#palestinian side

[the-garbanzo-annex-jr]

Families of Israelis being held hostage by Hamas were reprimanded by representatives of the Red Cross in a recent meeting, with the Red Cross telling one family they need to “think about the Palestinian side,” KAN has reported.

Roni and Simona, the parents of Doron Steinbrecher who was kidnapped by Hamas terrorists from Kfar Azza on October 7, were invited to a meeting with the Red Cross this past week.

Doron needs a medication she takes daily and her parents thought that the Red Cross was finally willing to transfer the medication to her, but instead, they were sat down and reprimanded by representatives of the Red Cross.

“Think about the Palestinian side,” the representatives of the Red Cross told Simona, according to KAN. “It’s hard for the Palestinians, they’re being bombed.”

Simona expressed shock at the Red Cross’s behavior. “We left there as we entered: without new information, without something new, and with disappointment,” said Simona.

[favroitecrime]

Palestinian freedom fighters breaking out of Gaza and reclaiming their occupied territories. They’ve taken over israeli tanks and have chased out the settlers that were on that land. They’ve launched rockets everywhere and the iron dome has failed to intercept. This is about to mark a momentous event in history.

From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.

[etz-ashashiyot]

Friendly reminder that A Land for All is an excellent organization that is still, even now, working to create an equitable resolution to the conflict. Please check them out:

I also strongly recommend reading through their full proposal here.

[the-catboy-minyan]

you can be both pro-Israel and pro-Palestine, just sayin'

edit:

fucking read the tags before you reblog a Hamas apologist saying "you can't be both pro the oppressor and pro the oppressed". I'm talking about the countries, not their governments.

[jackoshadows]

Jamie Lee Curtis shares a photo of terrified children looking up at the skies, because she thinks they're Israeli. They're actually Palestinians.

[poisonousquinzel]

what,, is it a requirement to play a woman who would never support the ethnic cleansing and genocide in Palestine to be a genocide supporting heartless Zionist in real life?

[the-ships-to-rule-them-all]

the level at which people are misusing the term "Never Again" in the far left absolutely infuriates me.

"Never Again" doesn't refer to the idea of no more genocides -- unfortunately people are evil and corrupt and seek scapegoats and destruction, there were genocides in the years following the Holocaust, there were genocides 10 years ago, there are multiple genocides going on as we speak

"Never Again" means we as Jews will pay attention to the warning signs, will not mindlessly allow antisemitism to fester and take over our communities, we will fight back. it means we will be proud. it means we will not let you hate us without a word of refusal.

"Never Again" is a warning for us, it is a reminder that what happened then can happen now -- is happening now. The Far Left doesn't get to use it against us. You don't get to turn our tragedies into hate-speech and antisemitic rhetoric.

Am Yisrael Chai

[tariah23]

:/

[stuckinapril]

About to deep clean & rearrange my bookcase …… I am about to be a girl reborn

[reasonsforhope]

Heads up/warning that I'm going to start posting articles related to the Israel-Palestine War

I've worked really, really hard to keep my blog about positive news only, and that's going to continue - these posts will be only about good news related to the war.

Of which there really, really isn't much, so I don't know that there will be a lot of posts, but I will be posting articles about humanitarian aid reaching those who need it and actions that will prevent more lives from being taken.

I know that, no matter my position on the war, this is something that would be very controversial and make a lot of people upset, so I wanted to be explicit about my position on this - and my posting policy, which is not the same thing. I also wanted to give people a heads up because I know the war in general is really, really triggering for a lot of people right now, for a lot of different reasons. I'll be tagging all relevant posts, so if screening those out is something that you need to do, you can.

I have worked very hard to make this blog a space with only good news because I know how much it can matter to have just one place, if nowhere else, that you can count on to not give you emotional whiplash with horrible news. To know you have one place you can go where you are guaranteed not to see bad news that will send you into a tailspin. That's why I've had a policy of not including signal boosts or PSAs about tragedies, no matter what they are, on this blog. (I do post about some of that stuff, including the Israel-Palestine War, on my main blog, though. I consider this blog to be me trying to run a public service, basically, and so have specific policies for myself around that, including my editorial and fact-checking standards.)

I'm going to be honest, I was really, really hoping the war would end after a couple of weeks, which has historically not been uncommon for wars with/involving Israel.

But that's clearly not happening, and I can't keep not acknowledging what's happening on here, so, this post.

With that, I imagine people probably want to know my actual stance on the war, since that's what I'll be posting in accordance with.

So, here's the official stance of this blog:

Every time a civilian is killed, it is a tragedy; Every time a child is killed, it is a tragedy, no matter their nationality. I condemn all antisemitism and all Islamophobia.

I support all calls for a ceasefire, as well as demands that Israel immediately stop its repeated bombing of hospitals, ambulances, shelters (including UN shelters), and refugee camps.

There is no situation in which the repeated and/or intentional bombing of hospitals is justified.

There is no situation in which the repeated and/or intentional bombing of shelters or refugee camps is justified.

There is no situation in which the repeated and/or intentional bombing of ambulances is justified.

There is no situation in which the killing of children is justified. Yet more children have now been killed in Gaza than in all global conflict zones combined in each year since 2019.

There is no situation in which cutting off an entire country and/or territory's supply of food and water is justified.

Yes, this applies to every group involved in the war, including countries supplying either side, and any countries or non-state organizations who may yet join the fighting.

The initial Hamas attack on Israel was a tragedy. The continued Israeli bombardment and invasion of Palestine is also a tragedy.

