#if you insist it does you likely think its israel dont you?

[gayhenrycreel]

the soviet union was not communist

in real communism everyone is equal. the instant there is a superior class, it is no longer communism. communism does not let people starve en masse, because everyone has an equal share of resources. i have had multiple people who were born in communist countries tell me that russia and the soviet union were never communist, and neither is china.

everything western society knows about communism was told to them by capitalists. if a fascist tells you freedom is wrong does that mean freedom is wrong? no.

the soviet union, russia and china claiming to be communist is the same as america and england claiming to not be fascist. its a lie made to control, because a controlled population is easy to exploit.

america and england insisting that communism is a dictatorship is not far removed from america and england insisting that they themselves are not fascist despite killing millions of people and still funding genocide to this day (if america stopped providing the bombs to israel its unlikely the palestinian genocide would last much longer, or at least not be as severe as america allows it to be).

dont listen to the fascists who tell you human rights are the real fascism.

[nervousbreadpuppy]

too scared to put this on any of my public accounts but i dislike israel because i am a jewish person.

barely held together stream of consciousness below.

first and foremost, genocide is wrong, no matter who commits it. there is no such thing as a justifiable genocide. this should be reason enough to not support israel.

but also, israel erases jewish culture. israel pretends it is jewish culture. which is not true.

i think most people are familiar with the fact that colonization destroys both the colonized culture and the colonizing culture, a la "white people have no culture". you claim parts of culture that are not your own, because everything is part of you. the point of colonization is to crush and absorb everything. and you distance yourself from your original culture to claim whats left.

i saw a video taken in israel, where people were asked what their favorite israeli foods were. answers ranged from israeli breakfast, to falafel, to, confusingly, empanadas. none of these answers, besides the breakfast, are israeli im origin, however the elements found in israeli breakfast are mostly typical in western culture.

the reason there is no such thing as an "israeli food" is because israel hasnt been around as a country long enough to create its own cuisine. israel had only been around for 75 years. so israeli food is mostly just food from the countries around israel. and western food.

but there is jewish food! i know this. ive grown up around this! latkes, challah, hamantaschen. even foods not exclusively jewish were made and popularized by Jewish immigrants, like brisket and fish and chips.

the insistence on "israeli" rather than jewish is based on the need to legitimize israel. which makes it even more heartbreaking that israel is seen as the end all be all of judaism.

modern hebrew was invented only at the end of the 19th century and yet it is one of the national languages of israel. yiddish is being spoken by less and less people.

jewish culture is erased by israel.

another reason is the idea of separatism that is used to justify israel.

honestly, separatism just does the oppressors work for them. "oh lets just move all the Jews to their own country so we dont have to deal with them" very progressive isnt it? especially when theres already other people living there.

simply moving somewhere else does absolutely nothing to combat antisemitism. i dont want to live in a world that isn't safe for me. i dont want to stay in one place. i want others to accept me. i want to exist wherever i want without being targeted just for existing.

the end goal should never be separation. it should be integration.

and lastly i hate the fact that jews are expected to support israel unconditionally. not even just by antisemites, but by other jews.

almost every jewish space i have access to in my real life supports israel. if i want to have any community i have to condone that. if i even say anything i am excluded from the only communities i have in real life. and that sucks.

judaism is about asking questions. its about critical thinking. so why is this the one topic we're not allowed to ask questions about? why is this the one topic we have to accept unconditionally?

i get it. we're exposed to antisemitism a lot. I've been relatively priviliged in my life. i live an area with a large jewish population and i am not very visibly jewish. i have not had to deal with a lot of antisemitism. i admit that.

but israel does not represent all jews. criticizing israel is not criticizing judaism.

anyways if you made it this far im sure you have the time to donate to one of the many palestinian fundraisers going around on this app.

also friendly reminder that i am not an expert and my opinion is not everything. i am just a person on the internet. block me about it if you need to.

[lovecatsys]

in the end i think that yeah voting for Kamala is fine. because sometimes we have to make difficult decisions in order to protect ourselves. (if you are a trans person, a woman, particularly trans women & cis women of color, an immigrant especially latinamerican and carribean in the US, i dont blame you for making this decision. people in our own country are being murdered and targeted on the regular.) But the way that liberals insist that we have to vote for her, get angry at people who don't want to vote for her and try to explain to us why we have to like we're babies has made me sooooo angry.

Its not about us. It cannot always be about us. If you want things to be better in this country, then you better want them to be better in other countries too. You cannot ignore the fact that Kamala is adamantly pro Israel, does not want to stop sending weapons to fund genocide. You cannot ignore the global impact that the US war machine has, and that Kamala is not going to stop this if we do not put pressure on her.

If you are thinking of women and people of color here in the US when you make this decision to vote, think of the women and men and people of color in Palestine. Because Kamala does not care about them.

If you vote, do it with anger, and do not let it be the only thing you do. Donate to and spread Palestinian gofundmes. Donate to the UNRWA and other organizations providing aid. if you cannot donate, then do not be silent. If you are voting for Kamala, do not let her go into office without criticizing her, putting pressure on her. We must make it our priority to stop this genocide. We cannot give up. We must keep fighting.

If your reaction to seeing a genocide going on where both sides of our presidential campaign plan to support it is "well, third party never wins, that's just how the system works, there's nothing we can do :/" then I have no respect for your opinions. People are dying. People are fucking dying every fucking day and our government is arming the people who are killing them. We literally have so much power here. We are a large country. So many people here support the cause of Palestinian freedom. We can do this. Protests were huge at the start of this genocide. We have power, and if you give up and let it happen, you are taking that power away from us and you are just as complicit as the electoral office.

