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"Today marks one year since the death of the People’s Bubbie Shatzi Weisberger. Before she passed, she said, “I’ll fight like hell for a free Palestine until the day I die. Then I’ll keep fighting. Your queer ancestor is with you.”
If you’ve been rising up in solidarity with Palestine these past two months, your queer ancestor is indeed with you, along with countless other antizionist Jewish ancestors. For many, family and community rifts may be especially painful right now. No matter what, you are not alone. Remember that you have a long lineage of elders and ancestors at your back.
Last night, Israel resumed its brutal bombing of Gaza and has already killed dozens of people. Shatzi would encourage all of us to do everything we can right now for a permanent, lasting ceasefire. To mourn the dead and fight like hell for the living.
Shatzi died on World AIDS Day, which was b’sheret ("destined”) because in addition to being a lifelong organizer, she was a nurse for 47 years who cared for people living and dying with AIDS.
From ACT UP’s organizing to end AIDS to the movement for Palestinian freedom, we honor the ancestors and movements who made us possible."
We will be forever grateful to the ancestors who paved the path before us. May their memories fuel us to work towards freedom for all people — no exceptions."
Other people have said this more eloquently than I have and will continue to do so, but, on the off chance that my small smattering of followers might need to see it said from someone else (and are sick of the pity party I've been throwing because of my latest breakdown), I thought I'd share my thoughts.
First off, let's get the annoying argument out of the way: I don't hate Jewish people. I don't hate Judaism. I'm not going to throw some garbage in here about how I have Jewish family and friends or that some of my favorite celebrities are Jewish or anything that white (or white passing, in my case) people tend to use as a reason why they can't hate a certain group. I don't hate the people, their race, or their religion because they're people, full stop. I feel the same way about Muslims and Islam, Christianity (if not all Christians, but, as a Christian, I feel I'm allowed to say this), atheists, agnostics, people of all religious beliefs and non-beliefs.
Likewise, I don't deny the Holocaust. I fully acknowledge the systematic murder of more than 17 million people (military included), over 6 million of whom were Jewish and killed specifically for being Jewish. The fact that this was allowed to happen will never not be a blight on humanity, and the fact that anti-semitism is still a problem that leads to the murders of Jewish people and Jewish allies harrows me to my core.
None of this, however, has anything to do with Israel, nor does it serve as an excuse for what Israel is currently doing to Palestine and has done since 1948. To repeat the phrase I've seen most frequently about this matter, "Surviving one genocide doesn't give you the right to commit another."
Another factor: Israel would not exist without the Allied Forces of World War II. What England (because I refuse to lump in the rest of Britain with this abhorrent decision) and America did was take a deeply traumatized people who had narrowly "escaped" -- if you can even call it that -- the largest genocide the modern world has ever seen (I know Wikipedia isn't the most reputable source, but the sources used in this entry are good, and it's just easier to link there than list each of those stats individually) and shove them off onto a separate continent. Instead of owning the choices that we (America, especially) made to allow this genocide to happen and actually trying to make reparations for it, to tell the remaining Jewish population, "You can return to your actual homes, your actual home countries, and we're going to do everything possible to make those places feel like home for you once again," we said, "Actually, it's really awkward if you're still here and we have to be reminded of what we did to you, so we're sending you somewhere else. Good luck!" That the "somewhere else" happened to be the the Jewish Holy Land is irrelevant. Especially considering that Jewish people were already living there and had been for upwards of 2000 years of recorded history.
But even that isn't fully accurate, because Holocaust survivors aren't the ones doing this. More often, Holocaust survivors are also victims of Israel.
Jewish people have more than enough justification to be afraid. They have equal justification to want a safe space where they can be Jewish however they want. They have a deep connection to the part of the Middle East in which Israel sits, as do Muslims, Christians, and many other world religions, and they should feel safe and respected in traveling to or living in that part of the world.
And none of this justifies Israel's existence as a state or the continued murder of thousands and thousands of innocent Palestinians.
While America is distracted with who Taylor Swift is sitting next to and watching zionist paid commercials, Israel is busy bombing 1.6 million people in Rafah.
Just so everyone understands: these are displaced civilians with absolutely NO WHERE to go.
And Israel has given them 2 options: Be ethnically cleansed or die.
It's so fucking annoying that every time people advocate for Palestinians, we have to emphasise we're not being anti-semitic because of how white supremacists co-opt anti-Israel sentiment as anti-semitism (including zionists themselves). we will literally say an objective fact like, "Israeli defence forces have killed 100s of Palestinian families and that's a war crime" and motherfuckers with 10 brain cells in their entire gene pool will accuse you of hating Jewish people when a) there are Palestinian Jewish people killed and dispossessed by Israel and b) Israel is not and never has been supported by all Jewish people. I'm just no longer arguing with or educating grown tax paying adults who have fallen for Zionist and white supremacist rhetoric. I'm refusing to accommodate assholes who actually believe that advocating for a group of people with next to no water, food, safe housing, military, or electricity living in a slaughterhouse to be free is somehow oppressing anyone. Grow the fuck up. Advocating for the human rights of one oppressed group is not an adversarial action. This is real life, not tumblr in the mid 2010s.
since you care about terrorists so much how about you go to palestine and see just how nice they are to jews, you know, the people they collectively blame for their suffering
Hmm. Interesting. Palestinians we’ve spoken to blame the State, and the complicit countries like the US, for their suffering. However, Zionist Israel plasters Jewish symbology all over their war crimes… Do you see how Zionism is the biggest threat to the Jewish people, when it commits atrocities as such in our name? A Palestinian disliking the sight of Hebrew or the Magen David does not even touch upon the antisemitism caused by the Zionist project itself. A Palestinian being resentful towards a Jew for the actions committed in our name doesn’t even hold weight against the rising Nazi movements in America and Europe.
