#renamed Israel

[nando161mando]

Florida should rename itself to "Israel" maybe it'll get the needed help then

[weedle-testaburger]

the tumblr equivalent of 'remember when mtv used to play music' should be 'remember when heritageposts used to post old tumblr posts'

[ruthlesslistener]

The most disgusting fucking thing that zionists keep circling in response to palestinian suffering and people crying for an end to a genocide is the fucking cries about the thousand killed on october 7th

I don't care how many settlers died. I don't care. I don't care because 1,000 dead does not ever equate to 100,000 murdered and lost. It doesn't equate to all the horrendous suffering and the torture that Israel inflicts on innocents. It doesn't equate because human lives are not a fucking math equation and yet it becomes extremely fucking apparent that to these people it is because they view palestinian lives as so much lesser than those of the settlers that thousands of them cannot pay back the life of one colonizer

'Civilians shouldn't be killed' is the most neutral thing that can be said about a war and is IMPLICIT to saying that the Hamas attack on october 7th was poorly planned. But when israeli civilians are actively participating in the genocide of people they already were tormenting then it becomes really fucking hard to think of the people killed as innocents, and when they are being used as the justification to set military dogs on 4 year olds and to selectively target and destroy safe havens and ignore peace treaties then it is altogether. I dont care that nearly two thousand filthy fucking colonizers died because there is NO justification for the river of blood spilled in retribution, nor the painting of a race of people as terrorists despite only a scant handful of them being willing to bloody their hands in retribution for decades of torment

[kakashis-kunoichi]

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[soon-palestine]

[oliverniko]

We must strive for no less than freedom for all 🍉

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As soon as I learned about the Palestinian sunbird this week, which became Palestine's national bird in 2015 after Israel failed to rename it, I knew I had to paint one. What a beautiful bird to symbolise Palestinian hope.

[worfsbarmitzvah]

the fact that ציון “tziyon”/“zion” and ישראל “yisrael”/“israel”, words that have been in our language, liturgy, and holy texts since before islam existed and before the romans drove us off our land and renamed it “syria palaestina,” have been twisted around to be used against us just really. hurts. especially with the way online leftists call medinat yisrael things like “isnotreal” like that is not your word to rearrange to insult the very people it describes (not just citizens of the modern state of israel but every single jewish person i.e. klal yisrael)

[fdelopera]

Yo Goyim! Looks like I'm going to need to give some of you a crash course on what antisemitic language looks like, because I've been seeing entirely too much of it from some of you here on Tumblr.

Now, I think it's time for a Jewish history lesson, because I've been seeing way too many Nazi-related conspiracy theories going around. If you hear contradictions to the basic information that I am about to share (i.e., if you hear someone saying that the Jewish people are "a race that originated in Europe"), it is likely that you are hearing a white supremacist, anti-Jewish conspiracy theory.

So, here's the basics of Jewish history. Jews are indigenous to the Levant have been there for thousands of years. The Levantine people that Jews descended from have been in that area of the Levant since the Bronze Age. Jews as a distinct people have been there since the Late Bronze Age. Before it was Palestine it was the Kingdom of Judah, then Judea, and then Judaea, and that is literally where we are from. The word Jew means "a person from the Kingdom of Judah." The Romans renamed the area Syria-Palaestina (which they borrowed from the Greek name Palestina) in the 2nd century CE after destroying the Second Temple in Jerusalem and leading another campaign to try to eradicate the Jewish people (guess what, we're still here, motherfuckers).

And even after the Romans tried to annihilate us, even after they scattered many of us into European diaspora, many Jews came back, again and again over the ages, and there have nearly always been Jewish communities in the region throughout history.

And if you come for me or try to dispute any of this history with white supremacist bullshit, I am a Jew who has studied way more Jewish history than you. And as politely as possible, you can take your white supremacist conspiracy theories and fuck off into the sun.

Okay, with all that out of the way, let's get into it!

Gloves are coming off, because this is just a sampling of the Nazi dogwhistles I've been seeing here on Tumblr about the Jewish civilians who were tortured, murdered, and worse:

- If you say shit like, "The Jews got what they deserved"...

