I am reading this antisemitism and that as well.

Definition of Semite is all children of Sem son of Noah. All Palestinian are Semite, some converted to Christianity some to Islam some remain jews

We are anti Zionism …we don’t want you in our minds.

Hi @aroacegoose i wanna talk about your comment here:

I see you seemed to be concerned about credibility of my post bcs the twitter account has different word to describe it. Im really sorry about that but here's some credible sources for those claims.

But let's talk about the thing that caught my eyes that relates to a topic I've been wanting to talk about. You claimed "Do not compare Jews to Nazi", and i agree. But i don't agree with your implication that jews=zionist.

Jews are people who follow the teaching of Judaism, while zionists are people who follows the ideology of zionism, a political ideology to establish a jewish state, who use Judaism as a shield they used on any criticism against their crimes.

And second point, this whole antisemitic thing. Let's take a look at what semite and semitism really means:

From Oxford Dictionary, Merriam Webster, Collins Dictionary, and Cambridge Dictionary.

So no, comparing zionists, people with political ideology that use a religion to justify a genocide, to Nazi, is not antisemitism.

I don't make this post out of spite. I saw your account and i can at least trust you enough that you're someone who's willing to listen as well. I hope you reconsider.

The #Berlinale Documentary Award goes to “No Other Land” by Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham, and Rachel Szor.

The Palestinian Basel Adra and the Israeli Yuval Abraham, two friends, were honored at the German film awards ceremony Berlinale for their documentary “No Other Land” about the destruction of a Palestinian village. They used the opportunity to clearly criticize Germany's support for Israeli crimes.

#stoparmingisrael. #caesefirenow.

The German media is going crazy because there was applause for it.

Mayor of Berlin is angry and (as usual) accused them with (Antisemitism)!!!

#stoparmingisrael. #caesefirenow.

Semite: The term therefore came to include Arabs, Akkadians, Canaanites, Hebrews, some Ethiopians (including the Amhara and the Tigrayans), and Aramaean tribes. 

Semite | Definition, Peoples, & Facts | Britannica

مسافر..مسافر يطا ..Masafer Yatta.. מסאפר יטא

Masafer Yatta - Wikipedia

Israel: umm well if other countries actually believed we were doing something wrong then they’d just take in the Palestinians as refugees?? Clearly they just want to be mean to us

Also Israel: THERE MIGHT BE A BEETLE WITH COORDINATES WRITTEN ON IT’S ELYTRA, WE NEED TO NUKE THE ENTIRE HOSPITAL TO MAKE SURE

(You see my point is that other countries won’t take refugees because every single fucking time Palestinians try to find shelter Israel immediately claims “Hamas is secretly hiding in there” and bombs them)

I js to want to say as a jewish person…being anti-Zionist is NOT anti-Semitic. ALSO u can be non-palestinian or non-jewish and still understand that both groups are inherently human and that pitting them against each other isn’t gonna do shit to stop the israeli government or hamas. AND js because something isn’t happening to u or ur country doesn’t mean u have to completely lack remorse.

IF UR HUMAN PLS SIGN THIS:

🤔 … because they think it’s ALL about them, the eternal victims!!

By: Colin Tiyani Anderson, Artist/Digital Fabricator, from LinkedIn …

“Why is it that Jewish people have to monopolise this term of 'semitism', because semitism is not a Jewish specific thing. The semitic languages are more than Hebrew. Arabic is a semitic language. There are African languages that are also semitic, so I find it absurd and actually racist that it is only the Jews that get to use the term “semitism” to describe themselves.

"For example, as Arabs: I am an Arab. One person I was speaking to in Piers Morgan’s show. His name is Unholy Schmuley, and I was speaking to him and he said, “you’re an antisemite”. I said, “I am more semitic than you”, because he is from European extraction.

"In what world is it OK for someone to call me “anti that which I am which, they, themselves are not?

"Now we have people who are European Jews who come from Europe, OK, coming to an Arab, like myself, who speaks Arabic, and they tell me that I am antisemitic. I say, you are racist that you call me this. You have no monopoly on semitism. No monopoly whatsoever."

