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our people from all over the country are protesting. I can hear gunshots and motorcycle sounds. some of my friends say that their eyes are burning from tear gas and they can even feel it from inside their homes. numerous protesters have been killed, shot and kidnapped.

BE OUR VOICE. DON'T IGNORE US.

borntobury

Protesters who take to the streets may come under fire from rubber bullets, projectiles, tear gas, pepper spray or paintball guns. Here is w

I am continuing to advocate for you as I can. You may not be able to see these right now, but these are links to share for tear gas, eye injuries, stopping serious wounds from bleeding. I'll write/copy important info below.

Stopping blood loss (paraphrased from stop the bleed video):

Expose wound to see where bleeding is coming from

Use a t-shirt, cloth, or gauze to cover the wound

Use TWO HANDS, one pressed over the other, and apply DIRECT PRESSURE to the wound

Use your body weight if you need to!

If the wound is large, you can pack the wound with your cloth/gauze, then apply direct pressure as stated above.

What to do if your eye is injured by a rubber bullet or other projectile:

Don’t touch your eye.

Don’t rub your eye.

Stay upright and keep your head up.

Place a hard shield around your eye. Holding or taping a temporary eye shield, such as a paper cup or Styrofoam cup, may work in an emergency.

Do not let the shield touch the surface of the eye.

If the eye ruptures or breaks open, the eye’s contents must be saved. Keep the shield on your eye and get to an emergency room or call your ophthalmologist immediately.

If you are exposed to tear gas, take the following steps right away:

Get away from the tear-gassed area as quickly and safely as possible.

Flush your eyes with lots of clean water or eyewash (available at most pharmacies).

Remove any clothing near your face.

Seek fresh air.

Seek higher ground (tear gas is heavier than air).

Blink frequently to promote tearing.

Do not rub your eyes (rubbing might spread crystals of the chemical on the eye’s surface).

Remove your contact lenses.

Get medical help right away.

If you are exposed to pepper spray:

Don’t touch the eye area. Pepper spray is oil-based, so touching the area will spread the oil.

Blink frequently to help flush your eyes.

Flush your eyes with lots of clean water or eyewash (available at most pharmacies). Contrary to what you may have heard, milk is not recommended for flushing the eyes because it’s not sterile. A small study compared five treatments (Maalox, 2% lidocaine gel, baby shampoo, milk, water) and found no difference in pain relief.

Wash the skin around your eyes with baby shampoo. This will break down the pepper oil without irritating the eyes.

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unsolicited-opinions

The thing I don't really understand is, if so many non-native Americans and Canadians and Australians (etc) are so vehemently anti-colonial and want so badly to "decolonize" the world, why do none of them go back to where their ancestors (the colonizers) came from and give whatever land they own (and any wealth they have accumulated) to the native peoples?

Why don't any white "anti-colonial" American/Canadian/Australian/New Zealander/South African activists actually walk the walk and go back to Europe?

Just give the land back. Actually decolonize. Do it.

Why are no Americans/Canadians/Australians calling for their own countries to be wiped off the map? Why just Israel?

Why not also Italy and Greece? It is generally accepted that the Greco-Roman empires were the origins of Western thought and expansionism/colonialism. The OG Western Empires. Should THEY not pay the price for originating Western/European colonialism? Or, skipping forward a millennia or so, how about Spain? The Catholic country who paid that horrible man from Genoa to go "discover" the Americas? Spain who conquered and owned (and named) most of the Americas, should THEY not be wiped off the map for their colonial sins? Or perhaps Britain and France and Belgium?

Nobody is calling it the Hallucinated States of America. Nobody calls it Cantada. Or South NOT Africa(n). Denying their existence and/or right to exist. That treatment is reserved just for Israel. Why?

ScapeGOATs

Regardless of what they say, the modern Western "anti-colonialism" activist isn't trying to undo colonialism.

They're trying to feel better about it.

Instead of confronting or giving up the colonial empire they inherited, they outsource the guilt they feel about it. They make Israel their moral scapegoat.

