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Back in 2016/2017 Al Jazeera released a docuseries called The Lobby. It was an investigation into pro-Israeli lobbying networks mostly in the US and UK.
They used hidden cameras to record various lobbyists, activists, and political figures talking about ways to influence government officials, parties, student orgs, political opinion and how to counter BDS movements.
They got some crazy information/footage out of this like Shai Masot (official at the Israeli embassy in the UK) talking about ways to remove anti-Israeli MPs from office. He had to apologize and resign because of it.
And just a lot of great information around the pro-Israel lobby and it's reach throughout campuses, it's funding of Canary Mission, horrifying use of dark money to pressure officials and people of power.
I think everyone should watch this. It's especially relevant today. There are names that come up in this that you should know. Particularly Sheldon Adelson (that last name should sound familiar if you've been keeping up with Trump), Haim Saban, Adam Milstein, Paul Singer, Seth Klarman etc.
When you've watched this you should also follow along with some recent events:
Like how this documentary inspired Track AIPAC. And how the founders of Track AIPAC had to reveal their identities because of Stopantisemitism's constant doxxing attempts.
The Adam and Gila Milstein Family Foundation is a big donor for Stopantisemitism.
The Merona Leadership Foundation where Gila Milstein is president, pays the salary of StopAntisemitism's executive director Liora Rez.
Stopantisemitism recently got Casey Kennedy (one of the founders of Track AIPAC) fired.
And then you should watch this recent video of billionare Miriam Adelson (yes Sheldon Adelson's wife) talk about how she would donate another $250m to Trump if he ran for a 3rd term.
I just think everyone should know who's funding this and how all these people and organizations are connected.
Reposting this on my main again because I need you all to learn about these Zionist families and how they've been spending an absurd amount of money to make sure your elected officials prioritize Israel over you
if I could ask God anything and get the real, genuine answer, I'd ask him why He commanded Abraham to sacrifice Isaac. He knew He was going to stop him. He knew that He'd never truly ask him to do it. He knew that if he went through with it then His promise would be frustrated.
The thing is... the story has led parents to think it's okay to sacrifice their children, metaphorically and sometimes literally, for a false sense of moral superiority. How many LGBT+ children have been sacrificed in the supposed name of Christianity? How many autistic children? How many orphaned children? How many abused children?
Maybe it was the right lesson for Abraham, especially about how it paralleled Christ's atonement. But it's not a story that has translated well into modern times.
do you want the Jewish answer? It was to challenge him to think critically about commandments from g-d (and translating to religion as an institution, rulings from religious leaders and scripture), and it's a challenge he failed. He was supposed to, theoretically, fight g-d and say "no, by no means am I going to do this. I don't care that you created everything, that is my child and my world, and I'm not going to do it just because you said so."
Instead, Abraham royally screws up, traumatises his son, and in doing so, loses his son, loses g-d's will and favor, and in the Tanakh we never really hear from Abraham again after this point, because he failed.
It's a story about someone blindly following in faith, and losing the most important things to them because they never stopped to think "Wait, did I hear this right? And if I did hear this right, am I so sure that this is something I want to follow?"
Isaac was Abraham's only son at the time, and the child he had fought so hard to have. Him following an order blindly without thinking of the consequences is not supposed to be a good thing (It just kind of benefits the feudal society that eventually embraced Christianity, which is why the understanding was changed in Christian worldviews.)
The notion that this is "the Jewish answer" is so funny, because 1. no it isn't, and 2. in the text, God explicitly praises and rewards Abraham for being willing to sacrifice Isaac (Gen 22:16-18). In the text, it's a test of loyalty that Abraham explicitly passed.
More to the point, though, the academic view, which, if it's not a consensus, is at least very widely held, is that in the oldest version of the story, Abraham did sacrifice Isaac, and the story we have in Genesis today is a later reworking after child sacrifice became unacceptable. The smoking gun here is mainly that when Abraham returns to his servants afterwards, in Gen 22:19, there is no mention of Isaac returning with him, even though when they were going up the mountain it is consistently said that they both went. (This is, incidentally, also the view of a number of medieval rabbinical commentators, including the Yalqut Reubeni, which has Isaac recuperating in Heaven for three years after being stabbed and then returning to Earth.)
