This is a Jewish Israeli extremist. Dont judge all of us based on this abhorrent example.
I’ll judge Israelis on the actions and words of their representatives and armes forces.
Doesn’t seem that much different to this extremist.
Majority held views among the population are in support of Gazan genocide and withholding all food from entering Gaza. The settler society at all levels understands its interests demand genocide.
Exactly my point, this extremist does speak for the majority.
He is not just an extremist but also an Idiot.
Killing everyone in Gaza is just dumb because there are also several 10.000 Israeli soldiers in Gaza.
But meh… we already learned that extremism breads brain rot. Hamas is proof of it.
Crass
It’d be like asking Hamas the same question, clearly we shouldn’t judge the Palestinian innocents on Hamas’ views, nor should we judge Israel on this guys views
This is a Jewish Israeli extremist.
… who teaches at a yeshiva that gets its funding from the Israeli government… guess he’s not so extreme he can’t get government funding. Embarrassing. Even in the relatively thoughtless USA we would cancel that sponsorship in a second.
Do Israeli institutions not have mechanisms to dismiss officials who vocalize rhetoric like this?
Sure they do, but do they want to is the real question.
Israeli democracy often resembles more of a Jewish “theocracy” I say that as a former Israeli voter. There is a huge coalition of religious politicians that work together to keep money flowing to the orthodox haredi voters whonare invaluable to them.
Abhorrent.
This would be international outrage if a palestinian said this about Israelis
There no hate speech laws this breaks? He’s literally calling for violence on a group of people.
Israeli laws outlaws hate speech and “expressing support for illegal or terrorist organizations”.[9] Section 173 of the legal code makes it a crime to publish any “publication that is liable to crudely offend the religious faith or sentiment of others.”[29]
According to Wikipedia. The problem, of course, is that it won’t be enforced as long as hate speech is directed against specific groups of people.
…or spoken by other specific groups of people.
Yeah they have a fair history becoming the thing they fought against.
How do you mean?
Judges 19 to 21, where after the rape and death of a single person, many thousands are killed, and hundreds more are raped in response.
The last us president advocated for nuking people. I don’t think nukes can selectively avoid babies. Surely that guys worse than even this disgusting rabbi. Unless you think we make the rabbi president?
Sometimes bad is just that. No need to classify as worse or better. Its just bad.
Just saying. There are millions of psychos in this world, why focus in on this one?
This one is backed by Netanyahu though, even though he has been controversial for a long time
Know who else Netanyahu backs…
Same thing they did to the Canaanites. They haven’t changed their MO since The Bronze Age Collapse.
Which is fun because under further review it turns out that the Hebrews were Canaanites themselves. They genocided their own neighbors.
They genocided their own neighbors.
That’s pretty much how everyone acted in the bronze age tho…
Sure but we didnt need to build an international religion out if it which should have disappeared at least 200 years ago
I really do want to get into this conversation with you because I can already tell your understanding of religion and history comes from sassy youtubers but I know from experience it never really goes anywhere because people like you can’t confront the fact that your worldview is tainted by irrational bigotry.
But I’ll leave you with this nugget: Organized religion is the only reason we were able to transition from small nomadic tribes to densely populated cities and literally kickstarted the historic era. For the VAST majority of written history religion and governance were basically the same thing.
So basically he said the same exact thing Hamas says about Jews?
The difference is that Israel is considered an occupying power and has responsibilities under international law as such.
“The difference” is that Israel’s formal position is not the elimination of Palestinian Arabs. Zionism as we know it primary exists because of widespread genocidal attitudes towards Jews.
I’m not defending Israel’s heavy hand here by any means. I am just tired of everyone on the internet feeling free to just ignore all the historical context wrapped up in this conflict.
“The difference” is that Israel’s formal position is not the elimination of Palestinian Arabs.
Sure, it’s not what they say they are doing, but genocide is literally what they are doing.
Why does it matter what they say when it does not mirror their actions?
Don’t forget a song recently praising genocide hit #1 on the charts
Man if every one in the world judged every American based on what one crazy preacher said we’d be in some trouble.
Yeah, although if the American state were sponsoring said crazy preacher it would be an issue. The Rabbi and his Yashiva are sponsored by the Israeli government as the article makes clear.
In what way aren’t the crazy preachers representative of a massive segment of the population here?
Rabbi Eliyahu Mali and his Yeshiva are sponsored by Benjamin Netanyahu’s government
I’m guessing you’ve never seen CPAC.
I never understood why some people would say it was anti semitic to criticize Israel in certain ways, like people say the BDS movement is racist, but it’s exactly things such as this that made me start to see it, and now I can’t unsee it. People rabidly hold Israel to a different standard and only one explanation consistently makes sense.
One Jewish nutbag bloviating his hatred into the void is asserted by some as evidence the the whole of Israel has evil, genocidal intent.
Targeted bombings of tunnels, valid military targets, with cell phone warnings, pamphleting, and roof knocking is described as indiscriminate.
Not giving foreigners the same rights as natively born or naturalized citizens is called literal “apartheid.”
Israel must stop bombing immediately or America should burn our alliance and feed the Jews to Iran, only Israel though, for Hamas it’s all “keep up the good work! Death to America!”
Palestinians in Gaza are natively born. They are not foreigners.
Fucking thank you, I am so tired of people marginalizing already heavily oppressed victims.
Gazans aren’t foreign dumbass
Dumbass they are to Israel.
Well, the prime minister, the finance minister and the head of defense all have said similar things over there in Israel. At some point you have to believe that what they are saying and their actions are speaking for themselves and their words and actions are saying “no one is innocent and even if they were we are still going to kill them all so we can get the land.”
Their party is about to get shit canned, because Israel is a democracy and these people don’t represent the people.
Israel is a democracy despite that almost everyone who has power in the government is a racist genocidal maniac?
