#if you hate Palestinians do not touch this post

[theleafwarden]

Glad I took a Twitter break before the news about Gaza today. It's about to get even more worse. Bibi is gonna have the IDF completely eradicate Gaza now and I don't think I can handle reading anymore. Especially since we're a month out from Rosh Hashanah and October 7th 😮‍💨. Now I have to deal with the pro Israel sermon or whatever Rabbi is gonna say during Shabbat service 😓

[snurps]

another thing to vent about.

not saying i agree with what the dalai lama did, but tibetans have spoken out about how the "suck my tongue" thing really was just a huge misunderstanding and is just a cultural thing and injoke even. it's actually meant to be respectful to your elders, and of course he didn't actually mean for it to be sexual.

i'm just saying, it's really sus how quick all of y'all were to turn on him. i can get the reaction, especially since it involves a child, but he's literally an elderly asian man who espouses nonviolence, speaks very broken english, and therefore won't be defending himself against what everyone is saying. among asians, he is literally the dalai lama, a tibetan man who has been persecuted practically his entire life by the chinese government. he literally hasn't lived in his hometown since 1959. that's older than some of y'alls grandparents xD moreover, the clip went viral because of chinese propagandists. and well, i suppose they succeeded.

but even despite his defenders, some of y'all are still so stubborn and narrow-minded. i can understand people who are sensitive about religious trauma, especially ex- and current catholics (sorry y'all), but literally these are pointless accusations against the dalai lama.

enjoy virtue signaling. i doubt you actually care about how that boy felt. by the way, he said in an interview that he really enjoyed meeting the dalai lama (and it's ok if he was still uncomfortable. when you see your aunties and they all want to give you kisses, wouldn't you feel uncomfortable as a little kid too? be honest ;) )

why don't you just go on with your life and do something that makes you happy instead of getting pissed about something you can't do anything about? or put that anger into something like volunteering and actually make a change instead of just posting a random comment on instagram or facebook because ohhhh, you just have to let everyone know what your shitty, uneducated opinion is about the dalai lama!

like come on. there's enough anti-asian sentiment going on already. sit down, shut the fuck up. listen.

also, again, there are numerous other cultures where kissing adults on the lips is not sexualized. go educate yourself. here, i won't even tell you to "just google it." i found you a wikipedia article. why don't you read it, hm?

sigh, i wish people would be willing to try to understand each other more instead of leaping to judge others. the world would be so much better if people would take even 10 seconds to try to understand the other person's point of view before hitting that tweet button or whatever.

also twitter sucks fuck twitter i hope elon musk drives it into the ground lmao

[bitchy-peachy]

Daily Clicks To Help Daily (among some trusted charities)

I was originally doing this for just my mutuals that I know desperately want to help but don't have the finances for it but since I will schedule reblogs for this daily, I will not shut off reblogs.

Now here I am ruining my bad rep again as an evil witch cos regardless of anything I say I want to help people in need regardless of nay sayers telling me not to. (Personality flaw of mine)

If you want to help Palestine financially this is definitely the place to go. Every click generates money through ad revenue and you can click multiple causes per day on schedule (which explains me scheduling this post)

I click on every single one of the links to generate money for them. They've gotten thousands of $$$$ to help multiple families in need.

Here are all the categories you can click for. It costs you nothing. Just a couple of seconds of your time and that's it. As I said before, you can click ALL of them once daily.

Now on to some charities since I donate around $25 to $50 monthly to these charities (amounting to $200 per month. I prefer donating to charities rather than gofundme asks, especially unvetted ones. I don't like picking or choosing who to help or not because they're scattered in multiple gfm or can even be scamming. So I stick to charities ONLY to crowd help many people at once rather than individual smaller groups)

Not all these charities are for Palestine but I will link them.

!!! DONATIONS GO TO PALESTINE, LEBANON AND JORDAN !!!

!!! TO HELP PALESTINIAN CHILDREN WITH MEDICAL NEEDS !!!

!!! HELP FOR CONGO !!

!!! HELP UKRAINE (and page also links to other charity efforts for countries in need)!!!

!!! HOPE FOR HAITI !!!

!!! HELP AND SAVE THE CHILDREN OF SUDAN !!!

Special note at the end under cut cos post is too long already. For non-mutuals that may have come across this. You don't need to read it but posting it just in case cos this is the only personally made post I'll make addressing this. Warnings for profanity.

I know I get repetitive but you don't have to have endless cash to help people. Just the daily clicks help people out especially when all those clicks come together in masse.

As I said before this was mostly for mutuals who want to help but feel they can't. Wanted them to see that even just a couple of their seconds can help.

Now I'm going back to my regularly scheduled programming of being mean, fandom content and occasional political content that gets people 🤬.

I don't like just spewing online as a form of "help" so I do quietly do charity work even though some racist people claiming to be on a certain side told me to shove my money (I now realized those are just vile right wingers that want people to suffer. Its disgusting what hate does. Don't let trolls take away your humanity. Be smart and not easy to anger like me)

Also don't want any racist assholes that want us ALL to burn touching this post. You make me physically ill no matter how much you lie about caring about any of this. All you do is sow division and make people not want anything to do with these causes and I almost fell down that rabbit hole and

I'm still kicking myself over letting these low lifeforce creatures, cos y'all can't be human, get to me. Sincerely eff off.

I hope others on the fence about helping due to feeling picked out come forward and start helping too as well. (Since I know there's good people out there)

[spot-the-antisemitism]

at this point you’re clearly trolling for jews to interact

Bro doesn’t know how tumblr works and is mad that I did to them what they did to me. Turnaround is fair play and you are literally trying to be the hamasnik answer to me. You said so in your tag. You set yourself up to be my nemesis and are mad that I’m watching you?

Second paragraph is them bitching I’m progressive AND Zionist and that “haha even if I block me, I can still see your viral posts”. Buddy I literally take precautions when that happens.

