Documenting Israeli army racism and torture

I saw the footage of the Jewish man in the West Bank being attacked by an IDF soldier. It started with a soldier kicking another Jewish mans feet out from under him. I was struck by how frightened the other men in the group looked and despite being horrified and upset by the violence most did not try to protect or defend the man on the ground. It seemed to me that they knew nothing good would come of trying because they'd seen it all before.

The scary thing is the IDF are just ordinary kids like yours and mine. God knows what's been done to their mental health if they can be so violent.

Lots of Jewish Israeli civilians protesting against the Israeli government and they were getting beaten by the idf too. Awful scenes and they call themselves a democracy. What a joke.

I saw the video of the idf beating the Jewish man speaking up against the atrocities. It was absolutely heart breaking. I honestly couldn’t stop thinking about it for days. The idf are just terrorists.

I think this may be the video I saw, a man wearing his tallit and other religious items (I'm not sure of all the correct names unfortunately), being very roughly shoved and pushed around by IDF soldiers, then they eventually push him into a building and close the door? From what I saw, the man was not threatening at all and looked quite scared and confused while he was being attacked by the soldier.

Thanks @FOJN, that translation makes a lot more sense. 🙂

@orangegato , no they’re not interested in Jewish babies.

Thank you for making this thread. I can't believe how much evidence there is of the IDF abusing the Palestinians and yet people still defend them.

For those predictably saying "what about Hamas???-

Why don't you go and start a thread with videos of Hamas abusing innocent civilians and children? Or maybe you can't as no such videos exist?

If Hamas are terrorists then so are the IDF.

Yes I've seen a video of that happen. The soldier was so aggressive. The orthodox Jewish man looked so frightened.
I read somewhere that Netanyahu wants to pass legislation to allow soldiers to fire live ammunition at protesters. How awful.

@ScrollingLeaves
I was going to say, I’m sure this prayer or something very similar is being prayed by many Gazan families now, night after night.

@FOJN · Today 10:41

“ChickHenLittle · Today 10:18
Come on @Brumbies, have you got a translation of what you posted or was it just to try to look superior?”

It's Psalm 91 and the translation provided here leaves out key words which makes it difficult to comprehend.

There is a table on this wiki page which gives a line by line translation from Hebrew to English.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psalm_91#:~:text=He%20shall%20cover%20thee%20with,destruction%20that%20wasteth%20at%20noonday

Thank you very much FOJN. It is very nice to have that clarity.

For Christians, Jews, and Muslims there is only one God so this invocation for protection should be for Palestinians and Jews alike.

@feralunderclass yes it's anyone who doesn't toe the expected line
You may have seen a video of a group of orthodox jews being beaten by the IDF quite aggressively for showing support for Palestine
It was disgusting to see

Of course it's not all Israelis, many are protesting and calling the government out (mind you they are facing severe consequences).

It's definitely not all Israeli citizens but the ones who already had such views on the Palestinians have become emboldened to openly declare it now, spurred on by factions of their own government
Open calls of genocide are met with cheers and laughter

Good grief.

Or like this:

@feralunderclass I saw that too! At a wedding of all places. What a way to start a new chapter of your life, by promoting genocide

It's Psalm 91 and the translation provided here leaves out key words which makes it difficult to comprehend.

There is a table on this wiki page which gives a line by line translation from Hebrew to English.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psalm_91#:~:text=He%20shall%20cover%20thee%20with,destruction%20that%20wasteth%20at%20noonday.

You mean like this
https://youtube.com/shorts/RZV_eQybHCA?si=5vG-gFWl8mg5w3Z7

I note with interest that you are completely minimising it, as well as justifying it as part of a "war" when there was in fact a ceasefire in place.

What is with this view that there was a ceasefire in place because only Palestinians were being killed before 7/10? If killing Palestinians doesn't break a ceasefire then the same should be said for killing Israelis. Or do Palestinian lives not count to those 'there was a ceasefire in place' people?

Thanks for the thread OP. I follow quite a few Jewish influencers and these sickening posts are coming up in my for you page. I saw an Israeli wedding singer this morning singing about "death to Gaza and all Palestinians, all the land will be ours soon" and everyone clapping and cheering 😭

Yes, I’ve seen the awful atrocities of the 7th of October. I’ve seen the videos of Hamas gunning the civilians at the festival and I’ve seen the videos of the Israeli forces also shooting their civilians.

But, I’m asking you to show similar videos of attacks other than the festival attacks. Show me where Hamas have displayed the same thug like, bullying of ordinary citizens, children, women of Israel at the hands of Hamas? Israeli civilians who are not confronting them with violence or are armed?

SomeCatFromJapan · Today 08:46

I certainly won't defend everything the IDF do in the West Bank but the "weird obsession" with the clothes removal is because of suicide bombers wearing explosive vests.

I am not sure what you mean, as obviously explosive vests are too bulky to be under garments aren’t they?
Wouldn’t it be a case of taking off a jacket at most, not the complete undressing demanded ?

I find this thread distasteful and full of ignorant people.

Mocking the deaths of any people is frankly disgusting. Whoever made this poster should be ashamed. And the Gazans (or Hamas or Muslims) were not responsible for the Holocaust, so not sure why the 'competitive' genocide angle? I suppose Israel gave to resort to filth like this, they have no other defence now.