it's a big tent

but we're not allowed🖖

[starsidesomething]

Antisemitism has always existed but it’s never felt this fucking exhausting to be Jewish in all my 21 years of life. Five years ago my non Jewish friends were empathetic when I told them about antisemitism I experienced and now I know I can’t even discuss it with them five years ago I could draw fan art of fictional characters celebrating Hanukkah without getting death threats five years ago I could hang out in niche hobby spaces without seeing someone crochet a Star of David with a slash through it five years ago there weren’t posts on my city’s subreddit minimizing and denying the Holocaust and saying it doesn’t need to be taught in schools five years ago I could wear my Magen David necklace without being spat on five years ago I assumed I could have friendships with people who aren’t Jewish and now I feel like I’m constantly waiting for the other shoe to drop or for them to “find out” my “secret” like fuck man. When am I allowed to feel afraid?

[persephonesteeth]

“netanyahu made people hate the jews” he didn’t need to, you already hate us

[mariacallous]

[deaddee-anime-brownfanlady]

This horrible imagery truly says so much about the state of America and what this country has always been rooted in.

[ecstaticliberationfront]

I hate how we can't know how bad antisemitism has gotten in the 2020s because every organisation that was supposed to track antisemitism is too busy conflating antisemitism and antizionism

[rose-in-a-fisted-glove]

Ambulances are being blown up for being ran by Jews.

Synagogue attacks are at a modern high

Jewish politician's homes are being fire bombed for being Jewish

Jews are being gunned down at festivals even in countries with strict gun laws

Jews can't even take the subway in major cities without risking being harassed

But we can't tell how bad antisemitism is because of zionism? Come off it.

Antisemitism is bad enough now that the Golden Age is over and we're betting on how many years it will be until the next set of pogroms start.

[the-library-alcove]

Remember, it's not a Hate Crime if you shout "For Palestine!" first before murdering Jews for being Jewish. Then it's just "antizionism", which is apparently Not About Murdering Jews For Being Jewish. They just look the same. /s

[indecisiveavocado]

Don't worry OP, I can tell you: bad

Very, very, bad.

[hatikvah-shalom]

I think one of the saddest parts of the last few years is how much respect I’ve lost for librarians. The only way you promote authors like Khalidi, Masalha, Pappé, and Kern, is if you either don’t know anything or are genuinely trying to mislead people. There are excellent books at these same libraries that predate the political orthodoxy of 2023, but I’ve never seen a single one of them showcased, recommended, or read in book clubs. Every book club I was a part of chose to read the books that engaged in Holocaust denial, Temple denial, Khazar theory, the Protocols, and all manner of historical revisionism and conspiracy. I’m not upset that the library has these books; I would never have read them otherwise. I am upset that they’ve selected the narrative of these books as the only one worthy of conversation, and I’m disappointed by their dishonesty.

[kosherkept]

the way antisemites get on this website and talk like "in our ideal world we will see the destruction of israel and the zionists will burn. our revolution will be glorious and we are the righteous" like can you not hear yourself because you sound like youre roleplaying fascism. oh wait

[dhaaruni]

8/11 of the starters for the US Men’s National Soccer Team are Black but apparently leftists agree with the most virulently racist right-wingers that non-white people don’t count as American even when they’re born here

[afurioushawk]

They should cheer for unproblematic countries like Spain, Argentina, Brazil, and Belgium.

[nogodsnokingsnomasters]

Kent State University

[tiredtransgal]

“The Kent State shootings (also known as the May 4 massacre or the Kent State massacre)[3][4][5] were the shootings on May 4, 1970 of unarmed college students by members of the Ohio National Guard at Kent State University in Kent, Ohio during a mass protest against the bombing of Cambodia by United States military forces. Twenty-eight guardsmen fired approximately 67 rounds over a period of 13 seconds, killing four students and wounding nine others, one of whom suffered permanent paralysis.[6][7]”

“There was a significant national response to the shootings: hundreds of universities, colleges, and high schools closed throughout the United States due to a student strike of 4 million students,[10] and the event further affected public opinion, at an already socially contentious time, over the role of the United States in the Vietnam War.[11]”

Student strike of 4 million students! Let’s do that again lol

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_State_shootings

[solarpunkcast]

Don’t forget that basically half the country thought the students deserved it…

[captain-rez]

Another picture from Kent State.

But it was not just Kent State, eleven days later Mississippi Police fired 150 rounds into a dormitory at Jackson State College, killing 2 and wounding 15 black protesters.

[saurons-optometrist]

Btw half of the students killed at Kent State weren’t even protesting, they were just there

[bando--grand-scamyon]

What in the absolute fuck

[wuh2k]

When the Irish guy has known about this since he was like 8, but it’s suspiciously hard for Americans to learn about…

[pagecommando]

This was taught in schools. This was taught in every high school. This is basic curriculum in public schools. There is no conspiracy to hide the truth of Kent state. You were just drawing Naruto or a stussy some shit. “THE AMERIKKKANS WONT TEACH YOU ABOUT A PIVOTAL FUCKUP OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT WHERE THE NATIONAL GUARD SHOT STUDENTS, I, A EURO KNOW MORE THAN YOU ABOUT YOUR OWN BAD COUNTRY. DON’T LOOK UNDER OUR FLOORBOARDS.” It is in textbooks, It is discussed right alongside Nixon, Vietnam, the Civil Rights movement and protesting generally.