“listen my blog is about documenting zionism”, cool mine is about documenting antisemitism.

also funny how ALL their receipts are either “gaza IS genocide, because Holocaust inversion is my bread and butter” or “the jews insulted my blorbo hamas attack attack attack”

like all the Hen Mazzig hate is because “Palestinian dares insult hamas attack attack attack”

and you uplift a RANDOM black man instead of actual Palestinians. At this point you’re just saying things that will piss jumblr off

You don’t want to uplift Palestinians only white hamasniks and white scammers

Notice they never reblog El-shab-Hussein’s “Zionist callouts” or 90-ghost’s many posts

because OP hates uplifting any Palestinians regardless of whether they agree with them or not

Bait used to be believable

clear crocodile tears of joy that “the dirty jews touched my post”

you crave engagement from Jews so bad so you can attack us and document us saying your blorbo terror group are terrorists

i singlehanded gave you the exposure you so wanted and the jewish eyes on your posts you so crave

i’m sorry that the big name grifters didn’t notice you buddy

What are you going to do when you find this? Screenshot this on your followerless blog with tags of “racism, xenophobia and genocide denial”?

i’m sooo terrified of harrassment from your nonexistent fans and your equally nonexistent commentary of your nonexistent advocacy

[amyisraelchaiforever]

If you don’t mind, would you explain what exactly it means to be a Zionist, or what Zionism is?

Also, looking at posts here and on news sites I see such pradoxical views, one saying to not support Palestine is to support genocide and the other saying to not support Israel is to be antisemitic. I wonder, and I am going around asking people on different sides of the war, do you believe it is possible to support both the lives of Palestinian people and the lives of Jewish people?

Feel free to ignore this ask or to point out any ignorance on my part. I hope you have some peace in your day/night.

Of course! Thank you for being so kind with your questions! 💙 Sorry that it's a bit "all over the place." There's a LOT to cover, and I'll leave a bunch of links to learn about more details.

To start of, Zionism is (by the google-search definition):

a movement for (originally) the re-establishment and (now) the development and protection of a Jewish nation in what is now Israel. It was established as a political organization in 1897 under Theodor Herzl, and was later led by Chaim Weizmann.

So basically, being a zionist is supporting zionism or the creation & protection of Israel.

Most Jews are Zionists (sources say between 85-95%) of Jews. Something I want to clarify:

Being a zionist, or supporting Israel, does not mean that we support all decisions of Israeli government, especially not Netanyahu. In fact, most Israelis and Jews don't actually like Netanyahu (which I'll be calling Bibi for short). This doesn't mean we don't want Israel to cease to exist. There's multiple sides to even one side in the main argument.

Now I'm going to tackle your harder points:

Also, looking at posts here and on news sites I see such pradoxical views, one saying to not support Palestine is to support genocide and the other saying to not support Israel is to be antisemitic. I wonder, and I am going around asking people on different sides of the war, do you believe it is possible to support both the lives of Palestinian people and the lives of Jewish people?

First of all, I don't support the "Free Palestine" movement for multiple reasons, but get this straight: It's not because I hate the people, it's because the leaders of it are people I don't agree with.

I definitely don't want you to think I think all people in Gaza/'Palestinians' should die. I do NOT think that. But first of all, let me talk about the whole issue of "not supporting Palestine is to support genocide".

It's not genocide, simple as that.

here's the definition of genocide:

the deliberate killing of a large number of people from a particular nation or ethnic group with the aim of destroying that nation or group.

In my opinion, you should replace "killing" with "murdering", but you get the gist.

Israel attacking the Gaza Strip right now is not in order to kill the civilians there, it's to retrieve the hostages (hostages, not prisoners of war) and end HAMAS (a globally-recognized terrorist organization. I'll link some pictures of their website at the end), so they can't launch another deathly attack on Israel or Jews as a whole (not to mention HAMAS's other problems with LGBTQ+ and such).

Therefore, not genocide. I do not want the people in Gaza dead, but I do not support Palestine as they want it- Israel gone and a new country. Does that mean I support genocide? That's your own decision to make.

Something I want to briefly touch upon is historical inaccuracy & numbers before we move on to "not supporting Israel is antisemitic".

Like I said, HAMAS is a terrorist organization. Here's a few examples of a website used to show their propaganda & agendas.

This is even from a while back (1-2 weeks)! It's messed up, especially if you take time to read the Stages.

Also, I do not believe that all Palestinians and Palestine-supporters support Hamas, like not every Israeli and Jew support every decision of the Israeli Government. But still, people idolize HAMAS and that is a problem.

People say, "end the 75 (or 76) year occupation!!!!11!!!!!1!!!!" I won't get into history, but the Gaza Strip was ruled by Egypt until 1967 (then it was captured by Israel during a war) and Israel completely left it 2005-6. Can't be 75 or 76 years if you haven't been there for so long.

That was just something I wanted to mention. Now, lets move onto "not supporting Israel is antisemitic."

This changes from person to person, I'll admit. A goy (or non-jewish person) can't decide what is or isn't antisemitic, and a jew cannot really do the same to another jew. Saying that Israel shouldn't exist? Yes, it's antisemitic. Israel (Judea, Eretz Yisrael, etc) is the Jews' land, birthright- we are the indigenous people (whoo boy, I could go on a whole other rant here if you want me to.)

Mostly, I'd say it isn't antisemitic. Some people might disagree. I found a good guide on critizing Israel here - it'll be linked in the end if you want to check it out.

IN ANSWER TO YOUR QUESTION: yes, it is possible! i value both israeli and Jews AND palestinians lives (this is not when they tell me to kms, of course)

sorry it took me so long to answer this :')

Here are some of the links I recommend:

@freegazafromhamas Quick information, easy to digest (and a very kind person); probably most in support of a palestinian state

@fuck-hamas-go-israel has been running this blog for over 10 years, I believe. Important picture & video evidence and information.

@elder-millennial-of-zion Again, important information.

@shretl this user is especially good for information! They're very educated & I've learned a lot. Honestly, just looking through their posts is educational...

I've also preblogged many things in general on my blog!

other pictures:

Online Sources: (this section is taken from @shretl's post) * https://www.israelhayom.co.il/article/865383 - Hebrew article, Title means "Sad ending to a magnificent history: Only 4 Jews left in Iraq".

What was the Farhud https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farhud

History of the Jewish community in Baghdad https://cojs.org/the_jewish_community_in_baghdad_in_the_eighteenth_century-_zvi_yehuda-_nehardea-_babylonian_jewry_heritage_center-_2003/

What are Pogroms?https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/pogroms?gclid=Cj0KCQiAkeSsBhDUARIsAK3tiedM7DuwIaSQX-kRxvXTgCDxN6-zqeo_DNNFgyanSYGyGOhwu_0vfrkaAg6REALw_wcB

The last Jew of Peki'in, Margalit Zinati https://aish.com/the-last-jew-of-pekiin/

Arab riots of 1930s- https://www.gov.il/en/Departments/General/ben_zvi_30 https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/the-1936-arab-riots

Israel's history from ancient times & timeline : https://www.travelingisrael.com/timeline-land-israel/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=iiUIWnU-Ofk

Second Temple era - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Temple_period

Forced conversion of Jews across history- https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt18mvnct.7?seq=4

If something is wrong, please correct me!

