Israeli authorities screened footage of Hamas’s October 7 atrocities to Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg and other pro-Palestinian flotilla participants upon their arrival in Ashdod on Monday, shortly after the IDF intercepted their ship, the Madleen, in international waters.

According to Defense Minister Israel Katz, the activists refused to continue watching the film after seeing the brutality of the attacks.

"These antisemitic flotilla activists closed their eyes to the truth and once again proved they prefer the murderers over the victims,” Katz said. “They continue to ignore the atrocities committed by Hamas against Jewish and Israeli women, the elderly, and children.”

The activists were given the option to sign a voluntary departure form or face arrest after 96 hours. Among those refusing to leave is French MEP Rima Hassan.

Hassan has previously drawn wide criticism for her denial that the Bibas family, excluding Yarden Bibas, were murdered, her claim that the October 7 massacre was “legitimate” and her insistence that Palestinians in Europe should be allowed to join the “resistance.”

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    Remember, kids, nothing Israel has done justifies October 7th, but also, October 7th justifies everything Israel is doing.

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    “Hostage refuses to be psychologically tortured by war criminals”

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    So Israel is doing the „But they are doing it too!” thing

    Are we in kindergarten or what?

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    There’s no footage from October 7th that comes close to what happens in Gaza every fucking day.

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    Peaceful protestor held at gunpoint refuses to watch violent propaganda.

    As such, branded as hypocrite.

    Modern politics.

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      Delivering baby formula to certain people seen specifically as a form of protest by all media.

      Modern politics.

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    Is no one going to say or do anything about the fact that Israel illegally “intercepted” another ship in international waters?

    Also arrested for what? They weren’t even under Israeli jurisdiction when picked up.

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      The entire earth’s waters are under the USA’s jurisdiction, didn’t you know? Maybe you should read some more CNN news stories about China’s evil navy trying to take over the South China Sea from the USA, who obviously should have more control over the South China Sea than China does. And the Israeli Navy is just another branch of the American Navy, which has the second largest air force in the world (after the American Air Force).

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      All legal under the letter of international law pertaining to military engagement. That it is in international waters is irrelevant legally speaking. See the legal grounds for the sinking of Belgrano for a clearer example. As long as they can think of a halfway credible excuse that they think the vessel will cause aid to their enemy, they have the right to interdict it in international waters.

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      At leat in A Clockwork Orange the point of the footage wasn’t to try to persuade them that violence is good.

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          There are two endings. In both, the brainwashing treatment temporarily prevents the main character from committing violence.

          In the movie after he tries to commit suicide he wakes up in hospital and the effect of the brainwashing has worn off so he goes back to violence.

          In the book the government undo the brainwashing in a bid to get him to support them but he later loses the urges all on his own.

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    October 7 atrocities

    Israel has been doing october 7 numbers daily for over a year now. Even if hamas managed to do 100x the numbers on the day it still wouldnt justify this unlimited childmelting that israhell is doing.

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      I’m always reminded that CBC was including a graph of Israeli & Palestinian deaths after October 7 in their reporting on Gaza. They quietly stopped including it when Palestinian deaths dwarfed Israeli deaths and made it clear that Israel was killing indiscriminately

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    "These antisemitic flotilla activists closed their eyes to the truth and once again proved they prefer the murderers over the victims,”

    weren’t they just bringing food and supplies for normies on the strip?

    TIL everyone in Gaza is Hamas

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      TIL everyone in Gaza is Hamas

      Well Israel has been openly claiming it for years. So we’ll done.

      Just like questioning the acts of the Israel government. Is an attack on every Jewish person. Even if Jewish folks object.

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      Oh you want to bring people food and medicine???!!? 🤔😬😬

      You should watch this fake video I made about them first, then you’ll change your mind.😏

      /s

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        I’ve seen first-person clips of October 2023 atrocities attributed to Hamas.

        Do you have any idea if those are real or not? Given how self-incriminating those would be, I find it odd that Hamas would upload those videos.

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          If they’re coming from Israeli-military-affiliated, I’m 100% not believing due to the source. Not trusting anything that comes from child-murderers.

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    Do they think the floridly theatrical condescension makes them look like the good guys here?

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    "These antisemitic flotilla activists closed their eyes to the truth and once again proved they prefer the murderers over the victims,” Katz said. “They continue to ignore the atrocities committed by Hamas against Jewish and Israeli women, the elderly, and children.”

    Not gonna believe this hasbara rag unless they show unedited video of the flotilla participants not watching the tapes. And likewise for everything else in the article. 💩

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    "These antisemitic flotilla activists closed their eyes to the truth and once again proved they prefer the murderers over the victims,” Katz said. “They continue to ignore the atrocities committed by Hamas against Jewish and Israeli women, the elderly, and children.”

    They refused to watch videos of atrocities that aren’t part of the videos, such as the murders of babies (unfounded) and mass sexual violence (unfounded). They must hate Jews. They certainly aren’t protesting the genocide of Palestinians. It can’t be that. /s

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    Isreal knew Oct 7 was coming.

    Source: I know this sounds crazy but trust me

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      They did, it has been proven beyond any doubt because they openly admitted it. They also willfully ignored warnings from military officials. Also the pager operation was already in progress months before Oct 7 so they were planning all out war with the whole region for a while.

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        Yep, they also purposefully moved the festival closer to Gaza. The organisers is known to have Mossad connections