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New policy: No more arguing with Christianists, especially the ones who think that missionizing is a good thing. Autoblock on sight.
EDIT: Addendum: Antisemitic atheists too.
Less a DNI, and more just an exasperated sigh at this point, yes, I vet new followers for my own safety and I will automatically block missionaries, Christian apologists, antisemitic atheists, antizionists, Nazis (WTAF are you following me in the first place?), and TERFs.
The text "risks undermining decades of careful relationship-building" between Christians and Jews says Chief Rabbi
Non-Hebrew-speaking Jewish culture is hearing a kid yell שׁשׁ שׁבּע and not knowing what that means until you pull out Google translate
(side note: anyone else never want to hear those numbers again?)
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same energy
Progressive candidates cast opposition to Israel and AIPAC as part of their movement’s ascent.
Self-dealing grifter who believes in faith healing and couldn't even vote for Biden's infrastructure bills promises action against Jews.
He may have found Trump distasteful, but no one did more to protect him.
jsyk the op of the post about jewish music you reblogged is a zionist
Okay, sure, let's have it out. I imagine I'll pretty much piss off everyone with this.
First: the only confidence I have in my understanding of the political situation of the Middle East is that I have no fucking understanding whatsoever of the political situation in the Middle East. Sure, I've read plenty. I have friends of many many stripes. But I'm not a victim of the Dunning-Kruger effect here, folks: I know enough to know how much I don't know, and how much I know is tons.
Second, you say that person is a "zionist." There are three things I find pretty annoying about this as a defense attorney. One is that the term is not defined, and the other is that there is a complete lack of evidence. The third is the implicit assumption that being a "zionist" is enough to wholeheartedly condemn anyone.
Let's tackle these one by one. And, once again, I am neither a scholar of Jewish history nor Middle Eastern history nor anything except American criminal law.
First: definition. There are many possible meanings of zionist that I see people use. One potential meaning of "zionist" seems to be "is Jewish, but fails to disavow Israel as fast and loud as I personally want them to." Sometimes the meaning of "zionist" is just "is Jewish." Sometimes it's "a Jewish person who wishes for a return to a very distant ancestral homeland." Sometimes it's "wholehearted supporter of Israel's war crimes." A lot of pointless arguing, it seems to me, is centered around someone saying they are zionist, i.e., they would like Jewish people to someday have a nice homeland where they don't feel like a strange political chunk in another country, and another person hears that they are zionist, i.e. they enjoy wholesale slaughter of civilians.
Second: No evidence. Self-explanatory. You are an anon. I don't know why I'm supposed to trust your word. I read police reports for a living and I am supposed to be able to trust them, and let me tell you how many lies they contain.
Third: the assumption of condemnation. I literally defend the human rights of sex criminals in court. I defend murderers. What we are talking about, right now, at best, is a human person expressing an opinion, however potentially damaging and offensive (depending on definition of zionism and truth of accusation). Do you think I'm gonna say that Jewish people who express an opinion are inhuman and deserve segregation from the rest of us?
Do you think I'm ever going to stop reaching out my hand to people who use violence? Do you think I'm ever going to lose the hope that someday they will lose the fear that makes them resort to violence?
Finally, now that I've spent some time listing my problems with your case, so what.
Let's use an example closer to home. I'm an American, and I do in fact believe that America is a nation and will continue to be so, and that tearing down all government to give it back to indigenous people (something that is, to be clear, to my understanding, not comparable with any kind of political situation in Israel) is not possible as things stand. And yet nobody's here interrogating me about Donald Trump and his bombing of Iran or whether I support ICE's jackbooted thuggery.
A little further from home? If I met a Russian person, my first ask would not be "Tell me in detail your thoughts on Ukraine and Putin."
And in those two examples, I myself and this hypothetical Russian person are actually members of the country in question that is doing the thing. A Jewish person who is not Israeli isn't even that.
Listen. I think there's a lot to be unpacked about how the insularity of Jewish culture and the separateness of it from the countries where it lives is both in the interest of continuing the Jewish ethnicity and in the interest of the people who want Jewish people exterminated, and how the double-pull of those two interests maintain a tension that otherwise might dissipate. I think there's something real to be analyzed about how modern anti-semitism isn't a recurrence of medieval anti-semitism but a different thing, a sign of fascist thinking.
I think there is a horrific tragedy for everyone involved that the group who was decimated beyond belief in the blackest events in human history now has a very loud and visible nation channeling their survival into rage and violence.
I think that there are lots of Arab nations around Israel that would gladly see every person in it subject to that same rage and violence, and I'm not down with that shit either.
I think the history of who colonized who and when and what pogroms did what and how violence and why are all too fucking complicated to untangle.
I think the only way truly forward for Israel and Palestine is some kind of truth and reconciliation type thing and that Israel as it stands is too scared to see all their atrocities come to light.
I was raised atheist with college professor parents, so you can bet Jewish people in academia were part of my life from an early age. I don't understand antisemitism literally at all. It's completely incomprehensible to me. I also think Arab culture is gorgeous and studied Arabic in college. I don't discount the idea that I have subconscious biases; I've done my best to unpick them, but it's lifelong work.
