#anti palestinian bigotry

[poetessinthepit]

Call out anti-palestinianism every single chance you get. Do not tolerate racism. Do not tolerate Islamophobia. Do not tolerate bigotry.

[rebelsabers]

[ace-hell]

Deranged idiots: "Israelis should go back to where they came from!"

Newsflash asshole

Almost 80% of the israeli jewish population is born on the land whether you refer to it as israel or palestine- that's where they came from.

And that doesn't even include the palestinian arabs muslim and christians

"go back where you came from" i don't wanna live in tel aviv there's no parking places

[hibiscera]

Messaged received, anon, thanks for the heads up 👍

[trailofstardust]

Zionists truly have no self-awareness. They compare those who stand in solidarity with Palestine and refute their ahistorical, revisionism takes to "neo-nazis" yet it is they who are the violently bigoted reactionaries and far closer to fascist, neo nazis and altrighters.

They are the ones who believe that oppressing an entire population-through bombings, occupation, starvation, denying them sovereignty and treating them as an inherent threat to their own security is "justified", yet claim the moral high ground of restraint. "I believe that bombing, starving and occupying palestinians is necessary to make me safe, but I dont support it and condemn the worst extremists on my side".

[rebel-girl-queen-of-my-world]

[ahopelessprincessreincarnation]

•Be me, in the middle of the night(or morning technically atleast), posting and scrolling through her alternative/side blog to use as an internet diary.

•I am also looking more into nonhuman/alterhuamnity due to my own experiences that have been making my brain itch recently more than ever C:

•After I finish posting something random, I go back to the front page of the Tumblr app which would be my Dashboard(I don't know how to exactly put it sorry).

•Find a random account that seems to be in the alterhuman community from being reblogged by one of my mutuals or followers, something about neopronouns/xenogenders(I support xenos and neos btw^^).

•Go onto the account's front page because they seem cool to me at first and find their pinned info/introduction textpost atleast so that I can get to know them better before following just incase.

•I scroll down and find stuff that says that implies that being antizionists is inherently antisemetic, that supporting Hamas is bad and that they're "isreali but don't support Isreal"??

•Sadness...

(Just for clarification, being Jewish does not mean you are a zionist obviously, but supporting the lie that "Isreal" is a state and not a colonizer project does though. Don't be antisemetic and don't be a zionist! From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free♡).

[bottlepiecemuses]

I never imagined I would one day live in such conditions😔. I hope to emerge from this nightmare soon... Thankful for your solidarity with us, and I hope you'll always remain a constant support and remember us in your supportive stands for the cause💖🇵🇸🙏🏻🇵🇸❤️

I see a manipulative bs.

[alex-just-vibing]

Are you a student who is unable to donate to Palestine, but still want ways to show your support?

Me too! Unfortunately, searching up ways for students who can't drive, spend money, or drop school for a week to show solidarity for Palestine just comes up with "centrist" (if not blatantly pro-israel) articles for teachers telling them how to stay neutral during discussions with students. So! Here are some ways that I've thought of to bring pro palestine sentiment into your school and community! You are more than encouraged to add on any ideas of your own!

Wear shirts, pins, or anything outwardly pro palestine. If you can't find something, make it.

Email your representatives. Email Congress. Email the White House, or whatever your country's equivalent would be. Let the people in charge know you want a ceasefire

Talk to your local library about holding an educational night about the genocide, and/or about Palestinian culture.

Talk to your peers. Find people who share your views. Create a fuss together.

Talk to your teachers about it. Having an authority figure on your side could make things so much easier for you.

Make stickers, posters, pamphlets, etc to put up around your school, town/city, anywhere you can.

Educate yourself on anti-palestine talking points and how to refute them in a calm and logical manner. (Palestinian Toolkit is a great website for that)

Speak up! It's fucking scary, but if you can, don't let people's bigotry go unchecked. (You can use knowledge from the last point to make it easier to talk)

But also, know when to give up. It sucks, but not everyone is worth wasting your time debating. Some people won't change their mind no matter what.

[canadianabroadvery]

“... The event aimed to promote cultural understanding and diversity among students at the school.

However, the event took an unfortunate turn when the principal singled out six Palestinian students and told them to take off their kuffiya.

A kuffiya is a traditional Palestinian garment representing the Palestinian culture and identity. ...”

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Christopher Mathias at HuffPost:

A coalition of 185 social justice and religious groups published an open letter Monday expressing support for the campus protest encampments sweeping the country in opposition to Israel’s siege of Gaza, and calling on university administrators to end the brutal crackdowns of the student-led demonstrations. “We commend the students who are exercising their right to protest peacefully despite an overwhelming atmosphere of pressure, intimidation and retaliation, to raise awareness about Israel’s assault on Gaza — with U.S. weapons and funding,” the letter states. “These students have come forth with clear demands that their universities divest from corporations profiting from Israeli occupation, and demanding safe environments for Palestinians across their campuses. ” Groups that signed the letter include Gen-Z for Change, Working Families Party, IfNotNow Movement, Young Democrats of America Black Caucus, Movement for Black Lives, Sunrise Movement, MPower Change, Jewish Voice for Peace, Palestine Legal, and the Unitarian Universalist Association.

