podcasters-laughing-gaza-genocide-two-nice-jewish-boys

Also the finance minister of Israel saying the starvation of the people of Gaza would be morally justified. https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/aug/08/israel-finance-minister-bezalel-smotrich-gaza-starve-2m-people-comments

Thats just the two that immediately come to mind, im sure there are dozens of other instances of influential or even government people saying shit like this.

And this is just the things they say publicly. This doesnt even cover the issue that the whole next generation of young people in Israel were forced to serve in the IDF and end up brainwashed into accepting mass civilians casualties because "there is no other way".

[-] sazey@lemmy.world 22 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Good question! It is hard to find off-hand examples on English YouTube admittedly but below screenshot is representative of the kind of opinions you see brandished on Israeli media regularly and cheered on in Telegram channels. For context, Ofira Asayag is a major TV personality in Israel.

Edit: 'moderate' Israeli podcasters openly calling for erasing of all life in Gaza, asserting what they called "typical opinions" across the nation.

[-] ReginaPhalange@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

While "erase Gaza" is a correct translation , the "leave it to us" part isn't. A better translation is "leave us be" ie GTFO Bibi.

[-] Resol@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

We could make an anti-MEMRI.

[-] Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 41 points 1 month ago

TIL Hebrew speakers pronounce Hamas as Khamas and that spelling is used to make fun of them. I thought it was a legit alternate spelling

[-] Resol@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago

The Hebrew letter Chet does indeed correspond to the Arabic letter ح which makes the hard H sound. Since most Hebrew speakers cannot pronounce it, the closest sound to them is KH (also represented by the letter Kuf, Arabic equivalent is خ), thus when they try to pronounce "Hamas", they end up saying "KHAMASSS". And no, Chet is not the only Hebrew letter affected by a sound change like this, but it's the relevant one because it's used in the Hebrew spelling of "Hamas".

Hope that makes it make more sense.

[-] Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 4 points 1 month ago
[-] Resol@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

You're welcome.

[-] kibiz0r@midwest.social 10 points 1 month ago
[-] morrowind@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 month ago

Here's this guys original YouTube channel, he has a bunch more excellent satire on the topic: https://youtube.com/@mrtadhghickey?si=uW0CbHYK5kika4aU

[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Yay, it's "Taydgehae" from that great episode of Bad Hasbara! 😁❤️

(Yes, I know he's in more than one, but I started from the beginning and I'm not caught up yet)

[-] meowMix2525@lemm.ee 8 points 1 month ago

The k makes it sound more islamic and triggers western audience's latent islamophobia

[-] Darkenfolk@dormi.zone 2 points 1 month ago

The k makes it sound more islamic and triggers western audience's latent islamophobia

With all due respect, I don't think it's the K-sound that triggers the "western audience's latent islamophobia".

That probably has more to do with the news from England and Germany.

[-] meowMix2525@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago

What news from England and Germany? The k thing (pronouncing the H in Hamas with a harsh hissing sound common in both Hebrew and Arabic but completely absent in English and other western languages) has been around at least since Oct. 7, probably much longer before that. It's a dog whistle. At best, it's in the spirit of mocking their language.

[-] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago

I didn't sleep well. I was trying to work out if it was like Christmas for Cars

[-] ulterno@lemmy.kde.social -3 points 1 month ago

It's probably just an alternate pronunciation.

Considering that country names are different in different languages, I don't see much of a problem with it.


If the last sentence made you go "?" Check the

  • Chinese language name for China
  • Japanese name for Japan
  • Indian language names for India
  • But also what China, Japan and India have names for other countries and even alternate names for historical personalities in their languages. In some cases, even regional languages will have other alternate names.
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