Willow

[ramat-rafael]

Will never get the casual appropriation of jewish folklore (in particular the tanakh) and then the erasure of jews from their own stories. No, biblical stories don't take place in some vague mythical societies in some vague mythical land. I'm tired of this stupid trope.

[firestarterwillow1-7-2014]

See also: The Corpse Bride, a very Jewish story about a bride being slaughtered by Russian cossacks, which was then taken by the movie directors and stripped of anything remotely Jewish and then set in Victorian England. This was supposedly to make it "more universal" (less ethnic) (less Jewish) as if everybody lives in England and is a Christian.

[ramat-rafael]

Will never get the casual appropriation of jewish folklore (in particular the tanakh) and then the erasure of jews from their own stories. No, biblical stories don't take place in some vague mythical societies in some vague mythical land. I'm tired of this stupid trope.

[weemietime]

i am asking this in good faith

If the Bosnian Genocide is has been ruled a genocide and the death count was 33,071 people, how is what is happening in Gaza not a genocide when the number has been surpassed

Because genocide is not about the number of people being killed. Genocide is a specific legal term, and it has to have two components: 1) obviously people have to be murdered -- but this must be done systemically, as a policy (either written or unwritten) of the belligerent party. AND 2) there has to be genocidal intention to murder said people. Genocidal intention means that Party A (Israel) murders Party B (Palestinians) specifically because those people belong to Party B (Palestinians). There is no evidence that Israel has a genocidal intention. In fact, the October 7th massacre was actually a genocidal act on behalf of Hamas - Hamas committed the genocidal action and has been committing genocidal actions for over 20 years, because they specifically want to murder Jews for being Jewish. They also meet the first criteria because this is a systemic policy that is present in the Hamas Charter.

This is very important to distinguish because whilst genocide is a war crime, not all war crimes are genocide. Israel has committed war crimes, including murdering civilians, and even intentionally allowing civilians to be killed (such as bombing a house with a Hamas member in it and killing his family members). But this is not sufficient to rise to the criteria of genocide. We could make the argument that there is ethnic cleansing, because the vast majority of the people being evacuated are of a single ethnicity, Palestinian. However, again, ethnic cleansing alone is not sufficient to rise to the definition of genocide.

Crucially, the ICJ has not ruled that there is a genocide ongoing. They have ruled prima facie that 1) South Africa has the right to accuse Israel of genocide, and 2) that the ICJ itself is fit to hear and rule on the accusation. They have also ordered Hamas to release the civilian hostages, so if Hamas is saying they want to abide by the ICJ, they have already disregarded the ICJ ruling.

Genocide is not based on vibes. It's not based on bad feelings. It's not based on videos and images of dead kids, or destroyed rubble. Genocide is a specific legal term that can only be applied to the above scenario, and it cheapens our language when we levy it in circumstances where it does not apply. It especially cheapens our language when we engage in Holocaust inversion by claiming Israel is doing to Palestine what Germany did to the Jews, which is categorically false.

Beyond this, it belittles the groups that are involved in this conflict, particularly Hamas, to treat them like they are innocent civilians when they are in fact a very well-outfitted military brigade and the official armed forces of the Gazan government with over 40,000 fighters strong, who repeatedly and loudly say "death to Israel, we want to annihilate Israel, we will commit October 7th again and again until Israel is destroyed." They are being funded by the IRGC, they are being used as a proxy for Iran, and innocent Palestinian civilians are suffering as a result. Hamas has openly said that the "blood of martyrs fuels our resistance," they have openly said they hope Palestinian civilians die in droves while they steal aid and resell it at absurd mark-ups, while they flee to Egypt and Qatar so that they don't have to get their hands dirty. They recruit and brainwash young children to fight their "holy war" to murder as many Jews as possible.

And in terms of the death toll, you have to understand that this war is being fought in an urban environment where the belligerents are embedded purposely in the civilian population, in tunnels all throughout the civilian infrastructure. Violating the Geneva Conventions by using hospitals and schools as military bases, refusing to wear uniforms, and intentionally shooting their own people and blaming Israel.

These people even play tapes pretending to be hostages shouting in Hebrew "don't shoot," which is one of the reasons why a hostage was accidentally killed by the IDF, which is then turned around to show how evil the IDF is without understanding the context that these events happen in. In normal urban warfare the ratio of civilian to combatant death is around 9:1. In Gaza, the ratio is, according to Hamas's own numbers, 4:1. Literally twice as low as the average. So, yeah. War crimes are happening. Yes. Absolutely. Genocide is not happening, at least, it's not happening to the Palestinians.

