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which one of u was going to tell me that tea tastes different if u put it in hot water?

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יש קהל ישראלי ל worldbuilding?

הייתי מת להביא את התחביב הנישה הזה לארץ כי באמת שלא יצא לי כמעט בכלל לראות מישהו עושה את זה פה וזה חבל רצח

אם מישהו סקרן לראות עולם שהמצאתי עם עם תרבויות ושפות שגם המצאתי רק תגידו ואני מייד אתחיל לחפור

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Hey remember how Netflix 'toned down' Sokka's sexism?

Remember how now instead of being sexist to Katara he just treats her like a child?

Remember how that was a pretty lame decision and now Sokka has literally no character growth in the Netflix version? Well, it occurred to me...

That could've totally been a fine decision!

Katara is younger than Sokka

All of the Kyoshi warriors are believably younger than Sokka

In the original Sokka even dismisses Aang as the group leader because he's a kid

His whole backstory is literally that he was left behind for being too young to join the war

That decision could've absolutely worked, they didn't mess it up because Sokka needed to be sexist, they messed it up because the writing was terrible

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Me who knows how languages work seeing people call Hebrew fake (not how Hebrew works) ugly, or dirty (Literally Nazi-type shit to say about another culture to dehumanize it)

me seeing the same crowd who called hebrew a “fake”, “ugly”, or “dirty” language get excited for a movie about a character named kal-el

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No surprise to anyone paying attention: a new report in The Telegraph today confirms the BBC’s blatant bias against Israel, with skewed coverage since October 7th.

People consume this news like it’s coming from an impartial source— clearly, it’s not. The real question is: how much longer will we tolerate biased reporting that fuels hate and distorts the truth?

Were you surprised? Let me know

Hen Mazzig

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Forensic anthropology? How about regular anthropology!

You can tell how much fish a person from 8,000 years ago ate based on their bones, if you think you can't tell a body from a year ago has been beaten to death you gotta either be living under a big meaty slab of rock that shields you from any and all fields of study relating to human beings ever, or have the mental capacity of a potato lamp.

It's really funny seeing people deny that you can find cause of death from bones because like, that's the whole premise of the TV show bones.

And obviously the show isn't realistic, but they didn't pull the concept out of their arseholes.

But does this mean that antisemites will now boycott the show bones for supporting zionist methods? Will we finally get one fandom completely safe for jews? (Joke)

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Kidnaps you~, ties you down~, beats you~, starves you~, cuts you~, has my way with you~, makes you understand the only way you can survive is by appeasing me~

Forces you to kiss my cock while I take a picture~, posts picture online~

"Hey guys look how thirsty they were for me! People who are suffering don't do that! They only did it because they wanted to! :)"

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I absolutely love this screenshot. Some people might find the slur in poor taste but I don't and frankly I don't give a shit either, it's a hilarious juxtaposition and it shows the irony perfectly

I think if there's one thing to take away from Kanye's latest... confession... it's just how central antisemitism is to Naziism

like

Kanye is a Black man. Given the opportunity, white Nazis would shoot him with the same bullets they aim at Jews. He is not in good company. But he's willing to align himself with people who hate him because he just hates Jews that goddamn much

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this was linked in his replies and is worth sharing:

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The signs of extreme malnutrition evinced by some of the recently released Israeli hostages were only the most visible evidence of the torture they recall enduring in Hamas captivity.

The 16 Israeli hostages freed in recent weeks after being held in Gazan tunnels and homes for more than a year have begun to provide accounts to their families of being beaten, chained, burned and violently interrogated, according to relatives. Former hostages said their captors tormented them by boasting that Israel no longer existed and taunted them about the fate of family members, who in many cases were killed or abducted during the Hamas-led assault on Israel 16 months ago.

The psychological torment continued into the very last moments before their release, as Hamas forced the hostages to praise their captors in their holding cells and then smile for cameras during staged ceremonies that preceded their journey home.

“Hamas was trying to show us that they still have a certain level of control over what’s going on,” said Lee Siegel, the brother of Keith Siegel, a 65-year-old American Israeli hostage who was released earlier this month and given two departing “goody bags,” one for him and one stuffed with chocolate, perfume and a “captivity certificate” for Aviva, his wife, who alongside him had been dragged from their home in southern Israel and released during the first hostage deal, in November 2023.

During the first 51 days, as he was held alongside Aviva, Keith sought to hide his American citizenship, in hopes that he would not be released first, his brother Lee recounted in an interview with The Washington Post. After Aviva was freed, Keith maintained a meticulous mental diary, noting days in captivity, dates on the calendar and the terrifying events that transpired. The regimen allowed him to “ground himself, to hold onto his inner self,” said Lee.

Keith recalled being dressed in a galabiya robe and shuffled 33 times among dark tunnels and buildings. His Hamas guards would point to the rubble and say, “‘This is what your government is doing to us. Your people don’t want you back. They just keep bombing.’”

