#israel is a country like palestine

[blogofsara]

Stop Hate!

Yes....i support both sides and am not ashemed of saying it...both Palest1ne and 1srael are suffering......the first because of this gen0c1de and the second because of their awful and sad1st1c president......no one deserve hatred and sufference, in dependance of their Nationality!

[rubysevens]

anyway in the past week the irish government has voted down two motions which would have condemned the genocide in gaza.

i need everyone to stop lionising ireland as if its not also a european government with strong ties to the us. american weapons pass through shannon airport and will continue to, because yesterday the motion to stop that was voted down 83 to 50.

other governments have done much more but somehow people still act as though ireland is the ultimate palestinian ally and exempt from criticism on its handling of palestine bc it was once colonised, even though that past experience clearly isnt being taken into account by the irish government when creating policy.

i live here i know there’s a lot of public support and sympathy for palestine, which is great, but that isnt reflected in government, and i think ireland should be treated like other countries whose governments have done nothing.

[rodeodeparis]

trump winning mostly due to channeling the economic concerns of american voters into a better campaign (and probably also a few bomb threats) being blamed by hardline dems on arab/muslim/jewish voter treachery is pretty medieval europe coded i have to say

[bitegore]

Zionists want you to conflate Judaism and Zionism. Zionists want you to believe that Judaism cannot exist without Zionism and that all Jews are Zionists. Zionism would have Jews believe that a Jewish state is the only way that they can be safe from antisemitism and will point to any instance of antisemitism as proof that Zionism is the solution- so Zionism wants gentiles to be antisemitic in their support of Palestine. They want you to conflate all Jews with Zionism and the state of Israel, and they want you to treat all Jews regardless of political affiliation as the face of Israel. Antizionist Jews exist, and incidences of antisemitism ostensibly acting against Zionism will not help dismantle the forces propping Zionism up.

Don't do their work for them.

[xclowniex]

Leftists: not all arab countries are the same. Stop treating them as interchangeable

Also leftists: shwarma, falafel and hummus are all Palestinian food not Israeli

[stil-lindigo]

Recently, dual citizenship Palestinians managed to safely arrive back in Australia, and while it is a relief to have them out of the reaches of Israel’s bombs, it’s an undeniable tragedy that they have been unjustly ejected from their homes by an active genocide. While celebrating their arrival, remember that the Albanese government STILL won’t demand a ceasefire and obscures any attempt to uncover details about the military aid we’re currently sending Israel, all the while supplying the US and Israel with surveillance intelligence of Gaza sourced from a base in Alice Springs.

Penny Wong, our minister of foreign affairs, remains committed to doing absolutely nothing besides clutching her pearls and pleading for a “humanitarian pause”. We should all be calling her offices (not emailing) and inundating her with demands for a ceasefire.

You can use this template to call Foreign Minister Penny Wong and Defence Minister Richard Marles today.

The Greens party (the only party to have enough of a spine to call for a ceasefire and to walk out of Parliament in disgust for our cooperation in Israel’s war crimes) has also put together a petition to stop Labour exports of weapons into Israel. You can sign it here.

If you live in Sydney - a boat carrying armaments meant for Israel is going to be docking there in a few days.

Join trade unionists to protest the boat and delay it for as long as possible.

Australians - I know as a population that a lot of us are checked out of politics. You can’t afford to do that now. 1% of all Palestinians have been killed by Israel’s assault on Palestine - 1 in 100 are dead, and half of those are children. Australia is complicit in genocide and it is up to you to never give our politicians a moment of peace until Palestine is freed.

[thefairfolk]

if you want a free palestine, you won't support hamas.

if you want a free palestine, you won't support hamas.

if you want a free palestine, you won't support hamas.

[girlgerard]

hey! ik you have a big following, and you’ve mentioned visiting israel and palestine on school trips— i really think your voice would be valuable in speaking out on the injustices happening in that region. you always speak so eloquently on race/gender issues on your blog and i’m really interested in hearing your take! plus i think your platform is large enough to really make a good stand!

i appreciate that you sent this ask, and i appreciate that you thought of me. i agree with everything you’re saying, and i wanted to respond to this immediately because of that, even if i don’t have much of an answer to share.

i’ve studied the conflict for years and, like you said, was in israel and palestine (as in the territories named as such) six months ago; i was at the gaza border in may. i actually disqualified myself from birthright because i wanted to be able to go on academic dispensation specifically (i couldn’t go to the west bank otherwise). i study sociology and jewish studies in my degree program. i’m jewish, i’m south asian, i come from a family of refugees, i come from a family of jains, i come from a family of, like, californians, i come from a family with just as many intersections as any other. suffice to say, i have a lot, a lot of emotions tied up in the levant.

the thing is, because i’ve studied it for so long, and because i study sociology specifically, i also know that saying something before i’ve processed it well enough is irresponsible. this conflict is wrapped up in linguistics; the wording you use is everything. i’m really aware of that, i’m also really aware that i’m not in a place where i feel comfortable enough to articulate myself properly. for my own safety, for responsibility’s sake, and because i’m aware of how nuanced and linguistically fucked discussing this conflict is, i don’t want to make a large statement on it while i’m not in a place to do so.

what i will say for now is that if you’re viewing this conflict as a soccer game between two teams, you are not viewing this conflict in a humanist way. normal civillians, palestinian, druze, samaritan, jewish, israeli arab, armenian, any normal person who lives in the land, should be the only “team” you’re on the side of. listen to people who are from the land, read sources in arabic, read sources in hebrew, read multiple perspectives in multiple languages for every event you want to understand better. understanding how important history, generational trauma, and narrative are in this conflict is essential to understanding why any of this is happening, and if anyone says there’s a simpler way to do it, there’s not. no one tribe in the land can leave, and no one tribe in the land deserves anything less than peace and self determination. personally, my first thought about war is how much i care about people, not which state i feel like backing.

i may post more on tumblr, i may post more on other platforms, i may choose keep my activism in-person rather than purely online. navigating all of this while also being pretty devastated and horrified is complex, and i ask for understanding.

