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Israel brands Palestinian detainees with numbers on their foreheads (www.middleeasteye.net)

submitted 1 month ago by IndustryStandard to c/aboringdystopia

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When Israel re-arrested Palestinian men in the occupied West Bank town of Dura, the detainees faced familiar treatment.

They were blindfolded, handcuffed, insulted and kept in inhumane conditions. More unusual was that each man had a number written on his forehead.

Osama Shaheen, who was released in August after 10 months of administrative detention, told Middle East Eye that soldiers brutally stormed his house, smashing his furniture.

"The soldiers turned us from names into numbers, and every detainee had a number that they used to provoke him during his arrest and call him by number instead of name. To them, we are just numbers."

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[–] teft 11 points 1 month ago (52 children)

The headline says "brands Palestinians". The article doesn't mention branding. They had numbers written on their foreheads. Most prisons identify prisoners by numbers. Probably not a great idea to just write it on their foreheads but if you have limited ways of marking prisoners it makes sense.

Israels soldiers are shit but how about we use accurate language to describe what they are doing. Lying helps no one.

[–] ohwhatfollyisman 10 points 1 month ago (20 children)

i would strongly urge you to familiarise yourself with figures of speech lest you're -- you know -- branded as an ignorant person.

[–] teft 39 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (18 children)

Maybe the website should learn not to use language that is ambiguous in order to push an agenda. Looking at these comments there are already a bunch of people who are assuming brand to mean scarification by burning since they evidently only read the headline.

[–] ohwhatfollyisman -4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

... there are already a bunch of people who are assuming brand to mean scarification by burning since they evidently only read the headline.

anyone who actually thinks that that headline means literal branding is an illiterate dumbass who needs to read more.

anyone who's trying to sidestep the dehumanisation of prisoners mentioned in the article by throwing focus solely on the literal meaning of the word brand is an amoral dumbass who needs to understand humanity and history more.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

I will admit that my first thought was literal branding. This is the IDF we're talking about.