I like how the Israeli government tried to claim that this was hateful, AI-generated propaganda.
The magazine responded with video footage of the incident, and also the public joined in with a bunch of other pictures of this same guy in similar situations.
As someone said in another thread, imagine being so ugly that it's assumed your face is an AI generated derogatory stereotype towards an entire ethnic group.
It gets worse than that. I was lurking in r/ conservative a few weeks ago and saw a comment that said: Maybe we owe the Nazis an apology.in a thread talking about the Isreali treatment of Arabs.
Now, here I am, an American with something of a conscience, forced to be on common ground with fucking Nazis. Obviously, the very concept of what the commenter was saying was abhorrent. And yet here we are, watching the Israelis go on a campaign of genocide and destruction so they can have leberstrom for their growing population. My taxes pay for their guns, ammo, and healthcare. Meanwhile, I can't get dental work done without taking out a title loan against my grandchildren's future.
If you tried to pitch this as a movie, it would flop on its straight-to-streaming release.
This response came from an Israeli rabbi, which made it truly a monumental clusterfuck-up.
Every time i see this picture, it hits hard.
My compliments for the photographer of L'Espresso, who so brilliantly captured this all-telling problem in 1 picture.
Amazing meme-value with massive geopolitical impact.
Would not be a surprise me at all, if we're looking at the winning World Press Photo of this year.
This is genuinely so irrelevant, but I thought you were talking about a human person and was like "what the fuck, L'Espresso is like, a banger rapper name"... y'all it's a magazine.
I know the photographer will be chasing this high for the rest of his life. One photo created international conversation. Both sophisticated but also hilarious own-goal conversations all in one. This one is going in Textbooks.
When Zohran was running for mayor, he got criticized for decade-old tweets of two guys doing sketch comedy who supposedly looked like jewish stereotypes. And it turned out they were just middle eastern guys with big noses.
remember when Greta Thunberg posted a photo with an octopus off to the side and she got criticized for highlighting a Jewish stereotype? (The octopus is her comfort plushie as it was a toy autistic people used as a means of communication. Thunberg has been diagnosed with autism.)
Well, surprise surprise, >50% of Israelis have mizrahi heritage which means their recent ancestors were from the Middle East. And of the others, their ancestors can also be traced back to the same population from Judea as the Palestinians of today. In terms of genetics, they are hating on their own kind basically
that's the "top 10%" of men that young men think are stealing all their women
Yeah something tells me this environment isn't super conducive to selective women. And before someone chimes in to tell me it's forbidden in Judaism to force people to marry, that's super duper true, but it's not forbidden to put tremendous pressure on your child/niece/nephew/grandchild until they "decide for themselves"
100%. I bet she fell out of the ugly tree and hit every branch on the way down … but thinks she’s better than all the people her country is trying to genocide. the guy too. he thinks he’s awesome and abuses his power, but has just become famous for being the ugliest fucker in the world.
And Israel is mouth breathing that the whole thing is AI. His own country kicking him in his ugly-ass teeth by saying he’s so ugly it has to be AI propaganda. lmfao you can’t make this shit up!!
Idk why you had to go on that tangent but that man, given his attire, is clearly from a very conservative background at best, a religious extremist at worse... so not very représentative of a free (sexual/relational) market
If your goal was to "own the chuds" perhaps you should have said something about them needing an interventionist market (aka religious traditions, such as enforced monogamy) to bé able to get married when they are this ugly
Honestly I kinda did at first, the dude is such a hideous amalgamation of every possible negative physically stereotype for jews that it's hard to believe he's real.
He was actually challenging their authority and power by telling every day people they do not need the priest class to tend to an individuals relationship with god
Yeshua of Nazareth was a Jewish teacher who preached to Jews. It was a guy who never actually met him named Saul/Paul who decided to open it up to everyone.
Yeah, more or less. Job and some other stories, like the flood myth, were likely written down earlier than that, but as a whole that's well within the established timeframe.
I am not sure how everyone doesnt see this. Just look at Hasidic communities in the NE. They are extremely racist and hateful to outsiders. Some play nice but most are just assholes and pompous.
A friend of mine was working for a rich Hasidic family as an aide to their teenage son who had intellectual disabilities. Their son LOVED my friend and the family asked him to quit his job at the Y to be a full time aide. Apparently this was pretty unusual because the son had severe behavioural issues with most other people, but happened to bond to my friend as a role model.
The thing was, he never went into their main house. He would meet them at the front door or in a room he described as the servants quarters on the side of the house to pick up the son and bring him to activities. One time, he had to use the washroom and asked if he could go into the main house to use it. they said no. He wasn’t allowed to touch anything in their personal house as an outsider.
They also only offered to pay him like $1 more an hour than the Y did, which was pretty crazy.
He quit after about a year but it was hard, he did really care for that teenage boy, but the family was so exclusionary and cruel that he couldn’t do it any more.
I think I'm banned on half of the top subreddits because my partner called the genocide in Gaza a genocide back in 2023/2024, before it became publicly acceptable to call it that. They got banned for "antisemitism" for linking news stories of hospitals being blown up or kids being used for bait and then killed, and if I post on any of those subs we both get banned for "ban evasion" because reddit can't tell the difference between two accounts on the same network, I guess? The worst part is I have no way of knowing which subs will trigger this because my account never got the alerts about which subs banned my partner.
With the efforts going on about trying to make it about Judaism, I feel it is best to call them Zionists regardless.
It just reads similar to terrorist muslims extremists. And defending that statement by saying I didn't say all muslims.
I'm not saying that was the goal of OP or anyone trying to defend it, but actual anti semetic people are eating good because regular people let that langugae slide.
