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Palestinian Oscar winner lynched by Israeli settlers and kidnapped by IDF (www.middleeasteye.net)

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Palestinian film director and Academy Award-winner Hamdan Ballal was violently attacked by what his colleague described as a "lynch mob" of Israeli settlers on Monday night in the Palestinian village of Susya, south of Hebron in the occupied West Bank.

Ballal's whereabouts are now unknown after Israeli soldiers then seized him from the ambulance that arrived to treat him, his co-director and fellow Oscar winner of the documentary No Other Land, Yuval Abraham, said on X.

Abraham, a journalist for +972 magazine, said in a separate post featuring a shaky cell phone video that masked settlers "attacked Hamdan’s village, they continued to attack American activists, breaking their car with stones".

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[+] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (15 children)

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[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

all abrahamic religions always were. destroy them all. people still believing in gods in the 21st century are a liability to the welfare of this planet. the easiest solution is the obvious one. build a better world. start today.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The problem is: how do you get rid of religion? A state should not make it illegal.

Also many people who’ve experienced terrible shit find hope in religion (that’s the only pro for it imo)

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

civil liberties are for those who are civil. i'd put the entire southern US (and parts of the western red states) in reeducation camps without a bit of guilt if i knew it would ensure generations to come wouldn't have to suffer living alongside people who deny basic reality. if the end result is less suffering, the ends justify the means. it's just logic. sometimes you have to divorce yourself from reactionary emotions.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You would answer atrocity with atrocity and call it progress. Tell me, the families of those you "re-educate," do you expect them to allow you to do this without a fight? And others of conscience who object, will you imprison them too? How many would you murder to reach your ideological purity? When you're done, will you look in the mirror and recognize that you, too, are impure?

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 week ago

it's not about me or you. it's about the generations that follow us.

and yeah, if the ends justify the means, then the ends justify the means.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 week ago

Zionists are Atheists. How does this affect your view on Atheism?

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[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 week ago

Confusing title, I would've expected those to happen in a different order

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