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  • Oh cool hello OP thanks for making these weekly informative news megathreads! Yeah nothing much mainly a small suggestion that a significant portion of the userbase is on board with *(judging by upvotes), what do you think of changing the “Israel-Palestine Conflict” header to something more along the lines of “Israel’s genocide of Palestine” or “The Palestinian Genocide”?

    Someone in the last thread, @PalestinianDream@hexbear.net, explained the rationale behind our suggestion really well:

    "i know im preaching to the choir on this site but the language we use is incredibly important. Its like why we call it IOF and not IDF, for the same reason we say the Temporary Zionist Entity instead of “Israel”, the same reason we say the Zionist Genocide of the Palestinian people and not “Israel-Palestine Conflict.”

    Its about reframing the conversation with our narrative. It can seem insignificant, but its important to delegimize the entity’s existence first and foremost in the language we use. The same way zionists refuse to acknowledge Palestinians as a real people or Palestine as the land they are occupying. Words have power"

    Furthermore, even though the links listed underneath are for “Sources on the fighting in Palestine against Israel.”, centering the genocide that such brave acts of armed resistance are desperately struggling against would the bigger picture into focus, the greater context for why there is fighting in the first place.

    Having a clear focus on the genocide of Palestine being the source of all armed conflict in Palestine at the moment as part of the news mega that is pinned on the front page of the site sends a clear message to all users and visitors of where we stand, with the truth.

    It would also give people here motivation to go and join any local actions against their own countries complicity in the genocide, hopefully.

    Thank you for the consideration!

    (Also to clarify a couple of things to prevent misinterpretation by any other readers:

    • The extent of the suggestion is to change the 1 line on the news mega, nothing else.

    • The suggestion is not to ban the word “conflict” or the phrase “Israel-Palestine conflict” from the site.

    • The suggestion does not implicitly nor explicitly call OP a zionist, because OP is based af and cool.)




  • I really don’t understand this whole obsession

    Hey mate there’s no need for this. I’m not accusing OP of being some zionist or trying to start shit, sorry if I wasn’t clear enough about this.

    Calling it a conflict doesn’t mean it’s not a genocide. Calling it a war doesn’t mean it’s not a genocide.

    I agree, there is a “conflict” and a “war” because the people who are being genocided are fighting back against their rabid murderers with the help of 1 ally out of 195 countries, Yemen.

    The point here is that we center the genocide that pissrael is committing against the people of Palestine. Something that our governments and mass media don’t want. I agree that its not a lot, but its the least we could do, it would also make any zionists who visit this website seethe as well.

    It sends a very clear message about where we stand. Because the nature of the conflict between the two sides (the entire western world v.s. *the innocent people of Palestine and Yemen) is that one side ideally wants every single person on the other side to die a slow, torturous death while the other side just wants to live in peace.

    To re-iterate I’m not accusing OP of being a zionist or anything, just saying it would be good to center the genocide that our countries are complicit in.