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A community for everything related to Palestine and the occupation currently underway by the occupying force known as Israel.

Anti-Zionism is not anti-Semitism. Existence is resistance for Palestinians.

Please refer to Israel as Occupied Palestine, or occupied territories. The IDF is a fascist and ethnonationalist occupying force. Israelis are settlers. We understand however that the imperial narrative (which tries to legitimise Israel) is internalised in the imperial core and slip-ups are naturally expected.

We always take the sides of Palestine and Palestinians and are unapologetic about it. Israel is an occupying power whose "defence force"'s (note the contradiction) sole purpose for existing is to push Palestinians out so they can resettle their rightful land. If you have anything positive to say about Israel we do not care.

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[–] funky_tomatoe@lemmygrad.ml 19 points 10 months ago

I saw some in Amsterdam as well

[–] hotwarioinyourarea@hexbear.net 17 points 10 months ago

There are loads in my area of London too

[–] QueerCommie@lemmygrad.ml 13 points 10 months ago

I’d tear that thing down the minute I saw it.

[–] DankZedong@lemmygrad.ml 13 points 10 months ago

I've been seeing them in Antwerp as well. What a coincidence.

[–] WaterBowlSlime@lemmygrad.ml 13 points 10 months ago (1 children)

You'd think that 2 of the richest countries in the world would be able to afford a propaganda campaign better than that. Is the shittiness on purpose?

[–] M137@lemm.ee 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

You write that like you think that's the only propaganda they're doing. And like getting propaganda made by free from your citizens is something they'd dislike.

[–] WaterBowlSlime@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 10 months ago

Oh these are made by random people? The comments here made it seem like these are being put up by some org

[–] letranger@lemmygrad.ml 12 points 10 months ago (4 children)

surprised pro Palestinian officials in Palestine haven't run a counter propaganda posters with all their dead children, put a name date of birth, photo alive, photo of corpse. unsavoury yeah but serves the same purpose of the posters here, bait for people to tear down and for people to record to post online and project as lesser beings

[–] power_serge@lemmygrad.ml 24 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Palestinians generally don't have the money to run propaganda in the US and even if they did, the United States would censor them if it got to the point of being effective

[–] RedWizard@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 10 months ago

Well maybe we should get our collectivist asses out there and do it for them. Start with similar posters but with the list of dead children's names. Put them right next to these photos.

[–] Omega_Haxors@lemmy.ml 9 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Non-Americans usually don't have a frame of reference for just how fascist it really is there. I visited once and it blew my fucking mind just how bad it is. You can't look in a random direction without either seeing, feeling, or hearing just how out of control things have gotten there.

And that's just the stuff that's visible. When you include stuff that you can't see (like the systematic stuff) it's like "wow this is nazi germany"

[–] DankZedong@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Saw it at a protest over here. They printed the names out on a big paper. It was like 50 or 60 meters long, full of names.

[–] Outdoor_Catgirl@hexbear.net 4 points 10 months ago

Someone at a protest I went to came with like 20 signs with names on them. It's chilling to think of.

[–] Franfran2424@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 10 months ago

they kind of have online. some bots sharing unrelated responses of palestinian victims on twitter for example.

[–] idahocom@lemmygrad.ml 9 points 10 months ago

I saw one done in the same style and format but for a dog. Can't tell if it's a coincidence or someone doing satire.

[–] Addfwyn@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Haven't seen a single one in my country, people only really poster in designated spots and rarely about international affairs. So that's nice I guess.

I am not sure what these are supposed to accomplish honestly. Not like you are going to find them missing in your neighborhood and I can't imagine anyone is suddenly going all in on genocide after seeing one if they weren't already.

I assume they just exist as bait for people to tear down, and then subsequently get filmed/doxxed as an "antisemite".

[–] MarxMadness@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 10 months ago

I can’t imagine anyone is suddenly going all in on genocide after seeing one if they weren’t already

No one calls their genocide a genocide. The intent here is to get people with little knowledge of the situation to think in terms of "those evil brown people kidnapped all these innocent white folks, even kids!" Obviously it's good to try and rescue kidnapping victims, right?

[–] nour@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 10 months ago

Not like you are going to find them missing in your neighborhood

Don't you know, I'm actually detaining them inside my apartment? ^/s^

[–] PoY@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Last weekend I saw a whole caravan of SUVs with gigantic Israel and US flags stuck out the windows and blown up kidnapped signs with pictures of kids taped on every door. Most ridiculous shit I've seen since 2003. I flipped one off as I drove by in the other direction and he immediately tried to do U-turn in his piece of shit Tesla and ended up getting stuck in the turn lane waiting for traffic.

Little did he know I was going to head the same direction he was going but had to do a U-turn myself, and I ended up going by him just moments after he was finally able to go through the light. He saw me going the opposite direction again and just pulled off to the side of the road and sat there.

I assume he was raging and calling for backup but who knows. It actually creeped me out because now I know just how quickly this country will go apeshit on itself with very little to trigger it...imagine when there's a big trigger.

[–] WayneBarloweFan@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 10 months ago

Hey remember the guy who got curb stomped by people just like that in the middle of NYC and then like nothing happened. And ppl talk about the Turkey bodyguards incident more

[–] sinovictorchan@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I do not see what is worrying with this poster in the context of terrorism since it talk about kidnapping and not killing. In fact, Israel should be following the Hamas decision to detain people instead of the indiscriminated terrorist attacks against everyone in West Gaza to kill the Hamas "terrorists". Israel and the Western European diaspora justified terrorist attacks against civilians on the claim that terrorists are among the crowd of civilians and terrorist attacks against civilian building on the claim that civilian buildings are terrorist building in disguise, even as they claim that terrorist attacks against civilians are not acceptable regardless of the circumstance. Can Israel use the Hamas approach to detain people like what the police would do? Prior warning to the Palestinians of terrorist attacks is not an excuse for terrorism especially when many Palestinains could not flee in time and those who could flee would loss their daily necessities of life.

[–] QueerCommie@lemmygrad.ml 9 points 10 months ago

Actually, “Israel” has captured thousands of political prisoners. They just aren’t willing to negotiate because they want to do genocide too. Here’s an article from before Al-Aqsa Flood: https://apnews.com/article/israel-detention-jails-palestinians-west-bank-793a3b2a1ce8439d08756da8c63e5435