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thegaycousin-upgrade · 21 days

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What was the point if listening to Safehouse II for the 40th time still makes me cry? WHAT WAS THE POINT?!?

Man, the voice actors really did NOT pull their punches for this episode, huh? (Pun not intended)

#the bright sessions #podcast #joan bright #sam barnes #caleb michaels #chloe turner #damien gorham #adam hayes #frank sawyer #lauren shippen #fuck you #/j #i’m sad now #because Alex Gallner #saying #‘You're that guy’#already got me #again

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thegaycousin-upgrade · 1 month

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I was relistening to The Bright Sessions and Adam’s FIRST LINE on the whole show is “what the FUCK is that supposed to mean” ICONIC! That’s iconic as hell. Also him going “oh well that’s good” after Caleb says he likes him.

Adam is gold. The green boys are gold. This episode is gold. This season is gold. The bright sessions is gold. The atypical universe is gold. Lauren Shippen is gold. I love it here.

#the bright sessions #caleb michaels #atypical artists #adam hayes #green boys #lgbtqia #I would give them the world #the college tapes

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thegaycousin-upgrade · 3 months

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Disappearing of political tumblr bc it’s bad for my mental health lol

#peace

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thegaycousin-upgrade · 4 months

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#hallelujah #Lenard cohen #american pie #don mclean #take me to church #hozier #hallelujah is a Jewish song #stop changing the lyrics #to make it Christian #music #meme

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thegaycousin-upgrade · 4 months

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Reminder that while war is doomed to be accompanied by tragedy, the loss is still tragic.

I mourn every Israeli who was killed

I mourn every Israeli who was kidnapped

I mourn every Israeli the was r@ped

I mourn every Israeli who lived and lives in fear

I mourn every Israeli who lost someone close to them.

I mourn every innocent Palestinian who was killed.

I mourn every innocent Palestinian who did not get the help they needed.

I mourn every Palestinian who felt unsafe and still does.

I mourn every Palestinian who lost a loved one.

I mourn every Jew who lost the feeling of safety due to a rise in antisemitism

I mourn every Arab who lost the feeling of safety due to a rise in Islamophobia.

I mourn every loss that came from this war, and is yet to come. Whether they were inevitable or unnecessary, they were a loss.

I mourn each one deeply.

If you see someone mourning online, do not comment harsh or contradictory comments. No matter the reason the loss is tragic, and on either side denying it does no good.

May the memory of all innocent people be a blessing.

You needn’t be on my side for me to mourn for you.

#may their memory be a blessing #israel #fuck hamas #fuck netanyahu #fuck antisemitism #fuck islamophobia #free palestine from hamas #jewish #jewblr #hostages

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thegaycousin-upgrade · 4 months

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Let’s start off 2024 with correct information

Me: I don’t deny your identity. I acknowledge Palestinians exist today.

Them: Jesus was a Palestinian, not a Jew!

Me: Well, no - he was a Jewish rabbi. He had a bris, kept Shabbat, kept kosher, & his “Last Supper” was a Passover Seder. Besides, nobody would be called “Palestinian” for ~1,900 years after #Jesus died.

Them: Jews are #Khazars with no history in Palestine!

Me: Well, no - millions of DNA samples have now scientifically proven that Ashkenazi Jews (like their Sephardi & Mizrahi brothers & sisters) originate from the Levant (Israel).

Ashkenazi Jews migrated to the Rhineland (western #Germany) between 800-900 CE.

#Yiddish - the language spoken by #Ashkenazi Jews for a millennia - is a mixture of Jews’ original Hebrew & adopted #German.

Meanwhile, there is no evidence of any Khazar influence on Ashkenazi customs, language, or culture.

The #Khazar tale (claiming some or many Turkic Khazars converted to #Judaism), while interesting, is not supported by any archeological evidence, and can be considered nothing more than a story.

Besides, it’s unassailable that the Ashkenazim were living ~1,500 miles from the Khazars, which may as well have been on the moon in the Middle Ages.

Them: Palestinians are Canaanites, the original inhabitants of the Land!

