#Fuck Hamas

[infiniteglitterfall]

That seems like it would very much depend on what you were condemning.

But more importantly, nothing in this thread was condemning Palestine, much less talking about settlements.

Palestine, the country, isn't committing terrorism.

October 7 came from the terrorist group that staged a violent coup in 2007, kicking the Palestinian government out of Gaza entirely, and has run it as a brutal dictatorship ever since.

It's part of Palestine, yes, but Hamas's actions certainly are not.

OP is pointing out that all countries have borders. And rules about who can cross those borders, and for how long, and what they can do there.

Israel does have very concrete reasons for the extremely pain-in-the-ass screenings at those borders/checkpoints. Like the fact that the second Intifada was characterized by weekly terrorist attacks, carried out by Hamas 'N' Friends against Israeli civilians.

As with Hezbollah in Lebanon, those terrorist groups have taken over a lot of areas in the West Bank.

The government and people of Palestine are pretty much powerless to rein them in.

And unfortunately, even the pro-Palestinian movement often actively supports them over the people of Palestine.

Me: Israeli borders don’t constitute apartheid btw.

🍉: Actually they are apartheid because Palestinians don’t have the same rights (provides a list) as Israelis. Also, they have checkpoints.

Me: *looks at the camera like Jim from The Office*

Me: You mean…..because they’re not citizens of Israel…? So of course they don’t have the same rights in Israel as Israeli citizens. Of course there are checkpoints - Oct. 7th reinforced the reasoning for said checkpoints. They have a tendency to try to kill people. That’s literally what that whole intifada business was about…? You know, the thing you keep begging for in your little protests.

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I know it's been over a week since Simchat Torah, but I have thoughts so I'm writing them now. First of all, this was probably my most meaningful Simchat Torah thus far. It was my first time celebrating with my university's Chabad and it was great to be dancing and singing with everyone.

However, the way the celebration was advertised was with things like "we're going to dance again" and "we'll dance for them". I follow a few different university Chabads, as well as a few Chabads from near where I grew up. All of their Simchat Torah posts had the same message.

Simchat Torah is special for two reasons (well, for many reasons, but I'm bringing up two). Firstly, it's supposed to be the happiest day on the Jewish calendar. Not just a happy day. The happiest. Second, it's not a "despite" holiday. What I mean by that is it isn't one of the "they tried to kill us, we survived, let's eat/celebrate" holidays. Simchat Torah is about the joy of being Jewish, the joy of having the Torah. It's a celebration directly between us and Hashem. There is no "despite". (Of course, I am not a rabbi or a scholar, so if I'm wrong in this feel free to correct me, but this is what I was taught.)

What Hamas did was turn the happiest day on the Jewish calendar into the eternal anniversary of a tragedy. What Hamas did was take this holiday that was about our joy and love of Torah and being Jewish, and turned it into a "despite" holiday.

This is yet another thing they stole from us.

We dance despite what happened. We sing despite our heartbreak.

I found myself thinking, will Simchat Torah ever be untainted again? Will it ever stop being a "despite" holiday again?

Will we ever dance without thinking of those who couldn't, and never will again? Will we ever dance without thinking of those who were taken from us, either killed or not yet returned?

We will dance again, but will we dance the same?

[infiniteglitterfall]

OP there first claimed that I was only using Western sources, then blocked me when I shared too many tweets from anti-Hamas Palestinians.

Not the first time. That is standard operating procedure in the pro-Palestinian movement. And it's probably the biggest red flag, out of a LOT of red flags, that this isn't any kind of grassroots progressive movement.

It's an astroturfed far-right Hamas movement, disguised with progressive buzzwords.

A progressive movement would be centering and platforming the activists on the ground. The people directly affected, who have expertise and knowledge in what's happening and what helps.

Not blocking them on sight, as many Palestinian activists have complained SJP leaders and pro-Pal influencers are doing. (Sometimes AFTER calling them "Zionists.")

Kudos to @queermarzipan for reporting OP for supporting terrorism. I'm posting this to show everyone how easy it is to do that. And to encourage fucking beg people to report worship of Hamas, PFLP, and all their pals.

This shit is screwing over the actual people of Gaza.

It's actively helping Hamas to continue silencing Gazan voices.

And it's abandoning the people of Gaza who have fought Hamas so fucking hard and suffered so fucking much at its hands.

I'll hand this post over to Gazan activist Hamza Howidy to explain more.

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We Gazans attempted several times to remove Hamas from power. In 2019 and in 2023, the people of Gaza held peaceful marches against Hamas; for this crime, we were brutally assaulted by Hamas militants. Hamas imprisoned over 1,300 protestors at each protest.

I was one of them. I was personally imprisoned by Hamas and tortured twice, because I participated in these protests.

So I know firsthand that when ordinary Gazans like myself protested against Hamas, there was no media attention.

