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A protester was in critical condition Friday after setting themself on fire outside the Israeli consulate in Atlanta, authorities said. A security guard who tried to intervene was also injured.

A Palestinian flag found at the scene was part of the protest, Atlanta Police Chief Darin Schierbaum said at a news conference.

He added that investigators did not believe there was any connection to terrorism and none of the consular staff was ever in danger.

“We do not see any threat here,” he said. “We believe it was an act of extreme political protest that occurred.”

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[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 0 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Well, they also left off the incredibly tone deaf statements from the consul… in reference to the security guard and highest value being the sanctity of life; and how self immolation was done out of hate for Jews…

[–] NightAuthor@lemmy.world 0 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

If ~~they~~ Jews want me to hate the Jews, then as someone with no problem with Jewish people, I guess the polite thing to do is to hate the Jews.

Edit: but apparently it’s not the Jews pushing this, but specifically Zionists. In which case the above conditional is rendered moot.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Maybe it's because I am a Jew, but I would say that the polite thing to do would be to tell them to fuck off with their bullshit claims of antisemitism.

For fuck's sake, no one sets themselves on fire in the name of bigotry.

[–] kurwa@lemmy.world -1 points 11 months ago

I feel like any Jew who calls any of these sorts of actions, any anti Zionist protests, anti-Semitic, is at worst a fake Jew and at best a disappointment for Jews. Because how do you support zionists, this ethnic cleansing, after Jewish people had to go through the Holocaust? The amount of mental gymnastics you have to go through to not see the equivalence between this and what Nazi Germany did is insane.

[–] jimmydoreisalefty@lemmy.world -1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

edit: removed sentence to stick to point

I would suggest to restrain from hating groups, even if some act in a way you don't agree with.


Reminds me of what Yanis said:

but let me say something about power racism and i will add patriarchy i don't believe that we have the answers

to these things in my in you know this is a novel and in it i try to make it absolutely clear

that i do not believe that my side of politics even my very

quaint version of socialism even if we manage to sort out all the problems with corporations with the power of capital

to exploit to reproduce itself and so on that we can deal with patriarchy

or racism discrimination runs very deeply in our societies and you know we can reduce the toxicity

which always breeds more racism and more xenophobia and more sexism

but i'm pessimistic about human nature we

really need i you know i look into myself and i find a nazi living in me a racist living in me a sexist living in me

i constantly have battles with me with myself and anybody who tells me that you're not like that you're lying

we are all like this we all have a dark side and we all need to fight constantly against it

Time stamp: 1:20:36

Can we Fix Capitalism? Yanis Varoufakis vs Gillian TettIntelligence Squared

https://youtu.be/Gv6130kSzEY?si=gMZvGTZ8HXYbAGRq&t=4836

[–] jimmydoreisalefty@lemmy.world -1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Do you have a source or what findings confirmed it was self immolation due to religious persecution?

Aside from Israel gov't sources, they tend to push for religious persecution at any chance they get, similar to AIPAC (Zionist, Foreign lobby group in the US).

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/protester-self-immolates-outside-israeli-consulate-atlanta-2023-12-01/

"We are saddened to learn of the self-immolation at the entrance to the office building," the consul general of Israel to the southeastern U.S., Anat Sultan-Dadon, told ABC News. "It is tragic to see the hate and incitement toward Israel expressed in such a horrific way. The sanctity of life is our highest value."

[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 0 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

https://lemmy.world/post/9029514 was the original post with it. from that article:

In a statement, the consul general of Israel to the south-east US, Anat Sultan-Dadon, said that the diplomatic mission is "saddened to learn of the self-immolation at the entrance to the office building".

"It is tragic to see the hate and incitement toward Israel expressed in such a horrific way," she added.
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"The sanctity of life is our highest value. Our prayers are with the security officer who was injured while trying to prevent this tragic act".

I'm not saying that it was religious persecution- it was done in protest of the war in Gaza, and one almost never sets oneself on fire because you hate somebody else... like usually it's in extreme protest to violence... not something done out of hatred at all.

was just pointing out that the statement- the incredibly tone deaf statement- was dropped from the PBS article.

[–] jimmydoreisalefty@lemmy.world -1 points 11 months ago

Thank you for taking the time to clarify!

It was my fault for misunderstanding your original statement!

Have a great day!