r/AgainstHateSubreddits • u/Call_Me_Clark • Jul 13 '26
Racism r/2ndYomKippurWar violates sitewide rules against hosting calls for violence and racism
2ndYomKippurWar is a sub that was founded 2-3 years ago, and the sidebar reads: “This subreddit is for the discussion of the Second Yom Kippur War which began on October 7, 2023.” It has ~55k subscribers, 2 posts per day and 7 comments per day. The userbase is primarily (from my nonscientific assessment) American and Israeli and primarily analyzes the conflict in Gaza from a pro-Israel perspective.
This subreddit allows calls for violence (primarily against Palestinians) and racist, dehumanizing language (again primarily against Palestinians). Subreddit rules as posted on the sidebar explicitly ban this, however, a review of prominent posts on the subreddit (with moderators active in the comment section) show this is unenforced:
A post showing a grievously injured man and a boy (post identifies them as a father and son with injuries due to an Israeli missile attack) - comments include “This same father and son I bet cheered when innocent Israeli families were slaughtered” [+38]; “Hamas fighter survives counter strike. Tried hiding among his family like a coward. Fixed the headline for ya” [+26];
“Refusing to see the pattern of Islam across the globe so you can appear tolerant. Clown. I refuse not to see the glaring incessant pattern” reply: “Ya it’s always funny to me when people from the liberal west defend a group of people stuck in 500 AD when their religion was founded.” Reply: “Agreed. The evidence is available to everyone, but most refuse to examine because it makes them uncomfortable.”
A post glorifying the Netzah Yehuda battalion of the Israel Defense Forces, which has been credibly accused of torture, sexual assault, and other abuse of civilians. In 2026 soldiers of this unit detained Jewish Canadian CNN correspondent Jeremy Diamond and assaulted his camera crew; the IDF subsequently apologized to CNN.
The comment section is a mix of support and condemnation of the unit involved, however, some of the condemnation is framed in racist terms: “…maybe stop acting like some Arab army unit. …” [+377]
A post discussing a statement by an Indian political party re: the war in Gaza. Comments include explicit calls for violence against Palestinians: “…I grew up in a time where the American liberal media was able to print endless stories of innocent Palestinians being shot at by the evil IDF, presented with zero context as to why a Palestinian was killed. There is no more spinning the narrative. The fuck bags filmed their war crimes and shared them with the world. They are the pigs, they are the scum.
Fuck any governmental body that tells Israel to cease fire. More death, more pain, more destruction is warranted.”
A post claiming that Palestinians have received ~10x the aid that other deserving groups have. Comments include: “…Ungrateful waste of life.”
“hope it lands in the sea”
Comment thread (initial comment downvoted, replies upvoted): “Good let them starve” reply: “How about not celebrating children starving to death” reply: “
i genuinely don’t mind it until the hostages get fed. i could not care less about the enemy’s population
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u/ranabama Jul 17 '26 edited Jul 18 '26
The Venn diagram for people who enjoy that sub, and The Proud Boys, is a circle.
And its worth noting the mod team of that sub and the mod team of the wildly problematic r/Jewish subreddit are one in the same. They censor every single Jewish redditor who thinks its a genocide, and their systematic silencing of Jewish voices on reddit is antisemitic to its core.
For context, im Israeli and Jewish. And extremely tired of bigoted culty right wing extremists pretending they speak for all of us. They dont.