my biggest gripe with the pro palestinian movement is the lying. you can have empathy and feel remorse for gazans without lying and peddling every antisemetic trope in the book

you can realise that palestinian arabs did not kindly welcome jews who made aliyah before and after the shoah, they are not indigenous or the canaanites, they have been violent against israelis and jews, a lot of them do support hamas, the nakba was a war started by palestinians that they lost to israel, the palestinian national identity is reactionary to the israeli national identity, palestinians are not genetically distinct grom other arabs in the middle east, palestine is literally a colonial name given to the land by the romans to mock the jews living there to sever our connection to the land and STILL have empathy for palestinians. you can realise that they arent a perfect innocent victim and still have empathy for them. the source of their suffering isnt israel or jews, its the antisemitic and imperialistic goals of islamist leaders AND STILL. FEEL. REMORSE

if you need to distort the history of this land and its people and use antisemitic tropes in order to support palestine, you are the fucking problem!!!!! arabs are to the middle east what white people are to the west, and they are not victims just be they face oppression if they live in the west. go speak to any person from the indigenous populations of the middle east and levant and they can tell u all abt what islamism and arabs have done to them snd their families if u refuse to believe us sneaky lying je- i mean zionists. oh wait, its gonna be so hard to do that bc the arab world is doing everything in its power to kill them all

tl dr, you dont need to lie to have empathy for palestinians. you can accept the dirty past of palestinians (just as many israelis still love this country despite it flaws, less then pretty history and incompetent, corrupt government) and still empathise and believe in their self determination alongside jewish and israeli self determination. the need to lie, distort and discredit the jewish and israeli story shows your true (antisemetic) colors

(this is a rant from feb that u put on my insta story, thought it should be seen here)

I think it says a lot that a lot of phrases used in the pro-israel movement, like "am yisrael chai" or "bring them home now" are about things like resistance through celebrating life and advocating for people to be returned safe and sound to their families . whereas a lot of phrases in the anti-israel movement, like "globalize the intifada" or "from the river to the sea" are about supporting violent acts particularly against jewish people. even seemingly peaceful phrases like "ceasefire now" have violent undercurrents when it turns out some people using them only want the IDF to lay down their arms but dont care what hamas does.

does this say anything at all? probably yeah the curtains are never just blue imo. I think this is something that would have to be properly researched through a survey to truly see what the reason for this nonviolent/violent phrases difference is caused by. my hypothesis is that the pro-israel crowd is primarily jewish and we are encouraged to heavily value life. whereas the anti-israel crowd is very culturally christian being influenced by aspects of Arab colonization and islamism, which results in them valuing the suffering of themselves and others. to them, suffering is noble when a person 'doesn't deserve' it and exhilarating when a person 'does'.

Stop saying you care about Palestine when what you actually mean is that you believe Jews are acceptable targets.

Russia, 1881: We’re gonna kill any Jew that doesn’t flee Russia. We’re restricting Jewish emigration to Europe, but permitting emigration to the Middle East.

Germany, Austria, Italy, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Finland, Slovakia, Croatia, France, and others, 1933-1945: We’re gonna kill every Jew in Europe. Flee to the US or Palestine, or die trying.

The US, 1927-1952: Yeah sorry we’re restricting Jewish immigrants to like. 300 people per country. So good luck getting in. We recommend that Jews go to Palestine instead. Btw we are looking to take in Nazi scientists if you know any

Egypt, 1947-1950: We’re rounding up all our Jews and deporting them to Israel

Iraq, 1951-1952: We’re rounding up all our Jews and deporting them to Israel

Algeria, 1962-1965: We’re pressuring and intimidating Jews in the hopes that they’ll all leave the country and go to Israel

Egypt, 1956: We’re rounding up all our Jews and deporting them to Israel (again)

Egypt and Libya, 1967: We’re rounding up, torturing, and killing all our Jews. The ones that survive can flee to Israel

Poland, 1968: The Jews in our country are already loyal to Israel. They will face dire consequences if they don’t leave our country and go to Israel

Ethiopia, 1974-1985: We’re going to marginalize and eventually try to kill all our Jews, and the only way they can escape is by being airlifted out of the country by Israeli helicopters

The US, 2023: Why can’t the Israeli Jews just go back to where they came from? Don’t they all have dual citizenship or whatever?

