#deny that what is happening in Palestine is genocide or justify it in any way I do not fuck with you

[ghostietea]

I think some people need to get it through their skulls that settler colonialism is an inherently genocidal system. Calling for an end to the violence but not a return of Indigenous land is simply a call for the genocide to continue in a quieter and more polite fashion.

I don't think a lot of people realize that the genocide of Indigenous people worldwide living under settler colonialism is ONGOING. You CANNOT truly see the end of a colonial genocide without an end to the colonialism. As long as Indigenous people are alive, colonizers will find a way to justify and deny genocide because the foundation of 'their' country necessitates the removal and subjugation of the Indigenous population. Indigenous survival is an act of rebellion, one you MUST believe in. You cannot give up on Indigenous people or believe that they are gone, no matter how hard colonizers try to wipe them out. You cannot trust the slander colonizers will spew about how they had to do what they did, about how Indigenous people are all savages who are coming for their women and children, or are somehow unworthy of their country. You can't trust colonizers' fearmongering about how a return of Indigenous land will result in the expulsion and death of all settlers. You CAN'T believe colonizers when they say what they're doing isn't genocide.

The playbook of settler colonialism is old, barely updated because the forces of greed and racism inherent to it have yet to be properly deconstructed. I'm seeing the same tactics used in the genocide of my people that started hundreds of years ago being broadcast live to the world and some people are STILL going along with it. Time and time again people like to 'forget' that it is plainly and explicitly to the benefit of colonizers to dehumanize the colonized so they can steal what is rightfully theirs without opposition and then lie about what they did. As long as the colonial system remains, colonizers have motivation to destroy the Indigenous population physically and culturally, they'll just get less obvious about it. Call this what it is and DON'T be satisfied until the land is returned to its rightful stewards. Palestine MUST be free, you either support decolonization or you support genocide 🇵🇸

#free palestine #land back #sick and tired of settlers acting up #Also I feel like I've made it clear from the things I've been sharing what my stance is but to make it absolutely fucking crystal if you #deny that what is happening in Palestine is genocide or justify it in any way I do not fuck with you #I had to grow up listening to the denial and justification of the colonial genocide of my own people. I do not want to spare kind thoughts- #for anyone who would spread that kind of rhetoric about others and I cannot trust you as an Indigenous person if you do #so see yourself out of my life.

[matan4il]

Have you noticed how almost everything that the anti-Israel crowd accuses people who simply recognize Israel's right to exist of, is (in additional to usually being false) stuff they're guilty of themselves?

"You support ethnic cleansing!"

What do you think it means, when you chant the English translation of "From water to water, Palestine will be Arab"?

"You support an ethno-state!"

Do you call for the destruction of every single nation state, such as Germany, Japan, France, and so on? No? Then so do you. Have you called for the establishment of a Palestinian state? Then, so do you. Between Hamas ruling Gaza and being genocidal when it comes to Jews, and Mahmoud Abbas (president of the Palestinian Authority) stating no Israelis will be allowed in the State of Palestine (and by "Israelis" we all know he doesn't mean the Arab citizens of Israel, he's talking about Jews) that's going to be an ethno-state, too. Oh, you meant a "pure" ethno-state. Those don't exist in today's reality, and Israel, with 27% of its citizens being non-Jews, is no exception.

"Oct 7 didn't happen in a vacuum, you're ignoring the context of the past 75 years!"

You are ignoring big chunks of anti-Jewish violence during these 75 years, you're ignoring the expulsion of almost 900,000 Jews from Arab and Muslim countries, you're ignoring the anti-Jewish violence and persecution that preceded the establishment of the Land of Israel, and you're ignoring all 3,500 years (at least) of Jewish existence in and connection to our ancestral homeland, Israel.

"You support collective punishment!"

The same way you do, when you chant, "When people are occupied, resistance is justified"? Because that's what it means, that for the sin of Israel supposedly being a colonial state (a false claim, since Jews are native to Israel), you're justifying raping 13 year old girls, shooting them in the head, murdering Holocaust survivors, burning babies alive... what's that if not supporting collective punishment? (that's before we get into the fact that Israel not surrendering in a war started by Hamas is NOT collective punishment, or else we would have to define the allies not surrendering to the Nazis in WWII as collective punishment of the Germans)

"You suppor apartheid!"

All Israeli citizens have the same civil rights. Apartheid in South Africa was a system where citizens of the country had their rights limited based on skin color/ancestry. The issue in South Africa wasn't that racism existed (IDK a single country where racism doesn't), it's that it was codified into law, and used against the rights of that country's own citizens. Israeli Jews and Israeli Arabs have the same rights. Non-Israeli Palestinians not having the same rights as Israelis, including as Israeli Arabs, is the same as French Canadians not having the same rights in the US as French Americans. It is NOT proof the US is applying a system of apartheid unto French people. And if it were, then I have news for you, every country applies different rights to citizens vs not citizens, so every country would be an apartheid state by this criterion. Which would make the word meaningless, and it would diminish the suffering of non-whites under South Africa's apartheid (as some young black South Africans who have actually been to Israel now point out). Meanwhile, I'll point back up to where Mahmoud Abbas said no Israelis (i.e Jews) will be allowed in Palestine, and that under the Palestinian Authority, a Palestinian can be jailed or executed for selling land to Jews, which means the PA demolishes the right to property (of Jews to own it, and of the PA's Palestinian citizens to sell it as they see fit) based solely on the ancestry of the buyer... And you support the PA, right?

