Two UN peacekeepers in Lebanon have been wounded by Israeli fire, the mission said on Thursday, as Israel’s military ground operations in the country continued.
In a statement, the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (Unifil) said two of its members were wounded after a Merkava tank fired towards an observation tower at Unifil headquarters in Naqoura, “directly hitting it and causing them to fall”.
“[Israeli] soldiers also fired on UN position (UNP) 1-31 in Labbouneh, hitting the entrance to the bunker where peacekeepers were sheltering, and damaging vehicles and a communications system,” said the peacekeeping mission.
“An IDF drone was observed flying inside the UN position up to the bunker entrance.”
Israeli attacks in Lebanon over the past month, including a bombing campaign and ground invasion, have killed over 1,200 people and displaced one million.
No, it’s Zionism
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Zionism is a Settler Colonialist Project. Israel has never represented all Jewish people and never will, nor are it’s actions done to benefit all Jewish people. The conflation is itself antisemitic. Adi Callai, an Israeli, does a great analysis of how Antisemitism has been weaponized (see 29:01) by Zionism during its history.
Ilan Pappe, an Israeli historian, discusses it more in his book
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Dude, stop. Conflating the two is responsible for genuine Antisemitism. Antisemites love the conflation because they can then attribute all the war crimes and political influence of Israel to all Jewish people, in order to justify their own antisemitic conspiracy theories. It is genuinely responsible for a rise in hate crimes abroad. Zionism is a form of Fascism that weaponizes antisemitism as a shield for it’s actions.
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I take any kind of hate speech seriously. Racism, Antisemitism, Islamophobia, etc. I’m not going to let any of that slide.
Please make sure to flag them next time. I only happened to see their post because a different one was flagged.
Bigotry is not welcome here. Criticism of Israel in any way is fine. Conflating Jews with Israel is not.
Edit: Also, as a Jew who has never supported Israel, their apartheid state or their genocide, I appreciate your defense.
Thank you, FlyingSquid. I only flagged them once I realized they didn’t care about the difference.
Some people do change, so I try to give them the benefit of the doubt until proven otherwise