#is not the same thing as them supporting the genocide

[itsheckinwes]

I'm only attacking the reblog the way I am solely to point out the hypocrisy of the fact they support their government ignoring international law while complaining that I do not recognize it.

I should be clear on my usage of "hate on" here, I hate the fact that the land was stolen. I hate that its existence continues to steal more land. I hate Netanyahu for committing genocide. I hate the war crimes that the government enables. All things I would argue are fair to hate. Hate for injustices and people who willingly and intentionally commit them is not inherently bad. Anger and hatred can motivate action for positive change.

I equally hate Hamas as well and all of the atrocities they have committed, but Hamas is a direct response to their oppression (though should also be dismantled the same way I think the state of Israel should be). The reason I do not speak out against Hamas as much is because they are not the ones actively engaging in and successfully committing a genocide.

The reason I don't argue Palestine should be dismantled is because they didn't steal land and displace people in order to create it. I actively support the removal of Hamas and a better government being put in their place, especially one with representation for ALL those who live there, Jewish people and Israelis included.

As far as nations being real things, in this case I am very much equating the government with the nation. When we say "Canada has nationalized health care" we aren't referring to the nation, we're referring to the government. I'm using that particular definition here.

I also disagree that violence is not able to create peace, as I see it as necessary. There will always be violence, and unless we commit violence ourselves against those who would initiate it, they will commit violence upon us.

The way to stop fascism is with oppressive force, with both language and action, to show that such things are not okay. I'm sure you're aware of the paradox of intolerance. That definitely applies here, and even MLK Jr came around to the idea that violence is sometimes necessary. Protest is necessary, and all effective protest is inherently violent, the only question is which side is committing it.

I really hope you don't end up blocking me over this as I believe there are things I can learn from you even if I disagree with some of your particular statements here.

I do admit I should be more specific with my words though.

One difficult thing about having conversations with the Hamas stans is that they work so hard to actively alienate, denigrate, and demean Israeli people (through their antisemitism), who are in the position to most meaningfully impact the situation. Like... the peace activism done by unapologetically pro-Jewish activists in Israel, who want the release of hostages, and a ceasefire, is genuinely inspiring.

This is the demographic who may be most capable of changing the situation for the better. We want peace, we need it. They want it too.

Picking sides, cheering on your team, isn't how we get it.

[arabian-batboy]

While I acknowledge why the ICC issuing arrest warrants for Netanyahu is a historic monument since it is the first time this has happened to an Israeli criminal and an ally to the US, which I'm sure is baby steps to stripping that rogue colony from their impunity of international law, in the grand scheme of things it doesn't change the fact that for the most part, Netanyahu isn't doing anything previous PM and presidents before him did regarding ethnic-cleansing and maintain the occupation and apartheid over Palestine.

And I only saying this because I'm noticing a lot of Zionists back-pedaling from "Israel isn't doing anything wrong!" to "ok fine maybe Israel did some things wrong…….however it's all the fault of Bibi! Just him though!" and basically using Netanyahu as their scapegoat who's entirely responsible for all the crimes Israel has committed, while every single Israeli in existence (including the rest of the government, every IDF terrorist in the army and every criminal-settler in occupied Palestine) are 100% innocent and not responsible for their own crimes and the blood on their own hands.

An ongoing genocide with hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians being killed in cold blood with many more being tortured and raped in concentration camps (in some cases being filmed by their torturers) and all of their homes being reduced to rubble while going through a famine and apparently only one Israeli, just one Israeli, should be held accountable for their crimes and asking for any more would be anti-semitic? Needless to say, those same people will turn around and demand that the entire government of Hamas and any type of resistance should be completely eradicated with every single member, from the literal leader to a simple janitor, must be arrested and imprisoned if not outright have them brutally killed at the spot.

In short, even if he dropped dead today, Netanyahu will simply be replaced by another fascist ruler who reflects the nature of their fascist colony and Israel's crimes against Palestinians will continue, because the issue here isn't the current leader of a murderous rogue settler-colony, but the existence of the said murderous rogue settler-colony and the impunity + unconditional support that it receives from the US, regardless of what terrorist is the current head of the government.

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I was around Hilda's age when I got pregnant, too. I wasn't expecting it. I wasn't ready. My life was just beginning, and I had no money, and I had just escaped from a household that wasn't being very kind to me. I was NOT ready to be a parent. I was extremely distressed. My partner and I talked about it. We decided that, although it broke our hearts... it wouldn't be fair to bring up a child in the circumstances we were living in. We promised that one day we would try again, when things were better, when we'd both grown up a bit. So I booked an appointment, shamefully borrowed $1,000 from a friend, had a surgery... and I wasn't pregnant any more. And that was 9 years ago. I am still sad about it, because I think about what my child would look like, what their favourite animal would be, what their favourite food would have been. I will never know.