[batsarebetterthanpeople]

I tried so hard not to be parasocial about it but this letter thing is fucking me up, man. I've written a few overly flattering letters to evil government officials before myself. but how did someone convince all these reasonable-seeming people (strangers that I do not know) to publicly sign this centrist-ass letter? I understand they probably got Taika Waititi and Jack Black with the everyone can share, peace and love on the planet earth wording, but Jordan Peele? what. how did that happen. it makes no sense to me.

Ok I'm gonna front load my position on the Israel-Palestine conflict before I answer this ask so that no one can accuse me of shit I didn't say. If you want to see what I have to say on the letter itself, scroll to the big font. I'm as anti-zionist as they come I don't think that governments should even exist at all, I consider Israel to be an illegitimate state the same way I consider the country I live in (USA) to be an illegitimate state. I think that if we're going to have countries at all, which we shouldn't, that country should be Palestine and individual Jewish people certainly should be welcome to move there for whatever reason they want, including religious, but that the people who already lived there shouldn't be displaced because of it. And if they wanted me to support Israel on the basis of Jewish people needing somewhere to go after the Holocaust, they should have put Israel in Europe in 1945 instead of in the Arabian Peninsula in 1918. I tend to think the hard core zionists who aren't Jewish are trying to deport diaspora Jewish people somewhere based on the way I have heard other goyim speak about Israel. I am sympathetic to Jewish people who believe this has nuance but ultimately I cannot condone the displacement of Palestinians. That position might lose me followers but really I don't care.

Now that I have gotten that out of the way

(This first paragraph is for everyone who's out of the loop and has only seen the Tumblr posts about this issue, Anon does seem to know what I'm about to say) I do also think this whole thing with the letter is being blown out of proportion a little bit? That's not to say it's a good letter, it does contain language which blames Hamas for the conflict which is the western propaganda line so that countries like the United States and Britain don't have to admit that they caused and are funding this whole operation because they hate brown people. However celebrities are rubes who fall for government propaganda all the fucking time. What the letter itself actually calls for is Biden to facilitate the release of Israeli hostages. I consider this letter to be the vaguely Zionist equivalent of that time all those celebrities got on zoom and sang imagine because COVID was happening. I certainly doubt that the man who produced Get Out and Us supports the genocide and I also question whether the man who directed Reservation Dogs does either. Most likely they were asked "will you sign a letter calling for the release of Israeli hostages?" And they said "well releasing hostages sounds nice."

(this paragraph is for anon) Despite the fact that I think "these 70 celebrities condone Palestinian genocide" is incredibly reductive I would encourage you to see these people as human beings, and more specifically idiot millionaires who are out of touch. I believe that Taika Waititi understands the Maori struggle and generally tries to be a nice liberal but ultimately he is a man who grew up in the 80s with a lot of money who has an interest in keeping that money. His gaff transphobia tweets (which I didn't think were that bad considering he made it in 2013 and wasn't even talking about trans women, but they were still transphobic) and his pearl clutching during the BLM riots made this abundantly clear (both of these incidents are Taika Twitter originals that people have sent me trying to get me to hate him and I saw both of them and was like "that's what I thought you'd say old man"), and the fact that he married Rita "blackfish" Ora. I'm way less plugged in to what Jordan Peele is doing because I've never had an anon send me his call out post but I'm going to assume that the same thing is true of him: he understands the struggle of black people in the United States, despite this moment of basedness I probably politically disagree with him on many many counts. As for Jack Black he donates to autism speaks so he's coming for me and the Palestinians. Although that said so does Gaga and I'm still very much a fan of her.

I've basically had to come to terms with the fact that no celeb that I like the work of agrees with me about politics because all of them are rich and I am a communist. That's not going to stop me from liking their work, it's not going to stop me from bothering some of them at cons when I get the chance. Because again they're just guys. And most guys are idiots. I am an idiot about a lot of things. We don't expect Taika Waititi or Jordan Peele to know about every conflict in the world we expect them to make entertaining and perhaps insightful movies. I am not here because I think Taika agrees with me on all things. I am here because I want to watch a rom com about gay men who murder people, one of whom is just like me for real.

Anyway do your research

[legallyacceptibleurl]

of the blogs that i keep track of, there’s definitely obvious cliques. all of them have posts circulate to all parts eventually, but one thing i’ve noticed is a clear divide between the american liberal zionist bloggers and the israeli zionist bloggers in that space. the american liberal bloggers are more concerned about respectability and here and there might even push back when someone says something more egregiously islamophobic or racist (rarely tho). this is not the case at all for the israeli bloggers, they will just say shit like “all palestinians are nazis and should be wiped out” with their whole chest and then move on with no repercussions

there’s a handful of bridging blogs which keep the flow of posts between the two cliques circulating, but they rarely ever touch the more genocidal posts or reblogs

that’s where i come in I guess, i am working on posting some of the more shocking screenshots and connecting them to the people who reblog from them

i love posting examples, let’s use this one

ID: screenshot of a post that @shofarsogood reblogged from @stupid-jewishwhiteboy

@some-israeli-guy: “I want to take a few minutes to talk about my connection to Israel, as a Jew. I want to do that because some people desperately need to understand this, and also I'm procrastinating on uni homework.”

the rest of the post is cut off by me. End ID.

i often use these two because it’s by far the most infuriating example. shofarsogood is a very popular blog on here and is mutuals both with people who would be incredibly offended at being called zionists, and also just fully unapologetic zionists. meanwhile, some-israeli-guy is someone who will just straight up say “kill all palestinians”, and it’s fucking horrible but from a purely practical perspective i can appreciate the honesty because it makes my job easier. it’s like a touchstone for the level of hate speech these people will tolerate as long as it’s on their side

ID: screenshot of a reblog by @some-israeli-guy:

“Beautiful! Kill them all and erase Palestine from history!” End ID.

so, how does a post travel from the “kill them all” side of tumblr to the “we just want peace in gaza but conveniently all pro-palestine advocacy is antisemitic” side of tumblr? very easily it turns out

it starts with this

ID: a screenshot showing @homochadensistm reblogging from @some-israeli-guy. End ID.

here’s what kind of blog we’re dealing with at this point

ID: screenshot of a reblog by @homochadensistm:

“1. This poll is from the west bank, or do you think thats a place in gaza?