The scapegoat is a symbol, a Jungian archetype which is fundamentally installed in the Western mind, though many don't know its origins or history.

In the biblical scapegoat ritual (Leviticus 16), the High Priest would symbolically place the sins of the people onto a goat and send it into the wilderness to die. The people's guilt was taken from them, dumped into a sacrificial animal...and pushed out of sight. The people were freed of their sins...and all it cost them was the sacrifice of a goat.

(Jesus, in Christian theology, is often described as the ultimate scapegoat. A sinless figure onto whom the sins of humanity were placed...so others could be redeemed. Like the goat in Leviticus sent into the wilderness, Jesus is cast out, humiliated, and sacrificed to cleanse others of guilt. I'd argue this is deeply embedded in Western culture, which has been primed to believe that salvation comes from sacrifice...so long as someone else pays the price.)

Throughout history, Jews have been convenient scapegoats for relieving others of their own unpleasant feelings.

In medieval Europe, Christian debtors blamed Jewish moneylenders for their financial ruin, forgetting it was Church law that barred Christians from lending money with interest in the first place.

During the Spanish Inquisition, newly unified Christian Spain projected its anxieties about impure faith and fractured Spanish identity onto Jews and conversos, purging them to cleanse the soul of the state.

In the 19th century, Eastern European peasants, angry at feudal oppression but too afraid to blame the aristocracy, attacked Jewish communities instead and used pogroms as emotional release valves.

In Nazi Germany, the shame of losing World War I and the collapse of national pride were offloaded onto Jews, who were cast as traitors and parasites undermining the Volk.

Each time, they cast their sins, conscience, or guilt onto the Jews and had the Jews pay the price for them.

Today, many Western activists project the guilt of their colonial realities onto Israel, demanding Jews pay the moral bill for sins committed by European empires.

They live on stolen land, inside settler colonial societies built by genocide and maintained by power.

But reckoning with that would be hard...so instead they find a goat.

They heap the weight of the guilt they feel for Western sins onto Israel.

In doing so, they can imagine themselves as cleansed of their western, colonial guilt. Even better, they get to feel righteous.

It doesn't matter that Jews are indigenous to Israel. It doesn't matter that the Jews were colonized by Rome, exiled, massacred by Christian and Muslim empires, and clawed their way back to sovereignty in a small portion of their indigenous homeland. It doesn't matter that Israel doesn't meet the definition of settler-colonialism, that an indigenous people cannot colonize their own land, and that Israel is the most successful decolonizing project in history.

Jews are close enough to white, successful enough to resent, and far away enough to be disposable.

Nobody is demanding that people of Spanish descent pack up from Latin America and "go back to Spain."

There are no international calls for settler Australians to return their homes to Aboriginal nations and return to England, or for Canadians to give their land back to First Nations and evacuate to Europe.

Instead, they want the Jews to again be their goat, wandering in the wilderness, carrying sins which were never theirs to begin with.

It's the same story, played out for a modern audience with better PR and worse intentions.

More:

Dr. Tomer Persico explains it briefly and well.

unsolicited-opinions

The Germans will never forgive the Jews for Auschwitz,” runs a bizarre quip ascribed to the Israeli psychiatrist Zvi Rex. To deconstruct ..

The shift in Newsom’s rhetoric tells us far more about the political winds swirling inside the Democratic Party than it does about Israel.

In his grand and gloomy book Civilization and Its Discontents, Sigmund Freud identified the tenacious sense of guilt as “the most important

thestudentempanada

By now you might have seen some reports of SJP at University of Colorado Boulder celebrating the murder of 82 year old Karen Diamond. Here are some screenshots of the statement (that is still available on their website whose url is visible in the screenshots):

They’re disturbing so here’s a line break

thestudentempanada

Update- I can no longer find this statement on SJP’s website.

thestudentempanada

Update 2- To be clear, the statement is definitely still up at the link bouldersjp.neocities.org/mohamed, but I can’t navigate to it from their homepage.

