#rape apologia

[spot-the-antisemitism]

Reading this book, which the pro-Palestinian movement championed and a quick search of the author showed he's Israeli OK, so I decided to see what "myths" he decided to counter

Ok sure, yeah, I dont think anyone really think Israel before its establishment was empty. From other blogs Ive seen, it's already pointed out that there were Arabs in present Israel. But the entire chapter just skates over Ottoman/Arab imperialism of the Holy Land and then just say: all of sudden, Palestine was a prosperpus Muslim land

This is going off the wrong footing, I say. The chapter seems to suggest that Christianity invented Judaism and the idea of the Jewish people. In a way, this entire chapter seems to propagate the idea Zionism is the idea of Christians, not the Jewish people. Ironically, it just makes out the Jewish people as mere pawns of Christianity and that the entire Zionism project is Christianity's idea. The chapter generally omits Jewish indigenity to Israel and other archaeological evidence.

Im skipping over the other myths like "Zionism is Judaism", "Zionism is Not Colonialism", "the Palestinians left voluntarily", "the 1967 war was a war of no choice".

"Israel is the only democracy in the Middle East" - the first half mainly covers and claims how Israel is actually an authoritarian state just because it has military conscription and the everyday IDF soldier can overlord over an ordinary Palestinian

On the chapter: "Israel is the only democracy in the Middle East" - the first half mainly covers and claims how Israel is actually an authoritarian state just because it has military conscription and the everyday IDF soldier can overlord over an ordinary Palestinian

"Israel is not a democracy because it actively kills Palestinians during its existence" - Er, Im not sure how that argument holds because, well, the US is still a democracy but also kills people so well. So do they expect a democracy *not* to kill people? Yeah, I know there are issues about Israel's treatment of Palestinians as an occupier of the West Bank, but that does not in any way demote Israel's status as a democracy

Oslo chapter: I take more issue with the claim that Egypt and Jordan were willing to "legitimise the Israeli's takeover of Palestine" because its just fluff to say: they invaded Palestine to prevent Israel from being established and they lost

"The idea to partition is a Zionist idea and the Arabs boycotted partitioned efforts" - the Arabs has zero intentions of allowing Israel to exist. To them, Palestine is Arab

Im dead. The author, as "an Israeli historian" claims Hamas is a legitimate resistance organisation. Im so done with this book

...Were there even Jewish settlers in Gaza before the withdrawal? And oh look another "Gaza is a concentration camp" claim

Curious to note how the Palestinian struggle is actually 150 years. Not 76 years as the mainstream Palestinian movement claim. And yeah, pushing the idea that Israel should change it mind

The last chapter on the Two-State solution (and its conclusion) just go on to rant about how Israel is a settler state and we should recognise that Israel is evil (and imply Israel should be destroyed) as we toss the two-state solution into the bin

In all, the book is a nothingburger really. Just pedalling various pro-Palestinian myths about Israel (ironically, for a book claiming to dispel myths about Israel) and throwing any nuances out of the window. And this is supposedly written by an Israeli

Well, an Israeli leftist. But perhaps have gone so far down the spiral and became a self-hating Israeli

Two things, 150 years ago there was a movement by Muslim arabs to separate from Ottoman Turkey so yes the struggle is longer than “when the Jews came”.

there were NO jews in Gaza before the six days war war because Gaza was Egypt then and Egypt forbid Jews there. Occupying the Sinai was seen not as s strategic buffer zone but elaborate revenge and abuse by inflicting Egyptian arab Muslims with having to not only live WITH Jews but be temporarily ruled by them

also love the infantilizing of “Jews have no power, they are Christian pawns against Muslims”, his tankie students in exeter must Looove to hear that he has no power and they control him snd other jews

He’s an ex-pat.

while you did an excellent breakdown on the book, I looked up the author

Did he flee or was exiled? The tankies that run Wikipedia won’t tell me

Womp womp womp

let’s see what landed him here. I bet it’s the book

It’s not?! Huh so he’s a BDS shill that moonlights for SJP. Wonder which one of his two patrons commissioned the book. Remember this guy sees himself as nothing but a pawn for goyim

HE WAS EXILED FOR ATROCITY PROPAGANDA!!!!

case closed, propaganda dismissed. He does not speak in my name

[librastrai]

it is so maudlin to see a very conscious leftist mutual, someone who was so very open about their own experiences with sa & rape which was why i had connected with their posts, engage in open rape apologia to talk about how "inappropriate" it is to "validate" any of the atrocities on oct 7 because "even if they did happen, it still did not justify the ongoing genocide" which is just. i can't even put it into words.

it really is believe all women until it's jewish women.

