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@stupidjewishwhiteboy
My instant block policy has officially evolved to include making arguments weâve all heard a billion times that have counter arguments weâve all heard a billion times. If youâre boring, you are not worth my time, and youâre getting blocked
I mean also he's just. Stupid. The argument is stupid. "This one minority should be made stateless because we already have so many stateless minorities that no one cares about"?
That's an argument for helping all those other minorities, not for why Jews should be more disadvantaged. And the fact this dude is trying to use it as the latter shows just how much HE cares for the stateless, except as a dubious rhetorical device.
Theyâll pretend like it never happened and that they never rubbed elbows with David Duke.
"Remember when we all went full nazi and started murdering jews and protesting kids with cancer? LOL that was our #deluluera so crazy right!? đ€Ș Everyone juat really fell for that islamist propaganda, we were all doing it. Personally I found it all tasteless but I didn't say anything then"
That's exactly how it's going to be, along with a dashing of, "They took advantage of our empathy, really we're the victims of grooming here."
They have removed all meaning from the term at this point. I freely admit and agree that Israel has committed horrific war crimes on a daily basis in Gaza. Netanyahu should very much be tried for crimes against humanity when this is all over. But insisting that it's a genocide destroys the conversation. There's no famine and the population is rising.
Don't worry, our moral betters can explain to us how it's a super duper mega giga-genocide when Gaza has more children alive now than before the war started, and actually that's a whole new level of genocide never before seen in human history.
Is the UN antisemitic for insisting that refugees should be allowed to right of return?
No, they are antisemitic for decades of ignoring attacks on Israeli civilians , being extremely biased and literally supporting terrorists . And i think you know that⊠do a google search or I donât know, listen to Jews.
Anyways, Here are a few reasons:
-calling out Israel more than any other country, while there are countries in their board that are actual dictatorships with apartheid & genocide .
Theyâre fixated on Israel.
-only holding Israel for agreements made while ignoring the fact that other parties have been violating the terms (aka harming Israeli civilians, amassing an army& weapons , moving past certain borders, etc).
*Aka whatâs happening with Hezbollah& Hamas over the last 20 years ,,,
-ignoring the events of October 7th for almost a year: kidnapping of civilians, mass murder and torture , women being raped as a weapon of war , etc.
The UN has a long history of being antisemitic and anti- Israel.
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Instead of actually helping Palestinian refugees, the UN donated money and resources to literal terrorists. It perpetuates the narrative that they are refugees instead of actually resolving the issue.
Hell they let a terrorist organisation control the Gaza Strip for years. Said terrorists are higher ups in UNWRAâŠ
Some reading:
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It is taken as fact by the overwhelming number of global Jewish organizations that the United Nations suffers from an antisemitic rot - Clic
Also for having a different definition of "refugee" for Palestinians. Like, by consistent definitions, either a tiny minority of Palestinians are still refugees and the rest are (second class) citizens of where they were born elsewhere across the MENA region... or the majority of Israelis are equally still refugees awaiting return of citizenship and homes. The problem is the double standard.
There's also the fact that they don't insist on a "right of return" for any other group of refugees.
For every other refugee population, the priority is finding them a stable place to live, not sending them back to the place they fled from or were driven out of.
Having a separate standard for Palestinians is both blatantly designed to harm Israel and extremely cruel to the Palestinian refugees, some of whom have been trapped in limbo for the better part of a century instead of having the option to have actual lives anywhere.
You would think the people obsessed with historical patterns and "being on the right side" would have clued into the fact that obsessive antisemites are never percieved favorably by future generations. Indeed I can think of few political "positions" that age worse than antisemitism considering that even antisemites tend to look down on previous generations of antisemites.