[stoptheantisemitism]

Let's break down why this is just stupid amounts of wrong

Right off the bat we have a misrepresentation of the definition of genocide. @weemietime focuses on minor technicalities while ignoring piles and piles of evidence of policies and actions by Israel that literally constitute as genocidal practices (targeting civilians and systemic displacement just as some examples). You're cherry picking definitions while numerous human rights organizations, international bodies, and scholars smarter than you have provided proof that Israel is committing a genocide. Stop ignoring real world indicators

Intent can be inferred from actions, policies, and outcomes. So don't dismiss the systemic nature of Israeli war crimes. The intent is 100% there.

Deflection is sad. Stop bringing up Hamas as an attempt to absolve Israel of its war crimes. This false equivalency is a distraction from the core accusation. You tried. Also don't even get me started on the absolute bad faith argument that Hamas uses human shields when we've literally seen Israel do that. Also saying that absolves Israel of carrying out the LARGE MAJORITY of civilian deaths.

Holocaust Comparison Strawman. Drawing parallels in systemic oppression isnt equivalence. Not even a smart argument. We aren't dumb.

The civilian-to-combatant death ratio is misleadingly cited to minimize civilian harm while justifying indiscriminate targeting in densely populated areas.

Also there are literally ongoing investigations by many international bodies including the ICC. Way to be loud and wrong. You decided to be stupid with your whole chest.

[weemietime]

G-d's bravest racefaker coming in clutch with "stop bringing up Hamas's actions in the war they started"

[spot-the-antisemitism]

Oh look Khamenei’s laziest Turkish sleeper agent finally got their “harras actual jews” paycheck from Iran again

[titans-thoughts]

I wanted to add that, when a genocide is about to happen, the perpetrators generally won't shut up about their plans to commit genocide. (I'm thinking specifically of Rwanda and how the radio station referred to "Tutsi cockroaches" in the months leading up to it.) Gotta beat the drum until the mob is good and ready.

[prismatic-bell]

Another thing worth pointing out:

"The vast majority of people being evacuated are a single ethnicity, Palestinian."

Nobody else is allowed to live in Gaza. All Israelis left in 2006.

If a war occurs in a place where there's only a single ethnicity, then only a single ethnicity is going to fall victim to the war. The argument that Palestinians are being targeted falls apart when you realize they're the only ones there. This is like France starting a war with Belgium and people wailing that in France, only French people are dying. Yes, of course it's only the French who are dying, that's who lives in France! Of course it's only Palestinians, they're the only ones who live in Gaza!

What is happening in Gaza is a humanitarian crisis. It is not a genocide, and what's more, it is far from the worst humanitarian crisis going on in the world today. There are literally people in Rwanda begging for a fraction of the attention Gaza is getting. There are more people starving to death in Sudan than live in all of Gaza and over a million of them are children. China is committing three separate genocides right now!

I assure you, the whole world knows about Gaza. Try turning some attention to the Fur, the Rohingya, the Ukrainians, the Uyghurs, the Tibetans, the Sudanese, the Roma. Most of Europe is engaged in a form of genocide, but you don't hear about it because there are no Jews who can be blamed for it.

[lilacs-in-space]

No, it's a genocide. Don't believe me? Fine. Believe the UN. https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2025/09/israel-has-committed-genocide-gaza-strip-un-commission-finds

Don't trust the UN? Fine, the International Association of Genocide Scholars (IAGS) have released a statement that Israel's conduct meets the legal definition as laid out in the UN convention on genocide. https://genocidescholars.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/IAGS-Resolution-on-Gaza-FINAL.pdf

Pretending what's happening in Gaza isn't a genocide is either being wilfully ignorant or wilfully despicable.

There's no doubt in my mind that many people speaking up against the atrocities being committed by the Israel government are doing so because they're anti-semitic and not because they actually care about the loss of human life, but that does not negate the fact crimes at the level of purposeful genocide are being committed by Israel.

What Israel are doing is genocide and there is *never* a justification for genocide.

[thepoliticalvulcan]

Coming right out the gate with a “race faker” slur sure is a good look. Hey buddy you accidentally showed your power level. I almost thought you were a genocide pedant rather than a genocide enthusiast, Weemie, but you gave the game away. If you’re not making excuses for ethnic cleansing, why so heated about how race and identity is constructed and who claims labels? Shouldn’t the events speak for themselves if all of this is oh so empirical and legalistic?

[weemietime]

You understand that this person has literally been proven multiple times to be a liar right. Some worm-brained shit lmao. "Why so heated" about people pretending to be Jewish so they can post Hamas apologia? Idk bro, that's a tough one....