- Mohammed Hijab

Conflating anti-Semitism with the racist depravity of Zionism is tyranny. If President Biden truly believed that, "...all men are created equal...", he would endeavour to protect ALL Semites. Instead, he gives some Semites bombs to conduct a genocide against other Semites. President Biden is acting in a fashion that is, by definition, anti-Semitic.” … 🤔

#mohammedhijab … #antisemitism … #FreePalestine … @hrexach

If only they would have been e...... !

If ur a zionist you can choke and leave this blog btw

if u interact with me I'm killing you with a brick

I've got 0 tolerance for bigots of any stripe

Alright let's imagine a scene that is all too normal in palestine. A palestinian business owner finds his building covered in graffiti stars of Davids and Hebrew that says "gas the arabs" and "death to arabs"

Now imagine there's a reporter there and asks the palestinian business owner what happens and they say "the jews attacked my business"

Pause. Now your response might be "uncle no. Say israelis not jews" and then this is when he would look at you like youre stupid because the israelis doing this are jewish. They are not the Christians or the druze or the palestinian ones with Israeli citizenship. They are Jewish israelis who believe in their religious supremacy. When you graffiti stars of david all over a palestinian business, car, or the street you seek that conflation. it sends a message, this is jewish land and you're next.

The problem is that these videos circulate in zionist circles. "Watch this video of children in gaza calling for the death of jews" "watch how they say they want to fight and kill jews" those children are referring to Israeli soldiers that come in night and do their raids with the star of David attached to their uniform or the ones that bomb them. It's easy to watch those videos and assume that palestinians are indoctrinating their children on anti semitism or you can realize that those children's only interaction with jewish ppl is through violence and parents cannot protect their children from this. Doesn't matter context is lost

Abby Martin went to Jerusalem and interviewed israelis for 2 hours and she says every israeli was extremely confident to say that this land is for them and that they should push the Arabs out and when she interviewed palestinians they spoke of freedom from occupation and their dreams. That's reality. Not the soundbites.

And yet we have invasive youtubers and interviewers constantly in the street of ramallah or wherever in palestine asking palestinians "do you hate jews?" And in those videos you hear those palestinians say "no we have no problem with jews we have a problem with occupation and we have a problem with zionism." Bc this is how we are trained to respond to this trope. Palestinians are very aware what the world thinks of us and the reality is that many palestinians have internalized it and we grow up reading books on the Holocaust and train ourselves to recognize anti semitic dog whistles so zionists don't get the soundbites they want.

So we say "anti zionism is not anti semitism" and we say "israeli zionists" and we do not say "jewish supremacy" even thought it exists in palestine but "zionist supremacy" and in these carefully worded speech we water down what is happening to us in an effort to not deter people away from solidarity. But it means nothing. The world categorically blames palestinians for rising anti semitism they blame us for jewish insecurity globally.

So, I could be out-of-bounds here since I think you meant it as dark humor, but what did you mean in the tags of that 'israel-hamas war' post? I suspect you(and op) are criticizing that framing because Israel is obviously demolishing much more than 'Hamas'(and probably doing a terrible job of actually targeting terrorists- they seem content to reduce Gaza to rubble even if the brass of Hamas escapes). I'm guessing that by saying "joining the Israel-Hamas war on the side of Hamas" you mean, if they're going to conflate Palestinians with Hamas unilaterally, then you're saying, whatever the media wants to call Palestinian civilians- you still support them. I am asking anyways though bc, given reports of increasing antisemitic activity in the US and Europe, I am worried about the potential for blurring lines between the cause of Palestinian civilians and the alt-right individuals who are likely masking their antisemitism in the context of being anti-Zionist. Although Israel's government has been the source of Palestinian loss for decades, (it seems to me that) even joking about supporting terrorism is enough to reinforce the persuasion that Israeli/Palestinian Jews and Palestinian Arabs must be mutually-exclusive peoples. I don't think it's fully rational per se(tho I'm not claiming to have all the relevant information myself, and I'm white US American goyim so like- grain of salt-), but I think that existential fear is the incredible hurdle facing Zionist Jews. (Idc too much about the opinions of non-Jewish Zionists bc I don't grant that they are dealing with the same emotional complications at this time, although that doesn't stop me from arguing w my acquaintances abt their callous acceptance of US/Israeli propaganda.) I just think..... isn't it overall harmful to allow anti-semitic rhetoric, even used sarcastically, to enter the genuine humanist cause for Palestinian liberation? Or, have I misunderstood, and you actually are not in opposition to Hamas, or something else I didn't think of?