"You deny the Nakba!"

I had never encountered any Israeli denying that roughly 850,000 Arabs fled Israel due to the War of Independence. Pointing out that the Arabs are the ones who started that war isn't the same as denying it happened. Meanwhile, the people who make this accusation, largely deny the expulsion of the Jews from Arab and Muslim countries, deny the suffering, discrimination, expulsions and massacres Jews had endured for centuries under Arab and Muslim regimes, and deny the atrocities of Oct 7.

"You support colonialism!"

Say the people who deny the native rights of the Jews, who act as if these rights are limited by time (as if such a limitation benefits anyone other than actual colonizers), who ignore the fact that Palestinians wouldn't exist here without Arab colonialism, or who wish to confer a native status unto them by virtue of... being settler colonialists for a "long time" (to be clear, the way the UN's definition of a Palestinian refugee works, it only requires a person to have been an Arab* settler colonialist in Israel during the 2 years prior to the founding of the Israeli state, to be recognized as a Palestinian. To become a US citizen, in addition to other requirements, you have to live in the US for at least 5 years, 3 if married to an American citizen. That means in June of 1946, it was easier to become a Palestinian "native" in the eyes of the UN, than an American citizen). Don't get me wrong, Palestinians have a right to live in the place where they were born. I can both recognize that they're here due to Arab colonialism, AND be okay with them living here. Just like I can recognize that no Americans today deserve to be displaced, even though the majority of them are there thanks to colonialism. And I don't have to pretend like Americans of European descent have suddenly become native (something that if I did, would probably hurt actual Native Americans), in order to recognize their right to live where they were born. It's just ironic that if we took the logic of the anti-Israel crowd when it comes to native Jews, and applied it to all native peoples, this would harm the natives, erase their rights, recognize their colonizers as natives, and generally help colonialism.

There's probably more, but I think this is demonstrative enough.

* Technically, the UN didn't specify ancestry. As an idea, you could be Arab, Jewish, a Polish Catholic priest living in a convent in the Land of Israel from Jun '46 to May '48, and you'd be recognized as a Palestinian by the UN, but in reality this definition ended up favoring all non-Jewish colonizers of the land. In 1952, Israel said, "It's okay, we'll take care of the Jewish refugees displaced by the War of Independence. No need for the UN to do so. This is what we set up a Jewish state for." This is in addition to Israel taking care of the Jewish refugees from Arab and Muslim countries, and Jewish Holocaust survivors. And for Israel's show of responsibility, the now-Israeli Jewish refugees have been punished. They don't get recognized as existing, as having been displaced by, and having suffered due to the war the Arabs started in the Land of Israel against its Jewish communities. "Palestinian" refers to non-Jews only from the second The British Mandate in Palestine's Jews became Israeli Jews, but that doesn't stop the anti-Israel crowd from falsely claiming there are Palestinian Jews today... even though since May of 1948, there aren't, and before that, those Palestinian Jews were British subjects, not the citizens of an Arab independent state called Palestine (something that has never historically existed). Thanks to the exclusion in practice of Jews from the definition of Palestinian refugee, the UN agency for taking care of Palestinian refugees, UNRWA became a tool of spreading anti-Jewish hate.

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[introvert-celeste]

It's absolutely sickening seeing what new atrocities Israel is committing every day in Palestine, as well as all the disgusting people who support it. Their response is always "Hamas started it" and "October 7th," but:

1) Using Hamas as a way to justify the murder of Palestinian civilians is essentially islamophobic bullshit

2) Israel has been carrying out this blood feud for decades (since 1948 and even before), long before the Hamas existed (founded in 1987). Hamas did not start this.

3) Attacking hospitals and medical vehicles is literally a war crime, regardless of whether you suspect terrorists are occupying it.

4) I feel like it should be widely known that the way to deal with a hostage situation is to establish communication with the terrorist, de-escalate the situation, and negotiate for the hostages' safe return. Not bombing indiscriminately at where they think the terrorists are.

5) I am morally against killing anyone, save for the most heinous (cold blooded serial killers, serial rapists, etc.), but I'm especially against killing children. Killing children is never, ever justified, not even in retaliation. Last I heard, Israel has killed well over 4000 children in the last month. Absolutely sickening.

6) People are starting to deny that any of this is happening, which is exactly what happened during the Holocaust. We are witnessing a genocide is real time and people are denying its existence, or labeling all the deaths as terrorist kills.

