Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu has claimed that a heroic Jewish bystander saved Jewish lives during the Bondi Beach massacre by tackling one of the gunmen. In fact, the man who made the heroic intervention is a Muslim of Levantine descent who was shot twice in the process.

Ahmed El Ahmed, from Idlib in Syria according to a relative, went up unarmed against one of the attackers, wrested his gun away and turned it on the terrorist, forcing him to flee, as footage shown by Al Jazeera demonstrates…

    • ozymandias@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      4 months ago

      so maybe don’t use religious term to refer to the actions of a regime?
      no form of zionism advocates for the genocide of a people…. many zionists do, but that’s not zionism
      it’s like calling all muslims terrorists, and then any time there’s a muslim terrorist saying “those fucking muslims! i hate muslims!”

      the genocide is the problem, not zionism in and of itself

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        4 months ago

        The belief that that land is ours by right, promised to us by an angry man in the sky - aka zionism - is ideological fuel for the genocide we’ve been inflicting on the palestinian people.

        If genocide is the problem, then zionism is a big part of the problem.