#israel property

[nando161mando]

pay taxes step by step

[tanadrin]

BDS is a political program with the practical end result of "mass murder of jews," so yes it's pretty definitively antisemitic.

I don't think I've ever specifically mentioned BDS, have I?

In general, I think arguments of the form "X program would have Y result, therefore supporters of X support Y" are very weak unless you can make a very direct argument that X is inextricable from Y. It is not clear to me that the objectives of BDS, which per Wikipedia are

to pressure Israel to meet what the BDS movement describes as Israel's obligations under international law,[7] defined as withdrawal from the occupied territories, removal of the separation barrier in the West Bank, full equality for Arab-Palestinian citizens of Israel, and "respecting, protecting, and promoting the rights of Palestinian refugees to return to their homes and properties".[8]

is inevitably functionally equivalent to "mass murder of jews." There seems to be a pretty long inferential chain there that I guess I'm missing.

[all-socialism-is-democratic]

Guy on CNN: You don't have the First Amendment right to protest on private property.

1.) The publicly-owned UCLA campus is "private property?"

2.) YES. YES YOU DO.

[chaiaurchaandni]

israeli terrorists torch palestinian homes

[news4dzhozhar]

I would expect something like this from the US or Germany. Kinda surprised that Canada would pull this. Are people going to start burning old maps, books and almanacs? Israel has already done a great deal to destroy official Palestinian records. This is Canada's complicity in literally erasing an entire land and its people.

[okckent]

Hmmmmm

[immaculatasknight]

Watch a genocide from the comfort of your backyard

[bijoumikhawal]

I saw a dumbfuck post about how the only realistic options are that Palestinians or Israelis commit total genocide (what's going on now stupid?), they keep fighting until another country takes over and treats them both badly, or ~both sides forgive each other~ and how the last one is the only good option, and I wanna break that down but like. Lemme just say realistically immediately after the creation of a Palestinian state what will probably happen is 1) many Israelis will leave because they won't want to live in a state where Palestinians have nominally equal rights, and many of them have been indoctrinated to believe Palestinians are rabid 2) many of the Israelis who do stay will still hold economic privileges over many Palestinians and will as such hold sway in the government alongside Palestinians that have managed to build wealth and the popular resistance leaders that survive to see a Palestinian state

[screw-u-vaanu]

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[hussyknee]

Good afternoon. Today's real feel temperature is 38°C (100.4F). We do not have air conditioning. I have decided to die.

[nando161mando]

Your tax dollars hard at work

[antisisyphus]

Fr did not expect my dad to be lukewarm on Palestine but I should learn that my dad when given an opportunity to impress me will always fail

[nero-neptune]

i'm not a historian or anything, but i think you're being incredibly ahistorical rn. "the whole reason"? "in the first place"? seriously? who, specifically, tore Which communities apart? what violence were these people escaping, exactly?

this post has well over 2k notes where op is being intentionally dishonest and vague about this bit of history (that Anyone, btw, can fact check, but won't ig bc this is tumblr). doing shit like this Really devalues whatever point you're tryna make, whatever your intention was.

[lordgodjehovahsway]

Genesis 47: God Settles the Hebrews in Goshen

1 Joseph went and told Pharaoh, “My father and brothers, with their flocks and herds and everything they own, have come from the land of Canaan and are now in Goshen.” 

2 He chose five of his brothers and presented them before Pharaoh.

3 Pharaoh asked the brothers, “What is your occupation?”

“Your servants are shepherds,” they replied to Pharaoh, “just as our fathers were.” 

4 They also said to him, “We have come to live here for a while, because the famine is severe in Canaan and your servants’ flocks have no pasture. So now, please let your servants settle in Goshen.”

5 Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Your father and your brothers have come to you, 

6 and the land of Egypt is before you; settle your father and your brothers in the best part of the land. Let them live in Goshen. And if you know of any among them with special ability, put them in charge of my own livestock.”

7 Then Joseph brought his father Jacob in and presented him before Pharaoh. After Jacob blessed Pharaoh, 

8 Pharaoh asked him, “How old are you?”

9 And Jacob said to Pharaoh, “The years of my pilgrimage are a hundred and thirty. My years have been few and difficult, and they do not equal the years of the pilgrimage of my fathers.” 

10 Then Jacob blessed Pharaoh and went out from his presence.

11 So Joseph settled his father and his brothers in Egypt and gave them property in the best part of the land, the district of Rameses, as Pharaoh directed. 