This is “Beto O'Rourke goes to Kent State to promote more civilian gun control when the people who opened fire were the National fucking Guard levels of conspiratorial historical and educational illiteracy.

(Yes. He fucking did that. He is that stupid. And so is this entire discussion.)

https://www.cleveland.com/politics/2019/09/beto-orourke-advocates-for-gun-control-at-kent-state-after-meeting-with-may-4-1970-shooting-survivor.html

“Bla bla state sponsored propaganda bla bla. THEYYYYYYYYYYYY don’t want you to KNOWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW” everybody knows. Everybody. It’s just history, like the MOVE bombing or the Black Panther protest at the California Capitol building. And you all decided to amplify an aesthetic posting account that likes Killdozer guy

and posts weird shit like this

Because you couldn’t work out that the OP was hitting it from a conspiratorial and pro-gun perspective because, again, you refuse to fucking read or pay attention.

[sweaterkittensahoy]

“The US government is trying to suppress info about Kent State!”

Here’s a whole fucking graphic novel you can get that looks at the shooting from several days before it happened and explains the tensions and terrible choices BY THE GOVERNMENT AT ALL LEVELS. I am linking it from Amazon because YOU CAN BUY IT ON AMAZON.

I have actually never managed to finish it because I get up to the day of and can’t handle knowing what’s coming. Because Backderf does an amazing job showing how it all slowly went to shit, and it fucking hurts.

We learned about it. It is talked about. Do five fucking seconds of research before deciding you just want to agree with someone because you want to hate the US more than you want to actually learn shit.

[thisgingerisareallybadwriter]

Antizionism is an anti-Jewish hate movement.

[needsmoreexplosions]

Since Google is useless now I propose the new phrase "Wikipedia is free" when someone tries to derail a post they know jack shit about

[emeraldmercury]

Newsflash Wikipedia is worse than useless if you're Jewish, Hindu, or Iranian, so you can't even say that either

[notaplaceofhonour]

duckduckgo is free

[yaoiblackmold]

'They're a very elusive species': The 10-year effort to photograph the rare hyena stalking a diamond mining ghost town

Ten years in the making: The story behind the award-winning photo of an elusive brown hyena stalking Namibia's diamond ghost towns.

LOOK AT THEM THEY'RE SO CUTE 😭😭😭

[sternfleck]

Let’s stalk a diamond mining ghost town with mama

[transfemmbeatrice]

here's the actual photo by Wim van den Heever that won the award! the pictures above are from a different photographer, Marie Lemerle.

[glasspalacesstoneshop]

Most of my politics about Israel can be summed up as "no, I don't think Israel should have done that, but given that you're under the impression that Israel is the first country do do violence ever, I'm not going to have this conversation with you. Come back when you have indicated you've read a history book about... honestly anywhere ever, actually."

[maddie-2022]

See also: "you seem to be under the impression that Israel is the origin of all evil in the world. Which barely even qualifies as a reskin of Elders of Zion. That thing the Nazis believed in."

[susanoos-wife]

Rare California W:

[apas-95]

[sraithpics]

David Cleary!

[aiteanngaelach-deactivated20241]

i'm in Ireland and the search for that bastards name is still blocked and hidden... the legnths the british go to defend and protect their instruments of colonialism and violence is beyond belief. no justice for the victims and yet every measure taken to protect David James Cleary and his fellow murderers.

[undeadentropy]

Never a better time for the Streisand Effect than when it's a government covering up acts of brutality and evil.

[stele3]

if you complain about the Chinese government covering up Tianamen Square, then complain about this, too.

[parentheticalaside]

Since I’m obsessed with WWII these days, I happened to mention something about it to my brother, I don’t remember what, and he responded that it was the last war fought for righteous reasons, to which I immediately responded that the Ukrainians are currently fighting a righteous war. And then he said, “But they’re not perfect. They’ve done some bad stuff.”

And I think it’s no wonder everyone is so unhappy these days, when you expect purity from everyone always in all things. Can’t even back up people fighting a war against their own annihilation.

[knight-of-skyloft]

Throwing firebombs at Jews gathering to raise awareness for the suffering of other Jews isn't antisemitism. Calling AIPAC "dark money" when it discloses its donors and saying it "turns us against each other" isn't antisemitic. Chanting "khaybar khaybar ya yahood" isn't antisemitic. Yelling "fucking Jew pricks" at random pedestrians isn't antisemitic. Shooting up a Chanukah party isn't antisemitic. Deliberately drawing on tropes about Jews and money and political influence for votes isn't antisemitic. Telling a Jewish American politician he serves "Israeli masters" isn't antisemitic. The only two antisemitic things that have happened in the last eighty years are Elon Musk's Nazi salute and Harry Potter Goblin. Wow! Incredible!