Things I Like.

Because I enjoy liking things. Because I can't work ALL the time. This blog is for fannish fun, and anything else that catches my eye.

[hilacopter]

i think hamas and hezbollah and the irgc and basically every terrorist organization hellbent on killing the jews makes a little more sense or is at least more morbidly interesting to look at when you view it under the lens of them being people who just don't know how much power they've lost. because the arab conquests happened so long ago that landback people refuse to acknowledge that colonization happened in the first place, and in that time across the entire world really there were basically zero consequences for oppressing jews. nul. efes. because sure there was that occasional pesky uprising but anyone but jews caring about antisemitism is a very very recent historical development. and at the end of the day these groups are religious extremists, and religious extremists more often than not are people so conservative they're basically stuck in the middle ages. so like yeah they're aware that the jews have a state and an army now and all that but just by the osmosis of the kind of culture they live in and absorb jews are still viewed as something very destructible. a century or two ago you could commit a massacre, you could commit many massacres against jews and walk away relatively unscathed. but now jews have actual agency in the world and we have the power to retaliate, retaliate hard even, and that simply doesn't register to the islamist mind. it doesn't compute.

[u-eat-people-ur-a-people-eater]

The only synagogue in Iran was bombed by Israel. One of the only Christian villages in the West Bank is currently undergoing a pogrom by illegal/criminal Israeli settlers. It's insulting to this website's user's intelligence to even post something like this and I say that knowing many people here are teenagers and/or extremely mentally ill.

[ich-bin-jude]

The only synagogue in Iran was bombed by Israel.

a) *Yawn* The synagogue was harmed due to collateral damage, not a deliberate target. The IRGC started the war. Try again.

b) Iran-backed terror cells targeted multiple synagogues across New York, Los Angeles, and Scottsdale. So if we're keeping score...

c) There isn't one "only synagogue in Iran." Supposedly, there's dozens.

Why would you lie about there being only one synagogue in all of Iran?

To try make Israel look worse by claiming the one they hit was the only one there is?

d) Even if that were true, Why would there be only one synagogue in all of Iran?

Before the 1979 Islamic Revolution, there were over 100,000 Jews in Iran, and over 30 synagogues in Tehran alone.

After Khomeini took over in 1979, over 90% of Iranian Jews fled religious persecution--roughly half of them to Israel, half of them to Los Angeles.

Now, only about 10,000 Jews remain, and they're religiously repressed, executed for doing things like killing a Muslim who tried to murder them in self-defense, and we're supposed to believe they have to share only one synagogue among them?

HY'D: Iran Executes Jewish Man For Killing Muslim In Self-Defense

Arvin Ghahremani, 20, was ambushed at age 18 by seven Muslim men and stabbed by one of them. He fought back, killing his attacker, but was t

Hmm, I smell a rat.

If it was true, I was prepared to observe that under Sharia Law, Jews can't build new synagogues, or fix up old ones. But Muslims can take synagogues that were vandalized or run-down and turn them into Mosques, but not the other way around.

What is the ruling on non-Muslims having Temples, Churches and Synagogues in Muslim lands?

Are non Muslims allowed to build, repair or worship in places such as Churches, Temples and Synagogues in Muslim occupied lands, if they are

So even if your "Israel bombed the only synagogue in Iran" lie was true, it's not the win for the Iranian Regime you think it is. It just further proves Jews are persecuted under IRGC rule.

Christian villages in the West Bank is currently undergoing a pogrom by illegal/criminal Israeli settlers.

a) Get that word out of your mouth.

A "pogrom" is specifically an organized riot aimed at massacring or expelling a Jewish community. It was coined by the Russians to describe the 20th century attacks on Jewish communities within the Russian Empire (particularly the Pale Settlement). Stop taking Jewish words and using it to say Jews are the real aggressors.

b) You know the Christian population has long been in decline due to Christian persecution under Arab Muslim leadership since the 1940's, right?