[fireflysongbirdperson]

This video breaks it all down perfectly, and it’s exactly what we need to hear in 2024. Being a barb after everything Nicki has said and done is just pure nonsense. I stand behind Megan thee Stallion and Jennifer Hough and fuck all the abuse apologists and cult-like stans who will say otherwise

[nerianasims]

Rape is not resistance

Rape is never justified or acceptable. If you think it EVER is, you think it ALWAYS is. I am blocking anyone and everyone who even hints that it might possibly ever be, no matter how big they are or think they are.

[kittyregime]

Me: Celebrating the rape and brutalization of Israeli women is wrong and antithetical to feminism

Islamic extremist: No you don't get it! It's okay because Palestinian women were raped!

[whentheynameyoujoy]

No but the braindead idiocy of rape apologists who will argue endlessly about how a woman is to blame for her own rape if she didn’t take a cab (“didn’t you know streets are crawling with rapists?”), if she took a cab (“didn’t you know being shut alone in a car with a strange man is dangerous?”), if she gets raped by a strange man (“what were you wearing and why were you outside”), if she gets raped by a man she knows (“the fuck kind of judge of character are you?”), and so on and so on, but then go fucking apoplectic when you point out that what they’re trying to sell you on is “yes all men”. Like babe, I’m not the one claiming a man’s default setting is “rapist”, you are, don’t get mad at me for pointing out you’d be right at home with radfems.

[spot-the-antisemitism]

https://www.tumblr.com/prettykikimora/769678753829896192/remember-when-joe-fuckin-brandon-said-that-october?source=share

"Remember when Joe fuckin brandon said that October 7th When a bunch of little nazis died to their own country's military helicopters,raving outside of a genocide camp it was like fifteen nine elevens or whatever the fuck? Fuck man, why not make a ten thousand nine elevens nothing means anything anymore. What is trump gonna do worse than you? Through your fucking inaction? Worthless old fuck."

Wow the copium withdrawal makes this incoherent and funny

but in that rant we have hating Biden for being Biden, simultaneously saying that October 7th didn’t happen, was an inside job and that it was deserved and that Biden is actively killing 5 Palestinians daily and Trump won’t?!

Did op vote for Trump thinking he’d be better for Gaza or are they a particularly incompetent bot?

[callmefreakfujiko]

Somebody blocked me on Reddiit because I called them an ableist and a rape apologist because they were defending Chris Chan by saying that "the trolls made them do it. Don't forgot that they're severely autistic!" (They're not. Even if they were you can't trolled somebody to rape their own mother. Which nobody did.)

That's what you are if you defend Chris Chan after they raped their own mother, by the way. An ableist and a rape apologist. You're saying that all autistic people can tricked into becoming a rapist if they're trolled hard enough, and you're making an excuse for Chris after they chose to rape their own elderly mother.

[shadowmaat]

While I understand the point, PR-wise- of issuing an apology for, say, publishing a letter in support of a convicted rapist, what I don't understand is why anyone would believe anything has changed. Why ever trust the person (or people) in question when their initial point made it clear they're more concerned about the rapist than his victims.

[icedsodapop]

Seeing the skinny white girlies on social media getting excited for this year's met gala as if y'all have all collectively forgotten that this year's gala is themed after a disgusting human being who's better off dead.

[terven-queen]

WHY is Neil Gaiman ANYWHERE on this list? 5 women have accused him of sexual assault this year. Fuck right off with this bullshit.

Celebs

Here comes Hugh Jackman out of nowhere with the steel adamantium claws.

