no honey you can't support Hamas and be a fundamentally good person that just doesn't add up

Israel: "WE WERE ATTACKED!! OUR PPL WERE BRUTALLY MURDERED!! RAPED!! KIDNAPPED!!! BURNED!! WTF"

the world: "where's the evidence? You have no proof. You are lying."

Israel: *provides proof*

The world: "fake" "haha deserved"

israel: *shows evidence of hamas tunnels and the massacre of 7.10*

The world: "zionist propaganda."

Israel: "its a footage of the CCTV of the al shifa hospital where hamas takes in hostages, photos of weapons hidden inside houses, schools, hospitals, churches and mosques. here's footage of hamas killing our and their own ppl and here is them admitting to have tunnels, that they'll do the 7.10 all over again and that they use palestinians as human shields"

The world: "israeli propaganda!"

Hamas, a literal billionaire terrorist group: "eh... Omg israel eats palestinian kids for breakfast and drink their blood on holidays!"

The world: "OMG!!! FREE PALESTINE!! ISRAEL ARE TERRORISTS!!! FROM THE RIVER TO THE SEA!!! DECOLONIZATION BY ALL MEANS NECESSARY!!! GAS THE JEWS!!!"

I swear to god yall are the most hypocritical people in the world, having the smoothest brain out here with an IQ lower than my 5 yo house slipper

Happy to announce the protests at my Canadian university successfully made me, a jew, go back to where i came from. I am back in Israel now 🫶

I do hope that one day we’ll all be able to live in our land together, peacefully. We don’t have to worry about bombs or rockets.

We will get through this, all of us. Together

🇮🇱🇵🇸

israeli ppl are like siblings

like, i hate them with my soul, but say ONE bad thing about them and i'll punch you

im alowed to say that. im israeli

Antisemites: Although Hamas uses civilians as human shields (X) and refuses to accept the IDF's help (X—X), Israel still harms civilians. Harming innocents is unforgivable.

Hamas: *Solely tagets civillians, kidnaps, r*pes and slaughters innocents and does not spare babies (X)*

Antisemites:

Bin Laden: *Hijacks a plane full of civillians and crashes it into a building, as a part of an attack that ended up killing 2,900 innocents*

Antisemites:

Ever wonder why people speaking lies are screaming, violently forcing their views down people’s throats, threatening and terrorising, whilst the truth speaks quietly, logically yet boldly? Because truth doesn’t need to be shouted. Truth speaks for itself. I firmly stand with my Jewish friends and with Israel. 🇮🇱

I may not get many notes for this one but I had to put it out there.

Photo taken by me in Caesarea, Israel.

Our love is stronger than their hate.

Am Yisrael Chai

🍵🔥

The anger is gone

I’ve felt so much anger recently. These past few months, that’s just how I’ve been living.

Not at Palestinians fleeing for their lives and who have suffered unimaginably. I want the war to end, desperately. But my fury lingered- at Hamas. At each person who celebrated, denied, and/or excused it October 7th and beyond. At the people who I loved who see my community as an acceptable target for righteousness. At the rampant rise of jew-hatred.

It only got worse when I played with the children in our community. Every Friday night, I’d be the one who would entertain them at our rabbi’s house, with makeshift puppets, drawing whatever prompt given, and making up stories for whatever they wanted. And every time they’d laugh, I’d feel a stab in my heart- 

How could anyone want to kill us? How could anyone want to hurt us? And the children? What have they done besides babble out hebrew words ? 

It worsened whenever I held a newborn in my arms and listened to the very Jewish name his parents gave him or her.

When I had to wonder about that same babies- "Will they be safe in the world we have now ? In the world they'll grow up in, that we have in part created? Will they get to be old men and women? When will they learn of evil- in their superhero cartoons or when their preschool gets a bomb threat?"

I grit my teeth when peers protested hostage shabbat tables, or talked loudly at coffee shops where they wished for the death of "Zionists", uncritically rehashing nazi talking points. It's a unique kind of hopelessness, to see fellow young and hopeful students- the world changers- lend themselves so easily to hate. I learned to contend with it, but I will never regain that hope I had before. Or rather, the one hope I had that the people of today are fundamentally different than the ones of the past. Where in fact, the same vile ugliness remains in the form of infographics on Instagram and in the hearts of English literature majors.

And now, I sit here in early January still in grieving of the world I thought I knew that had been ripped up to pieces. And the anger has puttered out into a sadness I think I'll always carry. I cannot trust the activist, the academic, or my generation. I can only speak out, but not too harshly and in acceptable terms. But most of all, I have started my Jewish journey with the knowledge that my destined to be adoptive family are incredibly in need of protection.

But most of all, what I know I can do, is keep showing up to shabbat dinners and speaking in high squeaky voices for the puppets. I can make the kids laugh. And for now, that'll be my superpower.

no, I'm sorry, the jewish people do not owe you an apology for existing or for having a homeland, you owe us one for being a racist loser

:)

Now isn't this just funny?

Everyone just got my first anti-Semitic experience!!! Im a true jew now!!!!!🇮🇱💓

“ALL INDIGENOUS PEOPLES DESERVE SELF DETERMINATION IN THEIR HOMELANDS!!!”

My brother in Christ you can’t even acknowledge Israel’s right to exist and the thought that Jews are native.

P.S. the thought that only one group can be indigenous to a piece of land IS colonial thinking. Both Israelis and Palestinians are indigenous to the land, deal with it.

An Anonymous User Asked:

At the end of the day, we did all we could. We suffered in diaspora for millennia. We walked their high roads and we died when we reached their destinations. We kept to ourselves, we kept out of their way. We joined their armies and fought their senseless wars. We paid taxes to fund roads we couldn't use and public services we couldn't access. We invented their vaccines and their ballpoint pens and their pacemakers and their nuclear weapons. We tried living as a peaceful, perfect minority in their world. We were good. We did everything they asked of us. They killed us anyway. They hated us anyway.

They say they hate us now because we have our own nation. We have our own taxes that fund our own roads and our own public services. We invent our own navigation apps and firewalls and missile defence systems and nuclear bombs. We have our own armies and our own senseless wars. They say they hate us now because we have our own nation. But they hated us before. They will always hate us, no matter what we do. We just chose not to be their perfect victims any longer.

Well put. It's trurly heartbreaking how no matter what we'll do, they'll hate us.

A bit of a history lesson for any of you out there who have never picked up a book and get their history lessons from Tiktok. No, Israel is not 75 years old, but over 3200 years old. Jews are the indigenous people of Judea, (orig. “Yehuda” in Hebrew, yehud = Jew) an ancient region located in the southern part of the historical land of Israel. I am a history professor. As much as I hate getting into politics, I will not allow people to rewrite history or erase a people’s heritage for political agendas.