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I try to truly believe “a Jew is a Jew is a Jew”, but some of these converts are making it difficult post-Oct. 7th.

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one thing i need you all to realize is that you have to fight like hell for the marginalized people you don’t like. you have to fight for the cringey discourse queer and the misogynistic man of color and the transphobic cis woman and the politically conservative jew and the racist disabled person. you don’t have to like them or agree with them. but if you see them experiencing bigotry and you are a person who claims to be against bigotry, you are obligated to fight for them. you have to fight against bigotry, even if you don’t like the target of that bigotry, because as soon as you let yourself slip, as soon as you allow bigotry on your watch, even if it is directed at the shittiest person you’ve ever met, you’ve now established that in your personal ethos bigotry isn’t wrong, it’s a weapon. and as soon as you’re okay with bigotry being used as a weapon, you have already lost.

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“No human being is illegal” was first spoken by Elie Wiesel, Z’’L, a Jewish Holocaust survivor. “Illegal immigrant” was first used to label Jewish refugees fleeing the Holocaust and being denied entry to then Mandatory Palestine. There is nothing wrong with universalizing the quote and its message, Wiesel himself did, but if you use it and also erase its Jewish, antisemitic, and anti-antisemitic origins? You’re doing it wrong.

Also if you’re pumped up about Nazis being punched, but still think Jews are privileged and behind all the world’s evils? You’re also doing it wrong.

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Arab-Israeli questioning why Israel is accused of being apartheid when his personal experiences show him otherwise.

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A rather irritating observation I've made over the last few days is that there is a considerable overlap between the group of people who make statements to the effect of:

"Luigi is being charged with terrorism? Talk about overdefining and overusing the term!"

and the group who make statements to the effect of,

"Israel is committing genocide! Look, Amnesty International, Ireland, and several other countries all think so!"

Ignoring the fact that all of the groups trying to make that claim are saying that they have to change the definition of genocide to make it fit.

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When I say I’m a Zionist, all I mean is that I want a country that already exists, that has existed for 75 years, to continue to exist. Not the current government, just the country itself. That shouldn’t be a controversial stance.

It’s not normal to need an entire movement around wanting an existing country to keep existing. It’s not normal that there’s an entire movement dedicated to the complete destruction of one singular country and no other.

Even if you insist on comparing Israel to the most evil regimes; Nazi Germany, apartheid South Africa - which you shouldn’t because it’s false and antisemitic, but even if you did - the Nazis were defeated, the Nazi occupation of other countries was defeated, but Germany is still a country. Apartheid ended, but South Africa is still a country. British colonies have fought for and won independence one by one, but Britain is still a country. In the US, slavery ended, segregation was struck down, but the US is still a country. It’s only Israel where people pose the ridiculous question of whether a country should still be a country.

And to everyone who says “I don’t think the US should exist either,” bullshit. You’re not doing anything about that. There is no movement to abolish the United States, and last time there was, that movement was comprised of the racist slave owners.

The fact that the argument over Israel’s existence has been normalized when there is no such argument about any other country in the world, is ridiculous. It’s insane that non-Jews can’t talk about Israel the way they talk about every other country, that they can’t criticize its government, military, or policies without jumping right to “and therefore Israel should be destroyed.” They say this about the one Jewish country and no others, and they really pretend they don’t see anything wrong with that.

Not to mention that abolishing a country is completely impractical in ways that have never occurred to them. Like there’s a sign on a border gate that says “Israel” that they can just paint over to say “Palestine” and that will be that.

Step 1: replace all the flags

Step 2: ???????

Step 3: utopia

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this post has over 5000 notes. and y’all wonder why jews don’t feel safe around you. if you think platforming someone who rants abt “zionist animals” and “zio dogs” is activism you are a fool. this is bold faced antisemitism and the fact you can’t see it is on you.

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"Israeli Jews are foreigners, not indigenous peoples"

Like, not really but, can we just talk about stupid it is when reading between the lines?

Because when Israel gets labeled as colonialist almost no one actually thinks specifically about the west bank settlements or something, it's about Zionism as a whole, aka the "let Jews move here" movement, as implied by throwing in the word white for seemingly no reason.

And here's the kicker, you do realize you picked quite possibly the dumbest strip of land on the entire planet to say that about, right? It's not some pristine isolated culture like the damn Greenlandics or aboriginal Australians, it's one of the single most diverse places in the world prior to the age of European exploration. Everyone has been here, Persians Greeks Assyrians Egyptians Romans Arabs Ottomans yada yada sure, but going way beyond actual imperialism being the famous holy land™ it has attracted inhabitants and visitors from all quarters of the known world, and it shows in the ancestry of Palestinians themselves and the demographic makeup of the cities. To have the audacity to say certain groups of people "don't belong here" (let alone the fucking JEWS) has got to be one of the dumbest things one can even dream of doing when concerning themselves with actual society-collapsing colonialism.

