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

submitted 2 weeks 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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[–] TheFonz 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (26 children)

I have a theory that people that willingly post links from this site are doing it on purpose to cause more harm to Palestinians. Hear me out.

No other news source has confirmed this act.
Everyone in the comments are assuming the literal and first dictionary definition of branding by physical mutilation.
People that actually read the article are pointing out that the headline is misleading but they are getting drowned out by pedantic discussions of semantics when it's clear the implication is physical mutilation.
There is so much heinous actions committed by the IDF but here we are talking about made up news. See where this is going?

There is something fucky going on.

[–] sorval_the_eeter 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

No other news source has confirmed this act.

the domiannace of the big news outlets by zionists is well documented.
notice how Israel has killed all the journalists and the sites that do report carefully use passive lagnuage for israeli actions and active and adverserial language for anything lebanese or gazan people do. Its obvious bias and controlled jouranlism. So why would you think them not covering something is meaningful?

Maybe you are just lookinbg for confirmation of your own bias?

[–] TheFonz -4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Every single day heinous actions by the IDF are being reported in mainstream news. You're straight lying or stuck in online echo chambers. The fact that this comment has any up votes is really frightening.

[–] Dasus 1 points 2 weeks ago

Every single day heinous actions by the IDF are being reported in mainstream news. You’re straight lying or stuck in online echo chambers.

You're arguing that this headline is biased against Israel, yet your implication here is "Israel's heinous actions are being reported so there can't be a bias against Israel."

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/11/2/over-100-staff-accuse-bbc-of-bias-in-its-coverage-of-israels-war-in-gaza

The BBC has been accused by more than 100 of its staff of giving Israel favourable coverage in its reporting of the war on Gaza and criticised for its lack of “accurate evidence-based journalism”.

A letter sent to the broadcaster’s director general, Tim Davie, and CEO Deborah Turness on Friday said: “Basic journalistic tenets have been lacking when it comes to holding Israel to account for its actions.”

“The consequences of inadequate coverage are significant. Every television report, article and radio interview that has failed to robustly challenge Israeli claims has systematically dehumanised Palestinians,” the letter said.

Someone is reporting according to journalistic standards what is literally and actually happening, which is the everyday dehumanisation of Palestinians through acts like drawing a huge number on their foreheads and calling them only using it instead of their name. And you're making a huge deal about the reporting being biased and deceptive, when it's neither of those things. And definitely not everyone on this comment thread is taking the "branding" to mean "burning with a hot iron".

We need to robustly challenge Israel's dehumanisation of Palestinians. I think to do that requires us not to whinge about a headline when it doesn't fill some weird linguistic purity standard in your head where "branding" can only mean 'burning with a hot iron'."

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