Christian population nearly wiped out under Hamas, PA rule in Christianity's birthplace

The Christian population in areas governed by the Palestinian Authority and Hamas has plummeted drastically by up to 90 in some communities,

c) You know Jews lived in Gaza and what is now the "West Bank" for MILLENNIA before invading Arabs armies from Egypt and Jordan forced them out in 1948, and Jews weren't able to return till 1967, yeah?

History of the Jews in Gaza - Wikipedia

History of the Jews in Hebron - Wikipedia

Shechem - Wikipedia

Hmmm, what happened in 1967 that made it so Jews could return to Gaza, Judea, and Samaria when they couldn't when Gaza was under Egyptian occupation and the "West Bank" was under Jordanian annexation since 1949...

2000 Ramallah lynching - Wikipedia

And what happens to Jews who try to exercise their own "Right of Return" without armed escorts into the Arab Muslim-majority Gaza and the West Bank now?

And why does the Palestinian Authority's offer a literal "Pay to Slay" program, which gives more lifelong money every "martyr" and their families for every Jew killed.

You think that might have something to do with why Jews who're trying to exercise their own Right of Return into Judea and Samaria HAVE to use military force to return to their own ancestral homeland, that they were forced out of, without being shot or killed for it?

The Peace They Keep Refusing: A History of Rejected Statehood Offers

For more than 85 years, the question of Palestinian statehood has been the subject of international diplomacy, high-stakes summits, and repe

And don't even get me started on the number of times Palestinian leaders were offered statehood, and the West Bank could have full statehood right-fucking-now, but their leaders keep refused it.

-The 1937 Peel Commission--90% of the remaining Mandatory Palestine, with Jews just getting Tel-Aviv and a tiny bit of farmland to the east.

-1947 Partition Plan--Arabs rejected and invaded Israel, killing 1/5 of Jews, forcing all Jews out of Gaza and the West Bank, then withdrew in less than a year despite out-numbering and out-arming Jews 5:1, willingly signed the 1949 Armistice Agreements, and then Gaza occupied Gaza and Jordan annexed the West Bank from 1949 to indefinitely.

-1967 "Land For Peace" deal (the same one where they tried to return Gaza to Egypt and the West Bank to Jordan, and both said "HELL NO!!")

-1978 "Camp David Accords" (the same one where Israel offered the entire Sinai Peninsula back to Egypt, who accepted in 1979 and received it in 1981... then had their president assassinated by Muslim Brotherhood extremists, and their country banned and boycotted from the Arab League for a decade in retaliation)

-2000 Camp David Summit, where Israel surprised even their citizens by agreeing to all of Yassir Arafat's demands and then some: Would have given Palestinian Arabs all of Gaza, 96% of the West Bank, East Jerusalem as the Capital, a strip of land connecting the two, plus full monetary compensation and rehousing assistance for those displaced in 1948. Yassir Arafat refused and launched the Second Intifada instead.

-2001 Tabba Talks; same offer as before, but this time 97% of the West Bank while ignoring the carnage of the Second Intifada.

-2005 Israel complete withdrawal from Gaza, which resulted in Gazans voting in Hamas "The Day of Judgement will not come until Moslems fight the Jews, killing all Jews..." in 2006.

- 2008 Olmert Offer; 100th verse, same as the first.

-2020 "Peace For Prosperity" Deal

ALL OF WHICH Palestinian leaders either rejected outright, or walked away from the negotiating table.

At some point, the Arab people need to start turning to their leaders and asking, "WHY THE FUCK do you keep turning down statehood offers? Why do you keep us in perpetual stateless political limbo instead of giving us a state where we can say, 'These are our borders, all Israelis/Jews stay out'?

It's insulting to this website's user's intelligence

You insult my intelligence.

From the lie about Iran having only one synagogue (which itself only points to Iran being antisemetic for only allowing one synagogue in all the country), to omitting how Palestinian Christians' decline has been long under Arab Muslim leadership, to trying to frame Jews trying to return to Judea and Samaria despite facing armed hostilities as the real "settlers," rather than indigenous people trying to exercise their own Right of Return in the face of systemic "pay to slay" antisemetic hostility.