In case they do take it down, I have downloaded the statement in full.

This is absolutely unacceptable speech from students enrolled in any university, and it’s even more disturbing that professors who condone this statement are teaching classes.

aqlstar

Let me know if you guys find an email campaign floating around asking UC Boulder to take action against the students and faculty responsible. I’ve searched but can’t find anything.

charleezard

Happy Pride month!! 💜 I'll never forget how horribly the queer community has been treating queer Jews 💜

magnetothemagnificent

franz kafka’s writings are often analyzed in a trans lens the person who wrote that was almost definitely a trans person who related. people who call kafka a trans woman are almost entirely trans women. there is also a huge subset of literature shitposter girls who use kafka and the metamorphosis specifically to talk about their experiences with womanhood. so while i agree that the trope you are talking about is antisemitic i don’t think that applies here. he’s not being called a woman in a disparaging way.

It. Literally. Doesn't. Matter.

Spoiler alert: trans people can be antisemitic!

Franz Kafka was a real person who died not too long ago, and just because a trans person relates to his writings doesn't mean they can claim he's trans. It's not the same as relating to a fictional character. You can't 'headcanon' an actual person. I don't care how much you relate- he wasn't trans, don't call him a woman. He was an actual person, not a fictional character you can project on. An treating Franz Kafka like a fictional character you can project any label onto and separate him from his actual life is dehumanization and *also* antisemitic.

It's no different than queer people co-opting Anne Frank's memory and erasing her story to just herald her as a "bi icon" when she never had the chance to live long enough to label herself. Queer gentiles need to stop dehumanizing Jewish people and turning them into blank slates they can project onto.

Kafka's Metamorphosis and writings about his depression are from the viewpoint of a disabled Jewish man who was watching as antisemitism was slowly escalating around him and Jews were becoming insects in the minds of society. And "he's not being called a woman in a disparaging way" is the dumbest excuse ever- antisemitism is antisemitism. I've seen trans people infantilize Jewish men, calling them "different breed of man" or "scrunkly" and then insist they meant it positively. Intent doesn't matter. Calling a Jewish man, who never ever indicated having any gender identity otherwise, a woman, or implying he's somehow not a full man, is antisemitic.

obi-waankenobi

I hope I'm not derailing here (please tell me if I am and I'll delete this), but I'd like to especially call attention to this line (which I love, btw):

I don't care how much you relate- he wasn't trans, don't call him a woman.

At some point relatively recently, people seem to have come to the conclusion that you can't empathize with a character (or real fucking person, in this case, and I cannot stress how gross that is) unless you're just like them. "Oh, I, a nonbinary person can identify with this cishet man? He must actually be nonbinary!" "Oh, I, an autistic person, can identify with this Ambiguously Quirky™ person? She must actually be autistic!"

Being able to relate to a person--real or fictional--who isn't just like you is a good thing. It's good that you see yourself in the writings of a cisgender man! Maybe it will teach you that cis people aren't the enemy. It's good that an autistic character resonates with NT people! Maybe they'll gain new insight into their autistic friends and family!

It's called empathy, and it's so important to understand that you are going to see your experiences reflected in people who are unlike you. Those connections are important. Deciding that Kafka must be a trans woman because you're a trans woman is missing the entire fucking point. It means that you do, in fact, have some things in common with a cisgender man, and conversely, it means that cisgender men have things in common with you. To flatten them out so they're just like you is missing out on so much of what they have to say.

People are beautiful and rich and layered and the fact that we can connect with other people and share experiences despite how different we are? That's the whole fucking point. That's what makes life worth living.

OP, I'm sorry I only spoke on being transgender and autistic. Those are the only two points that I could speak on from experience. Talking about real people like they're fictional pisses me off, and I sort of... got off on a thing.

terulakimban

I'm not OP, but one thing that's frightening about this from a Jewish perspective (especially in the context of discussing someone who was alive in the interwar period) is the recurring idea that Jews only matter as lenses for other people's stories. That we can be empathized with, but only if our narratives can be twisted to someone else's.

