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[mossadspypigeon]

please watch and learn about what happened to jews in libya during the shoah. 💙💔

[stungbyadog]

לפעמים חרדה חברתית משתלמת

[thebrightestwitchofherage]

Ok here are some facts since y’all really need them,

Please actually read this whole post before commenting / sending me ✨death threats ✨

People here are not separating Hamas and the Palestinian people. The people who attacked Israel are Hamas.

The forces involved

-Hamas is a terror organisation. Simple as that. They’re not heroic resistance fighters. They take, kidnap and murder innocent people (children, women, elderly).

-Hamas is a “selfish” organisation, funneling money for weapons used against Israel- instead of helping its people like we all wish would happen.

What happened in October 7th?

-On Saturday morning, hundreds of terrorists breached the Gaza border ,

With the intention to kill as many Israeli they can.

-They’re an organised army force. They split into teams and attacked different cities close to the border.

-They barricaded houses, burned them down so people would come out- only to shoot them.

They went door to door and murdered everyone inside. They fired ROG rockets on bomb shelters were people were hiding.

-They laughed and played songs while raping and killing partygoers at a rave that soon became a massacre.

The aftermath

-Thousands were injured, an estimated total of 900 were murdered. approximately 100-150 are kidnapped. And so many more are missing.

Over 5,000 thousand rockets were fired.

* these numbers are up to today’s date, October 10th.

-people found out that their loved ones were kidnapped or killed through live streams the terrorists posted.

- The survivors of the attacks are now starting speaking up, please hear their stories.

Some more facts

No military operations besides defensive ones happened recently. Contrary to popular belief,

We don’t go around killing innocent people.

-Israel has no presence in Gaza since 2005. All Israelis were removed.

-in fact, since 2007 Gaza is controlled by Hamas.

Which is funded by other terror organisations and Iran. Their goal is to eradicate all Jewish people living in Israel.

-Israel has the right to defend itself, especially after the crimes that were committed against its civilians .

-There are many reasons why Israel should exist, I’m not going to name them. We’re not colonisers or settlers.

The fact the American people commented this on my post is just baffling.

-Educate yourself.

Use of buzzwords like genocide

-Especially before throwing around buzzwords like “genocide” ,”apartheid” and “ethnic cleansing”.

None of these describe the situation at hand.

-In fact, The amount of Palestinians have quadrupled since 1948. That’s literally the opposite of what you are all claiming that is happening.

-Genocide (and the rest of the things I mentioned) requires a will to eractide an entire population . This is not the case.

Obviously, the Palestinians are suffering. We all know and agree on that.

This doesn’t justify the horrific attacks that were carried out on October 7th.

Ps

In reply to comments on my previous post

-Whatever happened before doesn’t rule out the fact that Israelis deserve to be safe as well.

-Nobody deserves to be woken up to a home invasion, where you are rounded up and killed.

-No one deserves to be kidnapped behind enemy lines after this , to be raped and killed. They kidnapped a 4 month old baby. Does he deserve that?

*****

I will block death threats. I will block rude messages. My people are suffering, and so am I.

עם ישראל חי 🇮🇱

ישראלים- הגיע הזמן לכתוב פה את המציאות מהצד שלנו.

[pinkwitchbolt]

When you enter tumblr for escapism from the literal war going on in your country and instead you are met with people celebrating the death and kidnapping of innocent elderly, women, and children and encourage terrorism because they simply don't know shit about wars, UN protocol, terrorism, and the middle east.

[1234-waystodie]

The whole world for years: we don’t want Jews. Go away.

Jews finally having a country: occupiers! White colonizers! Go back to where you came from or die! We don’t care!

This is antisemitism, it’s just the modern version of it now that we have a state.

[unbidden-yidden-deactivated20240]

Honestly at this point, I'm really uninterested in hearing any gentile's "critique" of Judaism.

Whatever it is, whatever you're about to say, I am 1000% certain that at least one Jew has already raised this issue in ways that are thoughtful and centered in respect for other Jews. Probably lots of Jews; possibly whole theological movements. It's even possible that this particular topic has been under active discussion for hundreds or even thousands of years.

Someone has already said this better than you will. Someone has already raised whatever issue you have and grounded it in their own experiences of having lived a Jewish life.

So just leave it to us. Just stop. You're not helping. At best you're white-knighting, at worst you're actively contributing to an antisemitic majority culture.