[kosherdragon]

[jewishtransgirlkayne-blog]

here’s your friendly reminder that google, modern physics, hollywood, the new star wars, comics, marxism, the US labor movement, captain kirk, spock, chekov, han solo, buffy, ben and jerry’s, the guy who created the polio vaccine, and the woman who imaged dna were/created by/acted by jews

[girlactionfigure]

When Jerry Seinfeld said “Palestine doesn’t exist”, the predictable outrage machine did what it always does: it screamed, but Jerry is hardly the first person to notice reality.

Of course, the millions of Arabs who call themselves ״Palestinians״ today are not imaginary. They are real people, with real lives, real suffering, real political aspirations, and real agency. 

But those people are not the indigenous people of “Palestine”, because there has never been a sovereign Arab state called Palestine. There was no Palestinian king, no Palestinian parliament, no Palestinian currency, no Palestinian army, no Palestinian passport, no ancient Palestinian republic, no internationally recognized Palestinian state that Israel came along and “stole.”

And awkwardly, some prominent Palestinians used to say this openly.

Zuheir Mohsen, a senior PLO figure, was quoted in 1977 saying: “The Palestinian people does not exist”. He explained that there was “no difference between Jordanians, Palestinians, Syrians and Lebanese”, and that Palestinian identity was emphasized for “political and tactical reasons” in the struggle against Zionism.

So let’s not pretend this argument was invented yesterday by a Jewish comedian.

Before 1948, “Palestine” was not an Arab state. It was a geographic and administrative term. Under the British, it meant the British Mandate for Palestine - a mandate created after the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, with the explicit purpose of facilitating a Jewish national home while protecting the civil and religious rights of all inhabitants.

The Mandate was not “the State of Palestine”. It was not created to establish an Arab Palestinian state. It was the legal framework through which the international community recognized the Jewish people’s historical connection to the land and assigned Britain the task of helping build the Jewish national home.

And before 1964, the word “Palestinian” was very often associated with Jews.

The Palestine Symphony Orchestra? Founded by Jewish musicians and later became the Israel Philharmonic.

The Palestine national football team? Dominated by Jews, played Hatikvah, and became the forerunner of Israel’s national team.

Palestine Airways? Founded by Zionist Pinhas Rutenberg with Jewish/Zionist institutions.

The Palestine Post? Founded by Jews; later became The Jerusalem Post.

So when people show old “Palestine” coins, stamps, teams, newspapers, or institutions as proof of an ancient Arab Palestinian state, they often do not realize they are showing artifacts of the British Mandate - and in many cases, institutions built by the Jewish Yishuv.

That is why the claim “Palestine existed before Israel” is misleading. Yes, the administrative region existed. No, a sovereign Arab Palestinian state did not.

Even most local Arab leaders did not originally describe themselves as members of a separate Palestinian nation. In 1919, Arab congresses in the region argued that Palestine was part of “Southern Syria”. The early political demand was not “Free Palestine” as a separate Palestinian nation-state. It was incorporation into a broader Arab Syrian or pan-Arab framework.

This is not a minor detail. It goes to the heart of the issue.

For decades, the dominant Arab claim was not “we are a separate Palestinian people entitled to a Palestinian state next to a Jewish state”. It was “this is Arab land, Jews have no right to sovereignty here, and Palestine is part of the Arab nation.”

Then came 1948.

Jordan occupied and annexed the West Bank. Egypt occupied Gaza. From 1948 to 1967, there was no Palestinian state in either territory. No global campus movement demanded “end the Jordanian occupation.” No UN machinery obsessed over Egyptian rule in Gaza. No Arab armies invaded Jordan to liberate Ramallah. No one demanded that Egypt create an independent Palestine in Gaza.

Then in 1964, the PLO was created - three years before Israel controlled the West Bank or Gaza.

And here is the part people do not like discussing: the original 1964 PLO Charter explicitly said the organization did not exercise territorial sovereignty over the West Bank, then under Jordan, or Gaza, then under Egypt.