As for everything else I am once again asking you people to do the bare minimum lol "b-but the UN said so!" sure they did, based on a report that on page 101 says "we need to change the definition of genocide to apply it to Israel" I'm sure there are no credibility issues there at all :-)

Hmm, Francesca Albanese who was such an antisemitic ghoul that she was straight up fired and whose rhetoric is barely above "Jews are cockroaches and vermin" said it was a genocide... we better stop everything....

Literally no, "events don't speak for themselves" in any legal process ever lol. You don't have events right now, you have accusations. Mf like "why can't the eVeNts [that are unproven] speak for themselves???"

aka "why can't you stop demanding evidence and just accept 'genocide' and 'ethnic cleansing' as a series of rage syllables instead?"

Genocide is a legal term, dipshit. Genocide is a crime that you are convicted of based on evidence and definition, not "a lot of people died and I feel badsies."

Half the shit you people post about Gaza isn't even from Gaza lmao. But G-d forbid we ever miss an opportunity to shove Mariupol and starving Syrian kids in people's faces for clout!

[firestarterwillow1-7-2014]

Also wasn't the IAGS the place you could pay $30 to be a genocide scholar (and needing 0 proof of proper education in genocide)?

[cognitohazardous]

fire was invented by the grain industry

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Incredibly loose definition of "immediately"

[firestarterwillow1-7-2014]

Nevermind the fact that there are actual hunter gatherers groups alive today that cook their meat after they hunt it

[theblxefox]

Omg I just discovered professor dave is antisemitic fuck my ass how am I supposed to pass my analytical chem final

why does antisemitism have to ruin everything good we have in this world ahhhhhhhhh

[firestarterwillow1-7-2014]

Try Organic Chemistry tutor, afaik they are completely politically neutral

[spot-the-antisemitism]

‘Israel and the UAE are evul evul unlike my precious angel Iran who has no human rights abuses, commited zero genocides and they hate because they’re islamophobic bigots’

no I’d rather die than defend the UAE or the Israeli government but these are takes youd only do if you brain is full of Iranian propaganda and possibly your bank account full of Iranian money

[firestarterwillow1-7-2014]

Also Israel is the Israel of the middle east

"The UAE of the Israel of the middle east" bro what

[spot-the-antisemitism]

well if you huff enough iranian propaganda you’ll think israel and palestine are in Europe

[firestarterwillow1-7-2014]

Actually Israel is Euroland and Palestine is Brownpeopleistan in the Middle East

[spot-the-antisemitism]

‘Israel and the UAE are evul evul unlike my precious angel Iran who has no human rights abuses, commited zero genocides and they hate because they’re islamophobic bigots’

no I’d rather die than defend the UAE or the Israeli government but these are takes youd only do if you brain is full of Iranian propaganda and possibly your bank account full of Iranian money

[firestarterwillow1-7-2014]

Also Israel is the Israel of the middle east

"The UAE of the Israel of the middle east" bro what

[frankendykes-monster]

US is ‘using Mexico as a garbage sink’ leading to ‘toxic crisis’, UN expert says

Marcos Orellana, a special rapporteur, found lax environmental standards and lack of oversight allowed pollution to accumulate

Mexico is facing a “toxic crisis” and has become a “garbage sink” for the US, exposing Mexican communities to dangerous pollution, a UN expert has warned. In an interview with the Guardian and Quinto Elemento Lab, an investigative outlet, Marcos Orellana, an environmental specialist, said pollutants ranging from imported waste to dangerous pesticides were affecting people’s right to live healthy lives. Orellana, whose title is UN special rapporteur on toxics and human rights, conducted an 11-day investigative mission in Mexico last month to learn about toxic threats facing its population. He said he found lax environmental standards and a lack of oversight, which have allowed pollution to accumulate over the years.

“Where standards are weak, what you get is legalized pollution,” he said, adding that imports of hazardous and plastic waste from the United States were worsening the situation. “US overconsumption and economic activity are using Mexico as a garbage sink.” The rapporteur said there were more than 1,000 contaminated locations officially recorded in Mexico’s National Inventory of Contaminated Sites, many of which he said had become “sacrifice zones”, where diseases such as cancer, and medical events such as miscarriages, were normalized. In a preliminary report summarizing his visit, he cited factories spewing hazardous waste into the Atoyac River in Puebla, huge industrial pig farms contaminating drinking water on the Yucatan peninsula and a decade-old mining chemical spill that continued to affect health in communities around the Sonora River. He said many of these situations left residents struggling with dire health effects.

