#erasure of Jewish suffering

[edenfenixblogs]

Oh wow. This is really antisemitic, @iblewrichardspeck

You are deeply antisemitic person.

And guess what? Having a Jewish grandfather doesn’t change that.

Your knowledge of Jewish history and culture is nonexistent to the point that I won’t even bother to confront most of it.

I encourage my allies to step in and address your nonsense with reason and links to credible sources.

Two huge standout points of your lack of knowledge that I want to point out though:

Most Jews in Israel are NOT in fact European or Ashkenazi. Do literally one Google search.

“Jews have always had a right to safety in their homeland.” I want you to know that I am pretty well regarded as a person who keeps their cool in situations like this. So I want to be explicit that my ability to stay calm right now is an act of superhuman will. I want to scream at you and cry because of the amount of death and pain you are erasing with this outright, easily disproven lie. Jews do not and have not ever had safety in their homeland of ISRAEL. Nor have Jews ever had safety in any of the locations where we have made a home. Judaism and jewish life has never “thrived” anywhere, at least not for the last 2000+ years. We have always been a target of attack and displacement and genocide. Always. Without exception. The idea that Israel somehow took all the Jews of the Middle East away from their homes where they were peacefully chilling out is nonsense. The middle eastern (who are the majority btw) Jews in Israel came to Israel after being expelled from their nations of origin or murdered for refusing to leave. Poland? Yeah. It had a swell Jewish community about 1200 years ago. It’s a shame about the centuries of ghettoization and you know that pesky genocide you might have heard about. Ethiopia? You mean the place where Jews had to be smuggled out of by Israeli covert forces because of the danger they were in there?

I don’t know if I believe that your grandfather was Jewish. Maybe he was. Maybe you made him up to legitimize your own antisemitic views.

But if he was really Jewish, I’m sure he’s wildly disappointed in you.

I won’t be blocking you because I want you to see this and change your views in a deeply fundamental way. And I want you to apologize. I’m 99.99999999% sure you won’t. You’re too steeped in your hatred. But who knows. People can change. I hope you do. Because right now, your attitude, beliefs, and behavior are rancid. I will not be responding to further messages from you.

Allies or fellow Jews with bandwidth can take it from here. Adios. Shalom.

#antisemites to remember #leftist antisemitism #historical revisionism #erasure of Jewish suffering

[accessible-art]

Hey, would you consider taking down this post: https://www.tumblr.com/accessible-art/733352422469156864

The phrase "from the river to the sea" is an antisemitic phrase. That phrase is about the forceful expulsion of Jews from every land and into the sea to die off. It is very unfortunate that it's being used unwittingly by well meaning people to rally support for Palestine and their suffering (which we should do! Please don't misunderstand). That phrase is too loaded.

hello there anon, i am going to word this as gently as i can. i myself am jewish, and i will not be taking down the post as i fundamentally disagree that "from the river to the sea" is antisemitic. the saying is not to do with expelling jews from anywhere, much less killing us all. it is referring to the fact that israel is a settler colonial state on land that palestinians (of all religions - including jews) have inhabited for thousands of years. from the river to the sea is a reaffirmation of this land-history and a call to action against the ethnic cleansing, genocide, and erasure that palestinians have faced under israeli apartheid/governance. saying that the restoration of palestinian land to the palestinian people would result in jewish genocide is a baseless projection. do not get me wrong, there are absolutely people using the pro-palestine movement as a mask for their antisemitism, but this phrase did not originate with them. the reason this phrase is so divisive is the same reason "landback" is so divisive. settler-colonialism is so pervasive in the west that the idea of indigenous people seeking sovereignty over their land without violently dispossessing all others who live on the land is unfathomable, no matter how many times indigenous people have made it clear that they have no desire to do so. to put it bluntly, that phrase is only "too loaded" if you do not recognize palestinians as indigenous to their land, at which point whatever support you're "rallying" would be rendered useless.

you are welcome to unfollow us if this explanation does not satisfy you, but we will not be taking down our pro-palestine content.

~ mod elya

#ask #not art #mod elya

[jewishvitya]

Why do we do this thing where we're like "You wouldn't do this to another marginalized community."

I just saw a video of a bi person going "people act like the only bi woman is white and middle class, but they don't do that with lesbians or gay men." I immediately thought "Yes they do, though."

I've seen people say it with "people wouldn't say it about Jews" as a talking point against racism, with examples that I've definitely seen happen to Jewish people. "People wouldn't say this to a Black person" about comments I've seen Black people receive.

"Don't tell me I can heal my invisible disabilities with enough willpower, people wouldn't say that to a wheelchair user!" - they say it.

It's rare that a bigoted mindset doesn't replicate itself across groups. There are specifics for each marginalized group, but if a shitty attitude exists towards one, it most likely exists towards others. If you haven't seen it - it's probably your positioning.

If you want to discuss an issue you experience, you don't have to use another marginalized group as an example of someone who has it better. If you're wrong and they do suffer, you just contributed to erasure.

#Riki babbles #throwing out a draft

[hussyknee]

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Another thread by Senator Ben Ray Luján here.

