#if it isn't...why not? why is your life more important than that of an israeli or palestinian?

[camoftarakas]

Gonna be super for real, here is my masterpost of why its important for me that you take advantage of your right to vote to choose Kamala Harris.

Section 1: Personal Issues

I am a transgender person. I live where i'm pretty sure it will be safe to do so for the next 4 years, but not only should i not risk it, i shouldn't be willing to send my trans family into danger, especially the young ones. Republicans are making a big point out of removing the Trans agenda from schools. what the fuck does this mean? right now the target is that teachers, counselors, school faculty who hear a child is trans will be obliged to report it to their home. this is a direct danger to the next generation. If you do not hide who you are, it may be ripped out of you. Children will feel they are better dead than being out. and adults who abuse queer kids will not be held accountable.

I am an autistic and disabled person. Donald Trump and his cronies think vaccines cause autism. this is absurdly hateful, but beyond that they call for pullbacks and regulation for vaccines. For an incredibly safe, incredibly guarded piece of protection against disease, regulation means less access to medicine. More epidemics, more sick people, shorter lives for the disabled.

Section 2: Domestic Issues

the full access to abortion and childcare must be restored. the two are forever linked, and both are essential healthcare. people in my life benefit from this, your neighbors benefit from this, human beings benefit from this.

whoever is in charge has the sole ability to appoint supreme court judges for 4 years. The court can not become further packed against us, whoever you are, because they are not shy about infringing the rights of your neighbors or your family on party lines.

the ability for people to only just get by under a Republican presidency will be gutted. tax cuts for the wealthy are not just immoral, but the government can not operate on less income. The burden comes down on those who deserve it least. Hunger, homelessness, freezing, overheating, death.

voting rights are the target of Republicans, especially for the most reliable opposition: Black and Latino Americans. this is happening now in states desperate to suppress minority voices, or to assimilate them into a regressive white culture of last century. If that isn't bad enough, voter suppression is sure to expand to any dissident population. The future is on the line.

Section 3: Global Issues

Donald Trump uses dog whistles to express israeli support. He calls democrats "Hamas", claims they are "Destroying Israel", calls jewish people delusional for supporting them. There isn't a perfect palestinian candidate. that is all but explicitly banned in politics. Vice president Harris will be clipped out of context saying that she vaguely supports Israel's right to self defense, because that is the most she can say without causing panic and confusion. If elected, Kamala Harris would be the most pro-Palestinian president ever, and it's not any amount of praise to say that. But she seeks solution, the end of Israel's control of them, the acknowledgement that what is happening there is unconscionable. MAGA has trained us to think that a vote to a candidate is a total endorsement of all their actions and word-of-mouth values, but it is the NORMAL and DECENT thing to do to demand better from the person you elect. Donald Trump is in Netanyahu's pocket, you won't get anywhere asking him not to rain terror on Palestine.

Ukraine has a right to self-governance as well. Republicans would pull support, and hold more conferences with Putin than with our allies across the world.

Republicans will refuse investment into clean energy. Trump's last presidency saw a resurgence in Coal, and ramblings about dead birds. Republican control will hold back any responses to the climate disaster another 4 years.

Section 4: Closing Thoughts

A US president can not fix the world. A US president can't even fix their own country. But god damn it don't give in to assured worsening. don't vote for third party; they're not gonna win, they're not gonna win next time, the point you want to make will fall on deaf ears; the time and place is not now or here. don't skip voting, 1/3 of americans don't vote because they don't think their voice makes a difference. vote in every category, there are important issues left to you. You may not turn your state, but you can turn a policy, or your city, or your county, or your representative, or make sure people in your district get a fair trail with a good judge, or that a good person is in charge of your schools. vote like your neighbors life depends on it; it does. vote like the world depends on it; it does. vote like it's the least you can do; it is. You have to participate in this one simple task, flawed as it may be, to not be a hypocrite when you ask for change, when you ask for progress, when you ask for justice. You can elect people who serve you, not who demand you serve them. You can choose to take a step forward, instead of standing still while you're dragged backwards with the rest of us. you can save lives, real lives! you fucking matter, every time, but please for the love of god, do the bare minimum at least this time. And after we're done, we'll go out, and ask for more, ask for better, because government is for us and they need to listen to us, forever, whoever.

[iheartallthethings]

Check in with your Jewish friends.

See how they're doing re: the recent antisemitic violence in Amsterdam, which happened on the anniversary of Kristallnacht, and which I consider to be a pogrom.

Also, here's a FAQ about said violence. Please know this is not me flailing at strawmen. I have had to go through every one of these arguments with one of my best friends today, and I am tired.

This wasn't a pogrom. No one died.