In those 9 years, I've been living my life. I'm 30 now, and I have only just started to feel like I understand myself, and what's important in life, and how to participate in the world. I am strong, I am brave, I am good.

But it's not the end of my story. I still get to look forward to meeting my child. I feel capable of raising a kind, gentle, creative child that becomes a passionate, strong, thoughtful adult. The thing is, although they were still overwhelming for me, my circumstances then were so much better than Hilda's are now. I had food, I had a safe place to live, our hospitals are free and operational. I WISH Hilda had that privilege right now. How will she cope, if she's already struggling to find food, taking vitamins in place of meals because she has no other choice? If her tent is already flooding, her bedding soaking wet and freezing cold? Will she have a safe birth with medical care, or will she be alone and afraid and in pain? Maybe Hilda would make the same decision I made, if she had the choice. I think she's very brave. I know she's very lovely. I have no doubt that if her child makes it into this world, she'll do an excellent job with the limited resources that she's got. I would be overjoyed to know that her soul carries on in the spirit of the next generation. I would hope so dearly that her child might grow up in a safe environment, that the war will end soon, that this crisis is something that her child is taught ABOUT, rather than having to live through and experience firsthand. I hope so. I really hope so. What I do know is that we are Hilda's best hope to survive this monumental life change, as safely and comfortably as possible. Whatever happens, I want her to know that she is loved and supported. That she matters, and so does her unborn child, whether they make it into this world or not. That they are worth fighting for. Give a little, or give a lot.

[zvtara-was-never-canon]

Do you think Katara could have loved Zuko before he got his scar? Let me explain: do you see the episode in season 1 where we discover Aang and Zuko's past?We have a Zuko we hadn't seen before: he wanted to save the crew, he showed himself as a hero, brave and compassionate. We know that Katara is attracted to people like that. Who seeks to help people (even if it was the Fire Nation), it was still a crew that was going to die for a vain sacrifice.

Zuko stood up to the leaders, just as Katara stood up to Pakku to defend the other women of the tribe; it's a small parallel that could have connected them. In that moment, I could say that maybe if Katara had met Zuko at that time, she might have been attracted to his devotion and his need to protect others.

Because I dug into the series to find out when Katara could have fallen in love with Zuko, and ultimately, I don't find any attraction between them. Because after Zuko's father disfigured his face, it created a trauma in him and changed him: not that the brave and compassionate Zuko no longer exists, but the trauma matrixed him, made him change... That's when I see the attraction between Katara and Zuko more clearly.

Zuko, after his banishment, became very angry, rarely smiled, withdrawn, and very emotional, which sometimes hurt those close to him. (emo, si je peux dire). But over the seasons, he gradually changes.

Even after he joined the gaang, he is still somewhat the same person, but with more sensitivity and more open to others.

Now, tell me how, in all that I just mentioned, Katara would have an attraction to Zuko with all the intrigues that have happened, Ba Sing Se, the North and South (1 s) and so on...

Maybe her awkwardness in communicating with others is charming in her personality?

His physique?

His way of being clumsily intentional?

But guess who is the person who was attracted to Zuko with the three points I just mentioned: Jin

I find that Zutara fans try too hard to force a connection so that Katara can fall in love with Zuko when there isn't one. Or it's because they themselves have a crush on Zuko, which is normal, but they want Katara to fall in love with him because he is the ideal model for a girl. While rejecting Katara's needs and her personality,

1 - Pre-scar Zuko was already raised to be an imperialist that would do things like laugh at a joke about Ba Sing Se being burned to the ground, and yes, objected to HIS soldiers getting killed, but not the literal war and genocide his nation and family had been engaging in for a whole century. Katara isn't gonna be impressed by his compassion towards the people of his nation when he has none for the other nations - including her own.

2 - Pre-scar Zuko was already being negatively affected by being raised by a parent that was emotionally and verbally abusive towards him (and agreed to MURDER him, leading to his mother's disappearance/"death"). He isn't being openly hostile to everyone around him, but he is already a victim, traumatized and coping poorly by trying to "earn" not only his father's love but the basic right to not be his punching bag - by supporting his evil actions. Katara's potential empathy for the unfair situation Zuko was in wouldn't blind her to the fact he is being unfair to others too, just look at how fast she turned against Jet.

3 - Lack of compassion might be a deal-breaker for Katara, but someone not being a cruel bastard is not enough to make her fall in love with someone - if it were, she would have had feelings for half the cast. Compassion is the bare minimum for her not to HATE someone, not for her to LOVE them.

