#If you don't want to be antisemitic you can actually talk about what you're opposing instead of implying it's an inherently Jewish bloodlust

[infiniteglitterfall]

Just a reminder: calling Jews "pigs" is "an allusion to the fundamentalist antisemitic slur that Jews are descendants of apes or pigs."

Prefacing it with "zionist," as in, "Fuck you, zionist pig," does not give you plausible deniability.

Real-life examples of its usage, from the Telegram account for Hamas & its associated groups:

October 6, 2023, 1¼ hours before Hamas officially began its Al-Aqsa Flood massacre: (warning, that link shares extremely graphic details)

October 28, 2023:

February 4, 2024:

January 9, 2024:

[spacelazarwolf]

Hey, I saw a post from another tumblr user that you are a Zionist and spreading false info about Jewish people being excluded from pride parades and I don't know what a Zionist is (they just said it was nationalist) but I enjoy your blog and wanted to ask you about it directly to understand better whats going on if thats okay? Im not anonymous in case you want to privately answer or tell me youd not want to discuss. 💕

first, i wanna thank you for being respectful about this, and for asking this off anon. this tells me you're asking in good faith, so i'm happy to answer.

i've had to state numerous times on my blog that i'm not a zionist bc people love to slap that label on any jew they disagree with, which is exactly what's happening in this situation. they disagreed with what i said about a lot of jews not feeling comfortable at pride because of the pervasive antisemitism in queer spaces, and several queer events banning the jewish pride flag because it "looked too similar to the israeli flag" and decided that made me a zionist. it happens a lot bc ppl know that that word is very taboo in activist spaces, and labeling you a zionist is a surefire way to get you kicked out of a lot of progressive circles. interestingly (said with a huge dollop of sarcasm) this rarely happens to gentiles.

zionist is also a pretty useless word for determining what someone actually believes, because depending on who you ask their ideologies can range from "i think that jewish people should be able to live in the land that is currently israel and palestine alongside palestinians and other indigenous groups" to "i think that only jews should get to live in that area and we should kick everyone else out." and as you can imagine, there's lots of people like me who agree with the first statement but vehemently disagree with the second. it's become somewhat of a dogwhistle, to the point that alt righters popularized "zio" as a slur, which was then picked up by leftists (because there is also a huge problem with antisemitism in leftist and non palestinian gentile-dominated antizionist spaces.) one of the events i mentioned in the first paragraph deleted a tweet using this slur.

the person you're probably talking about also claimed that i, a genderqueer trans man, am a misogynist, because i said that jewish masculinity is very culturally different from white masculinity and that i find a lot of comfort in it. they cited a bunch of problems with misogyny within the orthodox community, despite the fact i'm not orthodox or even ashkenazi. what it boiled down to is that they disagree with the takes i have on anti transmasculinity, and they needed something else to pin it on.

so in the future, if you see someone accusing a jew of being a zionist, take everything they have to say with a bucket full of salt and do as you did with this ask and go ask the person what they actually believe. sometimes you'll find their beliefs actually don't line up with your morals and you can unfollow, but the vast majority of the time you'll find that they just said something someone didn't like and it was the easiest way to discredit them.

in general, i don't share my opinions about zionism/antizionism on tumblr because that's not what my blog is centered on, and also i oppose the expectation that jews should have to disclose our opinions on zionism in order for gentiles to determine whether or not we are worth listening to. i also have a lot of thoughts abt how the focus on anti-anything makes it easier for activists to weaponize that activism against marginalized people, but that's an entirely different post.

anyway, i hope that answers your question, and i will probably pin this ask somewhere on my blog since i have been asked this a few times now and it seems unavoidable since ppl just won't drop it.

[cazort]

I am seeing a lot of news items about the march in Washington D.C. today. I personally knew at least two people who went to this march and possibly more because I haven't been in touch with all of my friends who might have gone to it.

A lot of news outlets are framing this as a "pro-Israel" march, whereas others are framing it as a protest against antisemitism.