Okay. No one died, that is correct. By some definitions this is technically not a pogrom. Could you please not argue about the technicalities of mass violence against my people? Do you think it will make Jewish people feel better if it's just an act of mass violence?

This violence wasn't antisemitic, it was a response to shitty football fans.

BBC reporting disproves this. Per the BBC, the attackers:

demanded to see the passports of the people they were attacking (national origin)

yelled 'Jewish' as they attacked them (religion)

attacked Jewish people who were British rather than Israeli (religion)

attacked those people because they "helped the Jew" (religion)

Not the shitty football fan. Not even the Israeli. The Jew. There could not be a more textbook "they were attacked for being Jewish". Also there is video of someone being attacked yelling 'I'm not Jewish!' which I am not linking here, but you can Google it if you really must.

But Israeli fans chanted racist things and destroyed Palestinian flags.

Yeah. Some of them did, and that is not OK, and people are right to be outraged about what they did. At least one person was right to fear for their life. That said:

the Dutch football club where this all happened, Ajax, is considered Jewish. For years, per the Atlantic, people have chanted absolutely vile antisemitic things at Ajax events, like "Hamas, Hamas, all the Jews to the gas". Has there been an organized group of Jewish people attacking football fans for this antisemitic chanting? No.

The majority of the pre-planning happened after a single violent incident. Calls for violence, complete with a suggested uniform that people are wearing in videos captured during the violence, were sent out before the game. Before most the racism and property damage.

Lastly: normalizing collective violence against the Bad Jews because they Did Wrong Things makes all of us less safe. It is the basis of antisemitism. It's not as far a step from 'those Jews are bad' to 'all Jews are bad' as you think. Please, PLEASE don't do this if you care the slightest bit about any Jewish person anywhere.

I promise you I really have actually had to address this last one.

This is nothing like Kristallnacht. Kristallnacht was totally unprovoked.

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People always find a pretext for why the Jews are to blame. Always. ALWAYS. Kristallnacht is no exception. A 17-year-old Jewish boy killed a Nazi official, and the Nazis used that as a pretext for Kristallnacht. They were like, gawrsh, we didn't plan this (they did), it arose spontaneously because the Jews murdered that official.

As for why people are bringing up Kristallnacht (which I had not in this instance, but I have seen people do): this violence occurred literally on its anniversary. Please be kind to people who are mentally making comparisons.

Please also consider why people want you to give a shit about this before you jump in and argue, or before you decide this isn't as important as Gaza and choose not to reblog. Please consider we have millennia of experience of people doing violence against us that frequently starts just like this, with something plausibly justifiable to test the waters, while people either stand by and do nothing or agree that it's justified. Please consider we are scared. Please be kind.

[matan4il]

hey! diaspora jew here, sending all my love (and a question lol)

how do you feel about israeli news sources right now? i've been trying to expand the persepectives i'm reading, and was wondering what you (and other israelis reading this, hi!) thought were accurate representations of civilian sentiments, and how you felt about how they are portraying events.

you've been incredible through all of this, as someone who is willing and able to call out bullshit while maintaining such compassion (props to you, serious chutzpah and moral character). i have oodles and oodles of respect for you, and i hope you and your loved ones stay safe. am yisrael chai

Awwww, hi lovely diaspora Jewish Nonnie! :D I'm so glad my blog could be of help to you throughout this. Thank you so much for the kind words, they're so appreciated! ^u^ *sends hugs*

I think Israeli news sources are, much like all news sources, imperfect. That said, when it comes to Israeli news they ARE vital, because there's a lot you'll hear there, that you won't elsewhere, and you'll get analysis that's much more connected to our reality, and you'll get interviews with some of the most relevant people (conducted by people who usually get what it's all about more than some foreign interviewers)...

It's a bit like how, if you're interested in what's going on with Jews and you're not an Israeli, I would recommend reading some Jewish news outlets. The mainstream media isn't as interested in us, so you'll miss out on a lot that's going on with Jews if you only follow the 'general' news channels. Similarly, if you're interested in Israel, you absolutely should follow Israeli news sources, and get more of the source material, from those who are most invested in it.

Obviously, not all Israeli news sources are the same, some are more biased than others, and even on platforms that are less so, you can come across individuals who are biased (because everything here IS a matter of life and death, and nothing's more divisive than that). And at the same time, sometimes a biased news source will run a story that is absolutely true, reliable, and other news sources are not reporting on for their own reasons. So, not only are biased news sources at times just as reliable as less biased ones, they're sometimes important as well, because their "bias" allows them to speak the truth others may not be interested in.

So overall, I would say that in Israel as elsewhere, it's a good thing to mainly listen to the more "balanced" news sources, keep yourself informed by listening to a variety of POVs, including from all perspectives and biases. Which is why I'm hesitating in giving any specific recs, because I do think the best approach is to not limit whose news you're consuming...