"Well I've never seen Jews discussing [x] topic!" Your ignorance is not reality. These conversations are happening, possibly offline and at our Shabbos tables or shuls only, but they are happening.

"Well [x] topic impacts me personally!" Does it? Does it really? Because unless you live in Israel or Palestine, no Jewish group - no matter how seemingly numerous we may be in your city or neighborhood - is actually powerful enough to affect large-scale (or even typically small-scale) changes. Our fundamentalism is, for better or worse, directed at other Jews. The most intense thing I've heard of outside of Israel is a community getting together to petition the city to allow an eruv or a concentrated effort to make a few neighborhood blocks particularly Jewish because they're within walking distance of an orthodox shul. All other issues - no matter how ugly the opinions - are something that is part of much larger social trends that unfortunately some Jews happen to be engaging in. We'll deal with them; you focus on your people.

"I'm just listening to ex-fundamentalist Jews and white-knighting trying to help them be heard and not shouted down!" So first of all, if you knew anything about this topic, they typically call themselves OTD (which I'm sure you know what that stands for, because you've been listening) and secondly, great! You should listen to them. But their critiques are not your critiques. I can go on all day long about my family and their bullshit, and I can even (sometimes) appreciate you chiming in supportively. But it hits different when you go off chattering to other people about how my family is bullshit.

"Okay fine - I'm taking all that in and accept that my critiques aren't wanted, but what CAN I do, since I am literally vibrating in place about how Those People Over There Are Wrong and cannot simply ignore them?" Best thing you can do? Honestly? Learn about Judaism thoroughly from a variety of people, and learn how to be a good ally against antisemitism in all the spaces you want us in. Judaism not feminist enough for you? Learn how to make your feminist spaces safe and welcoming for Jews. Judaism not queer or trans enough for you? Learn how to make your queer and trans spaces safe and welcoming for Jews. Whatever movement you think we're not supporting enough or not showing up for enough, or whoever it is you think we're oppressing? Find the Jews who are doing that work (they exist, I promise) and listen to what they tell you about how to make your spaces be better.

[unbidden-yidden-deactivated20240]

Gentiles are welcome to reblog this by the way

[unbidden-yidden-deactivated20240]

Really intrigued that this is going around again but I'm not mad - I'd just totally forgotten I made it.

[athingofvikings]

I'm just saying, Neo-Nazis and Leftists should be easier to tell apart when it comes to them talking about Jews. You know. Ideally.

[athingofvikings]

A bunch of Nazis calling for the deaths of Jews (elsewhere at the Charlottesville rally there is video of them all chanting "Gas the Kikes!") and a bunch of Leftists cheering for the deaths of Jews and calling it exhilarating and energizing, and saying that anyone who didn't agree wasn't human...

Please tell me what's the difference from the perspective of a Jew?

[whitesunlars]

there are two fundamental truths about what's happening right now that if you disagree with you don't care about the lives or suffering of the people impacted and you don't actually want peace:

Both Israelis/Jews and Palestinians have history in the same land. They have valid claims to the same land. They deserve safety and dignity in the same land. Neither is going to disappear from the land. Neither is going anywhere.

Neither Israelis/Jews nor Palestinians will have safety and dignity in the land as long as Hamas continues to exist.

you can disagree on how safety and dignity can be achieved. you can disagree on how to defeat Hamas. you can disagree on what a peaceful future would look like. but if you disagree with either of these two points there is hate in your heart.

[notaplaceofhonour]

This isn’t a rebuttal, but imo an extension (and one I think most Jews & Israelis would agree), there will also not be a peaceful future as long as Bibi Netanyahu (or anyone like him) continues to cling to power.

[carsonjonesfiance]

You know that one tweet that’s like “every cradle Catholic is like ‘I think we’re supposed to give money to poor people’ and every adult convert is like ‘this 11th century Papal bull proves women shouldn’t vote’” I feel like Malcolm X might be that for Islam.

[carsonjonesfiance]

My dude this is literally textbook Socialism of Fools

[carsonjonesfiance]

The MIC absolutely benefits from the continuation of I/P but to claim that Israel was conceived as a “Zionist-Capitalist conspiracy” so they could “infiltrate and die the seeds of dissension” is straight up Elders of Zion shit. This is not the time to be, excuse the phrasing, whitewashing socialist antisemitism.

