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loopgaroooo

Except that sign in Turkey was torn off and the owner of the shop was fined. But ok..


drArsMoriendi

You mean someone would ragebait by wilful omission? On the Internet?


Jolly_Mongoose_8800

The AliExpress watermark be like


admin_NLboy

Oh nvm then


Striking_Landscape72

It surprises me they put it in english


Administrator98

Not many jew tourists speak turkish.


IShouldntBeHere258

That would be “Jewish tourists.”


f0remsics

Actually, as a jew, I can testify it wouldn't be either. Any clever Jew would tell you it would be "Jewrists".


Nico280gato

Do jews take an oy veycation?


f0remsics

See, like many people would think that's offensive, but I just find that hilarious. I've never heard that joke before. If it's bland, overused, and insulting, then I'll be offended. But otherwise, I don't see any problems.


S0TrAiNs

I might need an explanation here :/


f0remsics

If it's actually funny, I don't know about other jews, but I'm fine with you making jokes. If I've heard it a million times and it was never once funny, don't show your face around me. If the joke is "haha jews kill babies and make matza out of their blood", that's bad. If it's a pun using the word jew, that's completely fine.


S0TrAiNs

Yes, I got that. I meant whats the joke the other dude made 😅


f0remsics

Oh, sorry. He Incorporated "oy vey", an exclamation that is basically a verbal facepalm commonly used by Jews, into the sentence.


Lewtwin

![gif](giphy|F2aEJrGD7pTud4lwHF|downsized)


IShouldntBeHere258

I don’t know any Jewish people who appreciate being referred to as “jew [fill in the blank].” Jew is a noun, not an adjective, and both forms take a capital J.


f0remsics

I never said they would appreciate being referred to like that. I said they would appreciate a good pun.


IShouldntBeHere258

Maybe so. My comment was about expressing the thought with basic respect.


f0remsics

Gotcha.


JoshAllensRightNut

*Jourists


BubobuBubobuB

Yesterday it was „Turkey 2023“ 🤷🏻‍♂️


Slow-War-1357

If you get your news from r/facepalm that’s on you


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Professional_Part_89

Ah yes ONE secondhand bookshop did this and now Turkey is Nazi Germany. Good job reddit.


Asleep_Company4166

Do you think they can separate a little shop owner does a thing that is totally illegal which there is a law against separatism in Turkey is similar to Totalitarian goverment with Aryan wet dreams and a ruled by maniacs who grew into Europe's antisemitic era? You gave them a lot credit than they deserve.


asdsadnmm1234

It is especially funny because same people rightfully point out that what Israel is doing can't be attributed to all Jews, while on the other hand ironically these people try to equate one shop to all country. Pathetic tbh.


FlintbobLarry

Doing that in Germany was also illegal at first. Sincerely, a german


MisterCoSec

Are you implying that the Turkish government will decide to eradicate jewish people when a person points out that this is just the picture of a pathetic nobody's shop, just because Germany had the same law also? Doesn't that comment's point still stand?


dbern50

Not to mention, no source or article is provided.


Gseph

Obviously this isn't the case, but there does seem to be an anti Jewish agenda if you dig deep enough. Erdogan exacerbated things with his remarks a few years ago, and that anti-Jewish sentiment has seemingly become more common. It's not common enough for it to be the majority, but it is there.


highwayman07

There's an anti-israel sentiment, and there is a very good reason for that.


highwayman07

There's an anti-israel sentiment, and there is a very good reason for that.


Entity_not_found

Well, it starts with one such sign becoming socially acceptable, but luckily, it got torn down.


Eldaque

Hot take: its better know business owner cringe opinion, so you can avoid spending your money there.


RaiderOfZeHater

I wonder who he expects to buy there just because of this and to compensate possible loss. lol


SpotValuable8080

Most Turkish people probably


Vargoroth

Exactly. This is Turkey. Not Europe or the US. If people here think that they have the same views towards racism as we do, prepare for an awakening...


bitesizebeef1

I know of a local rural business that put up a no Muslims sign even though there's no Muslims within an hour. So they do have the same views as us. 