Some 900 students have been arrested during anti-war encampments and demonstrations at American universities in the last 10 days, per a tally from Al Jazeera — a tumultuous period that mirrors volatile demonstrations against the Vietnam War in 1968, when police arrested at least 700 students. The open letter Monday represents one of the largest shows of support among progressive groups for the burgeoning student protests, and makes clear the divide between establishment Democratic figures and social justice groups when it comes to U.S. support for Israel. President Joe Biden has refused so far to condition the sale of weapons to Israel. “Our communities have been horrified to see the militarized and violent response to students protesting an ongoing genocide funded and supported by our government, and our coalition of organizations join millions of our members across the country in standing in solidarity with the students’ efforts in support of the people of Gaza,” Yasmine Taeb, one of the main organizers of the letter, told HuffPost. Taeb is a human rights lawyer and political director at MPower Change, a Muslim social justice group.

“Instead of attacking young people mobilizing for Palestinian human rights, President Biden needs to listen to the majority of Americans who have been calling on him to stop funding and supporting the atrocities committed against the people of Gaza,” Taeb said.

[...] Israel has killed over 33,000 Palestinians since Oct. 7, when the Gaza-based militant group Hamas launched an attack in which nearly 1,200 Israelis were killed. In January, the International Court of Justice ruled that Israel’s siege of Gaza — which has displaced 85% of the population and put the occupied territory on the cusp of famine — left Palestinians at risk of experiencing a genocide. Last week, health officials in Gaza said medics had discovered mass graves at hospitals raided by Israeli troops. “We join [the students] in calling for an immediate and lasting ceasefire and an end to the U.S. government’s and institutions’ role in the ongoing genocide of Palestinians in Gaza,” Monday’s letter states. “As we stand in solidarity with the students protesting in encampments across the country, we reaffirm our commitment to amplifying their voices, condemn the university administration officials’ violent response to their activism, and demand that universities remove the presence of police and other militarized forces from their campuses,” it continues.

[...] Meanwhile, Republican Party officials and right-wing media figures have accused the demonstrations of antisemitism, falsely equating criticism of Israel with bigotry towards Jews. Although there have been scattered reports of actual antisemitic incidents at or near the encampments, many were not perpetrated by students but by interlopers. Many of the student protesters across the country are Jewish. Far-right agitators, including Christian nationalist activists, have also targeted the encampments, with MAGA pastor Sean Feucht leading hundreds of Christian and Jewish Zionists on a march around the Columbia campus on Thursday. The rally ended with pro-Israel demonstrators yelling through the gate at pro-Palestinian Columbia students. “Go back to Gaza!” they screamed.

More than 185 groups, including IfNotNow, Jewish Voice For Peace, MPower Change, and Working Families Party, signed a letter in support of the campus protests against Israel Apartheid State's genocide against Palestinians in Gaza.

[unbidden-yidden-deactivated20240]

I have a post that I'm not sure how to write (but am going to try anyway) about how the valid fight for the equal rights of Palestinians is directly tied to the fight against antisemitism; they are, in fact, the same fight.

Because the truth is that many of the worst Israeli policies and certainly Jewish support for them, comes directly from Jewish fear. And unless and until that fear stops being valid, those ideas will continue to have power and support for them within the community will continue. It's not paranoia or bigotry wearing the skin of fear if people the world over have, in fact, carried out numerous genocides and ethnic cleansings against your people. The Holocaust was just one of the worst in recent memory, but it is far from the only extreme mass violence against Jews. It is simply the culmination of 2000 years of anti-Jewish hatred and institutional oppression.

There MUST be a real, concrete answer to Jewish safety.

Anything less is sanctioning the violence already done to us and passively accepting more in the future, if not actively calling for it or starting those wheels turning yourself.

There are no ifs, ands, or buts about this.

Palestinians deserve an answer and justice. You will not get any argument from me about that. (Quite the opposite, in fact.) However, any answer to their safety that callously ignores the need for Jewish safety and self-determination is doomed to end in either another genocide against Jews or failure. It is as wrong as any form of Zionism-as-an-answer to Jewish safety that callously ignores Palestinian safety and self-determination.

Any answer that treats either people as lesser, as unimportant, that values their lives less, and does not flow from a place of truth, reconciliation, peace, and mutual respect is doomed to fail and likely to devolve into more bloodshed.