A book on the subject (haven't read it myself):

One of the sources in another one of Alisa's furiously impassioned twitter threads have been debunked, so I didn't include that. But she claims that her own family was caught in the fallout zone when her mother was a baby, which eventually led to her and large numbers of her community developing cancer. It's human for that kind of grief to be caught up in inaccuracies. People are already being ghastly and racist to Hispanos and Indigenous people criticizing the hype for the movie. They're not attacking Oppenheimer for being Jewish, they're criticising the erasure of the human cost of these bombs and the continued valorisation of the U.S military's actions in World War II as some kind of moral saviourism.

While Oppenheimer himself believed that the nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were morally justified (they had planned to drop them on Germany except they surrendered before they could), he also felt had blood on his hands and regretted his role as the "Father of the Atomic Bomb". He spent the rest of his career vehemently opposing further development of thermonuclear weapons and the hydrogen bomb accurately predicting the concept of mutually assured destruction. This eventually made him a victim of Senator McCarthy's Red Scare and his clearance was revoked. I haven't seen the movie (Christopher Nolan is the kind of casual white racist I avoid on principle) but people who have seen it say that it doesn't glorify nuclear weapons and depicts the man himself with the complex moral nuance that seems to be accurately reflective of his real life.

The backlash to Indigenous and Hispanos people's criticisms and to people pointing out that Hiroshima and Nagasaki were genocides is also frustrating because...both world wars were a clash of genocidal empires. The reason they were world wars is because the countries colonized by Japan, China, the European powers and the US were all dragged into it, whether they wanted to or not. Jews were one of the many colonized peoples that suffered in that time, who were left to die by everyone until they could be used to frame the Allied powers as moral saviours, establishing a revisionist nostalgia for heroism that powers the US military industrial complex to this day.

As early as May 1942, and again in June, the BBC reported the mass murder of Polish Jews by the Nazis. Although both US President, Franklin Roosevelt, and British Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, warned the Germans that they would be held to account after the war, privately they agreed to prioritise and to turn their attention and efforts to winning the war. Therefore, all pleas to the Allies to destroy the death camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau were ignored. The Allies argued that not only would such an operation shift the focus away from winning the war, but it could provoke even worse treatment of the Jews. In June 1944 the Americans had aerial photographs of the Auschwitz complex. The Allies bombed a nearby factory in August, but the gas chambers, crematoria and train tracks used to transport Jewish civilians to their deaths were not targeted.

(Source)

Uncritical consumption of World War II media is the reinforcement of imperialist propaganda, more so when one group of colonized people is used to silence other colonized peoples. Pitting white Jewry against BIPOC is to do the work of white supremacy for imperialist colonizers, and victimizes Jews of colour twice over.

Edit: friends, there's been some doubt cast on the veracity of Alisa's claims. The human cost to the Hispanos population caught downwind of the nuclear tests is very real, as was land seizure without adequate compensation. However, there's no record I can yet find about Los Alamos killing livestock and Hispanos being forced to work for Los Alamos without PPE. There is a separate issue about human testing in the development of said PPE that's not covered here. I'm turning off reblogs until I can find out more. Meanwhile, here's another more legitimate article you can boost instead:

#Youtube #colonialism #colonization #genocide #oppenheimer #nuclear war #nuclear testing #indigenous rights #racism #new mexico #american imperialism #world war ii #hispanos #tw: animal cruelty #loyda martinez #white supremacy #military industrial complex #generational trauma #worker exploitation #colonial trauma #hiroshima #nagasaki #war propaganda #knee of huss #twitter

[snowviolettwhite]

I just need to rant about the antisemitism in leftist spaces and the erasure and re-writing of Jewish history and heredity from people who claimed to be for marginalized and oppressed people. Because I have no where to let it out. I feel betrayed by the leftists and libels, like I can no longer trust them or feel safe around them, they claimed to care about me and Jewish people but they lied and are out for violence.

You can be for a free Palestinian without antisemitism. Some people are being disgusting with their hatred for Jewish people and wanting the annihilation of the only Jewish state. You can be against corrupt governments but innocent people shouldn't suffer.

People are using what is happening as an excuse to be vocal about their antisemitism. What is more upsetting is the fact the people who consider themselves goodhearted and for the oppressed being disgusting to Jewish people and refusing to see them as human than the right wing conservatives. Because at least I know they are dangerous and they are not hiding behind fancy words and trying to erase and rewrite Jewish history and identity.

The only reason Jewish people are considered "white" is because for thousands and thousands of years the been forced to leave their homes, forced to convert, be raped or be murdered. Another reason is to erase the historical oppression which has been going on for over three thousand years.

Jewish people have not even been considered white for hundred years and depending on where you live in the world Jewish people are still not considered white. In their legal documents it was literally listed that they were Jewish, not Russian. My parents are not even old, they are only in their early 50s. My family is from Soviet Russia and immigrated to the USA in the 1990s. My parents were not considered white in Russia, they would sometimes experience hate crimes and bullying because of their Jewishness multiple times a day. One of the reasons my parents moved to the United States was because it was one of the safest places for Jewish people. After the collapse of the soviet union the violence and antisemitism was a lot worse.

