Nitz's Corner of Pester & Rant ✡️AM YISRAEL CHAI✡️

Was once a blog dedicated to ranting about random shit or raving about my fandoms. Now it's mostly about the 1930s-grade resurgence of antisemitism. If you're here because of Danny Phantom or Ben 10 content, you should still find them with their tags or "lightposting". As for me, I'm a 30 year old(b.'94) Israeli studying env-eng abroad, with a passion for writing and giving my opinions on anything and everything.

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If you only "care" about antisemitism when you can make it a partisan issue, you only care about using Jews as a rhetorical tool. We're not a talking point for you to abuse.

[2peachy]

Not her saying she got kidnapped……. 🤡

[knight-of-skyloft]

Between "Jews are white oppressors so it's impossible to commit systemic violence against them, only individualized violence" and "by any means necessary" and "when people in the Middle East say 'Jews' they really mean 'Israelis', it's a cultural thing" and "Palestinians don't owe anyone the distinction between Zionists and Jews" and "intersectionality means this is everyone's fight", you get a narrative where it's okay for anyone to hurt any Jew in any way they'd like.

[hazel2468]

I'm sorry to keep harping on this but I was just talking to my wife and like.

She pointed out that there is something DEEPLY ironic about the "Zios are colonizers!" shit that is thrown around when like.

'Antizionists' are coming into Jewish spaces and going to Jews and demanding that we perform our culture, our language, the way they want us to. They come to us demanding purity. They come to us demanding that we be Jews in the way that they think Jews should be, and when we do not do that, they tell us that we are wrong.

When Jews are Zionists. And we say what that means to us. And we explain our culture, our history, our connection. 'Antizionists' tell us "No, you are wrong. No, I know your culture and your people and your history better- no, that is not your history. Your history is what I say it is, not what you say it is. Your words mean what I say they mean, not what you say they mean. You will be a Jew the way I say you should, or you should die."

Telling a people, an ethnic group, a tribe. That you know them better than they do, and not only that! YOU get to dictate their language, history, personal feelings, how they talk about themselves, what words they use, how they are allowed to present themselves...

That is some actual colonizer shit if I've ever heard it.

[jamangobirb]

My hot take is that telling Jews they don't have a right to live somewhere because they are Jews is anti-semitic.

Crazy concept, I know

[newnitz]

Reuben/625 wasn't programmed to be a lazy he was unmotivated and I will die on that hill

[zoey-angel]

Holding dead bodies hostage should count as a war crime.

It isn't common knowledge: Judaism calls for burial within 24 hours, otherwise as soon as possible. To allow a soul to pass, the dead must be buried specifically (From dust to dust). Until then, the dead is disgraced- which is why one of the worst, cruelest punishments given in the Tanakh was an improper burial.

Jews treat proper burial not only as a cultural custom, but also as a religious obligation! Even criminals, sinners and those who were executed, must be buried respectfully (And yes, that does mean Israel buries terrorist bodies too, making sure to carefully document and keep track of them in case they're recalled).

It is both forbidden to house the dead ("Thou shalt in any wise bury him that day" (Deuteronomy 21:23), and demanded that they be buried as soon as possible, as determined by Maimonides in his interpretation of Sanhedrin law (The council of judges appointed by god to advise Moses, for those who are unfamiliar).

For many years now terrorist organizations have been abducting dead bodies to trade for prisoners or whatever else they want. Note, they've been abducting the ALREADY DEAD corpses to stash out of Israel's reach, paying them much disrespect as a way to both taunt and pressure Jews. Even now... Many civilian corpses are still in Hamas hands.

It's been MONTHS. Months of families wondering if their loved ones could be alive, wishing they could at least bury them otherwise. Months of Hamas rejoicing in their ability to deny Jews what we consider basic respect. It's especially cruel knowing the context, knowing Hamas is doing it specifically because they hate Jews, spitting in our faces.

It's a hate crime, one often overlooked and excused by Goyim. It shouldn't be smoothed over, or minimized in face of the "bigger picture".

Taking hostages in itself is a Grave breach of the Geneva Conventions and a war crime, as is rape. Lesser known is the fact that the Geneva Conventions also demand a honorable burial: "Parties to the conflict shall ensure that the dead are honorably interred, if possible according to the rites of the religion to which they belonged, that their graves are respected" (article 17, article 130)

It is already a violation, and should be considered a war crime.

[chutzpahchesed]

[newnitz]

Prev tags should be immortalized

[newnitz]

Honestly we need to start talking about Hamas(et al) tactics in the terms of an abusive relationship more often

Psychological warfare? Check.

Boundary pushing until what's inconceivable and intolerable to any other person/country is just our flavor of normal? Check.

Trauma exploitation to get a reaction they can weaponize? Check.

Geopolitical DARVO? Check.

Gaslighting with lies so absurd yet persistent that it's become clear the goal isn't to prove THEIR narrative, but make everyone else question ours, until peer/international pressure decrees we can no longer trust our own perception? CHECK.

