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i like the Dorohedoro anime a lot (especially considering i usually don’t go for anime with 3D animation like this) but i keep getting bummed out when they leave out character interactions from the manga like Ebisu telling Fujita she’d care if he died or En telling Chota that he’s someone he knows he can trust even though they’re from scenes that the anime adapted… they just left these lines out for some reason
Nothing is off topic when it comes to us, happy pride month, my fellow asexuals 💜
can i get a fucking ETA on “this too shall pass”?
I'm so tired. Tomorrow is the one year anniversary of seeing and smelling elderly Jews in Boulder being firebombed. I wrote about the experience on my blog that day. I'm so isolated as an autistic adult I didn't have anywhere else to talk. I was also scared. Scared some virulent antisemite would use the information to hurt me. It wasn't an unfounded fear.
Someone started messaging followers anonymous messages that I'm a Zionist. I wasn't paid for a number of commissioned artworks. Meaning I couldn't pay rent, which means I'm technically homeless. When I asked another artist to boost, they said they didn't appreciate being involved in a personal dispute. I don't have a dispute. I'm just Jewish.
I'm not saying any of this for sympathy, it's more that I loathe how acts of antisemitism have all of these apologists. No it's not Jew hate they just hate zionists. It's not antisemitism, you're just a bad person...I'm exhausted by having to prove to an impossible standard that antisemitism exists and devastates people.
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From the Run For Their Lives website:
Yup, definitely sounds like death cult behavior.
The "wishing death on all the children of Gaza" seems to refer to an incident mentioned at the end of this article. The video doesn't seem to be publicly available, but after the firebombing counterprotesters began following the group and chanting "stop killing kids", and it seems someone answered with something like "not until the hostages are released". Which is extremely not cool. But the point is that the distance from "that's extremely not cool" to "therefore it is righteous and just to murder anyone at this event with you" is massive.
if you described the state of israel in a vacuum (using different names and words to describe jews, etc.) leftists would defend and openly admire it with unprecedented passion
Let me try:
For thousands of years, this people endured exile under successive imperial powers that conquered their homeland. Wherever they fled, they faced persecution, expulsions, massacres, and systemic discrimination. These centuries of suffering culminated in the largest genocidal campaign ever directed against them, convincing many that no degree of assimilation would ever guarantee acceptance or safety. As such, a movement for self-determination emerged, seeking the re-establishment of a nation-state in their ancestral homeland.
The founders of this new state pledged that it would be inclusive and open to all its inhabitants. Yet many descendants of the settlers who had established themselves in the land opposed the return of this displaced people, pressuring the colonial authorities to restrict immigration and resettlement. Eventually, the last colonial power chose to withdraw despite repeated mediation efforts. Upon its departure, neighbouring states allied with these settlers in an attempt to destroy the newly declared nation-state. They failed.
Today, this democratic state remains largely secular. Some descendants of those settlers not only hold full citizenship, but also occupy prominent positions within government, law, academia, and public life. In the interest of regional stability and coexistence, the state has even continued to prioritise the religion of these settlers in the administration and access arrangements surrounding one of the region’s most sacred holy sites.
We don’t have to speculate, they did in fact do so
— The Arc of a Covenant: The United States, Israel, and the Fate of the Jewish People
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there she is!
Chris: "It’s Pride Month, Chef! You know what that means!"
Chef: "Huh? What? Do you want us to do, like... gay challenges? What??"
Bowie: (takes Raj’s hand) "Oh we've got this locked!"
Julia: (taking MK's hand) "Like hell you do!"
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For graduation my ultra-left virtue signaling college, that hires antisemitic professors to teach classes about the Second World War, decided to have the Hillel rabbi give a speech at commencement and because of that I could not enjoy my own graduation for all I could hear was my classmates around me whispering, “Is this a Jewish school? I don’t want to graduate from a Jew college. Why is there a rabbi? Why is she talking about peace? Jews don’t believe in peace” (all DIRECT quotes)
So if you’re wondering about the class of 2026 apparently they’re fucking Nazis and I spent my whole graduation feeling insanely uncomfortable similar to the rest of my college experience
Don’t leave this in the tags sis (gender neutral)
Jewish advocacy, the Kafka trap, and Hasbara
Here's the problem:
When we speak, we're accused of propaganda.
When we mourn, we're accused of manipulation.
When we stay silent, we're called complicit.
When we ask questions, we're told we are gaslighting.
When we cite facts, we're told to stop 'doing hasbara.' .