Because we've seen that before. We see it very often because it's a fundamental premise of some incredibly antisemitic forms of Christianity, and when it turns out that we're real people with real opinions and real beliefs and real feelings who don't just exist to validate someone else's perception of who and how we could be, people don't just abandon their pretense at allyship, they get violent.

It's also a common failing in how the Holocaust is taught. People like to present this lens of "it was random violence that came out of nowhere and could've happened to anyone. It could've happened to you! Imagine if you'd been one of the victims! That would've been a tragedy wouldn't it?" And the thing is, that's bullshit. If you were just a random German citizen at the time? You would've been one of the perpetrators. And it was a tragedy in and of itself; it doesn't become a tragedy by imaging a scenario in which people who were perfectly safe would've actually been potentially in danger (never killed, of course, because Holocaust education is also commonly sanitized, which is a different rant).

Edited to take out a rant that was in drafts and got added to this by mistake, but. Well, the Tl;dr, since that's been reblogged

Well. I'm a cis woman. GNC, perhaps, but cis. And I get misgendered (and degendered) a lot because of how people read Jewish features. And... when friends insist that any discomfort I have with feminine stuff is because I'm an egg... I get that they're trying to be helpful for a journey of self-discovery. But I've done that introspection. I check in with myself periodically just in case. And "oh, you're really nonbinary/a trans man because you're [insert list of stereotypically Jewish features//personality traits commonly ascribed to Jews [whether or not I have them]" -it hurts. Because not only are they minimizing my actual identity and my self-knowledge, and deciding that they're the experts on my life, rather than me, they're doing it in a way that's constantly used to hurt me.

theres-a-hole-in-my-wall

another thing! Jewish men are (pretty often) seen as feminine/unmasculine and like they could never be 'true men'. In a lot of media they're the awkward nerds, the virgins, the weirdos. Point is this is not just misgendering anybody (which would be awful enough), this is misgendering a group that's known to be seen as less masculine than a white man for example

*this is a bit of derailing but it reminds me of how black men face the opposite issue of being seen as hyper masculine & in turn hyper violent. None of us can win in this racist ass society my g-d

littledoggy-girlcollar

“he’s not being called a woman in a disparaging way.”

No, but everything in his writing that gets commented on is something that speaks to feeling out of place in society, or something that conveys emotional or social vulnerability.

So for someone to say “because of these things I think she was a trans woman teehee!” they are implicitly 1) denying that any other aspect of identity might cause these feelings, and 2) asserting that if someone feels these things, they must be a woman.

Ignoring his Judaism AND implying that men can’t feel alienated or vulnerable and if they do they must actually have been a woman. Doesn’t seem very respectful or deconstructing of gendered norms to me.

People need to either start recognizing that you can empathize and identify with jews on our own terms or you can stop fucking talking about us.

therationaldispatch

Why antisemites always have a blast—and how Jews enhance the experience

A disturbing look into the psychology of antisemitism.

"Antisemitism has a peculiar historical signature: people participating in it often seem to be really enjoying themselves. The crowds are cheerful. The rhetoric theatrical. There are songs, jokes, slogans, insider references, and the unmistakable atmosphere of people having a good time. Even the ugliest outbreaks often arrive wrapped in festivity. From medieval religious spectacles to Nazi rallies to college quads after Oct. 7, antisemitism has repeatedly offered its adherents something far more psychologically rewarding than mere hatred. The antisemite may describe himself as angry. He is often having a really good time."

borntobury

A fascinating read.

#antizionism #antisemitism #judenhass #jumblr #israblr #pogrom #shoah #Dhimmitude

afurioushawk

You know who actually had the courage and determination to fight Trump in the courts? Janet Mills.

Platner didn't even have the courage to not cheat on his wife with a dozen women not even a year into their marriage.

unsolicited-opinions

Question that I'm asking in good faith because I really do want to know about it: why does Herzl describe israel as a colony if it isn't one?