[clarascrabarmy]

Eurovision should give Israel the same treatment it gave Russia. If Israel continues to participate then I at the very least will stop watching and supporting

[junespriince]

This. The hunger games author said she got the idea for her book when she was switching through her TV from seeing the news about the war in Iraq to a show of rich people showing off their wealth, this is the hunger games, children are being murdered by a terrorist parasite, they're bombing these innocent children as we speak. Do not stop talking about them. Do whatever you can, but don't stop talking about them.

[swaggy-hairy-thang]

I accidentally found a Jewish/Israel community and the way some of the members talk about Palestine and its situation is disgusting, using terms like "pro-pals" to describe people who support Palestine.

Yet also, other members seem to get harassed for their culture and religion, for the very fact that they're Jewish.

If you call a person an antisemite for not supporting the genocide currently occuring in Palestine, fuck you.

If you allow yourself to jump on the situation to BE or have an "excuse" to be an antisemite to Jewish people who did nothing, whether to you or to others, fuck you as well.

Is it that hard to be decent.

[redvelvetwishtree]

How the actual fck is this allowed to continue?

[firespirited]

All the ferocious gaza posters also talking about thanksgiving prep is giving me whiplash.

I'm not saying give up the family meal and self flagellate but at least volunteer for the water defenders or your local anti religious discrimination orgs, go help stop cop city or something.

Maybe take a moment to reflect on the fact that 60% of that Israel funding bill went straight to the US military and weapons manufacturers. And maybe this, all of this *gestures around* is a mirror to us all.

[filloas-e-blini]

All Americans acting like this is just

The Worst™

and the end of the world and "we all lost TODAY" and "I'm so shaken I gotta substance abuse and forget about the world pray for us" and "this SURE is stress awareness week amiright" while. Palestinian people have been living in literal hell not just for a whole year of continuous bombing, kidnapping and torture. But 76 years in a row. And not even to mention the rest of the horrors worldwide caused and funded by USA. Are you out of your mind

[anyoldfandom]

I think what needs to be addressed with Israel and Jewish supporters too that I haven't really seen discussed much is...y'all know we are subject to a lot of propaganda too, right? Like, obviously, that doesn't excuse excusing genocide. But like, a lot of Jewish kids aren't gonna know about this. A lot of Jews who don't go online aren't gonna know about this. It's just kind of weird to see that lack of understanding that a lot of us were raised on propaganda and our communities and the news, too, have plenty of handy lies.

I grew up being told Israel was full of no one but Jews. I grew up being told I had a literal birthright to be there - not just because it was holy, but because it was safe. That our people had faced attempted genocide over and over and over again. I grew up listening to Holocaust survivors, being forced to attend museums when I had already firsthand listened to the horrors from the mouths of those who lived it, being told over and over again by the world that at any moment, this could happen again. And by no means am I saying listening to survivors or visiting museums was propaganda - but you get how that scares a kid, right? You get that then, when you have a scared kid and then you tell them there is only one place on earth they'll be safe and no one's living there really, that you have a divine right to this safety, that they're going to latch onto that idea.

Again, none of this excuses the actions of adults, I guess it's just...idk, also weird to me? That that aspect isn't discussed, that that might contribute to why there are so many Jewish zionists. And more importantly, how that can be a way to fight against Zionism in Jewish spaces, especially since there's been a lot of acknowledgement of antisemitism in leftist spaces but...I'm not seeing as much discussion on how to fight it. On how that alienates Jews. It's just weird to me how so much more attention and interest will go to discussing why Christians might be Zionists, and trying to open the doors to goy and being more gentle with your discussions to them and dismissing Jewish Zionists as all evil when we (Jews, not Zionists) have been fed propaganda all our lives.

The most radicalizing thing to me, by the way, the thing that made me realize the propaganda was just that, was that they killed children. Adults could be justified and excused as Hamas, but children? There was no excuse. The stories from Palestinians came next, and they shocked me to my core. To hear the voices of people who have lost their loved ones - though we've also seen some nasty propaganda and false stories from Israel, too. I don't know if it'll work for everyone, but the reminder that children are dying worked for me.

[greencheekconure27]

Hey antitank squad, have we seen this

@ hazeltongzhi person before or is it a new one? Something tells me that they might have had their blog terminated before🤔

Somehow I don't think that a person who uses "ukkkraine" makes "unlimited genocide" memes doesn't have very good takes on Ukraine. "Russia is a stepping stone for combatting imperialism" with what, more imperialism? Also check out their very normal tags.