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crazy how 2,000 years of being fed "jews are untrustworthy two faced liars" will make people instinctively think jews are liars and have their gut reaction to jews talking about judaism be "assume they're lying." or maybe these are two unrelated phenomena that have no impact on each other and the gentile instinct to distrust the jew has nothing to do with thousands of years of antisemitism they've internalized.

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Not At Odds

Ceasefire Now + Bring Them Home Now

Jewish & Palestinian safety & freedom are not at odds with each other; they are interconnected. These things can must coexist.

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crazy how 2,000 years of being fed "jews are untrustworthy two faced liars" will make people instinctively think jews are liars and have their gut reaction to jews talking about judaism be "assume they're lying." or maybe these are two unrelated phenomena that have no impact on each other and the gentile instinct to distrust the jew has nothing to do with thousands of years of antisemitism they've internalized.

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If you want to be an ally to the Jewish people, you’d better be ready to fight the antisemitism faced by all Jews.

Zionist Jews. Anti- and non-Zionist Jews. Observant Jews. Secular Jews. Reform Jews. Conservative Jews. Orthodox Jews. Israeli Jews. Ashkenazi Jews. Sephardic Jews. Mizrahi Jews. Beta Israeli Jews. Desi Jews. Convert Jews. White-passing Jews. Jews of color. Visibly-Jewish Jews. Queer Jews. Left-wing Jews. Right-wing Jews. Patrilineal Jews.

We are one people, and if you only fight antisemitism when it targets the Jews you like, you’re not actually an ally of the Jewish people.

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To the Jewish folks of tumblr: I'm sorry. I know this has been a stressful, scary time, and it doesn't look like it'll be letting up yet. The Right's hate has been bold for a while, and the Left has completely thrown you under the bus. I can tell that y'all feel completely alone in the world.

I wish I could make sweeping promises of definite change for the better. I can't. But I can promise that I will remain a friend to the Jewish people. I know I'm just one goy. But one friend is better than none. I'll do what I can.

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Shana Tova!!! May your enemies, haters, and those who wish evil upon you be cut off. The blessing for the leek has always felt resonant but this year it's been on my mind a lot. For me at least, 5785 is a year of practicing healthy boundaries and taking care of myself - even if I have to run on spite. I hope everyone has a safe Rosh Hashanah ❤️

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colonialism describes and implies a dynamic where one party is completely foreign to the land and is using it to support a larger empire, at least at the beginning. and that's just not what zionism is. ethnic cleansing happened in the name of zionism. massacres have happened and are happening in the same of zionism. but colonialism? it just does not describe the reality of the jewish relationship to the land

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The Slow Factory & Céline Semaan giving the game away:

“[The] erasure of Indigenous Levantine identity is colonial propaganda. Rewriting history serves the … delusion of manifest destiny and ultimate[ly] justifies genocide.”

When they tell you what they’re doing, even if they phrase it as an accusation, believe them.

Noa Cohen is Mizrahi. She was born in Israel. She’s visibly Middle Eastern in appearance. She does not and has never, according to any available information that I can find, live on any of the Israeli settlements in the West Bank or Golan Heights (settlements aren’t really where you go for acting opportunities). When they say “settler”, they meaning any Jew living anywhere in the land, even if they were born there, even if they are Mizrahi, even if they are indistinguishable from their neighbors.

Those who erase the Indigenousness of Jews, who rewrite history to insist that a Jewish woman who lived in first century Judea, nearly 19 centuries before the Palestinian identity was a twinkling in Khalil Beidas’s eye, was actually an Arab Palestinian and must be played by an Arab rather than a Jew, are pushing colonial propaganda.

The delusion that Jewish ties to the Levant began with Zionism and that the Levant belongs solely to Arabs is a colonial lie. It serves the goal of manifest destiny and ultimately justifying genocide against Jews.

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"Boston Mayor Michelle Wu, who was in attendance with US Representative Ayanna Pressley, said they will fight to ensure everyone is welcome in Boston.

��We have been doing everything in our power to be a place where people like Rita get to live full, healthy, joyful lives,” she said. “That’s not just taking steps to prevent transphobic violence, but actively curating more trans joy, celebrating more trans victories, empowering this community to lead and live and shine.”"

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After seeing blatant genocide apologia for the last year and now seeing white women and queers fearmongering each other about how bad Trump is gonna be depsite how every single one of his policy will be affecting poc on a scale they'll literally never see, I petition to replace thanksgiving with White People Shut the Fuck Up Day

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“The British would’ve called the Founding Fathers terrorists.”

Speculation. The British did not and could not have called the Founding Fathers terrorists because that was not a word or concept at the time of the American Revolutionary War. This is a made up “what if” scenario with no historical basis.

Irrelevant. Whether the Crown would have called American Revolutionaries “terrorists” has no relevance to whether modern day acts of terrorism are terrorism.

What we “call terrorism” today is people strapping bombs to themselves and their children to blow up buses, hijacking planes to fly them into buildings, shooting up schools, music venues, and places of worship, randomized violence against non-military targets, taking civilians hostage. We call these terrorism because they fit the bill of terrorism by nearly every possible definition of the word:

The American Revolutionaries’ guerrilla-esque tactics may have been seen by the British as “unfair” or “uncivilized”, but they were not terrorism. Shooting up music venues, beheading & mutilating civilian victims by hand, hunting down and executing children, and taking hostages are not comparable to ambushing troops in the woods.

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it is like. extremely funny when people get really scandalized at the first french republic doing things that almost every country did. oh, the horror: the cult of the supreme being was a state religion meant to support and naturalize the foundational ideology of the republic, as opposed to all other state religions, which were entirely apolitical and organic.

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i hope there are more of these women so that queer women can sexualize my titties instead

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Hey, USAmericans? Wanna save your country? Run For Something!

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I love you highlanders I love you dragoons I love you queen’s rangers I love you hessians I love you artillerymen I love you grenadiers I love you loyalist regiments I love you light infantry I love you jaegers I love you fencible regiments I love you all the facets of the 18th century british army that weren’t just battalion and consequently get completely overlooked in all fictionalized american revolution media

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Coughs

George Harris (oc—Captain. Also a ghost)

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