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"I'm not an antisemite but" - you are
"Its not antisemitic to" - it is
"Israelis made antisemitism into" - we didn't, it's what it is
Let me help you. Like any other form of racism and bigotry, if you need to clarify whether the bullshit you spew is antisemitic or not, it is, and you're an antisemite.
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new york times article days after major antisemitic incident: is it possible the passive voice violent incident in [place where jews live] was maybe motivated by hatred against jews
new york times article like two three after major antisemitic incident: violent incident, by multiple sources, said to be “antisemitic hate crime” possibly connected to this other “antisemitic hate crime”
Antizionism is antisemitism. Hatred of the Jewish state is hatred of the Jewish people, as such. Hatred or discrimination against any national or ethnic group is wrong. It is wrong to persecute and harass people because of their identity.
Over the past two months, where I live in Australia, several synagogues were graffitied, including the synagogue my father and grandparents attended in Sydney, and one synagogue was Firebombed in the city I live in. That synagogue was a haredi place with no connections to Israel too.
Last year, a Jewish community centre was graffitied, Jewish schools had bomb threats, and several other things happened here.
And the labor governments envoy on antisemitism even urged the government to take more action. Have they? No. They have bragged about how they were the first government in Australia to do this, yet they haven’t actually done anything.
It pains me to say this, because of how much I supported them throughout my life and specifically last election, but I will not be supporting labor or any leftist parties this election.
Remember that being pro Palestine is not an excuse to be anti Jewish
Hamas is a heinous, murderous, vile terrorist group that’s intent on killing Jews.
But you can’t say they haven’t been honest about their intentions. Their manifesto, the interviews they’ve given, and the way they try to brainwash children through schools and media content have all been quite blatant in showing their modus operandi.
However, despite their very brutal honesty, why do Hamas-sympathisers try so hard to make Hamas look like good guys by defending literal crimes in the most insane ways?
It’s worrying and also shocking as these hypocrisies are such common sentiments coming from college campuses, which were once institutions that honed critical thinking.
Do they think that “kill all Jews” is a code phrase for “we want our territory back”? How do you possibly interpret open calls for the annihilation of Jews in any other way than what it is?
Do they not think that kidnapping women, raping and torturing them, and parading their naked, mutilated bodies around town to sexually humiliate them while men cheer is sexual violence against women? Isn’t this a feminist issue, part of the MeToo movement?
“Think about the children!” Yes, but when babies are beheaded and burned, when 4 year olds are kidnapped and orphaned, is claiming that these are AI-generated images and ripping down the posters of the hostages thinking of the children?
They cry out about war crimes but ignore that raping women and taking hostages are literally war crimes.
They scream to boycott companies for their ties to Israel using devices with technology designed in Israel. Will they give up their life’s pleasures because of their ties to Israel? My money is on no, because it’ll affect them personally and heaven forbid they take up activism that actually would inconvenience them in the slightest.
They claim to be experts in geopolitics after watching one TikTok video and claim that this is about territory and not antisemitism while also saying that Israelis can just “go back to whichever other country they also have citizenship in”. While turning a blind eye to the multiple antisemitic attacks around the world, and calling Israelis “white colonisers”.
They also claim to be champions of mental health awareness, experts in the psychological mechanisms of mental illnesses and take cautions to avoid triggers and micro-aggressions so as to not offend those who have psychological conditions. “We should let those who actually have these conditions speak up about their experiences!!”
But then when it comes to actual psychologically stressing situations like being kidnapped and taken hostage, they suddenly can speak for the hostages and know exactly what went on based on the most vacuous, flimsy evidence? “Oh she’s in love with her captor, she’s smiling at him! They’re smiling and waving, they must have been treated nicely by Hamas!”
How do they sleep at night with these competing ideologies in their heads? What do they achieve by making all these seem like the actions of good people?
They’re like Hamas’ PR team and defence attorneys rolled into one.
No matter what crime Hamas commits, they’ll come up with justifications and make it look like some kind of beneficent act of humanitarianism.
It’s so exhausting trying to reason with people who don’t see reason.
This blog is primarily dedicated to art and whatever I tend to find aesthetically fun or appealing to my weird sensibilities. Posts not related directly to some form of art are infrequent. This is one of those infrequent posts. A dear friend made the images here and I wanted to pass them along to give her effort a boost. I hope you'll take the time to peruse her work because she's good people y'all. Watching the deliberate cruelty of the Trump administration and its aspirations to authoritarianism while it also underwrites the active campaign of genocide by the Israeli government against Palestinians is taxing. The US has weaponized the charge of "antisemitism" as an excuse to attack and silence critics of Israeli policy (while pushing the agendas of Israel advocacy and Christian nationalist organizations). This is happening while Israel is blocking all aid into Gaza effectively starving the Palestinians there. Far-right Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich even admitted that starvation of the Palestinian population is the goal. Openly criticizing this policy is now subject to being labelled an "antisemitic" act. Most decent people: "Hey, bombing children and hospitals and agricultural centers and museums and colleges and [fill in non-military target here] is a war crime and morally reprehensible." " Israeli government: This is a perfect example of antisemitism!" It should be noted that Israel and Judaism are not synonymous. Criticizing the political policies of Israel is not a criticism of Judaism. The Israeli right-wing has tried to conflate the two in order to smear political critiques of Israeli policy as nothing more than babble from people who hate Jews (which also allows them to conveniently marginalize and to ignore the Jewish critics of Israeli policy, both international and domestic). Is antisemitism an ongoing concern worth addressing? Of course it is. A friend addressed this very fact from a Leftist perspective back in 2007 with a pamphlet she wrote called, 'The Past Didn't Go Anywhere: Making Resistance to Antisemitism Part of All of Our Movements' which I suggest you give a reading to. (As April put it, "The Past was an activist effort, not an academic work..)
Sure, you come here, dear reader, to see art. I want this humble little tumblr page to be a place you where you can see a wide collection of that glorious human endeavor in all its various forms. But, I'm a politically aware person who has been involved in activism since he was a teen back in the 80s. It's hard to compartmentalize my need to vocally contribute opposition to this shit and my desire to ponder aesthetics. Give me a moment to vent and point to some wonderful people who try to contribute positively to the world. Thanks for your attention and patience. Just make sure you vote. Take to the streets. Volunteer your time. Be a thorn in the side of fascists, wannabe authoritarians, and all assholes in general. Be decent. "Be excellent to each other."
