School Israel trip turns ‘terrifying’ for LA students attacked by Israeli teens
forward.com
Eighth graders from Milken Community School in Los Angeles were in Tiberias on a school trip when a crew of Israeli teens attacked them.
  • Entertainmeonly@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    4 days ago

    I feel really out of the loop after reading this article. Can anyone help me understand. I was under the impression Isreal was Jewish. If they are all of the same faith why the infighting? Was this just a matter of children becoming too rowdy in which case why bring up ethnicity at all. Was this an antisemitic hate act? In which case which party was being antisemitic? I’m so very confused.

    • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      4 days ago

      I was under the impression Isreal was Jewish. If they are all of the same faith why the infighting

      Lacking on details but first of all, not everyone who follows a religion agrees, it’s widely assumed to be a bogted statement when someone implies the opposite.

      But there’s two scenarios:

      1. The students are some kind of rightwing sect and the people who are actually being drafted to commit genocide got upset

      2. The students were just honestly celebrate but identified as “other” by rightwing Israelis and attacked.

      Also:

      understand. I was under the impression Isreal was Jewish. If they are all of the same faith why the infighting? Was this just a matter of children becoming too rowdy in which case why bring up ethnicity at all.

      None of this has anything to do with ethnicity, a lot of Israelis (and certainly a lot of Jewish folk) are not ethnicity Jewish.

      You’re asking questions, which is good.

      But you’re asking very basic questions, and almost all of them are assuming the same stance as white supremacists when talking about Israel.

      So wherever you’ve been getting your info, find a new way

    • Augustiner@lemmy.world
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      4 days ago

      Not Jewish and I’ve only been to Israel once, so take my anecdotal experiences with the appropriate amount of salt…

      So as with any religion, there are a lot of different sects in Judaism. Some are more radical and traditional than others. The most fundamental Jewish communities in Isreal sometimes have a pretty negative outlook on outsiders and foreigners in general and stick to strict fundamental religious principles. So there are stories of them messing with tourists, like throwing rocks at their cars and spitting at them. I didn’t experience anything like that myself, but was warned about it happening in certain areas.

      My theory is that the American group wandered into one of those areas and got roughed up a bit.

    • Goretantath@lemm.eeEnglish
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      4 days ago

      Isreal is zionist, not Jewish anymore. Think Jewish but got kicked in the head as a kid and forgot the holocaust was a thing that happened to them so they think being a nazi is cool.

    • turtle [he/him]@lemm.eeEnglish
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      4 days ago

      That appears to be exactly the position that one of the organizers is taking in the article.

      I guess these 8th-graders learned how to deal with being chased, surrounded, pepper-sprayed, and beat up?