[aqlstar]

Being concerned about Donald Trump twisting a legitimate executive order illegally and for his own benefit is very reasonable.

But if you catch yourself thinking:

I don’t want Trump to enforce the legal rights of Jewish students because it might lead to leftist backlash…

You’ve gotta stop yourself:

You cannot ask other Jews (especially, in this case, children and young adults) to settle for fewer rights because you are afraid of backlash.

We’ve been over this. We’ve all heard the sad stories of pre-WWII antizionist Jews convinced the Zionists were going to get them all killed by speaking up. But we know that the Zionists did not secretly cause the Holocaust. The antisemites did.

Jews asserting their rights does not cause antisemitism. Antisemites cause antisemitism.

Please, fight the problem at its source.

[xclowniex]

The rhetoric that it's all just zionist psyops being antisemitic to give antizionists a bad name is odd. Like you're just telling on yourselves. You just snitched on yourself! You are telling the world that it is easy for a psyop to infiltrate your group and then start to spread their extremist ideas.

You've going "yeah we've been infiltrated by psyops before but we prommy no other psyops have infiltrated us"

[xclowniex]

Ding dong the witch is dead

Antisemite Hasan piker got banned from Twitch

[xclowniex]

Gaza captor told hostages that Hamas collaborates with US campus protesters, lawsuit alleges

Case filed by three former hostages against US nonprofit says member of terror group who held them claimed to be working with 'allies' at un

"Aljamal told the hostages that “Hamas was going to ensure that the United States, as well as Jews and Israelis, are hated everywhere and that Hamas in Gaza was coordinating with its allies, including its allies in the media and on college campuses, to foment hatred against Israel and Jews,” the complaint said."

Literally every conspiracy theory I've seen surrounding (((zionists))) trying to control the narrative surrounding Israel and Palestine is exactly what hamas and its allies are trying to do. It's laughable at this point. It's like they're children who farted and tried to blame it on someone else by going "whoever smelt it dealt it"

[feygaleh]

israel’s military and government has known for 300+ days that the bibas family was dead and used the faces of BABIES to promote and justify their genocide. how fucking morbid. i wish the family and friends of family a very safe healing journey

[homochadensistm]

You truly are a disgusting person. Nobody "knew" the Bibas family was dead for 300+ days, it was a speculation that rose from a Hamas announcement early on in the war, that the Bibas family themselves refused to acknowledge without receiving solid evidence. Hamas also announced that Daniella Gilboa was dead and even released a staged video of her supposed corpse (where Daniella was forced to play dead by her captors), and lo and behold, it was a lie. The Bibas family themselves demanded the govt to assume their family members were alive so long as there was no solid evidence to prove otherwise, and there was none until now. You'd know all of this if you knew a smidge of Hebrew and weren't infected with kapo brainworms. Truly, Ans van Dijk lives on.

[entomologist-of-abraham]

The act of promising to send back a person's corpse and then switching it out with an unidentified person as an act of psychological torture is something I've only seen from my worst cases as a forensic scientist.

I've seen it from organized crime outfits, typically Russian mob and cartels, and from serial killers. This reminds me more of the latter rather than the former as the outfits tend to behave in a certain manner and abide by various rules. Serial killers, however, often delight in the psychological torture of their victims, victims' family, and community.

There's a number of cases I've been brought in on to help ID corpses that were not who the killer said they were. Causing pain and anguish for the families and community to their delight.

In this instance, making a big show of returning these hostages and then pulling the rug out from underneath Israel and the greater Jewish community only serves one purpose; to cause psychological and emotional harm. And make no mistake, the people justifying Hamas and their actions up until this moment and beyond are acting like every True Crime Serial Killer Girlie that has come up to me in my career to try and justify the actions of people like Dahmer, Gacy, Gein, and so on. "They're just misunderstood." "What did you think they would do? They had a rough life. It's not their fault they did these things." "They're just fighting back against the system that made them this way." All of this is to take the onus of responsibility off of the serial killer, just as all these anti-Israel activists take the onus off of Hamas and its violent terrorism. And just like a True Crime Girlie coming up to me with their binder full of notes about why their serial killer blorbo is good, your opinion that Hamas is somehow justified in their action is worth nothing. You've presented yourself as lacking the moral and ethical stand point that condemns such actions as taking families hostage, promising to return them, and then pulling a "switcheroo" last minute to be cruel. You're not good people, and no amount of mental gymnastics to somehow blame Israel for this will make you a good person. And if somehow you're a fellow Jew? Well, I think you've burned every bridge with the community as of this moment.

[bilgisticallykosher]

You have it spot-on about psychological torture. I briefly mentioned this...either in another post or in DMs, I can't remember anymore, but this is so well said. They are cruel for the sake of being cruel. Whatever they can do to harm us, physically, mentally, they will.

[aqlstar]

New flag for the Druze Suwayda Military Council in Southern Syria.

The resemblance to the flag of the Kurdish Syrian Democratic Forces is purposeful- they have expressed their willingness to coordinate with the SDF in persuit of a unified Syria that is decentralized, secular, safe, and democratic.

