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I really need people to understand how much the fall of the Islamic Regime, if it does happen, would mean one of the biggest geopolitical shifts in our lifetimes. The China/Russia/IRI imperialist axis would be down a whole body part. Terrorist militias destabilizing the Middle East would lose their source of income. Under the right circumstances, a whole nuclear threat could disintegrate. Like HELLO? Is anyone PAYING ATTENTION?

gayalfredprufrock

side effect of the constant antisemitism on here is wondering which of my friends or friendquaintances are being indoctrinated by it. wondering if they see this shit and think it's real because they haven't spent their lives steeped in the knowledge of what antisemitism looks like. knowing that some of the mutuals on here who - while not quite friends, i do have a fondness for - are still mutuals with people i've blocked for antisemitism and wondering what kind of things they are "learning" from those people

themodernmaccabee

I'm watching a good friend in real time just fly down the path. Rally sad to see and I'm wondering how long it'll be before I'm "too Jewish" for him to associate with.

itsjason-15

Honey (Taylor Swift, 2025)

— The Life of a Showgirl

unsolicited-opinions

Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it.

I think you can start to understand suicidal empathy by looking at the Iranian Revolution.

During the late 1970s, a wide coalition of groups including Marxists, liberals, Islamists, and students opposed the Shah of Iran, who was supported by the US and seen by this coalition as a Western puppet. Many Western leftists viewed the Shah's regime as imperialist and authoritarian, and therefore cheered the Iranian revolution as a people's uprising.

Ayatollah Khomeini, a Shi'a cleric, became the symbolic leader of this revolution.

Western leftists, in solidarity with the anti-Shah cause, downplayed or misunderstood Khomeini's theocratic intentions, viewing him instead as a symbol of anti-imperialism.

But Khomeini was an aspiring theocrat. Once the Shah was overthrown, Khomeini's Islamists turned on their secular and leftist allies.

Marxists, feminists, liberal democrats, and secular nationalists were imprisoned, executed, or exiled. Women were forced to wear the hijab, and Islamic law replaced secular codes. Political dissent was brutally crushed, often much more harshly than under the Shah.

The naïveté of Iranian leftists who had supported the revolution without recognizing the reactionary, theocratic nature of the movement they were backing? That's where the Western far left is going. That's suicidal empathy.

Suicidal Empathy is a form of excessive or uncritical empathy which leads individuals or groups to support causes, ideologies, or people whose core values may be fundamentally opposed to their own...and ultimately to their own detriment or destruction.

This kind of empathy becomes suicidal when it results in self-destructive alliances or compromises, often in the name of tolerance, anti-imperialism, or social justice.

Suicidal empathy helps explain the paradoxical support of Western leftists for radical Islamist movements which despise them as articles of faith.

So...why do such leftists support Islamists who would cheerfully murder them?

1. Shared Anti-Imperialist and/or Anti-Western Sentiment

Many Western leftists are deeply critical of Western foreign policy, especially U.S. and European military interventions in the Middle East. Islamist movements, particularly militant ones, also oppose Western influence. This shared opposition to "imperialism" can create a strange bedfellow dynamic.

These Leftists see Islamist resistance as part of a broader struggle against Western hegemony.

But this overlooks the reactionary social values of many Islamist groups, which often include patriarchy, homophobia, anti-Semitism, and authoritarianism - values that sharply contradict progressive ideals.

2. Victimhood Framing

Some leftists adopt a framework where oppression and victimhood define moral authority. Since Muslims, in the context of global leftist politics, are often seen as victims of Western aggression, there's a tendency to uncritically sympathize with Islamist movements under the assumption that they are inherently oppressed, regardless of evidence to the contrary.

So when Islamist ideologies are anti-liberal or even fascistic...they may still be viewed through a lens of victimhood rather than agency.

3. Cultural Relativism Taken to an Extreme

Many leftist thinkers promote cultural relativism not as an academic principle, but as a living practical policy doctrine. The fear being labeled as Islamophobic if they, for instance, acknowledge the atteocities of female genital mutilation, honor killings, child brides, slavery, and theocracy. So they avoid criticizing reactionary, regressive, barbaric aspects of Islamist ideology, even when these violate their own principles (e.g., women's rights, LGBTQ rights, free speech).

In defending "cultural practices" under the banner of tolerance, they tacitly support values that would call for their own deaths. "Suicidal empathy," indeed.