I personally think it's more likely the whole episode was written to explain why Abraham had a firstborn son who went on to live and do things instead of being sacrificed as was expected of Israelites at the time. There are a number of passages that indicate the sacrifice of firstborns was a thing you had to do, including Exodus 22:29-30:
מְלֵאָתְךָ וְדִמְעֲךָ לֹא תְאַחֵר בְּכוֹר בָּנֶיךָ תִּתֶּן־לִּי׃ məlēʔātəkā wədīmʕăkā lōʔ təʔaḥēr bəkôr bānekā titten-llî. You shall not delay to make offerings from the fullness of your harvest and from the outflow of your presses. The firstborn of your sons you shall give to me. כֵּן־תַּעֲשֶׂה לְשֹׁרְךָ לְצֹאנֶךָ שִׁבְעַת יָמִים יִהְיֶה עִם־אִמּוֹ בַּיּוֹם הַשְּׁמִינִי תִּתְּנוֹ־לִי׃ kēn-taʕăśe ləšōrəkā ləṣōʔnekā šibʕat yāmîm yīhəye ʕīm-ʔīmmô bayyôm haššəmînî tīttənô-lî. You shall do the same with your oxen and with your sheep: seven days it shall remain with its mother; on the eighth day you shall give it to me.
(I include verse 30 to show that this is indeed about sacrifice and not, like, priestly service, unless you want to believe oxen and sheep can be priests.)
This is part of the Covenant Code, which is generally regarded as the earliest prescriptive/legislative text in the Bible.
People eventually stopped loving child sacrifice, though, and you get mechanisms for getting out of it pretty quickly, by redeeming your firstborn instead (i.e. by making some substitute sacrifice; Exo 13:15 et al.) and/or by counting the religious service of the Levites as balancing it out (either altogether or one for one with any excess firstborns still having to be redeemed; Num 3, 8). Jeremiah has God saying that the practice of child sacrifice that existed among the Israelites is actually something he did not command (Jer 7:31), but that also confirms that child sacrifice is something that did happen at least as far as the author of Jeremiah believed, and Ezekiel, who explains the commandment to sacrifice firstborn as deliberately cruel punishment on God's part ("in order that I might horrify them, so that they might know that I am the Lord"; Eze 20:23-26), also presupposes that this was a thing that happened. By extension, the fact that it didn't happen with Abraham's firstborn is then something that would need addressing, and the binding of Isaac is just that: Abraham actually was going to sacrifice Isaac as per normal, but God intervened.
And FWIW, child sacrifice really wasn't that unusual in the region (the Phoenicians seem to have done it until quite late), and in a time when infant mortality was extremely high anyway, if you believe in gods that can be appealed to through sacrifice, it makes sense that you might sacrifice the first one in order to secure the divine intervention that will enable the subsequent ones to survive. This logic also seems to be present in what God says to Abraham afterwards (Gen 22:16-17):
וַיֹּאמֶר בִּי נִשְׁבַּעְתִּי נְאֻם־יְהוָה כִּי יַעַן אֲשֶׁר עָשִׂיתָ אֶת־הַדָּבָר הַזֶּה וְלֹא חָשַׂכְתָּ אֶת־בִּנְךָ אֶת־יְחִידֶךָ׃ wayyōʔmer bî nišbaʕtî nəʔūm-YHWH kî yaʕan ʔăšer ʕāśîtā ʔet-haddābār hazze wəlōʔ ḥāśaktā ʔet-bīnəkā ʔet-yəḥîdekā. By myself I have sworn, says the Lord: Because you have done this, and have not withheld your son, your only son, כִּי־בָרֵךְ אֲבָרֶכְךָ וְהַרְבָּה אַרְבֶּה אֶת־זַרְעֲךָ כְּכוֹכְבֵי הַשָּׁמַיִם וְכַחוֹל אֲשֶׁר עַל־שְׂפַת הַיָּם kî-bārēk ʔăbārekəkā wəharbā ʔarbe ʔet-zarʕăkā kəkôkəbê haššāmayīm wəkaḥôl ʔăšer ʕal-śəpat hayyām [...] I will indeed bless you, and I will make your offspring as numerous as the stars of heaven and as the sand that is on the seashore. [...]
You sacrificed/were willing to sacrifice your firstborn, therefore your subsequent offspring will be plentiful and live. The fact that this logic is laid out here like this with no mention of Isaac surviving is also part of the reason so many people think the sacrifice did actually happen in the oldest version of the story.