Your blatant antisemitism in the free Palestinian movement is scaring Jewish people away from it and the from left. Fyi, after Black Americans, Jewish Americas are the largest group to vote democrat and be involve in activism according to statistics and history. People are not calling Black American people or Native American people white or mixed even though Christian Europeans did similar things to those groups as well.

Frankly, I personally feel conflicted when I have to check white in a box because it means European descent, my family has no European ancestry. It is most Middle Eastern, West Asian and North African.

Also, we can talk about how Christian Europeans stole the term Caucasian. The actually Caucasus region is in West Asia and Eastern Europe.

Also I want to state Judaism in a ethnoreligion. People who convert to a different religion can still experience antisemitism. People who have Jewish ancestry but raised as a different religion can still experience antisemitism. Non practicing Jewish people can still experience antisemitism. You can change religion but you can not can your ethic background and your family history.

More than one group of people can be indigenous to a certain place.

Jewish people can not talk about just being Jewish without antisemitic comments, recently saw someone claim an anti-Jewish protest was actually a pro-Palestinian protest despite the the leader of the event literal said it was an anti-Jew protest. A pro Palestinian group wanted to hold a protest at the Holocaust Museum and the antisemitism has been on the rise for years.

My grandparent are Holocaust survivors my grandpa was almost killed by a Nazi in his hometown twice, my grandma almost died from the same thing the killed Anne Frank, I had family that was buried alive.

It has not even been hundred years since the holocaust happened, so stop claiming their is such a thing as Jewish privilege. Jewish people are still being murdered and bombed and all these terrible things for being Jewish.

#jewish history #antisemitism #jewish #leftist antisemitism

[matan4il]

Daily update post:

Today, Israeli forces went into a hospital in Jenin (it's not in Gaza, there is no border fence between Israel and Jenin, there are no security measures other than getting intel and pre-emptively stopping terrorist attacks) in order to eliminate several Hamas terrorists who were hiding in there. Because the operation would require going into a hospital, the intel had to be VERY reliable, the threat huge and immediate, and the IDF's Chief of Staff had to personally approve it. The intel indicated these terrorists were gonna carry out a suicide bombing, that would use an entire vehicle loaded with explosives, rather than a suicide bomber "just" wearing a vest with explosives. The first such terrorist attack that I know of in Israel happened on Feb 22, 1948 (before the State of Israel was established, but after the Arabs started a war against the Jews). It was carried out jointly by rogue (and antisemitic, based on the slurs they used) British soldiers, who did it in the service of the Arabs' war against Jews. They blew up the explosives on a central street (Ben Yehuda) in Jerusalem. This is a partial picture of the damage caused:

Three buildings were completely destroyed, but the impact was much wider (including glass windows shattering across the city). 58 people were killed, 49 of them immediately, while 9 more died in the hospital from their injuries. Hamas itself carried out their first terrorist attack of this type on Apr 6, 1994. A car filled with explosives bypassed a bus driving children back from school, and then blew up right in front of it. When those who were alive tried to get out of the bus, they couldn't because the driver had been killed, and they didn't know how to open the door. 8 people were murdered in total, and 55 injured, almost all kids and teenagers. An extra touch of sickness? That day was the eve of Yom Ha'Shoah, Israel's Holocaust Memorial Day. The headline screamed in Hebrew, "Blood of the Children," while in the top left corner, there's a reminder about the sirens for Yom Ha'Shoah going off at 10, to observe a national commemorative minute of silence.

There's a very nice and well intentioned campaign right now, enlisting American celebs to ask everyone to stand against antisemitism. That's incredibly important due to the global rise in antisemitism we've witnessed since Hamas' massacre, but the bigger issue to me is that so many people are ignorant on what actually constitutes Jew hatred. So in one reblog they can oppose antisemitism (and absolutely believe that this is their own stance), while in another they can help spread antisemitic narratives, including antisemitic dogwhistles, modern blood libels, erasure of Jewish rights, history and pain, and demonization of Jews. I'm not talking about people who are aware that stuff like saying "From the river to the sea" is repeating a genocidal chant against the Jews. I'm talking about people who honestly see a non-Jew posting an explanation on why anti-Zionism isn't antisemitism (even though Judaism IS Zionist, and anti-Zionism absolutely IS a tool for antisemites, and goes hand in hand with classic antisemitism), and they totally believe this, and reblog such a post, that is speaking over the majority of Jews, who are Zionist, and repeatedly try to explain how anti-Zionism hurts ALL OF US, every single Jew.

But it is a nice vid, so here:

The president of the Israeli Bar-Ilan University said at the Knesset (Israel's parliament) today that they are trying to deal with thousands of students who come to study, but are suffering from post-traumatic symptoms that impair them psychologically and cognitively, whether from the events of the Hamas massacre, or the fighting in Gaza. He mentioned that these symptoms harm every skill needed for academic work, even for people who are exceptionally gifted. BIU is the university with the fourth biggest number of students in Israel (according to 2021 numbers).

In connection to this subject, in the US, charges have been filed against a man who has threatened to blow up a local synagogue and kill Jews, following the war in Gaza.

