See, Israel. This is what antisemitism looks like.
Cool. Now I know my life is in danger if I go to Greece because I look very stereotypically Jewish. They didn't exactly stop to ask the guy what his opinion was on the Gaza genocide.
Yeah I think this is very troubling and counterproductive. The article says the guy was recently discharged from the IDF. Which for a Palestinian is weird because they don’t have to join the army, so I’m assuming he’s a Zionist. That being said, a Jew would get killed for being Jewish by these people and an Arab could apparently get away with being a Zionist. So this whole thing is just pointless violence/antisemitism.
There are "Arab Israelis" as well. Basically Palestinians who weren't driven out and are now citizens or the descendants of those Palestinians. They have to serve in the IDF regardless of their politics (which, as you can imagine, aren't very sympathetic toward Israel). They also prefer to be called Palestinian Citizens of Israel, but the media usually calls them Arab Israelis or Israeli Arabs to differentiate them from the Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank.
IDF draft laws only apply to Jews, and male Druze and Circassians.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conscription_in_Israel
Bedouins, etc. serve voluntarily.
And from the Wikipedia page, it seems like it's not all, but a majority that refer to themselves in that way.
Yeah I know that there are many of those, but as another poster mentioned except the Druze and some beduins Palestinians with an Israeli passport mostly don’t serve in the IDF.
The article says the guy was recently discharged from the IDF. Which for a Palestinian is weird because they don’t have to join the army, so I’m assuming he’s a Zionist.
If everyone has to do national service in the IDF, you can't really assume a person's politics from that fact.
As I said he is Palestinian and Palestinians except for a few groups don’t have to serve in the army and most of them do not consider themselves Israeli and have no interest in serving the interests of their colonizer.
Not that this attack was justified, it definitely wasn't, but I'm honestly curious what his opinion is on Gaza since he was clearly in the IDF as the article says.
Why?
Why I'm curious? Because he was in the IDF, and I have a very bad opinion of people that are part of the occupation forces. I don't have any sympathy for him, even if I don't agree with the attack in itself. I won't lose any sleep over a genocidal soldier getting his ass kicked.
”Before I decide how upset to be about this assault against someone because of their nationality, I need to know if they were one of the bad ones or not."
Yeah. First and foremost, I won't shed a tear over a genocidal maniac, nor over a nazi, nor over any other kind of horrible person. I think that's fairly normal human behaviour. Secondly, the article says he was in the IDF, which I clearly commented on (I didn't comment on his nationality). I can still condemn the attack as baseless. You're welcome.
I had to read this over so many times. Kept reading it as "assailants flee after seeing his crocs". I need sleep
And I read the end of your comment as "I need a slap". I guess I need sleep as well.
Under catholic grandparents, I was taught that crosses are there to make satan's minions flee.
Seems like it worked in this case (if you beat a random guy in the streets I'm not sure what else to call you)
Absolutely. I’m not religious, so the hypocrisy stood out to me.
So the demons doesn't flee from the cross before Jesus' crucification.
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