Nonnie, thank you again for the incredibly touching feedback on everything I've been posting, and for the kind wishes. I'm hoping the same's true for you, that you and your loved ones are safe and thriving despite all the antisemitism we've seen rising. I wish you all the best and am sending endless love. Am Yisrael chai! xoxox

(for all of my updates and ask replies regarding Israel, click here)

[eye-in-hand]

Fighting against, and standing up to antisemitism is very important to me. Not just because racism in all of its forms is vile and should be called out, but because antisemitism is something that's affected me very personally.

I talked a little bit about this in my why I'm converting post, but to keep it simple. I was raped by a neo-nazi who kept me isolated, forced me to be financially dependent on him, targeted me when I was 17 years old, kept me in his basement, physically abused me, among other things - because he thought I was Jewish. I am not ethnically Jewish. I'm English and Rusyn. However my entire life I've been perceived as Jewish. It got me bullied, abused, and raped.

So of fucking course when some idiot shows their ass in the one fandom space I had, about how they're sooo antiracist, sooo not bigoted, they just don't want jews, I mean zionists, in their space, of fucking course it's going to make me angry. Of fucking course I'm going to talk about it. Of fucking course I'm fucking disgusted.

It's not my fault these people fell down the rabbit hole of Russian and Iranian propaganda. It's not my fault these people think they get to tell Jews what Zionism means, or automatically assume that not advocating for the genocide of Jews, or being pro- the country where 50% of the Jews (and about 100% of the Jews from the MENA region) live must mean I support killing Palestinians. Or it means that I support genocide. It isn't my fault. Yet I, and other Jews, pay the punishment for it.

No. I don't support genocide. Of any group of people. I don't support violence towards other people based on where they happened to live or what race they happen to be. I don't support imperialism when it's done by anyone. And I FULLY SUPPORT the right of indigenous peoples to have self determination on their native land.

And if you have a problem with that, you have a lot of history to learn, a lot of bigotry to unpack, and a lot of shutting up to fucking do.

I support a two state solution because it's the ONLY way I can see peace happening in an area of the world that has been filled with blood shed for thousands of years. But at the end of the day, I'm a western convert, and my opinion on the Middle East is not as important as people who live there. And there are Israelis and Palestinians who are doing much more for peace than reblogging scam donation posts, supporting Hamas, or harassing Jews online and kidding themselves into thinking they're on the side standing against bigotry. And I support those people. Jew, Arab, or otherwise.

I do not support ignorant fuckwads who think they understand a conflict that doesn't affect them. I do not support ignorant fuckwads who think they get to tell a minority group they are not a part of what that minority group's words mean. I do not support historical revisionism, conspiracy theories, or advocating for the genocide of ANYONE.

And if you have an issue with a Jew telling you that what you're saying is antisemitic, when MULTIPLE JEWS ALL OVER THE INTERNET, have said that the movement you're supporting advocates for the death of all Jews, YOU ARE A RACIST BIGOT. You are the racist bitch you say you hate. You are not immune to bigotry. You are not immune to propaganda. You are not helping anyone with your self righteous virtue signaling slacktivism. You are pathetically ignorant. And I'd feel fucking bad for you if you weren't digging your heels in refusing to acknowledge that you have fucked up.

I don't feel bad for Nazis. I don't feel bad for people who throw Jewish lives away. I don't feel bad for people who throw Palestinian lives away. I have no sympathy for bigots.

By the way, that post wasn't even fucking about you. It says more about you thinking my calling someone out for being racist was about you than it does about me. But this post is about you, and it's the only one you're fucking getting from me. Go fuck yourself.

I know what Nazis sound like. And you sound just fucking like him.

This isn't some stupid fandom drama or some stupid fight between people that hung out in a stupid discord. This is shit that affects real people's lives, and you're perpetuating violence. Disgusting.

[espeonkin]

Honest question: Why do you refuse to speak a word or even share anything against Israel during this time as someone who has connections to it? Why does defending your view of otherkin and furry drama come before defending the real lives of innocent people being killed?

Your online space is ultimately yours to choose what you do with, but this silence is deafening. Pouring blood sweat and tears fighting against some dumb kin jokes made by a few young teens, yet refusing to make a peep over real life genocide and ethnic cleansing being done by a place you frequently visit, is concerning, to say the very least. Please think about this and do better.

hi, i want to preface this response with the fact that while i am going to try to be as eloquent as possible in this response, this is a stressful topic, and i'm probably going to misspeak or forget to include certain things i mean to say because this was an additionally stressful message to receive. i don't want to come off as though i'm refusing to speak at all, though, which is why i'm responding now, instead of after I've had a bit more time to process everything you've said to me.

