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bawolff ◴[] No.43658003[source]
The missing part of this article: are the requests valid? Are they actually incitements to terrorism and violence or is it just a clamp down on criticism? The headline of the article implies the latter but the body does not provide any evidence for that.

Like there is a war going on, a pretty nasty one at that. I would expect there to be quite a lot of incitement to violence related to that. I would expect the israeli government to be mostly concerned with incitements of violence against its citizens. In the context of this conflict i would expect such incitements to be mostly be made by the demographics cited in the article due to the nature of the conflict. The article seems like it could be entirely consistent with take downs being used appropriately. It needs more then this to prove its headline.

Heck, from this post we dont even know relative numbers. How does this compare against take down requests from other groups?

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michaelsshaw ◴[] No.43662614[source]
Defending yourself from genocide is not terrorism
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reissbaker ◴[] No.43663807[source]
When do you think the supposed genocide started?
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michaelsshaw ◴[] No.43664065{3}[source]
1948
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reissbaker ◴[] No.43664466{4}[source]
Interesting! And in this supposed 77 year long genocide, did the population size of Palestinians decrease?
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michaelsshaw ◴[] No.43665213{5}[source]
Not a determining factor. Genocide is the commission of one of the five prohibited acts with the intent to destroy, in whole or in part, any national, ethnical, racial or religious group.
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1. reissbaker ◴[] No.43665430{6}[source]
A bit hard to show "intent to destroy" if for 77 years of rule, they haven't actually done it, though. I mean, in what other "genocide" did the population grow, year over year, for 77 years? Can you name a single one where the population grew for even five years of "genocide"?
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2. michaelsshaw ◴[] No.43665533[source]
"in whole or in part"

Can you read?

The end goal of the Zionist project has always been the complete expulsion of Palestinians. That's intent.

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3. reissbaker ◴[] No.43665681[source]
Mmhm. And not only can I read — it would be quite amazing if I could write the posts you're angrily responding to without being able to read — I'm also pointing out that there is nothing that qualifies as a 77-year genocide in which the population grows year over year the entire time. No serious scholarship exists that even claims a 77 year genocide starting in 1948. Every time someone dies in a conflict, does not equate to an attempt to destroy a people "in whole or in part" — quite obviously, or else even a murder would count as a genocide, along with every single war ever. Certainly Palestinians have killed Israelis with the intent to destroy them — even prior to 1948. In fact, it was Israelis who accepted the 1948 partition plan, and the Palestinians who rejected it in favor of a war that they subsequently lost (but intended to win, and killed many people while trying!). Have the Palestinians been committing genocide for 100 years? No, obviously not. Your claims do not hold water and do not support a 77-year supposed genocide. Please try again.

BTW the five acts are: killing — typically systematic, targeting civilians rather than militants; bodily/mental harm (e.g widespread slavery, systematic rape); deliberately inflicting conditions meant to destroy the group (e.g. mass starvation); forced birth control e.g. the Uyghur genocide; or forcible transfer of children outside of the group. If any of these things had been systematically happening for 77 years straight as you claim, the population would not have grown: it would have been demolished, like in every other case. That's the whole point of the term genocide, vs other, lesser terms. If the group wasn't meaningfully destroyed, it's pretty unlikely there was a genocide.

Even if it were true that the end goal of Zionism has always been the complete expulsion of the Palestinians — which isn't the case, and in fact many early Zionists advocated for peacefully living together, as do plenty of modern ones — expulsion is not genocide, or else India and Pakistan have been committing genocide against each other for even longer. Even with that steelman you're still wrong!

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4. michaelsshaw ◴[] No.43666343{3}[source]
>BTW the five acts are: killing — typically systematic, targeting civilians rather than militants; bodily/mental harm (e.g widespread slavery, systematic rape); deliberately inflicting conditions meant to destroy the group (e.g. mass starvation);

Check, check and check. And Zionism has always been seeking to expel Palestinians, despite your dubious claims to the contrary. Success is not a requisite as written in the genocide convention. Your population stats are irrelevant.

Try this: go on Israeli politicians twitters. Read the Hebrew language ones and translate them to English. Report back.

