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Duckfaces and Death to Arabs: Israeli Teens Call for Ethnic Cleansing
On July 10th, David Sheen, a staff writer at Muftah.org, entered the search term "Aravim" (or Arab, in Hebrew) on Twitter. What he found was disturbing: Teenagers, making duck faces, posing for scantily-clad selfies and calling for the deaths (often painful) of Arabs everywhere.
While we often hear about death tolls and bombings in the news, it's not as often that we are given a glimpse of how the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is affecting the younger generations, those that are on social media and are about to enter the Israeli army. As a Jew, and as someone who has been raised to always support Israel (which, according to my parents, is my spiritual home, although I have never been), it's hard to look at these tweets (and their accompanying pictures and Twitter avatars) and not feel a mixture of sadness, shame, disgust, and also sympathy. Because the views these teenagers hold aren't just personal, they're endemic.
Here are just some of the tweets Sheen translated:
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