not a zionist

[tikkunolamorgtfo]

Some of you don't have firm principles that transcend ideology, and it shows.

[tikkunolamorgtfo]

"Spreading blatant misinformation is okay when it supports a cause I care about, and if anybody corrects me, it means they do not share my values." 🤡

"Police brutality is okay if it's being carried out by a government ascribing to my preferred political philosophy." 🤡

"If this person has harmful views, then my criticism of them can't be [racist/sexist/homophobic/transphobic/antisemitic/Islamophobic/classist/ableist/etc]." 🤡

Like, please, I'm begging you guys to invest in some basic standards.

[cumaeansibyl]

Do I want to take revenge on the police officers who murder people with impunity, on the billionaires who cash in on exploitation and gentrification, on the bigots who harass and dox people? Yes, of course I do. They have killed people I knew; they are trying to destroy everything I love. When I think about the harm that they are causing, I feel ready to break their bones, to kill them with my bare hands.

But that desire is distinct from my politics. I can want something without having to reverse-engineer a political justification for it. I can want something and choose not to pursue it, if I want something else even more—in this case, an anarchist revolution that is not based in revenge. I don’t judge other people for wanting revenge, especially if they have been through worse than I have. But I also don’t confuse that desire with a proposal for liberation.

-- Against the Logic of the Guillotine

[eesirachs]

how do i find god ?

don’t look now but he’s right behind you

[diaryofajewishgal]

Source

I know things can seem bleak and social media is largely just a massive horrible doom spiral right now, so here is a necessary reminder: we live in an age of miracles. We are among the most blessed humans who have ever lived on this planet. Life is not easy -- it never has been -- but we have the ability, and the duty, to make it better.

[kropotkindersurprise]

October 28, 2023 - Hundreds of Israelis protested in Tel Aviv at the ministry of "defense" to demand a ceasefire and a stop to the bombardment of Gaza. [video]

[afloweroutofstone]

Middle East Online

[afloweroutofstone]

"Anyone who wants to thwart the establishment of a Palestinian state has to support bolstering Hamas and transferring money to Hamas. This is part of our strategy — to isolate the Palestinians in Gaza from the Palestinians in the West Bank.”

-Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, 2019

[afloweroutofstone]

The Intercept

[afloweroutofstone]

Haaretz

Repsonsible Statecraft

[thequeeranachronism]

We need peace and safety, Israeli and Palestinians together in the region. What we don’t need is westerners cheering on their “side” while they sit in safety and our blood soaks the ground.

[spacelazarwolf]

i went to an event at my synagogue on tuesday where we were able to sit together as a congregation, whoever was able to make it, and just decompress and talk about our emotions in a safe space. one of my rabbis talked about how she went to a grief support group for parents that had lost their children to terror and violence, primarily made up of israelis and palestinians. sitting together and talking about their pain and loss. after the massacre happened this saturday, palestinian members reached out to check on other members and offered up prayers for them. i told a friend that and they laughed and rolled their eyes, then told me "what so you want people to all just sit in a big circle and sing kumbaya????" this really is all one big fucking joke to them. like they really don't see any of us as people, just pawns in their game of "activist" dnd.

[chocoholicbec]

As Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg exhorts, in her recent piece I overwhelmingly agree with:

"We can refuse to root for the safety and lives and rights of human beings like they are sports teams. In which there are winners and losers. In which safety is a finite resource that must be hoarded."

We must.

a lot of things are true.

the refusal to grasp this is a non-trivial amount of the problem

[doberbutts]

I always have a bit of a snarl whenever someone retorts that kumbaya thing because like.

A: would that be so bad? Would it be so terrible if a meeting of minds and opening of hearts could happen and we could have a peaceful resolution rather than an endless cycle of killing and death and despair? Would it be so awful if we could recognize the humanity in each other and learn how to choose to move forward into the future together united?

B: Kumbayah is a BLACK (Christian) phrase with its origins being sung by people pleading to God for help during troubled times- when they were starving, or sick, dying in war or due to oppression, in need of aid. The fact that so many people think it's an absurd thing to do to "sit in a circle and sing kumbayah" is rooted in antiblackness. Yes yes I know antiblackness 🤝 antisemetism.

C: idk why it's so offensive to people to think that the civilians mourning those lost in a government and military conflict might find common ground while remembering their dead, but like... that's normal. And I find this type of thinking- blaming the civilians for what their government is doing- is what has led us to so many various war crimes and atrocities over the years. These innocent people have nothing to do with it. They just want to live in peace.

[thewhaleridingvulcan-deactivate]

I pray for all my brothers and sisters be they Palestinian or Israeli. May the governments causing harm fall and may there be a way of peace as there was before all this mess.

❤️❤️

And I'll not be saying anymore

[mariacallous]

[date-a-jew-suggestions]

Many things can be true at once.

Israel is an apartheid state that unjustly occupies Palestinian land.

Israel is a Jewish state.

Jews worldwide do not bear the responsibility of the Israeli army or government.

The American government backs Israel, largely because of the efforts of evangelical Christian lobbyists. Wether or not Jewish Americans want this is irrelevant to the USA military.

The American government is rooted in white supremacy and antisemitism, and is constantly verging on Christian theocracy.

Criticism of Israel, while necessary, can very easily be co-opted into antisemitism. It needs to be handled carefully.

We can expect both antisemitic and Islamophobic hate crimes to spike in the coming weeks.

Jews and Muslims are not enemies. We have to remember that and stand up for each other.

[ghostscreamss]

nobody on this entire website understands fucking nuance. Israel bad does not mean Hamas good. Israel bad. Hamas also bad. Not mutually exclusive NOR is this the full extent of the opinion people should have on this subject. Please dear lord i am begging people to have complex thoughts for once in their life.