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5. za3faran ◴[] No.43669773[source]
Listen to their ministers and people in charge and they clearly state the intent outright. This latest conflict has exposed everything.
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6. reissbaker ◴[] No.43669794{4}[source]
I don't need to translate them to English, I speak Hebrew. There are far right ministers who say insane things, there are far left ministers who say the exact opposite, and both call themselves Zionists. You don't speak Hebrew so you need someone to point you to tweets to translate, and you've been pointed only at the far right ones and that's why you think those are the only ones that exist.

If it was actually "check, check, and check" for 77 years, the population would go down, obviously, unless you believe Palestinians are each the second coming of Jesus Christ and can return from the dead at will. No serious academic scholarship agrees with you, and common sense is that you're wrong too. A genocide involves actually attempting to destroy a lot of people systematically, not periodic violence over land squabbles in which neither side is significantly reduced.

There is certainly debate over whether the current war — starting on Oct. 7th — has devolved into genocide, although there isn't scholarly agreement on that (nor legal agreement, as the international courts haven't issued rulings yet; they've only declined to dismiss the case). But a 77-year genocide is a fantasy, in order to avoid thinking deeply about your preferred side's complicity in this endless conflict — and indeed in the current war, which they started, and in which they committed numerous war crimes (and continue to commit war crimes).

7. za3faran ◴[] No.43670683{3}[source]
The Palestinians did not start war over land - they were occupied and their home land stolen.
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8. frm88 ◴[] No.43670738{3}[source]
*There is academic and legal debate as to whether the current war, starting on Oct 7th, 2023, has devolved into a genocide — although that certainly isn't settled, and the international courts haven't yet issued rulings, they've only declined to dismiss the case.*

The ICC issued a warrant against Netanyahu citing "war crimes" and "crimes against humanity" with [0]"starvation as a method of warfare" as a main point. Starvation as a method of warfare is consistent with an act of genocide [1].

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Criminal_Court...

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starvation_(crime)

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9. breppp ◴[] No.43670764{4}[source]
The 1929 Hebron massacre and thirties arab revolt beg to differ
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10. breppp ◴[] No.43670792{4}[source]
The ICC is highly stretching its jurisdiction as Israel is not a signee

Starvation is not consistent with an act of genocide even as per your source and there is very little evidence of starvation in Gaza except for the Israeli hostages.

It is actually pretty easy to view the endless stream of videos coming out from gaza, some even show obesity

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13. za3faran ◴[] No.43673487{5}[source]
Revolt against what? Who was occupying Palestine at the time?
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14. za3faran ◴[] No.43673534{5}[source]
It is indeed easy to see the endless stream of videos of people in Gaza who have literally starved to death.
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15. breppp ◴[] No.43675241{6}[source]
So what's your explanation of the many pictures of Gazans that are not close to malnourishment? If there's no food shouldn't this show everywhere?

I see properly fed people in every search for photos/videos from the war, unless if I specifically try to search for starvation, and even then there's not much variety and these repeat

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16. breppp ◴[] No.43675244{6}[source]
Exactly, they spontaneously killed Jews that were not occupying anyone
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17. reissbaker ◴[] No.43678997{4}[source]
A warrant is not a guilty verdict, obviously. Do you think everyone the police arrest are ruled guilty before a trial even commences?
18. reissbaker ◴[] No.43679043{4}[source]
They were not occupied in 1948 by any definition. The British territory of Mandatory Palestine was being split into two countries: Israel, and Palestine, much like British India had been split a year prior into the new countries of India and Pakistan based on Hindu/Muslim religious groupings. The Israelis accepted the U.N. partition plan, and the Palestinians rejected it and invaded Israel, attempting to control the entire territory. They lost the war, although almost all of the Palestinian territory was taken by their supposed "allies" of Egypt and Jordan. Israel captured that territory from Egypt and Jordan in 1967, and eventually offered most of it back to the Palestinians to form a Palestinian state in 2000; the offer was rejected by Arafat, the leader of the Palestinian Authority at the time, who instead chose to launch the Second Intifadah (yet another bloody uprising) which largely ended the Oslo Accords based peace process.

A short-lived attempt to reboot the process after Arafat's death happened in 2007 between Ehud Olmert and Mahmoud Abbas, which was aborted when Hamas won the Palestinian elections and triggered a Palestinian civil war. There were again direct talks in 2010, which ended when Hamas (who by then fully controlled Gaza) said they wouldn't accept a peace deal and would continue attacking Israel; from the Israeli perspective there was no point in continuing land-for-peace talks if the other side was firmly refusing the "peace" part.