12 Joseph also provided his father and his brothers and all his father’s household with food, according to the number of their children.

Joseph and the Famine

13 There was no food, however, in the whole region because the famine was severe; both Egypt and Canaan wasted away because of the famine. 

14 Joseph collected all the money that was to be found in Egypt and Canaan in payment for the grain they were buying, and he brought it to Pharaoh’s palace. 

15 When the money of the people of Egypt and Canaan was gone, all Egypt came to Joseph and said, “Give us food. Why should we die before your eyes? Our money is all gone.”

16 “Then bring your livestock,” said Joseph. “I will sell you food in exchange for your livestock, since your money is gone.” 

17 So they brought their livestock to Joseph, and he gave them food in exchange for their horses, their sheep and goats, their cattle and donkeys. And he brought them through that year with food in exchange for all their livestock.

18 When that year was over, they came to him the following year and said, “We cannot hide from our lord the fact that since our money is gone and our livestock belongs to you, there is nothing left for our lord except our bodies and our land. 

19 Why should we perish before your eyes—we and our land as well? Buy us and our land in exchange for food, and we with our land will be in bondage to Pharaoh. Give us seed so that we may live and not die, and that the land may not become desolate.”

20 So Joseph bought all the land in Egypt for Pharaoh. The Egyptians, one and all, sold their fields, because the famine was too severe for them. The land became Pharaoh’s, 

21 and Joseph reduced the people to servitude, from one end of Egypt to the other. 

22 However, he did not buy the land of the priests, because they received a regular allotment from Pharaoh and had food enough from the allotment Pharaoh gave them. That is why they did not sell their land.

23 Joseph said to the people, “Now that I have bought you and your land today for Pharaoh, here is seed for you so you can plant the ground. 

24 But when the crop comes in, give a fifth of it to Pharaoh. The other four-fifths you may keep as seed for the fields and as food for yourselves and your households and your children.”

25 “You have saved our lives,” they said. “May we find favor in the eyes of our lord; we will be in bondage to Pharaoh.”

26 So Joseph established it as a law concerning land in Egypt—still in force today—that a fifth of the produce belongs to Pharaoh. It was only the land of the priests that did not become Pharaoh’s.

27 Now the Israelites settled in Egypt in the region of Goshen. They acquired property there and were fruitful and increased greatly in number.

28 Jacob lived in Egypt seventeen years, and the years of his life were a hundred and forty-seven. 

29 When the time drew near for Israel to die, he called for his son Joseph and said to him, “If I have found favor in your eyes, put your hand under my thigh and promise that you will show me kindness and faithfulness. Do not bury me in Egypt, 

30 but when I rest with my fathers, carry me out of Egypt and bury me where they are buried.”

“I will do as you say,” he said.

31 “Swear to me,” he said. Then Joseph swore to him, and Israel worshiped as he leaned on the top of his staff.

[dalishbarmitzvah]

like. i get it. i think. i get how we got here. but gotta say: i am still, just. Confused As Fuck by the whole "randomly messaging random tumblr users begging for gofundme donations" strategy being used by random palestinians? like buddy i am sorry but i'm a random queer jewish anarchist on a fixed disability income who mostly posts about, like. video games and art and whatever. i also have five followers. how did you find my blog? what on earth gave you the impression that i have anything to give you? why would you expect me to post your ask if i have never before posted any of them?

also... does this work??? are people on tumblr actually a significant part of bailing out individual refugees or whatever???? and also if so fucking... Why??? do you really have so many extra resources that you can kick them down to strangers struggling on the other side of the world with issues that aren't actually your fault or business whatsoever???? have you fed all the hungry people in your community already??? clothed all the naked?? you can't find any gofundmes for, like, trans girls that need hrt or fucking rent that you have a mutual in common with at fucking least????

also as a (mostly) side note the whole sob-story industrial complex is so fucking out of hand and honestly some of these folks absolutely should not be saying as much as they are. like they should not have to but also just. they Should Not. i should not be waking up to five different "please help me pay for my sick mom's cancer treatment in the war zone i just left and tuition for my master's program and my four kids who all need new kidneys" like holy shit with the most genuine and abundant love possible that is not my fucking problem if you're not in community with me dude!

[nando161mando]

From 1988. They've been using American tax dollars to fund Israeli imperialism for decades