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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.

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I think part of what is so upsetting about some people's participation in activism related to I/P is that many have framed the conflict as a binary choice between two opposing teams.

What if I genuinely want the best for everybody involved? What if I believe violence against anybody on the basis of their nationality/ethnicity/religion is wrong? What if I see both Israelis and Palestinians as fully human, worthy of dignity and respect, undeserving of violence directed at them?

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Dara Horn

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Just saw an "antizionism" blog named after black september, the very organization that orchestrated the munich olympics shooting. With a very obviously antisemitic pfp of a magen david being stabbed. If there is one nazi at your rally you are at a nazi rally. How the fuck can these people still claim to not hate jews.

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For anyone still claiming this Amnesty International shit is accurate.

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I feel like a lot of people, even if they don't realize it, just truly do think that Jews are supposed to be a minority with little power wherever they are and it's bad and suspicious when they're not.

Criticize all the Muslim majority countries there that have it enshrined in law that the government needs to be majority Muslim and only Muslims can hold the highest positions and then maybe I'll trust you're sincere in your concerns about Israel "fixing the game to always keep Jews in power".

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i am so unbelievably tired of nobody but jewish people caring about antisemitism

i know what people mean when they say “mourning a world they thought they lived in”

i thought i lived in a world where antisemitism was treated as terrible. where people cared about antisemitism as much as they cared about, say, sexism or homophobia or any other forms of racism

but they don’t. nobody fucking cares about the jews.

im so unbelievably tired of it. im tired of literal nazi propaganda and TEXTBOOK antisemitic caricatures, stereotypes, etc are regarded as normal. im tired of fully believing you could directly copy+ paste an excerpt from mein kampf on here and it would get hundreds or thousands of notes. im tired of being scared to post something like this because im scared ill lose my friends or people who follow me. i’m so scared to post this. i really really am.

the jews are fucking tired. the jews are exhausted

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i wish ppl on this website, and within leftist circles in general, were a little less gung ho about making jokes or statements like "billionaires arent people" "nazis arent people" "police arent people"

there is no level of evil where a human stops being a human. if you decide to kill them for their crimes, then you are killing a human. and sometimes that is justified! oil execs and war profiteers have destroyed countless lives in service of their own sick greed, and given the chance to enact that same violence on them, id probably pop their heads like a pimple.

but it is important that we do not shy away from the reality of that choice. it is a human life that is being ended. a person with interiority, feelings, family.

if we stop considering any group as people, even a group defined by their own evil actions, then we are drawing a line to divide society into persons and non-persons, and stating that those non-persons do not deserve to live.

i hope i dont need to explain why that is a dangerous position to take.

these people and all of their evil, their greed, their hatred, are just as much a part of humanity as art, culture, language, food. they are a part of us that has grown malignant and cancerous, and like a cancer, they must be excised for the sake of the whole--but they are still a part of us, made of the same stuff as us, down to their cores.

evil humans are still humans.

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Friendly reminder that interfaith families with a Jewish partner and a Christian partner exist (as do many other configurations of mixed family structures), any holiday decor or greetings cards you see combining Christmas and Hanukkah is more likely than not intended for that specific audience. You don't have to like seeing the two combined, but when you go out of your way to make snide comments the only people getting hurt are people in interfaith families, not the companies making the products.

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"There are no [insert hated nationality or ethnicity here] cilvilians/noncombatants" is standard genocidal rhetoric, by the way. If you are saying this, you are giving a standard justification for genocide. It's right up there with the related tactic of insisting that all members of [insert hated nationality or ethnicity here] are guilty of some collective crime. I want to be clear here. These are both always very wrong, very bad, and very dangerous. It does not matter if you think you are right this time, and the people you are fighting are really evil and deserve it. Everyone who has ever said these things has believed that too.

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an american recruitment poster depicting the daughter of zion in a pose similar to that of uncle sam (both inspired by england's lord kitchener).

the yiddish text reads "your old-new-land must have you! / join the jewish regiment."