Also, just to clarify, criticism of Israel doesn't mean criticism of all Jewish people, but of the Zionist extremists in power, just as Islamic terrorist groups don't represent all followers of Islam. I also feel for the Israeli hostages in this situation, of course, as well as the Israeli citizens who are stuck under this leadership. They don't deserve any of this. I just hope that all of this will end soon and that real justice--not indiscriminate killing--will be served.

#free palestine #politics #sorry for the rant so early in the day #i woke up this morning and could not keep it in anymore #my heart hurts every day for the people of palistine #it's killing me #there isn't much i can do but at least i can use my American right to free speech to speak my mind #none of this is up for debate by the way

[hawthornesflowers]

Othering

"The reality is that we are not separate. We are deeply connected to each other...And what we do is we figure all these ways to pretend we are not connected. Our sexual orientation, our race, our gender, our age, our language, our disability. We use all these things to try to pretend that we're not connected.

And when we pretend we're not connected, we're in the process of othering. We're in the process of denying not only someone's humanity, but our own humanity, and denying our own connectedness."

--- john a. powell on the mechanisms of othering

I feel like I cannot emphasize enough how important it is to resist the ease with which we paint those who are not like us as "others". The act of othering is the act of denying another person or people their humanity, it is stripping them of their identity and replacing it with one that fits a preconceived or shallow idea of who they should be. In the process of painting a group as different, we establish this idea of "normal" and this idea has no room for discussions about identity or individuality. This act is only about distancing ourselves from anyone who is not like us. It is about dehumanization and dehumanization almost always leads to hate. Because if you can dehumanize a group of people then you can justify any atrocity that happens to them. Because they must have deserved it right? If they didn't want to be targeted then they wouldn't have done that thing they did. They wouldn't have been different. They wouldn't have existed as something you couldn't understand.

This is how genocides get justified. This is how slavery gets justified. This is how the targeting of marginalized groups gets justified.

Othering leads to dehumanization which leads to hate which leads to cruelty.

I don't even know what I'm saying anymore. I feel like I'm rambling now. I've spent weeks looking at dead bodies and articles about murdered teens, and I'm beyond disgusted by some of the comments I've seen. There are these justifications floating around for why certain groups of people deserve what happened to them. As if them existing outside the realm of "normal" is any kind of justification. As if it has ever been a legitimate justification for genocide or murder. And I just want to say that the only way you can justify their treatment is if you never saw them as people in the first place.

Free Palestine. Fuck Oklahoma.

#free palestine #free gaza #palestinian genocide #palestine #gaza #stop the genocide #stop the occupation #humanitarian crisis #israel is a war criminal #fuck the idf #human rights #nex benedict #fuck transphobes #lgbtq rights #trans rights #free palestine 🇵🇸 #do not forget nex benedict #justice for palestine #justice for nex benedict #american politics #middle east #protect trans kids #from the river to the sea palestine will be free

[weecherylita]

Sources for UK citizens to contact their MPs/ministers about the situation in Palestine

Template letter to MP calling for ceasefire

Oxfam petition calling for ceasefire

Amnesty International guide to writing to your representatives

Oxfam is also running an emergency appeal for Gaza.

I'm just sort of reeling in horror at the moment at the way my government, large parts of the UK press and most of the political establishment is reacting to events in Gaza.

They have no problem recognising and condemning the atrocities committed by Hamas, but largely shy away from calling out the atrocities committed by Israel. Even though those atrocities are causing a humanitarian crisis. Even though 800 scholars in international law and genocide studies are saying that the Israeli forces are in danger of committing genocide.

UK politicians keep saying that the Israeli response should be in line with international law, and then fail to point out all the ways in which it isn't.

They frequently fail to highlight the wider context of the fighting or call Israel out on any of their human rights abuses, recent or historical.

It is sometimes difficult to know which media outlets or individuals to trust. I do tend to trust the humanitarian and human rights groups though.

So, two reports on the illegal system of apartheid which sets the wider context for this situation:

One from Amnesty International

One from Human Rights Watch

A recent investigation by Amnesty International found "evidence of suspected war crimes" committed by Israel, because of their indiscriminate bombing.

Collective punishment is also illegal, such as the current blockade on Gaza.

The continued historical pattern of kicking Palestinians out of their homes and building on their land is illegal.

And then there's this frankly harrowing report on the current situation from Oxfam:

"Oxfam has been providing humanitarian relief for people caught up in war for decades. We do this in Somalia, Yemen and Syria, and we have been doing this in Palestine for decades. But what is happening in Gaza today is unprecedented.

Elsewhere, my brave colleagues would be running relief services; in Gaza today they are running for their lives. Elsewhere, we would be in constant touch with them; in Gaza today their phones are running out of battery because electricity has been cut off. Elsewhere, we would share our location data with combatants to keep staff and civilians safe; in Gaza today, no one is safe.