Of course the Palestinian situation is quite sad. But that is in large part a consequence of horrendous leadership that has repeatedly insisted on maximalist territorial demands and refuses to give up hope of destroying Israel and ruling the region in its entirety; they have been offered many options over many years that are far better than their current semi-state and refused them, since they would need to give up on destroying Israel. Even blaming "horrendous leadership" is a bit generous... After all, Hamas was popularly elected into power in part based on their claims that violence could extract territorial gains from Israel. Just as Trump couldn't have done much without being elected by his massive MAGA base, Hamas couldn't have ruled Gaza without their large Palestinian base that voted them into power — and Hamas continued to be extremely popular in Palestinian polls until late 2024, when the consequences of their actions began to become clear even to their ardent supporters.

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19. za3faran ◴[] No.43687652{5}[source]
They were occupied by the British, you said it yourself. They had no right to "split" anything. Muslims and Jews lived in Palestine pre european occupation just fine.

The present day "Middle East" (a colonialist term) is carved out by european colonilism through sykes-picot.

The plan to occupy Palestine started way before 48.

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21. za3faran ◴[] No.43687661{7}[source]
It was a rhetorical question. You will find an article in the NYT from 1899 talking about the plan to occupy Palestine. They knew and saw it coming. Of course we are against attacking civilians, but nothing happens in vacuum.
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22. breppp ◴[] No.43689445{8}[source]
That's an incorrect version of Zionist history which in the 19th century until the British left were more concerned with legally buying land, and many were trying to coexist with the Palestinians.

Also, the Hebron community that was massacred and ethnically cleansed in 1929 predated both Zionism and the Arab colonization which brought most Palestinians to the area

Also right after being against attacking civilians, you are saying that's actually alright because they had had done that as a reaction. That logic applies to anything in the conflict, including the civilian dead the Palestinians are now suffering after the massacre/kidnapping they have conducted. That's why I think you should rethink that line of thinking

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23. za3faran ◴[] No.43689598{7}[source]
That's like saying there were pictures of jews who were not malnuritioned during the holocaust, so it must be fake!

There are many who died from starvation, this is a fact. Don't be a genocide denier. The israelis have been controlling food and water and electricity from Gaza for a long time now, they have never been free.

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24. za3faran ◴[] No.43689633{9}[source]
The british were not there in 1899 when colonization was being prepared[1]. Jews coexisted with the native Palestinians before the british occupation[2][3], but this clearly is something else.

Palestinians are native to the area, they were not "brought in". This is something that is well known and established except among the deniers of history.

[1] https://imgur.com/a/BlTdfKy [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Bmm_We6xDU [3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVMcqNOqdek

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25. breppp ◴[] No.43697053{10}[source]
I am not sure if we know that Palestinians are native to this area, we have many things pointing otherwise. For example waves of migrations from Arabia after the arab conquest and soldiers being given land and settled there as reward.

Wikipedia is not the best of sources for this topic, but you can read more here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab_migrations_to_the_Levant

Your perception of colonization is a bit anachronistic. Your understanding of what colonizing means is a bit different than what they had in mind, as evident by the difference of what Zionism means and what colonization means today.

Main differences are, no host country, no goal of economic exploitation, no goal of subjugating the locals and most importantly, as a means to return a people to its historical homeland by creating a national movement. This never happened anywhere else, which means colonization is a misnomer, decolonization in this case, if was not overloaded would be the closer term, but also non-exact

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26. reissbaker ◴[] No.43697095{6}[source]
The British didn't split anything; the U.N. did. Who do you think has the right to draw country borders other than the U.N.? There was no "Palestine" on a map prior to the British: it was the Ottoman Empire, and there wasn't even a region or subdivision of it that mapped to the current or British-era borders, and the Ottomans themselves were oppressive colonizers. Do you demand that the Turks be given control? Where do you stop? Perhaps the Greeks should be given control of all of Turkey, and take back the Hagia Sophia; after all, it was theirs first. And who, pray tell, lived in the land of Israel before the Islamic conquests, and before Roman imperialism...?