The whole goddamn clusterfuck is a great example of why violence begets violence begets violence. I reject the idea that One Final Ass-Kicking on anyone's part will solve any one of these problems. The only thing that ends violence is not choosing violence. And that can't happen until enough people in and out of power want the violence to stop. There. Not here. There. It can't be imposed from outside. It has to come from within.
And that's a decision -- I must add -- that I seriously could not have less to do with. White Americans should not be making any of the related decisions.
Here endeth the essay, with one final note.
My Jewish friends are safe on this blog. My Arab friends are safe on this blog. That's all.
Okay you might not be a scholar on the conflict, but this is unironically the best take that someone not a party to the conflict itself can take right now. To call for peace and stability and not be an accelerant to the conflict.
It is best for the civilians caught in the middle to not encourage the continuatiin of violence. And it is best for those of us drowning in the splash effect as the whole world (minus you and a few others) have gleefully turned on Jews.
You are also giving a sign of hope, which has been rapidly disapearing, about the possibility of being able to safely live in the US.
As a Jewish American, and a Jewish woman I can't emphasize enough how reassuring this response was and how grateful I am to see it.
My attitude is definitely not unique. Always remember: idiots who have the certainty of being right are always the loudest, and those whose first response is curiosity and grace are much harder to hear. In fact, mostly the people who are genuinely kind don't feel the need to display that at all unless asked.
Unless they have chronic can't-shut-the-fuck-up disease, like me.
I hope that... helps? A little? It seems to me there's generations of pain yet to go in this conflict, one way or another, even if healing started right now. No one can carry all that. I think all we can do is bring what light we can.
Your attitude is not unique but it is the very small minority of who we see.
The US Golden Age of Jewry is over. It is something us American Jews are acutely aware of.
In a time where we have to worry about attacks on our synagogues, being beaten in the streets, being gunned down at our festivals, and our homes and schools being burned down, someone speaking aloud that the mentality that leads that violence is wrong is both a rare and valuable thing.
the way i initially thought the wish that people didn't believe in abrahamic religions was close to "stop saying judeochristian"
was so prepared to learn new terminology suggestions. but no. thank you for providing clarity
Alas, no, we are not nearly so lucky as them caring about that. Our existance is just very inconvenient to them and their dreams.
"sound of the summer is this song" WRONG. its cicadas
for the 40th to 200th million summer in a row
Ooh! Ooh! The slash is now 900 feet long, and a whole group of people stood in the reflecting pool and yanked the lining up! I look forward to the extensive video evidence!
Timelapse of Cumulonimbus Clouds with Lightning l dfuji1
and may I add that many of these countries have laws on the books designating non-Muslims as second class citizens. Israel has a lot of issues with racist and islamophobic laws, the same as most nations, but discrimination does NOT an ethnostate make.
Going through the Internet Archive because unfortunately, this administration got rid of the CIA World Factbook, presumably to be replaced with the CIA World Liebook:
(ignore the line going through it, my screen is small and the Internet Archive apparently doesn't handle that great):
So that's our bar -- 73.5 percent.
Note: they ethnically cleansed Nagorno-Karabakh when they took it over. And I mean it:
Oh.
Well.
I'm sure this happened entirely peacefully.
(the Manchus also committed genocide, it's worth noting, but the Hakka are a subgroup of the Han, and I'm talking about extermination of ethnic minorities.)
Er. Well, then.
Which, of course, happened entirely peacefully.
Well, at least the Ustase carried out their genocides (of Serbs, that is--they were cool with the Jews and Romani being exterminated) in ways that didn't make the Nazis squeamish?
Oh.
Maybe the Fang were the first people there--
Oh. I see.
They don't even bother to list anyone else!
Well I'm sure that's all peaceful.
(on the clarification: there have been a lot of Yazidi genocides)
Part one of many, because Tumblr only allows 30 images per post. I'm not done with Iraq yet, by the way, we're up to the Farhud.
Okay, part two.
Ah.
@librastrai has a lot of information on Ireland's treatment of it's Minceiri/Irish Traveller population. Spoiler alert: it's. Not good.
Yes, I know I switched sources. Sorry.
Well, perhaps they--
Ah.
POLAND JESUS FUCKING CHRIST. No wait, I can't say that because that is a big part of how they're so homogenous. But seriously:
It's honestly somewhat impressive! That level of ethnic cleansing of Jews (and others) takes genuine effort!
Meanwhile, according to the same source as Poland:
Oh.
I'm going to split here because up next we have Russia and that's going to require a loooot of images.
Okay. We're at Russia now.
Please note that this only includes genocides in modern-day Russia.
If you want to learn more about the Circassian genocide, may I humbly recommend: past me!
Also other resources I have on Russia's genocides: here, here, and this one on the Crimean Tatars.
I'm sure their takeover of Siberia was lovely and peaceful and doesn't have a whole section on the Wikipedia page for genocide of indigenous peoples.