2. BBC reports Gazans are fed up with hamas: uuuuch WhErE dA BidEO eViDEncE

Some rando with a tumblr posts about 5 gorillion children dying in a nuclear explosion in Khan younis:”

under the text is an image of the wojak meme called “Two Soyjaks Pointing”

@homochadensistm’s tags: “#gazans will be freed of the bronze age islamists who took over them via a coup #whether u like it or not <3”

End ID.

next is this

ID: a screenshot showing @stupidjewishwhiteboy reblogged from @homochadensistm. End ID.

ID: screenshot of a post reblogged by @stupidjewishwhiteboy.

@not-antisemitic-receipts: “"Genocide Denier"

Yes, I "deny" accusations of genocide levied against Jews by antisemites, be they from Jihadist Islamofascists claiming "Palestine Genocide" or Nazi Fascists claiming "White Genocide."

"Denial" of conspiracy theories is simply common sense, Period.”

End ID.

and then it’s… wait that’s it?

ID: a screenshot showing @shofarsogood reblogging from @stupidjewishwhiteboy. End ID.

huh. i’m sure that doesn’t mean anything

oh but i’m going to be fair to everyone involved. at the time he posted that post that went around, he hadn’t yet said “kill all palestinians”. how cruel of me to expect these people to see into the future

except you don’t have to be raven fucking symoné to see that it was only a matter of time

here is @some-israeli-guy three days before his post about his connection to israel

ID: a reblog by @some-israeli-guy:

“As someone with a relative who fought in the Warsaw ghetto uprising, my first reaction was being infuriated.

My second emotion though? Hope. Same as how everything hamas and the pro hamas crowd blame Israel of, they've done themselves, everything they wish for us, they will receive. The Israeli people love life. We celebrate life in spite of everyone trying to kill us. Palestine, on the other hand, is a death cult. They worship death and find no meaning in life other than sacrificing it. Palestinian society is based on hate and death, and a society like that will never win.

The nazis lost. The nazis always lose, and my relative survived and came to Israel.

#israel #jumbIr #palestine is a death cult #i/p #palestine”

there were also a couple tags in hebrew that i cannot copy paste. End ID.

hell, let’s take a look at the tail end of the post that got reblogged by everyone and their fucking mom

ID: “To anyone who call us "colonizers": These "ancient" Israelites don't just share a religion with us, they ARE us. We were expelled from our homeland, but we kept our identity, we refused to let go, we kept wishing to come back home. We were always indigenous to Israel. We don't belong anywhere but here.

And now they're are trying to tell us that some people with a name invented by Rome to erase Judea and Israel, with a religion and language from Arabia, who didn't have a distinct cultural identity other than "Arab" until a few decades ago, belong here more than we do? I don't think so.”

End ID.

[drill-teeth]

Dear fellow white LGBT folks.

Hi. I am also white and LGBT. And if you spread a hateful message about Palestinians being homophobic and somehow deserving of the violence they're suffering because of it, I want you to shut the fuck up. If being out of touch and holding a bias based on hate is punishable by death, then I think "advocating a genocide" is a crime that should get y'all annihilated.

Condemnation of that behavior aside, my outrage at other white LGBT folks for their bigotry doesn't actually do anything for Palestinians in need.

Calling and emailing my representatives does.

Sending money when I can to reputable organizations that provide aid when I can does.

My participation in the boycotts does.

My sharing resources on my blogs and staying informed and reading the stories of Palestinians does.

And I highly recommend others do these things as well. Do not lose hope.

If you see a resource or story or piece of news you want to be shared around more, attach it to this post. Or send posts to me in DMs to reblog here and on my more popular art blog to share around. We must keep up hope and care about the lives of people in crisis suffering from a genocide.

[pettytiredandjewish]

Not once have I ever seen you disprove any meaningful claim someone has brought up against you 💀💀💀

Y’all you must be high or something. I like how every time I defend Israeli citizens (because they are not their f-ing government- they are also victims of this war. Not just Palestinians. They are also victims too, just not the only ones) or call out any antisemitism that I see via anonymous ask ( I get a lot- some I even delete) I get hate messages.

It’s kinda funny that anons love to troll through jewish blogs and send them hate. Especially ones that defend Israel/ or both Israel and Palestine/ or just antisemitism. Funny I was gonna make a post about this since it’s something that I’ve noticed while scrolling through tumblr. If someone defends Israel (or even just the citizens-cuz remember folks they aren’t their government), of defends both Palestine and Israel- pro Palestine people, some anti Zionist people and full raging nazies (aka the fools cuz that’s what y’all are. Fools.) really loves to send hateful comments and messages to those blogs.

It’s really messed up when these fools also comments and messages blogs who’s post have nothing to do with I/P conflict. A Jew could just be sharing something good that is happening in their life or something and they automatically get attacked by fools. And don’t get me started on the pro Palestine protests. Y’all think it’s really ok to swarm around synagogues, hospitals, campus buildings and spew hate to those who literally have nothing to do with the i/p conflict. Congratulations fools you have now reached a level of stupidity that i have never seen before- and I’ve seen a lot of stupidity before.

Y’all must be bored or have so much time on your hands. So let me explain this to you all (again) on your level so that you and others hopefully understand. Hope y’all have your listening ears on and ready. And remember boys/girls/and non binary folks think before you speak. If you have any questions or comments-write them down and make sure that it isn’t something stupid. And yes I’m treating all of y’all fools like little kids (only little kids are more behaved then y’all, which is sad and funny). Let’s begin!

-Israel is not an apartheid state (Israel and Palestine have their own forms of government and own set of rules. Palestine has been under hamas control since the early 2000s. Hamas is the reason why Palestine citizens are living and dealing with shity situations. Also during this war, Israel has been giving Palestine citizens a heads up/warning on when they go on the attack and that they need to either evacuate the area or get to a safe area. One of the many reasons why so many have sadly lost their lives is because Hamas. Hamas have been telling their citizens to ignore the warnings, or directs them to “safety areas” that are under attack. Hamas doesn’t care about Palestine or their citizens. Nor do they care for Israel or Jews. I’ll touch on this more in a bit.) nor are they colonizers (you can’t be a colonizer if you have ties/connections/history to the land. Which they did before getting forcibly kicked out.) Remember the British had control of that region after the Ottoman Empire. There was no Palestine official state. That whole area was considered a British mandated state until the state of Israel and Palestine was formed. Also take note that any formation of a state or country is gonna be really messy and controversial. It’s part of history.