In other words, the PLO was not founded to “end the occupation” of the West Bank and Gaza. Israel did not control them.

The target was Israel itself.

Then came 1967. Israel ended the occupation of the West Bank from Jordan and Gaza from Egypt in the Six-Day War. Suddenly, the same territories that had not been the focus of “liberation” under Arab rule became the center of the world’s most famous "territorial" grievance.

In 1968, the PLO revised its charter. The inconvenient Article 24 disappeared.

So was the problem really “occupation”? Or was the problem Jewish sovereignty?

This is why “ending the occupation” was never the original goal. The original goal was not a Palestinian state beside Israel. It was no Israel.

That position did not disappear. It was simply repackaged.

When “Palestine” means Ramallah and Gaza, it sounds like a territorial compromise. When “Palestine” means “from the river to the sea,” it means the replacement of Israel. That is not anti-occupation. That is anti-Jewish existence. It’s not anti-genocide - it’s flat out genocidal.

And the demographic story is more complicated than the slogans too.

The common narrative presents Jews as foreign arrivals entering a settled, coherent Palestinian Arab nation-state. But much of the land in the 19th century was poor, neglected, sparsely populated, disease-ridden in places, and under Ottoman rule. Jewish agricultural development, drainage, employment, capital, and infrastructure attracted not only Jewish immigrants but also Arab migration from surrounding areas. The Peel Commission itself noted Arab economic gains connected to Jewish development, and other British observations described illegal migration into Palestine from neighboring Arab regions.

None of this means every Arab family arrived recently. Many did not. Many had deep roots. And many of them remained after the establishment of Israel and became citizens. But it does destroy the cartoon version: ancient unified Palestinian nation peacefully minding its own state until Jews appeared from nowhere.

There was no such state.

There were Ottoman subjects. Then British Mandate residents. Jews. Muslims. Christians. Druze. Bedouin. Arabs who often saw themselves as part of Greater Syria or the broader Arab nation. Jews who called the land Eretz Israel while the British called the administrative territory Palestine, of which only 20% of land was owned by anyone.

Only then, after Israel was born, “Palestinian” identity hardened into a separate national identity - especially after Arab armies failed to destroy Israel and after Israel took the West Bank and Gaza in 1967, an identity that was all about resisting the Jewish state.. 

This means the moral accusation against Israel is built on a false premise.

Israel did not conquer a sovereign state called Palestine.

Israel did not erase a Palestinian government that had ruled for centuries.

Israel did not invade an Arab Palestinian country in 1948.

Israel accepted partition. The Arab side rejected it and launched a war.

Then the Arab states that seized the remaining territories did not create Palestine either.

So when someone says “Palestine doesn’t exist”, they are right.

And if the only “Palestine” being demanded is one that replaces Israel from the river to the sea, then Seinfeld’s answer is not just right now, but it will be right forever.

@destinationXIX

[afurioushawk]

Imagine going back to 10/6/23 and saying that I/P would dominate every political discussion for years.

I/P has always been the left's weak point ever since they swallowed the USSR kool-aid about it but what 10/7 did reveal is that A LOT of leftists are a bunch of evil white supremacists. It also revealed a solid third of Zoomers are Hitler Youth.

They'll never be able to put the genie back in the bottle. American leftism will never recover within our lifetimes.

[livinces]

[trans-girl-hank-hill]

this website is always finding new and exciting ways to prove this image true

[capybaralovers]

[luci-da-mente]

He shouldn't joke about this. Does he not know that I'm crazy? He better be serious or I will cry endlessly forever and ever.

[imyourbadjew]

[iamnmbr3]

louder for the people in the back. this normalization and support of hamas is unforgivable.

every supposedly progressive person and institution that has engaged in this so much Gazan blood on their hands

they must be exposed and held accountable

[queer-scots-geordie-dyke]

Ppl will claim that their antisemitism is criticism of Israel’s government and not hatred of Jews and Israelis but I come from a country with an unpopular right leaning government and I am never treated by foreigners the way Israelis are and no one talks about ppl from my country like they talk about Israelis

Real - the double standards are so blatant. So many countries on earth with current and historic human rights abuses and atrocities on record, including my own, who at one point colonised and enslaved half of the planet in the name of empire. And yet, people understand the concept of not assigning collective responsibility to citizens because of their government's actions.