Israel is also backing (with air strikes) their decision not to allow any HTS militants into the region.

There’s also a new Israeli plan spearheaded by Druze in the Golan that will strengthen economic ties between the Golan and Druze controlled Syria by creating a system for Syrian Druze to enter the Golan for work.

[homochadensistm]

Aaaand were back to the 2nd intifada bus bombings lmao the WB balestinians saw gaza and said yeah we wanna stop having water and electricity too

[xenthosss]

I am literally begging Queer people on this site to realize the Holocaust was not about them

Yes gay and trans people were also targeted, we're denying that, but it was because homosexuality and transgenderism was seen as something caused by the Jews

The holocaust was about the Jews. Please stop pretending like it wasn't

[wolvesandvoices]

I mean, that's not *why* they were targeted. That's how they got away with it, but it's not why they were targeted. The Holocaust was absolutely about the Jews (and the Roma and Sinti), but we weren't the only people affected. The Holocaust was about protecting the Aryan race from any degenerates, which primarily includes Jews (and Roma and Sinti people, again), but also includes disabled people and queer people, and probably would have included any other people of color if they'd had enough time (kinayne hora). They started killing and sterilizing disabled people first, remember. The real reason queer people weren't targeted in the same way we were is because they weren't racialized and weren't likely to have children.

[a-s-fischer]

This reblog is both STAGGERINGLY ignorant and also sadly expresses a specific ignorance that I have been seeing a lot lately. So much so that I already made a post on the subject: https://a-s-fischer.tumblr.com/post/761989528392253440/antisemitism-and-the-nazi-worldview-a-guide-for

The short version of that post is that actually, yes the Nazis saw the Jews in very different terms from anyone else they went after. In the Nazi worldview, Jews were the enemies of all humanity and the cause of all evil and suffering in the world, and must be exterminated as quickly as possible. Nazism was built on antisemitism. It was not only a core princible, it was Nazism's driving force. If you don't understand this about Nazism, you don't understand anything about Nazism.

[multifander-is-writing]

I’m autistic, I’m queer… but I’m Jewish too. If the Nazis killed me, it wouldn’t have been because of my autism or my queer identity; it would’ve been because of my Jewishness. None of us are trying to erase the disabled and queer lives lost in the Holocaust (right, guys?). But several people on here and irl have downplayed (or straight up erased) how the Holocaust impacted Jewish people (even the ones who didn’t have any familial connection to the event). They’ll even say, “oh, not that many Jews died in the Holocaust” when it is pretty well documented that six million Jews were killed by Nazis in the concentration camps (which isn’t limited to gas chambers).

[xclowniex]

This reminded me of the discourse around 2018ish on Instagram where queer people were trying to collect nazi prisoner armbands like they were Pokémon.

Like people were like "well I'm queer so I would've had the pink triangle, I'm asexual so i would've gotten the black triangle too, I am a leftist so I would've gotten the red triangle too"

Like bestie no, the only people who got multiple colors were jews, and even then you only got two. I'll include a picture of the classification system at the end.

Also people seem to forget why queer and disabled people were taken to concentration camps. It was because they viewed both as products of evil jew powers. It was jews making people queer and/or disabled according to Nazis. It wasn't just regular run of the mill homophobia and ableism, it was directly tied to antisemitism.

And like multifander said, none of this makes it any less terrible that queer and disabled folk were victims. Also, it is important to say that it was mainly queer men and trans women taken to concentration camps. iirc, no women were ever taken to a concentration camp for being wlw. There *may* have been a handful, but anti wlw laws were rarely enforced to that degree.

I feel as if the whole "oppression Olympics bad" has been misinterpreted badly in general but specifically when it comes to the holocaust.

Oppression Olympics refers to when people are trying to one up each other or dismiss someone else's oppression with their own oppression. Oppression Olympics is not speaking factually about what group experienced more oppression in general or with a specific event.

Factually jews were treated worse than queer people. Factually more jews died. Factually jews and roma had it the worst.

None of these facts minimize or dismiss the pain and suffering of queer and disabled folk during the holocaust.

Oh and here is the image of the nazi categorization system. I cannot read it properly as my eyes are shit so if someone can, feel free to add an image description and if you do, tag me so it stands out in my notifs for me to reblog it.

[aqlstar]

Life hack for buying high quality leather goods when you know nothing about leather:

Ask the vendor (online or in person) questions about the leather they use:

How was it tanned? (Chrome, Vegetable, Combination- tanning transforms raw flesh into durable leather) How many oz is it? (leather thickness is typically measured in oz) What can you tell me about the grain and finish on the leather? (the grain is determined by what layers of the skin make up the leather, poor quality cuts are often disguised with heavy acrylic finishes)

If their leather is shitty, they'll feed you some fluff about it being "high quality italian made" leather.

If they are selling quality goods, they'll be thrilled to answer your questions precisely and probably with more detail than you asked for in the first place.

You'll be surprised at how affordable some high quality goods can be on Etsy. Some people just really love quality leather goods and want their products to be accessible to as many people as possible.