As for Jews supposedly being able to live in peace prior to the British — you are once again incorrect. Jews were considered dhimmis, with various insane accompanying laws: Jews were legally required to dismount horses/donkeys and simply walk whenever any random Muslim passerby demanded it; a Muslim man could take a Jewish woman as a wife, but if a Jewish man tried to marry a Muslim woman he would be killed; Jewish orphans were systematically taken from the Jewish community by law and raised as Muslims — in fact, this is legally genocidal! — and in parts of the Ottoman Empire, the "Dung Gatherer's Decree" mandated that Jews clean the literal poop from Muslim sewers; in other parts they were forbidden from wearing shoes; Jews were killed in massacres by the thousands and synagogues burned; and of course, there's the famous Benny Morris quote from the 19th century in Jerusalem:

I have seen a little fellow of six years old, with a troop of fat toddlers of only three and four, teaching [them] to throw stones at a Jew, and one little urchin would, with the greatest coolness, waddle up to the man and literally spit upon his Jewish gaberdine. To all this the Jew is obliged to submit; it would be more than his life was worth to offer to strike a Mohammedan.

Naturally the Jews were not eager to return to this state of affairs. And so just as India and Pakistan were created out of British India, Israel and Palestine were attempted to be created out of the British Mandate. The Muslim residents were very eager to return to the prior state of affairs, refused partition, invaded, and... lost. And again; most of their territory was taken by Egypt and Jordan, not Israel.

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27. reissbaker ◴[] No.43697197{8}[source]
If the Israelis have used their many-years-long control of food, water, and electricity (which BTW they provide because Hamas destroyed Gaza's native water aquifers by polluting them during weapons manufacturing, as well as stealing and hoarding the fuel for power generation in order to run their underground attack tunnels such that the local power plants can't run) in order to starve the Gazans to death, why has the population gone up instead of down?

In the Holocaust, the population went down — by many many millions of people.

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28. za3faran ◴[] No.43700063{9}[source]
This "argument" again. I swear it's always the same trite copy-pasted ones. This is not open for debate - there is mass starvation, there are war crimes, the ICC is after the heads of the mafia. There are many, many documentaries about the horrors that have befallen Gaza for many years now, including by anti zionist jews.
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29. za3faran ◴[] No.43700132{7}[source]
The UN that is controlled by western colonialist nations? That one has the right to draw borders? LOL. Are you aware of Sykes Picot and Balfour? Are you aware that this has been planned for a long time now, since at least 1899[1]?

There most definitely was a region, and it was called Palestine[2]. As I mentioned elsewhere, Muslim Caliphates do not erode or destroy the local culture, they embrace it. The Ottomans were Muslims, we're one people. We don't have racist ideologies.

It's interesting seeing these lies made up, or deliberate misinformation. The word "dhimmi" means one who is under the protection of another. The rights of dhimmis are protected, they can rule with their own laws among each other. No, a Jew was not legally required to dismount whenever a Muslim passed by - this is not Islamic law. Islamic law permits Muslim men to marry Christian or Jewish women, but Muslim women are not allowed to marry non-Muslim men; this has nothing to do with Jews. And it wouldn't be allowed in the first place, so he wouldn't be "killed" - no idea where you're getting your information from. The rest of the post is completely un-Islamic, and sounds fabricated.

Maybe you should ask Jewish historian Shelomo Dov Goitein why he said that Jews lived well under the Muslims; maybe he knows something you don't, and he was not affected by fabricated narratives.

To summarize, Islam rejects the Sykes Picot/Balfour borders between Muslim nations. What is happening today is a direct consequence of WWI. This is why Muslims are calling for a Caliphate to unite all Muslims, something that the west desperately tries to fight.

[1] https://imgur.com/a/BlTdfKy [2] https://imgur.com/a/jSMLBiZ

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30. za3faran ◴[] No.43700154{11}[source]
We know very well in fact. The Palestinians are the original Canaanites and even descendants of the original Israelites. This is well established.

What happened is that europe continued their colonization and used what Germanhy did to the jews as yet another excuse to push the jews out of europe. They're the antisesmites: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u92CEAZjCOo

31. reissbaker ◴[] No.43706902{10}[source]
The ICC wants a trial; no one has been convicted of anything, and certainly not a genocide starting in 1948. Asserting something (as you do) doesn't make it true. And you keep being given the same argument since you haven't rebutted it — perhaps you can't.
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32. reissbaker ◴[] No.43707019{8}[source]
No, a Jew was not legally required to dismount whenever a Muslim passed by

Wrong. https://katz.sas.upenn.edu/resources/blog/what-do-you-know-d...

