The Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) has blown up Israa University building in southern Gaza on Wednesday, destroying the Graduate Studies and main Bachelor's faculties.
The Israeli Occupation aggression was not limited to the main building only; it also reached the National Museum, which Israa University has proudly founded as a nationally licensed museum by the Ministry of Antiquities. It was the first museum on a national level, containing over 3,000 rare artifacts. IOF soldiers and officers looted these artifacts before demolishing the museum building to cover up the evidence of their crime.
The IOF also demolished the buildings of the first and only university hospital in Gaza, and the second in Palestine, along with the medical and engineering laboratories, nursing laboratories, media training studio, the special court hall for the Law College, and graduation halls.
The cafeteria building was also destroyed. Additionally, IOF aircraft targeted and destroyed the main mosque within the southern campus.
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Ah yes, another “Hamas base” I’m sure
Honestly, given how many civilian infrastructures the "world's most ethical army" is destroying, hamas must have so freaking many soldiers...
/s if not obvious...
Those deadly 5 year old militants…
Nah. They didn't grade pass/fail.
Remember when the Nazis made it a habit to loot antiquities from museums?
the us blew up a number of iraqs universities too and al-assad blew up a number of syrias universities.
its almost as if theres a pattern
Why do they build universities over TNT-soil?
I wish we could stop this...
Is it just me or posts like this are being removed? Saw two like this deleted for no reason yesterday
Edit: They were not removed from [email protected], ~~ probably~~ from lemmy.world ~~or some other Instance~~
Not on lemmy.ml. The only posts that have been removed in the past 3 days have been:
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A British tabloid talking about Russian energy security (reason: tabloid news)
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Reporting on the Republican Iowa caucus (reason: US news)
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A YouTube video on South Africa's ICJ case (reason: YouTube)
Are you sure you aren't confusing lemmy.ml with lemmy.world? I know they've been pretty aggressively removing posts and comments on this issue.
Ah, pardon my ignorance, all the communities have the same name, and I forget about instances, they must have been removed from lemmy.world, still don’t understand why tho
You're all good. The lemmy.world community has seen a lot of mod drama recently, so that might be why.
I am a user of lemmy.world. I joined because it seemed like a positive and politically neutral instance. Mod drama like that which ends up with important news like this being removed is neither of those. So I guess I have some questions.
1: how do you know about the drama?
2: what other instance should I consider registrering at based on my criteria above?
There's been rather public infighting on lemmy.world based on the pinned posts on that community.
A moderator on that community (@MightBe) collected community feedback on a post (https://lemmy.world/post/10102462) because of discontent with how the community was being run. The other moderators were unhappy with that mod, so they removed him, removed the post, and pinned this post instead: https://lemmy.world/post/10656753
I'm not sure what's going on in private, but publicly there's been a lot of drama. It's also been revealed that some members of the current group of moderators have been rather unprofessional imo. I'm quoting from a previous comment:
Some mods have also been deleting comments that add context to mod abuse. @naturalgasbad gave me the full DM context for their "bad faith argument" with a moderator (they did not specify which one), which I posted in a comment in the other pinned thread. It's a rather childish escalation sequence imo. That comment was deleted for "violating Rule 6", but I have copied it below for the record:
For the record, naturalgasbad sent me their exchange with the moderator, which stemmed from the moderator in question removing SCMP articles due to "SCMP not meeting reliability guidelines."
@moderator:
Al Jazeera is reliable when they aren’t talking about things that involve Qatar, that seems to be their specific blind spot.
Kyiv Post and the Telegraph I haven’t specifically looked at, if they get reported I’ll check them out.
@naturalgasbad:
Literally by the standards on SCMP you quoted, they’re unreliable.
@moderator:
SCMP: Mixed for factual reporting due to poor sourcing.
Al Jazeera: Mixed for factual reporting due to failed fact checks that were not corrected and misleading extreme editorial bias that favors Qatar.