Me: Well, no - there’s zero evidence the Palestinians are Canaanites. This theory followed other similarly false claims over the past several decades that the Palestinians descend from the Philistines (an ancient Aegean Greek “sea people”) and even the Jebusites - a people for whom there is no evidence outside of the Bible of their having ever existed (if they did, they have been gone for at least 3,000 years).

One thing is clear, all of these recent tall tales about Palestinians’ ancient roots in “Palestine” were created in an attempt to delegitimize the State of Israel & not as some academic attempt to find Palestinian roots.

The #Canaanites (who spoke a language similar to #Hebrew, not #Arabic) have been extinct for more than 3,000 years; and there are no #Canaanite influences in any modern Palestinian language, culture, cuisine, customs, or religion.

Furthermore, DNA studies now prove Canaanites are closest in descension to modern-day Armenians & Western Iranians - but, culturally, there has not been a “Canaanite” people in ~3,000 years.

Meanwhile, there is a practically infinite amount of archeological, biblical & non-biblical text, and architectural evidence proving beyond any doubt that Jews lived in the Land of Israel continuously for more than 3,200 years.

Arabs only started arriving in Eretz Israel in significant numbers during the Arab Imperial conquest out of the deserts of the Arabian Peninsula in the mid 7th century CE when the Land was still majority-occupied by ~350,000 Jews.

Arab conquerers #colonized the Land of Israel & subjugated the Jewish majority.

That’s right, the Arabs were the #colonizers - this is historical fact no matter how much that might make your head hurt.

Them: The Jews are foreigners who stole Palestinian land!

Me: Ok, now you’ve officially ticked me off by repeatedly denying MY identity - one that was OBVIOUS to everyone before the last ~55 years when KGB-inspired propaganda went into mass effect in an effort to delegitimize Israel.

Can’t say the same about your identity … even though I keep trying to offer to respect it!

The Arabs only ruled Eretz Israel after conquering it in the 7th century & until they were kicked out by the Seljuks ~400 years later. Never during that time, did they even attempt to establish an Arab or #Muslim state or capital anywhere in Eretz Israel (Jerusalem is never mentioned in the Koran, and while the city is holy to Sunni Muslims, it is not holy to Shia Muslims).

And during the time of Arab rule, there was obviously no state or country called “Palestine.”

Then, during the 400 years before the start of the British Mandate around 1920, the Land was a distant & severely neglected province of the Ottoman #Turkish Empire.

In fact, in the late 19th century, as Jews began moving back to their homeland in larger numbers, there were only ~200,000 people living there (mostly a sparse, nomadic population), and Jews were the majority in #Jerusalem.

Post-WWI, the League of Nations (the precursor to the UN) legally granted Britain a "sacred trust" called the Mandate for Palestine (a name given to the land by Roman Emperor Hadrian in 135 CE).

The Mandate for Palestine was the least controversial of the 15 post-WWI mandates because everyone KNEW Jews were from “Palestine.”

So the Mandate for Palestine, which included the legal requirement for Britain to aid in the establishment of a Jewish National Home, passed unanimously by the League of Nations.

Among other things, the unanimously passed & legally-binding Mandate recognized “the historical connection of the Jewish people with Palestine and to the grounds for reconstituting their national home in that country.”

Besides, before the Jews started returning to the Land in large numbers in the late 19th century, it had become almost entirely war-torn ruins, arid desert & malarial swamps.

But the returning Jews were determined to rebuild their homeland; and the evidence is undeniable that Jewish labor & the Western technology they brought along helped to make the desert bloom again.

The result of a new booming economy in the midst of mostly rural, undeveloped land is no surprise; and hundreds of thousands of Arabs from neighboring lands immigrated to Mandate Palestine in the early to mid 20th century.

In fact, once Arabs began to rebel against the Jews (with pogroms & full-blown barbaric massacres on a particularly wide scale in 1920, 1921, 1929, and in 1936-1939), they made extremely clear to the British that they resented the name “Palestine,” which they claimed (incorrectly) was a modern Zionist invention.

