Being Jewish makes it really easy to pick out people who’s whole shtick on how inclusive and accepting they are falls apart the second it comes down to including and accepting real living people that belong to minority groups and not the imaginary disneyfied concept them that has been created for the sake of virtue signaling. If you hate someone or think less of them solely for any sort of demographic or identity that applies to them you aren’t “inclusive” I don’t know why this is even a post I’ve been given a reason to create
I’m so scared for the Bangladeshi Hindus and other minorities in the country, knowing that the violence always translates on Hindus. The same thing happened in 1971 Bangladeshi hindu genocide.
The situation is absolutely horrible! Terrifying and It’s our responsibility to speak up for the Hindus in Bangladesh rn. Reblog as much as you can. They need our voices.
While more than 100 people have been killed in anti-quota protests, incidents of Hindus being attacked in some parts of Bangladesh have been
In a tragic incident during the violent protests across Bangladesh on Sunday, Kajal Roy, a Hindu councillor from Rangpur, was among the 100
I love analog horror but am sick of how heavily Christian it is (that is, how much it uses "oooh scary Christian imagery" for its horror) and want to create one with Jewish theming and origins -- I've been discussing using Lilith as the main threat both to take her back from what goyim have done to her (I have no idea why anyone wants to worship her, my G-d) and to tap into a very real source of historic fear in SIDS. However, this is just one thought, and I'd like to know if there's any unique Jewish concepts or mythology that you think could be interesting in an analog horror series
Dybbuk come to mind right away as the poster child of Jewish horror. Nephilim have always struck me as particularly ominous and I think they would work really well in a horror setting
I think Goyim obsession and fetishization of the Shoah on such a massive scale has led to the notion that anything short of strapping a red armband on and shipping Jews to death camps could not possibly be hating Jews. We are unicorns in a story to them, and not an actual still living marginalized group that is dismissed when voicing our grievances and perspectives on oppression we face that, knowingly or unknowingly, is being perpetuated on a much greater scale. What are you talking about, they couldn’t possibly be antisemitic, they’re not a nazi
Sonya Massey's family asked that the video not be shared on social media. You do not "have to watch to know this stuff still happens."
Black death is not your education tool.
You should not have to see us gunned down in our homes to see our humanity. If you truly care about Sonya Massey's story, donate to her family's gofund me, and don't use her death as your intro to police brutality course.
Anybody know any specific tags on tumblr or even other social platforms that are just for Jews to talk about being Jewish and Judaism without revolvement about Israel or Palestine or antisemitism? I’m really tired of it
Israel and Palestine, History, Politics, Confirmation Bias and the Hypocritical Racist Saviourism of the Western Left
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Confirmation bias
"im doing a paper on antisemitism and it so difficult to find sources that aren't pro-isreal. They're all going on about how saying that Israel shouldn't exist is antisemitic. no how is thinking something should not exist if genocide is a part of its creation antisemitic? The Israeli state itself is antisemitic and has continuously failed to support its population of Holocaust victims.
any help on finding decent sources would be much appreciated."
When all of your references are telling you that your starting external point of reference is Antisemitic, that is because it is... You can't unpack your biases and unlearn them by searching for references that confirm your biases. Learn that your assumptions are likely bigoted and you need to learn what you don't know instead of seeking validation of what you believe.
To specifically address "saying that Israel shouldn't exist is Antisemitic", Israel DOES exist and more than 40% of all Jews live there, and no matter your opinion of its founding or the conduct of its government.... unless you intend to conquer Israel by force, and believe me it's been tried, it will not cease to exist by political pressure. So the expression that Israel shouldn't exist is tacit war mongering. There is more to be said on the topic, but that will come later.
More below the cut, very long
But Israel is an "Ethno-State" and that's bad! Isn't it?
First, at least this canard recognises Jews as an ethnic group, but the accusation of Israel as an "Ethno-State", is a deeply uncomfortable canard levelled against a Parliamentary Democracy where the third largest national political party is an Arab Party and 10 Arabs currently hold office in the Knesset. Arabs hold office, serve as judges, they Serve in the IDF as General's and Major's and make up 21% of Citizenship.
Last week I was privileged to be at a Manchester ((UK) Zionist Council meeting where two IDF Officers
Where Do Israeli Jews Come From, aren't they western colonisers?
No Israeli citizen and certainly not the vast majority of Jews around the world would want Jews to be a stateless people again. Particularly not the Majority of Israelis who are refugees from the Genocides, Pogroms and Expulsions against the Jewish people across the Middle East and North Africa, their children and grandchildren.
Encyclopedia of Jewish and Israeli history, politics and culture, with biographies, statistics, articles and documents on topics from anti-S
We are painfully aware that after the last century of genocides and expulsions in South West Asia Jews stand on the edge of extinction on the continent of our origin. My family had to flee the Libyan Pogroms and Partition in Pakistan under threat of forced conversion or death... Today there are no Jews in either country, you either fled or you died. Many Jewish communities and traditions that have endured for millennia would be extinct today if not for the safe haven provided by Israel.