4 - Katara likes effortlessly cool/charming guys, that's Jet (literally) sweeps her off her feet, and why she's all over Aang when he's being the cool guy in cave party in "The Headband" but is FURIOUS at his awkwardness and cluelessness in "Cave Of Two Lovers." She would NOT appreciate Zuko's dorkiness and he would not appriciate her getting mad at him for it.

5 - Katara met the new and improved Zuko, who, despite his flaws, was kind, regretful, compassionate and willing to do what was right and, more importantly, keep his own bad behaviors in check, which Katara does appreciate. Yet not only did she still not fall in love with him, she treated him the same way she treats Sokka, her brother.

6 - While Jin was certainly charmed by Zuko being hot, as well as pure of heart and dumb of ass, we cannot really use her as basis for comparisson to LOVE. She didn't even know his real name, let alone understand who he is a person. MAI loved him. When he was an innocent, sweet child. When he was a moody, kind of asshole teen. When he was an honorable, brave, wise young man. Mai is the one who loves every version of Zuko, not Jin, and surely not Katara.

[jewishbarbies]

“they’re not spam blogs, we vetted them!!”

yet here I am, blocking a duplicate of the same blog that sent me the same ask for the 4th time (the 3rd time today) along with another duplicate of the same blog I’d already blocked and reported that sent me the same ask they tried sending last week. and both of them still read like a fucking chatgpt prompt.

[prodigal-explorer]

holy SHIT. you are so fucking ignorant it’s insane.

i am someone who 100% stands with palestine and despises the genocide that is happening right now.

BUT.

if you knew fucking ANYTHING about this except for the surface level on social media, you would know that israel is suffering too. their people are suffering too. the civilians of israel aren’t deciding to bomb people. it’s the government. why the fuck are we blaming an entire nations worth of people for something that their government is forcing upon them??

imagine living in a country that is supporting and causing a genocide. what the fuck are you supposed to do? if you resist, you could be in danger. the israeli people are not all evil and bad and horrible. they didn’t choose this! you are wandering into anti-semitic/racist territory very quickly and it’s very concerning.

do you seriously think going on social media and attacking every israeli person you see is helping ANYTHING? no. it’s not. you just want to fuel your disgusting, idiotic, performative-activism ego. get the fuck off social media and actually do something to make a difference. harass the people who actually have power over the situation instead of an innocent civilian who is trying to show support for the other innocent civilians of their heritage. jesus fucking christ you disgust me so much.

@phantomhunt i’m so sorry you have to deal with this. please let me know if anything i said is inaccurate or wrong, i don’t mean to like talk over you. this kind of thing just makes me so angry, and i didn’t want you to feel alone because you’re not. being israeli doesn’t automatically make you some evil genocide supporter. this person is sick.

Why the flags??

If you're referring to the Israel flags in my display name, that's cuz I'm Israeli and I wanna show support for the people of my country :D

/gen

[robotclownindulgence]

If i see that goddamn piece of shit australian voting post on my dash one more fucking time i'm gonna start taking hostages

[saetoshis]

hot ppl don’t support genocide 😻

[wagahai-da]

everyone on trans book twitter shilling for books that I did not like it could not get into but nobody shilling for the best book I've read in three years smh

[bijoumikhawal]

"historically polygamous societies loved to wage war and slavery to dispose of excess men and emphasize female conversion" okay all those things are true of monogamous societies too. Western Europeans are famously probably the best at war and slavery from the current standpoint and they're monogamous. And from the way you wrote that I can tell you were thinking of the middle east so what the fuck

[buddhistmusings]

So calling out Israel for its genocide is antisemetic. And calling for a ceasefire that favors Palestinian freedom is antisemetic. And criticizing Israelis who give interviews on live TV calling Palestinians animals who deserve to be slaughtered is antisemetic. And supporting Palestine (and yes, Hamas, who are only in power because of Israeli actions and also are a direct response to decades of dehumanization, imprisonment, land theft and, oh right. Mass murder) at all is antisemetic. Tell me how to support Palestine without licking Israeli boots in a way that isn't "antisemetic" and maybe your words will have value to me. In the meantime, this morning I have seen a dozen posts with graphic images of dead Palestinian babies. Murdered by Israeli soliders. So tbh I don't care if calling for a free Palestine is antisemetic anymore. I'd rather be antisemetic than pro-genocide.

Ok so - there's lots of great ways to advocate for Palestinians without being antisemitic. One great way to do that is to center peaceful rhetoric and means in your activism, and not to use language designed to target people of particular nationalities, religions, or ethnicities. In fact, by doing so, you're feeding into the same impulse that is causing this violence in the first place.

Hamas is, in fact, a genocidal organization. They have enacted mass violence against civilians on the basis of their ethnicity. So, if you support them, you do support genocide.