Far-right extremist zionist groups like AIPAC are undoubtedly going to try to use the large attendance at this event to fuel their narrative that people "support Israel" meaning that they support everything that Israel is doing right now.

But if you actually talk to people who went to this march, you find that their views are complex. Many of them (probably an overwhelming majority of them) are highly critical of Netanyahu's government and concerned about the extreme violence that this government has been carrying out. Keep in mind that even conservative media in Israel have covered the fact that Netanyahu's government supported Hamas for years, and all left-leaning media there is already highly critical of him. I have heard him described as "Israel's version of Trump".

There is a tendency in some subcultures to frame the whole topic of Israel and Palestine as a sort of strict binary, a sort of "You're either with us or you're with them." and there is a ton of money flowing into this narrative, and the reason is that it keeps the existing government in power and keeps US military aid flowing into it. AIPAC alone has a budget in the neighborhood of $69-77 million per year, and there are a lot of other organizations and also big private donors. AIPAC hammers in hard the idea that any criticism of Israel or Zionism is "antisemitism" and equates participation in any pro-Palestinian cause as "supporting Hamas" and then argues that it involves arguing for the extermination of all Jews in Israel because that is what the original Hamas charter called for. And the ADL, which historically was a good organization that worked against antisemitism in the framework of opposing all hate ideologies, has recently been taken over by far-right hardliners much like AIPAC, and now has a stance equating criticism of Israel with anti-semitism. And the ADL has an even bigger budget, around $81-101 million annually. These and other organizations are pouring millions into trying to get you to think of these things in binaristic terms, and they have basically become propaganda arms for the government in Israel, lobbying groups to try to ensure that the billions in military aid (which are much bigger than the budgets of these organizations) keep flowing.

But if you actually talk to people you find no one actually believes this stuff. Go to a pro-Palestine protest and ask people how they feel about Hamas and nearly everyone dislikes Hamas. After all, Hamas was supported and funded by the Israeli government for years as part of a strategy to divide and discredit the Palestinians, and people are also appalled at things like how Hamas intimidates, threatens, and jails any sort of internal opposition, and of course how their attacks in Israel sparked the recent genocidal rampage Israel has gone on.

Similarly, talk to people going to these pro-Israel and anti-antisemitism protests and you find people don't actually support the current Israeli government. Many of them directly blame Netanyahu for the attacks. Many of them are appalled by the violence being committed against Palestinians, not only now, but over the past many decades. And those who are not appalled, it's not that they don't care, it's mainly that they don't know; propaganda can be powerful.

So I hope this clarifies. You do not want to see Jews, even Jews who actively support Israel, as the enemy here. It is important to keep talking to all these people, and building as broad a consensus as possible to cut off U.S. military aid to Israel, to expose the dark money flowing into AIPAC, the co-opting of the ADL by far-right extremism, and the way these organizations are conspiring to funnel billions into the Israeli military and use them to finance their genocidal campaign against the Palestinian people, a campaign that goes hand-in-hand with supporting Hamas and Islamic extremism, and thus also goes hand-in-hand with tragic explosions of violence against some of the most vulnerable Israelis as well. These groups also fuel antisemitism because they benefit from it and can use it to advance their agenda.

It is horrific and we need to all work together to stop it NOW.

[weemietime]

Actual nonsense. Israel is a legally established country. Hamas is the recognized official government of Gaza, which Israel was not occupying in any manner prior to October 7th.

You can say they had a blockade which is "basically occupation" [it is not] but so does every other neighboring country with Gaza because they've done nothing but launch rockets and invade and attempt coups any time anyone has extended hands to them.

It's why Jordan won't deal with them. Lebanon won't deal with them. Syria won't. Egypt blockades them as well. So if you're saying Israel is an occupier yada-yada, then you'd better be protesting about how Egypt shouldn't be a country, too.

See, when you say "Israel has no legal right to defend itself," not only is this incorrect - Israel is a legally recognized sovereign country and you cannot invade countries at will and kill civilians and take hostages at will - it obviously means you don't believe Israel has a right to exist.