More tales from Palestinian social media: Gazans are furious to find out Hamas members are fleeing Gaza now that Rafah is encircled by the IDF and they have nowhere else to hide. While regular Gazans are not allowed to pass through the border, even if they have the blackmail money, Hamas members and their friends and affiliates comfortably pass through, with only their names left behind on the immigration logs:

Really makes you think who exactly are these "independent journalists" who managed to leave Gaza are. Really gets that noggin joggin

The fact that JVP is organizing an antizionist gathering for PASSOVER is so fucking funny jdfbjhfbkjhqbf yes lets celebrate this very clearly ANTIZIONIST event where Jews left Egypt and roamed the desert to get to uuuuuh Europe? New Zealand? A very mysterious location definitely not in uuuuh Zion.

someone just told me that Jews can’t use the term diaspora because we don’t have a. Original homeland. We invented the fucking term we.invented.the.term aaaaaa!

how Jews are born:

And let’s not forget the hypocrisy of non Jews.

All year it’s “Stop mentioning the Holocaust,it happened along time ago”, “We should finish what Hitler started”, “Israel needs to go away”, and rewriting Jewish history to fit their political views,conveniently ignoring the fact that the Allies recruited Nazi scientists after World War Two, and there are now Rabbi Halloween costumes come out around Halloween.

But when Chanukah comes around,it’s “We love the Jewish people! We love Chanukah even though we don’t know the historical significance, and meaning behind the holiday.We just like it because it’s so pretty!”

Bunch of hypocrites.

Neil Banged out his tunes today, on a train you have the comfort and relaxation to bang out your own tunes

Your mom finding her friend at a store is like unskippable cutscenes

Y’all I can’t believe the “whistleblower assassination” and “literally falling apart in the sky” company is being represented by a man named Rich White

You could not call a character this in a movie because everyone would say “that’s not realistic” and yet!

You couldn't pay me

Neil Banged out his tunes today, on a train you have the comfort and relaxation to bang out your own tunes

I am once again thinking about digging holes

It's so fucked up that digging a bunch of holes works so well at reversing desertification

I hate that so much discourse into fighting climate change is talking about bioenginerring a special kind of seaweed that removes microplastics or whatever other venture-capital-viable startup idea when we have known for forever about shit like digging crescent shaped holes to catch rainwater and turning barren land hospitable

I think the fast paced society we live in currently has brainwashed me into thinking i can upgrade myself and my life just as fast as when i restart my computer or phone. I have forgotten the natural cycles of life… how the moon takes her time to be full or how the crops take their time to grow their fruits. 

Meanwhile, on Twitter:

Brain farts, a thread

Suddenly struck with a need to explain to you how boat pronouns work (I work in the marine industry).

When you're talking about the design of the boat, you say "it".

When the boat is still being built, your say "it".

When the boat is nearing completion, you can say "it" or "she".

When the boat is floating in the water you probably say "she", unless there is still a lot of work to be done (e.g. no engine yet) then you say "it".

When the boat is officially launched and operating, you say "she". If you continue to say "it" at this point you are not incorrect but suspiciously untraditional. You are not playing the game.

If you are referring to a boat you don't really know anything about you may say "it" ("there's a big boat, it's coming this way"). But if you know its name, it's probably "she" ("there's the Waverley, she's on her way to Greenock").

If you are talking about boats in general, you say "it" ("when a boat is hit by a wave it heels over")

If you speak about a boat in complimentary terms, it's "she" ("she's a grand boat"). If you are being disparaging it may be it, but not necessarily ("it's as ugly as sin", "she's a grotty old tub").

If she has a boy's name, she's still she. "Boy James", "King Edward", "Sir David Attenborough"? The pronoun is she.

If it's a dumb barge (no engine), you say it. But if it's a rowing boat (no engine), you say she.

I hope this has cleared things up so that you may not be in danger of misgendering floating objects.