There are ways to criticize individual Israeli people who do and say bad things without being antisemitic. I've done this, and nobody has ever levied an accusation of antisemitism against me for it.

Palestinian people deserve people who will stand up for them without behaving like this because they are the victims of unimaginably difficult circumstances, violence, exploitation, and yes, killing. So why are you fanning the flames of the hatred that is at the root of this conflict?

[grimmjow]

It is crazy how much skinny able-bodied white ppl don't see anyone outside of themselves as human and will only prop up different kinds of ppl (fat, disabled, poc, ect ect) to either act as a free pass to be bigoted 'but they think its funny too' type of thing, or to make themselves look better by pretending to care about whatever demographic those ppl belong to. But since they don't actually see those ppl as humans and only use them as a toy, the second they get bored they find any excuse to throw them away

Like so many white grifters started talking about Palestine as a free ego boost and proping up motaz and bisan. But now that they're getting bored they're starting to look for way to un-hitch themselves from that movement and catch their next grift without ppl pointing out that it's fucked up that they never really cared about a literal genocide and only saw it as a chance to make themselves look better.

And now they're using the fact that a Sudanese person criticized something motaz said (rightfully so) as that free pass to say they refuse to care about Palestine anymore and are offloading the blame of that onto black ppl when really nobody told them to be dehumanizing grifters. They did that all on their own :/

[anophelei]

The people unashamedly trying to take advantage of the thousands of innocent Palestinian people murdered in Israeli war crimes, twisting the knife in the back of Palestine for an opportunity to remind you that you still have to vote for Joe Biden, undoubtedly counting among the people with the most blood on their hands, have already made it clear they do not care about anyone but themselves, and have gone out of their way to prove it.

Somehow they've managed to sink even lower, and are genuinely, in all earnesty, justifying their continued support for Biden in the wake of him pledging his unconditional support of genocide, with the exact same fucking line they used almost 3 fucking years ago to pressure people into voting him into power in the first place. It was already obvious they had no intention of "Pushing Biden to the Left", that they didn't give a single shit about any of the people they were so ardently claiming to be protecting from Trump, and that they would go to the ends of the earth to justify anything and everything he could possibly do.

And now that he's chomping at the bit about aiding and abetting Israel in raining down hell and phosphorous and napalm on innocent people, now that thousands of people have lost their loved ones to such irreverent cruelty, they've decided it's time for an important reminder; Genocide doesn't change anything, and not only do you have to get out and vote for someone complicit in every single atrocity, every single casualty, you have to do it for the same pathetic excuse we made last time, "because we can push Biden to the "left"", even though there hasn't been a single shred of progress, or even any attempt to do so in the three years since we said this last time. You could say that participation in actual, ongoing genocide, is a catastrophic failure in that metric; that we might as well have been pulling this whole fucking time; and right this very moment is the most unbelievably selfish, entitled, petulant and self interested, and abhorrent, manipulative, cruel, spiteful, bitter and fucking disgusting time anyone could have possibly chosen to say this, when people are entirely cut off from their loved ones with no way to know if they are okay, it's important to remember that you're the bad person here due to your belief that supporting genocide in any capacity is an unforgivable crime. The real crime is NOT voting in support of genocide, when the other option is Literal Fascists !!

I'm not even fucking joking, this entire thing started because this piece of shit thought a Palestinian calling people out for supporting Biden was akin to "thinking the entirety of one side is bad", which due to a complex reasoning and nuanced understanding of "this conflict", he was able to realise that was far too simplistic, and now enlightened, knew that attacking enemy toddlers was wrong. So too did he share his nuanced and complex understanding with OP, since they were understanding things too simplistically. "American politics is not that simple either"

Just like killing babies is wrong even if they're on the enemy team, American politics is not as simple as you thinking I am disgusting and selfish for supporting genocide. #nuance

[faggotry-enjoyer]

oh i'm definitely gonna lose some friends for this one huh

[tenitchyfingers]

Guess I should just post receipts for every time I donate towards the UNRWA and families trying to get out of Gaza in order to not be called a genocide supporter huh, and I should just not talk about the things that are allowing me to not just kill myself with depression. Because, apparently, according to some people activism means being miserable and borderline suicidal at all times and showing EVERYONE how depressed they are at all times. Because, you know, activism is about performance rather than uhhh *checks note* doing what they can about it ig

[angorwhosebabyisthis]

analyzing hermes, emet-selch, the ancients and ascians, how they're written, and the fandom's reaction to them be like hm. emet-selch's role in this fuckery is compounded by the fact that his backstory as a genocide survivor is incongruous with his ruling a huge genocidal colonialist world power in the present da [ANTISEMITISM BLAST]