first, i'd like to address you saying that i "have connections" to israel and "frequently visit" it. i have absolutely no connection to israel. i have no family that lives there, and i have only been there once, four years ago. the only "connection" i have is that i'm jewish, which i don't consider to be a legitimate reason to say i have a connection to israel or especially its government. is that what you're insinuating here? because i'm jewish i'm connected to the state of israel? when i was there, i was personally very uncomfortable with how militarized everything was and frankly wanted nothing more than to leave, but it was a vacation with my family and rabbi, so i couldn't very well leave and go home on my own. and again. this was four years ago and before i was better informed on what the state of israel has done and is continuing to do.

on that note, the reason why i haven't been speaking on the current events related to israel is because it's a very stressful topic for me and i've been going through a rough mental health patch as is already. i can't begin to describe how horrible it feels to hear the constant claims that these are being taken in the name of the religion that i was born into and holds such deep personal value to me even still. i never asked for this. my jewish friends never asked for this. do you know how it feels to have your parents so thoroughly indoctrinated by propaganda that they call you a traitor to your religion for not believing every word that comes from the israeli government? to try so hard to help them unlearn the propaganda only to be met with such thorough resistance? so. please forgive me if i'm trying to make my little corner of the internet just a bit less stressful for me to exist in.

as for the "why is it more important to you to defend your views of otherkin" part, it's because it's less emotionally taxing for me than a literal real world genocide. it's something personal to me, and i'd like to be able to talk about it when possible, but I would like to emphasize that there have been periods where even this has been too much for me to handle and i've had to back off from the topic at points.

i don't like being told to "do better" here. because the fact of the matter is that i know my limits and talking about a literal genocide for weeks on end is frankly not within them. continually exposing myself to travesty when i know it's not within my limits isn't activism, it's emotional self harm. i also would like to know where you heard that i "frequently visit" and "have connections to" israel. or is that something you just came up with because i'm jewish?

i hope i addressed things eloquently enough. sorry if this isn't what you wanted to hear, or if i forgot anything in efforts to make a faster response. i hope this answer is sincere to you.

[renee-writer]



I know the past few days of my show have been really difficult to watch and listen to.

I want to take a moment to explain why I'm showing you all these videos and playing all the audios and showing you all the pictures of the atrocities that the terrorist group Hamas has taken and released. I'm showing you the abduction of raped women and the kidnapping of families and the murder and burning of children.

There's a reason I'm doing this.

There’s an intellectual self-centeredness that predominates among a lot of people in the West. They think everybody thinks like them. They see people do something truly evil and think to themselves, “Well, that is terrible — but the only reason I would do something like that is if something truly awful happened to me. After all, people are generally reasonable, generally peaceable, generally decent, aren’t they? What awful circumstance could force someone into such terrible, evil behavior?”

“If only someone had just made a few concessions, dismantled a few settlements, offered a little more land. After all, we all want the same thing, right?”

No, we don't.

You can all tell yourself these comforting little lies before you see the pictures of what true evil does. But you can't tell those lies to yourself after you see the pictures, after you see the videos, after you listen to the audio.

Here’s the point. Nothing anyone has ever done to you or could ever do to you would cause you to do these things.

No territorial dispute would cause you to butcher babies. No squabble over territory would cause you to rape and abduct women. No so-called “occupation” would cause you to kidnap entire families or burn them alive in their homes.

The only type of person who would do something like that is a person who isn't like you. A person who thinks differently than you do. A person who does not value life or children or decency the same way that you do. A person who might proclaim they love death like you love life.

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Hamas leader Mohammed Deif said, “Today you Israelis are fighting divine soldiers who love death for Allah the way you love life and who compete among themselves for martyrdom like you flee from death.”

Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh screamed, “We love death like our enemies love life.”

These kinds of people would call for killing their own children to wipe out the Jews.

A Hamas spokesperson: “The Palestinian people shall liberate its land with blood, with martyrs, with women, and with children.”

Contrary to the peculiar narcissism of many Westerners, there are lots of people around the world who don't think like we do, who don't actually care about their children the way we do, which is why they hide rocket launchers behind their own kids and willingly murder Jewish babies just because they are Jewish babies. They’ve been indoctrinated — cult-like since youth — in a system of cancerous hatred so strong they're willing to commit the worst atrocities since the Nazis and then post them online and celebrate them.

Hamas is not like you.

Those people who celebrate Hamas are not like you.

And — Hamas exploits the fact that you are not like them. They murder your children and they hide behind their own. They rely on your cultural narcissism to make you believe the death of the kids they are hiding behind is somehow your fault.

You see, if they cared about their kids the way you do it must be your fault when their children die in airstrikes they provoke — while they hide behind their own children. They expect you to care more about their kids than they do themselves.

But what's more important, they expect you to believe that they care about their own children when they manifestly care more about other things. About destroying the state of Israel. About murdering every Jew in their bed.