For example, at the British Peel Commission in 1937 (looking into Arab riots from the year before), local Arab leader Audi Bey Abdul-Hadi testified that “[t]here is no such country [as Palestine]! Palestine is a term the Zionists invented!”

Again, during the 1946 Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry that was set-up to make recommendations for the territory, Arab-American historian Philip Hitti testified, “There is no such thing as Palestine in [Arab] history, absolutely not.”

The Arab position was not particularly surprising, as "Palestine” is not an Arab word (Arabic does not even have a letter “P” or a sound for “P,” which is why you often hear Arabs today pronounce it with a “B” as “Balastine”).

The Arabs in the Land at that time mostly identified with their local clan & otherwise considered themselves “Arabs” of “Southern Syria.”

In fact, just about anyone who was called a “Palestinian” pre-1948 was a #Jew.

This is why nobody made any attempt to create a “Palestinian state” during the 19 years between 1948 and 1967 in which #Egypt occupied #Gaza & #Jordan occupied the “#WestBank.”

The hard truth - even though I’m still acknowledging a #Palestinian people exists today - is that an Arab “Palestinian” identity was created for the first time in any signifiant way at the height of the Cold War in the mid-1960s & at the behest of the #Soviet#KGB, which wanted to expand its influence in the region, undermine the only democracy in the Middle East, and which had been repeatedly embarrassed by Israeli victories over invading Soviet-backed & Soviet-armed Arab states.

So the KGB wrote the ridiculous “Palestine Liberation Organization” (PLO) charter & molded Yasser Arafat at what was known as “KGB U” in #Moscow to use #terror & #propaganda to destabilize Israel.

Over the decades since then, many Arabs in the Land have come to self-identify as “Palestinians.”

Even among Palestinians today, however, many still identify with their clan over a separate “Palestinian” nationality (e.g., the clans do not intermarry & many are constantly engaged in some degree of violent conflict).

And the 2 million+ Arabs citizens of the State of Israel (who have equal protection under the law & more rights & privileges than they would have in any Arab and/or Muslim country on Earth) almost exclusively identify as either #Israeli-#Arabs or as simply #Israelis - not as #Palestinians.

Them: #Jews … I mean #Zionists … are bad, ok? Just ask the UN.

Me: Right. Just ask the #UN

Captain Allen

@CptAllenHistory

#israel #education #palestine #hamas is isis #fuck hamas #i stand with israel #pro israel #jewish #jumblr #israel support #jews are native to israel #israel is not the enemy #Arab colonization

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thegaycousin-upgrade · 4 months

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My new year’s resolution is to stop arguing with antisemites who I know won’t listen because it wastes my energy and I don’t owe them anything.

#new year #new years #new years resolution #new years eve #2024 #israel #jewish #jewblr #antisemitism #i stand with israel #fuck hamas #jews are native to israel #pro israel

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thegaycousin-upgrade · 4 months

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Thinking about Falsettos.

⚠️spoilers⚠️

Crying.

Not actually about Whizzers death, obviously that is so tragic but I’m thinking about Jason.

This poor boy, y’all ready?

1st things first, Parents have a messy ass divorce, dad is gay, both parents are having breakdowns.

Dad’s boyfriend and he have a great relationship and stuff right, but since the kid is already going through a lot he is acting strange so Psychiatrist comes to house.

Psychiatrist is unhelpful, psychiatrist proposes to mom. Dad and boyfriend break up. Poor kid.

His dad comes to his mom’s house to yell at her and he witnesses his father hit his mother. His whole life is already messy.

He and his dad have sincere talk right?

So basically we get two years of relative peace.

Then we’ve got parents arguing about his Bar Mitzvah, which sucks, because it’s supposed to be his happy special day, but now people are all arguing about it!

Dad and boyfriend get back together!

Boyfriend gets sick, it’s bad.

This person who Jason considered a friend who cared about him in tough times. Might I remind you this child is like 13?

He visits Boyfriend in Hospital, and everyone is pretending he’s ok, but Jason can’t.

Now it’s all on and about him, does he want the Bar Mitzvah or want to cancel it, this is a lot of pressure for small child, who is already grieving his friend.