You: “bUt ThEyR’e ThE sAmE!!!”
Poor sourcing is poor sourcing. You picked a shitty news agency. Try to do better next time.
(for reference, the Daily Telegraph is also "mixed due to poor sourcing" and Kyiv Post is "mixed due to failed fact checks")
@naturalgasbad:
MBFC claims SCMP has poor sourcing based on the suggestion that they’re misrepresenting the US import ban on China (the one “failed fact check” according to them). That’s how MBFC gives the commentary on their ratings. It’s based on a sample-size of one. There’s no long-term commentary provided by MBFC because their entire ratings system and commentary is based on sampling a small number of articles (we don’t know which ones) and going off of what goes wrong within that sample.
It’s also reflecting the problem of a US-based bias assessment website: it suggests that ideas within the US Overton window are “correct” will those shared by the Global South are “less correct.”
From what I can tell, some of the problem is what they assume the basic level of skill is for readers. A few weeks ago, I posted a story about SCMP reporting on a research study published in Science. Members of this community failed to find it, despite being told the subject, authors, where it was published, and when it was published. That’s not poor sourcing, but poor research ability on behalf of the readers.
@moderator:
Continuing to argue with a mod who has made their decision will not win you any favors. Keep it up and you’ll get a ban on top of having your shitty links removed, oh, wait, you’ve already been banned for abusing the report feature. I can easily extend that.
@naturalgasbad
But again, MBFC’s entire commentary on SCMP’s issues is reliant on this single sentence from a single article. It’s inherently because MBFC relies on a small sample set of each site to determine a rating because they lack the manpower and the educational foundation to provide comprehensive analysis of a news source. Either way, that article was an editorial, not a news report. (In any cases, SCMP is commenting on Chinese reports written in Chinese, which American readers struggle to find because they don’t speak Chinese).
[The [U.S. import ban] has been taken without evidence being provided.]
Unlike SCMP’s reporting, Polygraph is unable to source the article this claim can be found in. From the articles I can find that, SCMP is comnenting based on this statement:
[The ban creates a “rebuttable presumption” that any Xinjiang goods were tainted by the use of forced labour – a “guilty until proven innocent” principle that effectively inverts US customs laws related to forced labour]
In fact, Ad Fontes’ media bias chart considers SCMP to be “reliable” (reliability score of 41.56 on a 0-64 scale) and “centrist” (bias score of -3.3 on a scale of -42 - 42). This is on par with Al Jazeera (41.65, -6.71) and New York Times (41.92, -7.96) and better than Washington Post (38.08, -8.69). (Ad Fontes also has issues, but your obsession with MBFC in particular is a little odd).
@moderator:
7 day ban. Want to go for 30?
@naturalgasbad:
I cited Ad Fontes. Feel free to criticize their methodology.
@moderator:
30 days. Keep going.
@naturalgasbad:
So… Do you not like Ad Fontes’ methodology, then?
@moderator:
And permaban. Good luck on your next account.
Moderator taking cues from the reddit mod playbook
By reading all the threads. There was a post somewhere (not sure) that had a bunch of the mod drama spelled out clearly.
I'm liking lemmy.ml but your ideals may be different than mine.
You're on lemmy.ml right now, so if you're happy you might as well stay.
Might the poster have been banned?
It's possible, but no posts are showing up in my mod view so I don't think som
Rechecked my comments and those posts were indeed from lemmy.world, sorry for any troubles
P.S. I don’t know if it’s a bug or a feature but lemmy seems to keep the record of your comment and which community+instance you posted the comment in, even if the original post is deleted/removed, pretty handy imo
Why is "Israel army" in quotes? Is it not the army?
Maybe because it implies the IDF does anything without the blessing of Tel Aviv, sorry, Jerusalem. That, or the headline was crafted in an English-speaking location where quotes mean "exactly so" instead of "hearsay"/"bullshit", or ... the fact that the Israel Defense Force doesn't label itself as The Israel Army.
Oh..