New Zealand is another country now suspending funding to UNRWA, the UN agency whose members were found to be complicit in the Hamas massacre. The intel was reliable enough that the UN fired some of these employees, rather than suspend them pending a hearing. I first wrote about the news here. NZ is the 15th country to do this, though it should be noted that Switzerland froze its funding to this UN agency even before this latest intel, because of past antisemitism and terrorism encouragement that UNRWA was regularly responsible for. There is a continuously updated list of who's suspending its UNRWA funding at UN Watch.

This is 76 years old Menucha Cholati with her husband Israel.

On Oct 7, they each hid separately from the Hamas terrorists who invaded their community, kibbutz Kissufim, for hours on end. When Israel was finally rescued by Israeli soldiers, he asked to see his wife. He was advised that it's better not to, but he insisted. Holding on to a bag for all his and her meds, which had been pierced by bullets, he got to see his wife, only to discover that the terrorists burned her alive. May her memory be a blessing.

(for all of my updates and ask replies regarding Israel, click here)

#resources #israel #antisemitism #israeli #israel news #israel under attack #israel under fire #israelunderattack #terrorism #anti terrorism #hamas #antisemitic #antisemites #jews #jew #judaism #jumblr #frumblr #jewish #unrwa

[soloorganaas]

if your only statement on Holocaust Remembrance Day is sharing content from far-left Jewish organisations abusing the platform of this day to talk about Palestinian suffering when it is a time specifically to remember the horrors of the Holocaust, then you are actively engaging in antisemitic erasure

Holocaust remembrance is about exactly that. remembrance. it’s not a time to talk about the Palestinians, or the Israeli government, or the IDF, or the existence of the state of Israel. it’s not a time to draw a comparison between the Holocaust and the suffering of the Palestinians, or to make statements about how we should ‘learn from the lessons of the Holocaust with how the Palestinians are treated’. these things are incomparable

Jews do not have to justify taking space to reflect on the horrors we’ve suffered by making sure to talk about how the Palestinians are suffering now. we don’t have to apologise for asking the world to reflect on how unimaginably deadly antisemitism has been just because the world is furious at the actions of the Israeli government. when you make the message of this day not about the victims of the Holocaust but about the victims in Gaza, you are directly erasing Jewish history and pain, and that of every other group persecuted in that genocide

you can talk about Gaza in literally any other way. you can amplify the Palestinian suffering you feel is being silenced in literally any other way. you do not have to stomp over someone else’s history and trauma to do so. when you actively make that choice, its not about advocating for the Palestinians at all. it’s just about how much you don’t care about Jews

#antisemitism #israel #jumblr #holocaust remembrance day #i am so Done with goyim #but if you’re Jewish and also doing this then that’s truly unforgivable

[jewish-sideblog]

i have a question. i don’t mean this horribly!! but per this post you reblogged: https://www.tumblr.com/jewish-sideblog/744967243590434816, you believe to call what’s going on in palestine a genocide is antisemitic. can you elaborate on that, please?

I don't want to get in the habit of addressing things other people have said in posts I reblog, because those aren't my words and a reblog isn't a blanket endorsement of everything other people have said. But this topic is really important, so I'll weigh in just this once.

The primary concern I have with the use of the term genocide is Holocaust Inversion. Most people don't have a conception of genocide outside of the holocaust, so the usage of the word genocide is often an obvious ploy to weaponize Jewish suffering against Jewish people. Its sole purpose is to equate Israelis to Nazis and Jewish government to fascism.

Yet, there is a lot of death in Gaza right now. Horrible death, needless death. I think any erasure of that is as horrible as Oct. 7th denial. To outright deny that a genocide is happening exclusively because of the historical reality of the Holocaust isn't just or beneficial. So we have to look at it objectively. As I said earlier today, I'm not an international relations expert, so the following is my understanding and should be taken with large grains of salt.

"Genocide" as a war crime is extremely similar to murder as an individual crime. The key component (besides death) is intention. If you kill someone on accident in most English-speaking countries, you'll likely be charged with manslaughter, not murder. Similarly, genocide requires the intentional destruction of a population of people, well beyond the necessary realities of civilian casualty in active war zones. Death itself, even in large numbers, does not a genocide make. Civilians will always die on the battlefield. Always.

The International Criminal Court says that Israel has to meet standards of care in Gaza to ensure that genocide does not occur, meaning they don't think one has already occurred. There's some dispute on whether or not those standards are being met-- Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International say that Israel is failing to allow humanitarian aid into Gaza, while the Israeli government issued sealed documents to the Hague last month detailing their compliance measures. It'll take a while to hear back on those. Personally, I think starving Gaza is an obvious measure of intention to destroy Palestinian civilians.

Anybody is obviously welcome to disagree with the highest court of international law in the world. But the fact that the experts seem hesitant to make that determination gives me pause. Why are so many people keen to bring Israel to the Hague, not Russia for their indiscriminate killing of Ukrainians or the Houthis for manufacturing a humanitarian crisis in Yemen? Hamas, one of the governments of internationally-recognized Palestine, fully admits to intending to destroy the Jewish people in part. They say they'll do it again if they get half the chance. Why is only the Jewish state called out as a unique, genocidal evil? Must we label Palestinian deaths as a genocide in order to mourn them effectively? Aren't hundreds dead a day reason enough to mourn and to push for peace?

