We should honestly just replay their media with subtitles or voiceover in western media. Make people watch them saying this shit on the evening news and get their kids to cry because of the evil man in the TV.
There was this one a few days ago of a popular podcast calling for the killing of all inhabitants of Gaza. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/sep/06/israeli-podcasters-laughing-gaza-genocide-two-nice-jewish-boys
Also the finance minister of Israel saying the starvation of the people of Gaza would be morally justified. https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/aug/08/israel-finance-minister-bezalel-smotrich-gaza-starve-2m-people-comments
Thats just the two that immediately come to mind, im sure there are dozens of other instances of influential or even government people saying shit like this.
And this is just the things they say publicly. This doesnt even cover the issue that the whole next generation of young people in Israel were forced to serve in the IDF and end up brainwashed into accepting mass civilians casualties because “there is no other way”.
Good question! It is hard to find off-hand examples on English YouTube admittedly but below screenshot is representative of the kind of opinions you see brandished on Israeli media regularly and cheered on in Telegram channels. For context, Ofira Asayag is a major TV personality in Israel.
Edit: ‘moderate’ Israeli podcasters openly calling for erasing of all life in Gaza, asserting what they called “typical opinions” across the nation.
TIL Hebrew speakers pronounce Hamas as Khamas and that spelling is used to make fun of them. I thought it was a legit alternate spelling
The Hebrew letter Chet does indeed correspond to the Arabic letter ح which makes the hard H sound. Since most Hebrew speakers cannot pronounce it, the closest sound to them is KH (also represented by the letter Kuf, Arabic equivalent is خ), thus when they try to pronounce “Hamas”, they end up saying “KHAMASSS”. And no, Chet is not the only Hebrew letter affected by a sound change like this, but it’s the relevant one because it’s used in the Hebrew spelling of “Hamas”.
Hope that makes it make more sense.
The k makes it sound more islamic and triggers western audience’s latent islamophobia
The k makes it sound more islamic and triggers western audience’s latent islamophobia
With all due respect, I don’t think it’s the K-sound that triggers the “western audience’s latent islamophobia”.
That probably has more to do with the news from England and Germany.
What news from England and Germany? The k thing (pronouncing the H in Hamas with a harsh hissing sound common in both Hebrew and Arabic but completely absent in English and other western languages) has been around at least since Oct. 7, probably much longer before that. It’s a dog whistle. At best, it’s in the spirit of mocking their language.
Here’s this guys original YouTube channel, he has a bunch more excellent satire on the topic: https://youtube.com/@mrtadhghickey?si=uW0CbHYK5kika4aU
Yay, it’s “Taydgehae” from that great episode of Bad Hasbara! 😁❤️
(Yes, I know he’s in more than one, but I started from the beginning and I’m not caught up yet)
It’s probably just an alternate pronunciation.
Considering that country names are different in different languages, I don’t see much of a problem with it.
If the last sentence made you go “?” Check the
- Chinese language name for China
- Japanese name for Japan
- Indian language names for India
- But also what China, Japan and India have names for other countries and even alternate names for historical personalities in their languages. In some cases, even regional languages will have other alternate names.
My understanding is that it’s difficult to prevent kids from dying when you bomb every school, children’s hospital, aid center, and potential Palestinian you see.
Maybe ease up on the genocide and warcrimes rather than crying there’s nothing you can do as you gleefully kill tens of thousands of people in a population that’s mostly children as you scream that they’re animals and you want a second bigger Amalek. Maybe don’t enforce an apartheid ethnostate, maybe don’t seize peoples’ land at gunpoint. Maybe as the global center of Judaism, you should showcase Jewish values rather than missile striking 4 day old newborns.
They keep doing monstrous things and it makes them look like monsters?
Maybe stop doing those monstrous things.
Israel isn’t looking to give up its mantle as the crybully champion of the world any time soon.
If justifiable self-defence by Israel looks like 40,972+ dead Palestinians (mostly civilians as we know) in response to 1,478 dead Israelis, what would justifiable Palestinian self-defence look like? I’ll remind you that as a current or former member of the IDF, every Israeli adult is an enemy combatant.
