#but NOPE gotta make sure we take one last dig at ‘Israel Supporters’ here and mention how their fear of rising antisemitism isn’t genuine | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

party-gilmore · 9 months ago

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there was literally… ZERO reason… for her to bring up Jews in that article… at all…

this was a devastating story about a military man fatally self-immolating in protest of america supporting the ongoing message and should have REMAINED focused on him and message, there was… literally no fucking reason for that article to derail and complain about “israel supporters” being “afraid of antisemitism”

…like what the actual fuck.

“You simply cannot fit more America into a single incident than a man dying a horrifying death in protest of war crimes while a first responder screams at cops to stop pointing their guns at him and go get fire extinguishers. If you were to pick a single moment in history to sum up the essence and expression of the US empire, that would be it.”

Caitlin Johnstone, The Most American Thing That Has Ever Happened

#like until i actually CLICKED on the article #i was like SO fucking true this is ridiculous that it’s come to THESE levels of outright ignoring even an ACTIVE DUTY AIR FORCE MEMBER #when he’s so fucking desperate for this country to stop aiding war crimes and being complicit in this genocide he will commit suicide via #public self immolation in protest. that’s a HUGE fucking statement. but then. this.#this was SO fucking unnecessary the story LITERALLY could have just been about him and focus on how terrible it is that these are the limit #we have to go through to be heard about something like just NOT GENOCIDING A BUNCH OF PEOPLE.#but NOPE gotta make sure we take one last dig at ‘Israel Supporters’ here and mention how their fear of rising antisemitism isn’t genuine #because they aren’t [checks notes]… publically killing themselves over it as protest #‘israel supporters’ ffs just say what i know you want to say here like. ‘oh but she separated them from Jews later in the statement’ yeah #right after using the words ‘super serious’ to describe the antisemitism crisis to use us as a token for ‘israel supporters’ to ‘claim’ we #feel unsafe. like the story could (AND SHOULD!!!) have BEEN ABOUT this airman!!!!! and who even the boots on the ground in OUR MILITARY kno #this is so wrong they’ll go to such extreme measures in protest!!!! and how american police literally just… pointed their guns at a #a burning man instead of trying to get him put out???? and he died???? like there was ZERO reason to pull Jews into this conversation AT AL #why even MENTION us or antisemitism????? if it wasn’t as part of one final derailing dig????#tw: antisemitism #tw: suicide #tw: self immolation #free palestine

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