Palestinian film director and Academy Award-winner Hamdan Ballal was violently attacked by what his colleague described as a “lynch mob” of Israeli settlers on Monday night in the Palestinian village of Susya, south of Hebron in the occupied West Bank.
Ballal’s whereabouts are now unknown after Israeli soldiers then seized him from the ambulance that arrived to treat him, his co-director and fellow Oscar winner of the documentary No Other Land, Yuval Abraham, said on X.
Abraham, a journalist for +972 magazine, said in a separate post featuring a shaky cell phone video that masked settlers “attacked Hamdan’s village, they continued to attack American activists, breaking their car with stones”.
Here is the video of the beginning of the attack. Posted by Yuval Abraham on Twitter:
there can be no peace while the structure of the state of israel, the ideological apparatus that sustains it, and the support of the colonial nations of the west, remain standing. and jewish people themselves should know that.
there used to be a joke about how israel is like a former well educated university professor who made the aliyah after being ran over by a german truck driver, and used to throw stones at the poor palestinian 14-year old washergirl who lives in the backlot. now the father of the girl threw some stones back and the professor went full priklopil keeping the whole family at his basement, trturing and rping them on a daily basis.
For anyone wondering:
Aliyah: is the immigration of Jews from the diaspora to, historically, the geographical Land of Israel or the Palestine region, which is today chiefly represented by the State of Israel.
priklopil: Natascha Maria Kampusch (born 17 February 1988) is an Austrian author and former talk show host. At the age of 10, on 2 March 1998, she was abducted and held in a secret cellar by her kidnapper Wolfgang Přiklopil for more than eight years, until she escaped on 23 August 2006.
That’s a tough joke.
Yeah, I don’t see the humor. Maybe doesn’t translate well.
They had the right to defend themselves!
The mob only had peaceful intentions and he clearly looked at them funny.
What where they supposed to do, undergo this vicious, clearly antisemitic act?He was not lynched. Lynching implies killing. He was assaulted, yes, but not lynched.
How does it feel to be so absolutely wrong?
Ah yes we didn’t “kill him” we “almost killed him” thank you internet stranger. For if it weren’t for you, this article would’ve spread false narratives
The previous commenter is buried way down so here is again
He was assaulted by a lynch mob.
The difference is basically just grammar.
Everyday I an increasingly disgusted by the actions of Israel.
I hope some of this disgust has translated into more action than just posting.
Your disgust has a scale that ranks higher than genocide?
Maybe you can be aware of it but you can slowly appreciate it in all of its horror.
Murder -> ethnic cleansing -> genocide -> Dantes Inferno!
What the fuck is wrong with these people?
Zionism indoctrination since childhood.
Imagine a country where the KKK took over the government.
I can think of one…
Religion brain rot
No, settler colonialism
Do you think that they’d displace other Jewish people if they were living there already? I’m pretty sure its the religious fanaticism fueling this.
Yes they straight up have displaced Jewish Palestinians.
Confusing title, I would’ve expected those to happen in a different order
One of the best proofs that the Zionist genociders use antisemitism as a shield is that if they wanted to go after an actual antisemite with an Oscar, all this time they could have lynched Mel Gibson and everyone would support them.
I don’t think the antisemites would support them.
Technically you hate a kidnapping not a lynching. Lynching leave more evidence.
Reddit liberals are in here trying to make this about their own misunderstanding if a term.
If this was your first response to hearing about occupiers attacking and disappearing someone, reconsider your priorities.
So, I’m prob one of those “Reddit liberals” you’re referring to who thinks Harris would’ve been at least slightly better than Trump hah. And my first thought when I saw this was “what the fuck is wrong with these people”….
I mean they did change the title, it seems
Palestinian Oscar winner missing after being severely beaten by Israeli settlers
The article still uses the term “lynch mob” and “lynched” but that’s in direct quotes. It is kinda misleading term it seems. I was thinking that the dude was killed too.
But if liberals don’t litigate and diminish every act of fascist violence how will they meaningfully interact with politics? They don’t got a vote coming for another two years!
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Yahweh’s original name was El. In the Canaanite pantheon he was a god of war and death. The Israelites did their best to get away from that, but that is the god they decided to make “the only god.”
Zionists are Atheists. How does this affect your view on Atheism?
all abrahamic religions always were. destroy them all. people still believing in gods in the 21st century are a liability to the welfare of this planet. the easiest solution is the obvious one. build a better world. start today.
I guess this is a severely watered down use of the word “lynched”, because you’re not alive to be kidnapped after the traditional meaning.
I Ducked it but apparently killing someone is not necessary. Only mob violence without trial.
I mean, all of the “especially” bits are still significant, and affect the general understanding of the term.
because you’re not alive to be kidnapped after
here in america there are strict reconstruction era lynching standards to uphold and pass along to future generations. yessiree bob! a fine US export, to be sure.