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Jews 👏were👏not👏welcomed👏in 👏Middle Eastern 👏countries!!👏

Stop with the revisionism jfc!! They were exiled/killed/forced converted/faced discriminatory laws

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ok call me when new york city is keeping tens of thousands of people in hellish underground prisons for decades with no trial and zero access to the outside world so when they’re freed they ask if they got liberated by notorious dead person of 18 years saddam hussein

i don’t think if you let people out of rikers they would ask if they had been pardoned by ronald reagan

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i’m glad that syria is free, that prisoners are being freed, that families are being reunited, and that refugees finally have the opportunity to return home. and at the same time, i’m also thinking about the fact that the syrian jews who were forced to flee syria will not be among those refugees. i’m thinking about the fact that assad demanded that syrian jews fleeing to the us be called tourists and buy round trip tickets, which meant they could not be considered refugees and therefore did not have that path to citizenship, only temporary permits and political asylum which were extremely restrictive. syrian jews in the us fought hard for their rights and it was only in 2000 that a bill was passed granting them citizenship. i’m thinking about the two elderly jewish women, two of the last three jews in syria, who live in qamishli, the same town where 57 jews were murdered in a pogrom after the 6 day war. i’m thinking about the four syrian jewish girls who were raped, murdered, and mutilated for trying to flee to israel. i’m thinking about the fact that while i am glad that syria is finally free from assad, syrian jews will likely never be able to experience that freedom for themselves.

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There’s a lot of very blatant horrifying Fascist Shit going down and coming out every day. There’s stuff I would normally be screaming about as loudly as possible. Like this:

Because in my day, we called them “transit camps pending deportation to the East for labor.”

I’m burnt out from the book writing process, and I’m struggling to grapple with all the very fucking Holocaust-Esque shit which is/going to be coming out of the Trump Administration, and all the incitement to violence historians will face from his supporters when we speak out.

This is going to be/already is very bad, and I need to build my strength and resilience.

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At this point, it's pretty clear that the MAGA movement and the Hamasnik movement (not going to call it "Pro-Palestine", because they're not) are both pretty much the same. One is Christofascist and White Supremacist, and the other is Islamofascist and Arab Supremacist, but other than those differences, they're more alike each other than they're different.

So I put this together out of some bitter humor.

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I recently learned about Yuval Roth, an Israeli man whose brother was kidnapped and killed by Hamas in 1993. In 2006, to cope with this tragedy, he founded Road To Recovery, a charity that has since transported over 50,000 sick and injured Palestinians from Gaza and the West Bank to Israeli hospitals for treatment.

It's hard for me to think of a person who's more clearly and objectively good.

But this is where things get ugly: I'm in a predominantly queer, leftist Discord server, and we were talking about people who've helped Palestinians, so I brought up Roth, expecting people to be encouraged or uplifted by the work he's doing. That was... not the response.

Anyway, now I'm in an argument with people I who thought were reasonable, because they're calling him a Zionist colonizer for the crime of being an Israeli Jew living in Israel. And like, what the fuck do they want from him? What could he possibly do that would be more useful? Do they want him to single-handedly overthrow Netanyahu? What the fuck is the fantasy here?

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Ok so i am late by like a month, i have been busy and STILL didn't finish my native jewish miku but fuck it here's indigenous, native israeli miku with a little of my touch and a small analysis:

The clothes:

The dress is double layered and based on biblical description i saw of the clothes ancient jews wore i added yellow hoops at the end of the dress to represent the color of our oppression- yellow belts under the muslim rule and yellow stars in the holocaust

The embroidery:

The Rikma(embroidery) is a personal project i am working on for the past 3 months. The embroidery that WAS practiced on the land eventually was allowed only to muslims and arabs, jews in ottoman syria/palestine were so oppressed and poor they didn't have access to threads and around 1800's some rabbis discoraged jews being involved in arab activity, not only that the jews has completely disconnected themselves from most of the arab culture after the spread of zionism to the land as a form of building their own identity. And if there were jews involved in embroidery it is unknown bc all the photos i see are labeled as "palestinian woman" with no explanation if it is a christian, muslim or jewish.

My project consists of making patterns and motifs based on jewish history, symbols, traditions, land etc and i try to make it original, unique and as diverse from the tatreez as possible to avoid conflict. If any of you want i can explain in a different analysis on what each pattern represents.

The jewelry:

I genuinely suck at drawing gold and jewelry and tried my best to adorn her with as much jewelry as i can. The side piece(that can barely be seen) is also a pattern i came up with, i call it "amulet"

(ps. I forgot to make her a normal necklace, wanted to make it with a hamsa)

Henna:

Henna is still practiced by jews, mainly sefardic and mizrahi jews + ashkenazi jews who grow up and participate in mizrahi culture. The henna on the hands is based on patterns i saw some jewish artists made (on google unfortunately it didn't have names) which has the star of david on it and on the legs i made a mix of bukharan and yemeni jewish henna.

So here it is. A native, indigenous jewish/judean/israeli(te) miku. I tried my best✨

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ISRAEL / IZRAEL - collage views on post cards from various cities / places. The last photo -> oak of Abraham in Mamre near Hebron.