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Castrate them! Burn them! Bullet in the head!: Facebook Israelis react to photo of Palestinian kids
An image of three Palestinian boys sparked an outpouring of violent and sadistic fantasies after it was reposted to an Israeli Facebook page (Original source and screenshot of context). (Shadi Hatem)
Having regularly documented the horrifying racism and violent fantasies frequently expressed by Israelis on Facebook or Instagram, I thought I had seen everything.
But this may be the worst yet. On Wednesday, the picture above of three Palestinian boys in a tent was posted on a popular Facebook page titled in Hebrew We are all in favor of death to terrorists. Under the picture is the following caption:
This is an apparent reference to the peaceful Bab al-Shams encampment established by Palestinians near Jerusalem to protest Israels plans to seize more land for settlements. The protest was timed to coincide with the visit of US President Barack Obama.
Run the tent over with a truck/Merkava tank/a bus/ whatever it takes to crush and kill these children, suggested Facebook user Lidor Swisa.
As of Friday there were almost 200 comments under the post offering suggestions of what the Israeli army should do the vast majority fantasizing extreme sadistic violence and murder.
What makes this even more than usually disturbing is many of the Israeli commentators appear to be high school students themselves perhaps only a year or two from mandatory army service when they will be empowered to carry out their fantasies.
Soldiers and adults join in the virtual pogrom
But others, such as Shlomo Levi are clearly already army-age adults. His suggestion?
Shlomo Levi thinks Palestinian children should be gassed to death
David Kozolovski wrote, To all those comparing Jews to Nazis, Jews did not try to kill German civilians, thereby justifying the orgy of violent fantasies against the children.
Kozolovskis profile pictures on Facebook include images of him in his Israeli army uniform bearing the insignia of the Kfir Infantry Brigade.
Kfir Infantry Brigade member David Kozolovski justifies violence against Palestinian children
Again, I stress as in my previous posts, that this horrifying racism and sadism towards Arabs seems to be pervasive among Israelis who use social media and reflects the much broader phenomenon of escalating racism in Israel against Palestinians and Africans.
Haaretz noted, for instance, in a recent article that racist incitement by Israeli public figures doubled in 2012.
Nurit Peled-Elhanan has also documented in her recent book the pervasive anti-Arab racism and stereotypes that Israeli children are exposed to at school which may contribute to this horrifying phenomenon.
It is also notable that the We are all in favor of death to terrorists Facebook group has more than 41,000 Likes and images of Palestinians, Arabs and Israelis deemed traitorous leftists are frequently posted attracting similarly vile comments.
In his speech in Jerusalem this week, President Obama also observed that Israelis are so active on social media that every day seemed to bring a different Facebook campaign about where I should give this speech.
May you die garbage Arabs, amen!
This is only a small selection of the representative and typical comments posted under the picture of the three boys in the tent.
A minority of users objected to these pervasive comments. Lilach Lilush, said, Excuse me I disagree what do you mean eliminate? What are we, an arm of Hamas or Hizballah? We are more enlightened. [Ahem! -- RFS] We should just return them safely where they came from.
But this was a very rare sentiment amid the frenzy of bloodlust that sees the three Palestinian boys in the picture as legitimate targets for extreme violence.
An image of three Palestinian boys sparked an outpouring of violent and sadistic fantasies after it was reposted to an Israeli Facebook page (Original source and screenshot of context). (Shadi Hatem)
Having regularly documented the horrifying racism and violent fantasies frequently expressed by Israelis on Facebook or Instagram, I thought I had seen everything.
But this may be the worst yet. On Wednesday, the picture above of three Palestinian boys in a tent was posted on a popular Facebook page titled in Hebrew We are all in favor of death to terrorists. Under the picture is the following caption:
This is an apparent reference to the peaceful Bab al-Shams encampment established by Palestinians near Jerusalem to protest Israels plans to seize more land for settlements. The protest was timed to coincide with the visit of US President Barack Obama.
Run the tent over with a truck/Merkava tank/a bus/ whatever it takes to crush and kill these children, suggested Facebook user Lidor Swisa.
As of Friday there were almost 200 comments under the post offering suggestions of what the Israeli army should do the vast majority fantasizing extreme sadistic violence and murder.
What makes this even more than usually disturbing is many of the Israeli commentators appear to be high school students themselves perhaps only a year or two from mandatory army service when they will be empowered to carry out their fantasies.
Soldiers and adults join in the virtual pogrom
But others, such as Shlomo Levi are clearly already army-age adults. His suggestion?
Shlomo Levi thinks Palestinian children should be gassed to death
David Kozolovski wrote, To all those comparing Jews to Nazis, Jews did not try to kill German civilians, thereby justifying the orgy of violent fantasies against the children.
Kozolovskis profile pictures on Facebook include images of him in his Israeli army uniform bearing the insignia of the Kfir Infantry Brigade.
Kfir Infantry Brigade member David Kozolovski justifies violence against Palestinian children
Again, I stress as in my previous posts, that this horrifying racism and sadism towards Arabs seems to be pervasive among Israelis who use social media and reflects the much broader phenomenon of escalating racism in Israel against Palestinians and Africans.
Haaretz noted, for instance, in a recent article that racist incitement by Israeli public figures doubled in 2012.
Nurit Peled-Elhanan has also documented in her recent book the pervasive anti-Arab racism and stereotypes that Israeli children are exposed to at school which may contribute to this horrifying phenomenon.
It is also notable that the We are all in favor of death to terrorists Facebook group has more than 41,000 Likes and images of Palestinians, Arabs and Israelis deemed traitorous leftists are frequently posted attracting similarly vile comments.
In his speech in Jerusalem this week, President Obama also observed that Israelis are so active on social media that every day seemed to bring a different Facebook campaign about where I should give this speech.
May you die garbage Arabs, amen!
This is only a small selection of the representative and typical comments posted under the picture of the three boys in the tent.
- Disgusting. Burn the tent - Oriel Diller
- Eliminate - Zevika Gvirz
- Artillery training mistake - Igor Gonopolskiy [Wouldn't shock me if it was a real IDF tactic. -- RFS]
- Burn them - Yaron Gringauz
- May you die garbage Arabs, amen! - Shahar Dayan
- Run them over and shoot them. Its not complicated! - Elad Sender
- Take the tent with the people in it, put it on a trailer and dump them back where they came from - Sharon Carmi
- A hand grenade inside the tent! - Dvir Dagan
- Put a couple of bullets in their heads and were done - Adi Maman
- Set them on fire - Yosef Porotzky
- **** them - Aria Yehudai
A minority of users objected to these pervasive comments. Lilach Lilush, said, Excuse me I disagree what do you mean eliminate? What are we, an arm of Hamas or Hizballah? We are more enlightened. [Ahem! -- RFS] We should just return them safely where they came from.
But this was a very rare sentiment amid the frenzy of bloodlust that sees the three Palestinian boys in the picture as legitimate targets for extreme violence.
