mynameisgoliath

[mynameisgoliath]

I'm sick and tired of people screaming at israel about the west bank. Calling it occupied territories when some of the very foundational locations of our culture are there. Fucking Bethlehem is there. A place literally bearing a hewbrew name of "house of bread" fuck goyim. It's our ancestral land. And it IS occupied. But not by us. By colonizers from neighboring nations from the last few centuries. Idk. Maybe it's a hot take. But to ac trike we don't even have a claim to that land infuriated me. I have friends who trace their entire bloodline to villages that are or were in "the west bank"

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חנוכה שנייה שיש חטופים בעזה

[mynameisgoliath]

Don't you say borei pri ha'adama also for hydroponics?

Lost actual sleep yesterday over space hahaha so Jews on my phone please help

- do you say bore pri ha'adama if the fruit was grown in space?

- does the space helmet count as a kippah

- on some planets a day is longer than an earth year. What do.

- is going to space even ok (see tower of babel incident)

- if the moon really is cheese. Is it dairy (bcuz cheese) or parve (because moon)

- would my spaceship need a mezuzah because I live in it or is it like a car

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Is your name a non-English name?

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went to wikipedia to fact check somethings about a guy from ww2 era history and it had been edited beyond belief to erase this person's connections with nazi germany. the second google result is the holocaust encyclopedia page all about his horrible crimes in the nazi regime. but on wikipeida, his description is vague and mild and barely mentions it. it's so worrying. I hate it. what happens when gen z only reads wikipedia pages and denounces any sources that are "too zionist" like a holocaust museum's encyclopedia? thank g-d for jewish historians, what would we do without them, but i'm so so scared that our history is going to be rewritten because no one will listen to us on our own history.

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[mynameisgoliath]

Why Do We Pay People to Hurt Us?

For example, let’s take Lee Mordechai. 

He is a doctor of history at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. He decided Israel is guilty of genocide and wrote a bajillion pages on it. He then went on to be interviewed by socialist Israel hater Owen Jones, which is probably the most attention he ever got in his life. His unreadable drivel is published on Twitter and the university’s official website. The latter is what to focus on.

More or less what you’d imagine…

Lee is supposedly a historian of the Eastern Roman Empire. His opinion on the subject of international law is as relevant as that of a bus driver on marine biology. I don't recall the ICC ever indicting Justinian for genocide or Belisarius lecturing his officers on the principle of proportionality. 

So why did Lee do this? I suppose getting some free PR from Israel haters is a cheap and simple way for an "academic" to be noticed. Let's be honest: no one is going to interview you on Byzantine history (and get more than 12 views) unless you're actually exceptional. 

And well, did any of you ever hear of Lee before?

Now, I'm a strong supporter of freedom of speech. In no way do I think Lee should be banned from spreading his fake, one-sided "research" on a subject he's clearly not qualified to talk about. 

That's what Twitter is all about, after all. We're all armchair something or other here. Most of us are not traitors, but sure. Whatever floats your goat.

However, what I don't understand is why I'm supposed to pay the salary of an “academic” who uses his professional time and space to actively hurt the state of Israel instead of doing his bloody job? Can a teacher in Israel be in full service of the enemy without any repercussions at all? 

These are questions we should address the Hebrew University of Jerusalem or our "Right Wing" government.

URI KURLIANCHIK

DEC 12

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Give me one logically supportable reason why the fuck we should have an iota of respect for someone's culture if it's misogynistic?

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i’m seeing a lot of people on instagram and irl praising president elect trumps most recent statement regarding the hostage crisis and middle east strife.

they say this should have been americas stance from october 8th 2023 onward. while i agree the focus on the hostages has waned globally and our concern should really be rescuing who we can and those responsible should be held accountable, the language of this post is rhetorically manipulative to the jewish community. he is telling a lot of us what we want to hear, we want someone to really stand up for us on the political stage (ritchie torres) and stay with their full chest that they are on our team— but this message is not doing that. this message is that of a war monger drumming up his base to create more chaos as the transition of power becomes an even larger public spectacle. i can tell because he says the world wants the hostages back. that it’s demonstrably false. for example, a staffer to the new york city mayors office was suspended without pay this week for tearing down hostage posters.

this statement from trump uses the hostages to bolster a hawkish sentiment that is growing into mainstream.

i don’t have answers or edits to his statement. it speaks for itself. i’m just very tired. tired of this rhetoric, tired of every day bringing conflicting reports of broken ceasefires and coalitions of global powers backing theocratic regimes.

the path to peace is fraught with violent traps and i see far too many of us falling into it over and over again. people i regard as brilliant are taking trumps statement as a net positive. i have a sick feeling its not.

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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

[mynameisgoliath]

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.

[mynameisgoliath]

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