hi! thank you for approaching the question thoughtfully and with curiosity, i really appreciate it. i was being kind of flippant with that meme, but this is the only ask i'm going to reply to on the matter given that i am neither jewish nor arab, so i'm going to answer in earnest:

hamas is a political resistance movement with an armed wing, much like the black panthers party was, and like the bpp, a large part of the organization is dedicated to social welfare and civic restoration.

they have stated that they are not against judaism, but against the zionist project. they openly support political solutions.

labeling hamas a terrorist group is a propaganda tactic used by the united states and israel to justify the horrors of settler colonization.

hamas is palestine, a part of it, even if palestinians like any other demographic on earth, are not a unified, single-minded people. to declare hamas a separate entity falls prey to the imperialist lie that there is an enemy to fight "fairly" within the people they are displacing and exterminating.

am i rejoicing in the deaths of israelis? of course not. killing civilians and taking civilian hostages is a war crime, whether it is committed by the opresor or the oppressed. the israeli government is not its people, and many jews, within israel as well as in the US, are bravely risking their lives to publicly dissent the criminal acts of the israeli government. all loss of human life is a tragedy.

no one should ever be faced with the choice between annihilation and murderous violence after exhausting all other forms of peaceful protest and being massacred like animals.

but why is it that we consider a resistance group formed within a population with a median age of eighteen a terrorist group, and not the IDF, a US-backed military force with an annual budget of twenty billion dollars?

i am currently reading hamas and civil society in gaza by sara roy to learn more about hamas and the history of israel in palestine. i'll remember to post more excerpts which i am admittedly terrible at.

but all of the information above can be found by reading wikipedia. investigating with duckduckgo searches (not gonna pretend google isn't prioritizing propaganda, to be fair), and reading reliable news coverage like aljazeera and the many journalists who are at risk of, or have lost their lives, reporting on the ground.

i have also appreciated reading posts from @determinate-negation @opencommunion @fairuzfan @ibtisams and @bloglikeanegyptian amongst others

in conclusion:

Given the number of non-Jews who are trying to play dictionary games with the term "antisemitism", ignoring its origin, use, and history in order to try to claim that they're not antisemitic, because "Arabs are Semites too"/"Jews aren't Semites"/etc, I am personally going to shift back to the previous term that was in use before Moritz Steinschneider coined "antisemitisch" in 1860, as it is much more blunt, direct, and accurate--and besides, "antisemitism" is a legacy of the era of "scientific racism", so why keep it around?

So, with that all in mind...

Rather than labeling people "antisemitic", I will instead move to labeling them with "judenhass" or "Jew-hating".

Hope that helps with accuracy in communication.

I live in Jordan my friends are Palestinian and their families are stuck in Gaza and it is quite disheartening to watch as the rest of the world blindly support genocide. I have studied and researched the history of Palestine for years now even been inside the wall myself I remember being there for about 2h and feeling trapped just to put it simply now I'm not arab or a Muslim Im Christian and I come from the west and what is going on in Palestine is just terrible. The blatant racism and anti-Semitism (because to be anti-Muslim is to also be anti-semitic.) that these people are being faced with is no better than what the Jews faced in WW2 except this time the rest of the world is on the oppressors' side. I hate to make this comparison but if you look side by side the way Hitler talked about the Jews and the way the Israeli government talks about the Palestinians it is almost the same. Still reading someone who does not live in this area talk in favor of Palestine has helped give me some faith that maybe a ceasefire will be achieved. I hope that the rest of the world can educate themselves and read more about the history of the Palestine-Israel war un bias for it is extremely important to know what you are talking about before you blindly support something. I also hate the way some people are saying that this is not so black and white. It is Palestinian citizens are being treated like nothing more than trash worse because at least trash is treated with some level of dignity. This is genocide and there is nothing good about genocide. It sickens me that a group of people that have all felt what genocide and hatred can do to you goes and does it themselves without any thought to who they are attacking. Again I hate to make this comparison but just look at the way the Nazis treated the Jews and look at the way the Israelis treat the Palestinians they are almost the same.

