#Israels Judges

[portraitsofsaints]

Saint Deborah the Prophetess

2654-2694 BC

Feast day: November 1

 St. Deborah was the Fourth Judge of the Israelites. Living in Ephraim, she was faithful and true, a prophetic voice of God during dark, sinful times.  God spoke to Deborah to instruct Barak, the Israelites commander, to lead his army into battle against the Canaanites and their cruel general, Sisera. Barak refused to go into battle unless Deborah would go with him. She agreed but told him the glory of victory would be a women’s. God was with the Israelites and scattered Sisera’s army. Sisera fled to the tent of a woman named Jael, who killed him with a tent stake while he slept. Deborah herself glorified Jael in her famous “Song of Deborah”.

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[the-garbanzo-annex-jr]

You can find this and the rest of the thread here. Or you can read Judge Sebutinde's entire dissenting opinion here.

[lil-gingerbread-queen]

So, I cannot show support to Palestine at my university (flyers for protest, the colors and the flag, you get it...) because it's "encouraging violence and antisemitism" but when my university was tagged with antisemitic symbols, they did NOTHING. When the students union was targeted with threat of violence and their office was destroyed, covered with neo-nazis symbols, they did NOTHING.

The Neo-Nazis student association (which has been multiple times reported for their hate-crimes) were distributing flyers at the entrance yesterday WITHOUT ANY ISSUES, because they support Israel.

[nando161mando]

Clarence Thomas needs to croak

[singinginthecar]

as a medical professional but more importantly, as a human being, i will never forget these war crimes after war crimes after war crimes

[totallyseiso]

That hearing for South Africa's case against Israel is done for today, and tomorrow Israel is supposed to give their response.

What are the odds we hear the exact same shit about "right to self-defense" they've been pushing since October? I'm just getting the feeling that since their actions are unjustifiable, they'll stick to the same old script since there's nothing else they can say

[the-ships-to-rule-them-all]

I don’t think people realize how all consuming October 7, the war and the rising antisemitism is to most Jews right now. I was just on a five day family trip and nearly every single conversation ended up circling back to what’s going on in Israel, across the world and at home. My mom knew Vivian Silver, an incredible peace activist thought to be held hostage and I had to sit there and watch her realize that not only was Vivian murdered at her home 38 days before but that she was likely burned if it took this long for her body to be identified. I was forced to sit there and watch my mom, my favorite woman in the world, watch her face crumple. We were sharing updates, accounts to follow, venting and releasing frustrations. It is a constant unbreakable struggle right now for me and most Jews I know to not be glued to our phones, to not pay attention. Because we’ve seen what happens when we don’t. Because we can’t afford to turn our backs on what’s going on. And there’s a deep ever present grief not only for the victims of October 7th, the innocent citizens of Gaza, the hostages and also for my own personal sense of safety and security. I am also grieving what is a shattering beyond measure of my present and future trust in people as I’ve witnessed how easily well intentioned kind hearted people have decided to say nothing, publicly or privately, or who have quickly fallen into vicious antisemitic rhetoric. I’m just sharing into the void at this point but it’s been unimaginably hard on a personal level. I’m not the same person I was when I went to bed on October 6. It’s as though I’m a shadow, made of grief and anger and tiny fractured bits of hope. Every piece of joy feels as though it’s been muted because of how quickly it fades. And even the moments that last are related to my Jewish identity somehow. I am not sure where I go from here.

Have a cat gif for reading all of that

[the-garbanzo-annex-jr]

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[mybeautifulchristianjourney]

The Call of Gideon

And Jehovah looked upon him, and said, Go in this thy might, and thou shalt save Israel from the hand of Midian. Have not I sent thee? — Judges 6:14 | 1890 Darby Bible (DARBY) The Darby Translation of the Holy Bible is in the public domain. Cross References: Judges 6:11; Judges 6:36; Judges 13:3; Hebrews 11:32

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Judges 6:14 - Bible Verse Meaning and Commentary

[electrosquash]

*taps the sign*

I do wonder how sueing like. half the political and journalistic landscape. for genocide denial in palestine would go over

[blastlight]

every so often i think about how if i ever make a post or something that blows up, i'll immediately be harassed en masse by people claiming i'm a zionist

[nectarine-neuroticism]

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[queenwille]

lmao lebanese people outraged because they’re being matched with israelis on tinder over the idf gps jamming is the peak of war in the 21st century

[a-queer-seminarian]

The "Conquest of Canaan" and Palestine Today

A little bit ago an anon asked about how to deal with parts of the Bible that depict the Israelites violently removing the original inhabitants of Canaan in order to settle in their promised land, particularly in light of how those texts are used to justify the modern state of Israel's occupation of and violence against Palestine today.

I did my best to respond — and then @imusthavebecomesomething replied to let me know that Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg recently explored the same exact questions in her newsletter, Life Is a Sacred Text!

Naturally, she articulated her points much better than I. So I'm back to recommend her piece, which delves into:

the historical context of Israel's founding vs. the political narrative the biblical authors formed around it

the atrocities that narrative has been used to justify (from the Crusades to European colonialism to today's atrocities in Gaza)

why it's still worth reading these stories ("shake them and shake them until the insight falls out")

She ultimately concludes that (the following is an excerpt from her article):

Israelites and Canaanites were likely basically the same peoples, with different customs. They were not "ethnically" different in any way, except that they eventually became a separate "ethnos" in the hiiiighly academic sense of "having a common national or cultural tradition," belonging to different peoplehoods, with different religious-tribal customs, different ideas about what made you an insider and outsider, etc. But were they "ethnically" different, in the way that we use it today? Nauxpe. Nope. Nawp. Which means...

Both Israelites/Jews and Palestinians have existed on that patch of land as far back as history goes, and

Those of us who have wayback Jew ancestry (see above: you can be part of the Jewish ethnos/people without being an ethnic Jew, dig) are related, genetically, to Palestinians. Surprise, surprise? (To whom, exactly??) And it also means that

The "God gave us this land to conquer and encouraged us to genocide the locals" narrative was originally a political fabrication and it has since been used for innumerable horrific political ends, including now.

There's way more in her actual article, which is absolutely worth reading in full — so here it is!

[gospocki]

It wasn't cold, but I still shivered at the thought of how cold a world we live in. That someone is bombing unarmed people, civilians, children, babies, women, old people non-stop for 4 months. That leaders are afraid to stand up to evildoers! What kind of leaders are you?! What is someone fighting for? Why do they all have to die?!? For a liter of oil, gas...

Steal other people's land, kill innocent people and children, newborns, kill the fetus in the womb of a mother, shoot weak old people, torture, rape, release dogs on these innocent people, carry out the Holocaust of the modern era in full view of the whole world, shown on all screens around the world ...

And life goes on, right? Hand to mouth, hand to eyes, hand to ears. It will pass? You don't raise your voice for weak people, you hesitate because someone can condemn you? I don't care what ethnicity you are, what failed nationality you are, what religion you are. I will tell you that the first thing you need to be is a "human being" and then everything else. And you are not a human being.

Remember, everything starts from Palestine. There will be a lot of pain and no humanity. This applies to all. Get ready, because the Earth has suffered. We allowed genocide and we continue to allow it.

Keep worrying about small and unimportant things. Take care of your appearance, fix your hair. Drink coffee and complain about something. Ordinary mortals.

P A L E S T I N E 🇵🇸