#ynet comments not removed despite complaints, dehumanizing and genocidal meets invalidation and contempt

Gaz to Gaza

Reform (jew) = Jesus

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Terrorism according to Israeli media, #Ynet.

When not busy scavenging stories from social media about #antisemitism for their rolling coverage titled "wave of antisemitism" (mostly ultra-orthodox Jews complaining about not getting something they felt entitled to), Ynet is "reporting" (IDF briefings) about terrorist activities, including children and women throwing stones at unsuspecting, fragile soldiers who are left with no choice other than to “neutralize” them.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

The text in Hebrew says:

Fighters neutralized a female terrorist who was throwing stones in the Shomron, a knife was found in her possession.

IDF forces neutralized a female terrorist who was throwing stones at the Giti Avishar junction in Shomron. During the search, a knife was found in her possession.

(Elisha Ben Kimon)

This is not the definition of terrorist or terrorism. Yet Ynet is regularly choosing to use the term “מחבל" (terrorist) to describe Palestinians. The labeling of stone-throwing as terrorism and the individual as a terrorist represents a particular narrative about resistance activities in the occupied territories.​​​​​​​​​​​ The report also emphasizes that a knife was found in her possession after the fact, which serves to further justify the characterization and response.

[followup] The #Guardian's Report on the Violence Involving Israeli Football Fans in Amsterdam

This is the chronology established (matching earlier reports based on social media posts):

- On the evening before the Europa League match between Ajax and Maccabi Tel Aviv, #Maccabi (Israeli) fans were reported to have torn down and burned a Palestinian flag, shouted anti-Palestinian slogans, and vandalized a taxi.

- The following day, there were clashes between pro-Palestine protesters and Maccabi fans on Dam Square in Amsterdam.

- During and after the match, there were numerous attacks on Maccabi supporters across the city center. Footage showed masked youths targeting fans, with some allegedly asked if they were Jewish

- Five Maccabi fans were hospitalized and 20-30 others were slightly injured in the attacks.

[…] Verified social media videos show Maccabi fans setting off flares and fireworks, chanting in Hebrew “olé, olé, let the IDF win, we will fuck the Arabs”, and declaring that there were “no children” left in Gaza.

[…] Footage has also emerged of Maccabi supporters close to Amsterdam central railway station setting off fireworks, chanting anti-Palestine slogans and taking iron scaffolding tubes and wooden planks from a building site to use as weapons. Other footage shows Maccabi fans running through the streets swinging belts.

While the Dutch authorities quickly condemned the violence as an "outburst of antisemitism," the evidence suggests the attacks were more directly targeted at the Israeli fans for their own provocative behaviors, rather than being motivated by broader #antisemitism against Amsterdam's Jewish community.

The initial incidents triggered by the #Maccabi fans, such as burning the Palestinian flag and chanting anti-Arab slogans, appear to have been the catalysts for the later attacks against them.

In this context, the violence, while unacceptable, may have been a reaction to the prior actions of the Maccabi supporters rather than reflecting prejudice against Jews in general.

theguardian.com/world/2024/nov…

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Israeli football fans and the violence in Amsterdam: what we know

The trouble in the Netherlands when Maccabi Tel Aviv played Ajax last week horrified people around the world

^{Jon Henley (The Guardian)}

[followup] Israeli media continues to call this a pogrom despite growing evidence it was instigated by Macabbi fans and a police report confirming that. It's worth noting that #Biden hasn't learned anything either.

[…] Ten residents of Israel were among those arrested, the report said, in the first public acknowledgment that Maccabi supporters may have broken the law.

[…] The report shows that police were concerned about “fanatic” supporters of Maccabi Tel Aviv a day before Thursday’s game, and confirmed police reports that Maccabi hooligans, some in face coverings, pulled down a Palestinian flag, shouted slogans and attacked a taxi with their belts. The police later saw “online calls that appeared for taxi drivers to mobilise” against the Maccabi fans.

