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"Western propaganda!!" People are dying. They're executing people all over again, and some of you still won't believe us; No one should get murdered for wanting basic human rights yet that's what happening in Iran and media simply chooses to ignore that. They'd kill all of us if they could. It's not propaganda, it's our lives; I want to have a future.
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jews: have millenia worth of archeological and genetic evidence of our origin in the levant
most of the world, for some reason: "colonizers!! the arabs are the real natives!!!!1!!!1!1! (ignore the fact that the entire mena region speaks arabic that isnt relevant)"
I feel like a lot of people act as if the ancient Israelites are an extinct culture when we (Jews and Samaritans) are literally still here. Jews and Samaritans didn't "replace" the Israelites, but are a continuation of that culture.
And I think the idea that the ancient Israelites are an extinct culture feeds the supercessionist mindset of the general population with regards to claims on religious texts and practices, indigenaity of Jews and even Jewish identity itself.
Regarding that second bit, I want to "yes, and" it, because that's exactly what is foundational to beliefs as disparate as Islamism to Black Hebrew Israelites to British Israelism to the Mormons and more:
The Jews aren't the "real Jews", and they are, and these groups all hate Jews to greater or lesser degrees out of resentment that we won't lie down and die so they can take our heritage and history for themselves.
#it's supercessionism and a LOT of people do it#but wait... wtf is British Israelism?#do i even wanna know? lol#antisemitism
@turkwriter...
No, you don't, but I guess you're one of todays (un)lucky 10,000!
British Israelism (also called Anglo-Israelism) is a pseudohistorical[1] belief that the people of Great Britain are "genetically, racially, and linguistically the direct descendants" of the Ten Lost Tribes of ancient Israel.[2] With roots in the 18th century, British Israelism was inspired by several 19th-century English writings such as John Wilson's 1840 Our Israelitish Origin. From the 1870s onward, numerous independent British Israelite organizations were set up throughout the British Empire as well as in the United States; as of the early 21st century, a number of these organizations are still active. In the United States, the idea gave rise to the Christian Identity movement. The central tenets of British Israelism have been regarded as pseudoscientific and refutable by archaeological,[3] ethnological,[4] genetic,[5] and linguistic research[6][7] by mainstream sources.
The mayor has shrugged off criticism over his anti-Israel politics. But backlash for excluding Jewish lawyers from a key judicial committee
âThe suggestion that there would be any decision-making motivated by religion, it does bother me,â Mamdani told reporters on Wednesday. âThis is a city that is beautiful because of the breadth of diversity of those who call it home, and that includes the Jewish community across the five boroughs.â
aka "how dare you call me antisemitic I'm literally nice"
Mamdani forcefully denied suggestions that religion played any role in assembling legal experts for the committee. âI did not ask for the religion of each of the person that was put forward,â he said on Wednesday.
aka "I don't see religion I just hired the best people for the job and it's not my fault if that includes zero Jews by sheer coincidence"
I would almost potentially buy his argument if we weren't talking about not only lawyers but NY-based lawyers. You either have to be actively weeding out (or your staff ) or the list of potential people is not only pre-determined but incredibly intentional.
I just also don't understand the ostensible level of surprise every time something like this comes up. There have been so many unforced errors, it's like intentionally walking into rakes at this point.
He needs to maintain the "surprise" in order to keep the kayfabe going. It's that simple, really.
Insert obligatory disclaimer about my belief in peace and equality and condemnation of settler violence etc etc but it is genuinely fucking ridiculous how many important and historic Jewish locations we are absolutely forbidden from entering. Itâs ridiculous how there already was a two state solution when Jordan gained independence and got 70% of the British mandate and how Jews are expected to just surrender our land and our rights to governments that build crap on top of our sacred sites and burial grounds. Whatever. Keep trying to erase our history and blot us out of existence cuz itâll never work đ you can kick the Jews out of the land but the land will always remember us đ
Jews founded the city of Hebron and now we're not allowed there at all. To a city WE created and lived in for thousands of years.