But regardless of which of these views is right—Abraham did sacrifice Isaac and the story was changed when child sacrifice became distasteful, or the story exists to explain why Abraham did not sacrifice Isaac when he should have—I think the more important point is probably that you shouldn't to try to find spiritual guidance or moral prescriptions in stories that were written in social contexts that are wildly alien to yours for reasons you don't know anything about.
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Perhaps I haven't paid enough attention, but I haven't seen anything online or in the news about this, or rather, I've stopped seeing anything about Palestine, and that's unfortunate. Keep in mind that Israel considers the Palestinian government and many humanitarian and charitable organizations to be terrorist entities, which automatically labels us Palestinians as terrorists.
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The Jewish Defense League (JDL) is a violent right wing terrorist group and a hate group and apparently last night Alexander Heifler, a 26 yr old Zionazi that is part of this terrorist group attempted to blow up a Palestinian Rights activist's home. He planned to kill her and her family and then flee to Israel.
He was also part of Betar another terrorist organization that I've spoken about in the past. Stay safe everyone.
The Zionazi was terrorist was part of JDL 613 brotherhood and his target was Nerdeen Kiswani. She just shared a message he sent her earlier this year
Notice how these Zionazis always threaten to kill children?
Here is the source directly from the Justice Departments website
He was going to use molotov cocktails and bombs against her and her baby...
They really are obsessed with killing children
This is the face of this terrorist
If you are in the Tri-state area and know who he is or the people he hangs out with please be safe. There's no telling what these people will do if they're willing to publicly admit that they are planning to kill a baby
You guys the founder of JDL 613 is a convert
Zionists are never ever escaping the white supremacists allegations. These converts every single time!
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It terrifies me that there’s so much raging passion in the lgbt+ community that insist on marginalizing asexuals and implying that asexuals don’t deserve to have safe spaces. There’s still so much acephobia so I just wanna know which blogs are genuinely supportive and a safe space for asexuals
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THE TORONTO POLICE CHIEF IS PAID MORE THAN THE CITY’S MAYOR???? ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME!!!!
HOW ARE THERE MULTIPLE COPS MAKING MORE THAN THE MAYOR
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The cbc article which states the employment of the top earners, including the seven police officers on the list that were involved in the corruption probe 🙃
[neolithic hottie who's been easing back into the modern dating scene]: so when he said he was a pot caster i thought he was a good artisan with a reliable income. But turns out he just talks to himself all day mostly. People don't even come to listen and he doesn't know shit about ceramics. Sometimes one of his friends is there though.
[One eyed priest-king who's been frozen in the ice for 10 000 years next to a mammoth but is starting to thaw]: girl no wayyyyy. What is slip casting a pot btw. The use of that technique (not to be confused with slipware) purportedly only dates back to the Tang Era (618–917).
[cornish tin miner from 3000 years ago]: my deposits may have played a key part in the advances of sophisticated kingdoms and states more than 4,000km (2,485 miles) away. #myDeposits.
The recall states that 'the ovens in the ranges can experience a delayed ignition of the oven's bake burner, which can create a potential ri
Health Canada is recalling several Frigidaire gas range ovens, citing a “burn hazard” after reports of dozens of injuries in Canada and the U.S. The recall this week states that “the ovens in the ranges can experience a delayed ignition of the oven’s bake burner, which can create a potential risk of burns. ” As of March 11, the company has received three reports of incidents in Canada, including one injury. In the U.S., the company received 59 reports of incidents, including 30 injuries.
This recall article was posted on March 20th, 2026.
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Watching the Manosphere documentary shortly after going on a deep dive researching looksmaxxing/Clavicular made me realize that these people's entire worldview is based around assuming all of society functions on the same logic as a Miami nightclub, which is somehow even stupider than if they were just run of the mill religious conservatives
"people judge you mostly based on your looks and so the only way to get ahead in life is to be hotter", "hot women have everything in life handed to them while men have to work hard and make lots of money in order to get ahead", "men only want women for sex and women only want men for money" sir have you ever spoken to a woman who was not doing either bottle service or sex work? Bottle girls and onlyfans models are not a representative sample for women. Do you know that? It's important to me that you know that.