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Well Eurovision it's been fun! And mildly stress inducing! If you don't mind I'd like to catch some sleep before the inevitable missile alarms
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its weird how as israelis, or even just as jews in general, as soon as you extend sympathy towards the people who were massacred on october 7th u immediately get blamed for "supporting israel" and "not holding your state accountable".
when its like. WE are the ones who have been fighting non-stop to make our government and military officials take responsibility for this. WE have been begging our leaders to take accountability while u guys are sitting there overseas typing out shit like "its actually okay to murder babies as long as theyre settler babies"
#like assuming we're not criticizing Israel just bc we're not doing it on here or not doing it in english is stupid#blogging is not activism and my anti-occupation activism will always be offline and with other israeli and palestinian leftists.#why would i want to write essays in english criticizing israel-#only for them to be spread among people who dont know the littlest thing about this situation#and dont have any meaningful thing to add to the conversation?#jumblr#ישראבלר
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Call me old fashioned but when I see suffering alongside those who are not suffering (in the same way at least), my first thought is not to drag down those who are happy so they can experience suffering themselves, but to instead try and work out how those suffering can be raised up so everyone is living happily and peacefully.
And if to stop one group suffering, I must instead pass that pain onto others, I simply don't make a decision about who I executively decide to be mose deserving of suffering but instead put in the effort to find another way
#jumblr#this is about I/P#seeing suffering in Gaza should not make peope want to see israelis suffer#thats not productive and its not pro-peace#its pro antisemitic spite and isnt very sibtle#the suffering in gaza is horrific and needs to end. I have feelings about the beat way to go about that but thats a separate thing#the idea that peole belive the best way to end suffering is to give it to those they decide deserve it is embarassing#and makes it clear they're pro torture but they dont want to say the quiet part out loud yet#at least have the guts to be a bigot in public rather than being a coward about it#if the only way you can envision peace involved a genocide in israel then maybe you need to try again and actually try to solve the issue#if any plan to peace involves mass slaughter to remoge “the other” then youre just as bad as the people you claim to hate
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Reminder! But be aware that many Jews use the term Zionist/Zionism in a way that you do not understand it/are not familiar with! Many Jewish people who you would define as Zionists and/or people who have all the same politics as you may:
1. Call themselves Zionists because it is a term with deeply individual meanings for many Jews
2. Not call themselves Zionists, but bristle at hearing the term “Zionist” be used as a pejorative because the history of the word Zionist being used as an antisemitic dogwhistle in leftism, communist Russia, and Arab extremist organizations (and because I am Jewish and on the internet I will state explicitly that no, of course I do not think all Arabs are extremists. I do not think all Muslims are extremists. I do not tolerate Islamophobia in any way on my blog or in real life. If I see a single even somewhat questionable instance of maybe Islamophobia in any replies here, you will be blocked and reported. I am taking the time to educate about Zionism as a dogwhistle, because I have chosen to tolerate a certain amount of feedback as a Jewish person. I am neither Arab nor Muslim so it is not my place to extend an olive branch of understanding regarding Islamophobia to you nor do I have any interest in doing so. I wholeheartedly condemn anti-Arab and Islamophobic hatred. As we all should)
3. Actively call themselves anti-Zionists because they define the term Zionism in a way that includes occupation, genocide, and expulsion
4. Actively call themselves anti-Zionists but still believe that Jewish people as an ethnoreligous group are inherently indigenous to the lands around Jerusalem while ALSO considering Palestinians to be indigenous to that same land.
5. Actively call themselves anti-Zionists because they oppose the formation of any religious state whatsoever, but still believe that Jews deserve to reside where they are right now without forced expulsion.
For non-Jewish people using the term anti-Zionism, I urge you to really think about what Zionism actually means to you as a term. Like what do you think that word is? What kind of person do you think a Zionist is? What assumptions are you making in the use of that term and is it fair to expect every Jewish person to agree with that definition and why do you feel that way?
And before anyone comments on me or makes assumptions about my stance.
I do not call myself a Zionist!
I deeply oppose the current government of Israel. I had the opportunity to go on a birthright trip to Israel, and declined to go because I do not support the subjugation of Palestinians. I also chose not to go, because at the time there was a spate of bus bombings. I have family in Israel that I have never met and cannot meet because I refuse to go there out of both personal fear AND political unrest AND political/moral opposition.