[notaplaceofhonour]

Malcolm X made many invaluable contributions to the civil rights movement but his opinions on Jews absolutely were not among them.

For most of his time as an activist he was also unfortunately a member of The Nation of Islam, which is (as Malcolm would call it later in life) a cult, and (according to the Southern Poverty Law Center) a hate group. Antisemitic, anti-LGBT+, anti-Mason, & UFO conspiracy theories form the basis of their belief system, and they even briefly tried to form an alliance with the American Nazi Party over their shared antisemitism (which obviously did not take off). Malcolm also claimed Jews owned the media.

This is why context, nuance, & critical thinking are so important in our activism. Being a genuinely oppressed underdog does not automatically mean all your ideas are good; sometimes they’re actually really fucking bad.

[hindahoney]

It has been one month since this war started. One month since I have slept peacefully, managed to take care of myself, or avoid looking at the news for more than five minutes. It has been one month of people telling me they're happy my people are dead, that they wished more would have died, that they and diaspora Jews deserve it. It has been one month since every moment hasn't felt like the world was upside down. One month since people I thought were my friends have came out in support of my murderers.

Words cannot describe my grief. I watch jews being attacked all over the world as thousands more cheer and call for even more Jewish death. Each attack, each murder, feels as if I've lost a sibling. I am not even allowed to express my mourning without someone shouting "what about the palestinians" as if me being sad about 1400 of my people being brutally slaughtered and another 240 taken hostage is somehow a political stance. I am keenly aware that any expression of my sadness or fear makes them happy.

Despite all of this, we continue. Jews have been more united than I have ever seen them. Hillel and Chabad are coming together for unified events, I have seen Jews decide to wear kippot and tzitzit wherever they go. I have seen Jews who are celebrating the first shabbat of their life and learning the blessings. I have seen Jews who decided to put up mezuzot and menorah in their window. Never before have I seen synagogue attendance so high except on high holidays. Yes, I am sad, I am scared. But my pride for how Jews have come together outweighs every negative feeling I have. They wanted to hurt us, to divide us, to make us weak. But I have never seen Jews stronger than we are right now.

[324732]

We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.

— Elie Wiesel, Holocaust Survivor

[pleasestopthese]

[hero-israel]

Hundreds of comments saying this is about Palestine. I guess it's appropriate that they know nothing about Jews.

[that-rad-jewish-girl-deactivate]

The irony of saying #landback and “we live on stolen land” while condemning Israel’s existence is so strange.

You want land to go back to the natives - no matter how long ago the land was taken - unless it belongs to Jews. Then they can go F off.

And because you don’t have a reasonable defense for this weird combo of beliefs, you just deny the indigeneity of Jews altogether. This is something that can be proven with simple google searches and logic. Our ancient artifacts and structures are in the land, and our “origin stories” are largely about the land and us residing in it. Yet, you refuse to believe we are indigenous.

Even more funny is that you then argue Arabs are the real indigenous people to this land. Arabs are colonizers in the Middle East and North Africa. Arabic is a colonial language. They originated in the Arabian peninsula, and took over MENA countries. They had nationalist policies that largely eradicated the people and/or cultures already present in those lands. A lot of the people present were Jews, who were killed or driven out by pogroms.

Educate yourself for crying out loud.

[tinsnip]

Don’t assume malice. Assume ignorance. Life is easier, the world is kinder, and you can educate. Actual malice is pretty rare, I find. 

[froborr]

Always remember Hanlon’s Razor–”Never assume malice when incompetence will suffice as an explanation.”

That’s said, never forget Fred Clark’s Law, either: “Sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice.” There’s a certain point at which ignorance becomes malice–at which there is simply no way to become that ignorant except deliberately and maliciously.

[sethshead]

"6th Century?

"And Mohammed wrote the Qu’uran in the 7th Century…..

"Remind me again - who are the ‘occupiers’?

"Jews were present in Gaza until August 1929, when they were evacuated by the British army due to violent riots against them around the country - to quell tension and appease the Arabs.

"When the Arabs in Gaza tried to harm the Jews in Gaza, and massacre them as had been done to them in Hevron, the Jews gathered in a city hotel. With the help of the a-Shawa family which belonged to the aristocracy of Gaza Arabs, the British managed to protect them from the Arab mob besieging the hotel and get them out in the middle of the night by train to Lod, and from there to Tel Aviv.

