deardazedchild

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SAY IT LOUDER FOR THE GOYIM IN THE BACK

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Palestine should have already built their own port, but they didn’t.

They should have their own greenhouses and farms, but they don’t.

They should have their own bomb shelters, but that’s clearly not the case.

Their hospitals should be state-of-the-art - they shouldn’t need to go to Israel for treatments - but they do largely rely on Israel.

And instead of asking why this country that has received billions in aid still doesn’t have basic infrastructure, you get mad and blame Israel.

You don’t question why the leaders of Hamas are billionaires. You don’t question why their military budget is so high if their people apparently live in squalor. And you don’t question how this country can build extensive tunnel networks, but not a single damn bomb shelter.

No, you just blame Israel - a separate country - for the failings of the Palestinian people and their government.

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A friend of mine whose husband survived the Shoah said to me the other day, "The historical and logical endgame of antisemitism is ritual murder. Most recently, on an industrial scale. It is historically acceptable and has sometimes been considered praiseworthy to kill Jewish people for the last two thousand years. That’s the underpinning of the thing. You can't have casual antisemitism, really. It's a repeat offender on a gigantic scale."

I've been thinking about her words a lot lately.

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When they said, “Punch a Nazi,” I thought they meant Nazis, the people who hated and killed Jews in an actual genocide.

They meant “bad guys,” a generic, an oversimplification in a complex world, a fill-in-the-blank enemy of the moment.

Not Nazis.

So when they use words like “genocide” to describe people killed in war at a lower ratio of civilian to combatant than any conflict in memory or when they use “apartheid” for a government that doesn’t actually have racial or ethnic segregation (though neighboring governments most certainly do), they’ve proven they use words carelessly, flippantly, for their own benefit and vibes.

And I have learned that what they have to say is self-serving instead of the truth.

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As a leftist Jew who believes strongly in the cause of dignity and freedom for the Palestinian people, and that Israel has abused them, I am begging fellow leftists to understand that real life is not a comic book. A government being “the bad guy” in a situation does not automatically make anyone who opposes it “the good guy”.

Hamas denies the Holocaust. Hamas disseminates the Protocols of the Elders of Zion—the conspiracy theory it paints is what they mean by “Zionist”. Hamas forbids foreign aid educators from teaching human rights to Palestinians, and claims that even teaching that the Holocaust happened is a war crime. Hamas has written the aim of annihilating Israel (the country and its people) into its charter—the mass slaughter and violent expulsion of 7 million Jews from the land is written into its laws.

There is no crime any state could ever do that would justify any of that; there is no act of state repression that could ever make it acceptable to side with the organization spreading Nazi pamphlets and Holocaust denial.

Oppose Bibi Netanyahu. Oppose Israel’s far-right, authoritarian government. Oppose Likud’s policies. Oppose its violence against Palestinian civilians. That isn’t antisemitic. But Hamas is—verifiably, beyond a shadow of a doubt, to its core—antisemitic. Its portrayal of Israeli Jews as blood-thirsty, child-killing master manipulators that control international media and finance is antisemitic. Its insistence that Palestinian freedom necessitates the death & expulsion of Jews from the land is antisemitic. Its redefinition of “Zionism” as a pejorative to mean genocidal Jewish/Israeli Supremacy is antisemitic.

Supporting the Palestinian people in their plight is a noble and loving goal; please never stop that. But do not let Hamas co-opt that into excusing or denying their rampant antisemitism and war crimes.

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I made this instead of Socializing

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A firm called WPA Intelligence did a survey of American voters asking various questions about whether they want a ceasefire in Gaza and other things.

But one question say volumes about how little liberal - and supposedly educated - Americans know about the conflict they are so eager to opine about.

67% of Democrats agreed with the statement that “a sovereign Arab country named Palestine used to exist where Israel is presently located.” 

Two out of three Democrats don't know this basic fact. For Republicans, 55% thought the statement was false. For all American voters, the results were about 50/50, which is disheartening on its own. 

Older respondents tended to answer the question correctly, while 68% of those ages 18-34 got it wrong.

