Auxiliary Opposition

This Shadowgame is the crossroads of time where the past and future meet. Enjoy my Ao3: https://archiveofourown.org/users/AmerValk

[amervalk]

Something I find interesting is oppression does not look universal. In some countries, wearing a headscarf can be an expression of personalized style, and in others it can be a totalitarian law. Perspective is huge.

[adiradirim]

[mslovelyrita]

Finding out that the author behind A Series of Unfortunate Events is a Jew makes the sheer absurdity of the incompetence of the adults in the Baudelaires’ lives make soooo much more sense when you start seeing Count Olaf as a metaphor for antisemitism. How they repeatedly tell whoever their current guardian is who and what is after them and they just patronizingly tell them that they don’t know what they’re talking about or choose not to see through the very obviously thin disguise (a metaphor for dog whistles). The gaslighting. The willful ignorance. It’s so painfully familiar.

[iamgayjew]

"Israel is a terrorist state" when Israel is one of the most terrorism-affected countries in the world.

"Israel is committing genocide" when Jews were the victims of the deadliest genocide ever.

"Israel is an apartheid state" when Israeli Arabs are legally given equal civil and political rights and can vote, stand for political office and have equal access to state courts and services.

"Israel is an illegal occupier" when the Rashidun, Umayyad, Abbasid, Fatimid, Ayyubid caliphates/sultanates occupied Israel for over 500 years.

People love to accuse Jews of things Jews are victims of.

[iamgayjew]

I think something a lot of people don't get is that they think Zionism is Jewish supremacy, when in reality it's Jewish nationalism. And they don't get what nationalism is either. Right-wing, populist, ULTRAnationalist parties like the GOP, Reform UK, Vox or AfD have stolen the word and turned it into "xenophobia". All it means is that nations have the right to their own state that protects them.

If you think the US should exist, you're an American nationalist. If you think China should exist, you're a Chinese nationalist. If you think Germany should exist, you're a German nationalist. Anti-Zionism means you desire the destruction of the only Jewish state.

[startrek-themed-barmitzvah]

this is all true, obviously, but like...

There are some people, so sheltered, they really believe that "nation states" shouldnt exist and if borders were dissolved the world would just go all kumbaya and sing-a-longs and ice cream parties

[koreajew]

jewish + rromani lgbt solidarity!

ok to reblog and use!

[pnkrathian]

@aperturescience

[resplendent-ragamuffin]

@rrojasandribbons

[troybarnesbucky]

his death is still fresh but losing my grandfather has made me realize that we are losing generation(s) of witnesses of a period in jewish history that we desperately need to preserve. and i know we say that about shoah survivors but the generation(s) of jews that were quickly and violently ethnically cleansed from SWANA are unfortunately leaving this world too, and so are their stories. but their experiences? they have looked islamism right in the face — and they can recognize as we experience it today; it’s repeating itself and spreading beyond the region because we are not in their countries to be their scapegoats this time.

my grandfather, after 10/7/2023, would watch the news and lament, “we’re cousins, our people are cousins” at the unfolding violence. and he would also shake his head at the ceasefires, negotiations, and diplomacy, and he would throw his hands up at the accusations of genocide, ethnic cleansng, starvation, intentional targeting etc because he knew, he KNEW, he experienced firsthand, exactly what israel and other minorities in the region are dealing with — including persians — to this day. it hasn’t truly changed at its root, at all.

we are losing that testimony, that valuable and irreplaceable knowledge, too. it’s not just my grandfather, unfortunately, and i’m desperate to find more ways to preserve it while we can.

[amervalk]

Being Jew-ish in activist circles is weird. You secretly hope that they aren’t judging you but then someone mentions Gaza. Suddenly, when you are constantly passed over for questions, you wonder: is it my Magden David? My tichel? My blue square? 🟦

Should I assume the worst???

[shalom-adamah-lekhem]

I talk about this so much. The relationship between Dineʼé and Israelis is so beautiful and has only grown deeper and more beneficial over time. Presidents and other tribal leaders from the Diné nation have visited Israel for diplomatic missions numerous times; there have been exchange programs to aid with education, cultural revitalization, economics; Dineʼé have studied Israeli water management and agriculture to adapt to the conditions in Dinétah (due to the similar climates) and Israeli technologies have provided much-needed resources to Dinétah that the US federal government neglected to provide. Indigenous peoples supporting each other, despite the objections of those who want us weak and impoverished (or worse).

[mental-mona]

[my-dailydreams]

[samreich]

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[amervalk]

Noted, in the United States, unprofessional conduct for a teacher refers to:

Telling students that referring to homosexuality as immoral is very dangerous because it’s biblical language with differing interpretations and that kind of language has been used to keep people from visiting loved ones, getting married, and being able to defend themselves legally.

[girlactionfigure]

[unsolicited-opinions]

@AngryLevantine

For any Irish person who wants to understand the Jewish/Israeli perspective... Imagine the British showed up in Ireland and, instead of "merely" occupying and oppressing the locals, they drove most of them into exile. Then, after centuries of persecution in foreign lands, the exiled Irish return to their homeland. The British occupiers attempt genocide against the repatriated natives, resulting in a war that ends in British defeat and restoration of Irish sovereignty. Humiliated and incensed, the British hook up with Soviet KGB and invent a narrative that paints Irish as "foreign settlers" and Ireland as a natural and historic part of Britain. "This land was always part of Britain, in fact. These people who call themselves Irish are just delusional foreigners espousing fairy tales of a history that never happened and, if it did, it was our history anyway - not theirs. We're the REAL Irish people.

That is what Arabs (Palestinians) are doing to Jews. That is what most Irish people are siding with.

[Source]

[amervalk]

What sucks about spiraling is that it feels productive. When what you are really trying to do is desperately wake up yesterday and change how it went. You live in this fantasy and like nothing bad happens for a second and then you realize you can’t go back. You’re disappointed again. Baruch Hashem, this hurts so much.

[iswearbyalltheflowers]

The New Blood Libel

This is what globalizing the intifada looks like.