-did you know that Israel is the only jewish nation. Out of all the bloody countries- only one is a Jewish nation. A lot of Jews left their home countries for Israel because they were not wanted by their home country. It was either stay and be killed or leave to start a new life in a country that will open their arms for their jewish siblings. Europe kicked out a lot of their jewish citizens. A lot of Middle Eastern countries did the same too. A lot of lives were lost during this horrible time period. Those who didn’t go to Israel went to the United States hoping that they would be accepted with open arms. That did not happen. A lot of jewish families had to hide their identity and change their last names (because getting a job/home/etc was very difficult if you didn’t have an American sounding name). My great grandparents left Germany a little before ww1 due to the rise of antisemitism. When they got to the states they had to hide the fact that they were Jewish for their own safety. It’s been kept hush ever since. Which is really messed up. No one should have to hide their Jewishness but yet here we are…

- like I’ve mentioned before Hamas doesn’t care about its own people. If they did care about Palestine then they wouldn’t be withholding food/water/other essentials that was delivered for the people during the war. Nor would they be using their people as human shields. It’s really messed up. If y’all really cared about Palestine and their citizens why aren’t you guys disgusted by what Hamas is doing to its own people??? Hamas are willing sending their citizens to places where they know will get targeted and killed but yet you all are blaming Israel who has been sending warnings to Palestine citizens. Hamas is a terrorist organization. Not a freedom fighter group. They care for no one but themselves. Like any extremist group- they want control and power over the people. They don’t care if lives are lost.

I (and others) are allowed to defend Israeli citizens. They have done nothing to deserve what’s been happening to them. It’s really f-ed up if you think that they deserve to be kidnapped, r****, tortured and killed. Hamas is still holding 100s of hostages and are torturing them like it’s a sick game. Why do y’all think Israel is still fighting Hamas? They are trying to bring home the hostages and to bring down Hamas. Are people not allowed to care about the hostages? Are they not allowed to mourn the loss of their loved ones that were killed on and after 10/7? Are we not allowed to raise awareness about people spreading misinformation and Hamas propaganda? Or talk about the rise of antisemitism? Like what the hell!? We get called heartless or monsters if we care for Israel too. Let me make this clear- I mourn the lives that were lost on both sides ( except for Hamas. Those bastards can burn for all I care.)

y’all think we all should only mourn and care for Palestine. But guess what? I care for both! But I’m a heartless bitch for showing more care for Israeli citizens and wanting to provide a safe place and lend an ear to those who lost loved ones during this horrible situation. I’m a monster for calling out antisemitism and calling out people who are spreading misinformation and Hamas propaganda. Well guess what? I don’t care. You can call me what you want but I know what I am. I have a heart and I care for those where we’re killed during this war (and other wars too) May all of their memories be a blessing (except for Hamas). I also care enough to tell people to stop spreading misinformation and Hamas propaganda because it’s causing more harm than good. But g-d forbid if I do that. Y’all fools start throwing a hissy fit.

If y’all don’t like what I said- so be it. I don’t care anymore. I’m not your “good Jew”. I will continue to call out this shit and provide a safe space for those who needs it. That doesn’t make me a heartless bitch or monster. If you think otherwise then you should check yourself.

Am Yisrael Chai! ✡️

[noahschnappinfs]

I’ve been feeling conflicted. I know Noah doesn’t seem “evil” like most people believe but I can’t seem to forget that Instagram post and the “stickers” video from last year. I know he might have changed and learned from his mistake but people make you feel guilty by saying you don’t care about Palestinian lives if you don’t hate Noah. I fully support their freedom but I don’t believe sending hate or death threats to him is going to help them.

thank you so much for reaching out and telling me how you feel about noah. i think having proper conversations is important to understand everybody’s pov so I’m very glad i got this message.

now let’s do a little recap of what happened last year and as always i’ll try to give all the facts and be as honest as possible.

first, we got a statement after oct 7th which was prompted by noah, as a jewish man, feeling like he had to speak up against multiple jewish people being killed. to me, that’s totally an understandable reaction from him specially given that he had loved ones directly impacted by it. if we pay attention to the complete text instead of picking up fractions of his statement apart to twist them and make him seem as this evil genocide supporter, the main message was always noah wanting peace for everybody and not wanting people dying. afterwards, this statement caused backlash because the existence of israel in itself is controversial but what i want you to take away from his original statement is that he wants peace and seeing people dying is what provoked this really emotional reaction out of him.

next, let’s talk about the stickers situation. here’s some background: the tour guides he met in his previous trip israel were in town so they met up and visited a israeli restaurant in new york. contrary to what people online say, noah and these people didn’t make the stickers and weren’t giving them away on their own. in summary, a girl, the one standing with the stickers in the video, in the restaurant approached them and gave them the stickers. then, as seen in the video, the other people with noah were recording themselves with the stickers and you can see that noah didn’t even touch them and wasn’t doing anything other than also record what was happening, then he stopped and didn’t do anything else.

i have to agree that the stickers were in bad taste with everything going on and i understand certain level of backlash if we are missing the context and take the video as face value. i’d prefer it didn’t happen but to me the reaction was totally overblown with people wishing him to die over stickers that he didn’t make nor touch after watching a few seconds long video. we have a bit more of context now because in a private conversation (it being private means i’m not going to post it but i read it at the time so i have a bit more understanding of the situation now) that was later posted online with somebody who talked to him after it happened. there he explained what exactly happened that day, that he didn’t agree with the language in the stickers and he had nothing to do with them. he also wrote a statement he wanted to post explaining his thoughts which again are basically that he doesn’t agree with any violence and supports a peaceful solution to the war but his team told him to try to let it blow over and not say anything else about the topic.

then, we get to early this year with the video statement that he posted on tiktok. after months of noah and his loved ones being harassed online and even people wishing unspeakable things to happen to him, he decided to post another statement in order to explain himself and his actual point of view. to put it in plain words, he once again established that he wants a peaceful solution and that the death of innocent people shouldn’t happen. he also explained he’s had conversations with people to try to understand more deeply what is doing on.

