Its a shame because they’re prominent voice on lemmy. Good on the admins for not tolerating this. I don’t understand the point of targeting a person you don’t like on the internet just because they said something that upset you and spamming their post with downvotes. If you don’t like someone block their ass and be done with it. I agree with the perspective that its harassment (and an incredibly petty ineffective form of it at that)

  • @dastanktal@lemmy.ml
    -1•3 days ago

    Are you claiming that Hamas, systemically, as official policy, weaponized sexual violence on October 7th?

    Because then, yeah, I think we’d have a problem.

    Edit:

    And it looks like you’re referring to that brand-new study that was just put out by that Israeli think-tank in their best effort to try and change what the definition of sexual violence is in order to get Hamas Blacklisted? Yeah, I remember that study. It’s already been specifically discredited by the UN and a number of NGOs.

    • @PugJesus@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1•3 days ago

      No, I’m saying Hamas committed sexual violence on Oct 7, I didn’t realize that was un-fucking clear.

      • PhilipTheBucketEnglish
        3•3 days ago

        Technically the UN report only said that people who invaded on October 7th committed widespread sexual violence. They stopped short of saying whether or not it was Hamas (since a lot of people who were not Hamas also took part in the invasion and there was no real way to know who it was that did any particular thing.)

      • @dastanktal@lemmy.ml
        2•3 days ago

        Well, to play devil’s advocate, we don’t actually know if it was a Hamas. Witnesses are notoriously unreliable, There hasn’t been any other corroborating evidence. In Rwanda and in Syria during those genocides, when those sexual assaults took place, we were able to track down individuals, where there was quite a lot less surveillance. Which is tracked by the UN.

        Feels like random individual actors committed sexual violence, and then the Israeli government is blaming Hamas. Wouldn’t be the first time since they accused Hamas of being ISIS while literally arming ISIS groups in Gaza to help commit a genocide

        • @PugJesus@lemmy.worldEnglish
          -2•3 days ago

          Well, to play devil’s advocate, we don’t actually know if it was a Hamas. Witnesses are notoriously unreliable, There hasn’t been any other corroborating evidence. In Rwanda and in Syria during those genocides, when those sexual assaults took place, we were able to track down individuals, where there was quite a lot less surveillance. Which is tracked by the UN.

          Feels like random individual actors committed sexual violence, and then the Israeli government is blaming Hamas. Wouldn’t be the first time since they accused Hamas of being ISIS while literally arming ISIS groups in Gaza to help commit a genocide

          Jesus fucking Christ.