'We're watching a lynching': Jewish crowd in Israel beats Arab man as country erupts in unrest

[Celerity]

https://www.jta.org/2021/05/12/israel/were-watching-a-lynching-jewish-crowd-in-israel-beats-arab-man-as-country-erupts-in-unrest

(JTA) — A video of a crowd of Jewish Israelis beating someone presumed to be an Arab in a Tel Aviv suburb on Wednesday night was broadcast live on Israeli TV as the country erupted in violence between Arabs and Jews. The incident in the coastal city of Bat Yam, caught by a camera operator for Israeli Channel 11, comes amid the deadly rocket fire between Israel and Hamas, the militant group that controls Gaza.

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Lynch live in Bat Yam: Young Jews violently attack a motorcyclist, police officers were not at the scene | Documentation

The footage shows the Jewish Israelis surrounding the man and beating him. Later he is seen lying on the ground wearing a motorcycle helmet being kicked and hit before the camera pans away. Police did not appear to be on the scene. Channel 11 reported that the man was hospitalized.

“We’re watching a lynching in real time,” reporter Daniel Elazar says off-camera. “There are no police here.” The attack happened amid a night of unrest across Israel as Hamas fired salvos of rockets at Israel and Israel bombed Gaza. It appears to be the worst interethnic violence within Israel since the onset of the second intifada, a violent Palestinian uprising, more than 20 years ago.

Jewish protesters in Bat Yam, as well as the northern cities of Tiberias and Acre, marched through the streets, and footage circulating on social media captured crowds of men in multiple locations chanting “Death to Arabs” and vandalizing Arab-owned businesses.

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It is difficult to digest what is happening here in Bat Yam. Far-right activists vandalize an Arab-owned store on the boardwalk. Shattering the windows non-stop, looting things from the store. There is not a single policeman here. Certificate of poverty for the police. No words. In one word: shame

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at Yam - Demolition of an Arab-owned store

[Dan]

1. Sad, unfortunately we can't have an honest discussion about Israel,

The settlements, Palestine and what we should request/require as a condition of our support.

We can’t be honest because the Democrats and Republicans turn it into a partisan war - rather than a conversation about the truth of what and where our support for Israel leads.

Flame on.

[dalton99a]

2. Winning hearts and minds

[Deuxcents]

3. We usually think of apartheid

As what was the system in South Africa. Looking up the definition, sounds just like current day Israel. And for many years, now. We give Israel an allowance for arms n other such commodities but after May, 1948, when they declared themselves an independent country n accepted into the UN, I think it’s time to let them work together for a two independent country n co-exist. We keep getting dragged into this impossible situation n selling arms doesn’t help at all. IMO

[Ron Green]

4. Lebensraum.

[Celerity]

5. Kristallnacht-lite also comes to mind whilst watching the videos.