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They cannot be reasoned with and they cannot be negotiated with.

All of this is awkward for those who believe in a supposed universal human liberalism in which we all seek the same thing. We all seek freedom. We all seek a decent way of life.

Not all human beings think the same way. We don't. I know this is hard to believe about any human beings, but it happens to be true even if it is a seriously hideous truth, perhaps the most hideous truth.

Hamas does not think like you. We do not all seek the same thing. We do not share the same values.

You know how I know we don't? Not just because Hamas says it and proclaims it. But also because of what they do and then what they broadcast and celebrate. The Nazis at least tried to hide their genocide. Hamas cheers it. They hand out candies to children to celebrate the murder of babies and the rape of women.

I've seen the pictures; I've seen the videos; I've watched the tapes. They release the tapes. They celebrate. You've seen them on my show.

The myth that everyone is a Westerner underneath has to end — or the West itself is going to end, because narcissism is the preserve of the safe and the fat and the happy.

Unless — we wake up and look the ugly reality of evil directly in its evil face.

That's why I'm showing you this ugly reality, that hideous reality. I don't want to do it, but we have to do it because we must wake up.

If we don't, the West will sleepwalk our way right into our own extermination.

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[josiebelladonna]

i'm not on anyone's side—except for maybe the side of the people, the israeli, palestinian, jewish, and muslim people, all of whom didn't ask for this—but that's about it, though. (to assume that i'm taking sides is sick, tbh).

the problem is that, like the conservative nutjobs who are quick to slam palestine and kiss netanyahu's ass, those who are like “israel deserved it” are quite literally just as bad because those 600 people were civilians—and like i said, most of them weren't israeli, either. it's like when someone who claims to be pro life feminist tries to tell me that they're feminist because they think abortion “hurts women” (when we all fucking know it doesn't): it only makes you tone deaf because you failed to realize the real enemy here more than likely because of your own ego.

now, i had to read up (a bunch of times, no less) on the whole israeli-palestine conflict mainly because no one will give me a straight answer but also because i was born in the 90s, almost half a century after those two countries were started; of course i'm going to want to know some things, and i'm guessing most of you (that is, any gentile person under the age of 27) who are on the side of palestine here don't know about hamas—or you do, but you don't realize the threat they present to the world. they are extremely racist and anti-semitic (they deny the holocaust ever happened for god's sake). they committed this act. they killed those innocent people. the ones on the side of palestine who do know about them know exactly what i'm talking about: they are legitimate terrorists. the problem is that the media likes to conflate and distort the truth.

and herein lies the flaw with the newer generation in learning about these things. i actually have to go out of my way to read, but how many of you have? how many of you who are posting “i stand with palestine” know why you're posting it (aside from being against the ethnic cleansing that happens there)? how many of you who are griping about palestine being labelled as terrorists realize why they're being labelled that and that it's actually not them but hamas because this was the work of hamas?

listen, gen z. listen to the millennials, we're your older siblings. listen to gen x and the boomers (yes; even with our beef with the latter, listen to them for once), they're your parents and grandparents. they're the ones who saw this from the very beginning. we live in an era of extreme misinformation, and not reading up on these things, only taking them at face value and failing to realize that life isn't clear cut, only contributes to that.

you guys are supposed to be like magellan, making new “discoveries” and giving us new info and enlightening us, but really, i just see a bunch of 20-somethings who prove to me, time and time again, that you guys actually don't know shit and it really just looks like you're doing it to seem important. i'm aware i sound like an old lady complaining about the kids down the street, but these kids are careless—and at this point, i don't think it'll help to say “you'll learn” because knowing your egos and your level of resentment, you won't.

and saying israel deserved it, all because they're aggressors and their government is genuinely oppressive, saying those 600 people had to die, is genuinely despicable; when i really think about it, i honestly don't give a fuck how much you support palestine. you are quite literally as bad as the conservatives rallying around israel, the "maga" crowd who are treating this as if it's a game of risk (i dare you to look that up, too); if not, i'd say you're way worse because you don't see the violent antisemitism at work here (and i'm not jewish, either, so that's saying something). or you do, but you need someone like me to point it out to you because you can't read and think for yourself, that takes too many brain cells. i mean, holy shit, you guys are supposed to be the generation that told us sexuality can be gray and fluid for some people: you know that can be applied to life as a whole, right? you know nothing in existence is black and white... right?

ignorance comes with a price, and i know this because you preached it to me... and you guys are going to pay, if not now, then eventually.

[jaythelay]

"nor do I want to become the victim of a genocide"

wow you really typed that. You really unironically typed that and thought it was okay.

Nobody deserves Genocide. Sure wish you'd understand your existence doesn't rely on another dying, and to claim that to be moral, is repugnant.