This isn't hyperbole. This is the experience many Jews have today when we speak. Especially if we're defending ourselves. Especially if we're defending Israel's right to exist.
The structure of the trap is pretty familiar to Jews. Every word of defense becomes proof of guilt and even silence gets read as a confession.
It's a Kafka trap.
In a Kafka trap, denial of an accusation is taken as proof of the accusation.
Try to explain? That's exactly what a liar would do!
Don't respond? You must have something to hide!
It's a classic cult maneuver and a common abusive relationship tactic. And now, apparently, it's a feature of daily discourse for most Jews I know on North America.
The Kafka trap doesn't try to prove you're wrong. It starts from the assumption that you're guilty and frames your every move from that assumption.
When it comes to Jews in progressive political spaces, the trap has a favorite word: hasbara.
In Hebrew, hasbara simply means "explanation."
For decades, it referred to Israel’s public diplomacy efforts. These were mostly bureaucratic, sometimes tone-deaf, sometimes deeply flawed, but not some sinister conspiracy. Just a country making its case on the world stage, like every other country does.
The Western Left, as they have so many times, decided to make up it's own definition of our Hebrew word.
Today, the Western far Left uses "hasbara" as a smear. It's used to dismiss anything a Jew says in defense of Israel (or even in defense of themselves) as coordinated propaganda. It doesn't matter if it’s true. It doesn’t matter if it's personal. It doesn’t even matter if it's painful. If it threatens the dominant narrative, it gets rebranded as hasbara, which means it can be ignored or actively condemned as deceptive. (Those tricky, sneaky lying, Jews.)
The word doesn't describe what is being said,it just signals who is saying it...and what they are presumed to be.
It has become shorthand for:
This Jew is lying
This Jew is manipulating
This Jew is not grieving, they're performing
This Jew is not arguing, they're strategizing
This Jew is not human
It's a rhetorical equivalent of "shut up, Jew."
Anything you say is treated as propaganda.
Accurately describe the contents of the Hamas charter? You're fearmongering, you islamophobe.
Quote UN resolutions that contradict "apartheid" claims? You're cherry-picking.
Say anything after October 7? You're using Jewish trauma to justify genocide.
If you stay silent, it’s complicity.
Didn't post a ceasefire square? Complicit.
Not visibly protesting Israel on campus? Proof of indifference.
Grieving your murdered relatives quietly? Suspicious.
And if you cry out in pain or fear, it's performance.
Jewish emotion is rarely granted full humanity anymore. We're accused of centering ourselves, derailing, or manipulating.
Jewish fear? Privilege.
Jewish mourning? PR.
Jewish trauma? Hasbara again.
Mentioning Hamas's use of human shields? Justifying war crimes.
Referring to international law? Legalese in defense of apartheid.
Saying Israel is not a settler colony? Whitewashing colonial violence.
Providing context? Genocide denial.
Every possible Jewish expression, whether fact, feeling, silence, or sorrow...is preemptively framed as evidence of guilt.
This isn't just disagreement, this is dehumanization.
The redefinition of "hasbara" as "Jewish propaganda" discredits Jewish identity itself.
Once the label is applied, it doesn't matter what you say or why you say it. Your words are stripped of intent and interpreted only through suspicion. Your grief is strategic. Your arguments are scripted. Your voice is foreign.
You're not a person anymore. You're a function.
A symbol. A proxy. A problem.
This is why the the derisive, disparaging use of "hasbara" hits so hard. It doesn't critique messaging or truth, it refuses to believe you're a real person.
None of this is new.
The same tropes keep resurfacing over the centuries.
The cunning Jew
The manipulative Jew
The powerful Jew behind the curtain
The emotional Jew as threat and a deceptive performance
But there's uodated phrasing for modern libels.
Instead of saying "you control the media," it's "your narrative is hegemonic."
Instead of 'international Jewish conspiracy," it's "coordinated hasbara machine."
Instead of "your tears are fake," it’s "you’re weaponizing trauma."
Same ideas, different words.
You're not heard. You're categorically denied your humanity. You're denied debate, your complexity is flattened, you're denied participation in the discourse. All you get is accusation.
So maybe you withdraw, self-censor, or collapse into shame. Maybe you internalize the message that your speech is poison, and your pain is violence.
You are only allowed to speak if your pain is politically useful to someone else.
When Jewish speech is pre-framed as aggression, when Jewish grief is mistranslated as manipulation, and when every defense is re-coded as offense...what remains?