That would require them to have a reading of history beyond âwest badâ and âMarx was right in all thingsâ
One thing Iâm still pissed at Bernie Sanders about is turning a generation against the Democratic Party. Every piece of social progress in the last 80 years, from Social Security to Medicaid to Medicare to integration to the Civil Rights Act to Title IX to Roe v. Wade to labor rights to environmental protections to public health protections to Obamacare to Obergefell, all of it directly or indirectly powered by the engine of change that is the Democratic Party. And then Sanders comes and says this whole apparatus, which he had no hand in building, is corrupt and needs to be completely replaced. Now we have countless young people who think Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are the same partly because they were told that an engine of change and an anchor of stagnation and oppression are equally bad because they were fed the lie that no one in the Democratic Party does anything to improve their lives.
original date of posting: 2016
I have cut people out of my life for lesser infractions than antisemitism. I would rather have no friends at all than have friends around whom I need to walk on eggshells. I have had to read one too many posts about conversations people have had with gentiles in their lives where it is patently obvious that there is no room for further dialogue and when the comments inevitably question the legitimacy of the friendship in question, the author will try to defend the indefensible because acquiescence is easier than confrontation. Understand that a friend who doesnât respect you cannot ever truly be considered your friend. You will always be waiting for the other shoe to drop.
I get the desire to ward off loneliness by surrounding yourself with bodies, but it is well past time to find yourselves a backbone. And if the only friends who remain are Jews, then the only friends who remain are Jews.
Marx may not have been right i all things but the West IS bad. Ask anyone outside it.
Sure, I asked some Iranians and they said âhelp our government is murdering usâ.
Took a brief detour today to read âGenocide Badâ by Sim Kern. I donât feel like this warrants a full analysis; I was debating even reading it because the title alone is childish and off-putting, but I see it recommended a lot, and itâs a very quick read. I meant for this to be shorter, but I had a lot to say; I think their writing is very reflective of the average American who gets their news from social media, and that made it a very different read from academic texts. Thereâs a lot to be angry at in here, but also a lot to laugh at.
- Sim Kern describes themself as âJewish in a secular, patrilineal, fun-holidays-only kind of wayâ. They are a middle school teacher, YA author, and self-described âinfluencerâ and âBooktoker.â The book is written with about the level of maturity you would expect from someone who spends all of their time either on social media or around thirteen year-olds; chapter one ends: âIf we can free Palestine, we can save the world, and if we canât free Palestine, weâre all fucked!â This is the general tone of the book.
- They vehemently deny being a self-hating Jew, and I donât like using that phrasing, but what was very clear is that â while they might not hate themself, they do hate Judaism. âThe Book of Joshua is morally repulsive to me. Many of the commandments G-d gives to Moses are morally repulsive to me. The G-d of the Torahâs genocidal plans are morally repulsive to me. And Abraham, the first Jew, is morally repulsive to meâŠ. Iâm too horrified by the foundational text of Judaism, on its face, to want to spend my precious life grappling with its hidden meanings. Not when there are so many other books to read!â Iâm reminded of the Wicked child at the Seder.
- The other media that they consume seems to primarily consist of the Hunger Games, which is very inappropriately used as a framing device for Israel/Palestine for the better part of a chapter, and Star Wars, where Yahya Sinwar is inexplicably and heroically compared to Obi War Kenobi. I actually felt so embarrassed for them reading this. They want to be Katniss Everdeen so badly.
- I have this theory, that a lot of grade school teachers think they know everything, and everyone is eagerly waiting to hear their great knowledge, because their job is to talk at length in front of very small people who have everything to learn. And this isnât inherently a bad thing; Iâm very grateful for teachers everywhere. However, sometimes, in areas where they are not the authority, I think itâs necessary to take a step back and ask âdo I actually know what Iâm talking about and is my opinion needed?â
- âEven I, a Jew, canât look at a Star of David without feeling sick to my stomach. I flinch at the sight of it, the same way I flinch at the Confederate Flag. Iâve packed away in the attic all our Judaica, because I canât stand to look at it anymore. Thanks for that, Israel!âŠ. If it would do Palestinians any good for me to renounce my Jewishness⊠and cease referring to myself as a Jew, I would do so in a heartbeat.â This is odd. Antizionism has become their primary self-identifier.