David Tennant +2

Hugh Jackman

Pedro Pascal -1

Neil Gaiman

Michael Sheen

Oliver Stark +46

Ryan Reynolds +18

Ncuti Gatwa +84

Walker Scobell

Nicola Coughlan

Ryan Guzman +49

Jensen Ackles

Misha Collins -6

Vivienne Medrano

Luke Newton

Hugh Dancy +13

Assad Zaman

Mads Mikkelsen +10

Sam Reid +11

Zendaya +12

Ewan Mitchell +23

Jacob Anderson +14

Leah Jeffries

Elon Musk -23

Sebastian Stan -1

Tom Hiddleston +25

Lou Ferrigno Jr

Margot Robbie -22

Nicholas Galitzine -8

Joseph Quinn -19

Ayo Edebiri +23

Drew Starkey

Sofia Coppola

Ryan Gosling -25

Ryoko Kui

Catherine Tate

Taylor Zakhar Perez -17

Eric Bogosian

Jenna Ortega -25

Josh Hutcherson

Sydney Sweeney +35

Kristen Stewart

Joe Keery -17

Jonathan Bailey

Taika Waititi -26

Emma D'Arcy

Rhys Darby -24

Alex Hirsch

Hayao Miyazaki

Austin Butler

Marilyn Monroe +8

Mike Faist

Lily-Rose Depp -19

Olivia Cooke

Akira Toriyama

Tom Glynn-Carney

Matthew Lillard

Kathryn Hahn

Cillian Murphy -16

Tom Blyth

King Charles III

Aubrey Plaza

Chris Evans -47

Jacob Elordi

Matt Smith +7

Jeremy Allen White +8

Toby Fox

Barry Keoghan

Selena Gomez -2

Delainey Hayles

Hayden Christensen -32

Peter Capaldi

Millie Gibson

Glen Powell +10

Kate Middleton

Matthew Gray Gubler

Andre Braugher

Emma Watson

Maggie Smith

Noah Schnapp -58

Jared Padalecki

Florence Pugh -17

Scarlett Johansson +16

Jacob Wysocki

Matthew Perry

Tom Holland -41

Timothee Chalamet +3

George Rexstrew

Simone Ashley

Monica Bellucci

Manny Jacinto

Gillian Anderson

Alexandra Daddario +1

Ana de Armas -32

Anne Hathaway -20

Anya Taylor-Joy -3

Emily Ratajkowski

Joe Locke -50

Owen Wilson

Jodie Whittaker -13

The number in italics indicates how many spots a name moved up or down from the previous year. Bolded names weren’t on the list last year.

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[kittyregime]

You moids are going to make me turn into a misandrist.

[icedsodapop]

Me hating how Ke Huy Quan's biggest role as before EEAAO (Short Round from Temple of Doom) will forever tie him with Roman Polanksi apologist Harrison Ford

[metamatar]

the construction of the chain of events to kill sonya massey is so intentional. he entered the house with bodycam off. he asked her to get the boiling water. then he decided to say she could hurt him with it. then when she responded that to absurd accusation he killed her.

[notaplaceofhonour]

“you can’t expect oppressed people not to rape” about Palestinians is so fucking racist

slot in any other group:

“you can’t expect Black people not to rape

“you can’t expect trans people not to rape

“you can’t expect Jews not to rape”

you would rightly be called out—including by the members of that group—on how racist, transphobic, or antisemitic it is to say that.

rape is not a product of desperation or oppression; you do not see a person’s likelihood to be a rapist increase as they become more oppressed.

treating an oppressed population like mindless animals who can’t help but rape is wildly bigoted. if there are rapists within an oppressed group, it is not because they are part of that group; it is because those specific people dehumanized their victims, because they wanted to rape them, and because they had the means & opportunity to do it. and you can be certain whatever violence the rapists are inflicting on others they are also inflicting on the most vulnerable members of their own group.

Palestinians are humans. They have the ability to choose wrong from right. It is racist to say they can’t help raping people or that we should expect & rationalize away sexual violence from terrorists as if “that’s just what Palestinians are like” or a logical/acceptable cost of “resistance”

[icedsodapop]

Me: once again, I'm tapping the sign

I feel like a lot of people don’t know that Guillermo del Toro signed the petition to have Roman Polanski released from jail, so I won’t hold it against anyone, but this is why I hate seeing everyone reblogging interviews with him and slobbering over his movies (namely The Shape of Water)