And I notice you didn't even try to refute the existence of the Dung Gatherer decree, or the mass murders and synagogue burning. Plenty of massacres prior to 1899, if you're clinging to that as a magic number to justify atrocities carried out against Jews under the Ottomans.

There was a region, it was called Palestine.

Here are the administrative subdivisions of the Ottoman Empire as of 1899: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Administrative_divisions_of_...

As you can clearly see, there was no subdivision that cleanly mapped to the currently-existing region of Israel or Palestine. That region was created by the British, as "Mandatory Palestine."

Islam rejects the Sykes Picot/Balfour borders between Muslim nations. What is happening today is a direct consequence of WWI. This is why Muslims are calling for a Caliphate to unite all Muslims, something that the west desperately tries to fight.

Sorry, but Islam does not decree to the rest of the world what borders are, and certainly not moreso than the U.N. Demanding that you're able to draw whatever borders you like and invade anyone who disagrees is what has continued this conflict for 77 years — which your side has continually lost, over and over again, with pointless bloodshed. No one wants to live under your caliphate. Many countries had their borders change after WW1, and WW2, and — oh well, they changed, people adapt and live with it.

colonizers

Lmao. Where do you think you got Istanbul from? Do you recall that it once had a different name — does "Constantinople" ring a bell? The pot is calling the kettle black here.

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33. breppp ◴[] No.43709155{8}[source]
I don't need to deny a genocide that isn't happening. Even according to Hamas skewed death statistics most dead in Gaza are military aged males and in higher proportions than their share in the population

If you go over pictures of jews from the holocaust it is very obvious they were starved and there is no shortage of such pictures because it was so widespread. The holocaust or other incidents of starvation such as the siege of leningrad, the great famine or the holodomor have documented incidents of cannibalism and other manifestations of extreme hunger

I saw a video of a demonstration against Hamas from today, there were at least 300 people and these are the people that are less fed because they aren't Hamas, and there is no case of malnourishment I saw. This was the same across everything I saw this week and in general from the war. I believe the ICC will have real issues establishing starvation.

34. za3faran ◴[] No.43712342{11}[source]
There are clear interviews with zionist members confessing their crimes, so yes, the evidence is there. There is a reason that the whole world is against what israel is doing, except the US who is supporting it.
35. za3faran ◴[] No.43712388{9}[source]
Show us the evidence that they were required to dismount. The article you cited mentions no references, just mentions it in passing. This is not academic nor acceptable. I refuted all accusations unless proper evidence is brought up.

It is for a fact that Islam does not permit what you mentioned.

> As you can clearly see, there was no subdivision that cleanly mapped to the currently-existing region of Israel or Palestine. That region was created by the British, as "Mandatory Palestine."

Neither did any fake border map to present day country in the Middle East. This proves my point further - these fake borders were placed by the colonizing West to divide and conquer; and they got what they wanted - continued civil unrest, which they sowed on purpose to this very day. As I said, Islam and Muslims reject these fake borders.

> Sorry, but Islam does not decree to the rest of the world what borders are

It does decree to its lands; which is where the west came in and colonized them. Or are you denying Muslim autonomy on their own lands?

> Lmao. Where do you think you got Istanbul from? Do you recall that it once had a different name — does "Constantinople" ring a bell? The pot is calling the kettle black here.

Not really - when you compare how Constantinople was conquered and what was the end result (Light was brought in, science and culture flourished, the local culture was preserved, no one was forced out, etc.) to how western colonization works (destruction, civil wars, killing natives, forcing people out of their homes, etc) which continues to this very day; the story is very different. This is what the europeans did to the natives in America/Canada/Australia, etc.; this is what America did to Afghanistan/Iraq/etc, and this is what they want the Palesinians to do; but to their suprise, the Muslims do not give up so easily. The west left defeated from Afghanistan at the hands of the brave local population, even though they faced the most advanced armies.

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36. reissbaker ◴[] No.43727749{10}[source]
If it's not academic, why is the University of Pennsylvania — an Ivy League institution — publishing it? Did you notice the URL?

And I notice you're still trying to avoid the dung-gatherer decree...

Its lands

Uh-huh. The ones it conquered and colonized?