When it attacked Israel in October 2023, Hamas killed about 1,200 people and took some 250 hostages. The assault triggered Israel’s withering war in the Gaza Strip, which has killed more than 48,000 people, according to the Gaza Health Ministry, which does not distinguish between combatants and civilians but says the majority of the dead are women and children.

The grim accounts of Keith and others are heightening the concerns of Israelis for those still being held in Gaza and fueling pressure on the government to maintain the ceasefire and redouble efforts at winning their release.

After he was released, Keith shocked his family with the precision of his memories, including of the days when he saw his family on television or heard them on the radio, campaigning for his release. On day 205 of his captivity, as his Hamas guard listened to an Arabic-language radio program featuring an interview with his daughter, Keith learned that his son, who was rescued by Israeli troops from his home in Kibbutz Kfar Aza, had survived.

Keith spent six out of his 16 months — including his last two — alone with his captors, Lee said. When Keith was permitted to speak aloud, he whispered imagined conversations with his wife and his family. When talk was forbidden, he would visualize them in his head. Even when kept above ground, he did not see the sky, said Lee; the windows of Keith’s tiny room were blackened to avoid revealing his location to Israeli forces or Gazan neighbors.

“Keith understood that it needs to be a secret, for everyone,” said Lee. Among Keith’s hideouts was a family home, where he was locked in a room, alongside a family with children.

Ofri Bibas, the sister of Yarden Bibas, a 35-year-old Israeli hostage freed earlier this month, said in an interview with Channel 12 that he spent most of the past 16 months on a moldy mattress in tunnels, trying to use his sense of humor to humanize himself in the eyes of his captors.

Ofri said that early in his captivity, one of Yarden’s captors told him that his wife and children were alive and in Tel Aviv. He believed him. Then, in January 2024, Hamas gunmen filmed him after telling him his wife and children were killed in an Israeli airstrike. In the video, they force him to demand, in between heaving tears, that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu agree to return their bodies to Israel.

Yarden was captured separately from his wife, Shiri, who was filmed by Hamas gunmen as she clutched their sons, Ariel, then 4, and Kfir, then 9 months — one of the most iconic images from that day. In a statement Friday, he said that “as long as they’re there, everything here is dark,” and pleaded with Netanyahu to bring them back.

“There are many struggles; there are new struggles every day,” said Ofri in the television interview, adding that Yarden was now, alongside his family, waiting for the return of his wife and sons.

Many details described by recently released hostages have not been entirely new to Israelis, who had heard earlier testimonies from freed hostages who had been held alongside them.

Adina Moshe, 72, who was released in the first deal, told of fellow hostages Bibas and Ofer Calderon being kept in “cages.” Aviva Siegel, Keith’s wife, repeatedly described the horrors and humiliation tactics of Hamas captivity with journalists and in front of parliament. The families of Or Levy and Ohad Ben Ami, two of the three emaciated hostages released Saturday, said they recalled being fed only one rotten pita every number of days and were choked, gagged and hung by their legs, according to Kan, Israel’s public broadcaster.

The parents of Hersh Goldberg-Polin, an American Israeli hostage killed in late August, said in a video on Instagram that they hope to meet with Or Levy, who was abducted alongside their son. The horrific accounts provided by the returning hostages are “a gut punch to all of us that we need to do more,” Hersh’s father, Jon, said in the video, pleading with President Donald Trump and his Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff to “think bigger and faster” to get the 76 other hostages home.

Israel’s hostage rehabilitation medical staff have been on call for over a year and have developed a complex protocol for the receiving those released. “The hostages are amazingly resilient if they survive, but they have open wounds on their bodies and their souls,” said Hagai Levine, who leads the medical team of the Hostages Family Forum.

He said hospitals have been treating severe starvation, dehydration and deteriorated muscle mass. The hostages also have injuries related to lack of exposure to sunlight or prolonged periods of isolation, and some need care for wounds suffered on Oct. 7, 2023, or in captivity, said Levine. Medical teams are also carefully reintroducing nutrients to the hostages to prevent conditions like refeeding, a dangerous syndrome in which undernourished bodies cannot digest normal-size portions.

The former hostages have requested privacy. But even from their cordoned-off wards in hospitals and rehabilitation centers, they are speaking out through their families and through social media statements, urging that all the hostages be brought home, even as the ceasefire deal hangs in the balance.

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So no one trusts the UN (for good reason), but they do have access to the Rome Statute and Geneva Convention.

Genocide is possibly the most despicable crime that exists. Understanding what it is and what it isn’t helps to ensure the topic is treated with the seriousness and respect it deserves. Conversely, misusing and inflating the term prevents victims of genocide from receiving the respect and sympathy they deserve, and erodes societal guardrails and legal protections against future instances of genocide.

