A protester was in critical condition Friday after setting themself on fire outside the Israeli consulate in Atlanta, authorities said. A security guard who tried to intervene was also injured.

A protester was in critical condition Friday after setting themself on fire outside the Israeli consulate in Atlanta, authorities said. A security guard who tried to intervene was also injured.

A Palestinian flag found at the scene was part of the protest, Atlanta Police Chief Darin Schierbaum said at a news conference.

He added that investigators did not believe there was any connection to terrorism and none of the consular staff was ever in danger.

“We do not see any threat here,” he said. “We believe it was an act of extreme political protest that occurred.”

  • FuglyDuck@lemmy.worldEnglish
    202·
    11 months ago

    Well, they also left off the incredibly tone deaf statements from the consul… in reference to the security guard and highest value being the sanctity of life; and how self immolation was done out of hate for Jews…

    • jimmydoreisalefty@lemmy.world
      52·
      11 months ago

      Do you have a source or what findings confirmed it was self immolation due to religious persecution?

      Aside from Israel gov’t sources, they tend to push for religious persecution at any chance they get, similar to AIPAC (Zionist, Foreign lobby group in the US).

      https://www.reuters.com/world/us/protester-self-immolates-outside-israeli-consulate-atlanta-2023-12-01/

      “We are saddened to learn of the self-immolation at the entrance to the office building,” the consul general of Israel to the southeastern U.S., Anat Sultan-Dadon, told ABC News. “It is tragic to see the hate and incitement toward Israel expressed in such a horrific way. The sanctity of life is our highest value.”

      • FuglyDuck@lemmy.worldEnglish
        132·
        11 months ago

        https://lemmy.world/post/9029514 was the original post with it. from that article:

        In a statement, the consul general of Israel to the south-east US, Anat Sultan-Dadon, said that the diplomatic mission is “saddened to learn of the self-immolation at the entrance to the office building”.

        “It is tragic to see the hate and incitement toward Israel expressed in such a horrific way,” she added.
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        “The sanctity of life is our highest value. Our prayers are with the security officer who was injured while trying to prevent this tragic act”.

        I’m not saying that it was religious persecution- it was done in protest of the war in Gaza, and one almost never sets oneself on fire because you hate somebody else… like usually it’s in extreme protest to violence… not something done out of hatred at all.

        was just pointing out that the statement- the incredibly tone deaf statement- was dropped from the PBS article.

        • jimmydoreisalefty@lemmy.world
          61·
          11 months ago

          Thank you for taking the time to clarify!

          It was my fault for misunderstanding your original statement!

          Have a great day!

    • NightAuthor@lemmy.worldEnglish
      215·
      11 months ago

      If they Jews want me to hate the Jews, then as someone with no problem with Jewish people, I guess the polite thing to do is to hate the Jews.

      Edit: but apparently it’s not the Jews pushing this, but specifically Zionists. In which case the above conditional is rendered moot.

      • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
        274·
        11 months ago

        Maybe it’s because I am a Jew, but I would say that the polite thing to do would be to tell them to fuck off with their bullshit claims of antisemitism.

        For fuck’s sake, no one sets themselves on fire in the name of bigotry.

        • kurwa@lemmy.world
          52·
          11 months ago

          I feel like any Jew who calls any of these sorts of actions, any anti Zionist protests, anti-Semitic, is at worst a fake Jew and at best a disappointment for Jews. Because how do you support zionists, this ethnic cleansing, after Jewish people had to go through the Holocaust? The amount of mental gymnastics you have to go through to not see the equivalence between this and what Nazi Germany did is insane.

      • jimmydoreisalefty@lemmy.world
        42·
        11 months ago

        edit: removed sentence to stick to point

        I would suggest to restrain from hating groups, even if some act in a way you don’t agree with.

        Reminds me of what Yanis said:

        but let me say something about power racism and i will add patriarchy i don’t believe that we have the answers

        to these things in my in you know this is a novel and in it i try to make it absolutely clear

        that i do not believe that my side of politics even my very

        quaint version of socialism even if we manage to sort out all the problems with corporations with the power of capital

        to exploit to reproduce itself and so on that we can deal with patriarchy

        or racism discrimination runs very deeply in our societies and you know we can reduce the toxicity

        which always breeds more racism and more xenophobia and more sexism

        but i’m pessimistic about human nature we

        really need i you know i look into myself and i find a nazi living in me a racist living in me a sexist living in me

        i constantly have battles with me with myself and anybody who tells me that you’re not like that you’re lying

        we are all like this we all have a dark side and we all need to fight constantly against it

        Time stamp: 1:20:36

        Can we Fix Capitalism? Yanis Varoufakis vs Gillian TettIntelligence Squared

        https://youtu.be/Gv6130kSzEY?si=gMZvGTZ8HXYbAGRq&t=4836

        • NightAuthor@lemmy.worldEnglish
          13·
          11 months ago

          You dare me… wow

          See, I find it hard to explain politely how the context (comment I replied to) changed after I made my comment, and that without said context my comment looks completely different… because you’re such a fucking asshat.

      • queermunist she/her@lemmy.ml
        49·
        11 months ago

        Please don’t.

        They do want you to hate Jews, Zionism is fundamentally a project about promoting antisemitism around the world to force Jews to flee to Israel. You playing into that strategy is exactly what they want.

        • NightAuthor@lemmy.worldEnglish
          82·
          11 months ago

          Well, if it’s zionists wanting me to hate all Jews, then I guess I’ll have to continue being neutral to Jews, and hating zionists.

          Not that I really have the energy or concentration needed to hate something for more than the instant it triggers me.