Palestinian film director and Academy Award-winner Hamdan Ballal was violently attacked by what his colleague described as a “lynch mob” of Israeli settlers on Monday night in the Palestinian village of Susya, south of Hebron in the occupied West Bank.

Ballal’s whereabouts are now unknown after Israeli soldiers then seized him from the ambulance that arrived to treat him, his co-director and fellow Oscar winner of the documentary No Other Land, Yuval Abraham, said on X.

Abraham, a journalist for +972 magazine, said in a separate post featuring a shaky cell phone video that masked settlers “attacked Hamdan’s village, they continued to attack American activists, breaking their car with stones”.

      • thisnameisnottolong@aussie.zone
        555·
        3 months ago

        “your usage was actually right, but I can’t accept that my narrow definition isn’t right, so because it says ‘especially’ I’m interpreting that as ‘always’. So actually I’m right. Yay me.”

          • Zagorath@aussie.zoneEnglish
            19·
            3 months ago

            Except that in the context “lynched” is being used in this case, even with a strict “death only” definition, it’s not unreasonable to suggest that “attempted lynching” would have been appropriate. Given that context, and the fact that actually “death only” is not the definition of lynched, can you not see how crying about definitions looks an awful lot like downplaying the severity of this crime? Like when zionists cry about being accused of genocide?

              • Zagorath@aussie.zoneEnglish
                18·
                3 months ago

                We all know the connotations of these terms

                Do we? Because I didn’t have any issue with the word as used. To me, a lynching is a violent, usually race/ethnicity-based mob attack on a person. And this pretty well fits the bill.

                You’re the one doing linguistic prescriptivism here. The only difference is that what you’re prescribing isn’t what’s in the dictionary, it’s what’s in your own head.

                  • Zagorath@aussie.zoneEnglish
                    7·
                    3 months ago

                    To be clear: at no point did I make any reference to rape or the definition thereof. I was only referring to how you and others were using lynch.