after that, he basically left social media for a few months and had a low profile for a while which is totally understandable considering how unbearable the hate towards him online is. to this day, people don’t want to believe him but to be honest, his message has always been consistent with not wanting innocent people dying. more recently, he posted on letterbox a review on a movie called munich and again, he highlighted how bad war is and how he prays that the violence stops, he also highlighted the innocent israelis and palestinians that have died in the ongoing war. his review was a totally understandable message advocating for peace but he deleted it the next day because i guess he doesn’t want to revisit this topic ever again, it’s not like people will believe him anyway.

i think we can all agree that we all want a peaceful solution and would like the deaths to stop as soon as possible, that’s exactly how noah feels, he’s not this evil mastermind that people portray online. i appreciate you for saying that noah getting hated on doesn’t solve anything because let’s be for real, noah could drop dead tomorrow and the violence would be still happening. at this point it’s just people online being cruel and enjoying playing mean girls online, people who truly advocate for palestine should be doing way more meaning work than hating on a teenager. i also hope you can take this info and make your own decisions, i don’t think following the mob is the right thing and i can assure you liking noah doesn’t mean you hate palestinians

[deadpoetmagda]

> after calling me lower than a dog

I never did. That wasn't an opinion, I was stating a fact: Israelis hate Arabs. With passion.

>telling me to LEAVE a country that I was born ... what happened to defying the occupation and holding onto our land and not abandoning it

I thought it was better than living with cognitive dissonance, clasping at any excuse to declare that Israel is justified in killing people like *you*. I say like you, because I think most people would struggle with identifying with, feeling they belong to, patriotic to... a country that kills people like them. Also, please don't feel like you need to condemn Israel. I understand that might have dire consequences. And I realize people are already suspicious of you, even if you act like a "model citizen".

>the mossad doesn’t have access to my thoughts and in real life conversations with my arab community

Yeah, you said it yourself: conversation irl, with other Arabs. Now try to post something critical of the IDF on social media. This is not a dare btw — I know you stand to lose a lot.

>I wonder how many ... in the middle of all of this

To answer your question, Reuters reports Israelis estimate approx. 17,000 hamas militants have been killed. Which means, by Israel's admission, at least 23,000 innocent civilians have been killed so far. Second, this isn't human error, this is the result of indiscriminate bombings, bombings of schools, hospitals, ambulances, of areas that palestinians were told to evacuate to. Third, I've seen videos of Israelis shooting children, unarmed people, people who tried to help other injured people... It was pre-mediated execution.

>I've seen footage ... jews????

First of all, many of the people killed on October, 7th were killed via IDF carpet bombing, Israelis confirmed that much. Second, an argument can be made that, except for some small groups, for instance Arab Israelis who are exempt, most people killed on that day were IDF servicemen and women, since service in the IDF is mandatory. Does not wearing a military attire turn one into a citizen and therefore off limits? Israel has a long tradition for tracking its enemies and liquidating them, whoever they are, wherever they might be (be they actual Nazis, like Eichmann, poets like Kanafani, nuclear scientists like Fakhrizadeh...). So if you're advocating for the principle that people should only die in battle, then Israel doesn't abide by that.

The woman being dragged with a spot on her pants: it's not necessarily blood. But even if it was, it could have been through transfer, rather than hers.

>why haven’t a huge amount of the Jewish ppl been radicalized 

> I just wonder why a huge chunk of them didn’t turn out same as hamas

This is such an out of touch statement. First of all, every Israeli I've talked to is utterly consumed by propaganda. Their reaction to the carnage we're witnessing is either denial ("paliwood"), rationalizing it, or straight up relishing the fact that Gazans are being massacred, wishing more people would die, slower more, painful deaths. This is fanaticism.

It is also out of touch, because it disregards what Israelis have been doing in Gaza/West Bank for decades now. Israelis apprehend people from Gaza/West Bank for months to years, without charges, and without trials. While detained, they assault, torture, paralyze, and kill people. The punishment for that, if any? A few months in prison. Israelis set up checking points, and when they stop people to search them, they often rough handle them, beat them, detain them... for petty to no reasons. This has been happening daily for decades now, it's not something Palestinians can just heal from and leave behind. Besides, do you think Palestinians want to be imprisoned, shot at, that they don't have dreams, to achieve their potential and personal fulfillment? Palestinians resist because a person can only withstand injustice for so long.

>innocent civilians who were mostly leftist living near the border 

There's no left wing in Israel. The left polls at 3 to 4%.

>what hamas have been doing to their own people in gaza

Has Hamas killed 23,000 people? No. This means that, among the two, Israel is the worse for palestinians.

>an ask filled with sugar coated accusations

I don't sugar coat what I say. I think you thought I called you a dog and then was surprised at the change of tone, when I never changed my tone.

I will stop sending you anons.

If you really didn't mean it that way you would cleared it up in the ask before this one but you didn't so idk if you're being honest, but even if you were don't worry habibi we're not treated like dogs here, I have equal rights as everyone else and living my life just fine (tho israel is fucking expensive to live in), even tho the arab muslim community in here still mostly hate Israel and are pro palestine and all, you gonna hear them slip here and there and actually say الحمد لله احنا عايشين بإسرائيل وعالنعم الي احنا بيها بهالدولة

يا زلمة... يا زلمة والله هلكتني ووجعتلي راسي، مني قادرة اجاوب ع كلشي قلتو واقعد اكتب بحث عشر صفحات مشان اجاوبك وارد عالاخطاء الي كاتبها، ابقى تعا قابلني وجه لوجه لانو اذا دكتب لبكرا ما اخلص (pls don't tho I'm an introvert) 😭

Also Israeli hate arabs with passion... حبيبي كل امة محمد تكره اليهود من ايام نبييهم لليوم، اقدر اجيبلك كل كتب التاريخ الي موثق بيها الظلم الي اليهود تحملو عايدين العرب والمسلمين بالغزوات والفتوحات وحتى ايام الانتداب البريطاني لما العرب نزلم بيهم مذابح، وشو كان العذر تبعهم، لا كان بي اسرائيل ولا عبالك، if you wanna talk about Israeli and arabs and jews and Muslims sorry to break it to you habibi but it didn't start in 1948

"Every Israeli i talked to is utterly consumed by propoganda"..... my brother in christ you're not immune to propoganda either, from the way you're talking i can tell you're drowning in it pleaseeee 😭😭

Also idk I still find it bizarre that you even suggested leaving this country lmaoooo, please id like to be away from wars and shit so why don't you do everything for me and pay the costs lmao I'm dying my man 😭