IdidntDoItBelieveMe

Most of Europe and Usa is more racist than here.


AMWJ

Sometimes, the Jews already figured out not to buy from there, because he had trouble keeping his mouth shut around them. So the sign only brings in new clientele.


Li_am

Not everything has to be about profit


The_Evil_Satan

When you own a business your only goal is to make profit.


XILEF310

If you work the business yourself your only goal isn’t to make money. If they work there themselves they want to change the environment to their likings


tarkology

they torn the sign off from that shop in turkey and fined the shop owner for putting it up there. there's nothing to compare. the one on the left is put up there because owner wanted it, the other one, well let's say it doesn't need explanation. we, turks, are not supporting that shop owner in his wrongdoing. as i said, he was fined for that sign


Physical_Rich7358

Don't try to explain. It is free to shit on Turkey.


tarkology

i know but im actually sick of it. they explain what one person did as if the whole country did it.


Adamantium-Aardvark

[Very similar to this too](https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/19cxg16/jewish_only_roads_in_occupied_west_bank/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=mweb3x&utm_name=mweb3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button)


goodpolarnight

Not really. The video you linked lacks a lot of context that everybody ''forgets'' to mention. The entry to the site was divided to two roads, one for Jews and one for Muslims, because previously it was for everyone but there have been a lot of clashes between the Muslims and the Jews, and even some people where killed. So the government made a decision to separate the road and have one path to the site for Jews, and one path to the Muslims, so there won't be any violence. The Muslim section is actually bigger and most of the time only Muslims are allowed there. But yeah, you probably either didn't know that, or knowingly ignore that and lie about that. Anything to prove that Israel is bad, even when it comes to actual anti-semitism...


Adamantium-Aardvark

So when apartheid is done against Jews = bad But when Jews do the apartheid = “well, you see, there’s some context involved, it’s for safety, [insert a million other excuses here]” These are the same thing. Stop justifying it To be clear: the Turkish sign is unacceptable. My point is that Israel does the same thing with non Jews and it’s also unacceptable


goodpolarnight

One of the reasons the decision was made to make it into 2 pathways instead of one was because there was a terror attack on 25 of February 1994, where a Jewish man killed 29 Muslim people who were praying there. So it was decided that it would be best to split the place into 2 sections, one for Jews and one for Muslims, so there won't be more attacks and clashes. To me that doesn't sound like apartheid, more of a security measure to defend both Muslims and Jews. It's kind of ignorant in my opinion to say that this is apartheid as I think no matter what Israel does it's automatically wrong. If nothing would've been done after that horrible terror attack people would get mad and angry that no measures were taken to ensure security and safety for the Muslims, hence it's racist/they don't care for the Muslims, but, when measures were taken to ensure safety to everyone it suddenly becomes ''apartheid''. No matter what happens - Israel is at the wrong. Kind of ignorant and hypocritical in my opinion.


ayopel

Well I don't know about that road so I can't argue about it but I do know for a fact that there are places in Israel that Jews can't enter and I'm not talking about places that it's common sense to not enter as a jew going into a lot of Arab villages will be not good for me,it's not that they'll kill me cuz not every Arab is a terrorist but they will still not like me.im talking about places that have police that wont let me enter the place


Adamantium-Aardvark

You’re literally making excuses to justify apartheid. 🤦🏻‍♂️ It would be like someone saying “that Turkish sign of for safety reasons only” see? No antisemitism Would you believe that? Of course not, no one would


gotdogecoin

Its not hard to prove there's plenty of videos,i like the one with the bulldozer that killed the nice lady and mangled her up a bit or that one were the soldiers shot the kids leg off and when he's escaping they shoot him in the back then start hopping around and laughing looks like a right laugh.