The end result

The Armenian genocide? The Greek genocide? Not to mention the actual act itself as documented by primary sources:

As soon as the Turks were inside the City, they began to seize and enslave every person who came their way; all those who tried to offer resistance were put to the sword. In many places the ground could not be seen, as it was covered by heaps of corpses.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fall_of_Constantinople

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37. za3faran ◴[] No.43729908{11}[source]
I noticed the URL, that doesn't change what I wrote: the article itself is empty. Just being posted on a upenn URL doesn't make it automatically authentic nor academic.

There is no evidence of the "dung gatherer decree" except in fictional work. As I wrote, I deny all accusation unless cited properly.

> Uh-huh. The ones it conquered and colonized?

No, the lands it spread to whose inhabitants accepted Islam without force, whose local culture and language was preserved, and which flourished afterward, and whos non-Muslim population was granted rights and protections.

The Armenian and Greek genocides was due to the rise of secularist movements like the young Turks. I mentioned this in another post. Those are explicitly anti-Islamic, and purely secular. Again proving my point that those would not have happened under Islamic rule.

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38. reissbaker ◴[] No.43730574{12}[source]
The Dung Gatherer's Decree is mentioned on Wikipedia and the citation points to here: https://search.worldcat.org/title/995805601

That is not a "fictional work."

And the UPenn article was literally written by a professor of Arabic studies!

And the quote about the piles of corpses I gave you was referencing the fall of Constantinople, when it was sacked by the Ottomans; I even gave you the Wikipedia link where you could find it. It in fact happened under Islamic rule and there is plenty of primary evidence of it.

And there is plenty of evidence of atrocities carried out by Muslims against Jews, e.g. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1834_looting_of_Safed

Or the Mawza Exile under Imam al-Mahdi Ahmad: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mawza_Exile

Or the Allahdad: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allahdad

Not to mention mass killing and forced conversion of Christians under the Ottomans:

For strategic reasons, the Ottomans forcibly converted Christians living in the frontier regions of Macedonia and northern Bulgaria, particularly in the 16th and 17th centuries. Those who refused were either executed or burned alive. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christianity_in_the_Ottoman_...

Your repeated assertions that none of this happened are simply ahistorical.

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39. za3faran ◴[] No.43734038{13}[source]
From searching:

> The term appears in the serial fiction "Consolaçam 10" by Ron Singer, where it is described as one of several newly enacted laws that forced Jews to flee their homeland due to such humiliating and discriminatory treatment

> There is no evidence in the provided search results that the "Dung-Gatherer's Decree" is a historical law from real-world legal or religious history; rather, it appears to be an example of anti-Semitic legislation within a narrative, illustrating the use of dehumanizing laws to marginalize and persecute a minority group

So that's out.

It doesn't matter if the UPenn article was written by a professor of Arabic studies, there are no citations.

I read about the fall of Constantinople. Most references I found were of orientalists who have a vested interest since their emergence to distort events. However, let's say that looting and killings did happen. That would fall solely on the individuals who ordered them and partook in them; Islam is free from blame.

You can read about the Pact of Umar and how he allowed the jews back into Jerusalem after they were massacred by the Romans and Byzantines. Yet, this is conveniently dropped when the anti-Muslim crowd attempts to paint a picture that Muslims are somehow "anti-semitic", but in reality, we saw who the real anti-semites are based on how the jews were treated in europe. Classic projection.

As far as the 1934 lootings, from the page itself:

> The event took place during a power vacuum while Ibrahim Pasha was fighting to quell the wider revolt in Jerusalem.

And according to the same article, it was done by Arabs and Druze. Nothing to do with Islam nor was it ordered by any official in power. We've seen what destabilization causes around the world when there is no power. We've seen the Sabra and Shatila massacres, but that was officially supported by the israeli government and army. No comparison can be made here.

The Mawza exile article cites the rise of the Shabbathian movement as a contributed. Yet again, these are isolated instances in the history of the Islamic nation, as opposed to the continuous killing and murdering and raping of the Palestinians (even underage females, all well documented) ever since their land was occupied and stolen from them.

Forced conversions are not allowed in Islam. We have no issue calling out violations of Islamic Law by whomever commits them. But today, the world watches international law being violated and war crimes being committed in front of our eyes live on TV. The israleis are literally committing mass starvation as we speak, but it's ok since they're "defending themselves". Never has history seen such atrocities while the rest of the world sits passive. But all of this has been foretold over 1400 years ago[1]

[1] https://sunnah.com/abudawud:4297