If you want to stay in your one sided propoganda that triumph to your side and not actually read on the history of the region and the conflict then fine, but I really encourage you to listen to what gazans have said about hamas and what they actually do to them and put them through, I don't support the Israeli government and idf a 100% like a blind man and let them go with no critical thinking and criticism, but it looks like you do that thing exactly to hamas :)

Good thing you won't send anons anymore, sorry but this won't get settled like this, but ayyy have a nice day

[1eos]

What’s your take on Taek always posing with Starbucks lately? I’ve been so conflicted. Many people have tried to educate him but he hasn’t stopped

hmhmmmm. what im abt to say isnt exclusive to him this is just my general stance when it comes to ppl w privilege being out of touch but its one of those things where im not gonna defend it. obviously. if anyone criticizes him (or anyone else i like) im not gonna fight them or try to make excuses but im also not gonna fall into the trap of centering all talks of palestine around a celebrity!

i purposefully havent been talking abt who has and hasnt been boycotting starbucks since november bc i saw someone point out that if you searched palestine on twitter the results were literally clogged with shit abt idols and that's not productive esp bc a lot of ppl have not spoken a word abt palestine until a famous person was caught w starbucks and suddenly theyre mobilizing to get them to stop posting their drinks but will never mobilize IN GENERAL

and this isnt just about kpop i remember being skeeved out by the beyhive for palestine stuff bc theyre STILL focusing *beyonce* when she's a millionaire! she's not starving! and she said nothing when break my soul became a fucking war song for isnt real which is way worse than starbucks i can admit that. and i remember during the big wave of black lives matter how frustrated i was that everyone just wanted to make it all about what this celebrity donated or how this celebrity was forced to post abt blm and to make ethnic cleansing abt idols is just a million times more fucked up.

i say all this to say that in general. me, personally, im always gonna try to put more effort in actually centering palestinian issues. i do feel guilty bc as much as i would love to be immune to the celebrity machine im not 😭 and i have the privilege of escapism when millions don't. like i slipped up and thoroughly enjoyed ushers half time show without even thinking and woke up the next morning and saw all the zionist shit he had posted months earlier. BUT instead of letting that guilt propel me to try to push a celeb to boycott to make myself feel better im gonna use my energy and privilege to send money every paycheck, boycott myself and spread awareness and talk to the ppl i *can* influence :')

and i hope this doesnt sound like one big cope 😭😭😭😭 ive been disappointed in a lot of ppl including really close friends who hate isnt real and are sympathetic to palestine but aren't consciously boycotting and resolving myself to do more and focusing on the ppl who *are* doing what needs to be done has been better than worrying abt how *i* feel when in the end of the day im (relatively) safe

[fandomfluffandfuck]

Y'all need to stop putting celebrities on a pedestal and stop the fandomization of politics.

I feel like you are not taking the real possibility that a potential fascist dictator is going to be elected in the fall serious and this is all just a game to you.

It's very obvious that Chris knows the "Pro-Palestine" movement is an utter clusterfuck and he won't touch it with a 10-ft-pole. No one who actually cares about Palestinians and their future would.

That you're more worried about some actor not speaking publicly about that than not electing a dictator who would without a doubt not only wipe out Gaza but the West Bank as well, is everything that's wrong with the movement.

If you think what's happening now is bad, you don't realize that if Netanyahu gets his best buddy Trump as the head of the most powerful state in the world, there will be no Palestine, there won't be any Palestinian people left after the war is over.

Please get serious.

I will open this by saying I don't know totally what you mean by the fandomization of politics. I can guess--as in people stanning particular celebrities and everything they do to the point of them doing no wrong or not being wrongful ever and taking what they say, political or otherwise, as absolute truth forgetting that it's not something more flippant and fictional like fandom disputes over characters doing "right" or "wrong" OR where previous stans find an imperfection that tears that celebrity down from the pedestal they placed them on and makes them hate the person and suddenly it's stans vs no-longer-stans and nothing is productive or enjoyable anymore, it's a strange war-esque divide over what the celebrity said or didn't and what they should--but I'm unfamiliar with that exact wording as a defined thing, if there is a specific definition.

And while yes, some people forget there's more to politics than shallow social media activism--posting to say you posted without further action, so clearly you stand on the right side of history, right?, doing it all for social points--I wouldn't regard everyone that way. I can't speak for anyone else on here, Tumblr is a lot of chronically online people, and some of those people definitely should touch grass, but I am serious.

Politics, in some regard, with who you vote for and how you strategize who has greater potential to win versus whom you align more with, is a game that unfortunately has to be played and paid careful attention to like chess. Sometimes, there are people who want to play that aren't interested in it, really, it just looks cool, so they mime moves, ignoring the rules. They're just there in it for something other than the forward momentum, and it's tough to see when so much is at stake. But they're gonna be there, and maybe you can coax them into more, maybe not. Maybe that coaxing is a serious heart to heart conversation with someone they know, or maybe it's a celebrity they like speaking out 🤷🏻‍♂️ I can't say. There are parts of the movement that are that unserious, social media deep game, and there are parts that are a serious, attentive game--I've seen both sides. Yeah, it's an awful, very real choke point that needs special attention, like you said, though. I agree, too, that placing people on pedestals does nothing good. People are people. People aren't perfect, and pretending they are is just a distraction. I'm of the opinion that fandom is and has always been political, though. Not for everyone, of course, but fandom as a whole is shaped by politics. Fandom is an escape, but it's not an escape in a vacuum. It isn't separate from anything. People come to the escape while carrying baggage from outside.

And with that being said, I don't think a ton of people are forgetting that something awful and real is happening. I think they're just a little miffed that someone with social capital isn't doing something with it. I know I'm a little miffed, but it doesn't get in the way of me being serious and carefully considering how politics affect reality. I am capable of both flippant, ficticious discussion, and serious, attentive discussion.

P.S. this was fairly rambling on my part, and I think the discussion is reaching its end as a discussion with most asks I am getting now being yell-y, so will probably not be touching on more of this. Thanks

[talisidekick]

It's happened twice, but it scares me.

Twice I've had someone famous or influential, like a big name in the community reblog my posts. It's why I have the few big posts that I do. I'm not particularily influential. I'm not a fantastic speaker or a great writer. I don't have a big or moderate fanbase. I can't mobilize a topic no ones looking at into the spotlight. Not on my own. So when I see a big name reblog, I brace. I think "here it comes. The tides coming in." And it's just fear. Where is this going to go? How is this going to be recieved?