Google AI Overview court loss in Germany could spell doom for AI search industry.
"Google AI Overview court loss in Germany could spell doom for AI search industry."
It fucking better.
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The International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), Truth Hounds, and the Kazakhstan International Bureau for Human Rights and Rule of
Are you actually fucking kidding me? It has barely been a day since Berlin.
An incredible relief that the victims don't seem to be in the danger zone, B"H. Also seems it might be mental illness, not islamism, but no clear motive yet. But still, one fucking day.
The incident took place near Place de Clichy, police stated, adding that the three victims were taken to the hospital.
Jerusalem Post | BFM (french)
Yeah not a massive shock that he was yelling "Allah made me do it."
Nothing is alarming about the frequency of any of this, at all.
Two women severely wounded before bystanders intervened in incident near Porte de Clichy
In the span of less than a week:
Jewish man and Asian man in NYC stabbed by extremist yelling allahu akbar (the former victim was leaving shul after services and was already planning to move to Florida because of rising antisemitism in New York)
Berlin pride ramming attack by extremist already known to authorities for Islamist sympathies and attempts to join isis
Now the Paris stabbing attack
Itâs not just a pattern. Islamist violence is being normalised and people are staunchly refusing to acknowledge this as a form of rightwing extremism.
you canât imagine the amount of vile racist shit that heâs getting because he said that rape & desecration is wrong.
heâs a lebanese journalist who has spent 15 years writing about IDF crimes against the palestinian people, and psychotic westerners are yelling at him for sticking to the moral stance that Atrocities Are Wrong
iâd also like to point out that people have overthrown their oppressors without rape & desecration. rape & desecration are not a requirement for liberation. (itâs also clear that some people donât imagine that liberation also includes women.)
the genuine JOY over rape & murder that some folks have, the sheer glee with which they justify sexual violence as a legitimate political tool⊠and then to have the unbelievable gall to say that this is simply what liberation entails.
no. no it fucking does not. sexual violence has been used in conflicts since time immemorial, and some piece of shit has justified it since time immemorial. it has always been wrong; the justification has always been evil. kingdoms fall, nations rise, the political rhetoric changes, but nobody ever updates the justification: the bitch always deserved it, and her rape is always noble and righteous because her rapists said so.
some of you just really, really want to revel in brutality against women without being condemned for it. all of your supposed beliefs and ideals are just a smokescreen for that.
It fundamentally dehumanizes women to think rape is a legitimate political tool, because womenâs bodies are basically seen as land or a resource to be conquered. Nothing more. With that video of the dead, raped woman paraded through the streets, half of the people cheering that on only see her body as a win for their political ideologyâthey donât see that body as having belonged to a human being. The other half? Well, I think itâs like you said: theyâre just celebrating complete brutality against women, because they like it.
Anyway, I said it yesterday but youâd be surprised how many enemies you make online by saying rape is always wrong, and civilian massacres are always wrong. A lot of people really, truly think rape and terrorism are acceptable as long as itâs against people they hate and/or carried out by people they support, and thatâs such a twisted, dangerous path to go down. If someone doesnât have ârape and civilian mass murder are always wrongâ as their baseline, they cannot be trusted.
Op is from October 8th, 2023. A reminder that people were cheering on the massacre before a single bomb dropped on Gaza.
Why would they be mad at this? Boycott every single Israeli product and institution, right? Why would they depend on Israeli banks if the hundreds of totally legit Gaza fundraisers online actively advertise links to PayPal, chuffed, and gofundme?
Israel provides many essential services to Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank, services that their own ruling organisations are too corrupt, incompetent and busy plotting to kill Jews to provide themselves.
the truth of the matter is that if BDS was actually fully carried out it would spell a death sentence for Palestinians. This seems to bother no one on the anti-Israel side.
