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The mother of a woman whose body was paraded through the streets by Hamas has pleaded for help finding her daughter.

A video showing German tattoo artist Shani Louk on the back of a pickup truck circulated on social media after the Palestinian militant group Hamas attacked Israel on October 7.

Louk had been attending an outdoor "Festival for Peace" party near Kibbutz Urim when the area was targeted. First, rockets were launched, then gunmen and appeared and shot into the crowd, CNN reported. Party attendees told the outlet people immediately started to flee, passing dead bodies on the ground as they tried to escape the massacre.

The attack and resulting conflict has left hundreds of Israelis and Palestinians dead, with Israel's prime minister declaring war.

A video of a young woman with dreadlocks on the back of a pickup truck and surrounded by Hamas soldiers started circulating on social media shortly after the attack. In it, she appears stripped to her underwear, and her legs are bent at unnatural angles, while one soldier grabs her hair. People are also seen spitting on her body.

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[–] AlmightySnoo@lemmy.world 32 points 1 year ago (4 children)

you missed the Marxists from lemmygrad who yesterday kept cheering for Hamas and kept downplaying their savagery

[–] snek@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Ah okay, so when you said lemmy, you meant lemmygrad specifically

[–] AlmightySnoo@lemmy.world 26 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Marxists and the far-left are also spread all over Lemmy, not just lemmygrad, you could see more pro-terrorist comments from other instances. Their pattern is usually the same: rebrand it as "resistance", downplay the fact that they targeted mainly civilians, and rewrite the facts by claiming for example that the woman was just being transported for burial.

[–] glockenspiel@programming.dev 29 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Exactly. I’m a far-leftist, and I’m as disgusted with leftist hot takes the same way I was when poor old defenseless Russia invaded Ukraine and started murdering their children.

I’ve blocked and purged so many leftist creators in 24 hours it is unreal. Spreading legit anti-Semitic (really anti-Jew) conspiracy theories (“curious how nobody stopped it” and the like). Reframing these terrorists as freedom fighters like you said. Blaming this on the U.S. somehow (because we made Iran do this via Hamas as proxy; but Iran has clean hands don’t worry they are just another oppressed peoples).

Far too many leftists, like their right wing nut counterparts, are contrarians at heart. This is what happens when political ideology becomes a personality trait; it becomes akin to a religion.

So thoroughly disgusted by it all. Bad enough what’s happening over there in Israel and Palestine right now; bad enough with all the innocent lives being lost; but then to justify industrial grade rape and murder of men, women, and children? And cheer Palestinians on as they record, edit, and upload their barbarity?

I’d like to believe that a lot of it are disinformation ops, but the sad reality is probably that a fair number of people have nothing left to live for because their lives are shit so the world burning down for others isn’t such a big deal for them.

[–] djquadratic@kbin.social 18 points 1 year ago

Far too many leftists, like their right wing nut counterparts, are contrarians at heart. This is what happens when political ideology becomes a personality trait; it becomes akin to a religion.

hit the nail on the head with that. I've seen so many leftists horseshoe into this perverted self righteousness. and it is even more frustrating when they act like they are directly involved in a conflict they really have nothing to do with.

[–] such_lettuce7970@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago

Well fucking said.

[–] originalfrozenbanana@lemm.ee 18 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Yes but lemmygrad and hexbear are hardly representative of the fediverse.

[–] AlmightySnoo@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Of course, I don't think I implied that. What I meant to say is that they were very active yesterday on any thread about Hamas' terrorist attack to defend them.

[–] originalfrozenbanana@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah I hear that. I’ve definitely been liberally blocking instances

[–] p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

How does one block an instance? That's not a feature on Lemmy, at least not on personal settings.

Sync and Connect can do it. Possibly other apps as well. It's also coming up in the next version as a lemmy-wide feature.

[–] ubermeisters@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I think people that pay for apps have that feature on a couple of the apps but it's not a inherent feature to Lemmy.

[–] snek@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

No, but the original person this discussion started with did imply that.

But Reddit and Lemmy keep telling me Hamas are the oppressed good guys! /S

[–] ThirdWorldOrder@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago

What about ML?

[–] ubermeisters@lemmy.world -4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You say that but it's not true because I see them all over representing so they are representative...... just because you don't like the representation doesn't mean the rest of us don't still see it. You can put your head in the sand but I'm not going to.

[–] PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

Not to mention how they see Palestinians as pawns

They almost always circlejerk themselves into admitting one of the reasons they're so giddy about civilian slaughter is because they think it'll mean resources will be diverted from Ukraine so daddy Putin can conquer it and genocide those kulaks like grampappy Stalin did!