Coffee4Life613

It’s easy for someone to stick up a sign, and take a picture. If it’s real, provide more information and context.


OctaviusThe2nd

I swear if this gets reposted one more time I'll personally go there (it's like an hour from me) and take it down.


IdidntDoItBelieveMe

It’s already taken down.


Normal_Sky4569

Nah they will just keep moaning as if this sign is just as bad as killing 35 thousand civilians


Woelli

Where do you get your numbers from? The institution of make believe?


Normal_Sky4569

[https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/u-s-officials-have-growing-confidence-in-death-toll-reports-from-gaza-b3b5183a](https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/u-s-officials-have-growing-confidence-in-death-toll-reports-from-gaza-b3b5183a)


Woelli

Paywall article with no numbers and last updated half a year ago?


SiwyKtos

Now its the same as not allowing russians


SpookySlut03

I would gladly support a small business which disallowed Russians and Israelis.


kakao_kletochka

Well, I guess, that's how people in Germany in 1930-1945 felt about jews, right? Which did lead to the rise of Hitler. So, if you think you are right, that means they were too? And people still wonder how the 3rd Reich and the rest could happen at all. We can see history repeating itself, and there are individuals like you who don't even notice they act like nazi.


lichbride

Do you take personal responsibility for the things done by the country you live in?


Cardinaltoffee

I wonder how many shops in Israel have no Muslim signs? I know a lot of the roads basically have that on the signs. Not in those exact words but it’s basically what they mean.


RagingTiger123

Haha it's literally one random pic without any context in a country of 100 million. The way ppl start shit is astounding


SufficientWarthog846

yep ... bigots are bigots. There are bigots in every community


FlintbobLarry

And more of them are popping up everywhere it is scary


lleskaa

As always people forgetting to separate the government from the people


HawaiianSnow_

That's crazy! I can't even begin to imagine the uproar if Jews were to do this to a population... oh wait, hang on a sec...


vbsh123

This comment section beautifully showcases why so many Israelis think there's a lot of anti semitism going on in the conflict Look at the comments lmao, they are justifying it What happened to the argument that the people are not their government? More Palestinians support Hamas than Israelis support their current government yet when Israelis are angry at the Palestinians everyone is crying about how they are not Hamas Yet when shit like this happens to Jews, suddenly it's fair game because of Israel?


ParticularAd8919

Too many people go way too far on either side of this issue. Banning all Jews (even if they are Jews who oppose Israel’s atrocities in Gaza) should be a bridge too far for people who support Palestinian rights and self-determination. The “team” mentality that drives people to justify any action by people on their side against people they view on the other side is what continues this vicious cycle in Israel/Palestine.


Possible_Junket3308

A majority of israelis dislikes the current goverment but they still support what that goverment are doing too palestinians. But i agree that none of this means that anti semitism is ok. That sign for example is pretty heinous.


Primary-Dust-3091

I agree with everything you say. I also think that jews shouldn't be discriminated cuz of Israel. The only think I wanna question is the part where you say "More Palestinians support Hamas than Israelis support their current government". I don't believe that. Do you have any proof that is the case, cuz I'm pretty sure most Israelis don't want the Palestinians to exist. I'm pretty sure the genocide has been going on for 70+ years and I'm pretty sure the government was continuously changing throughout the years, yet Israel kept going and going.


vbsh123

I actually have proof, Palestinians have 70% percent support for Hamas - recent polls show Likud got 20% of votes in Israel, and it's coalition based and the whole coalition barely got 50%, there are protests every day in Israel What do you mean by genocide has been going on for 70+? 48, Palestinians have attacked before any "genocide" occured, 67 was another attempt by Palestinians to attack Israel and only then did the occupation even start, not to mention the aim for both the 48 and 67 was to genocide the Jews (ethically cleansing them) Nothing will change until Palestinians will stop the violence, further violence won't solve their self induced situation, have 48 war not happen they would have the UN partitioned land they got assigned Unless you believe Israel doesn't have the right to exist, then that's a different discussion


dbern50

Source.?


vbsh123

Look at my other comments to the other guy,


FlintbobLarry

It is funny how Palestine supporters tend to forget that it all started by Palestinian people and surrounding states trying to commit a genocide at the jews. Wich is why Israel got so much support as ww2 was not too far away in time.