(All good faith questions are welcome, Anon - thanks for this one!)

TLDR: Because words change meanings over time and Herzl wasn't psychic.

In the 1890s, "colony" just meant a planned settlement or concentrated community. This included Jewish agricultural colonies in the Pale, temperance colonies in Colorado, and utopian communes everywhere.

It was basically the Victorian word for "intentional community," with absolutely no imperial baggage required.

The specific meaning activists now deploy (colony as racial domination, metropole extraction, indigenous suppression) is a 20th century framework that didn't exist when Herzl was writing in 1896.

So a reader of the 21st century finds the word "colony" in an old text and assumes it carries a technical definition that was coined decades later.

It's a little like finding the word "trauma" in a Civil War field report and concluding the surgeon was diagnosing PTSD.

Meanwhile, 'settler colonialism' as applied to Israel isn't a neutral analytical tool that happens to fit badly. It's a framework specifically constructed to exclude the features that distinguish Jewish return from actual settler colonialism...and it still fails on its own stated terms.

Jewish immigrants to the Levant were never agents of any empire. They were overwhelmingly refugees from empires who were fleeing Russian pogroms, Eastern European persecution, and later Nazi Germany. No metropole sent them. No metropole would take them back if the project failed.

That's not a minor quibble about definitions, either - it's the primary distinction between settler colonialism and every other form of large population movement in history.

There's also the matter of indigeneity. The Jews returning to the Levant weren't arriving in a place with which they had no connection.

Jewish presence in the region is documented continuously from ancient history, including in Egyptian records dating to roughly 1210 BCE.

The religious, linguistic, and ancestral connection to the land is what distinguishes this case from the British in Kenya or the French in Algeria, who had no such ties - and it is some of the best-documented, most indisputable history humans have ever gathered. (This is why they're so constantly engaged in historical revisionism.)

So when proponents of the settler colonialism framework of accusation encounter these objections, what do they do?

They move the goalposts.

The absence of a metropole gets explained away as an "exception."

The indigenous origin of the Jewish people to the Levant gets ahistorically dismissed or ignored, despite the fact that the Jewish people are the only group whose national identity, language, and religion originated in and remained oriented toward that specific land throughout their entire existence.

The framework gets rewritten and the history is revised until Israel fits the allegation.

So, one word in Der Judenstaat doesn't settle* any of this.

From The Atlantic: The False Narrative of Settler Colonialism (paywall bypassed)

Much more in this post.

_______________ *(See what I did there?)

shalom-adamah-lekhem

Okay, there's actually a lot of interesting history around this, so let's dig into it.

It's completely correct that the semiotics of "colony", "colonization", etc., have evolved over time, and that back in the late 19th Century when Herzl was writing the connotation was more neutral than it became in the 20th Century. (I also need to stress that that one "it is something colonial" quote-mine you see shared everywhere is from a letter that was never even sent, because Herzl realized it was a bad idea.)

But more to the point: the old guard Zionists were fully aware of accusations they were European colonizers - and they actively refuted those claims.

— Jews and Muslims in the Arab World: Haunted by Pasts Real and Imagined (Jacob Lassner, Ilan S. Troen, 2007)

— Hebrew Repatriation to Eretz Yisrael (Samuel Kruglikoff, 1930)

— Eliahu Eliachar, Testimony to UNSCOP (United Nations Special Committee on Palestine) Regarding Jews in Arab Countries (1947)

— Ber Borochov, Poalei Tziyon Peace Manifesto (1917)

— David Ben-Gurion, Statement to the Elected Assembly of Palestine Jewry (1947)

Zionists wrote copious volumes about the indigeneity of Judeans to Eretz Yisrael, and denying accusations that they were merely pawns of an imperialist agenda (initially it was claimed they were Russian agents, and then later British colonists) or seeking to conquer or to exploit the land or its people. Contrary to the popular claim that Zionists thought (or promoted the concept) the land was uninhabited, a very substantial amount was written about the Palestinians (particularly from the perspective of class analysis), and how the return and liberation of Judeans must go hand-in-hand with class solidarity and the liberation of Arab workers. In other words: the exact opposite of colonialism. What we today would call decolonization - and specifically decolonization via proletarian revolution.