[…] World leaders were quick to condemn the attacks on Israelis, including Joe Biden who called them “despicable”, but they have not spoken in detail about the behaviour of Maccabi supporters, including violence against #Dutch people.

theguardian.com/world/2024/nov…

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‘Toxic cocktail’ led to Amsterdam violence, mayor says

Antisemitism, hooliganism and anger over Gaza war all factors in trouble that broke out last week, report says

^{Oliver Holmes (The Guardian)}

"When the Media Meets Rape in Wartime: The Story of the Israeli Media About the Sexual Violence on October 7" (Dr. Odelia Dayan-Gabay, 2024)

The study analyzed Israeli media coverage of sexual violence committed on October 7, 2023 and the patriarchal underpinnings in Israeli media coverage. It covered a three-month period, from October 7 to December 31, 2023. This period was chosen because it encompassed the initial and crucial phase of the media's reaction to the events, which shaped public discourse and initial perceptions.

The study focuses on how Israeli media framed the sexual violence and rape committed by Hamas on October 7, 2023. The study analyzes four leading Israeli online news sites: #Ynet (center-right), Israel Hayom (right, nationalist, pro-Netanyahu), #Haaretz (center-left), and Makor Rishon (right, nationalist). The author does not mention any Israeli war crimes in Gaza or the occupation (despite the withdrawal, the Gaza Strip in 2005, Gaza was considered occupied under international law due to Israel's continued control over its borders, airspace, and maritime access.)

The analysis primarily focuses on the narratives and motifs used by Israeli media to portray the events. The study identifies four main narratives:

Mechanism of denial: Israeli media's reaction to the international community's denial of the sexual violence.

The victims’ voices: How the media presented the voices of the victims, highlighting the tension between silence and outcry, and individual versus collective pain.

Rape as a weapon of war: Framing the sexual violence as part of a broader phenomenon of violence against women, and its use as a weapon of war.

Criticism and blame: Directing blame towards Hamas, the international community, and to a lesser extent, the Israeli government.

The study emphasizes the Israeli media's unified stance in supporting the victims and criticizing the international community's denial of the sexual violence. It does not address the broader political context of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict or any potential actions taken by Israel during this period. It also avoids discussing government decisions or actions regarding the release of hostages, or any resulting public perception of betrayal.

While the study highlights a shift in Israeli media's approach to covering sexual violence, acknowledging denial tactics and using terminology from the feminist discourse, the analysis also reveals the persistence of patriarchal perceptions within the coverage.

Nationalization of Individual Suffering: The study observes a tendency to frame rape as a weapon of war aimed at harming the nation as a whole. This nationalization of individual suffering transforms personal trauma into a collective, national wound, diminishing the focus on the individual woman's experience. The sources provide examples of rhetoric that compares the penetration of Israel's borders to sexual violation, further illustrating this conflation of individual and national bodies.

Objectification of Women: The analysis points out that the narratives often depict women as objects through which messages are conveyed between groups of men. This objectification reinforces the patriarchal notion of women as possessions or symbols of national honor, rather than individuals with agency and autonomy. The sources provide an example where discussions about the potential sexual violence faced by female captives in Gaza are framed in terms of the concerns of male authorities and the strategic implications for Israel, with the women themselves remaining voiceless.

Association of Female Sexuality with Honor: The language used in the coverage frequently links a woman's sexuality to her honor, employing terms like "defiled" or "the honor of our daughters". This association perpetuates the patriarchal notion that a woman's worth is tied to her sexual purity and reinforces the stigma surrounding sexual violence. The sources note that this language is particularly prevalent in _Makor Rishon_, a publication catering to a religious Zionist audience.

Limited Recognition of Male Victims: The study also observes a significant lack of attention given to male victims of sexual violence. While acknowledging that women are statistically more likely to be victims of sexual violence, the sources argue that the near-exclusion of male victims from the narrative contributes to the underreporting of such cases and reinforces harmful stereotypes about masculinity and victimhood.

The study concludes that despite the apparent adoption of some feminist terminology and a focus on challenging denial mechanisms, the persistence of these patriarchal underpinnings suggests that a genuine shift in understanding and addressing sexual violence within Israeli society may still be in its early stages.

Hebrew mediaframes.sapir.ac.il/rape-d…

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#IsraelMediaComplicity

#Palestine / Photographer Khadija Hemaid documents the forced displacement of Palestinian families from Jabalia, north of Gaza

x.com/gazanotice/status/185451…

Xcancel does not aggregate the various pots above.

xcancel.com/gazanotice/status/…

This is from October. The Israeli journalist Mohmmad Magadli, who works for Channel 12, was abused and threatened for sharing it and no longer takes part in regular broadcasts as far as I understand.

xcancel.com/mmagadli/status/18…

Israelis fail to understand their growing global condemnation, particularly since October 2023, for three reasons: they are shielded from these images, they choose not to look, and most troublingly, when confronted with this reality, they remain unmoved or viciously attack the messengers.