I support sovereignty and equal rights and liberation and self determination for all Palestinians. I believe Palestinians are indigenous to the land.
I also believe Jewish people are indigenous to the land. Since Hadrian’s expulsion of the Jewish people from Israel/Judea in 135 and the resultant formation of Syria Palestina, there has been no place that Jews have existed that has considered them foundational parts of society or that has not expelled us. We have always been considered settlers. There is no other place in which we could even conceivably BE indigenous besides the levant. I believe that the “whiteness” of modern Jews of European descent is a product of millennia of expulsion, resettlement, and relocation. I know for a fact that PoC Jews have also REMAINED in the region since the expulsion in 135 and if they’re not indigenous to there, then who on earth is?
I believe that indigeneity does not expire. I believe that the fact that Jews sing daily prayers about their history in Israel/the levant is pretty strong evidence that Jews all over the world have never lost their connection to the region. I believe that two thousand years is a long time.
I believe that it could not matter less whether Jews or Palestinians were there “first.” What matters is the strong cultural ties BOTH cultures have to the levant. What matters is that civilians have a safe government that they can trust not to commit genocide against them. To expel them from the land of their ancestors. To banish them to settlements.
I believe colonialism is wrong. I believe imperialism is wrong. I believe there’s even more I need to learn even after living in this conflict and diaspora my entire life. I do not believe that the land that exists there right now needs to be called Israel. I only believe that there needs to be safeguards in place at a governmental level that explicitly protects the sovereignty, safety, and legitimacy of Palestinians and the Jews who live there. There must be guardrails to prevent genocide against both groups. There must be some formal institutional mechanism to ensure the safety of both parties.
I believe that none of these ideas are in conflict with one another.
Anyone telling you that the solution is straightforward is lying or has plans to harm a large number of people. You are not special. You did not invent the perfect idea that no one thought of that magically solves the issues of statelessness, fear of displacement, expulsion, or genocide. If your plan only involves helping one group without regard to the needs of the other, it is a bad plan. If you don’t believe that Jews should be expelled from Israel, is that Zionism? If you believe Jews should have self determination and representation within government that protects their interests, is that Zionism? Even if the same self determination and representation exists for Palestinians? If you are a hardcore anti-Zionist and believe that Jews do not belong in i/p at all, where do the Jews go?
Where are the Jews indigenous to that isn’t Israel? Where do they go. Europe doesn’t want us. The rest of SWANA doesn’t want us. We certainly are not indigenous to the Americas. It’s been awhile since there were expulsions from Asia (as far as I know), but they did happen there. And Asian countries have very rich indigenous histories of their own that we have no place in. The United States is increasingly violent to us and is certainly nobody’s idea of a Jewish homeland.
If your argument against Zionism is that Jews don’t belong there, where do we belong? If your argument against Zionism is that Jews don’t deserve to ever leave diaspora and should not have self determination or protection, why not us too? Again, I have no desire to go to Israel!!! I have actively rejected offers to visit Israel!!!
I don’t call this set of beliefs Zionism. I don’t believe there is a term for this set of beliefs. But someone else might disagree. And that’s the point. I’m not shaming anyone who does or does not call themselves a Zionist.
#Zionism#antizionism#anti zionism#just be aware#calling yourself antizionist#may alienate Jews who agree with every single thing you have to say#even about Israel!#because you are working with different definitions#and they don’t know if antizionism to you means that you support Palestinian liberation#or if it means you support stripping Jewish Israelis of current protections under law#or if it means you want a new state entirely#it’s not really a useful term imo#I’ll probably take this down#because the internet is allergic to nuance#and is convinced that just because some things are fundamentally wrong#like genocide and apartheid and occupation#not everything has a fundamentally and objectively correct solution#life doesn’t work that way#again#for the millionth time#I am not a Zionist#I just refuse to condemn the whole term and anyone who uses the term#based solely on one interpretation of its meaning#it is a Jewish term#why are non-jews always trying to define Jewish terms
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it's quite a dishonest framing that you say hussein was "regarding you with suspicion" baselessly even though you've publicly state on your blog how you believe zionism is an "intracommunity" discussion.