Except for one. One tiny little nation that has been under attack almost every single day of its modern existence. I have never seen in my life the same level of demonisation and dehumanisation of any other citizenry as Israelis are subjected to for simply existing. And it just so happens to be the only Jewish state. And it has nothing to do with antisemitism? Right....

[aropride]

please god let chatgpt die out like nfts did. With a fast and graceless fall into irrelevancy

[bladespark]

Like to charge, reblog to cast.

[atwotonedbird]

This spell has a very low hit ratio, so we need a lot of us to do it.

[mariacallous]

[mariacallous]

[chutefullofholes]

every time there’s a viral post about Magnus Hirschfeld that fails to mention he was jewish and nazi hatred of his work (and queerness as a whole) was a cause and effect of nazis blaming jews for any and all ‘degeneracy’ i want to Scream Yell Scream. you cannot should not separate what happened to him from that what do you mean ‘remember! they didn’t just hate jews they also-‘ HE WAS JEWISHHHH !!!! he was openly jewish and that’s a large part of why he was persecuted so heavily!!!! why are you leaving that out!!! he is not fodder for your ‘ugh those meanie jews are always so greedy and make the holocaust all about them 😠’ inversion

[wiisagi-maiingan]

Do you ever think about how so much of the deadly anti-science rhetoric that fills America today and is killing countless vulnerable people can be directly traced back to one fucking guy who decided to just straight-up lie about vaccines causing autism because it would make him a profit? Do you ever think about that? Because I think about it a lot.

[disfiguredgrace]

please go to Israel and call yourself a faggot and look gay see how it goes LOL

do you know of a place called tel aviv. have you ever heard of this.

[mossadspydolphin]

Pretty sure they believe it's a pile of rubble

[theres-a-hole-in-my-wall]

they saw the ai tel aviv burning vids huh

Also they're completely ignoring the Center??? The most faggot mall in the history of faggotry??? Tell someone you're not a faggot there and they'll be shook

[short-wooloo]

Me going to Tel Aviv and screaming "IM A FAGGOT!!" in the middle of the street

Several dozen people yell back at me: "So what? You think that makes you special?"

[theres-a-hole-in-my-wall]

I saw someone in Center wearing a really cool outfit so I walk up to them and tell them it's a really cool outfit

They say thanks and turn around. They have cool ass dyke written on their jacket in fabric paint

Happened to me like 2 years ago

[short-wooloo]

In all seriousness, I think this is a prime example of how the pro-pallies struggle to cope with reality

They NEED to believe Israel is an intensely homophobic place, not just because it fits with their need to believe Israel is a Jewish Supremacist state where non Jews are second class citizens, but also because it fits in with their need to believe a "free Palestine" ("freed" by hamas) will be an idyllic utopia of equality and freedom of religion

The fact that Israel is the only LGBTQA+ friendly/safe nation in the middle east and the intense murderous homophobia of the islamist groups that the free pallies allied themselves breaks the pro pallies brains

They believe themselves morally purely good, and good morally pure people support LGBTQA+ people/rights, they hate Israel and believe it's evil, but Israel is pro LGBTQA+ and the anti Israel folks are hyper anti LGBTQA+

they cannot reconcile this in their heads

[our-blood-is-our-ink]

I wonder how many non Jews are aware that we did try to go back after the Holocaust. There's plenty of stories about someone's grandmother or grandfather trying to return home in Poland or Germany to find strangers living in their houses, using their silver kiddish cups or their Shabbos candlesticks. Using their tables and homes and clothes, as if everything was simply abandoned by choice and was free to take. Some of us DID try going back.

We were not welcomed to. There was nothing left because they ensured there wouldn't be.

[hillsofspices]

from unspoken heritage by yechiel weizman