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I find it really funny to take modern Hebrew words and pass them through the same phonological/scribal filters that produced modern English renditions of biblical words

For example, imagine calling people Tippesees or Mephaggerites in English, or talking about how you live in Hortahath

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Is this actually real? Like, any links? This honestly sounds insane

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Wait fr?? That's pretty hilarious. Did antizionists push back though or did they just not interact with the post at all? Because I blocked them right after making this post, and at that point that post still only had like 2 likes and no reblogs

Oh look, the Looking-For-People-That-Are-Socially-Acceptable-To-Be-The-KKK-Towards movement already started using the suspiciously overhauled Wikipedia article on Zionism to support their acquired brain defect of an ideology! Quick reprisal of my post about how that article was vandalized by people who are totally not Hamas dickriders: Before oct7:

After oct7:

Let's not forget their tags though!

Charming. Good thing you told us you're black, that'll get you all the credibility you need among the inverted-racial-hierarchy circles! Your Jewish tokens are just a little bonus on the side.

This would be more upsetting if not for the fact that "I learned about Israel yesterday and read a Wikipedia article, time for me to call them Nazis" is just about the perfect representation of the whole demented anti-Israel (they don't even help Palestinians) movement.

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Oh look, the Looking-For-People-That-Are-Socially-Acceptable-To-Be-The-KKK-Towards movement already started using the suspiciously overhauled Wikipedia article on Zionism to support their acquired brain defect of an ideology! Quick reprisal of my post about how that article was vandalized by people who are totally not Hamas dickriders: Before oct7:

After oct7:

Let's not forget their tags though!

Charming. Good thing you told us you're black, that'll get you all the credibility you need among the inverted-racial-hierarchy circles! Your Jewish tokens are just a little bonus on the side.

This would be more upsetting if not for the fact that "I learned about Israel yesterday and read a Wikipedia article, time for me to call them Nazis" is just about the perfect representation of the whole demented anti-Israel (they don't even help Palestinians) movement.

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This might be what fully seals the deal for me on it being the 1940's again. This right there is Nazi uniform wearing ass shit. Just a full iron cross medalist that no one gives a shit about other than Jews. I genuinely feel like we gotta deploy IDF soldiers everywhere with guns to guard places like this (if we didn't need them here more that is), maybe for once these lesser-than-dirt-s would actually feel a bit scared to do things that are objectively evil.

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Holy mother of horseshoes, I'm keeping this just in case I need to ink blot test someone with it

Hot take, but if tumblr knew how firmly antizionist Nazis actually were, we’d have way more open support for Nazism on this platform.

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Ireland officially writing to the ICJ to ask them to change the definition of genocide is so insane to me. Like the wording of their letter is below:

“By legally intervening in South Africa’s case Ireland will be asking the ICJ to broaden its interpretation of what constitutes the commission of genocide by a State,”

“We are concerned that a very narrow interpretation of what constitutes genocide leads to a culture of impunity in which the protection of civilians is minimised."

You can't just redefine a word because you don't like that it's untrue???? That's literally the propaganda authoritarian playbook? Genocide has a tight and specific definition for incredibly important reasons. Not liking it and being upset that you can't Jew bash like you want to isn't a good reason to change it.

Making the deaths of civilians in a war a "genocide" water downs the term and also basically makes war completely illegal in any circumstance. If someone attacks you, you fight back. That's literally just how the world works and if this goes through, it will simply destroy anyone's ability to defend themselves?

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another example of fun media bias, this time subtle:

i love ben sfm and went to read this article after seeing him post about it. i saw it passed around before that and was like …i bet it’s under a paywall! shocker, it isnt. BECAUSEEEE:

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/08/world/middleeast/hamas-unrwa-schools.html

(the link preview isnt even showing up lmao)

“israel alleged.” …this was proven lmao

the records WERE given to lazzarini, he just either refuses to take them or do anything with them.

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while reading this, note the language used. “israel alleged,” is common gaslighting verbiage. the general vibe of ISRAEL not doing enough to prevent terrorism in UNRWA while allowing lazzarini to openly lie about not receiving documents.

no accountability at all for unrwa or the un.

the general tone of excusing terrorists in unrwa with “there’s no proof they all fought in combat.” bitch they were given ak47s!!!

the pity for unrwa vs the acknowledgement of the threat this provides to both gazans and israelis.

