Gideon Levy pushes back on Israeli claims regarding the Madleen

[Goddessartist]

https://youtube.com/shorts/Zz8aKyCq9eQ?si=0Ks2NiPUDHjoKYcG

"Israeli journalist and author Gideon Levy pushed back against claims that Israel’s hostilities against the Madleen aid ship bound for Gaza were due to the alleged danger posed by activists onboard, who Israel accused of being “antisemites” and “Hamas sympathisers”.

The Haaretz columnist responded by saying Israel is only “scared” of revealing Gaza’s destruction, and it is the “first war” in which journalists have not been allowed to enter a conflict zone for 20 months."

[Beastly Boy]

1. Ummm... how many journalists were in th selfie flotilla?

And what was their plan to deliver food in a war zone?

As far as I know, they didn't even arrange for the "symbolic" amount of food to be taken off the ship.

[Gaugamela]

2. There is one journalist among the crew of the Madleen. It's not a ship it's a 60' sailing yacht. It's

not hard to unload a boat as long as you don’t have the military of an ethno-religious supremacist authoritarian apartheid state shooting at you.

[Beastly Boy]

4. An Al Jazeera journalist. Very unbiased choice, right?

It doesn't matter what the size of the boat is. It's the cargo. "Symbolic" amounts of aid. Probably enough for twelve bacpacks. Make it eleven - the Al Jazeera journalist would have his hands full with professional equipment. Presumably.

Such symbolic amount calls for symbolic effort to unload it. But that is not the problem.

What did they intend to do with their symbolism after they unloaded it? Symbolically feed 12 Hamas operatives? Because they wouldn't get far in Gaza without Hamas permission.

[Gaugamela]

6. What was Gandhi going to do with the paltry amount of salt he got from the sea? Do you seriously

not understand how symbolic protests work?

[Beastly Boy]

7. Oh no, please, not Gandhi!

Gandhi never claimed he was kidnapped. He never claimed that children will die if he didn't deliver salt to them.

I know how symbolic protest works. It is meant to gain publicity. Were the publicity Gandhi sought to center on himself, he would have been the first to condemn it, not promote it.

I have no clue how symbolic food helps starving children, especially when everybody knows they will not see it, not even the symbolism in it.

[Gaugamela]

8. LOL. It's hard work clutching at straws to defend an ethno-religious supremacist

authoritarian apartheid state, isn’t it?

[AloeVera]

9. It's a full-time job. Takes a lot of imagination too.

The work never ends...

Seriously though, you'd think maybe the sight of starving kids might give at least a small pause...but you'd be wrong.

[Goddessartist]

3. Watch the video n/t

[Beastly Boy]

5. I did. n/t