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Far more than the BBC, including many here on lemmy. Fucking swine (them, not you).

The part about Avraham Bezalel being forced to resign from the Knesset was widely covered, as was the questioning of Hanoch Milwidsky by the police.

I haven't chased down sources beyond that, having limited time.

You ain't wrong, but this is shit done within the settler communities to other Jews, not the Palestinians.

Zionism is as much representative of Judaism as NAZIsm is representative of all Germanic people.

Just because these ethno-Fascist White Supremacist groups claim they represent a specific ethnicity doesn't mean they do.

Granted, Zionism has lasted a lot longer and there is a lot more parroting of the whole equating Judaism with Zionism in countries with a captured Press and/or Fascists traditions, so it's understandable that many will actually believe that idea as pushed by Zionists, but there are plenty of Jewish voices saying that's not so (curiously one which is called Jewish Voices For Peace and has just been deemed by a German Court an "Extremist Organization" for their criticism of Israel, which is interesting given the parallels between NAZIsm and Zionism).

Anyways, there is no such thing as a politican ideology or a country which represents an entire ethnicity - that would logically require that all people of a ethnicity are the same (i.e. "they're all the same") which is a foundational stone of Racism. I guess most people who believe the equivalence between Israel/Zionism and the Jewish People seem to have just accepted it a face value and never have really analysed it it down to its component parts and thus did not realize that such equation of one and the other relies on pure ethnic prejudice about people based on ethnicity.

Dive into the Epstein files, Ghislaine Maxwell and for bonus credit the Franklin incident. I wasn't surprised sadly

Not a zionist, but you thankfully don't have to. It is a proven fact now that the israeli state does a lot of messed up objectively evil stuff, but that was never the point of the nazis where I live at least. What I have heard from that crowd, is that all semitic people groups, especially the Jews, should be killed off. There is thankfully nothing in the news to back up that idea, and it is as insane as arguing for global persecution of all baptists in retaliation for American wars in the middle east. The neonazis I have met have simply hopped on this latest war to spread their hate opportunistically.

I know that for contemporary Republican politicians, every accusation against their perceived enemies is an admission of something they're doing.

I didn't know that went all the way back to the Satanic Panic.

Nothing satanic, it's just abuse with some dressed up frills to get the victim to accept their abuse. And Israel is choke full of abusers.

Even a survey found that the majority didn't think forcing another person into sex is considered rape.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/view-from-jerusalem-with-harriet-sherwood/2011/jan/21/israel-palestinian-territories

https://www.haaretz.com/2011-01-18/ty-article/study-61-of-men-dont-see-forced-sex-with-acquaintance-as-rape/0000017f-df30-db22-a17f-ffb162e20000

College Study: 41 Percent of Women Students Don't See Forced Sex With Acquaintance as Rape. 61 percent of the male students polled in a small college survey did not equate forced sex with an acquaintance as rape.

is there some kind of doctrinal root for this behavior? to have so many people involved from across the spectrum of Israeli society would suggest there is some small kernel here that can justify the behavior. anything?

EDIT: should have noted I am looking for responses that are NOT antisemitic.

You pose a valid question, but there's no legitimate Jewish doctrine behind it, any more than there was legitimate Christian doctrine behind it eighty, ninety years ago when the Nazis were doing it to the Jews.

This is not so much a religious question as it is a problem of human nature. When your own national leader makes it clear that even the worst of human behavior is acceptable when you can plead patriotism in its defense, you will find that tacitly given permission magnified beyond your wildest imagination in short order as people with darkness inside them realize there really is nothing holding them back from having a go themselves.

If it were something doctrinal to the Jewish faith, you would also be seeing it outside Israel. If anything, it is a perversion of actual Judaism, just as white nationalism in the US is a total perversion of Christianity.

If you've never read it before, Hannah Arendt's Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil is a great read.

so i'm not sure whether there's a doctrinal root in it or anything. i never really looked into judaism specifically, but i studied a lot of philosophy and mythology classes and i also talked to a lot of people so i heard some stories. basically some indigenous communities have it too, the puberty is seen as the time where the "human wakes up" (initiation rite), the consciousness is formed, and people differentiate into their later function just like body cells differentiate into one of many types after being cloned from stem cells.

a typical example is boys undergoing puberty rites that sometimes involve some kind of specific pain (like sticking needles through the skin, etc) in order to give them the warrior spirit, because they get used to a live of pain sothat their brain shifts its perception and they don't consciously register it anymore. puberty rites for females are less common and typically less extreme. i'll see whether i can link some sources/examples.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bora_(Australian)

Bora is an initiation ceremony of the Aboriginal people of Eastern Australia. The word "bora" also refers to the site on which the initiation is performed. At such a site, boys, having reached puberty, achieve the status of men. The initiation ceremony differs from Aboriginal culture to culture, but often, at a physical level, involved scarification, circumcision, subincision and, in some regions, also the removal of a tooth.[1] During the rites, the youths who were to be initiated were taught traditional sacred songs, the secrets of the tribe's religious visions, dances, and traditional lore. Many different clans would assemble to participate in an initiation ceremony. Women and children were not permitted to be present at the sacred bora ground where these rituals were undertaken.

just one example but there's countless others from all over the world.

They believe they're better than everybody else, and that most of the rest isn't even fully human. Just like most of other destructive ideologies in history.

uh. well. it is canon if that helps. https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/violence-against-women-in-the-hebrew-bible