[under-clouds-and-stars]

yeah, the ADF has several lines that are too reminiscent of prior pseudo-nationalist/revisionist rhetoric for comfort. hinting at the idea that germans are singularly guilted and down-trodden on the world stage and need to have a cultural reawakening to how great their history is bound to lead to a nationalist mindset. much of the emphasis put upon the holocaust in german society didn't come from outside influence, but by the next generation of germans upon reaching adulthood in the 60s-70s, and realizing how little they had been told about anything by their parents. i cannot speak to the way its presented in germany today, i've never been there, but the arguments used by some prominent afd members are nothing new in the "revitalization" of the holocaust legacy. the holocaust-in terms of the complacency needed and the industrial-ilke manner that it was carried out with-was entirely unique, and should never be forgotten.

i don't know tons about the adf in-depth, but they seem populist, which is a bad sign in and of itself. whatever legitimate concerns they have about immigration (and yes, there are plenty. islamic cultures have values that are absolutely contradictory to ones held in a modern-day germany, and so massive amounts of people from these cultures permanently moving in, without taking their troubling views into account, poses huge problems for the maintaining of civil rights, especially of women and jews) their rhetoric is worrying. undoubtedly several members of it have been outspokenly revisionist and have blown actual anti-semitic/racist dog whistles. if i were german, i would not vote for them. but i don't think that everyone voting for this party is a bona-fide white supremacist either, though; many people vote out of anxiety over what they see immediately around them and do not think in the long-term. that's just my view of it as a non-european, can't do any better than that.

for a man so obnoxious as to make holocaust jokes after being accused of nazism, him showing up on stream for the afd could be anything from just another show of how edgy-controversial he is, or genuinely buying into revisionist rhetoric. i don't claim to know his motivations for doing it, and i hope for everyone's sake he doesn't hold racist views in his heart. also, i dont see why an american should weigh in on german politics like that. i would certainly be pissed if some rich german phoned in to try and influence US politics, so i hate it on that principal alone

considering that he is an avid and vocal supporter of israel (reportedly even censoring tweets that referred to "de-colonization" of Gaza, which is definitely an overreach of his power) nazism would be a weird stance to take. whatever your view on israel and its actions, his insistence that the destruction in gaza is justified in order save israelis from genocide, and pouring tons of cash into the campaign of a pro-israel president, cannot be squared with him secretly hating jews and being a nazi. you can argue its all a front, but he's certainly put his money where his mouth is. he don't seem thoughtful enough to be playing 4-d chess or anything.

also, jic, i am aware that there was a movement among the nazis in pre-war germany to get european jews to immigrate to israel. because they hated them and didn't want them there. if millions of european jews had done so back then, do you think the nazis would've shed a single freaking tear about them being killed after the fact. the motivations behind these two positions are completely opposed, and i hate how often this is brought up because its disingenuous.

here's the thing. i do not argue that the video above does not look bad. it does. what i argue is that it is dishonest and unfair to paint anyone who has any doubt that he meant to do a nazi salute as a brainwashed idiot, shill, or a nazi. by and large that is what people on this site and others are saying, the insistence that everyone in that room knowingly and whole-heartedly applauded a sieg heil is ludicrous. side note, USA-only politics i know, but the whole freaking media circuit and the former VP tried to act like they had just noticed that biden was mentally impaired after his incomprehensible debate with trump went viral, when conservatives had been pointing it out for years. i didn't see progressive leftist-twitter going nuts and quoting 1984 over that.

i'm done spending my time on this fiasco. from a cursory at your blog and replies, we are so different we will never agree on a single point. you would consider me a "christofascist" i guarantee it. case in point: i first read "AFD" as "ADF" looked up the "Alliance Defending Freedom" and went "well, i gotta say; at first glance they seem pretty alright to me

make of that what you will ig

USA... Elon Musk just did the sieg heil (nazi salut to Hitler)

[boyjadzia]

this is so wild like just because she was in the IDF at the time suddenly she’s personally responsible for everything the IDF did? do y’all even have a record of her military history like how many bombings did she directly participate in I’m genuinely curious?

lots of countries have drafts but it seems to me like it’s only ever israelis who get targeted for not personally objecting and I wonder why that is. I’m obviously not trying to defend the actions of the israeli military lmao but it’s soooo suspect how it’s only EVER israelis who are suddenly personally responsible for the actions of their government. do you really think that if she’d abstained from service, she wouldn’t be getting blacklisted? (for that matter, would she even have a career in that case?) I just like, am totally astounded that y’all who are supposedly so politically conscious suddenly wanna insist that this was anything other than an expressly anti-israeli political statement on the part of lebanon. it’s hypocritical honestly, I mean like, nobody is out here calling the US military a terrorist organization, but if you wanna apply that label to the israeli military you really have no excuse for not doing so. does that make every US citizen who pays taxes a supporter of our nation’s terrorism abroad? and how come when it comes to young people in the US getting recruited into the military through a combination of propaganda and economic necessity y’all have plenty of pity for them or are at least willing to understand their actions as those of misguided individuals, rather than the driving force behind the government and its military machinery?

i’m gonna be honest, there is no excuse for being so goddam superficial in your critiques of the state of israel and ESPECIALLY of zionism as a political philosophy (because the two aren’t synonymous!) other than antisemitism. you CANNOT simply disparage the actions the state of israel takes (or not even, you’re disparaging one person on behalf of the state which is even stupider lol) without also critiquing the global political system that brought it into existence. to be anti-zionist is to be anti-nationalist, period. it is to reject the global political architecture that currently exists and up from which people build their sense of identity and cultural legitimacy and assert their agency as a group. that is to say, it is to reject the nation-state.

if you’re too much of a wimp to do that, and if you dont expend an equal amount of effort decrying the evils of other militarized nation-states as you do disparaging israel, you’re just an antisemite lmao.

Also, refusing to serve in the IDF is a thing.