Which is of course, antisemitic bullshit gibberish nonsense. Only 31% of Israel's entire population is Ashkenazi, anyway. You claim that Israel isn't legitimate and that Jews should go back to Europe. A land that 61% of Israeli Jews are not from. You preach Land Back but deny Jewish people, the indigenous inhabitants of Israel, their rightful place in their rightful homes. You accuse Jews of colonizing Israel by returning the street names and buildings to their original Hebrew.

Because Israel was colonized, literally, by Arabs. Who are not indigenous to Israel. Who are from Paran. Some are descended from Jewish tribes like Ishmael, but they left. They started a new religion, one deeply steeped in foundational antisemitism. They invaded and conquered the Middle East, and they wholly rejected Judaism and their connection to Israel in doing so when they then came back to conquer Israel.

You say shit like Iran is an Arab country. It isn't. You oppose colonization at all costs and demand every country established via colonization to dismantle itself yet ignore the dozens of countries Arabs colonized, to the point that you're now rejecting the idea that the real indigenous inhabitants aren't really indigenous. You post these incoherent, irrational, word salad takes from the comfort of your houses in North America, lands which were founded on genocide and colonialism, calling all Israeli civilians "complicit in genocide." You see zero irony.

You did it with Iran, and you did it with Israel. This is the insidious nature of genuine colonialism and historical revisions. You turn around and twist victim and perpetrator. Then you say shit like Iran (run by colonialist IRGC) wouldn't nuke Israel because of Al-Aqsa, whenever we point out that USA defense funding for Israel is ensuring that their neighbors won't annihilate them. Al-Aqsa, which was built the fuck on top of our most holy temple.

But I guess indigineity has an expiration date for you people.

You cheer when the Houthis block a cargo ship to protest Israel's existence. I don't believe you give a single fuck about Palestinians at this point, why? There are zero Jews in Yemen. They were all ethnically cleansed whilst an actual, literal genocide of 200,000 people happened. There was one left, the Houthis put him in jail. Then they turn around and say Israel shouldn't exist. Do you think we believe they give a fuck about a Palestinian? They obviously just want Israel to be destroyed and Jews to die.

Hamas violated the Geneva Convention when they invaded a foreign country and began killing civilians and taking hostages. Israel positively has a legal right to defend itself. We can talk about what that looks like in greater detail. Because obviously, Likud are religious extremists and terrorists themselves. Like, yes.

They are founded in terroristic, extremist views. Ben Gvir, Smotrich, Halevi, Netanyahu, they should all be arrested and deported to the Hague. Israel's use of Lavender is indiscriminate and there are war crimes happening. This is entirely separate to the fact that Israel still has the right to defend itself, legally, according to all international law.

It basic rocket science. (Pun intended.)

Israel as an occupying power has no legal right to defend itself from the Palestinian people it occupies.

[cipheramnesia]

You're a disgusting being for interacting with the monster that is dead-dyke, I'll stab you both if I ever see in real life, know that

I figured I'd just publish this so anyone who wants to can see how fucked up call out posts are. Actually sending me a death threat because I did more than zero fact checking on a call out that's as fake and full of shit as every call out.

On a related note, in my research travels I found what I can only describe as a call out subculture. In essence, a loosely organized group who seem ferociously committed to making sure every single call out they find gets pushed and maintained. This is pretty interesting because it's a kind of resurgence of purity culture, a policing of language and sex that's done under the guise of being progressive or protective, when the reality of it all is oppression of outsiders.

It's not a huge surprise that they often particularly target marginalized people or anyone who shows support to marginalized people. Or, weirdly, seem to be able to suss out someone being part of a disenfranchised social group. For example, the above threat is also antisemitic. I don't bring up my background much, but sometimes it feels like they just... know.

And in a broader sense, I also see a trend of paranoia about sex or language being treated as something profane. My joking post about my neovagina is a good example, it being tagged NSFW or similar literally hundreds of times. I'm baffled and this seems like a good time to bring it up. It's a humorous post with no content that would rate higher than a pg-13 movie rating other than maybe some curse words. Yet it's out there being tagged like it should be 18 and over.