“punishing the whole agency for a few people.” ….because terrorists infiltrating an aid organization that controls the schools in gaza AT ALL LEVELS and using that organization for propaganda and TERRORISM isn’t a huge fucking issue.

no acknowledgment here of what unrwa teaches impressionable children. that they are at fault for continuing to perpetuate hate in gazan society and prop up hamas.

unrwa has spent years REFUSING to change their hateful curricula.

a breakdown of the curriculum ^^

this is what we mean by media bias. if israel isn’t straight up demonized, if israeli trauma and crimes against israel and jews are not lessened or ignored, if israeli accomplishments and provided correct evidence arent lessened or HIDDEN BEHIND PAYWALLS, articles gaslight israel and jews anyway.

they constantly find ways to subtly blame or denigrate israel and that affects the way to reader thinks, that affects their opinion, especially if they come to these articles with little to no background knowledge.

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Did anyone else notice the switch up on people’s views of mandatory conscription last week w what happened in Korea. It was so wild to see people saying “well of course the populace fought back so well bc they’re all military trained” and “the soldiers probably also don’t want to be there!!” when for months the same people been talking about how every individual in the Israeli military is actually evil incarnate and bc of mandatory conscription Israeli civilians don’t exist and should all be free targets to murder indiscriminately. Like ok, pick one maybe????

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People can elect fascists into power, sure, but you could also make out a world's difference between wanting a literal dictator and someone you voted for to serve a term prolonging it and giving himself more power. Israel is much more of the latter even if a portion of the population is the former.

Is winning by plurality not still a win? Hell, has that not happened several times with bibi during his time as PM? And frankly how long does it have to take post-election for the governing body to not be the population's fault? Because "oh but it happened so long ago" in Gaza as an argument only holds if you take the insane right wing propaganda campaigns when considering Israel (and particularly considers how it skews the outcome of elections), and if you don't hold the average Israeli accountable in some weird pavlovian response to the very sight of them, which people fucking do. If you don't, congrats! this post isn't about you and you don't need to convince yourself that it is.

If by debunk you mean disprove then yeah, I'm not posting any sourced information here, but if by debunk you mean just any pointing out of how stupid people's ideas of Israel are, then hell yeah it is, since technically being able to eat half of your cake and have the other one doesn't mean that the ideas behind them are actually compatible. People are hostile to all Israelis over this shit because they're pea brained idiot's who can't not generalize just about any piece of information available to them, and people call Israel fascist out of comparison to actual insane dictatorships like north Korea and Russia, since it sure as hell isn't its inner workings that warrant that.

Both of those things are dumb and wrong, but calling Israel fascist is by far the weakest link, since it just isn't by any reasonable definition, you don't "continuously elect a dictator", since that's pretty much an oxymoron. And if you also hold the Israeli populace accountable like that, you're just all the more dissonant with your view of Israel, which breaks down beyond "Description of Israel: as many negative adjectives as I can come up with". In conclusion because this whole rant is completely scattered: 1. Israel is not fascist. 2. If it was, you couldn't blame all Israelis the same way you (general) do right now, although doing it in general is retarded too. 3. Hamas was democratically elected, meaning that if you can be democratically elected and be a dictatorship (and you can), when does the responsibility get erased for Israelis like it did for Gazans? Right away? As soon as elections stop? Specifically 20 years? 4. If the answer is as soon as elections stop, and Israel supposedly already fascist, thereby assuming it's no longer democratic, shouldn't it be treated the same way? 5. Probably, but it isn't treated that way, with certainty that it's because elections still happen there and bibi keeps getting voted in. 6. Then Israel must not be fucking fascist. Thanks for reading this incomprehensible mess!

Wait hang on I just realized, people simultaneously call Israel fascist and say "the government was elected democratically so the populace all supports them/are evil/don't count as civilians" Which one is it? If Israel is still democratic then it isn't fascist, and if it is fascist then it's not the fault of the people Quick reminder that Hamas was also elected democratically in Gaza btw

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Yeah the thing is Hamas as a governing body is definitely fascist, or at the very least authoritarian, warmongering, and oppressive to the people under it, and that fact is why I ultimately don't blame Gazans as a whole, save for the "I don't think fascism in-and-of itself absolves the people living within it of responsibility and culpability of what their country does." which has to apply to them too if it applies to anyone else And on the flip side, Israel is definitely not fascist, it's democratic and has very little censorship, and it won't be for as long as the government doesn't destroy democracy and freedom of information (which, to be fair, they're trying) But the thing is, if you do (wrongly) think Israel is a fascist dictatorship, you don't also get to go all apeshit on the people there, since as far as you're concerned they have about as much agency as the Gazans do with Hamas, even if it's more recent. You can't have your hateful cake and eat it too, if you believe both of those things at once you're just an idiot who throws random words at the wall so that you can maximize the amount of negative labels you put on Israel

