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Back to back scam asks from the same account showed up in my inbox. I'm always curious and clicked on the GFM and once again it's got all the red flags. First of all, the ask did the whole "Dear Humanity" thing. We know that's a red flag.

Second, it then says to click the GFM link or use PayPal. In the GFM the organizer says they will use PayPal to send the money. Red flag number 2 as it has been well established that PayPal does not work in Gaza or the Palestinian Territories. Even Al Jazeera says it doesn't work. Then we get to the fun nugget of the ahistorical revisionism.

This is clearly a bad copy and paste. The space on the second line only happens when you copy and paste some text that is formatted oddly and don't delete the extraneous spacing. Also, this is the exact same text multiple other scams have used on their respective GFMs. I even talked about this on another post where I first encountered this particular narrative. And let's be clear. This didn't happen. The Israeli response didn't happen in any significant manner until the 9th. They were literally still fighting in Israel proper, counting the dead, going through the wreckage of the attacks, and identifying bodies. This only seeks to change the well established timeline of events. It changes it from "We were the aggressors on October 7th and cheered on the actions that occurred" to "We were actually the victims and that attack never occurred, in fact we were attacked". That's blatantly and factually wrong, and the fact that people are falling for it or not calling out the blatant lie because "something something Israel bad" is horrific. But let's continue through the story we're given. Apparently one of the children was injured some period of time ago. We don't know when. We're told it was when they went to the south. Well that was a long time ago in the context of this war, and the pictures we're given provide no context. So either these injuries happened a while ago and have since been treated or they happened recently and have since been treated (but I'm also told there are no hospital in Gaza???). Yes, continuing and more specialized treatment outside of Gaza is often necessary. But the ask literally has none of the previous hallmarks of "here's what it will take to get out and get treatment" that we've seen previously and what is now common knowledge.

And here's the kicker, If you take the images in this GFM and reverse search them they link to multiple other GFMs using different organizers around the globe, but all with the same story. All of them have a variety of copy and paste edits, and many of them have pictures of other people from other GFMs interspersed throughout. So yeah, this was a very clear and obvious scam and once again adds to the ever growing pile of why we don't trust these accounts that continuously pop up and ask for money while attempting to pull at heartstrings.

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“On the right, it’s like a category-five hurricane or tornado and they just come in and that just tears everything apart. On the far left, it’s more like climate change. It’s slow moving, it’s growing. Some people deny it exists, but it does exist, and if you ignore it, it’s going to envelop you.”

This was said a few years ago by Jonathan Greenblatt, head of the Anti-Defamation League, regarding antisemitism. Given the massive rise in leftist antisemitism post-10/7/2023, I'm not sure if this aged poorly or was eerily prescient.

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Jewish Community of Belmonte, Portugal.

The Jews of Belmonte are descended from communities of crypto-Jews who hid their Jewish identity to escape the persecutions of the 15th century Iberian Inquisitions. They had little no contact with the wider Jewish world until the 20th century when they were ‘discovered’ and found to have kept observing some Jewish rituals using a few Hebrew words. Since then Belmonte has become a centre of Jewish culture in Portugal and its cypto-Jewish residents have rejoined the world’s Jewish community.

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You know what I just want to say that we Jews should be really impressed and proud of ourselves. Like look at all the history we preserved, look at the history and culture we kept alive and passed down. Look at the things we have loved, we have created, and we have made be it something for the benefit of one, a few, or many.

And we did while going through some of the most horrific, devastating, and world ending events. When you think about we as people have survived multiple apocalypses. We saw the world as we knew it end so many times. And survived and then replanted and regrew a whole new world. Over and over and over.

And we kept all that deeply rich history alive and passed it down from generation to generation.

It is not just that it is not easy, but it is actually really rare when you think about. Look at how much ancient history is lost and look at how much history and culture gets lost during devastations and wars.

Our people survived being culled many times over, we survived the literal shattering of us and we survived be scattered to the four corners of the world.

And yet we from community to community the Torah is the same. The roots still meet no matter how far.

Can we not be awe of this. Can we not be awe of the fact that we are a four thousand year old people. That we are here and we kept it all alive for all this time after everything.

Is that not amazing.

Am Yisrael Chai, we live we really really do.

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The antisemites are thriving because they’ve discovered that all they have to do to get you to hate any given Jew is to accuse them of being a Zionist. No reason needed, the fact that they dare to be noticeably Jewish is sufficient. And if Jewish people object to this, you can hit ‘em with the “I’m anti-Zionist not antisemitic” which is a magic phrase that makes gentiles accept any amount of Jew-hatred.

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We need more Hanukkah movies/specials. Real ones, not reskinned Hallmark movies. The only ones I can think of are:

A Rugrats Chanukah - a classic for us 90s kids.

Lamb Chop's Special Chanukah- I bet your grandparents had a copy on VHS.

