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By:@imtiazmadmood

TICP - The Israeli Cartoon Project

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I couldn't have said it better myself.

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For y'all's non binary newborns I guess (Eng. translation in alt)

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it is my experience that you shouldn't judge people by their looks

it is my experience that people with dermal implants and eyeball tattoos and 34 visible piercings are the sweetest people you'll ever meet and will cry if they see a pigeon with a broken wing. it is also my experience that clean-cut people in polo shirts with perfect smiles will vote against your rights and say the most disgusting things imaginable once they think you're out of earshot.

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The New York times has an article on the pogrom in Amsterdam and it is ....wildly ridiculous the lengths they will go go to avoid explicitly saying a pogrom where mobs of people attempted to run over and stab anyone they thought so much as looked Jewish wasn't antisemitic.

It's "linked to antisemitism" because it's antisemitic.

As a note: the article reports that some of the Israeli Maccabi team supporters were saying racist slogans, and other sources attest to additional actions, like getting in a fight with a taxi driver and ripping down a Palestine flag. These racist actions must be condemned in the strongest terms.

AND

The actions of these individuals in no way justifies the violent racist mob as a response. There are videos, taken by people in the car, deliberately running over Jews. There are a huge number of stabbing and attempted stabbing reports. Some of these mob members ran around accosting anyone they thought looked Jewish, and violence would ensue if you could not prove you were sufficiently Dutch and/or Arab. The article goes into none of this.

This is irresponsible reporting from the New York Times to reduce it to "just" soccer hooliganism, when this was a race riot, with a spectacularly shitty headline.

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להיות ישראלי זה לטעות בשם המספר.

ואני אוסיף: להיות ישראלי זה לתקן אנשים שטועים בשם המספר

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Actual fun Hebrew fact א: "lentils and lenses"

The Hebrew word for lentils is עדשים ('adashim), as used in בראשית:

וְיַעֲקֹב נָתַן לְעֵשָׂו לֶחֶם וּנְזִיד עֲדָשִׁים וַיֹּאכַל וַיֵּשְׁתְּ וַיָּקָם וַיֵּלַךְ וַיִּבֶז עֵשָׂו אֶת-הַבְּכֹרָה

(בראשית כ"ה, פסוק ל"ד)

But if you ask what the singular form of the word is, a lot of Hebrew natives will struggle to give the answer.

One immediate answer I got to hear plenty of times is עדש ('adash), which doesn't make much sense if you think about it a bit furthet: the word עדשים is gramatically female, evidently you're supposed to say עדשים אדומות ('adashim adumot) and not אדומים (adumim).

So, the singular of עדשים is actually עדשה ('adasha). Which is sort of refused to accept myself untill I looked into it (and untill I remembered that one translation of "princess and the pea" to modern Hebrew is "הנסיכה והעדשה" (Ha'nsicha VeHa'Adasha)...)

Why is that so weird to people who speak Hebrew natively? Because 'adasha also means "lens" in modern Hebrew. And what is the plural of that word? עדשות ('adashot).

So you have one word, עדשה ('adasha) which means both lentil and lens, but if you change it to singular - you get two different words, עדשים ('adashim) for lentils and עדשה ('adasha) for lens.

So, as happens often, Hebrew plurals are confusing.

Source: Hebrew Language Academy, 2011

Note: I often get too excited about certain Hebrew facts that I forget to fact-check them properly. Please do correct me if you think you've found any mistakes.

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Well thank G-d the people hunting Jews with knives in the streets of Amsterdam are only anti-Zionists, clearly no antisemitic or Nazis.

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Oh my goodness, no.

Matza brei recipe

Ingredients

X* matzas

X eggs

Sugar to taste

Cinnamon to taste

*whatever amount you like. 1 per person makes sense

How to make

Whisk eggs

Break matza into eggs. How small depends on how soft you want it to be. The smaller the softer. (Do NOT crumble.)

Add sugar (necessary, don't listen to Germans who add salt)

Add cinnamon (personally, I skip this since I'm not a big fan of cinnamon but it adds a lot of flavor so I'd say it's necessary)--to taste, but not a lot

Optional: Add nutmeg

Heat up a pan with whatever fat you like (walnut oil is delicious an isn't kitniyot!)

Dry matza in pan, stirring occasionally

Optional: Add powdered sugar (in my opinion, this is too sweet)

EAT!

Enough posts arguing with antisemites, we need to return to our roots and argue with each other. Here are some opinions I have, prove me wrong

Sweet kugel is gross and a food crime

Sim shalom is the best blessing/prayer like tune wise - goes fucking hard at shul when everyone does like the split lyric thing and we met up at the end

Purim is the best holiday

Matzoh fucking slaps

Matzoh ball soup is a year round dish, shouldn't only be eaten on pesach

Matzoh brei should not have eggs and should be cooked in a shit ton of butter

The reuben sandwich is the best recent food invented by a jew

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inspired by @maccabiposting’s dessert poll

Reblog for sample size

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i think when people talk about dsm diagnoses being 'destigmatised' it's usually the case that what they mean is the public perception of the diagnosis name (depression, anxiety, etc) has become associated with minor, temporary, or resolvable forms of distress. the experience of being so depressed you cannot get out of bed, or brush your teeth, or work -- that experience and those behaviours have never been 'destigmatised,' only associated with other diagnostic labels in certain discourses seeking to present 'depression' as treatable or minor. it's basically a semantic nosological shift, rather than any actual 'destigmatisation' of the behaviours psychiatry exists to pathologise -- widening (minimising) the diagnosis, then just moving any leftover 'scary' symptoms to a different diagnostic bucket. it's a rhetorical shell game that does not challenge, but exists symbiotically with, the ableism that causes behaviours like "not being able to get out of bed" to be stigmatised in the first place.

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I lit a candle for my cousin, Shir. I can't believe it's been a year, I still cry every time I think about her. So I decided to share some facts about her:

She loved butterflies

Her favorite color was yellow

When she was seven her parents let her help paint their home, several walls still have Shir butterflies everywhere she could reach

Her two front teeth were far enough apart that she could squirt water between them

She would get into arguments with stray cats

She liked to mix ketchup and honey and dip her fries in it (I taught her that one)

She used to make up songs about whatever she was doing (we sometimes called her "Shir ha'shirim)

Her bat mitzvah would have been this past may

She was twelve years old

Her body was found missing her pants and underwear

She had two bullet wounds in her chest

She didn't deserve that, no one deserves that

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Today I donated to Efrat.

Efrat is an organization which helps people who are pregnant and want to keep the baby, but feel that they cannot, or are not sure if they want to keep the baby.

They help financially until the baby is 18, they help with family--including escape from abusive situations, they have therapy available to the pregnant person, they help them find work after pregnancy and much more.

Efrat was founded by a Holocaust survivor after he saw the brutal murder of Jewish children by people who wanted no more Jews in the world.

One year ago Hamas brutally murdered Jews and anyone who helped Jews, including children. They want no Jews in the world.

Efrat fights against that.

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ok can we please agree that there is no such thing as a Christian Zionist? Just because unhinged evangelicals use us as set dressing in their end of days fanfiction doesn’t make them Zionist. It’s just another example in a long list of gross appropriations.

Zionism is a Jewish answer to the Jewish question: what can we do about all these goyim who keep trying to kill us? A Christian has no place in that discourse (hint: he’s the one trying to kill us).