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there r real teens out there who think discovering nirvana is a special achievement 

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(photos by sal_marin)

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an interaction im very tired of in online autism spaces. aka when you don’t have a special interest / when your special interest isn’t [character] or [fandom]

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I better not be seeing Islamophobia and anti arab sentiment due to the Amsterdam pogrom.

Yes, some arabs and Muslims participated in the attack. Some of the videos have Arabic spoken in it.

You can criticize arabs and Muslims who participated in the attack specifically, talk about antisemitism in Islam and held by arabs, all without attacking Muslims and arabs as a whole.

I hate hate hate that I have to make this post as i hope that there isnt any Islamophobia or anti arab racism full stop.

This post is targeted specifically to Islamophobes and anti arab racists in general across all races, ethnicities and religions who are going to use this attack for their bigoted purposes.

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There was an attack on Jews in Amsterdam. Horrific levels of violence. I'm having trouble getting much information about this, but consistently, I'm seeing news sources try and shift at least some blame onto Israeli people.

This is antisemitism. This is virulent, violent, antisemitism. Many of us, Jewish and non-Jewish, saw this kind of thing coming.

You can say you're not antisemitic all you want, but when we tell you that your rhetoric is violent and dangerous, you should listen to us. Please listen.

Peace activism requires peaceful intentions, methods, and messaging. Nobody deserves to be attacked for who they are or where they are from. Not Palestinians and not Israelis either.

May all beings be happy, may all beings be free. 🙏

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The behaviour of the Israeli hooligans in Amsterdam was disgusting and deserving of legal consequences.

Mob mentality is wrong. An angry mob taking matters into its hands is never the right response.

There's evidence that the antisemitic attacks were planned *before* the Israeli hooligans had done anything. People were called to participate in a "Jew Hunt" on social media.

I'm sorry that some of your brains can't process the fact that two or more things can be true at the same time.

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I have seen multiple posts going around making fun of, or minimizing, what happened in Amsterdam from antizionists. So I want to give a timeline of what happened.

Pre the attack:

Before people arrived in Amsterdam for the football match, there were people organizing the pogrom. Stuff like wanting to steal jews passports, were shared on social media. Yes, the word used on social media was jews not Israelis. The main people organizing the attack were arab and muslim. We do not know at this point if all the attackers were arab and muslim, but we do know that at least a majority were. This fact does not mean that all Muslims and arabs want to harm all jews, however the extremism which lead to the attack and antisemitisms place in it can and should be talked about.

The Israeli government got wind of this attack and warned the Netherlands Police, who decided to not do anything to protect jews.

This did not happen because the Israeli team lost, despite what certain people are saying.

Day before or of the attack (unconfirmed which day it was):

Once in Amsterdam, there were some fans who did tear down Palestinian flags and chant a racist anti arab chant. Whilst this is still very much racist and should be labeled as such as viewed as bad, it's not out of character for for European football culture, and has happened before with other fans which have not lead to them being hunted down. The pogrom was pre planned and still not a proportional response.

The attack:

Jews were hunted down, beaten, run over, and many more things. They were also forced to say "free gaza" and "free Palestine"

The attack harmed far more than just those who were racist. They attacked jews and anyone they perceived as Jewish indiscriminately.

Jews were saved by an Arab Israeli football player speaking to them loudly in Arabic so people assumed they were arab Israeli or just Arab.

A Greek man was attacked because he could not prove to the attackers that he wasn't jewish and was in fact Greek.

A brittish man was punched because he helped save jews. And when he told his attackers that he was brittish and not israeli or jewish (not sure if he wasn't, but he told his attackers he wasn't), he was told "but you helped a jew"

Jewish businesses were also broken into.

How and why it is antisemitic:

If at this point, you still cannot see why it was an antisemitic attack, let's recap.

• It was a planned attack on jews, not Israelis, jews. And it was planned before any racist things happened.

● jews were spared if they were perceived to be non jews, including being perceived as arab Israeli and non jews were attacked for being perceived as jews and for helping jews

• Jewish businesses were broken into. If it was about breaking into zionist businesses, ones own by non Jewish zionists also would've been broken into, but they were not.

• Non Israeli jews were attacked

It is antisemitic, as the targets of the attack were specifically jews. It was not revenge for palestine or for racist comments.

Israel intervened and flew people out of Amsterdam as it was no longer safe for jews in the city. Not because they lost the match.

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You'd think the tumblr userbase, of all groups, would get why "committing a premeditated hate crime is okay as long as at some point between you planning it and you doing it, a member of the group you're targetting does something shitty" is a bad precedent to set, and yet

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Feeling the need to apologize for being mentally ill is a miserable, miserable thing.

I’m sorry I can’t focus well, I’m sorry I get all scrambled when I talk, I’m sorry I get sad easily or for no reason, I’m sorry I can’t keep my room clean. I’m sorry if I embarrass you by crying in public, or if I annoy you when I talk about things that I’ve told you about twenty times already.

I’d act normal if I knew how, but that’s just not the way my brain works.

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Like/reblog if you think that you don't need to medically transition to be transgender

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INCASE PEOPLE FORGOT!!!!

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I don't think some people realize this

SOME people however take this way too far and completely misinterpret it (the freaks)

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hngggghhh,,,, amphibia tattoo, ,,,

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Birchbark

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Just FYI because y'all seem to have forgotten but it's like insanely insanely racist to call random diaspora Jews "settlers" and "colonizers" unprompted.

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Sephardi & Romaniote Jewish Women's Clothing in the Byzantine and Ottoman Periods, illustrated by Nikos Stavroulakis

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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.