Lyn Julius: The government has stood by and let jihadist gangs drive Jews out of Yemen. Now their community is on the brink of extinction
[The above article states that approximately 400 Yemenite Jews remain in Yemen, at time of writing only one remains as a Houthi prisoner.]
The Farhud (pogrom), an outbreak of mob violence against Baghdad Jewry in June 1941, was a turning point in the history of Jews in Iraq. Lea
Importantly Jews can't colonise our own indigenous homeland, and comments on the skin colour of light skinned Jews is colourist and Antisemitic.
What do you mean Jews are indigenous people?
Jewish civilisation has conservatively at least 3000 years of archeological history in the city of Jerusalem alone, a people can't colonise their own indigenous homeland. That DOESN'T mean the people who came after us have to leave at all... Palestinian culture has been developing in the region for at least 1400 years. The promise of a Jewish state was the promise of self determination of Jews as Indigenous people displaced from our home by the colonising Roman Empire in the First century, arriving in Europe as slaves to build great works like the Coliseum and monuments to our own dispossession like the Arch of Titus.
The iconic Roman structure stood as the largest and most complex permanent amphitheater in the ancient world.
After 2000 years confined to the ghetto, 2000 years of always waiting for the shoe to drop, we needed to come home.
The colonisation of the Jewish people and our homeland also isn't a one note affair. The Sassanians, and the Crusaders, the British Empire, The Ottoman Empire, The Mamluks, and pivotal to the current discussion The Arabs... Arab Colonisation of MENA/SWANA is uncontroversially the historical record... They are the majority population across MENA because of their centuries of privileged social and economic placement in society even among Muslims. Pan-Arabism is Arab Supremacism.
Morrocco speaks Arabic because of Arab Colonisation, Ctesiphon was renamed Baghdad by Arab Colonisers, the subjugation of pre-colonial religion and culture such as Jews, Zoroastrians, Shabaks, Assyrians, the continuing collusion between ME states to deny the Kurdish people a state.
Recognising Arabs as colonisers doesn't mean demanding they be expelled, nor does it make anti-arab violence acceptable... But it is necessary if you intend to understand the historic social power dynamics of MENA social issues.
If Jews are indigenous and Arabs are colonisers... What does that make Palestinians?
People, it makes them human people who are seeking a state of their own and should have one post haste. Most people agree on this, I hope we agree on this..
Didn't Israel kill lots of people to be established?
People often have a habit of using their intuition rather than research to learn about current and historical circumstances. This leads to the exaggeration or minimisation of events by those who don't understand.
This isn't to say that violence wasn't present in the founding of the State of Israel, because it was, but in all of the wars Israel has ever been involved in, the combined death toll has never even come close to one million let alone the millions, even the Nakba which was a human tragedy worthy of recognition forever had a Death toll of 15,000...
It is worth remembering that the Nakba took place against the backdrop of invasion by the Arab league (including Palestinian Arabs) of the newly declared State of Israel within these borders as defined by the United Nations...
On the day of the expiry of the British mandate for Palestine the forces of the Arab League (Egypt, Trans-Jordan, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Yemen and the Palestinian Holy War Army) invaded, and the Israelis/IDF counter attacked... And somehow even without any allies were not only successful in defence but the victor. This was the second refusal to accept an Arab majority state, this time that rejection came as war.
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But Palestinians still deserve a state!
Palestinians absolutely deserve a state, historical rejection of the peace option at one time or another by any party in a conflict is no reason not to establish peace now. This is something we can hopefully agree on, the endless cycle of violence and retribution is neither desirable nor sustainable... and to that end in 1994 the Palestinian National Authority was Established as a Part of the Oslo Accords, which is a multi stage state building project agreed between the Palestinian Liberation Organisation and the State of Israel, which immediately formalised the recognition internationally as an institution in principle of the Palestinian State as declared by The Palestinian Liberation Organisation in 1988.
The eventual state borders of the Palestinian State would be the Territories of the West Bank and Gaza which came under Israeli Administration during the 1967 6 Day War, and which the kingdom of Jordan and Egypt refused to accept return of due to the expense of security in the region.
Regions of Palestinian National Authority Civil and Military Administration were established in the West Bank during stage 1. (Areas the Palestinian National Authority were supposed to be expanded each decade assuming the continuing stability of the PA) During stage 2 in 2005 those areas were expanded and the Palestinian National Authority assumed Civil Administration over most of the remaining West Bank except for Israeli majority settlements. Also as Part of Stage 2 Israel forcibly repatriated all Israelis living in Gaza and passed Civil and Military Administration to the Palestinian National Authority.