The humanitarian rulebook has been thrown out, and polite pleas from politicians to “minimise civilian fatalities” are naive at best, and at worst seem blind to the unimaginable horrors already taking place in Gaza.

...

"The situation when it comes to water is potentially even more deadly. More than 2 million people, half of them children, are being denied one of life’s essentials; they are forced to drink dirty water or go without. Without working toilets and with waste accumulating in the streets, Gaza risks becoming a breeding ground for cholera and other deadly diseases.

According to the UN, at least six of Gaza’s water wells, three water pumping stations and one water reservoir have been damaged so far. All three of its desalination plants have stopped providing water due to a lack of fuel and electricity; all six of its wastewater treatment plants are now non-operational. There is no water for 3,500 inpatients in 35 hospitals, and around 400,000 internally displaced people sheltering in 160 schools are at immediate risk. The UN estimates that people in Gaza now have access to an average of just 3 litres of water a day when a person needs 50-100 for basic health needs.

Attacking, destroying or rendering civilian infrastructure useless is a breach of international humanitarian law. That Hamas is holding hostages is truly appalling; the atrocities committed by them against Israeli civilians heartbreaking. Neither fact, however, justifies the collective punishment of 2 million people or negates the responsibility of Israel to meet these basic needs for civilians. Palestinians in Gaza have literally nowhere to go, and no one seems willing or able to help as families face death by dehydration and disease."

And yet Rishi Sunak dares to say that he trusts Israel not to endanger innocent civilians - unlike Hamas.

I'm reeling from the ignorance/hypocrisy.

I'm just finding it very difficult to stomach that my country is turning a blind eye to genocide and somehow claiming the moral high ground whilst doing so. It's distressing enough that this is happening at all, but when my country has the power to act and fails to do so, I feel that I have a moral responsibility to say something.

So if you can, please do speak up. Tell your elected representatives to do better. Condemn the Israeli response, let aid in, ask for a ceasefire and and end to the illegal occupation and system of apartheid.

#palestine #uk politics #i think much of this applies to the US too

[maidoffate]

Why did you reblog a post that paints Isreal being a colonist apathies state as a falsity, ignores everything Isreal has done to the Palestine people for decades before Hamas existed, blames other Arab nations for not allowing Palestinians to be deported into their borders rather than Isreal’s genocidal campaign against them, and claims people should actually be protesting those Arab states rather than Israel’s ongoing mass slaughter?

Do you genuinely believe Israel is not responsible for every action they have taken since the occupation began? Do you only care about Palestinian lives so far as displacement and cultural genocide is acceptable, but not a blood one? Are you Islamophobic and/or racist to Arabs?

Or, is it what I hope, an inability to recognise genocide denial? That a malicious actor intent on taking agency away from Israel as a way to excuse their actions took advantage of your Jewishness to emotionally manipulate you. That in a time of intense emotions for all of us, racial biases got into your head and you engaged in this material accidentally.

You don’t have to answer this, I’d quite frankly rather you didn’t because I don’t think anything of value would come from it, but if you actually read this, please just look inwards as to why someone can cloth “Israel doing a bloody genocide against the Palestinian people is not the problem, other countries not letting Israel displace the people in an act of cultural genocide is” and you accept that argument as a valid one.

Salam Alaikum. Unless your response is still pro genocide, in which case, obviously, fuck you.

I actually am going to respond to this because I have a lot to say and I think you're going to find out me and you actually think more closely on the core issues than you think. I've been avoiding posting anything myself because I don't want to deal with the headache and potential harassment, but whatever.

First of all, if you read my tags to that post, you should realize I am not at all absolving Israel from blame. The occupation lies in their hands. They created Hamas, directly and indirectly. I am not denying any of the atrocities this state has done—even before the 2005 disengagement from Gaza. I have hated the state for as long as I've been politically active and have only grown more disgusted and disillusioned the more I researched about the subject. Chances are I know more about the conflict and its current state affairs than you considering I had to be pretty well versed on both sides of the spectrum and their current day aftermath to pass my Regime and Politics course (which didn't really whitewash anything and was incredibly critical of the state as it is).

I don't really agree with all the post in its entirety (particularly putting apartheid and colonialist in quotes, because like, regardless of OP's intention, those are objectively happening and there's no whitewashing it), but I wanted to platform the core conceit of it, which is that Hamas is bad for Palestinians. I haven't seen any other post really outline some of the reasons why in a way I could tell people. That post isn't really all-encompassing, either, but it's the best one I saw even if it does have its problems.

I outlined my stance in what I thought was clear in the tags, and avoided making a proper addition to the post because, frankly speaking, I'm not exactly "Tumblr famous", so I don't really consider any impact on whatever posts I platform. Only like 10 people ever show up in my reblogs, and most of them have (justifiably) not touched the small amount of Israeli-Palestine stuff I've posted with a ten foot pole.

