Anti-semitism and criticism of Israel are often conflated in the minds of Israel apologists, but they are clearly distinct things. There are numerous groups that exist seemingly for no reason but to associate the two concepts for political gains. A similar phenomenon exists when the matter of LGBT rights comes up:…

Zionism is the claim that fairy tales are true and that they justify the removal of people who are legitimately living there. There is no legitimate claim to “ancestral homelands.” Furthermore, it is the claim that there is a group of people (the Jews) that are superior (God’s chosen people) to everyone, especially…

Did you know that in Israel ultra orthodox communities spit on tween girls and call them whores for showing their elbows? That they airbrush women political leaders out of photographs in their newspapers?

you’re seriously going to condone the use of nuclear weapons on a civilian population? there’s really not much else to respond to - that is such a ridiculous and unjustifiable position.

Do you want to talk about the UN resolutions that Israel is in defiance of, or nah ?

I don’t know how to answer that. I don’t think anyone does. It’s like the native Americans arming themselves and getting military support from some group and trying to retake the U.S. Sure they lived there historically? But that’s a weird claim to use to displace people by force. The locals resisted and obviously the…

you bring up a good point - the number of casualties in a conflict is not necessarily a good way to determine who is more right or wrong.

Books originating in Syria or Lebanon - the biggest publisher in the region of Arabic books - are illegal in Israel.

Yeah, sorry, but them not banning movies do not absolves them from every other awful things they have done.

Both countries have committed war crimes against one another, but considering Israel occupied Southern Lebanon for 15 years I can understand (even if I don’t agree) why a film with a pro-IDF actress is controversial in Lebanon.

The movie is banned because the countries are at war, as it says in the second paragraph of the article on which you are commenting.

No. That’s a little inaccurate. Arabs use the term “zionist” to refer to the group of people that believe they are “God’s” chosen people, that “He” promised them a certain piece of land and that they’re somehow more special than everyone else living in the region. It’s not propaganda. Israel occupies a lot of land…

im not advocating for more israeli civilian deaths. not sure where you’re getting that. making false accusations is standard hasbara technique though, so perhaps that is the source of your illegitimate outrage

I don’t usually comment on political issues and I am completely an atheist so I’m speaking from a slightly different perspective. They’re both shit. Period. Though on that note, Hezb targeted majority military locations. Israel bombed indiscriminately from infrastructure to civilian buildings with people inside them.

I’ve been to parts of the US where women have less rights than Lebanon.

There is no restriction on women driving in Lebanon--what are you even talking about?

Letting people watch movies does not give you the high moral ground in a war let me tell you. That is definitely not how to attain high moral ground.

yeah, good on you for pointing that out. lebanon has the moral high ground. the following are just the civilian casualties:

I’ve seen Lebanese people on twitter broadly supporting the move and I don’t blame them, even though I myself will be catching the first show here in Calcutta.

Not surprising, considering what Israel did to Lebanon, and Gadot’s support of the IDF during the last major massacre of Gaza, when she dismissed massive civilian casualties simply as Hamas’ fault.