In fact I wish you'd drop the gun ya got to Palestinian's heads and stop chanting "It's me or them"

Didn't we send 45bil to Israel and the day after they committed more warcrimes? Aren't our cops trained in Israel/by Israeli? Do we not pay for their free healthcare?

To act like Palestine is irrelevant would be rather daft given the Billions with a B we've sent the genocider country to further genocide them.

I guess tax dollars aren't political tho. Definitely shouldn't demand better, because then dems might give up! Dear Leader has no necessity to listen to the citizens, just to send money for genocide and put rainbows on the bombs.

You can demand better and vote for Kamala.

Only people saying otherwise are blue fanboys that're splitting the community by claiming genocide isn't an important discussion piece, but your problems definitely are at the fore-front and all else needs to take a backseat.

Ya'll got a whole decade of visibility and cushioned discussions to the point when someone does have it worse than you, all you can see when people discuss them is that your special label is peeling away to show you're just another person with nothing special about them.

Anyways if ya'll feel like dem voters are going to sabotage ceasefire talks as much as my gay trans ass thinks, then feel free to vote third party! I won't be mad, I'm too busy being used as a prop to obscure discussions of a Genocide to care who you vote for.

Imagine saying: Guys they're just being BOMBED, RAPED, KIDNAPPED, and MURDERED, but I don't want that for myself!

Clearly my problem is the only problem worth focusing on and any focus on palestine is anti-lgbt!

Imagine feeling that self-important. We're never gonna get shit solved by pretending one sufferer supersedes all other's suffering. This ain't a damn ladder to climb it's a door for us all to escape through, and ya'll are purposefully standing in the doorway, pushing Palestinians away, claiming there's not enough space for all of us.

And then getting mad at your own party for calling you out on it.

This is disgusting behavior by people who grew up in better times than their ancestors, and they didn't reach now by claiming their issues supersede all others and we shouldn't discuss what's happening to people of color because that takes the spotlight from us gays, amirite.

No they called out the bullshit and protested. Demanded better. Cooperated. They didn't tell EVERYONE to put their lives on hold until they're equal. They demanded. Better. As you should for anything, from the free market to government.

Incredible how much easier it is to work with anti-genociders than it will ever be to morally compromise my morals to work with pro-genociders.

Ya just demand better and vote for the person most likely to resolve it. Now that Kamala is here, that's a possibility. The real fear, is are ya'll going to tank possible ceasefires by claiming it to be anti-semetic...

Because that's why people are going third party.

The disgusting meatshielding of minorities against minorities is beffuddlingly disgusting. It speaks volumes when voting dem and being anti-genocide are NOT seen as universally the same anymore by dems.

I'd LOVE for dem voters to agree Genocide Bad No Matter Who, vote for Kamala, and demand better, but ya'll want your special treatment and label. Sorry, but nobody is sending billions to bomb you and Dump already lost as is. We can demand better without acting like your life is on the fucking line in doing so.

Let's demand better, instead of pretending we can only work on one minority at a time, like jesus christ how depraved have we become.

This is why, despite once being staunchly solely democrat, I simply cannot trust dems to do the right thing. Just the most selfish, depraved things they can be but with an angle of morality I find disgusting.

Do Better. Be Better.

Y’all, what’s happening in Gaza is awful. But guess what, this election isn’t about Gaza. This isn’t a referendum on how we’ve handled the Palestinian genocide. This election is about our democracy, and about if there will be a genocide HERE in THIS country. I personally don’t want my right to vote taken away, nor do I want to be the victim of a genocide. So for all the people who are smart enough to see what’s at stake here, and smart enough to understand that protesting this election will only end with more deaths, vote blue no matter who, up and down the ballot. 💙🌊🇺🇸

[anyroads]

Y'all can come at me for what I'm about to say in defense of everyone on this thread and I will block every one of you who bring ignorant shit to my doorstep.

Hamas represents the Palestinian people as much as Joe Biden represents people in the US, as much as Rishi Sunak represents the British, as much as Viktor Orban represents Hungarians, and as much as Bibi "unites people in their hatred of him" Netanyahu represents Israelis, ie. the people who have been protesting against him and calling for a ceasefire even if you're not hearing about it.

When Taika said "fuck Hamas" he was echoing the Palestinian voices y'all are ignoring. Hamas, who keeps Palestinians in poverty while stealing the aid money and resources sent to them. Hamas, who exploits that poverty to radicalize Palestinians and use them as soldiers in a war they perpetuate because they benefit from it while Palestinian citizens suffer. Hamas, who use civilians as cannon fodder and shields to hide behind.

