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I am grabbbing y’all by the shoulders and begging you to understand that so much of the pro-Palestine movement is just antisemitism repackaged with a pretty social justice bow
If your belief in the rights of one group of people is dependent on hating on another group of people I quite frankly don’t think you practice what you preach
made this entirely based on a convo had with my friends today... does this mean anything to anyone...
being a young person at shul is so fun. its like ur a celebrity
you can always find me yapping with my emotional support bubbes 9:30 am on shabbat services
tbh I should get off reddit, no amount of curating my feed will get rid of this fucking bullshit appearing there every fucking day.
The comment section is full of leftists both agreeing with this AND gasping in horror about the implication that their beliefs align with nazis (while in the same sentence invoking ZOG. can't make this up)
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I/P hot take:
many leftists don't understand what makes genocide a genocide.
They will insist this is not a conflict, not a war, but just a genocide... and it makes me wonder what they think "war" is?
Oh wow people are DYING? yea war is bad. That. Doesn't make it a genocide? Like I hate to sound like I am downplaying but I do feel like a lot of this is "first war i ever payed attention to" for many of them and they want to be immediately polarized & use the strongest, most inflammatory language possible to make their point and its like- who does that help? lol
also "ethnic cleansing" as a term is completely misunderstood like a buzzword too!
100% cosigned. I talked to some random internet stranger, more than two years ago, who was willing to tolerate someone else NOT thinking it was a genocide - a very rare experience - and asked him to explain what makes people so instantly sure it's a genocide. His explanation was that "a lot of people are being killed."
I don't remember where we ended up beyond, "that is a thing that happens in war." But people are very "this is the first war I've ever paid any attention to."
I still vividly remember having to read All Quiet on the Western Front in high school, where soldiers are dying coughing up their own lungs because the chemical weapons are so bad.
I remember reading multiple British kids' books that start out with the kids being sent on trains, with their gas masks and hardly any belongings, to villages in the country, to be placed with total strangers who just show up at the train station to get them. Because their parents are hoping that if they send their kids to live with strangers in the country, the kids will survive the Blitz.
For fuck's sake, that's what the entire Narnia series is about.
For at least a year, it boggled my mind that everyone could have forgotten these things. That that's what bombing a place indiscriminately looks like. That that's still not a genocide, because it's not an attempt to wipe a people off the map. That it doesn't contain ANY of the hallmarks of a genocide either.
That there ARE hallmarks of genocides, if you study them as a whole. Burning entire villages and towns to the ground at once, in the process of trying to burn everyone to death who you can't get to otherwise. Systematic sexual violence. Mutilation. In a genocide, you double-tap people like you're trying to kill zombies.
When archaeologists aren't sure whether a mass grave is from genocide, or from something else - war, natural disaster, plague, etc - they look at whether the bodies were desecrated, or treated respectfully. In a genocide, you see bodies that are broken, that have clearly been tortured or mutilated, that are missing parts consistently enough that it has to have been deliberate. You see bodies that were shot before being burned, burned before being buried, or shot and then shot dozens more times.
You don't see a lot of airstrikes. It's too impersonal. Too distanced.
If some group was trying to commit genocide through airstrikes, they would do what Russia did in Mariupol. They wouldn't hit part of a shelter by accident. They wouldn't leave survivors who could tell others about it. They sure as fuck wouldn't spend almost two years doing it and take out 3% of the population of the area, or 1.3% of the population of the country. They wouldn't leave the people able to cross a border into Egypt.
They would surround the entire area. Cut off all power, internet, radio, TV, water, and supplies. Keep them cut off for as long as it took, until the last civilian died or surrendered.
They would bomb every shelter hard enough to take out everyone in the building, and then they would do it again just in case. And then they might come back and double-tap it again, to make sure.
And, like Russia, as soon as they took the area - in Mariupol's case, by killing 75,000 civilians in 3 months - they would wipe out all evidence of Ukrainian language, history, and culture.
THAT, you could argue is genocide: the war that everyone erased so they could put all their eyes on Gaza.
We only know about how bad Mariupol was because of reporters who hid out there, staying till the last possible moment.
We only know how bad the RSF is because the Yale Humanitarian Lab has figured out how to track its current, ongoing genocide through satellite photos - and because the piles of dead bodies and the blood are big enough to see from space.
It's the ones where you don't hear the death tolls from anyone on the ground that you have to worry about.