Most of the things I post will be about aid reaching Palestinians or news about tangible, confirmed progress toward a ceasefire. I probably will not be posting good news posts about aid reaching Israel, unless it's explicitly and only humanitarian and/or barring drastic unforeseen changes in circumstance. This is because as of yesterday, November 7, the Palestinian death toll is over 10,000 to Israel's roughly 1,400 (only about 200 of whom have been killed in the past month, starting on October 8, aka outside of the initial attack by Hamas). At least 3,195 children have died in Gaza, 33 in the West Bank, and 29 in Israel.

The Palestinian death toll is nearly 8 times the Israeli death toll. The number of children killed is 110 times higher in Palestine than Israel. (Source for death toll here, ratios via calculator.) Every single one of those deaths is a tragedy - and there have been far, far too many tragedies this past month.

(On a related note, Israel stands very, very little chance of actually eliminating Hamas with this war. The US has attempted this same strategy and failed many times: the US failed to eliminate the communist/North Korean regime in the Korean War, which is technically still ongoing 70 years later; failed to eliminate the Viet Cong in the Vietnam War; failed to eliminate numerous groups of Iraqi insurgents in the Iraq War, which triggered Iraq's civil war; and failed to eliminate the Taliban in the Afghanistan War, even though that war lasted for literally 20 years. Afghanistan is once again under total Taliban control.)

The last thing we need is another 20 year war. The last thing we need is more civilian deaths. Bombing civilian settlements, as well as hospitals, shelters, and refugee camps are war crimes under international law, meaning that both Israel and Hamas have committed war crimes.

It's time for the war crimes to stop.

Humanitarian aid reaching civilians is good news, and I will be posting accordingly.

Ceasefire now.

[bilbobagginsomebabez]

look. rhetoric that works leverages itself off beliefs that the LISTENER holds, not yours. like how americans believe that they’re in a democracy and they believe they believe in freedom. they believe that their country stands for democracy. you can use their beliefs in your argument even if you don’t share them.

you are operating within the bounds of their ignorance and building a bridge outward. you cannot unpack every single myth about the US and its geopolitical crimes in a conversation. what you can do is persuade someone that they’re looking at a civil rights issue by leveraging their existing understanding of civil rights issues.

unpacking all the bullshit they believe about civil rights movements is also a different and much longer project. you can’t tackle everything at once and the way that WE (online leftists) talk about issues relies on these understandings. just like. try for a second to remember what it was like before you knew a single goddamn thing about anything and you were 100% operating on the unthinking assumption that america flag equals freedom.

if they get far enough that they look at this rhetoric and think “SO MANY INACCURACIES!” GOOD! GOOD! that means they took more steps beyond the first, beyond the simplified rhetorical arguments that made them LOOK in the first place.

[perfectlyvalid49]

I heard someone say that the reason people are reacting so strongly to what’s happening in Palestine is because seeing what’s happening is causing them moral harm (A moral injury can occur in response to acting or witnessing behaviors that go against an individual's values and moral beliefs.) And this take actually really frustrated me, because I’m not really sure they understood the full implications of what they were saying.

Because if people are so upset about Palestine due to receiving moral harm, then we have to ask why there was no same outpouring of rage when Hamas attacked on October 7th. When people were taken hostage, raped, burned alive, murdered and the corpses desecrated to the point where some of the bodies may never be identified – the same people who are outraged now were silent then.

The way I see it is that there’s one of two things happening here (they’re both rooted in antisemitism, just manifesting in different ways). One option is that there is no moral injury – this is just an excuse to be antisemitic. The other option is that there is moral harm being caused, but then we have to ask why the same moral harm wasn’t caused when it was Israelis under attack, and the only answer I can come up with is that their morals are ok with those things as long as they’re happening to the correct people (this could be straight antisemitism, but it could also be leftists loving violence against oppressors, but viewing Israeli children as oppressors comes from antisemitism).

Honestly, I think there’s a stronger argument for the first option, given that most of the people who are so upset about Palestine don’t seem to care about the Uyghurs, what’s happening in Syria or Myanmar or any of the other places where equally bad stuff is happening. And I almost think that’s a good thing? It’s possible to be antisemitic without actually seeing Jews as subhuman, but I can’t think of a way to be morally offended by the deaths of Palestinian children but not Israeli children, without classifying Israeli children as subhuman in some way. So, option one is still bad, but option two is worse.

I just think that if you’re going to claim that the reason for the way people have been acting is that it’s an expression of pain caused by moral harm, when no such pain was present when it was Jews under attack, then it leads to the question of what the heck are these people’s morals anyway? It’s not the excuse you think it is, it’s an indictment.

[mithliya]

hey I know you don't use this blog and this isn't common knowledge but I want to bring forward that Fred Sargeant is a huge zionist. I understand he's an important figure in history, but his tweets towards arabian/middle eastern people are vile.

https://x.com/FredSargeant/status/1847063959242768540

vomit-inducing. “gender critical” people are often so weirdly racist and genocidal it seems.

a white gay man who has a history of admirable activism on behalf of gay people doesn’t mean he’s above criticism when he regurgitates statements intensifying racism, colonialism, genocide, etc. his gay activism isn’t relevant in this case.

[hangryyeena]

SquidgeWorld refusing to even talk about Palestine and other genocides happening because "this a fandom space" is wild and severely disappointing

[r0sebutch]

let me be so clear: i stand with palestine. i stand with palestianians. i also stand with jewish people. zionism is not synonymous with judaism. israel genociding palestinians is not an excuse for antisemitism, because the state of israel is not synonymous with judaism. there is never an excuse for antisemitism.

[sanyu-thewitch05]

So, I watched a gameplay of all three Class of 09 games. I will just say this, the teachers being pedos and creeps in all three games is the least surprising thing in this series.

Also, the creator got exposed:

https://x.com/domiraptor/status/1838600383385546790?s=46&t=VgNCf575PY7lLqxkH7ldJw