they at no point even mention that they blame you for "israel's actions". they assumed you were talking about zionism because of previous pointed statements you endorsed where you say zionism should be only discussed by jews. its not imagined, you straight up said this? and you claim that hussein is antisemitic for assuming you're saying the same thing again just with more inclusive language? And it coincided a few days after me posting that tributary post about "defining yourself as zionist or antizionist"? So he assumed that it was in relation to it? sure you might not have meant it about zionism this time, but with previous statements you've made/endorsed you don't exactly have the right to act like you have no idea why they would assume that and misconstrue this as an antisemitic attack where he's conflating zionism with judiasm when you literally agree that zionism should only be discussed by jews, which means you yourself are conflating zionism and judiasm.
but ok, i guess, they were just taking your words out of context because they're "antisemitic". I even saw this ask last month and assumed you were talking about zionism in your recent post because of this statement you published and told him privately thats what i assumed you were talking about. Not because of you being jewish. But because i remembered this statement you agreed with because i was so offended reading it. And yeah it's a really bad statement that I'll remember because of how antipalestinian it is so sorry I don't think you get to claim the moral highground???? You didn't exactly disagree with any part of this person's statements?????
And like I would have left this alone but hussein often gets called antisemitic by people you associate with and reblog from, and it really shows how little compassion you all have for Palestinians (which btw as I say over and over, we have a right to point out harmful rhetoric that impacts us) who have a "knee-jerk reaction" to these things when we quite literally see our communities call for the deaths of our friends and family by starvarion and bombing in the name of zionism and when we call it out irl we get called antisemitic. You could have like sent an ask or publicly clarified your intentions but you just jumped straight to calling him antisemitic. Which the onus of responsibility is on YOU because of your previous statements. Why would we assume you mean something different based on past experiences???
Rhetoric like "zionism is an intracommunity issue" is stuff that has literally led to death of our loved ones so of course we have "kneejerk reactions" when there is literal proof of you saying these things before. We are not doing this because you're Jewish, we are doing this because we see and experience first hand this rhetoric and youre perpetuating it blatantly and you have people who follow you who look to you for perspective on "israel/palestine". It's so disingenuous to claim he's an antisemite when he's literally finding common talking points zionists perpetuate against us and call it out. And saying "I don't support the likud government or Westbank settlers" means nothing to us because our families were expelled from palestine before likud and settlers happened. Trying to separate modern day zionism from its colonial roots from the 1800s is at its core anti-palestinian, no matter what other conversations you want to have.
Again like the only reason this matters is because people follow you and look to you for perspective AND you reblog/interact with people we have pointed out as harmful. I literally would not care enough to make this post if i didnt see your posts spread enough times around here. So it's not because you're jewish and framing it like that is really dishonest when the person pointing this out was a palestinian who lost family due to zionism throughout multiple generations of their lives.
#not making this rebloggable because i dont want this to be a big thing but like#the way this circle of people refuse to interact with ideas about palestine outside of like. standing together or#“israeli/palestinian peace groups”#just shows you guys are more concerned for your own circumstances than any actual liberation of palestine#like come on. you say zionism is an intracommunity issue and then get mad at people who “misinterpret” you#based on past statements.#like be for real#why would we care about you if none of us have seen your posts around#youre perpetuating zionist ideology and WE are the antisemites. ok.
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Hey, Jews, go block this son of a bitch.
She has openly admitted to not caring about Israeli Jews, said that October 7th was fucked but protection, said that it wasn’t the Jews land but prayed at the temple, she’s a borderline Hamas praiser, and is a massive fucking hypocrite, it’s honestly irritating.
#jewblr#jewish#antisemitism#i stand with israel#pro israel#leftists brainrot#left antisemitism#jewish tumblr#jewish tag#jewish things#go fuck yourself you antisemitic bitch#jewish blocklist#for someone who claims to care about innocent lives you said dismantle the iron dome#she is legitimately one the biggest hypocrites I’ve ever seen#says she prayed at the temple has jewish friends yet says she doesn’t care about Jewish Israelis#said she doesn’t want protection for them#she’s just a massive hypocrite I can’t even deal with it#it’s arguing with a wall.
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thank you @sunshinemage for this beautiful commission of isra, my phoenix sorcerer from DND! i love her so much T^T and all the little details that rory included!!!