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#Palestine / Israeli newspaper openly advocates for war crimes while being fully aware of their illegality

Writing in Israel Hayom, Shirit Aviram Cohen is angry that the IDF is not “allowed to win,” advocating for deliberately starving civilians in northern Gaza, despite being aware that this would violate international law.

Cohen criticizes military advocate general Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi for blocking the "Generals' Plan" based on its illegality, attempting to justify mass starvation by falsely claiming that civilians who don't evacuate can be classified as combatants under an "American code" - a legal fiction contradicted by established international law.

International legal experts categorically identify this plan as "genocidal" and a "textbook" case of ethnic cleansing. They point out that using starvation as a weapon, even after evacuation orders, constitutes a war crime and crime against humanity.

Oxford law professor Janina Dill explicitly refutes this argument as "a perversion of law," emphasizing that civilians who cannot or choose not to flee retain full protection rights. The absence of return guarantees further suggests the plan's true aim is permanent forced displacement of Palestinians from northern Gaza.

This isn't a debate over legal interpretation - it's an Israeli newspaper openly advocating for war crimes.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Hebrew israelhayom.co.il/news/geopoli…

middleeasteye.net/news/north-g…

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Israel’s Generals' Plan in north Gaza is 'genocidal' and 'perversion of law', say experts

For a month, Palestinian civilians in northern Gaza have been faced with three bitter choices: to be killed by Israeli bombardment, starved to death or forcibly displaced in a perilous journey to the south.

^{Sondos Asem (Middle East Eye)}

[followup] Amsterdam Mayor Retracts 'Pogrom' Comment After Political Backlash, Warns Against Polarization

Amsterdam Mayor Femke Halsema has walked back her controversial use of the term #pogrom when describing targeted attacks on Israeli football supporters during the Ajax-Maccabi Tel Aviv match. While initially standing by her statement in an emergency council debate, she now tells Nieuwsuur she regrets using the historically charged term, saying it's been weaponized as propaganda by the Israeli government and Dutch politicians to discriminate against Moroccan and Muslim communities.

[…] "The Amsterdam mayor believes that the term has been used as 'propaganda' by, among others, the #Israeli government and politicians in The Hague. 'That's not how I meant or intended it,' she tells Nieuwsuur."​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Her retraction comes amid heightened tensions over the #Gaza conflict, where she criticizes The Hague politicians for inflaming divisions by framing the football violence as an "integration problem." With 45 suspects identified and nine in custody, Halsema emphasizes the need for community cohesion, urging national politicians to "get to work and stop quarreling" while acknowledging local authorities' partial failure to maintain security during the events.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Dutch nos.nl/nieuwsuur/artikel/25448…

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#Maccabi #Amsterdam

Halsema zou woord 'pogrom' niet opnieuw gebruiken

Volgens de Amsterdamse burgemeester is het woord gekaapt voor propaganda. "Zo heb ik het niet bedoeld en gewild."

^Nieuwsuur

See also :

Witness To Israeli Hooligan Rampage Exposes How Media LIED About Her Footage

youtube.com/watch?v=2HFM_V1rnP…

H/t to ? (I believe I saw it on @palestine It didn’t bookmark it)

Witness To Israeli Hooligan Rampage Exposes How Media LIED About Her Footage

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#Palestine / Israeli media's complicity in suppressing Palestinian citizens rights

Ailat Grill-Sharath, the Hebrew-language spokesperson for Sikui-Ofuk, an organization working to promote a shared and equitable society between Arab and Jewish citizens in #Israel, writesabout how Israeli media outlets are complicit in the suppression of Palestinian rights. While ostensibly covering the government's dangerous legislative blitz, major news organizations consistently omit or downplay laws specifically targeting the Arab community.

For example, #N12 criticized the legislation but ignored laws defined under "supporting terror," while #Calcalist warned of the judicial overhaul without mentioning the word "Arab." This selective reporting hides the true aim: to erase the Arab community as a legitimate minority. A proposed amendment to the Basic Law: The Knesset, designed to lower Arab voter turnout, exemplifies this biased coverage.

