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Israeli forces detain Santa Clause in raid on Palestinian Christmas celebration
(www.middleeasteye.net)
The Grinch got nothing on Israel
this post was submitted on 25 Dec 2025
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MAGA: the left will stop at nothing to destroy Christmas
Israel: literally arrests Santa*
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Hey Evangelical Zionists, Israel just attacked a Christmas celebration. The IDF just forcibly dispersed a group of Christians who were practicing their religion. This is outrageous, right?
We were outraged when the anti-Christian violence in Nigeria was brought up recently, so surely we are livid about this, right?
We should condemn Israel’s actions in the strongest possible terms, right? Sanctions might even be in order!
The White House needs to get out in front of this, to show our steadfast support of protecting Christian’s worldwide. The anti-Christian violence in the Middle East, committed by the Israeli state, must stop!
Evangelical Zionists would have kicked out Mary and Joseph out of that manger cause they were poor brown immigrants.
They're still Arabs, so no.
Evangelical Christians when they find out where that Jesus guy was from:
Dang. I thought we had ‘em this time!
With impunity. They don't care anymore about the message they're sending. They think they're safe in their position as the USA's largest military base in the Middle East. I hope they (and the USA) get proven wrong rather sooner than later.
Merry fucking Xmas. In some way it makes me happy that the world seems to agree with my hate of the holidays.
Being "the largest American military base in the Middle East" implies that the USA is controlling Israel when it is obviously the other way around.
Truth.
AIPAC has it's fingers into a lot of re-elections campaign finance machines, that's for sure. Been that way for a long time apparently.
Had a client many years ago who was a fashion model in the 1950's in New York - she went to many tony events across Manhattan (her husband was a publisher) and she said the Israeli PR machine that operated even then had blatant disdain for the US government and was openly dismissive and belittling of American politics.
She was easten european and had an Askenazi face and an old world first name that made people think she was Jewish so she heard a lot of shit as the old codgers at the fundraisers would open up around her and speak their minds.
And you will not hear a sound from the "war on Christmas" people
Yeah. Israelis are gonna be pricks to ANY Arab.. Being Christian doesn't mean a thing to those goose-stepers.
Bigots gonna bigot.
even being Jewish won’t save them
israel supporters loooooove to talk about all the Jewish Arabs who were persecuted across the middle east and sought refuge in israrel. but the ones who didn’t? they’re bombed like the rest.
israel and its supporters won’t even dare to admit they exist. i’ve seen people on mastodon straight up say that "Palestinian" and "Jewish" are two fundamentally separate identities and that someone can’t possibly be both.
I admittedly am not very well versed in israels insider history but during the creation of the state most people were european ashkenazi jews, and the arab Mizrahi jews faces severe discrimination and were sprayed pesticides and housed in camps and languages suppressed, and there were some serious allegations abt ethiopean jews about their donated blood being thrown and the state controlling their birth rates
Israel is just a violent colonial project of the west in the name of jews.. always has been.. its just it took two intifadas and a fucking genocide for the world to start noticing it
Bigots gonna bigot.
Bigots begat bigots
It is not often that I legitimately believe im reading an onion headline only to find it is explicitly not the onion. Oof.
FFS, I was joking about this last night.
I spent Christmas alone drinking beer and watching silent night deadly night 2 (been wanting to watch that movie for decades). This makes me think that Santa here should have acted... differently. Edit: I also downlaoded the epstein files and am in the process of downloading the whole video. I am making it known here in case they are taken down that I have a local copy.
what a bunch of hoe-hoe-hoes.
Next up: rabbis rule on whether reindeer meat is kosher.