If you want to fight for Palestinian safety, freedom, dignity and self-determination, you must also fight antisemitism. If you want to fight for the safety, freedom, dignity, and self-determination of our brothers in Israel, we must also care about our Palestinian cousins. There is no other way. You cannot care about only one side and expect peace.

That's why I'm really drawn to organizations that have both Israeli Jewish and Palestinian leadership and fight for a shared vision of the future. They see that the only way forward is together, and those of us outside the land would do well to listen and adjust our advocacy and message accordingly.

[historicity-was-already-taken]

I want to make something very clear: If you've seen my url floating around on any list of "Known Zionist* Users," what you're seeing is a list of Jews who refuse to officially declare themselves as Good Jews before a subgroup of Western leftists who do truly believe that all Jews are complicit in Israeli government and military oppression of Palestinians until proven innocent.

The existence of this list is disturbing, malicious, and virulently anti-Semitic. I encourage any of you who have seen it to report it immediately for bigotry and incitement of violence. Further, I urge you to question anyone who insists that a) any issue can be fit into a clear, easy "Good Guy, Bad Guy" dichotomy, and b) casts anyone who introduces historical nuance and complications into discussions of these issues as an oppressor; anti-intellectualism is not restricted to the political right.

*I'm actually not a Zionist, as I fundamentally reject nationalism(s). But, I have asked people to be cognitive of how their language on the issue intersects with anti-Semitic tropes and issues of historical erasure. So ya know, Bad Jew.

[highlyillogicalandroid]

Today I was helping my friend check people in at a hobby event and I saw a teenaged boy wearing a Star of David, and I had this moment of panic in my gut, like, “Is he safe here?” And I’m so fucking tired of that feeling. I’m so tired of not wearing my own Star of David. I’m so tired of people assuming my politics and harassing me over that assumed stance simply because I’m Jewish. I’m so tired of being afraid of being alone on subway platforms because my Jewish friend had to intervene when some “anti-Zionists” tried to push a Hasidic man onto the tracks earlier this year and NO ONE ELSE HELPED HIM. I’m tired of flashing back on the “denounce Judaism” sign being held proudly and freely at a pro-Palestine march. I’m tired of seeing “Hitler was right” and “gas the Jews” graffitied around the city. I’m tired of Jewish businesses being boycotted and Jews being refused service. I’m tired of us being put on FUCKING LISTS and divided into “the good ones” and “the bad ones.” The amount of people who can’t or won’t see the difference between antisemitism and anti-Zionism is staggering. The amount of people harassing Jews in our community spaces, in our places of worship, in the name of the pro-Palestinian movement is staggering. There is so much willful ignorance and so much outright bigotry, and so many people telling Jews we’re crying wolf, that antisemitism doesn’t exist anymore. But it does. It does, and it’s here. It’s on subway platforms and at protests and on social media, and it is detracting from true pro-Palestinian activism. It is hurting everyone and helping no one, and it’s going to get innocent Jews killed.

[buddhistmusings]

College campuses across the US have become sites of intimidation against Jewish people. The intellectual and institutional frameworks universities and their faculties have used to address issues of diversity and inclusion are failing to address this anti-Jewish racism, white supremacy, religious bigotry, and xenophobic fervor.

I have witnessed this spike in Jew-Hatred myself, as a non-Jew, and felt confused and uncomfortable. I'm at a place now where I'm fighting against it, but I'm hitting a wall because so many people who have been recently lured into white supremacy have convinced themselves that they're being white supremacist in the name of opposing racism. Their induction into antisemitic conspiracy and racism was performed using pseudo-progressive language.

For some reason, the idea of a universal antiracism is so commonly invoked but remains so controversial. For some reason, suggesting that peace is the number one priority is blasphemy. For some reason, standing up to both anti-Jewish and anti-Arab racism is not an option for so many. Choosing a side is so important, and when you choose a side, that's the kind of racism you're supposed to oppose, and I'm not comfortable with that. All of it is horseshit.

I'm not comfortable excusing violence against any group of people. I'm not comfortable suggesting that the solution to an ethnic conflict is shifting the balance of power so that a different side is able to do the killing.

Peace is a commitment and it's a fucking difficult one to maintain. It's intellectually easy, sure, but the whole world is constantly begging you to find someone to be violent against. Holding your ground on that commitment is difficult - just with other human beings! That's not even to mention how much more intent on violence so many people are against animals and nature.

That's enough of my rambling for now. Jews are human beings, including the Israeli ones. They're equal to us in worth and dignity, just like all human beings are. And, though I doubt it needs to be said to members of my audience, Palestinians are too. So are Americans, Europeans, Africans, Asians, etc. All war and all violence is bad, it can be really hard to avoid sometimes, but we really gotta do our best. Also, animals think and feel so be nice to them. And be kind to the environment too. Meditate more, smile more, bow more, and fulfill your social obligations. Drink more water, eat less meat, and love yourself a little more.