Unfortunately 2 years later Hamas seceded Gaza in its entirety in a coup and suspended democracy to establish an Islamist Autocracy in opposition to the Fatah dominated Palestinian National Authority and all attempts at reintegration have failed stalling the Palestinian Nation Building project.
Throwing a wrench in the "is able to preserve stability and territorial integrity" thing.
Ok, that's interesting, but wasn't the country already Palestine before?
At no point in history until the establishment of the Palestinian National Authority has there been self government of Palestinians by Palestinians. Even the name "Filistin" was a colloquial one in the Ottoman period. Under Ottoman rule the area of Israel and Palestine was made up of many feudal estates with a non-palestinian aristocracy.
Once again, this doesn't mean that Palestinians shouldn't have a self governing state now, today. But Jews should also have self government because.... we are indigenous to the Region, and second we have seen ourselves be betrayed by our neighbours too many times to not hold our defence in our own hands. In Europe, Africa, and Asia we have seen the repeated attempts to destroy us completely.
If you deduct the population of Israel the combined Jewish population of all three continents is less than 2 million, because you killed us.
The territory people are referring to as historically Palestine right now is the British Mandate for Palestine, which included the area East of the Jordan River where the Kingdom of Jordan was established by British Partition.
What is being done to advance Palestinian National Liberation?
The Palestinian Liberation Organisation have made multiple attempts at political normalisation with Hamas, as have the Israeli government... In the hope of reuniting the Palestinian National Authority administered territories in the West Bank and Gaza. Unfortunately with both authorities, Hamas and their affiliates like Palestinian Islamic Jihad use talks as an opportunity to re-arm, regroup, and relocate personnel and equipment. The Palestinian Liberation Organisation were in the closing stages of political normalisation talks, and Israel were in the midst of a (permanent) ceasefire and disarmament discussions at the time of the Simchat Torah Pogrom (Oct 7)
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We are in the present day from here on.... Things get complicated and messy-er from here, say goodbye to neat sections.
The attack on October 7 was a betrayal of West Bank Palestinians as well, and attacks by Hamas affiliates like Palestinian Islamic Jihad in areas of the West Bank where Israel is treaty obligated to act as security guarantor has been spun by people in the west who don't understand the treaty arrangements as an invasion of Palestinian Territories.
Terror group said warned by various figures of influence that it will not survive the Israeli offensive, and should prevent further destruct
With low expectations for reconciliation between rival Palestinian factions, PA President Abbas claims he intends to hold elections in near
Over the years Hamas have been offered permanent peace options by Israel, Egypt and the Palestinian Liberation Organisation and rejected them all because it means disarmament and ceding power in Gaza to the Palestinian National Authority.
After October 7 (when Hamas broke a permanent ceasefire during peace talks, to kill more Jews than ever in a single day since the Shoah) Israel won't make a permanent ceasefire with an armed Hamas. They certainly won't make a permanent ceasefire while hostages remain in the hands of Hamas.
Then you have the Palestinian Liberation Organisation who want territorial reintegration and political normalisation for a lot of reasons, but a big one is to and uphold the territorial integrity of the Palestinian National Authority so they are returned to a strong position to negotiate new expansions to the Oslo Accords. We could have had Oslo stage 3 in 2015, and stage 4 next year.... But, Hamas.
Not to mention the PLO and the PA at least take their duty of care to the Palestinians under their administration seriously and aren't launching enormous batteries of unguided rockets during supposed peace times that often (between 10% and 20% fall short landing inside residential Gaza.
Israel says some 12,000 rockets have been fired from Gaza starting on Oct. 7. They have killed 15 people in Israel.
The Uninformed Imperialist Saviourism of the Western Left
In typical fashion Westerners have shown up late to a conflict that doesn't involve them, unprepared, and full of zeal. The only thing they are ready for is a fight, and fighting your neighbours thousands of miles away is not going to bring peace.... And is certainly not going to help anyone.
You're here for misery porn, tragedy porn, and to compete for the spotlight by saying increasingly outrageous things. To have the most heartbreaking news even if you have to make it up....
And you, Western Left, allow this myth making and escalation because you read the truth of things with your emotions... You don't fact check what "feels true".
You saw someone post a screenshot of the headline of a news article, with no link to the source material and they even cropped the publication header, taking/inferring credit on behalf of American protestors for the results of talks between Israel, Hamas, Qatar and Egypt, which were partly facilitated by France... Where Biden as the American head of state urged a swift bilateral agreement on the ceasefire deal.
In essence urging Qatar and Iran to strongly suggest Hamas leaders put pen to paper as Israeli representatives have already agreed to do.
Hamas is weighing a proposal, agreed by Israel at talks with mediators in Paris last week, for a ceasefire that would suspend fighting for 4
Biden expected a ceasefire by Monday precisely because Israel has already agreed to honour it. It certainly isn't the Western Protesters that made all these middle east players come together for talks.