4. Post-Colonial Guilt

The legacy of colonialism leads many in the Western left to feel deep guilt over historical injustices. This can fuel an overcorrection which leads them to defend or romanticize "resistance" movements, even when these movements uphold values that are themselves oppressive and regressive. (Bizarrely, their guilt over colonialism never finds expression in US leftists organizing en masse for Native American Indian nations. Canadian leftists haven't given nearly the energy to the needs of First Nations people's that they've given to Palestinians. No leftist movment in support of Australian aboriginal peoples has ever gotten the energy from Australian leftists that Palestinians enjoy. Why? Because by condemning and sacrificing Israel for their sins, they get to feel righteous without having to know or sacrifice bupkis.)

And this works against actual human rights efforts.

This alliance enables authoritarianism and suppresses genuinely progressive voices in many Muslim-majority societies. Secular Arab liberals and feminists often express frustration that Western leftists support the very Islamist movements they struggle against at home.

Suicidal empathy comes from well-intentioned, dangerously naive solidarity that prioritizes identity, victimhood, or anti-imperialism over consistent moral principles. The alliance between Western leftists and Islamist movements becomes "suicidal" when it undermines the very values the left claims to champion-like human rights, secularism, and gender equality.

The Millennial and Gen Z protestors calling for Israel to be destroyed? That's where they're headed.

I think one of the reasons we're having massive political realignments all of the world right now is because many are starting to realize that shared enemies ≠ shared values.

I hope the campus leftists figure it out soon.

stele3

Everybody fucking read Persepolis.

unsolicited-opinions

Seconded. Read Persepolis. Link below, free.

153 pages : 24 cm

The movie is also good. Link below, free.

subspa

cafffine

be pro-aging but wear sun screen. sun protection is not beauty industry propaganda it will save you. wear it. or else.

rheumaticrhetoric

butchfagminotaur

i don’t know how to explain to you people that no matter what a country’s government is like i do not and will not support the US indiscriminately bombing that country’s civilians and i don’t know why that’s a controversial take tbh

butchfagminotaur

“oh iran is a dictatorship!” “oh palestine is homophobic!” i don’t care like literally i don’t care that’s not a problem to be solved by other countries blowing innocent people up

demiiwhiffin

#collage #Art #Time

fallingrainandburningsuns

what if I, an israeli, don't feel like educating people about the conflict? what if i don't want to have to explain to you the last year and a half of grief my family, my friends, my community, went through, still going through, can't heal from until all of us are home? i don't have to justify my anger, my fear, or my resentment to you, jewish or goy. i don't need to provide a explanation before saying that people of my country are dying and my family is under missiles and my friends are enlisting to the army and I'm devastated because there was a fucking massacre. I don't want to talk about the people of gaza. I want to have the space to grieve the trgady we experienced oct. 7, to heal our people with all of our hostages home.

But we didn't get that. People were celebrating while the blood was still warm. so I am not interested in explaining myself or this conflict to you.

cannibalisticvoyeurism

"why should i help gazans when something awful happened to me?" because you could help prevent something awful from happening to them.

fallingrainandburningsuns

this one, guys, I swear, is the one that get me.

i could write a resopnse about how the gazan attacked US. kept (probably still do) Israeli hostages in their houses. came into Israel on oct 7 and killed and stole and joined the massacre. why should i feel sympathy to my attacker and all that shit.

and i know its not all of them, and i know many of them are victims of hamas. i also know they elected hamas to be their government. i know i know i know.

but this reblog is so particularly annoying because I DONT NEED TO EXPLAIN THE CONFLICT TO GAZANS. they live it. JUST LIKE I DO. just like my family does. I DONT WANT TO EXPLAIN THE CONFLICT TO YOU. to all of you online that refuse to talk about the Israeli side of it, that force me to acknowledge gazan suffering and right to their country and a thousand other disclaimers before i can say "oct 7 was fucked up and cruel and fuck everyone how participated or supported it. there are still hostages held in tunnels eating one piece of bread a day who has not seen the sun in 583 days." how in the world did you manage to hijack this post about Israeli pain and trauma to make it about gazans is beyond me. this is exactly my point. Israelis don't get to experience pain or trauma or suffering, but gazans get all the sympathy in the world. why wont you acknowledge our pain??

also, if you think israelis aren't trying to stop this war, youre ignorant. Israel had mass protest against our shitty government for the last three years, even more so since oct 7. hundreds of thousands of people gather in the street every day to call for the return of the hostages home, a ceasefire, and the quitting of our motherfucker of a prime minister.

for once in youre fucking life, listen to Israelis about this, instead of yelling at us accusations and demands. acknowledge our pain just like you can with the gazans. support our efforts to survive in the active war zone, recover from trauma and end this war just like you do for them. And most importantly, stop supporting the terrorist group that has done nothing to help gaza's citizens and is gaining from this war.