"In the 4th century, Gaza was the primary Jewish port of Eretz Yisrael for international trade and commerce.

"There is archaeological evidence of Jewish life in the ‘Hasmonean Period’ 145 CE.

"Up to 30 years ago one of the inscriptions on a pillar of the great mosque’ in Gaza read: 'Hanania bar-Yaacov' in Greek and in Hebrew, and above was engraved a menorah [7-branched candlestick] with a shofar [ram’s horn] on one side and an etrog [citron] on the other. This was evidence that there used to be a Jewish synagogue on the spot which probably served the Jewish community in the days of the Talmud.

"#FreeGaza from #HamasTerrorists#AmYisraelChai"

h/t Helen Oster

The very land has a retort to those trying to erase a historical and ancient Jewish presence in Eretz Yisrael. I am a two-stater and hope only that future Israeli relations with a future Palestinian state will be positive enough to allow for tourism and collaborative archaeology.

Jews did not suddenly "turn up in Palestine after a 2,000 year absence" after the Holocaust. Jewish holy and heritage sites dot the landscape south, east, north, and west. Jews have every right to inhabit and exercise self-determination and sovereignty over some part of our ancestral homeland, no less than do Palestinian Arabs.

[ace7librarian]

That's it, we reached the point where I, a Jew that supports Palestine, immediately feels unsafe when I see a Palestine flag in someone's social media bio. If I voice these concerns, the goyim are going to tell me "just because someone support Palestine doesn't mean they're antisemitic, it's not all about you". Oh, I know. But trusting goyim we shouldn't have killed Jews before and it will again. My default setting right now is feeling unsafe with any goy. Yes, you too, reading the post. Every single one of you make us feel unsafe. Congratulations. You made something you claim has nothing to do with Judaism a problem for Jews who have nothing to do with it.

[the-library-alcove]

Yeah, it's this feeling of "Either I'll end up tokenized, traumatized, or brutalized if I stand where my ethics say I should", isn't it?

[nijntjefem]

truth is if you can’t respect weird people who you don’t know/aren’t autistic then you don’t actually respect autistic people. yeah, sure, you can have your autism site or whatever but are you nice to the person on the bus who’s moving around weirdly? are you nice to the middle aged man in the grocery store wearing chunky noise cancelling headphones? do you think that the little kid who just will not stop talking about her odd stamp collecting obsession is weird and annoying? you don’t just get to be nice to freaks and weirdos once they tell you they’re autistic. you still have to be fucking nice to people and that includes the ones that you don’t want to be kind towards

[redstonedust]

tbh shoutout to the over 40s on tumblr, sorry the internet acts like yall belong in the retirement home when ur literally just regular adults with hobbies

[ordinarytalk]

I was going to leave comments in the tags, but I decided this was important enough to put on main.

In college, my friend group collectively got into the SCA - Society for Creative Anachronism. They're the people who get really into medieval reenactment, the fighting and crafts and cooking, they have kings and queens and knights and events and a good percentage of them (but not all!) work or have worked at Ren Faires.

I am forever grateful my friends dragged me into that, because it was my first introduction to fandom in older adults. Middle-aged dorks. Elderly nerds. Absolutely as intense and weird and hilarious and fun as any fan in their teens or 20s. I started getting into fandom already knowing there was a road ahead for me as I got older, full of handmade costumes and late night movies and shelves of pewter dragon goblets and mixed-aged road trips to meet ups and conventions.

And it kills me that so many people don't know that sort of community even exists. On both sides, even! I went to Philcon a few years ago, which tends towards older fans, and an older woman I was talking to sadly told me that she thought fandom was dying out, because she never saw younger fans any more.

Over the past decade, there's been a really toxic movement towards keeping different ages strictly separated, both in and outside of fandom. There's this strong implication that if an older person wants to interact with a younger person, there is something inherently predatory about that.

Yeah, that attitude sucks. That drive towards separation and puritanism sucks. Declaring that younger people should have nothing to look forward to and that older people should stay separated and lonely sucks. It sucks and we are all worse for it.

Don't fear age. Don't put an age limit on having fun. Give yourself a damn future.

[durnesque-esque]

Beverly passed away in 2019, but she was one of many of my favorite, elder cosplayers that frequent DragonCon and remind all of us to keep playing as long as we can.