GUESS WHAT? You're talking like a white supremacist, and you need to fucking check yourself.

- And if, on the other hand, you say shit like, "The reports were probably overblown. I think those were paid actors. I don't think those Jews were murdered. No Jewish children were killed. No Jewish bodies were desecrated" blahblahblah...

GUESS WHAT? You get to sit with the Nazis at their table for lunch.

- If you tell Jews "go back to Europe where you came from"...

GUESS WHAT? Not only are you telling the descendants of Jewish refugees to go back to the Spanish Inquisition, the Russian pogroms, and the Nazi gas chambers, as I explained in this post, but you are also repeating a white supremacist conspiracy theory about the origins of European Jews.

Jews are a Levantine people from the area of the Middle East currently called Israel (formerly called the Kingdom of Judah, and then Judea). While there was some emigration to Europe during the late Roman Republic and the early days of the Roman Empire, the first mass migration of Jews to Europe was a forced migration. Gentiles from the Roman Empire dragged us there as captives after 70 CE, the year Rome destroyed the Second Temple.

- And if you're telling yourself that there are "good Jews" and "bad Jews," and those Jewish civilians were "bad Jews," so they deserved to be tortured and killed...

GUESS WHAT? You're spouting white supremacist ideology.

Antisemitism takes a long time to deprogram.

A lot of gentiles grow up with anti-Jewish ideology that they have never questioned.

And a lot of Christians are kept ignorant about Jewish history because preachers and priests fear it would make Christians question the many inaccuracies in the Bible.

But the first step in noticing antisemitic beliefs is to notice when you start singling people out *because* they are Jewish.

And I have been seeing some of you gleefully celebrating the murder of Jewish civilians *because* they are Jewish.

And that is antisemitism.

That is one step closer to the next generation of Jews getting shoved into the gas chambers. And there are only 16 million of us left in the entire world. We're 0.2% of the world's population. And we cannot afford another Holocaust.

And if your response to me saying that is, "Well, those Jews deserve it."

Guess what. You are making it easier for Nazis and white supremacists to spread hatred and commit acts of violence against Jewish people. And you will have to live with that blood on your conscience.

So...

If you are a gentile, and you see other gentiles repeating these kinds of white supremacist dogwhistles about Jewish people, here's how you can help:

1. MOST IMPORTANTLY: Help them direct their focus away from attacking random Jewish people online and towards helping Palestinians.

Actions that people can take right now are contributing to verified charities and relief organizations that help the people of Gaza. Only donate to organizations that are verified by CharityNavigator.org and CharityWatch.org.

2. Call that shit out. Tell people that they're being antisemitic, and explain that Jew-hatred is dangerous to Jewish people. Antisemitism gets Jews attacked and it gets Jews killed. In the US, many synagogues require round the clock security to protect against white supremacists who want to murder Jews. In Pittsburgh, my old home town, a group of Nazis from north of the city planned the murder of Jewish congregants at Tree of Life Synagogue, and so far only one of them (the gunman) has been arrested and convicted of the murders. The others are still at large.

3. Explain to them that it is antisemitic to celebrate someone's death *because* they're Jewish. ALSO, it is antisemitic to blame a random Jewish person for the actions of ANY government, whether that be the Israeli Government or the US Government.

4. Explain to people that they're not going to solve this conflict by posting antisemitic statements and memes online. All they will do is alienate the Jewish people in their lives and make those Jews feel scared and unsafe. And they will contribute to this current wave of antisemitism.

Antisemitic hatred doesn't help Palestinians. All it does is put Jewish people around the world in danger.

[girlactionfigure]

What Happened on the Ninth of Av?

On Tisha B’Av, five national calamities occurred:

During the time of Moses, Jews in the desert accepted the slanderous report of the 10 Spies, and the decree was issued forbidding them from entering the Land of Israel.

The First Temple was destroyed by the Babylonians, led by Nebuchadnezzar. 100,000 Jews were slaughtered and millions more exiled.

The Second Temple was destroyed by the Romans, led by Titus. Some two million Jews died, and another one million were exiled.

The Bar Kochba revolt was crushed by Roman Emperor Hadrian. The city of Betar – the Jews’ last stand against the Romans – was captured and liquidated. Over 100,000 Jews were slaughtered.

