#israel doesnt give a shit about hostages

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[strawberrylightss]

Trying to have a conversation with my brother about antisemitism in the pro pali movement, and I feel coming up with nothing. Im feeling so lost and i feel like everything is just too much.

He said he got uncmfortable with the conversation, which i understandable in a way because it's a heavy topic, but it still feels so disingenuous. For instance, he talks to our grandmother who I KNOW is a raging antisemite (FROM East Germany. She is one of the main ways I became aware of what antisemitism looks like growing up), about israel/palestine.

He didnt even know what blood label or duel loyalty was until i explained what it was, and whenever I ask a question he goes quiet. When i say these things, and how i am geneuinly scared for my boyfriend's (Who is Jewish) safety, he goes quiet. I tell him it's important to check in on Jewish people around you and listen to them and he gives me a little "yeah." It feels like im having a conversation with a brick wall/ just talking to myself. I know when he disagrees because he goes quiet. he doesn't have a backbone and he doesn't debate on anything, and when he goes quiet I know that's when he disagrees but doesnt want to speak his mind. It's not like I WANT to argue with him / want to pick a fight of course but I feel completely ignored.

Part of the issue is that I had a really bad falling out with the majority of my family and he is basically all I have left. For him to not listen to me is just like the rest of them, although this problem isnt about me, it just adds to the hurt I already feel since I'm trying to talk about something extremely important to me, and I feel like I'm BEGGING him to hear me, it hurts.

He at least agrees Hamas should release the hostages? But I feel that's bottom line. I send him resources but I doubt he'd actually read any of it at this point and I'm at a complete loss. I've lost so much these past few years and I have this feeling again.

I don't even know what to do anymore. my boyfriend is sleeping right now but I know when I talk to him about this he will feel the same. I try so hard but he doesn't want to talk to me. He doesn't even tell me what our grandmother was saying either. Our parents are pro israel but he wont even tell me what they were saying. He tells me nothing ever. Months ago when he originally told me he talked to our grandmother he never told me what she said even when I asked him, and showed concern. I tried again and still nothing substantial, just saying "Yeah we agree its fucked up"

Like no. tell me what she's saying, please. I know it's all bad, I know her and I remember in detail the shit she has said about Jewish people in the past. I literally cant handle the thought of him going down an antisemetic pipeline and I feel he is already down the path and there is nothing I can do. It breaks my heart. Seriously. Why doesn't he care?

What the fuck is going on? I live across the country and he is my only way of knowing whats going on there, and he tells me nothing.

[mrevaunit42]

I'm using this one alot. Okay us trapped in trunk. One party wants to put us in the backseat and while they won't let us drive, does care enough about our opinions to fucking listen or compromise. The other wants to kill everyone whose not an old white dude, has publicly announced their plan deport everyone born here if their parents came from another country, has their take over government and install a dictatorship public knowledge (even has a fucking website) oh and has already stated they're gonna give Israel more weapons to kill people faster. And honestly did everyone forget all the BATSHIT terrible things agent orange did while in office and now he has even more of his crazy ass followers than regular Republicans in the house.

I hate that Biden keeps fucking doubling down but you know what? despite being handicapped and the house being held hostage, the dems got shit done: insulin is dirt cheap! DO YOU KNOW HOW BIG OF A DEAL THAT IS!? I'm a fairly optimistic guy but I legit never thought I'd see affordable insulin in my lifetime. My uncle went from paying 900 dollars for a month's supplies to paying 50. 50 bucks to live! And they were soooo close to passing the college debt forgiveness. Among other things.

Look we can pressure the dems to get Israel to stop and still vote for them. They don't gotta know we're gonna still vote for them but you gotta stop acting like not voting is some moral high ground. It's not it's a childish irresponsibility. Unless you are a white dude your right to vote was paid for blood, sweat, tears and actual lives. Countless sacrifices given to the pursuit of freedom and equality. FOR EVERYBODY. And if you wanna keep it, fucking vote and vote correctly cuz the Republicans will absolutely try to take it from you and you want proof? Look at all the fucking bullshit the gerrymandering, the stricter voting regulations, the gutted funding, the redlining, the obscene hoops they're trying to make you go through in red states. You know the house (Republican controlled remember? )wants charge the student protesting Israel with some terrorist charges and why? Cuz anyone with a federal conviction aren't allowed to vote in majority of states and oh hey there's a presidential election coming up. What a fucking coincidence.

We all want that super clean bus that'll take us to our bright sunny future but guess what? That bus doesnt exist yet and if you want it to exist at all you're gonna grow up, sit in this dirty, unclean bus with me and do your duty to your fellow citizens. Cuz if you don't and the next couple of buses are dirtier and dirtier and eventually don't stop to pick us up anymore, don't bother crying. You were warned and we all are going to pay the price. There's nothing you can ever do that will convince the Republican party you should be the exception to their hatred, greed and cruelty cuz the moment you fail or aren't useful they're gonna chuck you under the bus. And you want proof? Trump's being doing it since day one. I wonder how old Rudy is doing.

By existing as a citizen in and paying taxes to the imperial core, we automatically hold complicity in imperialist oppression because we are literally footing the bill for it. That is just the basic nature of being born to privilege in systems of oppression in general. We can be disadvantaged and marginalized in every single other consideration and we still have to understand and cope with this, and ensure we leverage it as effectively as possible.

Voting abstinence/sabotage does not absolve us of our responsibility to do everything in our power to lessen harm, but it DOES show that when our personal morals aren't satisfied, we retreat into (imperialist, this time) privilege to 'wash our hands' of the situation and declare it's not our fault and it's not our problem.

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