[quark-nova-deactivated20260116]

This is too important to stay in the comments. Hamas supporters and Netanyahu supporters are two sides of the same.

[spacelazarwolf]

there have been MASSIVE protests in israel, by israelis, since JANUARY of this year in opposition to the government. the media will not cover that but god knows they will absolutely be covering this. the west benefits greatly from this constant conflict, and for some reason western leftists just refuse to see that.

[diaryofajewishgal]

The revelation that Netanyahu purposefully propped up Hamas should tell you two things:

1. Netanyahu is a purely evil human being. He does not care about Israeli lives. He does not care about Palestinian lives. He would do literally anything to maintain his power. Israelis would do more to protect their own safety by storming Beit Aghion and publicly executing him than by bombing Gaza.

2. Hamas and its supporters internationally are an absolute fucking gift to the Israeli far-right. I don't think American leftists could do more to prop up the Israeli far-right if they donated directly to them.

(Neither of these things, of course, are new information: Bibi has shown his colors with actions like the expansion of West Bank settlements, and BDS and other poorly thought through acts of international "leftist" support for Palestine have often benefitted him; he should be sending fruit baskets to every SJP chapter in America.)

The corollary to this is that the Israeli blockade and bombing of Gaza is not only morally evil, but strategically stupid, and every moment it continues is a gift to Ayatollah Khomeini. The Iranian government doesn't fund and train and stoke Palestinian terrorists out of any great love for Palestinians; they do it because they understand that instability and bloodshed in the region is good for them. The people primarily reponsible for the Hamas attacks knew that the end result would be massive Palestinian loss of life, and this was not a bug but a feature to them.

Palestinians don't benefit from the public rape and execution of a young woman or the murder of 40 babies in their cribs. Israelis don't benefit from entire towers full of Palestinian civilians being reduced to dust and ashes. The only people who benefit from any of this are the power hungry far-right warlords who have stoked and funded this conflict.

There are, roughly speaking, 7 million Jews and 7 million Arabs in Israel & Palestine. Without a holocaust-level genocide of one of these peoples, the only options are a never-ending cycle of violence and bloodshed, or both populations learning to live in peace with one another. Every act of violence committed today makes the latter solution more difficult.

[camdoesnothingright]

Jews who are worried for Palestinian civilians are not “traitors”. Being anti-war means recognizing that innocent people everywhere will suffer. We all mourn together.

[notaplaceofhonour]

As a leftist Jew who believes strongly in the cause of dignity and freedom for the Palestinian people, and that Israel has abused them, I am begging fellow leftists to understand that real life is not a comic book. A government being “the bad guy” in a situation does not automatically make anyone who opposes it “the good guy”.

Hamas denies the Holocaust. Hamas disseminates the Protocols of the Elders of Zion—the conspiracy theory it paints is what they mean by “Zionist”. Hamas forbids foreign aid educators from teaching human rights to Palestinians, and claims that even teaching that the Holocaust happened is a war crime. Hamas has written the aim of annihilating Israel (the country and its people) into its charter—the mass slaughter and violent expulsion of 7 million Jews from the land is written into its laws.

There is no crime any state could ever do that would justify any of that; there is no act of state repression that could ever make it acceptable to side with the organization spreading Nazi pamphlets and Holocaust denial.

Oppose Bibi Netanyahu. Oppose Israel’s far-right, authoritarian government. Oppose its apartheid policies. Oppose its violent abuse of the Palestinian people. That isn’t antisemitic. But Hamas is—verifiably, beyond a shadow of a doubt, to its core—antisemitic. Its portrayal of Israeli Jews as blood-thirsty, child-killing master manipulators that control international media and finance is antisemitic. Its insistence that Palestinian freedom necessitates the death & expulsion of Jews from the land is antisemitic. Its redefinition of “Zionism” as a pejorative to mean genocidal Jewish/Israeli Supremacy is antisemitic.

Supporting the Palestinian people in their plight is a noble and loving goal; please never stop that. But do not let Hamas co-opt that into excusing or denying their rampant antisemitism and war crimes.

[newsfromstolenland]

non-muslims: please don't overcorrect for islamophobia by ignoring what is happening in iran right now (women being killed for not wearing or improperly wearing their hijab)

supporting the freedom to choose to wear a hijab means also supporting the freedom to choose not to

jîna mahsa amini was arrested and killed for "improperly" wearing her hijab. there are massive protests happening and police are killing protestors. spread the word.

[newsfromstolenland]

this is the edited version of the original post, because I originally referred to her as mahsa amini.

her name was jîna mahsa amini. she was kurdish, and her death was partially due to the ethnic cleansing of kurdish people.

please reblog this version instead. allow her the dignity of sharing her kurdish name.

[yesyourstalker]

Women in France are fighting to wear the hijab while women in Iran are fighting to not wear the hijab

This is not a fight about Islam this is not a fight about religion this is a fight about women not having the right to do whatever they want with their bodies and being killed and persecuted for it

[toothbaderginspurr]

8/24/22

Went for an early morning walk along the coast, then sat on the rocks for a bit to do some reading

[diaryofajewishgal]

I have noticed that nearly all the comments saying that hijab is inherently oppressive, even when worn by choice, are from TERFs.

This isn’t particularly surprising I guess, bc it just goes to show that TERFs’ version of feminism isn’t about empowering women to make their own choices, but rather about how THEY know the correct way to be a woman and any woman who does womanhood differently is wrong and stupid and needs to be reeducated which is actually not particularly radical or feminist, I think we might be calling them the wrong thing