I am not at all blind to the genocide happening in Gaza and the frankly disgusting living conditions and routine terrorism and abuse Palestinians receive from illegal settlers and the IDF in the West Bank. I read Gideon Levy's work. In what world is it acceptable for a "democratic country" to have a city (East Jerusalem) where only 5% of the citizens have citizenship? It's deplorable.

But I'm going to be clear: I have been to two funerals this week. A childhood friend of mine is in critical condition in the hospital. I've seen pictures, videos and heard what must have been dozens of stories from people who've survived the attacks that happened on October 7th and understand the sheer depth of the atrocities that went down.

So excuse me if I don't have the patience when I log into Tumblr and see that the overwhelming consensus is that "there is no resistance without violent retribution" and "those settler colonialists deserved it" and a bunch of people stand in solidarity with a literal fundamentalist terrorist dictatorship that has burned houses and people alive and massacred children. As if that's at all comparable to violently fighting back against soldiers and actual occupying powers.

I've seen several people compare Hamas to the ANC and like... just the sheer confidence of what people say without actually knowing any of the history and facts of the situation continues to amaze me.

Now, I'm not going to pretend as if there hasn't been a vocal rallying pro-Israel voice from western media, world leaders and other liberal celebrities (which I refuse to platform, for the record. I was offered a job in helping to translate summaries of the events to Japanese and refused because I'm not interested in spreading Israel's narrative.)

My only interest, really, is just trying to make people understand that they are not "standing in solidarity with brave warriors of oppression". They are supporting terrorists. Actual terrorists. Not just freedom fighters like Nelson Mandela, but a group that is actively trying to eradicate every Jewish person from this land, and doesn't care about any of the damage it deals to its own community or the non-Jewish people hurt in the crossfire. The Bedouin people have arguably suffered the most from Hamas' missile strikes, considering they live in poorly funded villages that don't even have proper protections and bomb shelters.

On a fundamental level, I am pro-Palestine (in the sense that I recognize they are the occupied victims of genocide, and deserve human rights, the right to self determination, and a state to call their own, whether it be with a two-state solution or one secular democratic state for all living in the Israel region), but I cannot begin to tell you the actual amount of vile antisemetic (not anti-zionist, not just critiques of Israel, I'm talking actually antisemetic) shit I've seen on this website due to this whole mess, not to mention people undermining every single Jewish plea post because it doesn't mention every facet and atrocity done right now.

It feels like no one can talk about the sheer density of actual antisemetic rhetoric without receiving "erm actually muslims have it way worse so stay in your lane". It's not a competition. Oppression is oppression. (And for the record, I'm talking about just the general communities right now, not just those living in Israel and Palestine -- obviously the people in Gaza are having it worse right now with the lack of water, food, electricity, and no proper safe place to reside in. They need help the most. Donate to the PCRF.)

Not every post needs to be fully comprehensive. Ignoring something in my post doesn't mean I don't care about it. It's just that I'm focusing on something else right now, because I don't believe people I've heard it. Not every Israeli needs to clarify "by the way I don't support the apartheid and colonization" to get people overseas to understand what is happening here.

Regardless, with my rationale out of the way, I will say I apologize for making you feel unsafe with that reblog -- again, only 10 people show up in my notes and I don't mean to make anyone feel concerned for what I think of them with whatever I post. I've went ahead and put my tags on that post into an actual addition so that anyone who sees that post can platform a better version of it that doesn't undermine the horrors going on here. Again, I really didn't want to post anything myself because I don't want to deal with the stress of it all, but fuck it, the block button is free.

[santajp]

"These protests are disruptive!"

My bubby in christ, maybe the government should have addressed the population's concerns and they wouldn't get to this point in the first place.

Maybe if people felt like there was an actual option to be heard rather than ignored by 'representatives', they would be peaceful and quaint and whatever else you want them to be.

Though this government doesn't even deserve such formalities when damming others to die on mass! They don't deserve such formalities when Palestinians are having to constantly remind the rest of world that they are human! They don't deserve shit if they're not even doing a minimum, just whining that people think genocide is bad, just whining that people are rightfully questioning why money went to a racist state rather than those on the streets or students just wanting a damn education.

If the idea of a protest for stopping a genocide seems like not enough reason to be annoyed openly when the government refuses to listen, I must only ask what would be enough reason?

What else must you see for us to be able to openly and loudly criticize those who claim to represent us?

How much more murder must happen to those who are innocent, who are not just in Palestine but anyone who has done a 'crime' of critiquing the US and its actions, for denying its own past of blood and its own racist ideals that are the foundation of its dehumanization, which we so clearly see it would gladly export.

The US will give the funding.

The US will spread the economic systems that damn people to suffer by design.

The US will ignore its own people even to do so.

The US will, by design, will fund war and violence with soft and heroic words, like it has the whole time it has existed!

If your idea of happiness can only be brought at the neglecting of others suffering, then you are not new, not in any way that matters at least.

