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  • “Outrage after Israel releases video abusing of flotilla activists taken hostage on international waters” would be a good start.

    But that’s the thing. The outrage is seems to be less about the detention and abuse, but more about the public humiliation and mockery…

    The narrative is something like “It’s justified they were detained, a little bit of force is to be expected, and it probably wasn’t as bad since the activists lie in order to make Israel look bad”.

    But when you have the security minister posting a video where he is gleefully and proudly mocking detainees, that’s going too far. It robs the situation of any plausible deniability and forces the origin countries of the activists to express public outrage.

    You can bet your ass that if the video was not posted, the expressed outrage of the various countries would be minimal in comparison.

    the headlines would look completely differently if it was an adversary of the US doing the same things.

    Once again, I’m familiar with the concept of media bias… I still think the headline is perfectly readonable.


  • This isn’t some fringe thing the Israeli minister did on his own. It’s national policy under full responsibility of all of Israel.

    The article is about a video posted on twitter by Ben-Gvir. Of course he isn’t doing it on his own for personal fun, of course he is doing it on behalf of Israel, but the headline is still pretty reasonable.

    But since you agree, please, I beg you to enlighten me. What should the headline be?

    France has quite literally used this logic put all the blame on one single person (who doesn’t care about France anyway) and take absolutely no real action against Israel. This is not an accident, this is intentional.

    Not just France, virtually every western country and Israel itself is doing that. That’s literally what the article you posted is reporting on:

    Poland’s foreign minister called for Ben-Gvir to be banned from entering the country.

    The U.S. ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee, said Ben-Gvir had “betrayed (the) dignity of his nation”.

    Netanyahu said Ben-Gvir’s conduct was “not in line with Israel’s values and norms”.



  • “Outrage grows after Chinese minister mocks Uyghurs”?

    If a Chinese minister posted a video of himself mocking Uyghurs and that video generated outrage, that headline would be pretty reasonable, no?

    The specific news story referenced in this post is about minister Ben-Gvir posting a video where he mocks the detainees. The article says “Minister mocks detainees”. Please tell me what the ideal headline should be, I’m very curious.

    firstly China would be held responsible. Not one single Chinese minister. Second it would contain the word torture and/or worse.

    Ok, and you think that makes for a better headline?