I’d love to go to Palestine. The Holy Land. It would be the greatest honour to walk alongside Muslim, Druze, Catholic brothers and sisters in a liberated Palestine.
For Jews to be liberated, we must liberate Palestine first.
The UN's Official Mission report on Hamas' Sexual Violence in Israel was published
Please take your time to read this.
Israeli \ Jewish victims deserve the same protection as any other women.
The brief version can be read here.
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***I am not going to include any graphic detailing.
The pattern of Sexual Violence used by Hamas is very clear:
It was one of their key goals and tactics on October 7th.
You cannot say "Female Hostages are treated well. you're lying by saying they're raped" anymore!
Notice how they also said **Children**
Civilians were in fact burned inside their homes
This is also clearly a pattern used by Hamas, as this is just one of many examples they detail.
-Hamas has also burned soldiers alive in their dorms and offices. That is also further detailed in the report.
This is not fake or propaganda
I can't believe I have to write this but this report is an official report (finally) made by the UN's Sexual Violence Office, as part of their yearly report.
They had a 2-week delegation that toured the actual Kibbutzim (turned crime scenes), interviewed eyewitnesses, spoke to families of victims, etc...
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I do have to say I was mistaken in my earlier post, besides their conclusion, they have also written their recommendations:
...." V. Conclusions
Overall, based on the totality of information gathered from multiple and independent
sources at the different locations, there are reasonable grounds to believe that conflict-related
sexual violence occurred at several locations across the Gaza periphery, including in the form of
rape and gang rape, during the 7 October 2023 attacks. Credible circumstantial information,
which may be indicative of some forms of sexual violence, including genital mutilation,
sexualized torture, or cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment, was also gathered.
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With regards to the hostages, the mission team found clear and convincing information
that some hostages taken to Gaza have been subjected to various forms of conflict-related sexual
violence and has reasonable grounds to believe that such violence may be ongoing.
The mission team was unable to establish the prevalence of sexual violence and
concludes that the overall magnitude, scope, and specific attribution of these violations would
require a fully-fledged investigation. A comprehensive investigation would enable the
information base to be expanded in locations which the mission team was not able to visit and to
build the required trust with survivors/victims of conflict-related sexual violence who may be
reluctant to come forward at this point.
Regarding the occupied Palestinian Territory, while its scope did not extend to
verification, the mission team received information from institutional and civil society sources as
well as through direct interviews, about some forms of sexual violence against Palestinian men
and women in detention settings, during house raids and at checkpoints. Though the mission
team did not visit Gaza, the Office of the SRSG-SVC will continue to monitor the situation for
any relevant allegations of CRSV in the context of the ongoing hostilities. The relevant UN
entities present in the occupied Palestinian Territory will provide UN-verified information for
reporting to the Security Council on allegations of CRSV, which will be complemented by the
information obtained by the mission team.
VI. Recommendations
The mission team makes the following recommendations:
a) Continue to encourage the Government of Israeli to grant, without further delay, access to
the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights and the Independent
International Commission of Inquiry on the occupied Palestinian Territory, including East
Jerusalem and Israel, to carry-out fully-fledged investigations into all alleged violations
that would deepen the preliminary findings contained in the present report.
b) Urge Hamas and other armed groups to immediately and unconditionally release all
individuals held in captivity and to ensure their protection including from sexual violence,
in line with international law.
c) Call on all relevant and competent bodies, national and international, to bring all
perpetrators, regardless of rank or affiliation, to justice based on individual, superior and
command responsibility, in accordance with due process of law and fair trial standards.
d) Encourage the Government of Israel to consider signing a Framework of Cooperation
with the Office of the SRSG-SVC to strengthen capacity on justice and accountability for
CRSV crimes as well as security sector engagement, training, and oversight to prevent
and address CRSV.
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e) Strengthen the capacity of the United Nations to monitor and report on incidents, patterns
and trends of CRSV in both Israel and the occupied Palestinian Territory through the
establishment of the Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Arrangements on CRSV
(MARA), convened by dedicated technical specialists, namely Women’s Protection
Advisors (WPAs), deployed to the region to ensure prevention, protection and
coordinated multi-sectoral assistance to survivors/victims.
f) Encourage relevant actors to uphold information integrity and ethical, trauma-informed
representations of conflict-related sexual violence, including by respecting and
safeguarding the dignity and identity of survivors/victims and witnesses of sexual
violence, as sensationalizing headlines, media pressure and scrutiny, exposure of identity,
political instrumentalization and pressure, and/or fear of reprisal can result in the
suppression, silencing and discrediting of survivors/victims and witnesses, further
compound trauma and increase the risk of social stigmatization.
g) Urge all parties to the conflict to adopt a humanitarian ceasefire, and to ensure that
expertise on addressing conflict-related sexual violence informs the design and
implementation of all ceasefire and political agreements and that the voices of women
and affected communities are heard in all conflict resolution and peacebuilding processes....."
Israelis have been repeatedly saying all of this for months now, while you deny it. I've personally had people tell me it's all "fake propaganda". You should all be ashamed.
I am infuriated at the fact that for 5 months, our evidence and word isn't enough for Anti-Zionists. Here is some undeniable proof for you.