"You will say that what Hitler did to you was a joke - come on, we are waiting for you," Palestinian political activist Ahed Tamimi said.

Her Instagram post, translated in the link:

“Come on settlers, we will slaughter you. We are waiting for you in all the cities of the West Bank. What Hitler did to you was a picnic. We will drink your blood and eat your skulls”

She has since been arrested:

  • Nacktmull@lemm.eeEnglish
    87·
    1 year ago

    A crude yet understandable statement from a person who was born, grew up and lived her whole life under such horrible circumstances of occupation and racism, especially now that the movement of ultra-racist, right-extremist, illegal settlers gets supplied with weapons by the government to murder Palestinians in the west bank to chase them out of their homes, in an attempt to expand Israel once again.

    I do not support violence by either side but is it really so hard to understand her perspective?

    • SeaJ@lemm.eeEnglish
      47·
      1 year ago

      Yes, yes it is hard to understand threatening to drink someone’s blood and eat their skull.

      • Nacktmull@lemm.eeEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        She obviously used a rhetorical overstatement to emphasize her propaganda/message there, right? What´s so hard to understand about that?

    • avater@lemmy.worldEnglish
      46·
      1 year ago

      I do not support violence by either side but is it really so hard to understand her perspective?

      yes. everything. especially the blood drinking, terrorist supporting and the fucking hitler reference.

    • eatthecake@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      1 year ago

      Do you have a limit at where the bloodlust stops being understandable? I, for one, have never felt remotely angry enough to think drinking blood looks good. Shooting people in the head, sure, but eating people? Hell no.

      • Nacktmull@lemm.eeEnglish
        4·
        1 year ago

        Do you have a limit at where the bloodlust stops being understandable?

        In an endless exchange of atrocities like this, sadly there seems to be no limit for bloodlust and hate because both sides are caught in a self amplifying loop of revenge. Please be aware that understanding something does not equal rating it in any way.

        I, for one, have never felt remotely angry enough to think drinking blood looks good. Shooting people in the head, sure, but eating people? Hell no.

        That´s probably a crude overstatement used as a rhetorical element in her propaganda statement and not meant literally, right? Pretty easy to understand imo.

        • eatthecake@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          1 year ago

          In the context of a war where atrocities are being committed every day and the video is available to watch I don’t think that somebody saying ‘I want to join in’ can be dismissed as rhetoric. When someone tells you who they are you should beleive them.

          • Nacktmull@lemm.eeEnglish
            1·
            1 year ago

            Afaik she is a political influencer only and does not take part in any combat at all.

        • ToAllPointsWest@mastodon.cloud
          2·
          1 year ago

          @Nacktmull Texas didn’t. I’m using it as an example.

          Consider that Texas was once part of Mexico, and imagine if a group of militant Mexicans tried to seize Texas back for " historical" reasons. Now imagine how well Texans might react to that.

          It’s a reference for Americans to look at Israel versus Palestine

          • Nacktmull@lemm.eeEnglish
            1·
            1 year ago

            I see what you mean and agree. I think an even better example would be the first nations seizing back the USA from the european occupiers. In that example there even is a “justification” by genocide involved (probably in the Texas/Mexico example too but idk that much about it)