The simplistic quote-mining about "colonization" used today is a hundred years outdated: all such arguments were debunked before the state was even founded.

therationaldispatch

The DOJ and FBI have already been looking into allegations that UNRWA employees assisted Hamas, sources told The Post.

United Nations staff members committed genocide against Israel on October 7th 2023, including participating in the massacre and kidnapping of Israeli civilians.

#jumblr

chutzpahchesed

professional-giver-uper

Happy pride month.

A 26 years old trans woman from Sanandaj was brutally stabbed to death and her body mutilated. The attackers remain unidentified.

In Iran, the reality is stark:

Same-sex relations remain entirely criminalized under the death penalty.

Trans people face a rigid, medicalized binary system with zero legal protections against hate crimes.

Assailants operate with total cultural and legal impunity.

This is only a brief glimpse into the reality of what being queer under the Islamic republic is like.

xclowniex2

At a time where jewish groups are being banned from pride events, you do not get to use Anne Franke, a dead jew murdered for being jewish before she could ever come out, as a puppet for whatever queer rights message you want to share.

You do not get to profit, financially or attention wise or another way, off of a *potentially* queer jew whilst we are banned from pride events.

We do not know if she was questioning her sexuality but ultimately straight or if she was actually queer because she was killed for the crime of existing as a jew before she could come out. Queer rights obviously matter. Anne Franke is not the person you should be using.

You need to protect alive queer jews. You need to love all jews, not just the dead ones.

straynoahide-deactivated2026032

please remember one of the first things the "democratic" socialist mayor of NY did was look at the state of the world and say hm. you know what we need? less protections for most of the jews being blood libeled

NYC mayor nullifies swath of predecessor's actions, including some related to Jewish community, while keeping Office to Combat Antisemitism

like. specifically

who would've known

diamondsandphoenixfire

Here’s the definition he axed, by the way. The linked article does a lot of simpering about “criticism of Israel,” so let’s see what’s in here, shall we? I’ve copied it in its entirety. It’s short. Emphasis mine.

“IHRA non-legally binding working definition of antisemitism

Adopted by the IHRA Plenary in Bucharest

In the spirit of the Stockholm Declaration that states: “With humanity still scarred by …antisemitism and xenophobia the international community shares a solemn responsibility to fight those evils” the committee on Antisemitism and Holocaust Denial called the IHRA Plenary in Budapest 2015 to adopt the following working definition of antisemitism.

On 26 May 2016, the Plenary in Bucharest decided to:

Adopt the following non-legally binding working definition of antisemitism:

“Antisemitism is a certain perception of Jews, which may be expressed as hatred toward Jews. Rhetorical and physical manifestations of antisemitism are directed toward Jewish or non-Jewish individuals and/or their property, toward Jewish community institutions and religious facilities.”

To guide IHRA in its work, the following examples may serve as illustrations:

Manifestations might include the targeting of the state of Israel, conceived as a Jewish collectivity. However, criticism of Israel similar to that leveled against any other country cannot be regarded as antisemitic. Antisemitism frequently charges Jews with conspiring to harm humanity, and it is often used to blame Jews for “why things go wrong.” It is expressed in speech, writing, visual forms and action, and employs sinister stereotypes and negative character traits.

Contemporary examples of antisemitism in public life, the media, schools, the workplace, and in the religious sphere could, taking into account the overall context, include, but are not limited to:

• Calling for, aiding, or justifying the killing or harming of Jews in the name of a radical ideology or an extremist view of religion.

• Making mendacious, dehumanizing, demonizing, or stereotypical allegations about Jews as such or the power of Jews as collective — such as, especially but not exclusively, the myth about a world Jewish conspiracy or of Jews controlling the media, economy, government or other societal institutions.