If the Palestinian Authority wants to establish itself as the progenitor of a Palestinian Republic then it does need to be able to establish its own financial institutions. The fact that they haven't in all the time the PA has existed and this is catching them off guard is suggestive of the lack of seriousness about independence among leadership up until this point, regardless of my personal feelings about the negative impact this will have on the average civilian.
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/concerns-palestinian-economic-crisis-grow-israeli-banks-prepare-cut-ties-2026-07-23/
It baffles and beggars questioning: if antizionism isnât antisemitism, and separating christofascism from Christianity is possible, then why are these people so unwilling, afraid even, to distinguish Islamist terrorism from Islam? Islamism openly and constantly espouses violence against anyone and anything they deem impure mushrikeen, shirk, kuffar, munafiq; these arenât unfamiliar concepts to westerners whoâve grown up learning about religious extremism and its role in shaping Christendom through their Christian equivalents. across the Middle East and North Africa Muslims are also victims of Islamism (see Afghanistan, Iran, etc). If they so want to be true allies to Muslims then they should stop coddling the reactionary elements that harm their own communities and then inevitably spread out to the rest of society
2023: Members of the Abayudaya Jewish community of Uganda engage in the ritual of burning leavened foods before the Jewish holiday of Passover. There are some 2,500 Abayudaya Jews in the country. In the past they have faced persecution for their beliefs but are steadfast in their commitment to Judaism.
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so fucking randon, but we have that same Haggadah at home đđ
Truly one tribe lol
Immediately recognized the Haggadah, yeah, lmao.
But this is great! I love seeing the differences and, yes, definitely similarities between Jews in different places. :)
The NYC mayor wouldnât respond to criticism from fellow Democrats or Netanyahu, or explain why he continued toying with the notion of arrest
There's this Thing I notice a lot in certain streams of academia and public consciousness, wherein they claim that Jews were not contributors to and/or participants in certain subcultures and/or movements, and then when you bring up multiple examples of Jews absolutely participating in said subcultures and/or movements, the response is that those Jews weren't really Jewish and their Jewishness wasn't important enough and didn't factor at all into how they engaged with said/or subcultures and movements.
Israeli voters are quietly doing something New Yorkâs mayor can't: putting Netanyahu's coalition on track to lose.
If you, like so many American Jews this week, are focused on New York Mayor Zohran Mamdaniâs video message urging protests against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu when he visits the city in September, youâre missing the real story.
Pay attention, instead, to what is happening thousands of miles away â not in Manhattan, but in Israel, where the latest polls show Netanyahu and his ruling coalition trailing badly.
In New York, itâs the same old story: Israel guilty, Palestinians blameless, nothing in between. In Tel Aviv and Jerisalem, in Nazareth and Eilat, something else is brewing: change, maybe even hope.
Gadi Eisenkot â the former IDF chief of staff who broke with Netanyahuâs government over the Gaza War â now leads a new party, Yashar. Projections suggest his bloc would win 59 seats if the election were held today, compared to 51 for Netanyahuâs ruling coalition, according to the latest poll,
Eisenkot also beats Netanyahu head-to-head as the preferred prime minister, 43% to 37%.
If Eisenkot joins with Arab parties his coalition would receive 69 seats, substantially more than the 61 seats needed to govern. Though Eisenkot has not said yet whether he would link up with Arab parties, a plurality of Eisenkotâs potential voters (44%) said they would support such a move, in a country where Arab parties have only once been part of a governing coalition.
Eisenkot is no dove. He is someone who has concluded, rightly, that the threats Israel faces include the ones itâs inflicting on itself.