Full Court Miracle - actually a really enjoyable Disney Channel Original Movie and one of two "basketball+ethnic holiday" movies they made, which isn't a lot but it's weird that it happened twice.

Eight Crazy Nights - no further comment

What, we couldn't even get to eight movies? We somehow control the entertainment industry and the best we could do is two specials, a TV movie, and a single theatrical release between 1995 and 2003?

I mean sure this plays nicely into my theory that the 90s were an unparalleled time of normalized (i.e. not gawking) Jewish visibility in US media that we have not seen since... but it doesn't have to be! The era of streaming and nonstop content means there has to be at least one desperate coked-out executive who'll throw money at us just to get content to push for the holidays.

You can have this one for free (just do a special thanks in the credits everyone will skip): Hanukkah, Chanukah, Chanuka! A spelling bee + Hanukkah movie.

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i feel so much disgust whenever i see the 'settler colonialism' narrative

In other news i think im gonna have to unfollow wil wheaton. That makes me sad.

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"If you're saying that "the majority of Jews are Zionists" and that critiquing Zionism is antisemitism, then you ARE saying that all Jews are genocidal"

The gymnastics y'all will fucking do to avoid admitting you don't know what you talking about

"Calling us antisemitic is calling Jews genocidal which makes YOU genocidal" MY GUY. YOU ARE TALKING TO JEWS. JEWISH PEOPLE ARE TELLING YOU YOU'RE BEING ANTISEMITIC. YOU DO NOT GET TO SAY THAT YOU'RE NOT.

AND AS ALWAYS:: fuck ALL the way off with telling JEWISH PEOPLE what their JEWISH WORDS mean.

Antizionism is antisemitism at this point, and if you're still getting the definition of "zionism" wrong after over a year of people trying to correct you you're not misinformed anymore. It's not a mistake anymore. You're intentionally being a piece of shit. You're being antisemitic On Purpose. And it's really fucking gross and embarrassing.

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I screenshot this rather then reblogged this from the original post it was connected to because I wish to respect the person who this ask was sent to boundaries.

I have to ask @asexualautistic how do expect to enter our community wanting to join our family and not understand the deep and meaningful ties that we as a 4,000 year old people have with our Homeland.

Not understand just how many of our Holidays are intertwined with the land itself. That when we pray we pray in the direction of Jerusalem.

That there is a famous poetic line that we often say, "my body is in the west and my heart is in the east." This was written by the Sephardic 12th Century poet Yehuda Halevi יהודה הלוי, who is consider one of greatest Jewish poets.

To have such a fundamental lack understanding about us as people and our connection to where we come from and our long held desire to return there. A desire we have always held even when we in chains weeping on shores by the river of Babylon.

Every Pesach we end the Seder by saying Next Year in Jerusalem L'Shana Haba'ah B'Yerushalayim לְשָׁנָה הַבָּאָה בִּירוּשָלָיִם and we say the same to end every Yom Kippur.

The land was named with the same name as us before we ever entered Diaspora.

So come into our homes and our places of worship and then accuse us of Genocide is just not just high handed, but it is cruel and lacking decency.

We are a people who survived multiple Genocides and to accuse of supporting Genocide is just I really find myself at a loss for words.

We are people who hold life to be so precious, to be so important, to be so valued that we are obligated to forsake 610 of the 613 mitzvot.

So to take us as a whole, as a group, as a people and to just make such a judgement call, to have such a lack of understanding about us, and to not understand the reality of what is even going on in the region, what makes something a Genocide, have understanding, compassion, or empathy for the great pain and trauma that Jews are under going right now, and just so much more.

And you want in to our family.

Forgive me if I find myself with hair on the back of neck standing up, forgive me for I find myself saying not like this, we can not open the door not like this.

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suck, and i cannot stress this enough, my cock to the fucking base

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Mountain pines

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Rescued Israeli hostages Noa Argamani and Ilana Gritzewsky spoke out today about the deplorable treatment they faced in Hamas captivity.

Today is #HumanRightsDay, let’s not forget there are STILL 100 hostages facing these inhuman conditions in Hamas’s tunnels. They were kidnapped on October 7th 2023 and they are the main reason for this war.

We must #BringThemHome now!

Hen Mazzig

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I go to find a recipe on someone’s blog and get smacked in the face with “Israel is a fascist ethnostate committing genocide”. Worst part is the person is Jewish themselves. A search of their reveals nothing on 10/7, nothing about the hostages except a single reblogged post about how “whiny Zionists are about 100 trained soldiers being taken hostage while they’re literally kidnapping babies and torturing them”. I want to cry. I expect the hatred and lies from goyim by now, but it feels so much worse when it’s someone who should understand the fear and the pain, who should be grieving with you. Aren’t they a Jew?! Are the hostages not their family too?? Shouldn’t they know better?? I will never understand it.

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