Comments by "" (@thehumanity0) on "'You protest a policy, you don't protest a people': Jones on violence at pro-Palestinian protests" video.

@udstyle The synagogue advertised their own "real estate event" that featured property in the West Bank, and as if selling Israeli land at a synagogue in the US is totally normal & not disgusting
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@Bob-l4q6f Imagine a random Native American guy steals your house in North Carolina and his reasoning is that his ancestors lived there 2000 years ago. Even if there is historical merit, somebody LIVES THERE NOW & has likely lived their their whole life; you can't just steal a person's land because of what so-and-so did 2000 years ago. That's such a weak and pathetic argument. Edit: I'm not a scholar on the subject (and neither are you obviously) and I don't claim to be (unlike YOU), but I'm SURE there is just as much, or more, merit that the Palestinians deserve that land as well, or AT THE VERY LEAST not driven from it entirely aka a genocide. They were living there for over a millenium before Israel did their first nakba in 1940.
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@moonchild7909 There's literally videos & interviews with real estate developers outside the event, including bouncers not letting in anyone that is non-Jewish. There's also extensive footage of this at a similar event/protest at a synagogue in NYC like 2 months back. Watch Walter Masterson's coverage of it - he tries to sneak into the event dressed as a real estate mogul but gets blocked at the door for not showing proof of his Jewish heritage. In summary, it's both illegal to sell stolen land by US Law AND it's illegal and against anti-discriminatory laws to not allow people into events based on race or ethnicity. The media are disgusting to cover this up.
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@michellelansky4490 It's property that people have lived in for countless generations. You and I had nothing to do with what happened 2000 years ago & neither did our grandparents or theirs. The idea that you can commit a genocide on a people just because of some loose historical basis for why their extremely far off distant ancestors were driven from it is an argument that has no place in reality. There's literally videos of Israeli settlers going to Palestinian homes and blanketly saying "This is mine now" and "If I don't take it, someone else will". Just because a people has generational trauma does not justify doing it again to another people. It's disgusting, and just because it was done back then does not mean it's right now. People need to break the cycle of hate and stop this madness. The events in Gaza is already looking like a 2nd Holocaust when you realize what's happening to Palestinians in Israeli prison camps.
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"A synagogue where an Israel real estate event was taking place" - they admit what was being protested at the beginning and then proceed to gaslight their audience for the next 5 minutes, claiming they were "protesting a people". The media is so awful
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It takes any normal person 2 minutes to find out what was really happening there. There were huge event flyers about the real estate event & what was being sold. CNN's ignorance is deliberate & no better than the lies in tabloid journalism
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It's funny you bring up the 1930s Nazi regime, because selling stolen land by an imperialist nation is exactly something the Third Reich would do, specifically in a Church or place of worship just like this.
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Imagine if in the 1930s, Nazis auctioned off stolen private property of Jews in Poland in a Church in New York. We all agree that would be a crime against humanity, but somehow the media just ignores this in 2024 because it's Palestinian land (not even in Gaza, but the West Bank)
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Actually it was land in the West Bank. Not even anything to do with Hamas. They stole land from innocent law-abiding Palestinian citizens in the West Bank & they have the nerve to sell it in a synagogue
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You talking about the Nazi-esque Israelis selling stolen land inside the synagogue? I agree, they are running amok. They also have our politicians in their pockets.
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The simple fact is that the people were protesting the real estate event going on the synagogue where they were selling stolen land in the West Bank, which is literally ILLEGAL to do under US Law. Best not leave that part out, the media certainly has.
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@Bob-l4q6f Wow, thanks for the zionist faux-history lesson, but I'm pretty sure the Palestinians were living in that area for over a millenium before the Israelis showed up in the 1940s just claiming it was now theirs, pointing to a bunch of biblical scribblings about how their 2000 year-old ancestors claimed it first. I guess the Roman-Catholics and Italians can migrate back to London now and claim Britiania for themselves in the name of smug weak arguments that have no place in reality.
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@babyamyxo-o6c Look it up yourself. They had flyers online for the real estate sale and a QR code which clearly shows they were selling property in the West Bank, i.e. land that belongs to Palestinians or land that formerly belonged to them before it was taken by Israeli settlers. The events happening in the West Bank is almost more tragic than Gaza - there is no Hamas or any militant Palestinian group over there; they simply get land stolen from them while being occupied by settlers and the IDF, forced to identify themselves at checkpoint after checkpoint like they're all in a prison camp (sounds familiar, right? almost like a ghetto). It's like watching a soldier beat an injured dog and telling us all to look the other way, and this all has been happening for decades & getting progressively worse and worse, especially since Oct 7th and the utter destruction of Gaza.
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@JerryJanoff "Van Jones is just so much smarter than you." - Sounds like a bot if I've ever heard one
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@Finnleigh.Jackson4141 It's interesting you say that, because it's exactly why literal Rabbis & Jewish people have been protesting these events alongside the other protesters. They see the Israelis selling stolen land at a synagogue and think it's an affront to their religion.
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@farvasstache6532 They did this same real estate event at a synagogue in New York like 2 months back. Literal Rabbis from other Jewish sects were AMONG THE PROTESTORS because they all agreed selling stolen real estate in a synagogue was a crime against humanity & Judaism.
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They were. They were protesting an illegal real estate event where they were selling stolen land from the West Bank and specifically breaking anti-discriminatory laws by banning non-Jews from entering the event.
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