#When there's also massive amounts of misinfo that also conveniently creates black and white narratives

[vamptastic]

Hey so I doubt anybody cares about this given that my blog has like, 50 followers and half of them are inactive or old friends, but if anybody's been wondering why I have so few posts on here about Israel compared to other political issues it's because I'm not putting anything on here that isn't credibly sourced. I noticed quite a few posts containing misconceptions and some straight up hoaxes early on and I've just really not noticed anybody start to think more critically since then, so I'm just not posting anything unless I can take the time to verify it.

I think a large part of this is just that I'm on the English side of the internet and most people are not able to read Hebrew and Arabic so there's just going to be more misinformation than American current events. But ngl, there's been some stuff that I really can't understand why anybody would not immediately flag as a hoax unless motivated by anti-Arab racism or antisemitism of the conspiratorial variety.

Also I just have complicated feelings because I grew up very involved with Judaism and my first Rabbi was a hardcore Israeli Zionist, and I also spent a lot of time at Chabad which was also quite Zionist. So while from a logical & moral standpoint I am, as far as I can tell, quite anti-Zionist, there's just some personal feelings in the mix that are hard to let go of. So I'd rather not invite conversation unless it's with people I trust to be understanding because I grew up with an extremely biased view on this and there might be some ideas I still hold without realizing they're motivated by my upbringing and not the reality of the situation.

Again, I can say with 100% certainty that Israel's actions since October 7th have been reprehensible and that it is their actions in the years before that led things to this point, and that I wish Israel had at the very least not had such heavy British colonial influence in its' founding, if it was ever possible to found a morally good Jewish state in the first place.

#uh if you absolutely most know my exact opinion on things to follow me you're always free to message me #I just don't want other people's posts on here unless it's literally just a link to an article that I can go read & verify #After that whole Israeli troops are stealing Palestinians organs things I am just kind of. Not very trustful anymore #Or all the nonsense about Palestinians IQs or stuff about beheading babies that as far as I can tell is totally unfounded #Or the all the Jews need to go to Europe/New York/Just kill them all stuff #Just. There's a lot of random Americans with zero stake in this saying fucking whatever online #And when you've positioned everything as like. You need to have an opinion on this or you're a bad person #When there's also massive amounts of misinfo that also conveniently creates black and white narratives #It's just. Not a good combination! And a lot of well intentioned but ill informed people will blindly fall for it #So just. Trying to stick to stuff that I know can actually directly help people