Analysis by Sikui-Ofuk and The Seventh Eye revealed that while the media described the amendment as a "correction/expansion of grounds for disqualification," it was referred to as a "law for disqualifying/removing supporters of terror" in discussions and interviews, ignoring the severe impact on a fifth of the country's citizens and the undermining of democracy.

Other laws aim to expel students and lecturers deemed "supporters of terror" from academic institutions, violating freedom of speech. A further proposal allows arrests for "incitement to terror" without prosecutorial approval, further enabling political persecution. Arab representation in Hebrew media is at a record low of 1.3% in 2023, reflecting the existing Jewish supremacy. The media must actively challenge this narrative and defend the Arab community, protecting democracy for all.

Hebrew mekomit.co.il/%D7%91%D7%A2%D7%…

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#IsraelOccupation
#israelWarCrims
#IsraeliApartheid

בעודה נרדפת בעצמה, התקשורת משתפת פעולה עם רדיפת האזרחים הערבים - שיחה מקומית

עם פתיחת כנס החורף של הכנסת, הזדרזו חברי הממשלה לקדם כמאה חוקים שונים לשינוי המשטר – נגד חופש הביטוי, החופש באקדמיה ובחינוך, חופש הפרט וזכויות אזרח נוספות. אחת מהזירות הבולטות שבכוונת הממשלה לחסל היא זירת התקשורת החופשית במדינה.

^{שיחה מקומית}

[followup] Israel's Amsterdam premeditated "pogrom" claim? Yes, that was also a distraction from the genocide in Gaza…

Who could have guessed? WAPO's "investigation" is somewhat superfluous; citizen journalists already showed Israeli soccer fans initiating the violence. There was no program and the violence was most certainly not planned.

Initial confrontations involved aggressive actions by some Maccabi Tel Aviv fans, such as damaging a taxi and tearing down a Palestinian flag. These actions, along with online messaging containing threats against Israeli fans, fueled retaliatory actions by some local residents. The inadequate police response in the city center also contributed significantly to the escalation of violence.

washingtonpost.com/investigati… or archive.is/E5hS0

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#GazaGenocide

The #HRW report concludes that Israeli authorities have committed war crimes by intentionally depriving the civilian population in #Gaza of water, including by destroying and rendering useless objects essential to the survival of the civilian population, and using starvation as a method of warfare.

kolektiva.social/@oatmeal/1136…

Which [online] media is covering this report?

Haaretz

[Yes]Ynet [No] Even though they regularly update on the water situation in Gaza, mostly telling their readers how Israel is busy opening water lines to Gaza, including a report from Oct 2023.

Walla

[No]Israel Hayom

[No]Maariv

[No]Makor Rishon

[No]Didn't check outlets leaning further to the right.

Checked using Google's site specific search and visiting each site's front page on Dec 19 10:40

#IsraelMediaComplicity
#IsraelWarCrimes
#ICC #ICJ #Israel

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Attached: 1 image #Palestine / HRW: Israel's deliberate water deprivation in Gaza is a crime of extermination and genocide A Human Rights Watch report details how Israeli authorities intentionally cut off water access to Palestinian civilians in #G…

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#Israel / The Patriots effect: Israel’s shifting civil discourse under Netanyahu

Davide Lerner, an Italian journalist, selectively watched eight episodes of Channel 14’s flagship program "The Patriots" between May and August 2024, to examine the changes occurring in Israeli media during the period of the war on Gaza.

Israel's media landscape is shifting, with a rise in right-wing voices and potential restrictions on free speech. Channel 14, which is aligned with the government and broadcasts programs like "The Patriots," is a key player. This show often features extreme views, downplays #Palestinian suffering, and frames criticism of #Israel as antisemitic. The report also notes a trend of self-censorship among journalists and the government's actions against critical media outlets.

[…] Even during conflict, outlets should strive to incorporate the other side's narratives and vicissitudes into their coverage. Israeli media have achieved this in the past, and as society slowly heals from the wounds of the war, a more open and inclusive coverage may make a come-back. But as things stand, too many voices – and facts – are being left unheard.

PDF reutersinstitute.politics.ox.a…

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Warsaw Umschlagplatz v Gaza genocide

Most Israeli outlets continue to ignore the human cost of the Gaza genocide. This is from an item in #ynet, a news site which often rehashes content from right wing Islamophobic tags like the New York Post and Daily Mail seems obsessed with reporting on every incident involving Jews worldwide. Perhaps this explains their silence on the what’s really happening in Gaza.