The places, the words, can change. They will change. They will take different forms too. Though the underlying ideal is the one the very nation was built upon, the very ideal that dammed those before me to chains.

The concept of being able to say freedom has been brought, even as you kill others and suppress it-

The idea that you can say you care for others while denying many of their humanity, while demonizing all who seem too different-

The very notion of equality being a tenant you want to preach while poor are killed and a pigment of skin deems you good enough to kill, all for somesort of culture to be kept pure, to be kept perfectly safe, to be kept well behaved and not disruptive, even if they themselves have damn good reasons to be-

So please, tell me how those who care are just dumb people who know of little sense; tell me how things are fine while you ignore those who currently suffer, while you act as if this has never, ever, happened before, and that this nation is somehow above the very nature of being held up to a standard it seems all too willing to use against others.

All they should be feeling is shame.

"In the view of the scientific racists, the white man's destiny was to "replace" people of color, but never to be "replaced" by them. Perhaps at the heart of these manifestations of racial exclusionism in the Untied States is the original sin- the fact that the county was founded, and expanded, by replacing its original inhabitants. In order the justify this original replacement, the rights of whites to expand, and the fate of the people of color to disappear, had to be constantly reiterated and reenacted."

Chomsky, Aviva. "They take our jobs! : and 20 other myths about immigration Expanded Edition." Boston, Mass. : Beacon Press, 2007, 2018.

[swawesome-wow]

If you wanted people to be informed, you'd have mentioned Palestinian terrorists and Hamas. You'd have mentioned the suicide bombings and hundreds of murdered innocent Israelis. You'd have mentioned the Palestinian leadership that first declined coexistence in 1948 and rejected every offer of peace since then. You'd have mentioned lies and propaganda and blood libel against Jews, thought in Palestinian schools. You care about playing the victim. But it's an old game. And you'll lose.

I wasn’t going to take the time to respond, but it’s summer break, and I refuse to let you hide behind anonymity and not learn a little something while you’re there.

1. “If you wanted people to be informed, you’d have mentioned Palestinian terrorists and Hamas. You’d have mentioned the suicide bombings and hundreds of murdered innocent Israelis.”

Oh yes, how could I forget to talk about Palestinian terrorists and Hamas. The thousands upon thousands of innocent Israelis killed. Wait, what’s that? 1,213 Israelis have been killed since September 29, 2000. 9,478 Palestinians have been killed since September 29, 2000. I have never claimed that Palestinians have not killed innocent Israelis. Those numbers are only since the year 2000. Israel has occupied Palestine for 50 years, give or take, as you yourself aptly admitted by bringing up the conference in 1948. There is immense loss on both sides, though one has lost nearly 9x as many lives. However, comparing it numerically is extremely reductive, not only are you wrong numerically, you’re ignoring why people have been slaughtered on both sides, and what brought everyone to this point. There is no “justifying” the murder of Israelis by Palestinians, there is only understanding why these killings happened, holistically, and understanding the context.

People refer to it now as the Israeli-Palestinian “Conflict, Divide, etc.” But before recent, heavy political and monetary support of Israel, it was called the Palestinian Genocide, for good reason. 

2. “You’d have mentioned the Palestinian leadership that first declined coexistence in 1948 and rejected every offer of peace since then.”

Let me make this very, painfully clear. 

Palestine does not owe coexistence to Israel. Israel is an occupying state, an oppressive state, and one that has committed genocide against the Palestinian people. 

To bring it down to your level of understanding, the Palestinians were there first. Palestinians of EVERY religion, including Judaism, though I’ll touch on that later. The Palestinian leadership has been lamentable, no one is denying that. But let me put it this way:

Let’s say America was invaded today, by, say, Canada. (Sorry Canada, you were the first country to pop into my head, since I owe half my citizenship to you.) After things calm down enough for the leaders to meet, Trudeau says to *shudder* Trump (or even Obama, in this fake scenario, would make the same decision), “Hey man, I know you were here first and everything, and I know we bloodily invaded you, but like, let’s just coexist, like on that bumper sticker you guys are so fond of.” Do you honestly think the President of the United States of America, would EVER agree to something like that? Seriously? Of course not, that would be ridiculous. Even 50 years later, America would still be fighting for its freedom from its maple-drenched oppressors. So why are you holding Palestine to such ridiculous standards? 

I am truly saddened by the violence that has stemmed from this entire situation, but until Israeli soldiers stop wrongfully arresting, imprisoning, and killing Palestinians, even children, I don’t think you can possibly hope for “peace.”

My grandmother, a few years back on a return visit to Palestine after she fled so many years ago to Canada, was stopped at the border wall (yes, there is a wall there, in case people were unaware) for eight hours, for no reason. She was not charged with anything, neither were her daughters, my aunts, that were with her. Her crime was being Palestinian. I wonder what that sounds like. 