The Temple area and its surroundings were plowed under by the Roman general Turnus Rufus. Jerusalem was rebuilt as a pagan city – renamed Aelia Capitolina – and access was forbidden to Jews.

Other grave misfortunes throughout Jewish history occurred on the Ninth of Av, including:

The Spanish Inquisition culminated with the expulsion of Jews from Spain on Tisha B’Av in 1492.

World War One broke out on the eve of Tisha B’Av in 1914 when Germany declared war on Russia. German resentment from the war set the stage for the Holocaust.

On the eve of Tisha B’Av 1942, the mass deportation began of Jews from the Warsaw Ghetto, en route to Treblinka.

[secular-jew]

Before the 60s "Palestinians" meant Jews. Since the 60s, Arabs decided to call themselves "Palestinians". Be curious, facts are very interesting!

"Palestine" is Judea renamed by Romans.

In 1798, philosopher Immanuel Kant referred to Jews as "Palestinians".

In 1936 a Palestinian Jew Franz Kraus created a famous poster to promote Jewish tourism to the Land of Israel, "Visit Palestine" was written on a poster.

There were many Jewish organizations like the Palestine Post, Palestine Electric Company, and the Palestine Symphony Orchestra. You can google and research everything!

In 1948 after establishment of Israel, Palestinian Jews started calling themselves Israelis. Arabs obviously called themselves Arabs and rejected the term "Palestinian" because it referred to Jews. So no one actually called themselves "Palestinians" from 1948 to 1964.

In 1964 genius Arafat and Soviet Russia decided that Arabs should start calling themselves "Palestinians"!

The purpose was to create impression as if Jews stole the land from Arabs (which obviously never happened). All this was to make the Arabs the "oppressed", because in the West it was already trending to support the "oppressed" and Arafat knew how to use trends.

More proofs and historical facts in the comments.

Note to fact-checkers: if these facts are not correct, I'll be more than happy to see your facts and proofs. And also, facts can't be Islamophobic or hateful.

[notaplaceofhonour]

308K of y’all really couldn’t be bothered to take 5 seconds to exit instagram, type “Palestine” into Google Maps, and see it’s still there?

Google obviously hasn’t removed Palestine and renamed it “Israel”. This is even evident in the instagram story claiming the opposite because you can literally see the borders between Israel & both territories that make up Palestine.

Palestine is listed on the map as the West Bank and the Gaza Strip rather than Palestine because what we collectively call Palestine is technically actually two geographically separate territories with two entirely different governments—both of which Google very much still has listed on its map, and very clearly describes as Palestinian, not Israeli:

so no, Google is not “in” on some dastardly plot to erase Palestine, and this would be obvious to anyone with eyes who takes even 2 seconds to look at the map

it’s clear whoever made this post either a) knows nothing about Palestine or how maps work, or b) does & intentionally lied knowing they could trick a whole bunch of people into sharing obvious misinformation because they know nothing about Palestine or maps.

also the arrow in the instagram story labeled “Palestine” isn’t even pointing at Palestine; it’s pointing at the Sinai Peninsula, which is in Egypt.

[i-am-aprl]

Today marks Nakba Day, the day Israel’s ruthless campaign of colonization began, encompassing the erasure of everything Palestinian, including heritage and history. While mainstream media wants you to believe that Israel’s war of extermination began on October 7, it has actually been ongoing ever since Israeli settlers arrived on the shores of Palestine in the 1940s. Welcomed by Palestinians, the settlers began replacing native Palestinian place names, from the name of the country itself down to every single city and small village. Moreover, what started in 1948, continues to this day. With Israel’s latest invasion of Gaza, calls for resettling the enclave have become increasingly popular, and with that, the continued renaming of place names in an attempt to erase Palestine.

[xclowniex]

It didn't start last year on Oct 7th 2023

It didn't start Sep 28 2000 with the second intifada

It didn't start Dec 8th 1987 with the first intifada

It didn't start Jun 5th 1967 with the 6 day war

It didn't start May 15th 1948 with the first Arab Israeli war or the May 14th 1948 when Israel became a country.