• Accusing Jews as a people of being responsible for real or imagined wrongdoing committed by a single Jewish person or group, or even for acts committed by non-Jews.

• Denying the fact, scope, mechanisms (e.g. gas chambers) or intentionality of the genocide of the Jewish people at the hands of National Socialist Germany and its supporters and accomplices during World War II (the Holocaust).

• Accusing the Jews as a people, or Israel as a state, of inventing or exaggerating the Holocaust.

• Accusing Jewish citizens of being more loyal to Israel, or to the alleged priorities of Jews worldwide, than to the interests of their own nations.

• Denying the Jewish people their right to self-determination, e.g., by claiming that the existence of a State of Israel is a racist endeavor.

• Applying double standards by requiring of it a behavior not expected or demanded of any other democratic nation.

• Using the symbols and images associated with classic antisemitism (e.g., claims of Jews killing Jesus or blood libel) to characterize Israel or Israelis.

• Drawing comparisons of contemporary Israeli policy to that of the Nazis.

• Holding Jews collectively responsible for actions of the state of Israel.

Antisemitic acts are criminal when they are so defined by law (for example, denial of the Holocaust or distribution of antisemitic materials in some countries).

Criminal acts are antisemitic when the targets of attacks, whether they are people or property – such as buildings, schools, places of worship and cemeteries – are selected because they are, or are perceived to be, Jewish or linked to Jews.

Antisemitic discrimination is the denial to Jews of opportunities or services available to others and is illegal in many countries.”

Yeah. You do have to be pretty evil to oppose this.

It even says outright that criticizing Israel is not antisemitic when it’s done in a way similar to other countries. You only oppose this definition if you want to criticize Israel in a way not similar to other countries, which means in an innately racist way.

philosopherking1887

He revoked it because he himself denies the Jewish people the right to self-determination and doesn't want to admit it makes him an antisemite. Plus it would be awkward to have to acknowledge that all his friends who do all those other things on the list are antisemites. No, much easier to be able to shift the criteria around as it suits them.

queer-scots-geordie-dyke

Muslims shouldn’t have to be compatible with Western, liberal values to get respect and recognition though. I’d argue it’s especially important for the ones Westerners find most repugnant to have their voice too. There’s nothing inherently less respectable about someone with “Death to America” as a watchword as “God bless America”

No one should have to adhere to certain beliefs or opinions in order to be afforded basic dignity and rights, I'm 100% fully on board with that.

"There's nothing inherently less respectable about someone with 'Death to America' as a watchword as 'God bless America'" -No. Absolutely not. You have completely lost me here. Proudly and publicly calling for the death of an entire country and everyone who lives there is inherently less respectable actually and it fucking should be.

There is such a thing as moral clarity and giving space to genocidal rhetoric and violent extremists who actively want to kill you because "their voices should be heard too" is not it. Good fucking God.

zeepyyy

This site was silent all year about Iran when they were killing thousands of my people by the hour. When they were arresting, torturing, and executing our people. Our children.

Now that people have some hope, after weeks of calling for intervention, NOW you guys talk about Iran? Only to repeat IRGC propaganda lines?

None of you care about human rights.

And if you’re not Iranian, you’re not entitled to an opinion about what’s going on.

honeyapplebutterfly

For graduation my ultra-left virtue signaling college, that hires antisemitic professors to teach classes about the Second World War, decided to have the Hillel rabbi give a speech at commencement and because of that I could not enjoy my own graduation for all I could hear was my classmates around me whispering, “Is this a Jewish school? I don’t want to graduate from a Jew college. Why is there a rabbi? Why is she talking about peace? Jews don’t believe in peace” (all DIRECT quotes)

So if you’re wondering about the class of 2026 apparently they’re fucking Nazis and I spent my whole graduation feeling insanely uncomfortable similar to the rest of my college experience

robot-roadtrip-rants

Don’t leave this in the tags sis (gender neutral)

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