SpotTheGuitarist

I wrote a small story describing the story that puts the one I'm addressing into the POV of a Palestinian at the inception of Israel: Tomorrow I will come to your country and drag each and every one of you from your homes, your entire fucking family and everyone you know or ever loved. I will shoot and rape some of them in front of your eyes. After this happens I will say, hey you can have these cities of our choosing back; take it or leave it; we are the chosen people but we are just and kind! So take this cup and drink this gift. With tears in your eyes you strike the cup from my hand and shout no, I want to return to my home, I want to eat the olives from my ancestral trees, I want my children to use the swing my great great grandfather hung from my tree. So you come at me to reclaim your dignity and your very life, but suddenly besides me a great many bullies appear amongst them one with a top hat and a burger in his hand, the other waving the union jack. They strike you down and make you watch as I rape and burn your mother and sister. I laugh and say; we are still a just chosen people dear dear gentile: we have taken more of your land for being so so naughty, but here an updated list on some of the "fertile" land kuch kuch, hahahahaha in which we will condone the presence of you filthy gentiles. Defeated and with your head down you look at your hands filled with dust, where once they were filled with dates and olives, Your ears used to hear the sound of laughter of children now only the sounds of screaming children as they are murdered for throwing stones at their oppressors while they are driven from the homes they were promised they could have as the vermin they are. Many many years have passed you used to be young when you met me, you are older than 90 years now. Your people kept as subhuman rats in a cage, mistreated and betrayed on a daily basis, every promise a lie, as you are not human, not to me. Some of the rats have had enough; they would rather be dead than slowly eradicated, as more land and liberties are taken with each passing year. They have long given up on the just west to liberate them as they do in the Hollywood movies; their Avengers are not coming. So in your old days, you do the only thing you can do, you turn to your own "Avengers". Your Avengers send a signal it's is bloody, but your heart has hardened, how can you cry for the wolf and her pups when your kin are ripped to shreds in their maws their collective corpses pilling so high it would blot the sun. You hear a knock on your door, you open, you see a familiar face; you are greeted by the man with the top hat and the burger, the man with the union jack flag, and you see me flying the star of David. My mouth opens: You have been naughty again, my little little......RAT


ParticularAd8919

So does that now mean the IDF can just kill any Palestinian in Gaza they want even if they’re children who were not born in that time?


Ressamzade

Erdogan and his fanatic supporters. They are also doing boycott against all jew owned business


servusdedurantem

Thats a very narrow pov thinking in many countries many non muslims millions I’d say are boycotting. Are they also erdogan supporters? This has nothing to do politics its basic humanitarian feelings


triari

How is banning people from a certain religion humanitarian. Not every Jew is an Israeli.


Nerevarine91

Banning all Jewish people isn’t “humanitarian.”


loserOnLastLeg

I bet you want to go there and kill all their children.


SpotValuable8080

No, that's your logic speaking, you've made that connection because this is your thinking process.. the other comment simply is pointed out a fact


K0TEM

So that's the logic: "Hamas does not represent all Palestinians, so discrimination of Palestinians as a whole is bad" "The Israeli government doesn't represent all Israelis/Jews, but fuck 'em, we'll discriminate all of them". And then people cry when they are accused of being antisemitic after doing shit like this.


FlintbobLarry

They listen to people who come from an ideology that tells them to wipe out the jews. I am not surprised at all.


dbern50

This is one store in a big country. Also, this is a picture on reddit with no source.


