r/JewsOfConscience • u/Educational_Board888 Non-Jewish Ally • 10d ago

News 'Soul of my soul': Israeli shelling kills Khaled Nabhan, a Gazan grandfather who moved the world

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u/myrusernamir Atheist 10d ago

How can amybody see this video and not feel his heart broken is beyond me. Peace and justice, soon.

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u/DazzlingOil4340 10d ago edited 10d ago

Edward Said explained why so well in his book titled "Orientalism"

Arabs as well as muslims have undergone a long process of dehumanisation through the media to the point where we see it as the white man's burden to save the "savage and backward" Orient from their own barbarity (another way of saying their livelihood).

We see muslim women as oppressed or forced to wear a headscarf when most of them do so to be closer to God.

Westerners are led to believe that the "savage and barbaric" religion of Islam (the same one that produced intellectuals like Avicenna and Averroes) are out to get them and drink their blood.

To the point where we no longer see their children as equal to our children, or their blood and tears equal to ours.

A similar process of Oriental dehumanisation was employed by Israel after the Nakba where thousands of soldiers who were part of the Haganah, Irgun and Palmach suffered from PSTD after blowing up homes of Palestinians while they slept, burning Palestinian children alive etc.

This allowed Israelis then and now to feel comfortable (or maybe even pleased) seeing dead Palestinian children.

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u/pomegranie Jewish Anti-Zionist 10d ago

I remember seeing that video so clearly. It shattered my heart into pieces. Justice must be pursued.

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u/atav1k Antisatanic Jesuit 10d ago

Peace be with Nabhan and his family. As horrific as this news is I'm glad the video reflects the dignity of his life in a world that denied him that everyday.

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u/Skryuska 9d ago

A man who knew to love and so he did. Zionists deserve all that they do unto others.