- When they talked about the complications they had in labor during the birth of their child, they paused and interrupted to tell us that really, they couldnât complain, because Gazans had it worse. Thatâs not a normal way to process the milestones of your life on a different continent. They switch away from their Jewish doctor because they âneeded a C-section and [were] too scared to go under the knife of a potential Zionist.â They see a Jewish family in kippot in their neighborhood and âcouldnât sleep that night for fear of the Jews living across the street.â I think Adam Louis Klein said that what most defined antisemitism to him was obsession, and that comes through in every line of this book; Kern acts deeply unstable and proud of upending their life over nothing.
- When they talked about getting into Harvard, they mentioned that they were probably selected due to a Jewish poem they wrote, because Harvard is controlled by Zionists (considering the writing quality, I kind of wish that were true). The online backlash to their âPalestinian advocacy,â was probably just an Israeli bot farm trying to silence brave truth-speakers. Their YA novel was rejected from major publishers, probably because of Zionists (Iâm reminded of Xiran Jay Zhao). They fully endorse Khazar theory in a very uncomfortable, blood-and-soil way, while admitting that they know nothing about genetics, and misrepresent what the Hannibal Directive was. I genuinely donât know if this is ignorance or malice; they are a terrible researcher and clearly got their sources from social media before bothering to find an article that vaguely supports their claim (Our primary sources for this book are Al Jazeera and Middle Eastern Eye; hilariously, Mamdaniâs dad makes an appearance, as does an instagram post).
- This is interesting: âPalestinian Jews, continuing to resist Zionist aggression, might still have some claim to indigeneity. But those who embrace the Mizrahi identity gleefully serve in the IDF⊠they have become colonizers. And a colonizer is not indigenous.â See, I could take this same argument back a thousand years and say that indigenous Jews who converted to Islam to rule over the Dhimmis became colonizers. Their entire argument is that the indigenous people are the good guys and the colonizers are the bad guys, and if you switch loyalty to the wrong side, youâre also one of the bad guys. This is the Star Wars metaphor again! This has nothing to do with the actual people living on the land. Theyâve turned an actual war into a fandom war.
- âIndigenous people wouldnât uproot olive trees. Indigenous people would not have drained the marshlands [for the love of G-d please learn about Roman deforestation and malaria]. Indigenous people wouldnât have broken up the West Bank into 227 enclaves.â Do you genuinely think that indigenous people are magical elven beings with a special metaphysical connection to the land who always make correct policy decisions? Look at what the indigenous people of Britain have done to their island. Weâre using fairytale logic.
- This person is, unfortunately, responsible for Holocaust education in Houston, Texas. They decided to read the Protocols to prepare for this. They pause for a moment to say that the Protocols are a forgery, of course, and not an actual historical text â but that doesnât really matter because Israel is doing everything in them anyway. They actually recommend reading the Protocols to learn about Zionism. They are outraged and indignant that their Jewish family members have called them antisemitic and cut ties with them.
- What does being Jewish mean to Kern? âEthnically, I have Ashkenazi ancestry â that fact canât be changed â but why consider calling myself a Jew? Because I like the pretty lights and fried potatoes of Hanukkah? Because I like to pepper my vocabulary with a little Yiddish, for spice?â They do add in occasional Yiddish words with footnote definitions: âmishpocha is a Yiddish word for family, a term I lovingly use to refer to my followers on social media.â They also helpfully define terms like âfascismâ for us: âa fascist government is a capitalist government without the nice window-dressings of neoliberalism.â I feel bad for their students.
- They do some surface level research into the ways that Jews were persecuted in Christian Europe, and tie this to paganism and the witch-hunts. They seem a lot more interested in the pagans than the Jews. They skim over Mizrahi history, and blame the expulsions on Zionists. We neglect the effect that Naziism had on Arab countries at the time. They claim the Dhimmi protected the Jews, who âdidnât have toâ (werenât allowed to) serve in the army, taking the word at its literal meaning and glossing over the centuries of discrimination and humiliation (âThis is our land and the Jews are our dogsâ). Again, their arguments are based on whether the good or the evil side is acting, rather than the actions themselves. I could say that the Palestinians of Israel are under the special protection of the IDF because they donât have to serve in the army, but that would be dishonest; we both know that serving in the army is not the primary marker of status in society.
