# I Pit Babale **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [April 7, 2025, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-babale/1016738 "2025-04-07T14:59:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 1205
**Author:** ![Banquet\_Bear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/banquet_bear/32/373_2.png) [@Banquet\_Bear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Banquet_Bear)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2026, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-babale/1016738/1205 "2026-09-16T01:22:03Z")
…meanwhile today, from the noted antisemitic organization called J Street: > [@](#): > > **Over the past 3.5 years, the number of settlements and outposts has more than doubled** , from roughly 300 to over 650. > > Settlement growth has gone hand in hand with an exponential increase in settler violence that seeks to displace the territory’s Palestinian population. > > Since 2023, more than 5,300 settler attacks – often carried out with the IDF’s tacit or active support – together with the demolition of Palestinian structures, have fully or partially displaced 117 Palestinian communities. > > The result has been the de facto annexation of some 60% of the West Bank, with Israel establishing full control without a formal declaration of sovereignty. > … > **Israel now fully controls 92% of Israel-Palestine.** > > While Prime Minister Netanyahu had previously negotiated based on the possibility of some type of future Palestinian state, this government now claims all the land of Israel-Palestine and is aggressively implementing a comprehensive, systematic plan to realize its vision of a Greater Israel. > > The surprising part is how close they have already come. > > Maps produced by J Street Policy Fellow Frank Lowenstein and Policy Assistant Liam Hamama – recently featured in The New Yorker – show how Israel today fully controls approximately 92% of Israel-Palestine, while the population of Jews and non-Jews is split 50/50. > Babale loves to play the _deflection_ game. It allows them to pretend they’ve got the moral high ground when in reality they are defending this: the de facto annexation of Palestinian land, the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians from the West Bank, and the ongoing genocide in Gaza. And the sad thing is that his tactics _work_. Nobody wants to talk about this. They will get baited into extended debates about podcasters that nobody here actually listens to. And what Macklemore did in 2014 was obviously antisemitic, was really fucking stupid, and was rightly condemned at the time; he apologised, and nothing he has done _since_ leads me to believe he did it out of a hatred of Jewish people or because he holds antisemitic views. I think he did it because he was fucking stupid. But we can both concede that what he did was antisemitic AND oppose what Israel is doing to Palestine and to Southern Lebanon; we can condemn this utterly rediculous war with Iran that is causing global disruption. We can look at what happened to Macklemore and say that this just isn’t right. The same as the activists who were targeted by ICE. For the people that spoke up for Palestine that got fired from their jobs, kicked out of their accommodation, for the people that worked for the UN and for the International Courts that face sanction from the US, which means they can’t even open a bank account now, for the grannies in the UK who got thrown in jail because they held up a sign in support of a “proscribed terrorist group.” It should be plainly obvious what Babale _actually_ stands for. They _won’t_ condemn the killing of Hind Rajab, of Refaat Alareer, of the 15 paramedics and aid workers that were slaughtered on the 23rd of March 2025. They literally just said they support Israel’s actions in Gaza and in defense of its actions in Gaza, I’m going to assume atrocities and all because they won’t condemn the most obvious examples of them. Babale supported the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation. In its short time being in charge of food distribution in Gaza, 2600 Palestinians in Gaza were massacred trying to get food from them. Nearly 20,000 people were injured. While they were running food distribution part of Gaza slipped into famine. Babale’s thought that the point of this video was that [“Ben Gvir has been bragging about how the prisons used to serve fresh baked pitas everyday until he got involved.”](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-discussion-thread-for-israel-gaza-west-bank-hijacks-tolerated/1031615/481) > **[Sanctioned Israeli minister deletes AI video mocking Palestinian prisoners](https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09-04/israel-minister-ben-gvir-deletes-palestinian-prisoner-videos/107109316)** > > Israel's far-right national security minister deletes two videos that were criticised for promoting the poor treatment of Palestinian prisoners. Babale described the Palestinians in this AI-generated video as “fat and jovial.” Babale _rightly_ condemns Macklemore for wearing an obviously antisemitic mask. But Babale can’t and _won’t_ condemn what was obviously a bigoted portrayal of Palestinians. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-babale/1016738)._