Please stop conflating Hamas with Palestinian people as a whole. It's racist and refers to a mythical monolith that isn't real and exists only in the imagination of the colonialist savior who thinks that imposing their idea of justice is more important than listening to the real human beings they aim to save. Palestinians are not your noble savages. I'm tired of the ignorance and the hate that it spews.

And I'm tired of single-cell amoeba level hot takes that boil down any statement of "fuck this terrorist organization that exploits its people and has a mission statement of literal genocide" to assume it means the person saying it doesn't care about the Palestinian people. They do. WE do. That's why they're saying it.

If all you got out of Jojo Rabbit is that you feel the need to dismiss the voice of an indigenous Maori man who's also Jewish, because you are incapable of nuance, then I can't help you fix your life but maybe it's time for you to take a step back and do some introspection and learning because you sound not just foolish, but hateful and ignorant. If you care more about posturing about politics from the comfort of your keyboard than you do about learning about genocide, then your complicit ass can sit down and list to me every way you your very self have benefited from colonialism, whether through the land you live on, or whose land your country stole that's allowed it to flourish.

Anyone who understands the Israeli-Palestinian conflict knows that binary thinking and hateful dismissal of differing opinions is what's fueling this conflict, and it's easy to do when your hatred gives you catharsis, while you ignore that it fuels rockets and hate crimes against people you'll never have to look in the eye and be accountable to.

Jojo Rabbit (2019) dir. Taika Waititi

[thecrazyalchemist]

I know I don't normally talk about current events on my blog, but this was a very big wtf moment so I want to vent a little.

(disclaimer: I am a secular Jew. When I talk about religious topics, some information I say may be inaccurate. You are welcome to correct me **in good faith**)

I will admit this was an even bigger of a wtf moment about JVP, but probably because I am an Israeli secular Jew so it hit closer to home.

Because instructing Jews not to pray in *Hebrew* in ***Tish'a Be'av*** is a so big wtf to me idk how to properly explain it.

Tish'a Be'av is a time for Jews to grieve the destructions of our temples (*plural*) by the babilons (in 422 or 586 B.C.) and by the romans (70 AD) and other events and grievances that eventually led to the diaspora and more. It is one of the most important (if not the most important, I'm never sure if it's Yom Kippur or Tish'a Be'av) periods of grieving and fasting in Judaism.

In addition, the Jewish holy book, the Tanach, is written in Hebrew. F[ructose]ing Hebrew. The Jewish prayers have always been in Hebrew. That's how a Jew from Spain and a Jew from Ethiopia can recite the same prayer (with a bit of difference).

So now, on **Tish'a Be'av**, a **Jewish** grieving day, you come and say that we shouldn't pray in Hebrew?! HAVE YOU EVEN OPENED THE TANACH, THE TORAH, ONE TIME IN YOUR WHOLE LIFE?! WOULD YOU TELL A MUSLIM NOT TO PRAY IN ARABIC DURING RAMADAN OR CHRISTIAN NOT TO PRAY IN ENGLISH DURING EASTER?!

You don't seem very much Jewish as an organization to me, do you?!

Oh, but no, that's ok. Because Hebrew has been resurrected by (((Zionists))) [insert "genocidal little freaks of nature that are worse than rats, vermin, the black death, Nazis, and are pedophiles who rule the world in their shadowy greedy dirty ways and desire to kill every one who isn't them] that's ok to say. Because every one who prays in Hebrew is a dirty (((Zionist))). Because everyone who talks in Hebrew is a dirty (((Zionist))). Because every Jew that doesn't conform to our own twisted ideal of a little good Jew with the only thing Jewish about them is their great grandmother and anything more is erased. /Sarcastiest sarcastic sarcasm to ever sarcasm

But yeah, that's ok to ignore my opinion too, because I'm a little (((Zionist))) who has dared to be born in Israel and speak Hebrew all his life and want his own damn country and friends and family and people not to die and be cleansed away. /Sarcasm again

You don't seem to be very much for peace either, huh? I wonder why...

I just learned about JVP's instructions to Jewish people to not pray in Hebrew. Shocking, frankly. I've heard many Jewish people criticize JVP. This, though, is a brazen act of antisemitism. Even a non-Jew like me would be reasonably suspicious of such a suggestion.

There's something weird here, right? They claim to be Jewish voices advocating for peace, and yet they are suggesting removing Jewish language from the equation. I once heard something to the effect of "Hebrew is the vocal component of Judaism." That for many, Hebrew is intrinsic to their Judaism. I'm not sure how Jews relate to Hebrew and if this is a correct assertion, but if it's a fair assertion, there's a sick irony in an organization claiming to be made up of Jewish voices trying to remove Judaism's voice.

I might be out of line here, this is definitely something for Jewish people to discuss and debate, but it just seems so incredibly anti-Jewish.