Importantly your solidarity with Palestinians comes across as insincere, because you haven't given a shit at any time Palestinians really needed you before, and you abandoned the people you were marching for in Iran as soon as a shiny new cause came along.
You say things like this...
When the Leader of Hamas has a Wikipedia page and lives in a luxury Qatari apartment.
If you don't even know who the leader of Hamas is, how are any of you doing Palestinian activism in Gaza?
from @the-library-alcove) Realization I just had from this last interaction there.
So there's a pattern on the Right where they will attempt to target and delegitimize a perceived leader for left-wing, progressive, or scientific movements. You see this in attacks on Al Gore or AOC for environmentalism, or Bernie Sanders for socialism, or George Soros for any number of progressive movements, or, to go to an extreme but illustrative example, attacking Darwin as if that'll somehow disprove the theory of evolution. (And conversely, how Trump's legal troubles are seen as attacks on the MAGA movement)
Because that's how right-wing authoritarians work--the Leader not only is the emblem of the movement, they tell you what to think. And thus right-wing authoritarians cannot comprehend grassroots movements or scientific theories that are accepted on their own merits--to their minds, there must be a leader.
So why do I bring that up?
Because the belief shown by @r0semultiverse is the mirror opposite.
"Hamas is clearly a grassroots resistance movement growing out of popular sentiment, and doesn't have any leaders or formal command structure!"
They're projecting their own ideological framework onto another organization and assuming that it functions identically to their own.
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Despite people literally lying... Horrible things have genuinely happened in this war, many children have died, it won't stop just because of outrage fuel, this is unfortunately a reality of urban warfare.... There are only two conditions that Israel cannot compromise on. For the war to end Hamas needs to return the hostages (and if they are dead their bodies) and disarm. Everything else can be negotiated.
To support Palestinians and Israelis who have lost loved ones to conflict and are seeking to build peace out of pain, please consider The Parents Circle.
Our hearts are broken We express our deepest and heartfelt condemnation of the ongoing violence in the region. It is a time of great sorrow
Where were you when the Palestinians of Syria needed you?
Unfortunately this isn't the first time this kind of total devastation has happened... However you didn't seem bothered about Palestinians back then, the old "when it's not (((The Jews))) there is no news".
In Syria the Palestinian majority city of Yarmouk, once considered The Capital of the Palestinian Diaspora had a population of 1.2million Palestinian residents though only about 137,000 were registered with UNWRA in the city at the start of the Syrian Civil War.
Daesh and the forces of Bashar al-Assad levelled the city, it was called "The Worst Place In The World" at the height of the Syrian civil war. There was nobody donning keffiyeh in Parliament or marching in their thousands for the Palestinians of Yarmouk. I am asking.... Where were you when Yarmouk was destroyed, and its people forced to flee or die?
I have had to report pictures here on Tumblr of Yarmouk Palestinian children who I remember from the 2010's who were murdered by the Assad regime's Sarrin Gas Attacks being passed off as casualties of the current Israel-Hamas war. Having to dig through old articles to find a source... Because of "activists" with no respect for the dignity of Palestinian children when they don't suitably serve the current narrative.
Where was your outrage then, because I don't remember seeing/hearing any of you... And I've been at the work of advocating for Palestinian Liberation and Statehood for over 10 years. I wonder how many of you have even met a Palestinian.
You Want To Help Palestinians As A Westerner? A step by step guide.
Identify the most immediate and actionable need. (At the time of writing in Gaza this is food and water)
Identify how that need can best be remedied and by whom.
Take action to fund non-state entities and contact state entities based on that information (call/email your representative and tell them that you want food and water sent to Gaza, donate to relevant charities...
For decades, Palestine has been facing a protracted and complex protection and humanitarian crisis. The crisis is tied to prolonged occupati
Since early October, families in Gaza, Israel, and Lebanon have been reeling from devastating conflict that has caused profound loss of life
As the situation evolves.... repeat. If you're competing to be the most correct, or have the most radical opinion instead of competing to provide the most food, the most temporary shelters, the most quality building materials, the most medical supplies, etc.... you're not helping anyone, this is true of every humanitarian cause.
As promised, a comprehensive list of places to donate to if you wanna help the people involved in the Israeli Palestinian conflict!
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Western Leftists, You Have Reinvented the White Man's Burden.
I only support Jews who don’t want anything to do with their ancestral homeland, who don’t want to love there or go there or allow other Jews to live there, who have no interest in the aspiration for independence and land rights that literally every ethnic group has. In fact I prefer Jews who deny any connection to their ancestral homeland what so ever. I only support Jews who don’t care what happens to half of the global Jewish population and bonus points to Jews who don’t mind if they are killed, raped and/or kidnapped. I only support Jews who allow me to violently hate Jews.