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#GazaGenocide / State of denial: Israeli media's Gaza coverage in numbers

Israeli media outlets have admitted before to avoiding showing the suffering of Palestinians in Gaza (due to Israel's ongoing war of revenge, engineered starvation, and total blockade).

A recent poll by the "Accord" center at the Hebrew University reveals that 41% of Israelis believe channels 12 and 13 are biased in favor of the Palestinian population in Gaza . 64% of the public agree with the statement "There are no innocent people in Gaza". The poll also shows that 64% of the public believes that the Israeli media coverage regarding Gaza is balanced and does not need to present a broader picture of the situation of civilians there.

haaretz.co.il/gallery/media/20… or archive.ph/CTwuC

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64% מכלל הציבור: לא צריך יותר סיקור על מצבם של תושבי עזה

41% מהנשאלים בסקר דעת קהל שערך מרכז "אקורד" סבורים שערוצים 12 ו–13 מוטים לטובת האוכלוסייה הפלסטינית ברצועה ו–64% מאמינים ש"אין חפים מפשע בעזה"

^{עידו דוד כהן (הארץ)}

@Heidentweet @palestine @israel Elia Ayoub wrote a great thread about this for Germany and the Holocaust - which isn't really a colonial crime. But there is also the Namibian genocide. It is all connected.

spore.social/@ayoub/1146536766…

Elia Ayoub (he/him) (@ayoub@spore.social)

Attached: 1 image If you stop thinking that Germany's response to anything Israel is about Holocaust guilt and instead about rewriting German history, you'd understand German politics better. 🧵 below and also https://www.hauntologies.

^{Spore by Project Mushroom}

@martinvermeer indeed … for reference for those who are not aware of this disturbing history, more context. Among other things, on how the term “Nazi Germany” was invented and why (ie detach western Germany from from Nazism)

kolektiva.social/@oatmeal/1145…

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@Heidentweet @palestine @israel True dat.

And what's more, they understand so well that Israel is the domino protecting their impunity for past colonial crimes.

Senior Israel Hayom editor celebrates report of 100,000 Gaza deaths

Eli Barak, a senior editor at Israel Hayom (owned by Miriam Adelson) newspaper, responded “Thank you for the good news” to a #Haaretz report estimating 100,000 deaths in #Gaza. When questioned, Barak compared Palestinians in Gaza to Germans in WWII, saying he would have been happy about high mortality in German cities in 1943. The journalist describes himself as head of the news desk at Israel Hayom and deputy editor of Israel Hashavua supplement. Israel Hayom declined to condemn the statement, calling it a “private statement on social media.”

https://www.the7eye.org.il/topic/the-seventh-eye-in-english​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

See also kolektiva.social/@oatmeal/1147…

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#IsraelHayom #Gaza #Journalism #Palestine #MediaEthics #GazaGenocide

oatmeal

2025-06-28 11:11:46

#GazaGenocide / Study estimates 75,200 Palestinians killed by Israel as of January 2025

Michael Spagat, an economics professor at Royal Holloway, University of London, specializes in quantitative analysis of war and mortality. His research on the Gaza conflict, including a study surveying 2,000 households, estimates that approximately 75,200 Palestinians died violent deaths as of January 2025, primarily due to Israeli munitions. This figure is higher than official Gaza Ministry of Health counts.

Abstract

High-quality war mortality estimates, such as those that were produced for Kosovo, Iraq, and Darfur play a critical role in illuminating the human cost of war. During the tumult of war they are, however, challenging to obtain due to the conflicts themselves. The Gaza Ministry of Health (GMoH) has provided regular updates to their post-October-7 violent death tally for the Gaza Strip. However, GMoH reports have attracted both criticism and support. Here, we present results from a large-scale household survey, the Gaza Mortality Survey (GMS), which provides independent estimates of war-related deaths between October 7, 2023 and January 5, 2025. Our findings suggest that violent mortality has significantly exceeded official figures. Our central estimate for the extent of GMoH undercount closely matches a separate estimate made using capture-recapture methods. We also find that nonviolent excess deaths, often overlooked in conflict assessments, also represent a substantial burden. These results underscore the feasibility of mortality surveillance methodologies in some highly challenging war-affected settings and provide a crucial empirical foundation for assessing the true human cost of the war.
medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/20…

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Violent and Nonviolent Death Tolls for the Gaza War: New Primary Evidence

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