Wait hang on I just realized, people simultaneously call Israel fascist and say "the government was elected democratically so the populace all supports them/are evil/don't count as civilians" Which one is it? If Israel is still democratic then it isn't fascist, and if it is fascist then it's not the fault of the people Quick reminder that Hamas was also elected democratically in Gaza btw

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Wait hang on I just realized, people simultaneously call Israel fascist and say "the government was elected democratically so the populace all supports them/are evil/don't count as civilians" Which one is it? If Israel is still democratic then it isn't fascist, and if it is fascist then it's not the fault of the people Quick reminder that Hamas was also elected democratically in Gaza btw

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Holy shit this is gold, and of course STA doesn't respond, that would require sources of their own or literally anything to back their shit up!

I cannot get over people comparing Hamas’s terrorism to Jews rebelling against Nazis.

Hey remember that time that a big group of Jews stormed a German civilian town and killed a bunch of babies and r*ped a bunch of women… oh wait… no, no I do not.

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Hi there! Israeli linguistics student here! As much as I like the story behind dreidels, it isn't true. "A great miracle happened there" is what's known as folk etymology, false origins assigned to a word, name, phrase, etc. The origins of the 4 letters, נגהפ, are from gambling, where spinning tops in Europe were used to gamble around Christmas, a tradition that entered Ashkenazi and eventually Israeli Judaism. The letters stand for נישט, גאנץ, האלב, שטעל אריין in Yiddish, which mean none, all, half, and something like "try again"? (I don't speak Yiddish, I just researched this for a video before). I hate Israel-erasure from Judaism as much as the next guy but, I like linguistics too much not to point this out.

to all the antisemites this hanukkah season acting like the world's greatest jewish allies: you might hear the phrase "a great miracle happened there" bandied around. in fact, the acronym for that phrase in hebrew is on every dreidel! yep every dreidel! where is the "there" being talked about?? don't worry about it :))) and in what country do the dreidels instead have the acronym for "a great miracle happened here" instead? don't worry about it :)))) and don't worry about the actual story of the holiday either or what it means :)))))) it's definitely not about the jews fighting off their oppressors in order to take back control of their homeland or anything :))))) nothing to do with jewish self-determination here no sirree :))) this is definitely a very easy holiday to enjoy if you hate israel with every bone in your body and hope it and everyone inside it dies horribly :))))) hanukkah definitely isn't inextricably linked to israel and the jewish connection with the land of israel as our homeland :)))

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I like how even if the fire nation was Israel these lobotomites would still not support the actual peace that was achieved in Avatar canon.

The fire nation had colonies. Avatar had a whole 3-parter comic arc about them that started with "they need to be destroyed and given back to the earth kingdom" and ended with "we can't uproot the people here, this place can't be just fire nation or earth kingdom, it'll be something new" and this new independent 5th nation eventually became the united republic, aka the place where republic city (the most advanced and prosperous city in the world at the time of the legend of Korra). There's also of course the Jet episode, where there's clearly an earth kingdom terrorist trying to kill innocent fire nation civilians, where the show once again communicates to us that this is bad.

Avatar literally preaches peace, coexistence, and civilian safety with the nation that they consider to be the unambiguous bad guys. They have infinitely more honor than any of these sentient cockroaches that would actively cheer to the sight of Iroh getting shot or that little girl with the doll from the Jet episode getting raped. Oh, and just as a little cherry on top, Avatar also directly tackles the topic of "my people used to live here long ago before getting genocided" as well. In the episode "The mechanist", we see that one of the air temples (where the air nomads used to live, and their holiest sites too at that) has been inhabited by earth kingdom refugees. At first, Aang gets angry at them for being there and what they did to the place, but by the end of the episode he talks about how despite that, they made it their home and it wouldn't be okay to kick them out. This episode is great for this analogy because: 1. Aang represents Israel here, while the earth kingdom refugees represent Palestinians. 2. The 'Palestinians' (Earth kingdom refugees) get to stay in the end, no one kicks them out or kills them because that would be wrong (well, other than the fire nation, which in this case is more akin to world powers) 3. In the legend of Korra (and before it, as implied with the air acolytes) The restored air nation returns to live in the four temples. "Aang would be an anti-Zionist" my ass. Aang has vastly more intelligence and wisdom to reach the right conclusion than all of these people who stain this show's legacy by not practicing what it preaches. Avatar aims for actual peace, not neo-nationalistic pseudo-activist bullshit.

This is an October 7th joke

Rin will take you reblogging it as you ageeing with her tankie hamasnik ideology the way JKR sees anyone buying her stuff as supporting terfism