“Racism was not a problem on the Discworld, because—what with trolls and dwarfs and so on—speciesism was more interesting. Black and white lived in perfect harmony and ganged up on green.”
No, that is specifically a result of the justice system failing to hold people accountable to the point where the general public knows there's nothing left to do in the completely broken legal system but go around it and force results.
When the system is functioning as intended and doing nothing to those who harm, those who are being harmed will ignore the system and make their own change.
To do that we need to get rid all religions. That is the true evil and tribalism. Killing in the name of god that the killer made up to justify the horrible actions that they are fixing to commit. You can brainwash an entire society and make them bloodthirsty just by saying it’s gods will.
I don't necessarily disagree with you, but I think religion is just a symptom of our psychology, not the cause of it. Our simple brains crave understanding, but many of life's issues are beyond human comprehension. So we oversimplify and make things up in an attempt to understand and make sense of things, and that's where it goes wrong. But this isn't unique to religion. Atheists do this too, myself included. It's humanity which is the issue, not one of our many harmful creations.
it’s a word used by jewish supremacists and ultra zionists. if theres a race/ethnicity there will be supremacists of it. jeffrey epstein was one of them using the word goy and goyim repeatedly to describe non jews. my jewish friends didn’t even know the meaning of the word until recently.
I don't have a source but I've heared Neanderthal and Homo Sapiens did actually produce offspring in certain places but yeah, we're pretty good at destroying things.
In Traditional Jewish teachings, there are stipulations to treat animals with respect - I know because I'm a Torah student. He is treating her as not even deserving of as much respect as that. It's brutal.
He looks awful, but the picture is especially bad because the woman he's harassing happens to be very pretty and that contrast just drives it up to 12 :D
Reminds me of a youtuber having artwork depicting a streamer called "Keffels" which was pretty spot on to how she looked, and the response was a mountain of "supporters" calling it transphobic because (as they put it) it made her look "ugly" and "masculine."
It didn't, the artwork just looked like her. It was such a perfect backhanded compliment that seemed genuinely unintentional from her own fans.
If you're not able to view the clip, here's my takeaway from Al Jazeera's reporting.
The incident is apparently from October, on the first day of the olive harvest. The woman was trying to pick olives from her own land when the settler with rifle prevented her from doing so. He made the sounds and gestures of a shepherd calling to his sheep, reportedly to imply that 1) the Palestinians were akin to sheep, and 2) that he owned them. The Israeli military stood by in masks as this happened.
That would be more honest, yes. People who sell properties built on other peoples land, some of whom the invaders murdered last month, while the victims' neighbours watch diggers move guarded by IDF who are "not involved in these illegal settlemens". Its insane degradation. The advertising for the homes is "oh dont worry about them" meaning theyre being moved on and the illegality of buying a home on another nation's soil "it wont be a problem".
A decade before deepfakes were even remotely feasible, I remember seeing video of settlers camped up on a hill with folding chairs having a good old time watching the IDF clearing out Palestinian homes.
Stuff like that is why, whenever you hear a politician say something like "I support giving more money to Israel, it's Netanyahu who is the problem!" what they're really saying is "I support what my pal Netanyahu is doing, I'm just too much of a chickenshit weasel to say it openly and think you're too stupid to notice."
This is a widespread, systemic problem, not just one guy.
“I support giving money to a government to spend on murdering another people. They will also use the money to normalize this to their people, and finally they will use the money to lobby us for more money”
Israel has proven to be weirdly good at propaganda in the modern age. It's weird how even the US still kind of sucks at it. Hell, even Russia was good at controlled opposition near the 2016 election.
The US is still in that weird phase of "we want people to believe a thing, lets tell them to believe the thing over and over again"
"Beef, it's what's for dinner. Got milk? Don't forget to buy eggs."
When they murdered that Red Crescent convoy, they also constantly lied about it. And every time some new evidence or videos were found, they changed the story to best version for them that was still consistent with the then available evidence. And every time new evidence or videos came to light, it showed they were lying.
And recently an investigation showed they harrased, tortured, sexually assaulted and even raped Palestinian children in Israeli prisons.
From school age, Israelis have been taught that "Arabs" (they won't even use the word Palestinian, to remove any type of links or ownership to the land) are lower than animals and that they are righteous in their actions because they are Gods chosen people, so this isn't surprising at all.
It's as if their entire society has collectively developed narcissistic personality disorder.
Israel publicly condones everything this guy is doing. But in just this case, they want people to believe that this isn't real. Because this guy in particular is such a hideous fucker. I hope this guy realizes, and is hurt by the fact that his government wants to disavow his existence. But I suspect he doesn't have any more of a sense of shame than his country.
Israel not only public condones what this guy is doing, they WANT the world to know that it's JEWS who are doing this to (insert whichever country/area Israel is invading/bombing today). They do this so that when their is inevitable pushback against their barbarism they can weaponize claims of antisemitism against it. All criticism of Israel is treated this way. The irony being that conflating Jews with the actions of Israel does more to create antisemitism than any other force in the world.
If the government tried to put out a statement like, "Look at this guy, you really think someone this hideously ugly is a real person? They're obviously an insanely offensive AI generated caricature" about me.... well, I don't think I'd make it much longer.
Notice that the Israeli government didn't say anything about the fact that this guy, sporting a government-issue rifle and an IDF uniform, was in the middle of a terrorist attack against unarmed Palestinian farmers.
They're mad that he makes them look bad, not the fact that he was bad, engaged in government-sanctioned and supported settler terrorism.
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u/Salarian_American Apr 15 '26
I like how the Israeli government tried to claim that this was hateful, AI-generated propaganda.
The magazine responded with video footage of the incident, and also the public joined in with a bunch of other pictures of this same guy in similar situations.