It didn't start Sep 29 1923 When Britian took control of the land

It started in 63 BC when the Roman's kicked the jews out and renamed the land, before arabs conquered the region in 636.

If you include any relevant history, then you've got to include late 6th century BC when Judaism emerged. 6th century is from 600 BC to 501 BC.

[fairuzfan]

I believe the word Palestine was first written in 5 BCE to refer to a part of Syria specifically. So I was curious about you saying how "Palestine" as a nation goes back 4000 years? From what I've read, the land was called Judaea in pre-biblical times, and then was renamed Syria Palaestina when it was corporated as a Roman province. The people who are from what is today variously Syria/Jordan/Lebanon/Iraq and migrated to the land only began to identify as Palestinian in the 1960s for the national resistance movement (because it had been known as Mandatory Palestine in the 1900s under the British) -- however even pre-British rule, under the Ottoman Empire it was referred to as "Southern Syria" by many who migrated and lived there over hundreds of years, and/or had varying names because the land (known as "Palestine" now) was divided with no one centralised administrative control. I'm in no way saying this delegitimises the liberation struggle for people known as Palestinian today obviously (and I grew up with a friend from there, whose family fled from Israel, who identified as Palestinian + Lebanese simultaneously for political/personal reasons which adds to my understanding of this) Saying Palestine has 4000 years of history seems to me like saying any country has 4000 years of history just because the land existed at all, even though the term is relatively recent & was only ever first used within the common era, and the land had multiple other earlier names, even during the Ottoman rule right before the British gave the name of "Mandatory Palestine" to specified territories within the last century.

This is not true actually, palestine was referred to as palestine in Assyrian transcriptions and among greek scholars. I really recommend reading "Palestine: a 4000 year history" by nur masalha. It dates the use of the word Palestine and describes how zionists often manipulate archeology to align with biblical stories. He also goes more specifically into the names of different regions (Gaza, Askelon, etc) and describes their relevance to identifying Palestine.

Now I feel like I was misunderstood a little that Palestine was a "nation" because in arabic there are 2 words to describe this, "watan" which is more contemporary and used in the 18th century i believe and "balad" which is far far older. Both terms have different implications. I can't exactly describe it but when I say "nation" I'm not speaking contemporarily. Masalha discusses this too.

But yeah he also discusses how Philistines were not a seafaring people as commonly thought but archeological finds suggest that we're indigenous to the geographic area of Palestine.

There's more but even just the introduction summarizes the history of the word "Palestine" and the colonial implications of denying its relevance. Really recommend a lot of Masalha's books actually.

[hotpepper15]

My English is still bad, sorry (it's all google translate)

AU: Captain Israel Hands. An AU in which Izzy survives and becomes captain of the Revenge (maybe they will rename the ship).

This is a character costume redesign. My main goal was to make his clothes looser, not so “suffocating” but still similar to his original look and style (just look at him in the canon, a thick leather vest resembles armor, a tie right up to his throat, clothes that hide every part of his body)

— Jacket/cloak with patches: I thought this was a really cute detail, the crew could embroider patterns on the jacket and give it to their captain. Izzy would wear it every cold evening, but would take it off during raids (he still needs to look menacing and intimidating, plus it's uncomfortable to fight in) P.S Izzy hates that octopus on his back)))))

— Izzy is not superstitious, but he indulges Frenchie's strange quirks as long as it doesn't hurt anyone, Frenchie sincerely believes that Izzy believes in all superstitions too One day, Frenchie gives him a talisman that doesn’t suit Izzy at all and he doesn’t even know how to wear it, but in the end he wraps it around the base of the sheath and wears it every day.

[theboxfort]

Palestine will be free 🍉

The Palestine Sunbird is the national bird of Palestine. It became a symbol of resistance after Israel failed to rename this species of bird in order to remove its connection to Palestine

Ways to help

Donate e-sims to Gaza (Guide here)

Donate to Care for Gaza, a grassroots organization that offers basic necessities to people in Gaza

Donate to Palestine Children's Relief Fund

Call your reps

Follow the BDS Movement in boycotting companies that are supporting the genocide

A masterpost for other ways to help Palestine