If everything a Jew says is dismissed as "hasbara," if our facts are propaganda, if our mourning is performative, and if our silence is complicity...what the fuck do you want from us?
What would we have to do to earn the right to speak, to grieve, to disagree, to survive?
What would it take to be believed when we say we're in pain?
And what does it say about you, that you disbelieve in advance?
In most discussions and debates I had with my former leftist friends and comrades, disagreement was in most cases unproblematic. Perhaps we disagreed on participating in elections, or our country providing military aid to Ukraine, or membership in the European Union, typical leftist infighting stuff... but these were largely debates that could go on without vile accusations or assumptions of hidden agendas on the part of our opponents.
Nobody would accuse you of being paid 7000 Euros by President von der Leyen.
At worst the opponent was wrong or misinformed, perhaps they had misunderstood something, or perhaps we just disagreed on the fundamental level of our values, and that was okay. Agree to disagree.
From the very start of my change in views on antizionism, and my attempt to discuss the history of Israel's founding and the historical context of the 1948 war, there was no room for "agree to disagree", nor any room for me having misunderstood or being misinformed, or simply wrong. Nor was it a disagreement of values.
From the onset, I was framed as a propagandist.
I must've been engaging in hasbara, repeating the party line promulgated by the nefarious Israeli government or AIPAC or the rest. Even if what I said was historically accurate and factually true, it was all interpreted as covering for war crimes and genocide, and if I said I still sincerely care about Palestinian lives and nationhood, it was called a lie.
I could not merely be argued with and convinced of my error, I had to be expelled, because any disagreement with antizionism was not a valid position that could be held by a member of the community. It felt as though I'd been marked for an enemy for life, tainted by Jewish lies.
Support for the Soviet Union (up to and including purges, ethnic cleansing, authoritarianism, and imperialism), denial of Russian war crimes in Ukraine, cheering for the supposed revolutionary heroes Assad and Khamenei, and (as should go without saying) enthusiastically sucking the dicks of Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Houthis, was tolerated and considered legitimate avenues on which we could politely disagree :)
Nobody would accuse you of being paid 7000 rial by the Supreme Leader.
If you argued for Israel's continued existence, however...
Let’s talk about the utility of rebranding and recycling old ideas with new terms but different justifications.
The predecessor of antisemitism was Judea haas. Jew hate. It was bigotry based on religious and supernatural justification. Jews have magical powers granted to them by the devil because they killed Jesus. While the Roman’s were retroactively and for all time forgiven for directly and intentionally killing the Christian god. Jews on the other hand were condemned as responsible and powerfully demonic for all generations going forward, guilty at the moment of their conception. A baby Jew is as responsible for killing Jesus and disobeying Mohammad as a Jew who didn’t stop the crucifixion.
When Hitler wanted to blame the Jews for Germany losing WW1 (as specious and wrong as blaming all jews for all eternity of killing Christ rather than the Roman’s with the nails, spears, armies and whips) he couldn’t use religion or witchcraft to blame Jews because he lived in an age of science. Peer review was the best way to prove things, thus the science of why Jews are the root of all evil, genetically and scientifically, aka “antisemitism” was the most popular term. Eugenics and race science are just the non Jewish specific terms but they are the same. And people jumped at the chance to hate Jews but now with a modern explanation. Because antisemitism is an answer, “all problems are the Jews fault!” In search of a justification.
Now that political and sociological terms are the hot new thing we have the term antizionism. Antizionists will argue that the 9 month old baby, or the twelve year old Jewish girl in France, or the Jewish woman from around the world attending a music festival on the wrong patch of dirt all deserved it for the sociological/economic/political reasons. that Jews are born evil and that evil carries forward from their conception by their associations with a war against Jews that they just heard about and refuse to know more. No one wants to admit is a war on Jews because to side with racists don’t look good. I mean Hamas, hezbolloah, Houthis and Iran openly state it’s a war against Jews, but because racial bigotry (bigotry based on a person’s genetics and ethnicity) is unpopular…
…we get the rebrand of antisemitism, which was the rebrand of Judea haas, which itself was a rebrand of Jew hate from the witch trials and stretched all the way into the ancient Roman and Egyptian hated of Jews, which was socio-political ironically.
So no, you can’t be antizionist and not antisemitic. I don’t care that there are antizionist Jews. There were also eugenicist Jews, ask a Neo Nazi or an antizionist for examples (they both obsessively collect evidence of how evil Jews are from birth.)
In case you are an antizionist and wonder how history will remember you: stupid, cruel, racist, and embarrassing.
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