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Casper Van Dien in STARSHIP TROOPERS, 1997

Jesus of Nazareth: King of the Jews - Aluminum Foil Sculpture

A Lebanese couple fishing and smoking at Tyre Beach, South Lebanon.

Snoopy

my three fag hags. and yes they weave the thread of fate

Massive fuck you to everyone who is talking about Palestinians as if we’re already all dead and sharing more solidarity with our corpses than us living. “We will never forget the beautiful Palestinian people-“ how about you stop “making peace” with Palestinian extermination. My people are not going to be forgotten because we are going to live. Palestinians have already survived one genocide and have been surviving one ever since.

Do not ever let the idea that all Palestinians are going to die exist in your mind. Mourn the dead, fight like hell for the living.

The fact that I don’t have a fat hog is jarring every time I remmeber it. What happened to my penis

i should be at the club

don't care + didn't ask + you will never break the chain

You know, I used to believe that the leftist… fixation, shall we say, on Israel/Palestine was in good faith. Like, I figured the reason they talked about it so much was because they saw Israel’s lopsided military power, and how they were using it (to commit war crimes), and were rightfully horrified. It descended into antisemitism for them at times, not because they truly hated Israelis or Jews, but because they had bad rhetorical habits built into them and just didn’t realize. So of course, I was of the very firm belief that in the event of an attack like the one on Israel, leftists would condemn it as horrific, since their problem wasn’t Israelis themselves, but how Israel was perpetuating the conflict with their disproportionate military power and committing human rights violations. I truly believed they would never cheer on those doing the same to Israeli civilians—because the war crimes were their problem, not the Jews.

And, um, yeah. I was wrong.

yeah i think a lot of people are very ignorant and just repeat what they hear, or they’re afraid of backlash from their peers, but there are absolutely leftists who just straight up fucking hate jews and intentionally use israel as an outlet for that hatred. and unfortunately those are the ones who are the loudest, so they are the ones who are having their words repeated by people who are ignorant, and they are the ones people are afraid of backlash from. being a jewish leftist has been absolutely miserable this past week. and it was already pretty fucking miserable.

a lot of leftists have this idea about ‘the revolution’ in their heads and toppling the state or the bourgeoisie or whatever material conditions or people in power their particular brand of leftism characterizes as the enemy, and that group sometimes ends up being ever expanding to include anyone who doesn’t believe the exact same things they do, anyone who isn’t just like them. it’s poorly disguised tribalism, and in this case it’s also working with preexisting antisemitic bias.

and once a person sees someone as the enemy - Israelis, including civilians, including anti-zionist Israelis and children - they stop seeing them as human. after that point, nothing’s off limits.

This is why historically, so many revolutions end up being just as bloody and repressive as the regimes they toppled. It happened in France, it happened in Russia, and it’s really disheartening to see self-described “revolutionary leftists” fail to even passingly consider that maybe, just maybe, if a successful “Revolution” is their goal, they should study history and try to not repeat its very obvious and predictable mistakes???

So many big leftist and anarchist blogs have revealed themselves in the last week to just be run-of-the-mill reactionaries cosplaying la revolución.

And the way they project their violent fantasies onto Middle East countries with which they have no personal connection really highlights the unexamined imperialism underlying all their beliefs.

Eating without youtube is the new jacking off imagination only. Annnd post

don't loose hope, there is love in life, there is community. people are coming together to protest all over the world, people are finding solidarity with each other even among the horror, people want to help. over the course of hours i saw hundreds come together from all over the world online to buy e-sim cards for the gaza reporters (they've succeeded in getting internet access to key online press reporters and are working to connect more), i've seen stories of people coming together in their grief and joy. despite the darkness there really is love. and i do believe that it is fundamental to the human condition.

Palestinians prepare food for the displaced families in the south of Gaza Strip. 10-28-2023

People ask about why Jews wanted to "take Israel" or "steal Israel." They don't want to discuss why Israel was created.

Let's review some history.

Hitler made it really clear that Jews weren't welcome in Germany and were going to be killed. I know your school likely told you that other countries didn't know about the Holocaust, and they might not have known about the experimentation and mass starvation, but they knew about the ethnic cleansing. In the 1930s, loads of Jews were fleeing Germany and the countries it invaded (most notably, Austria).

This lead to the Evian Conference.

32 countries met together in Evian to discuss the refugee crisis. How many were willing to take in Jews? Guess.

The answer is one.

That country was the Dominican Republic, under Rafael Trujillo. Trujillo was a brutal dictator and racist who wanted to make the DR as white as possible. Adding European Jews to the mix would make the Dominican Republic whiter. He didn't offer out of altruism (frankly, I don't think Trujillo was capable of altruism). He offered because he was a racist madman trying to ethnically cleanse his own people and get rid of Black Dominicans.

If you thought the US was taking in Jewish refugees, you're dead wrong.

The US has the Statue of Liberty, which has the words "give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free" written on it. Who wrote that verse? Emma Lazarus, a Jewish woman. But did the US follow up on that promise? Did we accept the huddled masses of Jews who wanted to escape execution? No. We didn't.

In 1939, Congress proposed a bill that would allow children to skip the immigration process and become refugees. Children, kids under 14. They would arrive as orphans, but at least they'd be alive, right? Wrong. The bill was defeated.

The US turned ships full of refugees away. Those refugees couldn't disembark anywhere and they were sent back. They died if they returned to Germany. The St. Louis tried to dock in Cuba, then the US, then Canada. They were forced to return to Germany, resulting in the deaths of 254 people out of the 937. That means that nearly three of every ten passengers was murdered.

In 1939, Great Britain controlled Palestine. Did they offer to send Jews there? No. They made immigration to Palestine a crime. People who tried to flee the Holocaust were imprisoned.

People act like Jews can just pack up and go, but no one wants us. No one has ever wanted Jews in their country.

Israel exists largely because gentiles in Nazi-occupied areas had moved into Jewish homes and stolen their possessions. Jews couldn't return to their native country. Israel was the only option.

Yes, the Nakba was terrible. Yes, it should not have happened and the ethnic cleansing that followed was wrong. The treatment of Palestinians today is wrong. But Israel exists because there was nowhere else for millions of people displaced by the Holocaust. Israel exists because the great powers of the world--the US, the UK, France, China, Russia, Canada, etc.--wouldn't protect refugees.

Do not forget the history that got us here

You can and should condemn the government of Israel without resorting to historical revisionism.