With that in mind, the UN summary of the crime of genocide includes the following text regarding intent:

The intent is the most difficult element to determine. To constitute genocide, there must be a proven intent on the part of perpetrators to physically destroy a national, ethnical, racial or religious group. Cultural destruction does not suffice, nor does an intention to simply disperse a group. It is this special intent, or dolus specialis, that makes the crime of genocide so unique. In addition, case law has associated intent with the existence of a State or organizational plan or policy, even if the definition of genocide in international law does not include that element.

Importantly, the victims of genocide are deliberately targeted - not randomly – because of their real or perceived membership of one of the four groups protected under the Convention (which excludes political groups, for example). This means that the target of destruction must be the group, as such, and not its members as individuals. Genocide can also be committed against only a part of the group, as long as that part is identifiable (including within a geographically limited area) and “substantial.”

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It's not even true either, they're using that figure because it's convenient to mock something that old, but friendly reminder that the Bar Kochba revolt happened at around 100 AD, aka only about 1700-1800 years before modern Zionism, not to mention that some parts of the land stayed majority Jewish after that and dwindled later, and also not to mention the various Jewish migration waves that happened in between, such as the Sephardic one after the Spanish inquisition. If anything Jews/Israelites didn't even really exist yet in 1000 BC, it was still a motley of Canaanite tribes

"The filthy Jews are racists and terrorists for wanting to live safely in their ancestral homeland which they are indigenous to (Zionism), and I will deny they're indigenous to that land despite literal archeological evidence, but I also refuse to allow them to feel safe anywhere else!"

Okay. 😒

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People will really complain about lack of non-Ashkenazi Jews representation blame it on the evil Ashkenazi supremacy and then yell at anyone who is an Israeli or interacts with Israel culture. The vast majority of non-Ashkenazi Jews live in Israel what do you want. I do think it’s an issue but I’m tired of goy using it to be antisemitic yo Ashkenazi Jews and then yelling at everyone who dares talk about anything from Israel

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rin tezuka just called you a gay idiot like homophobic much

Huh yeah that's pretty weird, are they like a known dumbass in the jumblr community? I looked at their stuff and some of their interactions make it seem this way

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Hello, anthropology student and enthusiast here!

Yeah the idea of "stolen culture" is complete bullshit. I'm sure there's some contexts in the world where that could make sense, but this is not one of them. Accusing Israelis of having no culture is a dehumanization tactic, and is fueled entirely by half-assed understanding of what culture even is.

The people accusing Israelis of having no culture or stealing it from others couldn't tell you literally anything about Israeli culture, hell they could barely tell you anything about Palestinian culture, it's 100% a parroting thing that anyone with even a smidge of critical thinking, googling abilities, or familiarity with cultures could tell you just doesn't make any sense in its core.

These kinds of comments really bug me because it's so clear how confused the person who wrote them is.

So let me clear this up for you, @nagashii

Israel has not stolen Palestinian culture. Of all the ridiculous claims you could make, this one is probably the most silly because it's absolutely meaningless. I'd love to hear what cultural things you think we "stole", but I'm just letting you know that whatever you think it is, you're wrong. I'm not gonna bother elaborating

You're making a very important distinction between Jews and Israel, which is great except you screwed it up. You are assuming that the existence of Jews is not dependent on the existence of Israel, while ignoring the fact that the REASON Israel exists is to protect the Jewish people. Even if there's a very Jewish person who has no interest in Israel, Israel has helped them in more ways than you can imagine. Israel gives money and aid to Jewish community and it's also gained the right to prosecute people who commit antisemitic hate crimes in other countries. So you can say that Jews are okay but Israel needs to die, but you're basically saying Jews need to die, which is, obviously, antisemitic and disgusting.

Israel doesn't have genocidal ideals, don't be idiotic. If Israel wanted to commit genocide, believe me, there would be no humanitarian aid, no warnings, no attempts to evacuate gazans. The IDF has absolutely no interest in harming anyone who isn't part of Hamas, don't let anyone tell you otherwise. The fact that Hamas uses its civilians as human shields makes this incredibly hard. I know people who are currently fighting in Gaza. Trust me, killing more people is the last thing they want. Obviously there are some morons who want to kill everyone and take Gaza back, but they're idiots and nobody really gives a shit what they think because they're being childish and narrow. Those few people do not represent Israel.

The Jewish people are absolutely and completely entitled to have a country of their own, and the fact that Israel was the land chosen has not only Historical and Traditional but also Legal reasons. I'll reblog this with links to useful explanations. As I said, Israel is essential to the continued existence of the Jewish people which means that yes, we are entitled to it. Absolutely. Whether or not all the actions of the Israeli government are okay is a completely different story. The botton line is that Israel must and will continue to exist.

Hope this helps.

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Imagine being so heartless, delusional, and hypocritical. If the roles were reversed and Israel kidnapped random Palestinians and then released them, no one would say this, and if you did you'd just be a genocide orchestrator or whatever.

This is beyond emotion-driven ideologies, this is some primal animal instincts shit

"They were looked after"