I mean, look at this section of the Wikipedia page for genocides in history (WW1-WW2)
(Amnesty International's reliability is of course dubious, but this isn't about Israel, and also, may I present to you the rest of this??
I'm going to end here, although I note this does not include the Holodomor, Kazakh deaths (in a similar event to the Holodomor), pogroms of Jews (which were primarily carried out in the Pale, which deliberately did not include much of modern Russia) or their ongoing genocide of Ukrainians today.
I cannot emphasize enough that Russia is a colonialist empire with one of the worst track records on human rights of any country in history. Russian history is deeply entwined with oppression of other ethnic groups, and it has been for a long time. Russia's borders are not natural, its expansion was not inevitable. Anyone who is anti-imperialist and anti-colonialist and anti-genocide should make Russia a primary target.
I cannot emphasize enough that Putin is not an aberration (except in that he bothers to deny the charges of genocide). Putin is typical for Russian history.
Oh.
Similar principle as with Russia and Japan -- this is only within the borders of Turkey.
Yes, that is who Cenk Uygur named his organization after. (Do you think he means to compliment Israel when he accuses it of genocide? "Oh look, you're just like the Young Turks! I love the Young Turks!")
By the way, Turkey officially denies that Kurds exist. Also Turkey refuses to let people name their children names with q, w, and x. Why? Those are all common letters in Kurdish. Children in Turkish schools, all of them, must pledge each day to be a Turk.
Also, they migrated (invaded?) in the mid-medieval period
I wasn't able to get into this in the Russia section, but there were a lot of Ukrainian massacres of Jews. It was really pogrom central. To be fair, I don't know offhand how many were committed by ethnic Ukrainians as opposed to ethnic Russians, so I'm not going to go into too much detail, but let's just say that the one thing everyone in the Ukrainian civil war could agree on was that Jews should be killed.
And finally:
Seriously, the list of Cham-Vietnamese wars is...long.
As you can see from this list, Israel is clearly the only ethnostate in the world, and certainly by far the worst. It's not like ethnostates are a common thing around the world.
"Israel the Ethnostete" is most recently popularized by Richard Spencer, who was directly referring to Israel and Israel alone as a troll
A leaked audiotape attributed to white nationalist Richard Spencer depicts him as a suit-and-tie bigot who uses coded language to charm the
For years, the white nationalist leader has called for overt ethnic cleansing or “ethnic redistribution” but has tried to pass off his noxious beliefs as intellectual curiosities. Spencer has told journalists that his vision of a white ethnostate ought to be compared to Zionism. “In the mid 19th century, many Jews in Central Europe had an idea of an ethno-state, an idea of Zionism, and they were considered ridiculous and insane,” Spencer told Vice in 2013. He used similar language in 2017 during his brief national college tour, telling students that one state he often turned to for guidance was Israel. That same year, Spencer even told Israel’s Channel 2 News that he saw himself as a “white Zionist.” “You could say that I am a white Zionist in the sense that I care about my people, I want us to have a secure homeland for us and ourselves,” the newspaper Haaretz, quoting from his TV appearance, said. “Just like you want a secure homeland in Israel.” Yet, in the leaked audio from Charlottesville, Spencer purportedly screams to a room of cheering supporters: “Little f—— k—-. They get ruled by people like me.”
You can see the google trendline worldwide of the term "Ethnostate" ticking up from 2016-2018, when Spencer sold his goods and was lovingly covered by press as a "Dapper Fascist" and spiking in 2020 with an uptick later. Spencer is a troll who sold a bill of goods and a bunch of leftists who screamed about "Punching Nazis" bought his bullshit, hook, line, and sinker. They just needed some fauxademic gloss on it. Note the interest in Ireland.
In this case, the people who love what Spencer had to say want to call Jews "The new Nazis" and ignore who they're taking their marching orders from, and who they are targeting.
probably the worst attitude tumblr unintentionally cultivates is "the world out there is completely dangerous for you and no one can possibly understand you, so you should isolate yourself from it and avoid interacting with it as much as possible"
Time to roll out the Andrew Marr quote again...
"If you put away social media and you walk out into the streets and you look at real people, three-dimensional people, they mostly smile back at you. If you look around you- you see perfectly decent, ordinary people getting on with their lives and inclined, by and large, to rather like each other, that is the real us. Let us not be fooled."
You’re in her dms I’m in her kitchen baking bread and laughing when we get flour on our noses we are not the same
can you imagine what it will be like the day it finally happens. no one will be posting about anything else. category 10 posting event. if it happens because of someone else their gofundme page will reach over $500,000 within a day. #hopecore
I'm honestly worried about the bartenders. They are going to die from overwork when it happens, particularly given their staffing has probably been cut from the whole "nobody can afford to go out to drink on a regular basis" thing.
I don't even drink on a regular basis and my immediate response will be to use annual leave for the rest of the workday and go for celebratory cocktails.
I don't care if the news arrives at 10:30 AM and I have literally never in my 37 years had a drink that was not at a family get together, when the news arrives I will be headed directly for the nearest downtown bar with TVs on the walls and something fruity enough to cover the taste of alcohol on the menu
