A pro-Palestinian protest action briefly blocked all traffic on the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco Wednesday morning.
Starting at about 7:45 a.m. Protesters stopped cars and stretched banners across the roadway denouncing Israel’s bombing of Rafah in the Gaza Strip and demanding that the U.S. stop arming Israel.
Northbound and southbound traffic on the bridge was at a standstill as of 8 a.m.
Respect your view, but look: Israel is a democracy. That’s a settled fact of political science. Saying it’s not is the same as saying the earth is flat; actual, wilfull denial. Brushing over crimes? Like when I say “Israel has committed a bunch of war crimes and must be held responsible for them?”
Yes, “reports,” without more, are not credible, there’s just too much fake information and too much rushing to publish for reporters and readers to be so sloppy. Reports must name the witnesses, must say how many reports, must state the date and location.
Ethical journalism means getting three confirmatory sources before publishing based on anonymous sources. When based on a single, named source, the facts must be at least partially confirmed by another source, independently, and if any part of the report remains unconfirmed, the article must say “we were unable to independently verify X part of the report.”
Further, ethical journalism requires the reporter to seek and publish unedited comment from the involved parties. If you read an article and it does not include a statement from the IDF, even if the statement is “no comment,” it’s pretty much not credible reporting.
Look for this stuff when you read news about Gaza, epecially when the claim is one that is instantly outrageous or that makes you say “that’s unbelievable/unconscionable!”
How on earth can a country be an apartheid ethnostate and a democracy at the same time?! Democracy only for Jews and Israelis in Israel without the Palestinians is not a democracy.
Like I said, you always deny “reports” from humanitarian organizations, from Reuters, from B’Tselem, basically anyone showing the massacres happening now. You can toss and turn and make those claims all you like but it’s your entire discussion history with everyone that shows just how biased and blind you are.
I honestly think it’s something psychological with you. I really hope you will look into your heart and actually treat us Palestinians like human beings.
I didn’t invent political science and make up the definition of democracy. America was still a democracy while it had chattel slavery. And look, we used it to get rid of chattel slavery just like Israel is going to use it to get rid of Netanyahu and his party.
You’re right, it is something psychological: I control my emotional reaction to the story and evaluate it based on rational interpretation and reasonable inferences drawn from credible evidence.
For example, it’s not rational to say the earth is flat, nor is it rational to say Israel isn’t a democracy. Those questions and most others do not concern your feelings as to what you want to be true.
Rueters and B’Tselem are pretty good usually.
Was America really a democracy when black people and women couldn’t vote?
@[email protected] could I get an answer to this question?
Was America really a democracy when black people and women couldn’t vote?
PS: for those wondering, they finally answered me here: https://lemmy.world/comment/7806013
And basically they said “yes, it’s still a democracy”
LOL