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It’s maddening to find out that the scholar who first developed the idea that “Zionism is Settler Colonialism”, Fayez Sayegh, was a member of the Syrian Nazi Party during and immediately after the Holocaust, was an active participant in the Red Scare, using it to demonize Israel as a manifestation of a Global Communist Threat™️ through the height of the Cold War (true to his Nazi roots, accusing Israel of Judeo-Bolshevism) before switching to a Colonialism narrative when Post-Colonialism came in vogue in the 60s. And yet, the people I hear parroting the talking points of this anti-Communist, Ultranationalist Fascist-turned-scholar are the people who are constantly talking about how Liberal Progressives aren’t Communist enough and actually enemies because “Liberals will always side with Fascists”. Maddening.

If you’ve ever noticed how the “Zionism = Settler Colonialism” narrative eerily shares the core components of the far right’s Replacement Theory (that there are 1. Jews 2. conspiring to invade a given place and 3. replace the population with Jews), this is why; it’s because the idea that Zionism is Settler Colonialism came from a literal Nazi.

It is very literally Nazi propaganda.

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Antisemitism on college campuses

You know what's not going to free Palestine?

-Barricading Jewish students from entering certain buildings, ordering them to stay indoors during one of our biggest holidays. -chanting antisemitic slogans and slurs. -Harassing and physically attacking Jews. It's literally Nazi behaviour.

The last few days have been terrifying for Jews across the world, and these instances shouldn't be ignored.Imagine any other minority group being treated like this.

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I'm still a filthy wez/Goldie shipper

What happened to everyone else who likes golden gaytime??? I miss y'all

#mad max #road warrior #golden gaytime

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This, ladies, gentlemen, and all those in between, is a rainbow golden gaytime a.k.a. “an even gayer time.”

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Goddammit Australia

it's honestly a wonder how anyone who grew up in Australia is straight when we have snacks with taglines like

we never stood a chance

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source

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finished up this self portrait (yes, of course i’m an eldritch deity irl) 🦍🐉

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There should be a fanfic writing game called the showrunners challenge where someone writes a story and partway through someone else can play things like "actor leaves after 4000 more words" or "topic now too politically sensitive due to unforeseen world events" or "lost rights to that reference"

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Due to a protest at my college, Hillel had to move tonight’s Seder to a secret location and have barred last-minute registrations.

I signed up in time to go, but I’m disappointed that some people who want to go may not be able to. I really wish this was an event that could be more open to students who may have been on the fence about going.

The fact that Hillel has to hide the location of a Passover Seder is horrifying to me.

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It cannot be stressed enough that Israel is the ONLY country "Leftists" feel comfortable talking about this way.

No support for anti-war and anti-government protests on the ground (you know, the protests that might actually make a difference)

No empathy for or solidarity with civilian victims (only when it comes to Israeli civilians are you going to hear self-described Feminists and Leftists explain why rape is fine, actually)

No understanding of the difference between the state and its' citizens (or even the Jewish people, generally)

No desire to actually learn about the history of the region and conflict comprehensively (the expulsion of over 700,000 Palestinians during the Nakba was horrific, and a crime that needs to be addressed. Out of curiosity, what was happening to the 800,000-1,000,000 Jews living in the surrounding Arab nations around then?)

All understanding of complexity and nuance? Of the concerns of minority, queer, disabled, and other vulnerable populations with the country? It's all out the window. It's all just one big Evil Zionist Entity.

This is how even accurate criticisms and condemnations of Israel can end up being antisemitic. You are viewing the Israeli state through a lens that you hold to no other nation-state on Earth. (and then holding random Jews to account for that).

You can do better and still advocate for Palestinian liberation and autonomy. It's actually not that hard.

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I hate when people say ohhhh your pets only love you because you feed them. as if that wasn't the first form of love any of us felt. get real.

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Antisemites really do just pull Talmud citations out of their asses and hope that gentiles don't know how to look it up. If some Nazi goon on twitter says "Sanhedrin 59a: It is not forbidden to murder a gentile because gentiles are like unto beasts," I can just go on Sefaria and look, and see that the Rabbis discuss nothing even close to that (never mind that any Rabbi who asserted such a thing would get his ass beat by later commentators). Nowhere in this debate is the notion that gentiles are like wild animals, or even whether it's permitted to murder gentiles at all, brought up? This conclusion that the Nazi comes to must be made out of whole cloth, or else repeated from someone else who made it out of whole cloth.

#talmud #jewish resources #reference

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I find it fascinating how we repeatedly see Left-leaning individuals who insist that they're not antisemitic, while repeating or reinventing Jew-hatred going back literally thousands of years.

And it's like...

"You vocally condemn and demonize every aspect of Jewish life, culture, history, and society. You claim that our religious practices are duplicitous and teach evil character, that our history is a pack of lies, that we are exaggerating and inventing our (well documented) persecutions, that our identity as a people is somehow racist, that we're somehow both too isolationist and too cosmopolitan at the same time, that we are responsible for everything from the Death of Christ to the conflicts in Sudan to American police brutality, and more... and yet somehow you think that you don't hate Jews?

What is it, then, that you actually like about us? Because it sure seems that there's nothing a Jew can do that you'd approve of... other than die."

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"they're taking away our free speech and silencing our peaceful protests on campus!" you stabbed a jewish student in the eye. you stabbed a jewish student in the eye. you stabbed a jewish student in the eye. you stabbed a jewish student in the eye. you stabbed a jewish student in the eye.