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Does anybody actually care that a dude chanted "Death, Death to the IDF" at Glastonbury? (feddit.uk)

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I'm hearing everyone come out and condemn this thing which is apparently "hate speech" and how apparently terrible it was for the BBC to continue broadcasting it (I don't think they did anything wrong- they were broadcasting a real life event). I understand the upset at kneecap (like supporting Hezbollah and talking about killing MPs) but I don't know how chanting "Death to the IDF" is hate speech- it's not even necessarily calling for death to humans, could be directed towards wanting to disband the organisation.

I don't know why the media and politicians are making such a big deal over it. It feels like they are trying to tell us how awful it was that these people said this thing and that we should apparently be outraged. Or maybe it's just me. I think there are worse things going on in the world.... particularly within the geographical piece of land variously known as Israel/Palestine/Canaan....

~~I'm probably banned from entering the USA now~~

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[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 1 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Ehh...

The siege of Leningrad was about two major armies murdering the shit out of each other and the civilians

This is about a single country using its army to slaughter civilians. One is not the same as the other

[–] Samskara@sh.itjust.works 0 points 7 hours ago

I gave Leningrad as an example of Urban warfare conducted by Nazis. To show that your Nazi comparisons are unfounded.

If the IDF‘s goal was to kill as many civilians as possible, the number of deaths would be far higher. Check out the number of deaths over time. You can see that it’s increasing slower and slower. Over the last year it has been mainly men, indicating more combatants to civilians, being killed.

https://www.goodshepherdcollective.org/data/gaza_deaths

The ongoing famine in Sudan has killed half a million children over the last year. Gaza has nothing close to conditions like that.

Hamas and other militants are still active in Gaza and continue to fight a war they have lost a long time ago. That includes them attacking aid distribution facilities run by GHF and killing Palestinians. Making conditions worse for the local population.