“As I heard during one meeting: living in a sacrifice zone means losing the right to die of old age,” he wrote. He cited one place he visited, the industrial corridor of Tula in the central Mexican state of Hidalgo, where steel plants, cement factories and petrochemical facilities operate near a river polluted by industrial waste and untreated sewage from Mexico City. He said proposals to bring in additional waste for recycling would only add to an already devastating environmental burden on communities there. Meanwhile, companies are not held responsible for preventing, mitigating and repairing the damage, he said. The result, he said, was the “legalized poisoning of people”. The rapporteur highlighted the influx of plastic waste from the United States. He said once this waste crosses the border, there is often little clarity about its final destinations. In addition, he said he was concerned that microscopic plastic particles had been detected in rivers such as the Tecate in Baja California, the Atoyac in Puebla and the Jamapa in Veracruz.

Government records show the US ships hundreds of thousands of tons of hazardous waste to Mexico each year, including lead-acid car batteries, as well as common scrap such as plastic, paper and metal for recycling. Environmental groups have questioned whether the country is equipped to handle all this without it leading to pollution. Residents in Monterrey, which serves as a US manufacturing hub and suffers some of the worst air pollution in North America, welcomed the rapporteur’s calls for more attention to the health of Mexico’s people. María Enríquez, a mother and activist in Monterrey, who co-founded the environmental group Comité Ecológico Integral, warned that poor air quality has become part of daily life in the city, and residents suffer from rhinitis, eye irritation and asthma attacks. “We have learned to live sick, especially with respiratory illnesses,” she said. Guadalupe Rodríguez, director of a network of childcare centers in Monterrey, agreed, saying children in her nursery program were also affected. “Families consider it normal for children to have constant coughing,” said Rodríguez. She called on the government to do more to enforce Mexico’s constitutional guarantee of a healthy living environment, especially for the most vulnerable. “If they are not protected, the right to health is not being guaranteed.”

[imyourbadjew]

Jews did not need a state because it was “promised” to us. We needed a state because all your grandparents were happily killing us.

Our ethnic ties to the land influenced the location of our state. But they were not actually the reason that we decided to build one.

[cookthepenguin]

following the same logic we should have a queer country as well

[imyourbadjew]

I wasn't aware that queer is an ethnicity but sure why not! I support Queeristan!

[cookthepenguin]

jewish isn’t an ethnicity either, but a religion. my point is that in a functioning democracy with freedom of religion and self expression there would not be the need to separate these groups.

the problem is fascists’ feeling of superiority and the solution isn’t to remove these groups from society, but to help them be accepted as a part of it. nazis also went after leftists (anyone from a social democrat to the most hardline communist was in danger), slavs, “gypsies”, people of color, disabled people and “asocials” (meaning basically anyone from the unemployed to people with jobs looked down upon (sex workers) to basically anyone who didn’t conform to their ideology). do you want to create a separate country for all of these people?

[weemietime]

Yes, next question

[firestarterwillow1-7-2014]

Jews literally are an ethnicity. We have a common origin in the Levant, specifically in the Land of Israel. Jews have common linguatic, genetic and cultural ties, which is what an ethnicity is. Jews are an ethnoreligion, mewing an ethnic group with a particular religon. Why would you think Jews aren't an ethnicity? Especially since there are atheist Jews and they still identify with being Jewish

Also, quick question for you, cookthepenguin, are you Jewish?

[calmdowngorgeous]

Destroy the myth that libraries are no longer relevant. If you use your library, please reblog.

[intergalactic-ashkenazi-deactiv]

I want every Jewish person to be safe

[firestarterwillow1-7-2014]

Crazy seeing all the people in the comments pissing and shitting themselves saying "wtf, I want all people to be safe!" "What about muslims?"

This is like those people that saw Black Lives Matter and then started saying All Lives Matter as a response as if BLM was saying non black people's lives don't matter

[luckyducky40]

“Jews and animals are not allowed”

This is a sign outside a hotel in Kyrgyzstan. It is 21 century.

[ishtanya]

Two wrongs do not lake one right.

This hotel in Kyrgyzstan is wrong and antisemitic.

Israël is wrong and killing children every day.

Antizionism is NOT antisemitism, but Israel policies will provoke more antisemitism.

[hilacopter]

Anti(((zionists))) try to not bring up Israel when condemning antisemitism challenge:

[firestarterwillow1-7-2014]

"When I see blatantly antisemitic signage, I start talking about the Israeli government despite it having 0 relevance, insinuating that the Jews are somehow responsible for whatever the Israeli government does, regardless of their individual political beliefs."

"I'm an antiracist btw XD"