#extremism

[notaplaceofhonour]

some fundamental context you need to understand when assessing competing claims in the Israel/Palestine conflict is that it is the common view in Palestinian society that any and all Jewish history in Ancient Israel & Judah is entirely fabricated “Zionist propaganda”—up to and including the very idea that the Jewish Temple ever existed, or that the Jewish Patriarchs (Abraham and Isaac and Jacob) or any of the Jewish prophets were Jewish at all.

this is the source of the belief that Jews do not have any ties to the land. a flat out denial that anything in Jewish holy texts is truly Jewish—that, in “fact”, they were Muslim—and Jews have fabricated their entire history.

[queer-scots-geordie-dyke]

The nuance free idiots who view any condemnation at all of Islamist extremism and terror groups like Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Houthis as anti Muslim are aware that there's a difference between Islamists and ordinary Muslims living their lives, right? They do know that statistically, Muslims make up the majority of victims of this form of terrorism, right?

Because I have to say, I remember the post 9/11 hysteria very well and conflating all Muslims with Islamist terrorists was (very rightly) seen as an extremely bigoted attitude.

[my-midlife-crisis]

Trump calls antifa ‘terrorist group,’ fueling fight over free speech and limits of law enforcement

President Trump declares antifa a major terrorist organization, sparking debate among experts about constitutional implications and enforcem

[solarbiomechanist]

Sometimes I think "ah surely I've pruned my follow list of antizionists by now" and then you ain't gonna believe what happens next-

...Anyway! THIS BLOG SUPPORTS THE RIGHT TO JEWISH SELF-DETERMINATION IN THEIR HOMELAND OF ISRAEL. I respect deeply the determination of Israeli citizens of all origins to live in the face of truly overwhelming adversity, and hope for a day when the world gives them back a thimbleful of the grace they have extended. I hope for the day that Jewish people will be safe no matter where they choose to make their home, not only but especially in the land that was the birthplace and has always been the home of their people.

I hope that one day people stop lying about Jewish and/or Israeli people and stop believing those lies.

[mysharona1987]

[purpleweredragon]

Ofsted criticised over training manual linking autistic children to extremism

National Autistic Society says guidance risks stigmatising traits amid concern over number of autistic children referred to Prevent

"Tim Nicholls, the assistant director of policy, research and strategy at the National Autistic Society, said autistic people and their families would be “offended and concerned” by how autism is portrayed in the training manual.

“This is the latest in one of many issues surrounding Prevent. We believe the support system for autistic children is broken. We’re worried that many children are being inappropriately referred as a last resort, when no other support is being offered."

Sarah St Vincent, the executive director of Rights and Security International, said: “The government has not shown that autistic children are any more likely to pose a serious threat of violence than anyone else is.

“Instead, the Ofsted trainings draw a target on autistic children based on what look to us like sweeping and simplistic statements. This could amount to direct and illegal discrimination.

“It could also lead to a feedback loop in which autistic children are increasingly over-policed, with lasting consequences”."

[theredqueenandthebloodwyrm]

I went and read Klippenstein's substack about Elias Rodriguez. And you know what my take away was from it? Other than the fact that Klippenstein is a piece of shit and I've got a newfound hatred of him, it's that Jewish people were right. Jews were right.

I mean that was never a fact I disputed. But it's different when the dots connect or when everything falls into place as the sayings go.

It went from (in no particular order) Jews having to explain that October 7 is bad actually, to explaining that supporting groups like Houthis is bad actually, to explaining the danger in lionizing/glorifying a man who set himself on fire, to explaining that terrorist groups (Hamas, Houthis, etc) oppress their own people, to explaining (again) that protesting outside synagogues is bad, to explaining that saying slurs like Zio and Zionazi and using rhetoric (Zionists control the media and Zionist-Occupied Government) that is no different than Neo Nazis and White Supremacists is bad actually, to explaining that...well hopefully you get it by this point. Or maybe not.

Your words have power. The words you use, the rhetoric you wield? That is power, and it's fucking dangerous to use violent and inflammatory rhetoric, which Jewish people kept saying and everyone else kept deflecting about. This isn't some newfangled fucking concept either if you can understand how far-right rhetoric can be dangerous, then you can understand it's inverse.

Still on the fence on whether to keep this one posted. It's been sitting in my drafts for a little bit now.