Ben-Gvir posts Palestinians on conveyor belts to detention camps. The world is silent | Arwa Mahdawi
Ben-Gvir did not come into power in a vacuum: he was helped into his position by an international community that has afforded Israel complete impunity Let me introduce you to Itamar Ben-Gvir, the leader of Israel’s far-right Jewish Power (Otzma Yehudit) party, the minister of national security, and an almost cartoonishly evil man. You’ll have heard his name before: he made international news when…
Itamar Ben-Gvir, the leader of Israel’s far-right Jewish Power (Otzma Yehudit) party and minister of national security, has been making headlines with his alarming comments and actions. One particularly shocking incident involved a now-deleted AI-generated video he posted on Twitter/X, depicting portly Palestinian prisoners being loaded onto a conveyor belt and entering a detention camp, only to emerge gaunt.
The caption, "we promised – we delivered!", appears to reference his promise to worsen conditions for Palestinian prisoners. Israeli human rights group B’Tselem has likened these prisons to "torture camps". Despite the gravity of Ben-Gvir's actions and statements, coverage from much of the US media has been notably absent.
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