It's out of my hands at that point because, again, I'm not influential. If what I said gets skewed, I can't correct it. No one will reblog my corrections, my added context if it's needed. The post that gets shared is the one the famous person published to their audience. My reblogs to explain are just another response lost in a sea of others responses.

This is why I've been hesitant to speak on Palestine more than I have. This is why I only made the one boosting post about Iran and what happened with Masha Amani. This is why I haven't touched on the hardships, intolerance, and discrimination of the Romani people in Italy. Or covered the Transgender hate going on in Britian.

I should make statements on these issues. Draw attention to them. Especially since the world has gone quiet on some of these issues. Or there's a biased narrative taking the spotlight. But I feel the need to be careful, extra cautious even. Because IF these blow up ... where they go is up to the winds people put behind them. These aren't ships that I sail. I'm just the one that builds them. And because not everyone is a good captain ... I need to build them to take a beating.

I have things to say. I may make shorter videos because writing it all out will be paragraphs. But incase anyone has doubts: this blog is pro a Palestinian state peacefully coexisting alongside a Jewish one. This blog is pro womens rights and I hope the people of Iran that were protesting a while back are keeping strong because Masha Amani did deserve better and your government sucks for turning armed troops on unarmed civilians. To the Roma people getting treated less than human, I see you, I'm pro equality, and your governments treatment of you is appalling. And this blog will always be for trans rights no matter where in the world my blog reaches.

None of us are free until all of us are.

[shoujoboy-restart]

Didn't Israel attack a celebrity for speaking out against the atrocities? Response to that post I just saw about them claiming the crisis actor thing.

Also about Israel, is everybody that still supports Israel are bad people like the people in that protest from days ago in Washington showing support towards them? Cuz I kind of do feel a little conflicted because one of those reasons involved the October 7th massacre, which is kind of rarely brought up and the focus is more on the Palestinians, which I'm not saying shouldn't be focused on but it looks like most people are making it seem like what Israel is doing is proof that every Jewish people are bad and that the Nazis had a point, which is something I feel like is alluded to somehow with the rise of anti-Semitic hate crimes around the world.

Like I mean come on a fucking man just killed a young boy to death because of this fucking conflict and this idea that Jewish people are the bad guys and the conflict shows that which I don't feel is fair at all to condone everybody because their government is following Hitler's steps with their own touch.

Yeah they tried to drag Bella Hadid(a model with Palestinian heritage) on their fucking Instagram stories, it was so patethic lmao.

I wouldn't say everyone who supports Israel is a bad person, that's a very pointless generalization, many of them are people that since babies believed this was some sort of birthright of them to have this land and all Palestinians were evil people who seeked to kill them, before the current conflict there was some random girl on TikTok who made storytime/vent about how she had these neighbors that were nice and lovely and sweet, but after she discoverwd they were Palestinian she immediately started to believe they would hate her, kill her hark and therefore want then harmed as well, again, completely unprovoked without any aggression from the neighbors, Zionist Jew are under some crazy powerful propaganda and cult like beliefs.

And it is absolutely disgusting to think every single Jew is somehow at fault for israel's actions, Netanyahu had a absolutely abysmall approval ratings before the conflict, and he will absolutely not be elected democratically again or still be in power if there any actual democracy in that place and the support for him is extremely isolated, Jews in and out of Israel have always protested and fought against the occupation.

Both Islamophobic and Antisemitic hate crimes are on the rise, and if you are talking talking about 6 year old Wadea Al-Fayoume that killed by his landlord it is absolutely a case of how the media was at first reporting completely favourably of the Israel government:

“The father said [the landlord] had built a tree house for the boy and allowed him to swim in a makeshift pool and brought him toys. But it wasn’t until he started watching the news and hearing the statements [about the war] that something changed,”

Obviously there was probably some sort on mental illness at fault too(still not enough for a insanity please as of now it seems), but divise politics got a whole generation of people saying and protesting wanting a little black girl hanged and lynched for just wanting to go school as well.

Although I don't agree with the Hitler comparison(even thought the Israel got caught saying the whole "children of children's, children of darkness" shit that was found to be a mindset within the SS army) yeah Jews shouldn't be penalized for what Israel is doing, not Israel citizens should, we can complain about collective punishemwnt for Gazans and Palestinian and then make excuse for the same thing with Jews and Israelis

[trainwrecksys]

The absolute terror of the situation right now is unavoidable. Even if you don’t want to think about it, surely your mind can’t not be consumed every now and then by the thought that we are witnessing exactly how the holocaust was allowed to happen in front of our eyes and the overwhelming majority don’t realise.

Many people who hated jewish people for many reasons they’d been conditioned to believe turned a blind eye to their genocide by the nazis because they were taught to think they were not human, and those who thought it was “complicated” or taboo turned a blind eye and remained ignorant. We are experiencing the exact same thing with Palestinians. Israel has told us they’re all human shields or evil Hamas members and the overwhelming majority is believing it! Stepping back from it, you realise how ludicrous that is! So many people who I thought were sensible and non gullible are falling for it, like my uncle who is so obsessed with doing the right thing, yet obliviously consumes their propaganda and spreads it around, even as Israeli officials BLATANTLY say what they mean to do to our faces, just as Hitler did.

Thinking back, it was so easy to realise that the millions of Jewish men, women and *children* they targeted were just innocent people who were being demonised and killed en masse for being who they were- having certain facial features, coming from certain places, subscribing to a certain religion. But now, I see post after post and comment after comment from people I thought were like me who think Israel are in the right. It feels suffocating, confusing and terrifying seeing their gullibility and malleability, when for me it was so easy to realise what was happening.

At the core of it, it’s convenience that manipulates the masses. It’s the convenience of consuming from brands that need to be boycotted (eg McDonald’s, Starbucks, Disney, which offer fast food, fast easy coffee and movies at the touch of your finger) and the convenience of consuming the propaganda that is so hard to avoid and question for a lot of people. The ease of not talking about it, vs the comparative difficulty of speaking up, using your voice. Shouting is harder than not speaking at all, after all.

What many people, even supporters of Palestine, need to realise (and myself- I’m still a human in capitalist society too) is that to overcome oppression and capitalist hell, and the horrific society we are snowballing ourselves further and further into, we must sacrifice convenience. Over history, we’ve made things easier and easier for us to do- robots, cars, social media, google- these all help us. But that comes with the hefty price, unfortunately, of the world we’ve made.

This isn’t everything I want to say and it couldn’t really be articulated in the right way, but . I just needed to write shit down