Which brings me to a strange tentative hypothesis that there's some sort of nebulous connection between these types of purity police and radical feminists, which would suggest they spring from a shared authorian or fascist source. And before you dismiss it as overly generalized, let's look at the facts.

Both of them share a use of progressive language designed to make it appear as if they're providing positive resources. However, they also demand uncritical allegiance. If you find any fault with their reasoning, you become immediately treated as a threat. Consider how radfems treat the concept of masculinity, and look to Judith Butler for how quickly they turned agaisnt someone who critized them - including going so far as to take an essay Butler wrote against pedophilia, and selectively pull quotes making it look like Butler was pro-pedo. Now, guess what every single purity police call out post claims? Yeah. It's designed to try to override any reason, and as you can see above, it works. Someone has decided they'd rather commit a transphobic, antisemitic hate crime over the simplest amount of review.

So they have that going on, a kind of low key recruitment to encourage violence and unthinking obedience as opposed to critical thinking. The other aspect is they are both obsessed with purity. Obsessed with having an unblemished legacy of absolutely unimpeachable, perfect behavior. With authoritarians this generally manifests in being able to show a spotless lineage, showing that you unfailingly support the party and its beliefs at all moments of your life, public or private. In radfems, it manifests in their opposition to kinky sex, sex work, devaluation of any woman who may like a man, etc. And for the call out and purity groups, it manifests as that you cannot ever have misspoken online, had an opinion which deviates from the modern accepted norm, never have done anything wrong in all your online history, because they will follow it back as far as possible, and pull something from ten years ago or more just to proclaim how terrible you are in present. Or to use a different example, I remember reading another callout which claimed the subject had got a bottle of champagne after a big fundraiser for rent or some such. And let me tell you talk about puritanism. Did you know you can get a bottle of champagne for ten bucks? Making it seem like someone is a monster for spending three cups of Starbucks on a small celebration is beyond fucked up, it's disingenuous bullshit.

So, yeah, it seems like a leap, but the devil of this is literally the details. The details which aren't included in a call out, the manipulation of language in a call out, the sneaking in of false accusations disguised as "proved" with sketchy screen shots. The demand of unthinking allegiance. The suspicious focus only on marginalized people.

My dear purity police people, my call out culture fellows, your true colors are showing.

(yes you may reblog this, in fact I encourage it, but as usual please be sensible and don't send the asker anon hate, or anything worse - we don't do that, just block or ignore them)

[rametarin]

There's something more important than this. Something that often goes unspoken and AGGRESSIVELY so.

Many of the supposed pop "anti-fascists" and "Nazi-punchers" aren't doing it because they give a shit about Jews.

Nazis to socialists and communists have always represented an insult. They talk a big game about standing up for, "minorities," but they don't actually care about the human beings and their respective groups. They care about the political concepts of them. They care about them as distinct, imaginary bloccs called classes. They care about them as toys in a toybox for acting out psychodramas and telling history. To them, minorities are just political entities to LARP protecting from "evil bad people."

So they've put on aires and talked about how awful antisemitism is, and have since during and after WW2. Not because they care about the Jews, but because they can ride their coattails and collaborate with them as "oppressed minorities." And look good as their "protectors." Because they're poow widdle minowities that need protection from majorities.

They also needed the clout for public relations. Because for socialists, the only thing better than actually doing what they think is right, is having a spotlight put on it to use for propaganda points. They want the public perception to be that they care about minorities and the downtrodden and the at risk and are willing to fight to protect them from those that'd do them harm.

They pretend they hate Nazis because they hate the ethnosupremacism and that the Nazis are antisemitic. History in the Soviet Union, South America and all across Africa and Asia in places that the SU had official and unofficial ties with will confirm, self-avowed socialists and communists don't care one whit more about Jews than your average liberal capitalist. They value the opportunity to run around screaming "Adolf" (wolf) about how many Nazis are hiding under every bed and behind every street light, and how hate speech from a neo-Nazi is worse than hate speech from any other.

