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[–] jet@hackertalks.com 81 points 1 year ago (3 children)

The BBC Arabic team and two reporters with Arab sounding names were treated poorly by police.

This could either be a case of racism, or targeting the media, and we don't have enough data to determine which. Neither is a good look

[–] hassanmckusick@lemmy.discothe.quest 61 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

those IDF soldiers would have to be pretty fucking stupid to accidentally do a hate crime on the large van marked "TV" when there are plenty of other people in beating range they could do a hate crime on with no consequences.

Hanlon's razor be damned this was 100% on purpose.

Edit: and it's not like Israel has a history of killing journalists or anything. Please don't look up "Shireen Abu Aqla", nothing to see there

Edit edit: Shireen ain't the only one, ~20 in 20 years.

[–] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 35 points 1 year ago (2 children)

why would they have to be stupid?

Have you not been paying attention? Israel literally gets away with murder. day in and day out. People and countries are bending over backwards to ignore every atrocity, human rights violation, and warcrime, to paint them as a poor victim.

I guarantee they could have shot those BBC reporters, execution style, in the street, on film, and absolutely nothing would have come from it.

[–] ToAllPointsWest@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Exactly I can't even recall the last time Israel paid a consequence for any of their crimes against the Palestinian people

[–] Shialac@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

I mean, Israeli Police regularly did both before this conflict escalated again, so does it even matter?

[–] stolid_agnostic@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

This has been going on for years and years even when there is no particular conflict.