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“I work for a county government. They work closely with the county animal shelter, and some kittens and cats are sent to us because we get so much traffic from the public, hopefully someone will see a kitty and adopt! In the meantime, they can socialize with the employees to get used to humans. So far over 100 cats have been adopted.” -Loocylooo

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I now wonder no more. I see shadows of the past creeping back, echoes of history repeating themselves. Non-Jewish friends and followers—now is the time to speak up. We, the Jewish community, feel the weight of rising hatred—and a world looking away. You may not be the ones chanting hate or calling for violence, but your silence matters. History has shown us where inaction leads. Stand up. Speak out. Your voice makes a difference.

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"old testament god is so much worse than new testament god (christian god)" Y'ALL INVENTED HELL. SHUT THE FUCK UP

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THE PA FINALLY ENDED PAY FOR SLAY??

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Fuck it. I'm doing it again. Except this time you'll probably fucking learn something, nerds. Spin the wheel. If you don't know what you landed on, look it up. Fill your brain with facts. Hallelujah.

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Nothing but respect for my troops*

*Jews being openly and proudly and joyously Jewish in the face of staggering global antisemitism

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some of y'all would cheer if jews started being shoved into ovens again so long as the headlines and tweets and your tumblr mutuals said "zionists finally being shoved into ovens"

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Israel thinks one Jewish life is worth more than hundreds of Palestinian lives. That’s why they’re willing to trade dozens of Palestinian hostages for a single Jewish hostage. So explain to me how acting like the resistance wanting to keep more hostages to get their people back is a bad thing

israel exchanging multiple palestinian prisoners for a smaller number of israeli hostages has much less to do with the compared value of life and everything to do with a core tenant of israel’s collective psyche, which is that after centuries of genocide and ethnic cleansing culminating in the murder of half the world’s jews, jewish life will never again be seen as cheap. when they say no jew left behind they mean that intensely and literally. for better or for worse, rational or not. you don’t have to agree with it but you do have to accept it if you want to engage in productive discussion about it. creating a narrative that you think fits best with the way you see the situation does nothing but drive both israelis and palestinians further toward extremism, assuring israelis that you do think of jewish life as cheap and convincing palestinians that jews are inherently their enemies.

like idk. everyone has so much to say abt israeli society and none of it is ever grounded in reality. there is a lot that’s fucked up abt israeli society — because israelis have been through some incredibly fucked up shit. and when you’ve been through incredibly fucked up shit, that doesn’t always make you better. sometimes it just fucks you up. and tbh a lot of y’all look at legitimate problems in israeli society and instead of trying to understand why they are that way, you just fall back on the same antisemitic tropes that have lead to the persecution and murder of jews for centuries, which. guess what. affirms to israelis that their far right government is right about the rest of the world hating jews and that everything they’re doing is justified. so instead of continuing the cycle, maybe just have a tiny bit of empathy even if it challenges your worldview, even if it feels icky. like idk see jews as human beings? whatever.

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Little girl in pink regalia does a Blackfoot & Plains Cree dance celebrating the Prairie Chicken, Source unknown.

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I think something people aught to reckon with is the fact that a lot of jewish people living in the diaspora may one day be israelis, or at the very least, israel is the place they will run to when it's time to run. if nowhere else is safe, then I'm running to israel. I'm not israeli now, and I might not ever be, but I could be. most diaspora jews (not all) see themselves as possible future israelis. not for sure, of course. we hope and pray that the time to run never comes again (we know it will, of course, so at the very least, may the time to run not come during our time), but it is possible. that's part of the reason "antizonism isn't antisemitism" doesn't work. israel is our safe haven. every diaspora jew alive is a jew who hasn't had to run to israel for their own safety yet.

so yeah, not only do I think hating israelis is gross on the basic value alone that "hating someone because of their nationality is wrong," but because I know that you will see me like that some day if I have to run. like you just hate jews, either own it and slap a swastika band on your arm, or cry for a bit and then learn how to be better. those are your options.

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Hey remember that a boycott if actually MORE effective under capitalism if you profess you would actually end the boycott under certain conditions.

“Nothing this company does can make up for their bad actions, I will never buy from them again!” Okay so they’ve lost you as a customer and have no reason to try and get you back. You can HOPE to drive them into bankruptcy but Chic-Fil-A is evidence of how well that works.

“This company did something bad. I would not consider buying their product again, UNLESS, they publicly apologized and made up for it by … [donating money to a cause, promoting different content, offering better care to their employees, etc.]” This is actually MORE likely to be effective because if enough people say this, the company m sees them as potential customers of a certain demographic, and is willing to make changes to get those customers back and, long term, make money from them.

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schrodinger's jew: jews are and are not white until an antisemite makes up their mind about which type of antisemite they want to be.

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Amazigh Jews in Morocco, ca. 1970s.

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wish I had better news

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I don't know how to explain to some people that the ideas that

1. Owing to the fact Hamas and the PA are virulently antisemitic, there is racism and antisemetism baked into a lot of Palestinian society because it's literally taught in schools

And

2. Israel also has people who are super racist against Palestinians

And

3. Despite the issues above, Palestinians and Israelis are still people and have the right to safety and security in their homes

Are things that can, and should, exist side by side (just like Israel and Palestine)

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schrodinger's jew: jews are and are not white until an antisemite makes up their mind about which type of antisemite they want to be.