Again, I don't want to deny the allegations of genocide any more than I want to accept them. I'm following the experts on this one. And so far, the experts say "maybe". As long as they say "maybe", anybody who insists on definitely and absolutely labelling it as a genocide creeps at least suspiciously close to Holocaust Inversion in my eyes.

[quotesfrommyreading]

Don’t erase Jews from the story of their own genocide. Two out of every three European Jews were murdered by the Nazis, emptying a continent that was once a center of Jewish life. Almost eight decades later, the global Jewish population still hasn’t recovered from this body blow, and is lower than it was in 1939. Yet acknowledging this fact sometimes seems beyond the capacity of commentators.

Political leaders as diverse as Donald Trump and Justin Trudeau have issued public pronouncements on the Holocaust that failed to mention its Jewish victims. (Trudeau quickly clarified; Trump did not.) In 2017, Canada had to revise an $8.9 million Holocaust monument after officials belatedly noticed that its plaque omitted Jews. Jeremy Corbyn, the onetime leftist leader of Britain’s Labour Party, once co-sponsored a motion to replace the country’s Holocaust Memorial Day with a “Genocide Memorial Day.”

Some of these instances of Jewish erasure are more sinister than others. Often, the brevity of social media leads to unintended offense. In other cases, well-intentioned people are simply trying to draw universal lessons from specific Jewish suffering. But all of these incidents are part of a disturbing pattern in which Jews are excised as inconvenient accessories in the accounts of their own murders. Too often, Jewish persecution serves merely as a pivot to matters seen as more important.

It doesn’t have to work this way. The Holocaust is an indictment of humanity’s treatment of its Jews and its capacity for hatred of the other. The event has both particular and universal implications—and those who press us to pick between them are presenting a false choice.

  —  How Not to Talk About the Holocaust

#yair rosenberg #how not to talk about the holocaust #antisemitism #history #politics #sociology #conspiracy theories #holocaust #donald trump #justin trudeau #jeremy corbyn

[astrophileous]

Btw, I just wanted to drop by real quick in case any of you missed the update I did to my bio, and to make clear on where I stand regarding the on-going crisis happening in the world right now:

I support the freedom of Palestine, and I do not support the Zionist regime.

The situation in Gaza has now escalated beyond an average person's worst nightmare, and thus, I find it necessary to use whatever platform I have to claim my stance and voice my support whenever I can. I know most of you (all of you, really) didn't follow me for politics, but that's the thing: this isn't about politics anymore, this is about humanity.

As someone who grew up in a country who went through colonization, I've been taught since childhood about the horrors of living under an oppressive regime, where every single second of your life is haunted by the possibility of expulsion or death. My heart has been breaking these past few weeks, seeing how the world responds to a literal genocide happening right in front of their eyes. An entire nation stands on the brink of extinction, and a large number of the world population has chosen to turn their backs on them and entirely dismiss their sufferings.

I know you followed this blog for my fics, and I also never intended to use this blog for anything else other than to share my writings, but I'll be damned if I don't use every last bit of privilege I have to do my part in this fight against injustice. The core purpose of this blog won't change; I would still mainly use it to post my fanfictions. But starting from now, I would also use this blog to share updates about the Israel-Palestine situation as well.

Maybe some of you will find that annoying, and maybe you'll end up unfollowing me. Maybe, some of you even disagree. Maybe you're the kind of person who's okay with the complete erasure of an entire ethnic group. If that's the case, then you should definitely unfollow me. It's fine. I don't care. I don't need anyone who supports genocide lurking around my page anyway.

With that said, I also wanna stress that my stance doesn't mean I excuse discrimination against any group of people. I condemn anti-semitism, and anyone who tries to take advantage of my support for Palestine to promote their discrimination against Jewish people will be blocked.

Thank you so much for reading. I hope that all of us can bear witness to the day humanity wins.

From the river to the sea 🇵🇸

#zaranting #free palestine #palestine #gaza #gaza strip #from the river to the sea palestine will be free

[fromchaostocosmos]

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[mylevisdontfitanymore]

Whenever the mood strikes you, I’d love to hear your thoughts on Bucky doing HOLIDAY STUFFING. I’m talking:

Eating whole pumpkin pie, slice by slice and covered in wayyyy too much whipped cream.

Indulging on a Thanksgiving feast, and then indulging yet again the next day on the leftovers

Scarfing down all the cookies meant for Santa, because he’s just that greedy

(Or, if you prefer to write Bucky as Jewish, latkes drowned in sour cream that makes his stomach gurgly and covers his face in greasy frying oil, ALSO LOTS OF CHOCOLATE GELT)

Getting sloshy, full, and burpy with alcohol on New Years

I prefer sambucky, but please go off from any of these in any direction or ship, it’d make me soooo happy

🤤

Thanksgiving is quickly approaching and that is making this feel particularly appropriate!