- Iâm immensely unimpressed by their persecution complex. Theyâre scared of Jews because of online backlash to their TikTok account, and imaginary Zionists pulling the strings to harm their YA novelist career. In my actual neighborhood, Iâve seen a synagogue firebombed by antizionists and cannot walk to the store without seeing graffiti calling for violence against Jews; I have known someone who was shot and killed in the street by a man shouting Free Palestine, and polls in my country find that 50% of Muslims hold antisemitic views, but Iâm not going to lose my mind and have a panic attack if I see a woman in hijab on the street, because I thought we all agreed a few years ago that being afraid of people on the basis of their religion and ethnicity is bad, actually. If an Arab man walks up to me and calls me sister, Iâm going to talk to him, not run home and hide. Itâs a lot harder to be afraid of the people in your community if you take the time to get to know them. Thatâs part of why Iâm reading these books; having read Khalidi and PappĂ© and whatever the hell this is, I feel a lot less afraid. Antizionism is a house of cards; it is built on lies and therefore fragile. If youâre so afraid of Zionists that you canât walk past a Jew in the streets, I think that says a lot more about you than the Jews.
- What happens to half the worldâs Jews when Palestine is free? Easy answer for Kern: they donât care. A whole chapter is titled âDebunking Hasbara: âWonât somebody please think of the colonizers?ââ Yes. Seven million Jews live there and both Palestinian governments are invested in killing all of them. What happens to the Jews is half of the equation here.
- Hereâs one of the last pages: âWouldnât it be nice, Zionists, to put down the fear and hate?â I donât know if theyâre talking to themself or to the Jews.
- As with PappĂ©, I was curious to see their answer to the question: âwhat does a free Palestine look like?â The answer is âsounds of winds, waves, and children laughing, no drones, bombardment, gunfire, or screaming.â Sounds nice, if vague. How to we get from here to there? Their proposed idea for a Palestinian future looks like âIsraelis giving up the settlements and the homes taken in 1948.â I â thatâs it?? 200 pages of arguing that Israel is the greatest, evilest, most genocidal apartheid state there ever was, and the way to fix it is âmaybe a two state solution, maybe one, I donât know; a ceasefire with Hamas, and ending the settlements?â Iâm baffled. Those have been mainstream Israeli political positions for decades; thatâs entry-level debate material for the conflict. They have a preschool understanding of whatâs going on and they wrote a book about it.
- When Israel implements Kernâs revolutionary policies, and Palestine is finally free, we will achieve âa world beyond imperialism and capitalism.â Itâs going to be hard, like in Batman, they say, or like in Mad Max, Black Mirror, Wall-E, and the Lorax, but we can do it. âWhen I say free Palestine, people want to know what kind of nation state do you have in mind once Israeli apartheid is toppled. But I donât dream of nation states. Because Iâm an anarchist!â
- A lot of this book made me angry, but in the end, I was laughing. I wasnât reading a political argument, I was reading a YA novel written by a middle school teacher/booktok influencer, using the Gaza war as set dressing for their dystopian heroâs journey. It was deeply inappropriate, insultingly shallow, and everything a YA book should be. I would rather believe that my old friends view the war this way than the alternative. âFor now, I remain a small child, cocooned in my parentsâ dreams, hopeful for a future where love conquers all.â How American.
Latest update on the author, Sim Kern.
Children Of Israel Are Never Alone
just a pure evil caricature of themselves at this point
Every time rape apologist Sim Kernâs name comes up from now on, it should be immediately preceded or followed by the phrase ârape apologist,â because theyâre a rape apologist as well as an antisemite who doesnât know what theyâre talking about
Duss advised Bernie Sanders and Ocasio-Cortez on Foreign Policy. In case anyone reading this still wants to take either of them seriously or respect their intelligence and instincts.