Oh yes, and because of that wall, the already pitiful economy of the Gaza Strip has crumbled, and they have no way of rebuilding it. Even if Palestinians find jobs in Israel, they’re backed up for hours each day just trying to get processed through the wall in either direction. They’ve been economically choked off from the rest of the world, yet Israel continues to receive monetary aid as if they’re in desperate need.

3. “You’d have mentioned lies and propaganda and blood libel against Jews, thought in Palestinian schools. You care about playing the victim. But it’s an old game. And you’ll lose.”

Once again, I need to make something crystal clear. So listen up. \

Palestinians do not hate Jews. They hate the Israeli government. Not Israelis, not Jews, the Israeli government, because that is the body that is responsible for Palestinian suffering. 

Since I was in elementary school, any time someone found out I had Palestinian parents, they immediately made quips or even stated directly that I must hate Jewish people. I had someone say “oh, so you’re anti-Semitic.” I’ve had people ask me if myself or my parents are terrorists (and I used to be Christian, now I don’t practice anything, my point being that I can’t imagine how hard it is for any Muslims). This misconception is so widespread that it’s toxic, killing any reasonable discourse on the subject by people stamping me with the anti-Semite sticker. So, I’m sorry, I haven’t had the chance to play the victim. Let me know how that goes for you. 

What I said earlier, about all religions coexisting? Let me elaborate.

For the thousands of years that Palestine has existed, Christians, Muslims, Jews, ~whatever~ lived side by side, happily and comfortably. Another misconception is that the Israeli movement came from within Palestine, which is just plain misinformation. This is a very, very reductive explanation of what actually happened, forgive me for not being more detailed:

When the second World War ended, there were thousands upon thousands of displaced European Jews (mostly German as you might imagine, but elsewhere as well). When Europe (and America) tried to figure out where to help these people relocate, no one wanted to take them in, deciding it would be too difficult to reintegrate. Palestine had the room and the kind heart needed to take them in, so that’s where many were relocated, en masse. But it was a finite time that Palestine agreed to host these refugees as refugees, they would eventually need to either integrate with the Palestinian people (gain citizenship, etc), or decide where they would want to move, if not stay there. But the relationship began to change, as some began to perpetuate the idea that they belonged there all along, and that the Palestinians were the ones that needed to leave or integrate elsewhere. As with most conflict, religion took a match and set it to kerosene, as suddenly Jerusalem was the center of the occupier’s claims to the land. While I won’t try to argue about it as I’m not informed enough on religious history, I will say that it is entirely possible to create a religious homeland without literally invading the country and creating a religious state. Church and state are separate for a reason, and have to cooperate, not override one another. 

So there are plenty of Palestinian Jews that understand and are outraged at the Israeli government, though they have been left out of intentional eviction, arrests, torture, and killings. 

COMIC RELIEF BREAK that is actually somewhat related but I promise it’s funny:

One time my mom was telling me about something that happened over in Palestine to friends of our family so word made it back to us. Like I said, the three major religions were living pretty happily together, especially where these friends lived. The IDF was evicting all the Palestinians from a neighborhood to allow Israeli settlers to take over. Our friends were one of the families kicked out, and they were best friends with the Jewish family next door! So when the IDF came knocking on the Jewish family’s door to offer them the keys to their best friends’ house, (they were Jews so they were allowed to stay with the new Israelis coming in), the husband of the family was FURIOUS. He started to back-talk, offended at the very thought, but his wife (the really clever one in this story) shut him up and took the keys. The husband couldn’t believe his wife would betray their best friends like that, but she just rolled her eyes in a “you idiot” fashion. They had the keys now, and they promptly gave them back to their best friends so they could reclaim their property! I always thought that story was hilarious :D

While I am disgusted at the thought that you could somehow compare this entire subject to a game, if that’s the only way you can comprehend such a vast discourse, I’m happy to oblige the metaphor: The only “loser” here is the one who can’t think for themselves and hasn’t done a little goddamn research, you soggy walnut. 

Speaking of research! Here are a couple of resources for those who have been following along! I honestly can’t say that the second is an unbiased source, however if you’re looking for straight statistics and numbers, check out the first link! It’s where I got the exact numbers I used above. If you want the international law/human rights perspective, check out the third link. Thanks y’all!

http://ifamericaknew.org

http://www.globalresearch.ca/israels-genocide-towards-palestinian-arabs/5591341 (thanks canada)

https://ccrjustice.org/genocide-palestinian-people-international-law-and-human-rights-perspective (really good source explaining the international law and human rights perspective on the issue)

#palestine #israel #palestinian #palestinian genocide #israeli occupation #international law #human rights #anon #swawesome is pissed right off

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One of the more common memes that I’ve seen jew supremacists spread around recently has been “diversity is a code word for jewish genocide”. The concept here is that diversity is only promoted in jewish nations, and that the end goal is to eliminate jews altogether by flooding all jewish countries with muslims until there are no jews left. Well, guess what, neo nazis? That’s exactly right. Diversity is about getting rid of jewish people and that is a good thing. First off, I am jewish myself, so allow me to get that out of the way. I’m extremely glad that the jewish race is dying, and you should be too. Jewish people do not have a right to exist. Period. That may sound like a bold statement, but it’s entirely true. Any jew with even the faintest knowledge of history should curse themselves every single day for being jewish. Throughout all of recorded history, jews have engaged in oppression, genocide, colonialism, imperialism, and just plain evil on a massive scale. Jews have denied every other race the right to exist, and have – at some point in history – oppressed every single race on the planet.