The real reason they're so focused on hating Nazis is because it becomes easy to filibust every person that dissents or rebukes their collective stance on anything. Someone asks a hard question about what they want will accomplish? Accuse them of being one of those million gorillion Nazis asking questions in bad faith. Someone takes issue with a questionable action? Accuse them of just opposing them because they're Nazis. Scream about them with a zealous insistence that the person you're pointing at is definitely a Nazi, put them on the defensive, make them EXPLAIN how they're not a Nazi! And it makes them look super good for hating the Super Bad(tm)

But if you want to know the true character of an antifa, ask them how they feel about indigenous rights, ask them about Arabization, and then ask them about Israel and the right to return.

They don't give a damn about the Nazis because of the atrocities they committed. On paper, they also hate ethnocentrism, and will use that as an excuse of why every culture that exists that is not their socialist state and is an ethnic tribe with a territorial claim (which they dispute is invalid on grounds it's by default an ethnostate.) But the real reason that socialist and communist sympathizers hate Nazis, is simply because the Nazi party was what opposed guerilla campaigns and saboteurs that were taking over swaths of eastern Germany. The Weimar Republic had a choice between a party that promised to dismantle their identity as Germanic people, force them into a union of Socialist Republics (which history has shown us just became Russified and ethnically cleansed to make way for Russians), or the Nazis, which promised to protect them from the exploitative, bureaucracy infiltrating, business taking over, the brown shirts marching and beating up anti-communists to teach them a lesson for opposing communism.

They hate the Nazis less for the REAL reasons a normal, mentally sound hates the Nazis (the atrocities, the ethnosupremacism, the desire to genocide all non-them) and simply despise the Nazis because the Nazis dared oppose having communism forced on them.

And the truth is? They don't see any white person as distinct or different from the Nazis. To them, a non-communist is a supporter of the status quo, committing the violence of capitalism by compliance. To them, a person of European descent exists as an antagonist in their worldview and narrative that justifies hurting people and putting people on shit lists where they are or aren't allowed to speak based on their level of, "privilege." Which they arbitrate and make up based on geopolitical and social convenience.

This is how you get an ANTIFA that will stomp around after an antisemitic attack screaming at the top of their lungs about all the Nazis in an area, hoot and holler about "protecting Jews and at risk minorities" after even every hate crime, both real and false reported.. and those same Nazi-punchers will be rebuking and casting down Israel, Israelis and just calling it, "white supremacy."

For antifa and that sort of left person, it was never about protecting Jews. It was about living up to an image they want to convey, manufacturing the caricature of their ideological opponents as having white supremacist bias if they were anti-communist, and using it as an excuse to punch first and ask questions later. It was about shaping narrative. It was about publicity and controlling peoples thoughts, and convincing people to join them until it's too late to not be used.

This is something many Jewish people that swallowed the Antifa load are learning, now. And it's a sour lesson to learn that leaves an awful taste in the mouth and a numbness in the heart. To Antifa, Jews are just another ethnosupremacist group, religious group and extension of white, right wing colonialism. The only difference is they opened their mouth to say it, or it's something that can be inferred by parroting Hamas' and similar groups' slogans.

I hate to say it but everyone saying there's Pre-Holocaust vibes are correct

We're seeing a massive spread of unchecked, unrepentant antisemitism spreading quicker with social media now. People are cheering on murdered Jewish kids and then fact checking us to tell us it didn't happen

Blood libel is gaining traction like never before all the while Jews in the Diaspora are being attacked

So to all you proud Nazi Punchers, I must ask,

Why are you standing by, letting this happen, repeating things the Nazis could only dream of? Why aren't you standing up, dismantling antisemitism in your movement, helping Jews once again forced to hide in their homes?