He has vowed to strengthen Israeli democracy and pursue diplomacy with Israelâs neighbors. His partyâs platform calls for non-military national service for Arabs, something 75.8% of them favor. His likely coalition partners will include the Democrats, a smaller party expected to win 10 to 11 seats, for whom resolving the Israeli-Palestinian issue is a defining issue. âI see the conflict and the continued occupation as the greatest tragedy of our lives,â Emilie Moatti of the Democrats said at a party rally last month. âThe most moral and patriotic act is to end it.â
These are the most hopeful winds to blow through Israeli politics in memory, ahead of the Oct. 27 election â the closest Israelis have come to real, structural change in years. Meanwhile, in the United States, itâs Mamdaniâs admission that he lacks the power to arrest Netanyahu â and call for the federal government to do so instead â that has captured the mediaâs attention and consumed American Jews all week. But one of these stories is theater, the other is real.
Weâve let ourselves become consumed by an empty threat from a politician with no power to carry it out, instead of doing everything we can to support those Israelis who actually have the power to change their country.
In this farce, Netanyahu and the anti-Israel movement each need a cartoon version of the other to keep telling their one-sided story.
Imagine if Mamdani used his platform to draw attention to Makom Lekulanu, âA Place for Us All,â the only Arab-Jewish party standing for election. Instead the mayor of the American anti-Israel movement keeps the focus relentlessly on Netanyahu â because a country full of Netanyahus is a much darker story to tell, and a much more useful foil, than the complicated, pluralistic reality the polls actually show.
Netanyahu and his American supporters need Mamdani for the same reason â to paint Israel as besieged and alone, and all of Israelâs critics as clownish and illegitimate. But Netanyahuâs real critics arenât clowns. Theyâre serious, Israel-loving Israelis â a former army chief among them â and they are beating him at the polls.
With Netanyahu offering voters more of the same â attacks on the judiciary, fear-mongering over Arab citizens voting and deeper dependence on his religious and far-right partners â a growing number of centrist Israelis have concluded that a Netanyahu win would put Israelâs very future at risk.
âIf Netanyahu wins, itâs going to be a significant crisis, maybe a final crisis for many segments of Israeli society,â journalist Nadav Eyal said on the Jonah Platt podcast.
In this context, Mamdaniâs theatrics are one more sign of how untethered the American conversation about Israel has become from whatâs actually at stake on the ground. American Jews should stop reacting to him and start paying attention to the people with the power to actually change Israelâs future.
They canât donate to Israeli political parties, but they can support Israeli NGOs that fund get-out-the-vote and voter education campaigns. They can back U.S. nonprofits that help promote better Israeli policies. And they can do the simplest thing of all: talk about this election â online, in shul, at the Shabbat table, anywhere the conversation has gotten stuck on Mamdani, which is everywhere. Doing that will add real dimension to a very stale debate.
New York voters will, in time, vote on whether their mayorâs selective obsession with Israel is making their city a better, more affordable place to live. Thatâs their business. But anyone who cares about Israelis and Palestinians should put their energy and focus where it really matters: on the people and movements who havenât been this close to real, positive change in years.
Yeah, because the Harris campaign disenfranchized its entire base and left votes on the table by listening to fucking consultants, buying **TV ADS** IN 2024, and saying she wouldn't be any different from biden at the peak of his unpopularity.
She tanked us by running and doing it bad, he tanked us by robbing us of a primary. The democrats hate you, you should hate them back-- better yet, go Be them. Be the next mamdani
i really ought to just scroll away but i cant help myself, essentially the choices you were presented with were "pie", "swarm of poison bees" and "roll a dice on the other two options"
how on EARTH does anyone, even someone who dislikes that flavour of pie, think chancing being served the bees is a good idea? and now the whole resturants getting stung because of your decisions maybe at least have the decency to pretend to regret it, geez
What a fantastic analogy
Or, put another way.
Among the many many issues with pitaflame's well, everything, that isn't what disenfranchisment is. The democrats didn't disenfranchise their base, but republicans are trying to do that right now and leftists are cheering it on because the less black and jewish people, the actual democratic party base, have the vote the easier it is for DSAers to try and take over the party.