So, a Thanksgiving themed fic is it...

I mean, as much fun as a Christmas or Hanukkah stuffing would be, Thanksgiving is the Peak Feederism holiday (even if we fucking hate the roots of it because, yeah, we hate the slaughter and continued erasure/silencing of indigenous peoples. Acknowledging the suffering and continuing to learn and support those people is important! Especially as we celebrate) soooo-

Here we go!

Unbeta'd SamBucky belly kink. Warnings for belly kink obviously, stuffing, dirty talk, etc.

I feel like Sam and Bucky would go all out during this season!

Sam specifically strikes me as somebody who'd revel in hosting - providing food and games and housing and entertainment - especially if there are children around. Uncle Sam is literally the best. He loves kids and is very cute with them (as much as Bucky doesn't want to admit, the grump).

Bucky, on the other hand, doesn't love the holidays. Get-togethers can be stressful and loud and sometimes even scary. He's the most social he's been since deprogramming, but it can still be a struggle. He gets through it with rich flavors, though. It's super hard to complain when you're shoveling food into your mouth haha. And it's especially hard to complain when it's Sam's cooking-

His man's cooking is Good.

(Also, Sam would make jokes all November that why stuff a turkey when he can stuff Bucky? And in return, Bucky would 100% joke that Sam should be afraid considering that birds are the main course around this time of year and he should be especially afraid considering that he has a partner that's been known to get hangry so if he's not careful, he might actually end up as the main part of the meal...)

But, anyway-

When this year they decide it'll just be Sam and Bucky with no family, no trip down to Louisiana... that's when things really start to get interesting.

Kinky interesting.

Shit, Bucky is already packing on the pounds during fall as it turns into winter, bulking up for the cold weather, so shouldn't Sam make it worse by making him taste every dish as Sam "prepares" by "testing" some of the recipes they'll have for their TWO Thanksgiving dinners this year? One that's all to themselves. Private 😏 And a second one that's for them and their friends. Well, just Nat, Steve, and Clint because they've not got anywhere else to go. So they'll be coming to hang out for dinner and dessert.

About Sam "testing" new recipes though-

Literally the DAY after Halloween (meaning the day after Bucky nearly ate himself sick with candy, sitting on their couch in a too-well-filled-out bright orange sweater with a jack-o-lantern face on the tummy (it was a "maternity sweater" that Sam got way too much of a kick out of purchasing for him)), Sam started making festive foods and feeding them to Bucky. Physically feeding him or just encouraging him verbally. Feeding him all different types of pie, multiple iterations of stuffing, turkey, duck, rich casseroles, handmade dinner rolls, several types of cookies then brownies, potatoes prepared seemingly a million different ways, etc.

It's so much food every day.

It's so much food every day that Bucky goes to bed every night packed tight. Full like a beach ball given one, two, three, or four too many pumps of air. Straining. Sam jokes they need to start taking photos like he's pregnant, that way Bucky can see how much progress he's making (and so they can see those pretty stretch marks grow and redden and move 🫠)... Bucky grumbles about it. Complaining that he'd have to stand up to do that. And he can't. Can't do anything but complain. At least Sam's hands are as talented at giving belly rubs as they are at cooking. So, okay, fine, Bucky can put up with him 🙄😉

All of that is to say, Bucky's really putting on winter weight by the time they actually make it to Thanksgiving week. (That's right Thanksgiving WEEK. Sam goes in Hard.) Bucky'll never need a second jacket during winter at this rate! He's very well insulated with blubber and always sweating because of the warm, heavy food shoved into that big tank attached to his front.

It's a good thing that it's Thanksgiving week anyway because Bucky swears with all this consistent stuffing his stomach has been stretched out. Stretched so he needs more food than he did before, which is saying something. His normal level of overwhelming calories just isn't enough these days; he needs Sam cooking too. He needs to be constantly on the edge of crashing into an epic food coma. He needs stuffing. He needs indulgence. He needs pure gluttony.

He needs so much food that even though the whole week leading up to the actual Thursday of Thanksgiving he's stuffed for every meal, every day, and spoiled with snacks and dessert too, on Thursday he wakes up with his stomach still full from the night before yet, he's hungry.

Or, fuck, not even hungry-

He's starved. So much so that he has to have his first dinner (with multiple servings of everything) before their guests even arrive. Because, yeah, of course, Thanksgiving is about glutting yourself but Bucky and Sam's friends aren't ready to see just how much Bucky can fit in his swollen tank...

So, for now, they placate Bucky beforehand including his pre-dinner dinner but also... earlier in the day, Bucky, on Thanksgiving, has a massive breakfast. Then, he has a mid-morning "snack" (re: a decent meal for anyone who's not a massive glutton). And he has this lavish, complete lunch like normal. Also like normal, Bucky sneaks tastes of everything Sam is making for dinner. Plus, he grabs snacks from the pantry when he tires of playfully being smacked on the hand because Sam's trying to shoo him away. And then - THEN - Bucky has his first dinner. He has seconds of his first dinner. Next, in a few hours when their friends have been ushered in, hugged, chit-chat has been engaged in, and the table has been set...