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Thank you for sharing your thoughts. My heart goes to you and everyone else who have friends and family suffering in Gaza.

The remark about the similarities between the Holocaust and this genocide is a little too true tbh...

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The Holocaust was undoubtedly one of the greatest tragedies of modern history, where millions of innocents were murdered in an unspeakably cruel and industrialized manner. Also true is that this was not the reason for the creation of Israel, which had its colonial seeds planted nearly a century prior. It was not remorse that motivated the colonial powers to support Israel, powers which were actively committing genocide against multiple colonized populations. Framing the creation of Israel as repentance for the Holocaust is not only historically inaccurate, but deliberately paints the legitimate rejection of its creation at the expense of the Palestinians as complicity with Nazi genocide. It transfers Europe’s guilt onto Palestinians, where they become the embodiment of everything the grandchildren of fascists claim to despise in their grand quest for (empty, symbolic) redemption. A redemption with the theatrics and loud proclamations of regret and change, but none of the substance. At the end of the day, nothing can justify the ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian people, who share no blame for the barbarity of Europe’s pogroms and genocides. Palestine has always been home to countless refugee populations; Jewish people fleeing persecution and finding a safe home in Palestine was never the issue. The issue is that these ideals of coexistence were never reciprocated by the Zionist movement, who showed disdain towards Palestinians from the very beginning and sought to take over the land. It sanctioned its own settlers working with Palestinians, even calling Arab labor an “illness” and forming a segregated trade union that banned non-Jewish members. In 1928, the Palestinian leadership even voted to allow Zionist settlers equal representation in the future bodies of the state, despite them being a minority who had barely just arrived. The Zionist leadership rejected this, of course. Even after this, in 1947 the Palestinians suggested replacing the Mandate with the formation of a unitary state for all those living between the river and the sea, to no avail. These gestures were brushed aside, as they did not benefit the Zionist leadership who never intended to come to Palestine to live as equals. For decades Palestinians have been massacred, their homes stolen and destroyed, ethnically cleansed into refugee camps and denied their right of return. The notion that these colonial powers were ever concerned about Jewish safety as they fomented the conditions that made pogroms possible and denied Jewish refugees safety within their own borders is absurd. So too is the idea that Jewish people from all over the world must all live in a singular nation-state in the Middle East where they are a demographic majority to be safe, that the eradication of anti-Semitism around the world is a lost cause, and that whatever violence is wreaked upon Palestinians for the maintenance of this regressive demographics-obsessed state is justifiable.

My favorite example of "space tamales" with MENA/SWANA characters was in a fic where an author described Farsi as "a dialect of Arabic." My sister in Christ, they are not even related languages. Farsi is Indo-European (like English is) and Arabic is a Semitic language. The author claimed to be "really passionate about language learning" too, but apparently not passionate enough to just look up 101 stuff about these two major world languages on Wikipedia....

Another thing I see a lot with Asian (especially outside of China/Korea/Japan), African and SWANA cultures in particular in fic is this thing where the "traditional cultural elements" means they're luddites compared to everybody else. Like space futures where the Middle-Eastern character's family are still living in desert caravans with no modern tech or the African character's are doing that in some stereotype of a rural village with no running water or electricity.

Like you'd have hoped that the internationally popular movie Black Panther would've introduced more people to the fact that Afrofuturism = thing that exists, and more broadly that you can do a high-tech, spacefaring future that is culturally non-Western and what that might look like.... and yet people still get stuck on this.

The only non-Western cultures they seem to be able to envision as futuristic are (sometimes) East Asian ones, probably because of cyberpunk and anime.

It makes me want to see a reversal of this sometime. The non-white/Western characters' homes are these super futuristic megalopolises with flying cars, but you follow the French character home and it's still like pre-revolutionary Paris with giant wigs and horses-and-carriages and no indoor plumbing for some reason.

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A DIALECT OF ARABIC?!?!

And the space!French will 10000% have a bunch of places that make wine in a 1700s way and are extremely annoying about it.