Israel’s far-right national security minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir, has sparked a diplomatic crisis by publishing footage of Israeli security forces abusing international activists who were detained as they tried to sail to Gaza with aid.

There was a rapid and furious response from countries whose citizens were onboard the boats, including the UK, Canada, Germany, the Netherlands, Spain and Ireland, in many cases delivered in person from the top of government.

The US ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee, one of the country’s staunchest allies, described Ben-Gvir’s behaviour as “despicable” and said the minister had “betrayed the dignity of his nation”.

The video includes images of dozens of men and women kneeling in rows, with their foreheads to the ground and their hands zip-tied behind their back. Ben-Gvir appears waving an Israeli flag, mocking and taunting the detainees, including shouting: “The people of Israel live” in the face of one bound man.

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[–] 32 points 5 months ago (1 child)

I'm pretty sure I just read an article recently about how Israel wanted its troops to stop posting incriminating videos.

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  • [–] 19 points 5 months ago

    It sparked outrage within Israel as well. Not because of the fascistic abuse, but the fact that they filmed and posted it, making Israel 'look bad'.

    Yea imagine Israel looking bad huh.

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  • [–] 22 points 5 months ago

    Kidnapped not detained

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  • [–] 20 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    This guy is a massive piece of shit

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  • [–] 5 points 5 months ago

    May Ben Gvir spend an eternity in the pain dimension

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago

    He’s upset Australia which is hard to do.

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  • [–] 12 points 5 months ago (5 children)

    Israelis need to make a coalition to remove this monster and the entire Netanyahu circus of horrors

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  • [–] 15 points 5 months ago

    I believe there already is a coalition of people in favour of human rights and hopefully they can make a difference somehow, but the problem is that the country has gone so fascist that the majority of people are in favour of this kind of content and rhetoric. It's not just bad apple soldiers and prison guards.

    There have been many interviews, polls, and other public cultural instances to document that most of the public is largely in favour of ethnic cleansing, prisoner abuse, and even more war. There need to be arrests of war criminals, but also some kind of psychological intervention to get the ones who weren't actively involved to realize how much of their humanity they've been discarding. De-Kahanification, I guess you could call it.

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  • [–] 12 points 5 months ago*

    Not gonna happen. A comfortable majority is supporting these racist pieces of shit. Haaretz is mostly read by people outside of what some call Israel, don't fall for the "it's a liberal society in it's core" propaganda. Never was.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago

    He's a pedarast donnie

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago

    They do get him mad though.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago

    ...and then he raped them ALL.

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