please for the love of god, accept that this a CONFLICT, with TWO SIDES, and that there are people who want peace and normalization ON BOTH SIDES, and that there people who want murder and eradication of an entire ethic group ON BOTH SIDES, and those people should be rejected by us in conversation circles because all they want is war and pain and death, and god knows that us, the people of the middle east, have had enough of that.

if you care, if you want to end this war like we do, if you are willing to accept isreali pain into the conversation, and if you want to support the israeli effort for a ceasefire and a hostage deal, please visit the website of the hostage families:

Join our forum to support the return of all hostages and missing persons from October 7th events. Get updates, advocate, and unite families

gayalfredprufrock

god most people can't fucking breathe without being antisemitic and gleefully so at that. so often i am so overwhelmed by this amount of hate it just is everywhere in everything all the time, everyone is rotted to their soul. i have never seen people so bloodthirsty and malicious and purely evil as they become whenever jews are mentioned or have feelings or exist. but i can't lie down and give up because i have to outlive them

baal-zvuv

"הו – כוכב נופל!" 2.0

alyssumlovesthecosmere

תגובת ישיבת הגוש לדבר הזה:

והצוויצר

#אירוע מתמשך #חרבות ברזל #ישראבלר #ויראלי

hazel2468

Having a thought about how I have seen, recently, so many people insisting that things like posters about the hostages and marches for the hostages in the disapora are a sign of like. Some kind of conspiracy or manipulation.

And how all of these people who think that this is just Jews doing the Jew Thing of Manipulating People and Lying to Get What We Want... Know absolutely NOTHING about us.

The thing I wish every goy would understand. Is that Jews are a people, and we are one people. Every Jew on this earth- whether I know them personally or not. Whether I agree with them or not. Whether I like them or not. Is my FAMILY. All Jews are one people, one family. When one Jew is hurt, we all hurt.

"Until we are all free, we are none of us free" is a quote I see used all the time (or some variation of it). And the quote is from Emma Lazarus. She was speaking about assimilated Jews who were ignoring Eastern European Jews, who were being murdered and tormented in pogroms. Which was unacceptable- because this is how Jews work, as a people.

We are all one people. We are all family. When one Jew is attacked, we are all attacked. When one Jew mourns, we all mourn with them. We are a people bound by a deep sense of connection and love for one another.

So when Jews in the diaspora are talking about the hostages, about the war. About Israel and Israelis. I need you all to understand that this is not simply politics to us. This is not just a political discussion that we are detached from.

This is our family. These are our loved ones and our people. The Jews of the world are one family, and we all must love and look out for one another. THAT is why Jews in the diaspora, and in America, where I am from. Care so deeply. Because those hostages are our family. They are our people. It isn't political manipulation. This isn't some kind of Jewish Sneaky Conspiracy.

It is a family. Begging for the safe return of their loved ones. Begging for the lives of their kin.

#Thank you op #bring them home #Hostages #Jumblr #Jewblr #I need them back home

cottagewarlock

you know what’s a good feeling? a real good feeling?

when sunbeams do this.

that is all.

2peachy

“The whole world is cheering and wants you dead” yeah we know. It has never not been like that. Over 40% of the population openly call themselves antisemites, and the rest got their fingers on the keyboard, spewing anonymous hate on tumblr while swearing up and down they’re just antizionists. None of this is new. It’s not fresh. It’s not even clever. It’s tired, and it's been going on forever. You’re not making some bold statement. You’re just recycling the same old nonsense. You’re not sleek. You’re not new…. You’re just predictable.

#antisemitism

jewish-vents

I live and work in DC. My office is a handful of blocks from the Capital Jewish Museum, which I’ve been to multiple. The day of the shooting, I left work and had to pass an antisemitic protester on my way to the train. Not the shooter, just some other antisemite, a couple blocks away and a couple hours before the murders.

I can’t really describe that Shabbat at my synagogue. It was only two days later, it was a full house, there was heightened security. Multiple of our rabbis were at times visibly close to tears as we sought comfort in community. Because Sarah and Yaron were not abstract political chess pieces, they were real human beings. They were part of our community. Nobody in that room was more than three degrees separated from them.

I’m barely on social media post October 7, so maybe I shouldn’t have been shocked to see the lionization of their murderer and so many people celebrating their deaths. For being at the same kind of event at the same kind of place I or any of my friends might go to. But it has still really messed me up. The only anti-murder takes I ever saw beyond the Jewish community were about the optics and how this would hurt the cause because of whatever Trump would do in response. Never “murdering Jews is wrong.”

The decrease in Jewish events and participation in Pride this year due to safety concerns hasn’t changed anything about the war. It obviously never could. It’s just another reminder how many people love when people like me, almost literally ARE ME, are brutally killed just for existing.

#jewish vents #Whoever posted this: I have got no words. Just love