Bucky has Thanksgiving dinner with their friends.

And, of course, Thanksgiving dinner with their friends includes dessert.

By dessert, Bucky is beginning to lose the fight against stifling moans and burps, and panting breaths. He's too full to hide how full he is. He can't breathe. He feels like he's beginning to pour sweat. There is so much heavy, rich food inside him it's like his stomach is packed completely full, so now, the food has just begun to pile up in his esophagus, running out of room.

But...

Sam doesn't think he's done yet.

When all their friends leave, slipping out of their door to go and crash at their own places...

Sam slowly, slowly guides Bucky over to the couch, barely able to contain his glee at how Bucky waddles, hands supporting his heavy, heavy belly. And Sam bites the inside of his cheek to not smile as he "innocently" asks where Bucky got a yoga ball and when he had time to stuff it up under his shirt. Bucky whines in response to the joke. He feels like a yoga ball.

Plopping heavily down onto the couch, shit, it feels like his belly rounds out all the way to his knees. He's huge.

He's so fucking full.

And Sam just pushes himself against Bucky's bloated, blubbery side, murmuring hotly, "so, you ready to take care of all the leftovers for me, Bucky?"

Bucky makes a high, whimpery sound. He burps.

"Making room?" Sam chuckles, "c'mon, babycakes, I can't stand the way food tastes once it's been refrigerated and warmed back up, you know that."

Bucky whines again, rubbing the parts of his stomach that he can still reach. His arms look short in comparison to that massive fucking tummy. The apex of his belly he hasn't been able to touch by himself, not when he's stuffed, in months.

"So you're gonna have to eat it all, okay?" Sam says, grabbing Bucky's soft, puffy jaw and kissing his pretty pouty lips demandingly. "You're gonna eat everything that got left behind, you're gonna let that food join all its friends in this belly right here-" Sam pats his belly; he tries to press his fingers into the bloated top of his gut but, despite his normal thick layer of insulation... Sam's fingers don't sink in. He's taut. A completely blown-up balloon... like one of the fucking Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade floats.

Bucky moans, his head completely thrown back. Eyes shut. Wet lips wide open. Flushed prettily. Suspended in the eroticism.

"-And then tomorrow we're gonna do it all over again. I'm gonna work myself to the bone makin' a whole new feast for you and you're gonna eat all of it and enjoy it. You're gonna eat your heart out, glutton."

Bucky moans breathily, all but classically trained to feel a rush of arousal whenever eating or food is mentioned.

"When you do this again tomorrow I'll get you all to myself, that'll be the best part. I'll get to rub your gut as it fills up. I'll get to sit in what's left of your lap. I'll get to feed you every fucking bite if I want. It'll just be me and you and your huge gut. Bloated from a whole month of indulgence. Still full from a feast fit for a King just the night before... I wonder how big you'll be tomorrow night, this same time? Can you imagine yourself bigger? Huh, sweet cheeks? Can you?"

Bucky shakes his head drunkenly.

"Well, get ready, baby. You're gonna be bigger. I'm gonna make you bigger. Fatter."

Hope you enjoyed!

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[jewishvitya]

hei. i enjoy your blogs, i hope you could clear something up for me., i just saw someone claim to be "zionist as in i believe jewish people have the right to self determination in their indigenous homeland",, ive actually seen the claim that jewish ppl are indigenous to israel and are somehow denied that identity as a form of anti semitism and erasure of jewish experience multiple times.. and it always confused me so much cuz like israel was set up as this nationalist project in 1948, before the region was a mess mostly under the rule of the ottomans, but the palestinian culture and ppl were always there. how can someone be indigenous to a region if they werent there before? is there any truth to the claim or is it just co-opting leftist language again?

its so evil how the state of israel could jist completely legitimize itself by co-opting jewish culture and pretending like being in support of it is a fundamental part of jewishness :(

Thank you!! I'm glad you do.

I can try, but I'm not sure how good I'll be at explaining this. Maybe someone else can add to this. If I repeat things I said before, I apologize.

That is a definition of zionism used by many zionists who lean politically to the left. I don't subscribe to these softer definitions of zionism because saying it's just "the right to Jewish self determination in our ancestral homeland" ignores that in practice over the last century the next words are "to the exclusion of others." I define zionism through its practical outcome - which is what we did to Palestinians.

Jewish people originate here. Our religious laws and practices (many of which are regularly disregarded by Israel and by settlers when they do things like destroying olive trees and water sources) are tied to this specific land. There are holidays and religious rituals that are either fundamentally changed or can't be practiced at all if we're anywhere else in the world. Culturally most branches of Judaism maintained this connection throughout our history. And we didn't leave willingly. An empire expelled us from the place that was our land. When the point of indigeniety comes up, this is why. You'll see arguments like - when does indigeniety expire? How many generations until you no longer have a claim to the ancestral homeland you were driven away from?

So this is the cultural context for Judaism. This is something that I also can't really ignore. I can't pretend I don't care about this land and the connection we always had to it.

That said, I still see this as using leftist terminology inappropriately.