Or was it never about protecting Jews? Just about protecting your egos

[jraker4]

If killing unarmed children (you really should choose your words more carefully-implicitly you've just said that killing armed children is acceptable) is never justified, then Israel cannot go to war against Hamas, full stop, because doing so inevitably means that unarmed children will die. You should consider saying what you clearly mean: that Israel going to war in response to 10/7 was never, ever justified. Alright! I think that's an absurd position, but it's clearly what you think, and you should say so. There's even a better case to be made for that position, than for this nebulous 'Israel should have tried to court international approval' first. But since that is your position, you have to grapple with the fact that you're holding Israel to a standard that no other nation on Earth is held to. War is always terrible, but there isn't a nation on Earth that doesn't reserve for itself the right to go to war in response to an attack such as 10/7. None. Perhaps not even ever in human history, but certainly not in the present. Why must Israel behave with such saintly forbearance? Note: none of this means that it's good for Israel to go to war, or that its conduct of this war has been good. What I'm trying to examine here is the double-standard you're using.

Just to be clear, I want to zero in on something: are you rejecting the notion that Hamas makes use of human shields to base and protect its military assets? That's a yes or no question. I'm being very precise because, frankly, you've moved the goalposts already more than once.

OK, so your analysis that Israel is definitely committing genocide is based on your reading the minds of the Israeli government as a whole. Good to know! One fascinating part of this analysis is that, in the claims you're making, Israel is enacting the genocide they can get away with...which means they're doing this not only with Western but global acceptance. And yet, the condemnation is reserved for Israel. I reject your premise, btw, I'm just addressing it as though it were true for the sake of argument.

Also, your assertion that 'if Hamas could do it, I would be singing a different tune' is pretty ridiculous, because the *reason* Hamas can't enact the genocide you admit it wants (not that supporting a group that seeks Israeli genocide makes you antisemitic, somehow, ofc) is because Israel has in the past crushed and continues to crush it...using measures you would have, I suspect, bitterly opposed as genocidal every step of the way. Certainly people have been leveling the charge of genocide at Israel for, well, much longer than last October.

So, first of all, 'ethnostate'. Man, are you going for the Palestinian 'ally' bingo, or what? Israel isn't an ethnostate...and in truth, you don't actually object to ethnostates, because guess what? Israel is surrounded by them, the world is full of them, both explicit and unspoken but understood. Hamas certainly doesn't advocate for a pluralistic, multi-ethnic, multi-religious society...but it's super important to only talk about the Israeli 'ethnostate' for some reason. Also, it's not inevitable. All over the world, throughout history, various peoples have suffered tyranny and oppression, sometimes worse and for longer than the Palestinians. Violence in response is, yes, inevitable. Events like 10/7 certainly become more likely, but not 'inevitable'. Do please note how you're stripping agency from Hamas here. They had a choice, and they made it. As for your thoughts on joining Hamas-again, for like the third time now: this discussion didn't start because you were talking about Gazan civilians. Not that your binary is a true one anyway. The only choices are not 'die, flee, submit to Israel, or join Hamas'. It's peculiar how you're just...ignoring all of the Palestinian civilians who *don't* join Hamas. Do you even recognize the way you've sidestepped, in your eagerness to condemn Israel and not-support-but-sorta Hamas, into a worldview that is actually quite close to the Israeli government view? That the only thing Palestinians will do is join Hamas?

Anti-Zionism isn't (necessarily) Antisemitism (but it often is)

Okay. I've seen a post conflating anti-Zionism with antisemitism. They are not the same, but they can and often do overlap.

Zionism is an ethnonationalist movement, which argues for a Jewish state, almost always in the territory that is now considered Israel and/or Palestine.

Anti-zionism is opposition to the concept of a Jewish state, or opposition to the existence of the State of Israel, the Jewish state that exists in modern times.

If people are opposed to the concept of a Jewish state, but not a state for another religious or ethnic group, that is antisemitic. If they are opposed to the concept of a state being explicitly for a particular religious or ethnic group, in general, that is absolutely not antisemitic.