And also the ones where you do -- and you're hearing death tolls an order of magnitude higher, or death rates an order of magnitude faster, than Gaza. Like Iran, where the dictatorship killed an estimated 40,000 protesters in 2 days -- a number of deaths it took Israel about 310 days to reach.
TL;DR: Yep.
I'll remember seeing that fuckass reddit post where someone posted a basic photo of a house in Gaza with a hole in the roof-- Just that, no dead people, no people in the photo at all, just concrete with a hole in it and some furniture visible inside-- and everybody freaked the fuck out and declared they hate Israel now like they didn't know even the shadowiest concept of what war is, for the rest of my life. Like no residential home had ever been damaged before in the history of war.
People are so unfathomably privileged that they can't even retain information from famous historical fiction it's so deeply unreal to them. It's just a playground (usually to crown themselves king in Nazi-killing media they use solely to sate their bloodlust on an acceptable target and then turn around and be antisemitic irl). They will cry about their blorbo Bäumer and then react to the loss of a fucking single American jet like the sky is falling, the war is lost, and the world is over, crying that we never should have done anything to save Iranian women.
I feel like anyone who’s accused of antisemitism who responds with “I was just criticizing Israel, you’re the antisemite for saying that ‘Israel’ means ‘Jews’!” should be considered to be fundamentally unserious when it comes to Israel, Jews, or Zionism
It's always "People are not their government!"... until it's Israelis (JEWS).
It's always "Listen to marglinized minorities, don't speak over them!"... until it's JEWS.
It's always "BELIEVE VICTIMS!!"... until it's JEWS.
It's always "LAND BACK TO INDIGENOUS PEOPLE!"... until it's JEWS.
It's always "People have the right to defend themselves against those harming them!"... until it's JEWS.
genuinely can't stand the antisemitism online. it's literally unavoidable at this point. i have no idea why more people aren't worried about it.
Jewish people were homeless for 2000 years and suffered unimaginable number of atrocities with no recourse.
Now they have a land they can call their own and know that they can go there any time they want as a land of refuge and support.
hello person checking my blog to see if i’m a zionist because i posted something about antisemitism that pissed you off, you can stop looking! i do indeed support jewish self determination in the jewish ancestral homeland — aka zionism. now you can block me and be on your way.
The whole IsraelGPT thing isn't funny. The "translation, glory to Israel" thing isn't funny. Claiming Israel is at the root of everything isn't funny. Do people not realize how much they sound like Nazis?? BECAUSE EVERYONE WHO MAKES VIDEOS OR COMMENTS ABOUT IT SOUNDS LIKE NAZIS ! That's not you being antizionist. Bc what criticism of Israel does it provide? Anti Israel leftists have gone off the fucking rails and completely lost the plot
calling something “spiritually israeli” in a derogatory way is so cartoonishly antisemitic you would think it might give a self-described leftist pause. unfortunately i am still making this post
Gen Z “antizionists” have mainstreamed antisemitic jokes and talking points that 13 years ago would have been confined to the deepest darkest corners of 4chan and made them socially acceptable to say out in the open. Shit’s bleak, folks.
it never sits well with me when people associate beauty with morality like i remember when i was in my early 20s and my friends would compliment each other like “that’s what happens when you’re not racist—you get a banging body” or “you can tell she’s homophobic because of her ugly mug” like it’s never felt right to me. beauty as a reward or a virtue feels so bizarre to me. ugliness as a punishment feels so bizarre to me. it all feels like 19th century phrenology and physiognomy
i do genuinely think it's absurd the standard that israel is held to. hezbollah bombards israel with rockets for over a year, starting on the day hamas attacked israel on october 7th, but as soon as israel responds militarily it's admonished as an escalation. iran funds proxies not only to foment chaos and instability in the middle east, but also to maintain plausible deniability while still technically managing to attack israel, and people act like there is no reason at all whatsoever for israel to go to war with them. i can't think of any other nation in the world that is expected to just turn the other cheek to constant acts of war waged against it because the groups attacking them are so weak that you can technically get by on just ignoring them. and somehow the rest of the world has failed to catch up to the fact that post-october 7th israel now treats every threat as equally urgent, because despite being content ignoring hamas lobbing rockets over the border daily because they were so weak, hamas still managed to plan and carry out the attack on october 7th.
moshe shear