No human rights organizations demanded the release of prisoners held for months in Hamas prisons, not to mention those who were tortured by Hamas, and even killed by Hamas—like Issam Al-Saaffein, who was killed under torture in Hamas's jails.

This trend has continued during the present war. Since October 7, hundreds of Gazans have been killed by Hamas' failing rockets. Hamas has confiscated the food, fuel, and medicine sent to Gaza, and they did not stop here. 13-year-old Ahmad Breka was shot in the head by Hamas in Rafah while attempting to collect humanitarian aid. Others were fortunate because they were merely shot in the legs by Hamas while attempting to grab humanitarian goods that Hamas stole and kept in their facilities. These inhumane acts, along with the agony that Gazans have undergone since October, prompted many to demonstrate anew during this war.

They demonstrated in Khan-Younis in front of Yahya Sinwar's house; others protested in the north, asking that Hamas free the captives and cease the war.

They received the same response from Hamas that I did: They were fired upon.

There have been protests in Gaza, throughout the war, demanding that Hamas surrender so they can finally have peace.

Nobody in the movement has heard of it or mentioned it. Much less coordinated protests with them, or amplified their demands. Instead, our protests ignore them at best. And often, openly fly Hamas flags.

Everyone who cares about Palestinians needs to reclaim this movement from Hamas and its supporters.

This is just one step towards doing that.

[bringherhome7]

Vogue Greece picked an Israeli model Sun Mizrahi to be on the cover of their “Mediterranean Touch” and their followers got really angry.

“Posting an Israeli model on your cover in the midst of current world events is an extremely tone deaf decision and it really does beg the question whether you are able to read the room” one commentator said. “This is not what Israelis look like” another one added.

This is just a radicalized and panicked whitewashing of Israel to fit an insane narrative that Israelis are all White.

They essentially ask Vogue to not show the world that Israelis are Middle Eastern people. And since it annoys them so much, I decided to post it here too 😘

[gaelic-symphony]

Six hostages were found murdered in Hamas tunnels under Rafah, and initial IDF reports say they were likely killed only a day or two before their bodies were recovered. These six precious souls managed to hold on for almost an entire year in the horrors of Hamas captivity, counting on Israeli and Palestinian leaders to end the war and bring them home to their families, but for eleven months, the world has instead turned its backs on the hostages in Gaza and emboldened their captors. Netanyahu and his cronies have blood on their hands. Sinwar, Abbas, and every other Palestinian leader who continues to promote false narratives about Israel and encourage violence against Jews have blood on their hands. The UN, the Red Cross and other so-called “humanitarian” NGOs who have aided Hamas terrorists have blood on their hands. Privileged western leftists who have emboldened Hamas with their unabashed Jew hate and calls to “globalize the intifada” have blood on their hands.

In Judaism, the phrase we usually say for those who have died is zichronam livrachah, may their memories be a blessing. But there is another phrase which we use when our people are murdered so brutally and senselessly like these six hostages whose loved ones will never get to hold them again. We say: Hashem yikom damam. May Hashem avenge their blood.

Hersh, Eden, Carmel, Almog, Ori, and Alexander, we will never forget you. You were loved, you were valued, and you deserved so much better. You should be alive and home with your families. May your captors and your murders face swift justice and never know a minute of peace. May no more families experience the enormity of devastation and grief that your families are feeling today after nearly a year of screaming and fighting to bring you home.

Fuck Hamas. Fuck Netanyahu. End this war and bring the hostages home. 🎗️

[milevenfcb]

gUyS lOoK aT tHaT aPaRtHeiD

[originalleftist]

Here's a controversial opinion that really shouldn't be:

Palestinians have the right to live in their homeland (or any other land) with security and dignity.

Israelis and Diaspora Jews also have the right to live in their homeland (or any other land) with security and dignity.

These need not and should not be contradictory positions, because the entire point of human rights is that they're universal, and if they're not, then they're not rights, just privileges, and you don't really believe in human rights at all.

[pettytiredandjewish]

Honestly fuck every one who supports Hamas. And fuck every one who is using this war as a reason to openly hate/attack Jewish and Israeli people. From the bottom of my heart- fuck you.

[orange-eyed-warrior]

I got it from reddit but whatever

[arunswild]

I don't really know what to say. This morning I got the news that six of the hostages were found dead, recently shot. I know the family of one of them, and they are the bravest and most resilient people I know. They gave me, and, well, everyone hope that their son would be back. I fully believed he would. Everyone did. I guess we just expected him to turn up one day at synagogue after all this time.

There are a few thoughts going through my head right now. Most of them start with the word "why", like,

Why did a 23 year old spend 11 out of the 12 months of his 23rd year in a tunnel?

Why do baby-murdering, hostage-taking, house-burning militias live two hours away from my house?

and

Why do I, an 18 year old, fresh out of highschool, know three dead people, ranging in ages from 19 to 32?