Holding Jews collectively responsible for the actions of the State of Israel is inherently antisemitic. Condemning supporters of the State of Israel is not inherently antisemitic.

In the past, I have stated that supporting Hamas is inherently antisemitic, as they call for the genocide of Jews in their founding charter, and claim that the Holocaust was a hoax meant to justify the creation of the State of Israel, among many other things. The problem is that Israel has done their best to ensure that Hamas is the only effective force capable of resisting their increasingly genocidal policies towards Palestinians, so that they can point to that to justify the continue acceleration of those policies. Hamas's leaders have stated an intention to commit genocide. Israel's leaders have stated an intention to commit genocide, and have the means to act on that intention, which they are doing. Again, the Israeli government has also undermined any other resistance groups that may have served as a non-genocidal alternative to Hamas. I still do not support Hamas in general, but in this particular conflict, as horrific as their attack on October 7th was, they have shown themselves to be the lesser evil.

[vonsa]

It's the way that people in the replies are so quick to dismiss this as a reasonable concern that really does it for me. Also, the idea that this situation is unavoidable but I digress.

As of Sunday, May 23, 2021 10:20 a.m. est These posts:

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about Ronald Greene (a recently exposed coverup of a black man beaten to death in Louisiana two years ago) has less than 5 notes. 5.

There was a international report done about the oppression Black Americans face that was so disturbing that the investigators wanted to take it to the Hauge Convention (since the U.S. blocked it from the U.N.); I can't even find the article or post anymore.

The Anti-Asian hate crime bill that was introduced and that has been recently passed in the United States threatens the Black community with more oppression; not less. As a matter of fact over a hundred grassroots organizations opposed it. Can't find that post either.

@genuinelyshallow currently the most palestine posts in the BLM top tag and not one of them even take into consideration BLM. Everyone else posting in BLM about Palestine, Israel, Antisemitism, Gaza, and whatever else is doing the same thing.

Since the BLM tag is being used links to posts about BLM issues can't be used? Maybe a text or line at the end of a post? Asking people to continue reblogging to posts and issues so that they won't be buried? Maybe simply mentioning them at the end yourselves?

Don't any of you dare act like absolutely nothing can be done about this. No one has even tried to be considerate. Tried to figure out a solution.

@totallyadulting you said: "Nobody is trying to combine these issues or devalue anybody..." Well, you're partially right; they're not trying; they're doing. Black issues are being devalued, talked over, and pushed aside. And people are using oppression and BLM's (and I say this scathingly) popularity last year as a shield against criticism.

@marimare-writes and you said; and I quote: "Are we supposed to support one group of humanitarian action and forget the other to suit your preference." Who was that supposed to be for again?

Every movement; every. single. one. since BLM has had this rancid idea that being oppressed means having the justification of using BLM any way possible with no regards to the Black community. If that isn't a declaration of how expendable Black people are in this world than I don't know what is.

@abla-soso You said Black Palestinians exist but where are they? Not to say they don't exist per say but rather to note literally nobody talks about them. They're barely mentioned. In total I've seen maybe 5 posts taking about Black people. One or two maybe mentioning how Israel treated/treats the Ethiopians (and I saw posts about this in the BLM tag last year). They only suddenly appear whenever posts or questions like this come about.

Ultimately, Black Lives Matter was always seen as a political issue rather than the humanitarian crisis it always was (as well as being considered 'not that bad' as humanitarian crises go); so when an 'actual' humanitarian crisis occurs or is mentioned people are all too happy to justify pushing it aside.

TLDR: I completely understand the situation regarding why people are posting about Palestine in the BLM tag but this destructive disregard and callousness about it is foul; coupled with this popular idea that what's happening is neither wrong or hurtful (or the worst yet; excusable) and it becomes downright abhorrent.

Stop tagging Black Lives Matter in your Palestine posts.

I'm trying to search the Black Lives Matter tags for important content that needs to go into my queue, and I cans find jack shit because everyone's trying to use the tags to boost their palestine content.

Stop Asian Hate showed the BLM tag more respect than this.

-fae