> is your day job only posting comments about Iran/Israel on Hacker News
It very well may be - state of Israel has employed people to control online narrative for around 20 years.
https://electronicintifada.net/content/internet-users-paid-s...
It very well may be - state of Israel has employed people to control online narrative for around 20 years.
https://electronicintifada.net/content/internet-users-paid-s...
As much as I wish that were the case wrt Palestine, I’m sadly aware that it isn’t true.
E.g.
“ Nearly half (47 percent) of (Israeli) respondents agreed that "when conquering an enemy city, the Israel Defense Forces should act as the Israelites did in Jericho under Joshua's command – killing all its inhabitants."
But I will ask you this, how is that related in any way to what I said or the thread itself?
The median Israeli appears to support genocide, so it’s not at all surprising to me to interact with real people online who hold a pro-Israeli stance, even given the documented deployment of paid influencers (Hasbara).
However, in this somewhat unrelated post, it seems you are referring to the semantic shift that has occurred in the word "genocide", to mean "an act of war I do not support" rather than "an attempt at systematic extermination of an entire ethnicity".
In that new meaning echoed here you'd have a problem finding Israelis that are against a war fought against Hamas, a rape gang that brought disaster upon themselves and their palestinian electorate, even if relabeled with a misappropriated word.
Genocide is “intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group”
https://www.un.org/en/genocide-prevention/definition
In this thread I am referring to this:
“ Nearly half (47 percent) of (Israeli) respondents agreed that "when conquering an enemy city, the Israel Defense Forces should act as the Israelites did in Jericho under Joshua's command – killing all its inhabitants
To rehash my argument since you claim to have trouble following:
Israel occasionally pays influence to online discussion in a way that mimics organic discourse (Hasbara). However, Israeli public opinions are fairly remote from western liberal norms thus I’m unsurprised to interact with repugnant opinions from those who genuinely hold them, as opposed to paid commentators.
“A rape gang” Personally I believe rapists should be given capital punishment. Unfortunately that isn’t the norm in Israe either it seems:
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2023-10-21/ty-article-ma...
https://www.haaretz.com/middle-east-news/palestinians/2026-0...
https://apnews.com/article/israel-gaza-war-palestinians-pris...
In the last instance the rapists have been celebrated by politicians and tv shows.