#i'm so in love with her hair#and her jewelry and clothing!!#and isra's lil spell focus T^T#i'm so happy rory included the motifs they did#her expression is perfect too#ok i need to stop myself from listing every single thing about this but i just love it all#oc: isra goffe#others art
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I think gentiles are seriously in denial about how engrained Zionism is in Jewish communities. Whether you want to admit it or not, the majority of Jewish people are Zionists. Most diaspora Jews have relatives living in Israel. They’re our siblings, cousins, in many cases even our spouses. The Jewish community is small and close knit, and we all empathize with each other. That’s why October 7 was so traumatic not only for Israelis but for diaspora Jews as well. We saw our relatives stabbed, burned, and tortured while the world looked on and cheered. For non-Palestinian Gentile westerners, it’s all hypothetical. Easy to support the massacre of hundreds and call their families selfish for mourning when you have no stake in the game. But Jewish people are Human. We’re going to grieve our loss. Sorry if that’s inconvenient for you.
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Behind the scenes, American officials also believe there is limited time for Israel to try to accomplish its stated objective of taking out Hamas in its current operation before uproar over the humanitarian suffering and civilian casualties – and calls for a ceasefire – reaches a tipping point.
In fact, there is recognition within the administration that that moment may arrive quickly: Some of the president’s close advisers believe that there are only weeks, not months, until rebuffing the pressure on the US government to publicly call for a ceasefire becomes untenable, sources told CNN.
A lot of this pressure — the majority, I would wager — that Biden and US national leaders are getting is the result of people calling their reps, attending protests, writing to their newspapers and generally making themselves heard on this issue. People make a difference, and it's always worth reaching out to your legislators and telling them what you think.
Senators' info is pretty easy to find, since you've got two for every state (even DC and other non-state people have someone they can call!) but sometimes it's a little tricky remembering who your representative is, especially now with the district lines having changed up. So check your address here and then call their office — I've found more luck getting hold of an actual person at their local offices rather than the DC one, fwiw.
#deleted my previous reblog of someone else's post#because someone in the replies said 'maybe hitler had the right idea' and I just...don't need that today#plus frankly if you say 'israel is committing genocide' and then allow comments like 'jews should've gotten genocided harder'#then you terrify me and I cannot trust you on... pretty much anything#but I think this article will show people that their voices matter!#please reblog if you feel like this is something you can support—I'd love for more people to call their politicians#YOU CAN DO THIS GO GIVE PEOPLE A CALL#politics!#eta: also note the headline of this article—specifically calling it 'carnage'—reflects a more accurate depiction of the violence#that the Israeli army is inflicting on Gaza#I think a LOT of newsmedia has done a bad job of using terminology in this and other issues#(remember when nobody would write that Trump was lying despite clear proof that he was in fact lying)#but this indicates that there's more desire in the media to describe things in clearer terms#which again is progress!
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#this is the only eurovision thing I will be posting#because the situation with disqualifying a singer for a 'threatening gesture' where no one was touched and his own wishes were ignored#but not disqualifying the israeli singer for israel's genocide and also them trying to submit not one but two horrific songs#is just....#so fucking bonkers#eurovision#esc 2024#eurovision 2024#found on twitter
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just saw a post claiming ao3 is run by zionists with no links, facts, articles, or anything else to support said claim
i'm having a really bad brain fog year and i feel like search engines are getting worse and worse so does anyone know where the fuck this came from and if there's anything to it
like links to anything substantial are preferable but if you can give me an idea of what the fuck to look up that would also work
#i'm scared to tag this with the proper tags#yes i know my silly fandom website isn't important compared to genocide#lets get that out of the way first#listen....#i just want one (1) website that isn't complete and utter shit#ao3 has no ads and it has my comfort blorbos#it doesn't have to be perfect#but i would like to know#.....i mean also there's something in here like#yeah sure maybe it's run by bad people but they post a breakdown of every cent and where it goes#and i'm p sure none of the money from the donation drives is going to like#bigoted causes#or even directly to the site runners#it's a non profit innit they legit just use the money for servers and shit#idk it's just a very silly thing to be worried about#'maybe the one internet site that brings me comfort is secretly funding israeli weapons'#'despite no evidence whatsoever'#ugh