Boyfriend’s situation becomes much worse, he is dying, Jason begins to turn to G-d for this, because everything is falling apart.

He learns is dad is also sick and will likely also die, what does he do now?

Boyfriend accepts his death will come.

Than Jason does arguably the most selfless act in the show. He has his Bar Mitzvah at Whizzers hospital room.

The entire “Jason’s Bar Mitzvah” song is actually so tragic and touching, especially all the touches in the show I-

Anyway, Boyfriend dies.

After the show ends so does his dad.

This kid goes through it and he needs more hugs.

#falsettos #jason falsettos #whizzer brown #whizzer falsettos #marvin falsettos #trina falsettos #cordelia falsettos #charlotte falsettos #falsettos is so sad #stop im crying #my baby #four Jews in a room bitching #Jason’s bar mitzvah

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thegaycousin-upgrade · 4 months

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Scared, mad, and powerless

Jumblr, how are we feeling?

I am feeling so tired.

#jumblr #jewblr #i stand with israel #israel #pro israel #jewish #antisemitism

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thegaycousin-upgrade · 4 months

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Me: *opens tumblr, sees like ten posts about how Netanyahu is worse than Hitler, how Israel is nazi Germany 2.0, how Zionists are Nazis, and about how all Israel news is propaganda and Hamas news isn’t*

Holy shit.

First things first, Jews literally CANNOT BE NAZIS. Nazis we’re about killing a religious group, the Jews, how do you not understand that Jews can’t be nazis

Also, if you try to say that Zionism doesn’t equate to Jews, google the definition.

Also, secondly, people saying Netanyahu is worse than Hitler, what the fuck.

I don’t support Netanyahu in general, but to call him WORSE THAN HITLER???

Hitler killed 6 million Jews, there is so little worse than that.

Netanyahu isn’t a good leader. But he is not going out of his way to murder innocent people, he is protecting Israel. I am aware innocent people have died on both sides and it is horrible. But the innocent people dead on the Palestinian side, while horrible that they died, were casualties.

The innocent Israelis killed, were intentionally MURDERED by a fucking terrorist group.

If you compare anything going on right now to the holocaust, you’re antisemitic. Say you hate Jews, but don’t claim to be anti-nazi when you’re clearly antisemitic.

#am yisrael chai #israel #hamas is isis #fuck hamas #i stand with israel #pro israel #jewish #jewblr #antisemitism #jews are native to israel #benjamin netanyahu #nazi #tw holocaust #tw antisemitism #antizionism is antisemitism

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thegaycousin-upgrade · 4 months

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Imagine you replace the word “Jew”, with any other marginalised group…

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thegaycousin-upgrade · 5 months

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#hanukkah #hanukah #chanukkah #chanukah #spelling #jewblr #jewish #judaism

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thegaycousin-upgrade · 5 months

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חג שמח!

Enjoy this holiday which commemorates when the Jews fought back against the Greeks and won despite all odds. The won because they knew the land. Their land. Israel.

This battle has been proven.

The Jews are indigenous to Israel. A great miracle happened there, I have no doubt it will again.

Happy first night of Hanukkah

#happy hanukkah #happy Chanukah #jewish #judaism #how the fuck do you spell Hanukkah #holiday #winter #happy holidays #jews are native to israel #israel

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thegaycousin-upgrade · 5 months

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I’ve had a good day! Mental health check in, how are you today?

#mental health #how are you #support #queer jews

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thegaycousin-upgrade · 5 months

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I know I’m a little late but I’m so thrilled that Emily Hand was one released among the hostages.

There is obviously still so many still suffering in Hamas captivity, but progress is being made!

Emily Hand is an 8 year old Irish-Israeli.

She is a child of divorced parents.

She loved dancing and singing on her Kibbutz and was a HUGE Beyoncé fan.

She is being held captive by Hamas currently.

She was believed to be dead until recently her family was informed that she is being held captive.

She is going to spend this Friday, her 9th birthday, being held hostage.

She had last spoke to her half sister Natali Hand by a video call, Natali said, “She told me she [didn’t] want to die. Her friend’s house is getting burned, and she was asking me why I didn’t take her to Australia.”