[zorciarkrildrush]

Oh awesome! I do hope your jabroni googles like one thing in their life to see Israel does not pass the definition of an ethnostate:

Since Israel is not populated by a single racial or ethnic group, and is not dominated solely by the interests of a single racial or ethnic group. I am fully cognizant there are factions in Israel who want that to be the case, but as of right now, b"h, this is not the case. One would argue supporting Israelis who want to prevent that would be of more immediate practical use than cheering from the sidelines for Israel's wholesale destruction, but what do I know.

And I really do have to wonder, golly jee, how come the jabroni is so laser-focused on Israel and never bothered to look in on... I don't know, how about Saudi Arabia?

You know, that massive country that the US also has a vested interest in working with in the MENA? Surely if they are also oppressive, this would be a similar matter of public attention? In case the jabroni doesn't feel like clicking, let me screenshot from the wiki article:

This isn't a condemnation of Islam. Hell, I'm not even beating any drum to dismantle Saudi Arabia altogether (even if apparently that's how we talk about serious issues these days), this is just a super quick and easy example as to how:

1. Many other governments have been, and are, oppressive to ethnic or religious minorities within them. While this shouldn't be the case by any means, and fighting against it is important, Israel is not special. Amnesty International, the UN, and Enlightened Online Leftists seem to act like it is - and one has to wonder why.

2. Jews, while historically relatively better off in Muslim countries than Christian ones, were always othered. It's in the Quran, for crying out loud. You can't pretend we were just part of the gang - not in Europe, not in the Americas, and certainly not anywhere else. Zionism didn't spring up out of boredom or for fun, it came about because the rest of the world seems to have trouble being normal about us.

Someone: I don't think nation states, or even states altogether, should exist! Me: Yeah!

Someone: Anyway the only state I'll ever push for dismantling is the one for Jews. No, definitely not where I live, that's hard and it existed for so long so it's basically fine now. The only minority I'll call out for wanting a state is Jews. There's only one ethnicity where I'll feel cool interrogating people to make sure they don't want self determination. There's only one group of people I'll harass and prod to make sure they agree with me wholeheartedly that their kin overseas are wholly bad and wrong. Any time they display their symbols, pray, talk about their heritage or fears in public - I have to remind them that this state that was made for them is a mistake and they should condemn it with every breath or else they are suspect. No this is definitely not antisemitic! The only antisemites are white supremacists anyway, and I'm not one so Jewish people are safe around me :)

[zevranunderstander]

sorry to jump on this post and be antagonistic, I don't mean to attack you personally, but I saw this sentiment a few times in the tags, and the implication that it's more important that Israel doesn't win an inconsequential song contest instead of adhering to an internationally called for boycott of the event is a bit of an insane take to me, but a lot of people who actually watch eurovision this year seem to think like that and I want to explain why it's more important to boycott than that Israel could win

1. Eurovision is an official BDS boycott target. The boycott list is not about *one* event or brand having "bad values", per se, it's to send a universal message through solidarity in boycotting (basically, "if you're on this list because you are supporting Israel, you will suffer harm financially and in your reputation"). Not getting engagement sends a clear message and that is that Eurovision isn't gonna be financially successful if they support Israel, because no one will be watching it. So watching Eurovision and voting shows the exact engagement the boycott is trying to avoid.

2. Eurovision is entirely complicit in supporting Israel, this is not just 'one bad apple' being at a politically neutral event. Eurovision has banned the portrayal of Palestinian flags, and heavily scolded a Palestinian contestant from a previous year, who gave a performance simply for having a keffiyeh wrapped around his arm. Another artist wasn't allowed body paint that thinly said "free Palestine" in like, a language basically none of the viewers would be able to recognise. So giving the EBU money by voting isn't donating it against an Israeli cause, it's giving money to an organisation that proudly supports Israel and is determined to help them keep a good image in Europe

3. Of course winning the eurovision song contest has a few advantages - the country that is hosting gets to do a lot of propaganda and branding for the viewers to see, but Israel's last win was so recent that I don't really think that this would make a massive difference for them in terms of reputation. And aside from that, Israel not winning the contest would just be an insignificant, meaningless moral victory. I can't stress enough that the danger of Israel winning Eurovision is not why protesters called for Israel to be banned from the contest. It's that Eurovision gives a country a massive platform to brand themselves and that the EBU doesn't seem to care to be associated with a country that is committing the most atrocious war crimes of the century.

This isn't like real-life voting where you have to vote against a "bigger evil" lest they become the next president, this is an entirely make-believe popularity contest with very little consequence to real life. And if you really can't even bring yourself to not watch at all, at least don't engage in voting or encouraging other people online to also vote.

Not trying to hate on people who are part of the boycott...but this is just going to cause Isreal to win.. then we'll have to have Eurovision in Israel.

THEN things will be interesting