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zionists love the pinkwashing angle so much you would think israel has the most queer-friendly policies on earth but they don't even have gay marriage there
#like okay ig...#i get the strategy it's the whole we're the only democracy in the middle east it's actually just like europe here arabs are so uncivilized#we hate them even though we literally live here thing#which is like straight out of the colonizer handbook. as is everything else they do#but i mean wouldn't that be the bare minimum for the we love gay people here they hate gay people there pr campaign#and the pinkwashing works i've literally seen it from people who would be my mutuals' mutuals. this summer. just crazy#but it's not surprising that it would work on white gays or just western gays because people will do tiktoks about how they're 'illegal in#74 countries!' (idk how many it is) like they're the victims (when it's countries they'll never go to) not the actual gay people who live#there#which is just so telling#and queerness/other things like feminism being weaponized is always so frustrating you'll literally see people who hate the gays every#day of the year pretend they're gay rights activists in the name of killing palestinians. and in the name of colonialism in general#and of course even if you could get gay married there that wouldn't make it better. but you can't even do that so like. okay ig?#do you think gay israelis are effectively utilizing gay power by killing the people whose land they've been colonizing for decades#and like i say: brf slt
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actual indigenous people would not bomb meaningful historical landmarks, cut down natural resources, and generally destroy their land to make amusement parks.
israeli’s are just colonizers saying their great grandmother was a palestinian princess.
#idk if this joke will land with people outside of the usa#but it’s a common thing for white people to say their great grandma was a cherokee princess to claim they’re native#which isn’t a thing at all. they’re just white people trying to claim something that isn’t theirs#just like israeli’s do#free palestine
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Because it fucking is you idiot. It doesn't even matter whether you think people have "decided" it is, that's what it is??
Israel was only created through the genocide and displacement of Indigenous Palestinians, where they ALSO constantly encourage (specifically White) other people, especially Americans, to go move to Israel, and they keep fucking bulldozing Palestinian homes and land for new Israeli settlements. Which is the definition of a settler colonialism state. It's a state created by coloninialism & genocide of the Indigenous population that also seeks to displace them & replace them with settlers. Why do you think Israel won't let Palestinians return home, even if they lived there before?
#just because there's leftists in Israel who fight for peace & pro Palestine Israelis (which is good! good on em!)#doesn't suddenly make Israel not a settler colonial state. lel.#im Canadian & I see people apply to same dumb logic to Canada#Canada was ALSO founded by the genocide and displacement of MY people#and yeah theres Canadian run orgs that try to improve Indig ppl's lives & White Canadians who want good things for FNMI#that doesn't suddenly make Canada not a colonialist state. that doesn't make our oppression suddenly go away.
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Americans see all the money American institutions like universities and the government are sending Israel and still say ‘it’s not realistic to feed and house everyone and student loan forgiveness shouldn’t exist and healthcare shouldn’t be free’ and blah blah fucking blah
#continuously raising the budget for police departments that learn new tricks from fucking Israeli forces#fuckkkkkkkkkmkkkk#you just need to work harder and smarter and do things right#fuck you and them and this shitty society
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I think what's annoying about the refuser discourse (ie refusing to be drafted to the iof) is that one the twitter user that has every Palestinian twitter user in its blocklist is an israeli that equates Kahane to Hamas despite being well informed, and second is that iof refusers are not going to be a tipping point. There's so few of them and you would expect thousands. I remember a couple years ago on here that ppl were sharing that 50 israeli youth were rejecting the draft and I was like guys this is not reflective of the vast majority of israeli youth who are mostly right wing. So I'm not here to basically say idc when I see them refuse but israeli society is going to become increasing and increasingly more right and if the only response is the israeli "left" uniting under "there are no winners in war" banners and non violent protests and condemning both sides...I can see who's gonna win out and they already won. And so I say to maybe an israeli out there anywhere reading this... give us your launch codes 😭😭😭 smuggle us weapons and you'll get palestinian citizenship
#i think when ppl see palestinians say these things theyre immediate reaction is like 'why cant u guys see this as a good thing' why#r u guys so cynical#its more or less that i just completely dont see them as a powerful factor in palestinian liberation#i dont see them at all#what i do see is them maybe in some way in the future US regime change i genuinely see them as part of the israeli establishment
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