/u/ArmyOfMemories's posts in /r/BDS
Israel's Channel 12 News exposes that IDF soldiers were given polygraph tests about their rape of a Palestinian detainee. The soldiers were found to be lying & tried to cover it up. A lawyer for one soldier tries justifying the crime as a 'security measure' because the detainee was 'resisting'. NSFW
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At the 79th Peace Memorial Ceremony in Hiroshima, Gov. Hidehiko Yuzaki indirectly criticized Israel & others engaging in wars against civilian populations. The cameraman appears to linger on Israel's Amb. to Japan Gilad Cohen as Gov. Yuzaki condemns war crimes & the violation of international law.
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Israeli conscientious objector Yuval Moav explains why he refuses to enlist in the IDF. Yuval was sentenced today to 30 days in military prison. Meanwhile, the ultra-Orthodox community is also protesting the issuing of conscription orders after the Israeli Supreme Court's ruling on the matter.
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Mehdi Hasan explains that the American Establishment lost their minds over the anti-genocide student protest movement, deploying enormous State violence & media manufacturing consent, because they've realized they've lost the younger generation. All they can do now is repression & censorship.
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On the pro-Palestine panel, Daniel Levy (once an Israeli negotiator at Oslo 2) says pro-Israel arguments are now ineffectual since Israel has immunity for its crimes & no longer has to be convincing. Benny Morris pejoratively labels Levy, who fires back "I'm pro-Jewish, pro-Palestinian, pro-human!"
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CNN reports that only 3 of Hamas's 24 battalions have been destroyed during Israel's 9 month attack on the Gaza Strip. Journalist Jeremy Scahill comments: "Israel has proven very effective at killing massive numbers of Palestinian civilians [...]."
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Israel's far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said on X that his country has expanded the construction of settlements "to remove the threat" of Palestinian statehood.
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Beit Jala (Area A of the West Bank) is under the Palestinian Authority. Yet Israeli settlers have kicked a Palestinian Christian family off their land by force, despite them having Israeli-approved documents. The ICJ ruled that Israel's occupation of ALL the West Bank, Gaza & East Jerusalem illegal.
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A demonstration supporting Palestine & condemning Hiroshima City and Israel was held in Tokyo. Hiroshima city's mayor invited Israel to the August 6th ceremony that commemorates the 1945 atomic bombing. Japanese activists have held weekly demonstrations condemning the genocide in Gaza.
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