Some of them start with the words "what", like

What are they going to do now?

What awful, awful heartbreak am I going to hear about next?

and

What the fuck?

[notaplaceofhonour]

thinking of the meta irony of queer western leftists putting the 🔻 symbol, which hamas uses to mark their targets, on their profiles and outfits to show their support for hamas. they aren’t just supporting the leopards eating people’s faces party, they are actively writing “leopards, eat me” on their faces.

whether you know it or not, hamas knows it, and they are laughing: you are willingly marking yourselves for death to follow them.

[infiniteglitterfall]

I do realize this is a real niche post but I cannot tell you how many damn times over the past 10 months I've seen gentiles tell Jews some version of, "Your own holy book SAYS God doesn't want you to have a country yet!"

And it's such an incredibly blatant and weirdly specific tell that they're not part of something that grew from progressive grassroots, but something based on right-wing astroturfing.

1. Staying in your own lane is a pretty huge progressive principle.

Telling people in another group that their deity said they couldn't do X is, I think, as far as you can get from your own lane.

2. It's also very clearly Not In Your Own Lane because I've never seen anyone actually be able to EITHER quote the passage they're thinking of, OR cite where it is.

It's purely, "I saw somebody else say this, and it seemed like it would make me win the debate I wasn't invited to."

3. It betrays a complete ignorance of Jewish culture and history.

Seriously? You don't know what you're referencing, its context, or even what it specifically says, but you're... coming to a community that reads and often discusses the entire Torah together each year, at weekly services... who have massive books holding generations of debate about it that it takes 7 years to read, at one page per day....

And saying, "YOUR book told you not to!"

I've been to services where we discussed just one word from the reading the whole time. The etymology. The connotations. The use of it in this passage versus in other passages.

And then there is the famous saying, "Ask two Jews, get three opinions." There is a culture of questioning and discussion and debate throughout Judaism.

You think maybe, in the decades and decades of public discussion about whether to buy land in Eretz Yisrael and move back there; whether it should keep being an individual thing, or keep shifting to intentional community projects; what the risks were; whether it should really be in Argentina or Canada or someplace instead; how this would be received by the Jews and gentiles already there, how to respect their boundaries, how to work with them before and during; and whether ending up with a fuckton of Jews in one place might not be exactly as dangerous for them as it had always been everywhere else....

You think NOBODY brought up anything scriptural? Nobody looked through the Torah, the Nevi'im, the Ketuvim, or the Talmud for any thoughts about any of this?? It took 200 years and some rando in the comments to blow everyone's minds???

4. It relies on an unspoken assumption that people can and should take very literal readings of religious texts and use them to control others.

And a sense of ownership and power over those texts, even without any accompanying knowledge about what they say.

It's kind of a supercessionist know-it-all vibe. It reads like, "I know what you should be doing. Because even if I'm not personally part of a fundamentalist branch of a related religion, the culture I'm rooted in is."

Bonus version I found when I was looking for an example. NOBODY should do this:

There are a lot of people who pull weird historical claims like "It SAYS Abraham came from Chaldea! That's Iraq!"

Like, first of all, a group is indigenous to a land if it arose as a people and culture there, before (not because of) colonization.

People aren't spontaneously spawning in groups, like "Boom! A new indigenous people just spawned!!"

People come from places. They go places. Sometimes, they gel as a new community and culture. Sometimes, they bop around for a while and eventually assimilate into another group.

Second: THE TORAH IS NOT A HISTORY TEXTBOOK OMFG.

It's an oral history, largely written centuries after the fact.

There is a TON of historical and archaeological research on when and where the Jewish culture originated, how it developed over time, etc. It's extremely well-established.

Nobody has to try to pull what they remember from Sunday school for this argument.

[bringherhome7]

Former hostage Noa Argamani attends the funeral of her mother after she passed away from stage 4 terminal brain cancer.

Liora Argamani passed away just 2 weeks after her daughter’s rescue- with her last wish being to see her daughter one last time after she was held hostage for 8 months.

Speaking at the funeral, Noa said:

“Against all odds, I was fortunate to be with you in your final moments, to talk with you, laugh with you, and hear your last words.

Thank you for being strong and holding on all this time, just so I could see you at least one more time. Just so Dad wouldn't be left alone.”

[ne0n-and-garbage]

Friendly reminder that JEWS ARE INDIGENOUS TO ISRAEL. GET OVER IT. Shove that between your fucking river and sea.

[milevenfcb]

Because a certain group of people doesn’t seem to understand:

Hamas 👏 Could 👏 End 👏 The 👏 War 👏 Right 👏 Now 👏 But 👏 They 👏 Are 👏 Rejecting 👏 Every 👏 Ceasefire 👏 Proposal 👏 From 👏 Israel 👏 And 👏 Won’t 👏 Release 👏 Israeli 👏 Hostages 👏

[mossadspypigeon]