those IDF soldiers would have to be pretty fucking stupid to accidentally do a hate crime on the large van marked “TV” when there are plenty of other people in beating range they could do a hate crime on with no consequences.
Hanlon’s razor be damned this was 100% on purpose.
Edit: and it’s not like Israel has a history of killing journalists or anything. Please don’t look up “Shireen Abu Aqla”, nothing to see there
Edit edit: Shireen ain’t the only one, ~20 in 20 years.
The BBC Arabic team and two reporters with Arab sounding names were treated poorly by police.
This could either be a case of racism, or targeting the media, and we don’t have enough data to determine which. Neither is a good look
those IDF soldiers would have to be pretty fucking stupid to accidentally do a hate crime on the large van marked “TV” when there are plenty of other people in beating range they could do a hate crime on with no consequences.
Hanlon’s razor be damned this was 100% on purpose.
Edit: and it’s not like Israel has a history of killing journalists or anything. Please don’t look up “Shireen Abu Aqla”, nothing to see there
Edit edit: Shireen ain’t the only one, ~20 in 20 years.
I mean, Israeli Police regularly did both before this conflict escalated again, so does it even matter?
This has been going on for years and years even when there is no particular conflict.