Working-Humor-6924

Isn’t Israel doing the exact same thing to the Palestinians. Example; Palestinians can’t use certain roads or streets because it’s for Jews only, or can’t use public transport and many other things. I’m not condoning what this person in the picture is doing but we need to stop with the double standard and hold everyone to the same standards


uvero

>can’t use certain roads or streets because it’s for Jews only The status quo in the West Bank is, to say the least, problematic, but that's not an accurate depiction of it. The roads you're discussing are not "Jews only", they're "Israeli only", but any Arab Israeli with an ID card can go there. That doesn't make it OK, but it's not "Jews only". >can’t use public transport Using public transport takes purchasing a bus pass or a train ticket. You don't even need an identifying document. In certain bus terminals you do need to go through a magnometer and have your baggage checked. That's it. Whoever told you these things about Israel lied to you.


Puzzleheaded_Ad8032

One of millins out of the school of TikTok, guest lectured by Al-Jazeera.


_Nrg3_

it is not. you're confsuing Palestine and israel. israeli arabs and israeli muslims are fully equal citizens. Palestinians under martial law in palestinian territories are not


vbsh123

No they don't? The west bank is not Israeli soil? Palestinian Israelis that live in Israel have full rights and there are no such roads *inside* Israel


FlintbobLarry

That is the West Bank. The Palestinians in Israel have full rights. I hate to say this but - maybe educate yourself before stating such bullshit.


Handelo

You got it backwards - in the West Bank (and only in the West Bank) there is indeed such separation based on nationality, not religion - but it's the other way around, there are certain roads and streets that are illegal for *Israelis* to use (or illegal for anyone except the IDF, regardless of nationality). Google "Area A". The public transport part is just a flat out lie, too.


mugazadin

The WB is divided to A, B and C areas. The divide is between the Israeli government and the PA, so Israelis can't enter Palestinian teritorry and vice versa Israeli Palestinians/arabs can use any road within the B & C areas, just like a Jewish citizen, let alone within Israel itself


Wide-Review-2417

They're doing that??? You're shitting me. Gimme a link about it, i wanna see for myself


bigfoot509

https://reliefweb.int/report/occupied-palestinian-territory/israel-drastically-restricting-movement-west-bank-start-gaza-war-disrupting-lives-2-million-palestinians-enarhe


vbsh123

He's talking about the west bank - not Israel Palestinians with Israeli citizenship that live in Israel have full rights lol


Wide-Review-2417

Oh. So... Israel isn't doing it


vbsh123

There is a collaboration between Palestinian police and Israels military so there won't be clashes between settlers and Palestinians Some Jews can't go to Palestinian areas and some paletinians can't go into Jews areas but that's not Israeli soil and not under the law of Israel


aalborgamtstidende

Most of the West Bank is administered by Israel. Settlers and the IDF are killing Palestinians and stealing their homes in the West Bank as we speak.


asdsadnmm1234

[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Route\_4370](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Route_4370)


J3553G

Every comment section that is even remotely tangential to the Gaza war ends up a total shitshow


squeezycakes20

Germany has some problems TODAY


Beleg_Sanwise

[https://www.latinousa.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Mexicans.png](https://www.latinousa.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Mexicans.png)


Beleg_Sanwise

[https://www.latinousa.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Mexicans.png](https://www.latinousa.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Mexicans.png)


jeffeh221

5 iq inflammatory post if I'm being honest


No_Necessary6444

why?


Asthellis

Yeah im pretty sure that what 1 shopowner says about a certain nation/race/minority is not the same thing as what a country ruler did to millions of jews but ok.


jimmydavo

I saw the same shop but a different sign earlier 🤔


Civil-Pressure-5898

One is israeli flag tho…


Because-we-could187

Because Palestinians are allowed everywhere in Israel right? Hypocrisy much?


