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Award-winning American photojournalist Heidi Levine describes being violently attacked by a mob of Israeli settlers while covering the olive harvest in Turmus Ayya near Ramallah this morning. By Oren Ziv @mekomit.bsky.social

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but it's beyond the pale somehow to call this settler colonialism or claim that Israel is a settler colonial state?

Words matter. We should stop referring to these Israelis as “settlers”. They are not farmers. Farmers don’t destroy crops. They are behaving as “para-militaries” or “vandals”. That is what they should be called.

Zionism has so much of Eretz Yisrael this and make aliyyah that, but these thugs show like "oh, the trees that are so historically important to the land promised to Jacob that there's a whole law, Mitzvah 529 that forbids harming them? Yeah, let's burn 'em." I'm not even Jewish and I know better.

None of this shit is actually at all about Jewish homeland or holy warfare, none of this is some prophecy fulfilled or divine will manifest, this is just Europe letting a bunch of dipshits traumatize the Arabs native to the Levant because it makes non-Jews in Europe the big business bucks.

So fucking tired of pretending this shit is about/by/for religious Jews or Jewishness or the historical importance of the Holy Land... we're just selling weapons to secular European warmongers who'd spit on Abraham's bones if it meant more bombs to blow this land to bits for profit. I HATE IT.

If anyone actually gave a SHIT about the Jewish people there, they wouldn't keep letting some sacrireligious heresy state murder and murder and burn and murder and let settlers burn and murder, because all it does is make the Palestinians fight back. Fuck the State of Israel.

Only joking, if those fascists had thought Heidi Levine was really Hamas, this is the view of them running away she would still have, on the recording equipment they stole.