But the percentage of people altogether who believe the lie is not at all correlated to education. 57% of those with a high school or lower education, 58% of those with some college education, 54% of those with a bachelor's degree and 56% of those with a postgraduate degree believed this fiction of an independent Palestinian state.

This is a damning indictment of the US educational system. 

Another survey question is relevant. When asked, without context, whether they supported a ceasefire in Gaza. 70% said they do.

Then the survey told them that this means that a ceasefire would mean that the hostages would not be released. Suddenly, 20% of those who supported the ceasefire switched sides. (But 70% of Democrats still support a ceasefire without Hamas being defeated and without the hostages being returned.)

Now, imagine if the people surveyed knew about Hamas' promise that October 7 was just the beginning, and the terror group intended to mount much deadlier attacks "again and again" until Israel is destroyed - a story that did not get nearly as much publicity as the daily reports of civilian deaths in Gaza. There would be another large shift against a ceasefire when people get an inkling of what the conflict is really about and how depraved Hamas is. 

The 70% who say they support a ceasefire are the same 70% who know nothing about the history, the facts, the context. 

The people who are the most informed tend to side with Israel.  

The corollary to this is that the people who hate Israel will do everything they can to misrepresent the facts and lie about the conflict in order to get people on their side. 

People learn about the conflict not from school but from social media, from TikTok and YouTube, from loud and obnoxious anti-Israel activists who are committed to lie and misrepresent the issues.  And it shows. 

The media isn't helping matters because most journalists are at least passively anti-Israel and their coverage will minimize real facts, history and context and emphasize Palestinian victimhood. 

If you think that Israel replaced a Palestinian state, of course you would be anti-Israel. This is exactly why so many social media posts represent British Mandate currency as if it was from a nation named "Palestine" and people named "Palestinian."  The coin suggests a story, the reality shows the opposite, and a lot of people don't want the people to know the reality.

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"Free Gaza from Hamas" "I condemn Hamas for raping Israeli women and girls"

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"Jesus was a Palestinian - if he'd been born today, he'd be buried under rubble in Gaza" 😐

No. No, he wasn't. If he existed at all, he was a Jewish man born in Judea, land occupied by the Roman Empire, centuries before Palestine even existed. In fact, Jews are called Jews because it comes from the word Judea - a fact worth remembering when talking about the rights of indigeneity to the land.

Stop peddling ahistorical bullshit - it helps exactly no one. Jesus didn't need to have been a Palestinian for you to give a shit about them today.

And quite frankly, this bare faced and completely wrong attempt to graft an identity onto him that didn't even exist yet reads as a truly sick and heinous way of reviving the oldest libel against Jews - one that has been used as an excuse for the most vile crimes against them for centuries - that they killed Jesus.

Because of course if he was alive today, those terrible "Zionists" would just kill him again.

It's not subtle. It's despicable actually.

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Spreading hate will not bring peace nor freedom.

Our addiction to online scrolling makes this generation hungry for the extreme.

Choosing one side is choosing to make this conflict continue. Solution will not come with war. We need an agreement, from both sides to put down their weapons and put aside their hate and hunger for revenge.

We need an agreement from both sides to give up their religious ideologies of owning the entire land, so we can find a long term solution- where both countries can live free and safe from the other.

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Leftists are very, very good at talking the talk of social justice - of fighting for the oppressed, uplifting the marginalised, using all the correct buzz words and slogans and phrases - but a lot of them are significantly less so at actually walking the walk of doing the work involved.

Instead of uplifting and supporting and protecting Jewish people - arguably the most oppressed and persecuted minority group in recorded history - in the wake of Hamas committing the most appalling and brutal crimes against over 1,000 innocent Jewish civilians and the subsequent massive rise in antisemitic rhetoric and violence worldwide, most leftists not only didn’t even attempt to talk the talk, but they power ran in the opposite direction, engaging in truly alarming levels of atrocity denial and victim blaming.

Even women’s rights groups who ostensibly fight for the rights of survivors of rape and sexual assault everywhere regardless of politics, completely and totally betrayed Israeli women who were victims of nauseating brutality with their silence.

Speaking as a non-Jewish leftist and as a woman, I cannot stomach the hypocrisy and I won’t ever forget it.

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coLoNizER LAngUaGE lmao pathetic