Why, then, should jews now be allowed to live in peace when jews have historically been the world’s number one source of conflict and oppression? Jewness is racism. Period. Jewness is the source of all oppression in the world. Jewry is racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, ableism, Islamophobia, and heteropatriarchal capitalism. Eliminate jewness and you eliminate every single form of oppression that the world currently faces. No jews means no oppression. Jews are like a cancer and oppression is a symptom of the cancer. Cut out the cancer altogether – with the cancer being jews – and you get rid of all of the oppression which jews cause.

I have dedicated my life to fighting racism, and I have determined – based on all available evidence – that the only way to really eliminate racism is to eliminate the jews. Jews are the ocean from which racism flows. Get rid of th jews and you get rid of racism. Despite what neo nazis often claim, Jews do not have a “culture”. Jew “culture” consists of nothing more than oppression, genocide, and the disenfranchisement of minorities. Jew “culture” is racism and nothing more. When neo nazis talk about “jew culture”, what they’re really talking about is racism. Over the course of history, jews have built a massive empire based entirely on the hard work of oppressed and disenfranchised minority groups. But guess what, jews? That empire is finally coming to an end now, and its demise is music to my hears.

To quote the great anti-racist activist Tim Wise: “Do you hear it? The sound of your empire dying? Your nation, as you knew it, ending, permanently? Because I do, and the sound of its demise is beautiful.”

Descendants of Holocaust survivors can personally attest to the evil that themselves are capable of when they hold the reins of power. Thankfully, they won’t be holding the reins of power for much longer. When they die out, so will racism, sexism, queerphobia, and all other forms of oppression. The only way to eliminate racism, jew privilege and jew supremacy is to eliminate it altogether. When I teach my students about human rights, critical race theory, and the role of jews in worldwide oppression, my jewish students often ask me how they can “atone” for the evils of themselves and how they can make up for centuries of jewish oppression. And I tell them: you can do that by not having any children and ensuring that the jewish race does not live to oppress anyone ever again in the future.

Thankfully, jew birthrates are indeed very low, while the birthrates of minorities are much, much higher. Within our lifetimes, jews will be a minority in a significant number of formerly jewish countries, including the US,  UK, France, Germany, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand, to name just a few. To neo-nazis yearning for the days when jews could rape and pillage the world with impunity, this is incredibly frightening. To people on the right side of history, however, this looks like progress. Jews are finally getting their just desserts – and it’s about time. I sincerely hope that, when the jewish power structure finally comes crashing down, jews will receive no mercy from the minority groups that jews have spent centuries oppressing. We certainly don’t deserve any mercy or kindness, as we have given nothing of the sort to others.

Jews should also know that, when they do become a minority in their countries, they will not be receiving affirmative action or any of the other benefits meant to assist the minorities that they have historically oppressed. Why? Because they don’t deserve those benefits. It’s as simple as that. One can look to Palestine, where muslims are only about 8.4% of the population, but continue to receive affirmative action because Palestine have historically been disenfranchised by the jews. The same thing will happen when we become a minority in North America, Europe, and Oceania, because we have historically oppressed minorities in all three of those continents. Not to mention, why should they receive any kind of benefits when the ultimate goal is to get rid of them altogether? Finally, laws against hate speech will serve to prevent jews from complaining about this, as any jew who complains will be arrested, given a long prison sentence, and made an example of for the rest of the remaining jewish population. Speech that attempts to justify the jewish power structure and perpetuate jew oppression of minorities is not freedom of speech, and it has absolutely no place in modern society.

As jews, we all need to recognize that we no longer have a place in the world. This world now belongs to the minorities that us have spent centuries oppressing and there is absolutely nothing that any pathetic jew supremacists can do about it. In order for a better world to be created, we need to be exterminated. Period. It’s as simple as that. We should simply be thankful that our death will be accomplished through mass immigration and declining birthrates. When we have exterminated other races, it wasn’t nearly so peaceful, it was done through violent genocide. Though other races are not as evil as jews are, and it’s important to remember that. The world belongs to minorities now, and they will make a much better, more peaceful world with what they’re given. Only when people have ceased to exist will a peaceful and progressive society – free of racism and hatred – be possible. The only way to eliminate jew privilege, jew oppression, jew racism, and the oppressive jew power structure is to eliminate jewish people altogether.

So, yes, jew supermascists: diversity is indeed jewish genocide. And jewish genocide is exactly what the world needs more than anything else.

#jews #genocide