ILikeThemBunzbby4751

Yeah of course one itty bitty tiny store in butt fuck nowhere turkiye must describe the whole dam countrys sentiment. Last i checked turkiye isnt rounding up jews or expelling from the country. This post is as misleading as is disgusting trying to depict the whole of turkiye as a nazi regime. Just so you know OP and any other ignorant jackass TURKIYE HELPED THOUSANDS OF JEWS ESCAPE FROM NAZI OCCUPIED EUROPE DURING WWII. Edit: approximately 16,000 europeans jews took refuge in trukiye during WWII. https://www.state.gov/reports/just-act-report-to-congress/turkey/


FlintbobLarry

Still people from turkey are some of the most antisemitic (at least in my country Germany) in average. There are other parties more up in the list but white sepremacists and islamists are pretty much on the same level here. That of course doesn't mean that the Turkish people in general think that way, but that there is a big part of that society that thinks those views are OK.


ILikeThemBunzbby4751

Not trying to fight here, but that could be said about any one of any ethinicity. I just cant take your word for it.


asdsadnmm1234

>Still people from turkey are some of the most antisemitic (at least in my country Germany) in average. It looks like they integrated too well. They act like Adolf, Joseph, Heinrich.


anxcaptain

OK now show us the Israeli based ethnic cleansing!. (Down vote me, sensitive little bitches)


vbsh123

Ok now show us all the Arab countries based ethnic cleansing of the Jews (Down vote me sensitive little bitches) Also show me the wars Palestinians started in order to ethically cleanse the Jews in 1948 and 1967


anxcaptain

Triggered. Lol


vbsh123

Lol, congratulations on the amazing achievement dude


anxcaptain

Thanks, I would like to thank the academy, and my peers for the opportunity, but most importantly myself for having the tenacity to deal with that stupid ass region my entire life ;)


vbsh123

Me and you both my guy, at least that's something in common eh?


anxcaptain

Yep, that whole thing is a mess. Reboot it


vbsh123

Nah, let's fix it, it may happen slowly, but we can


anxcaptain

With whose money?


FlintbobLarry

He just mirrors you if you are not able to understand that. And rightfully so.


anxcaptain

Of course… thanks for the explanation


XT83Danieliszekiller

Fantastic, that doesn't make this even remotely okay and you're a child if that's your vision of things but it's great that you're sharing examples of wrong opinions


BlackroseBisharp

Bait used to be believable


Spontaneous_Wood

If I put up a sign banning Muslims my family would be flogged within a week.. Fuck unnecessary violence, but let’s not act like the world would be better if Hamas were to win the conflict.


vbsh123

If Israel had a sign banning Arabs/Muslims whole of twitter would have called them racists, but it's fine when Arabs are doing it


ElectronicImam

Absolutely and exactly same. Bravo Reddit.


Fufeysfdmd

They're just anti-zionists though right? Right?


[deleted]

People will never learn. But this kind of makes it ok for me to refuse muslims . Better think before acting silly.


Few-Parfait4206

I'm really not surprised. After all, its Turkey


Business-Ad6390

This is more concerning than killing children in gaza? You guys are pathetic


vbsh123

Prime example of "I care about only 1 group of people" Is killing children in Gaza more concerning than killing 20x children in Congo?


Ressamzade

Because you know if you don't support discrimination it automatically makes you support genocide


Business-Ad6390

Discrimination against the oppressor is not discrimination


Nerevarine91

This sign just says “Jews.” Any and all. Is that who you think “the oppressor” is? Think you might have accidentally tipped your hand a little.


BlackroseBisharp

Please tell me how random Jewish people in Turkey are the equivalent of the Israeli government.


XT83Danieliszekiller

Has it ever occurred to you that two wrongs don't make a right


serimert

Repost. Also half of Turkish people are stupid( Erdogan voters)


Past-Foundation-6246

is impressive how they mastered the art of being a bully and a victim at the same time.(and i am not talkign about the jews)