To talk about Israel, a lot of us talk about colonialism, and specifically settler colonialism. I lived in the West Bank settlements so to me this really resonates. The argument I get at that point is that an indigenous group can't colonize their own land.

And this is why I'm saying it's a misuse of terminology. We're using that label to absolve ourselves. As if the word "indigenous" is a stamp of approval we get to apply to our actions while we repeat the violence of colonizing forces in history.

Ethnic cleansing, occupation, building settlements - and now also genocide. The tools we use resonate with indigenous people all over the world, because they suffered through similar kinds of oppression. Always with differences and different contexts, these things are never 1:1, but there's a reason indigenous groups around the world are in solidarity with Palestinians. I shared about a video from a Korean person talking about how colonialism by Japan broke the thread of their history - old buildings that had to be rebuilt instead of being preserved, historical cultural practices and art forms being lost or changed due to the loss of artisans. These are things Israel is doing now.

So to me, this is using the word "landback" and "liberation" for a violent takeover of land from an indigenous group. You mentioned the Ottomans - Palestine has been conquered over and over throughout history. Those regimes, sure, fighting them off can be liberatory, if the intent isn't to become the conquerors in their place. But there's nothing to liberate from Palestinians, because they're not colonizing anything. They belong in this land.

I'm really angry that so many of us try to deny the Palestinians their own connection. They have roots here, a long and rich history shaped by life in the land. While we destroy so much and say our claim is so strong we get to kill or drive them away for it.

#riki babbles

[anniekoh]

On the (mis)uses of history, and on Jewish safety AND Palestinian freedom

An Open Letter on the Misuse of Holocaust Memory

Omer Bartov, Christopher R. Browning, Jane Caplan, Debórah Dwork, Michael Rothberg, et al.

Appealing to the memory of the Holocaust obscures our understanding of the antisemitism Jews face today and dangerously misrepresents the causes of violence in Israel-Palestine.

November 20, 2023

Israeli leaders and others are using the Holocaust framing to portray Israel’s collective punishment of Gaza as a battle for civilization in the face of barbarism, thereby promoting racist narratives about Palestinians. This rhetoric encourages us to separate this current crisis from the context out of which it has arisen. Seventy-five years of displacement, fifty-six years of occupation, and sixteen years of the Gaza blockade have generated an ever-deteriorating spiral of violence that can only be arrested by a political solution. There is no military solution in Israel-Palestine, and deploying a Holocaust narrative in which an “evil” must be vanquished by force will only perpetuate an oppressive state of affairs that has already lasted far too long. Insisting that “Hamas are the new Nazis”—while holding Palestinians collectively responsible for Hamas’s actions—attributes hardened, antisemitic motivations to those who defend Palestinian rights. ... We encourage those who have so readily invoked comparisons to Nazi Germany to listen to the rhetoric coming from Israel’s political leadership. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told the Israeli parliament that “this is a struggle between the children of light and the children of darkness” (a tweet from his office with the same phrase was later deleted). Defense Minister Yoav Gallant proclaimed, “We are fighting human animals and we act accordingly.”

@MehdiHasanShow · Nov 19, 2023

@PeterBeinart on the censorship of Pro-Palestinian rhetoric: “The idea that if you’re going to…say you can’t say ‘Palestine should be free from the river [to] the sea’ then you also shouldn’t be able to say that you can have one Israel from the river to the sea.”

@AnamZakaria1 · Nov 26, 2023

When I studied genocide in context of the 1971 War, I wanted to know how the state produced narratives that enabled genocidal violence with such impunity while creating a culture of silencing that remains difficult to penetrate 50 years on. Many of those techniques at play now: 1. The bracketing of history. Picking a specific period in time as the ‘point of origin’ from where the state wants people to remember the story begins, conveniently enabling the erasure and conscious ‘forgetting’ of decades of systemic violence & oppression 2. The weaponization of pain and suffering of a community to legitimize genocidal violence against another community 3. Depoliticizing political & rights based movements by labelling everyone a terrorist or terrorist sympathizer - the term terrorism amid global Islamophobia, has of course become a particularly powerful tool of depoliticization and dehumanization 4. Creating hysteria about how ‘enemy’ nations are supporting those whom the state violates the bodies and rights of to garner political legitimacy for its ‘mission’ or ‘operation’ 5. Creating false equivalencies to ‘neutralize’ state violence - ignoring that it is backed by state machinery, and here a global machinery of weapons and narrative making too. At the heart of this is also an argument that violence is the monopoly of the state - that the violence unleashed by the state is a legitimate, even necessary act and anyone criticizing this violence is an enemy, who too, must be eradicated / silenced

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@sarahschulman3 · Nov 10

1. The NY Times coverage is absurd. A Pulitzer Prize winning reporter quotes a Jewish student at my school claiming “antisemitism” is having to see a poster that says “Gaza is an open-air prison.” He should be asking this student why he feels “attacked” by seeing a fact . 2. He should explore with this kid 1. The meaning of the statement. And 2. Why that meaning is being confounded with abuse when literally tens of thousands of people are starving, deliberately denied water and health care and are helplessly surrounded with the dead and dying. 3. He needs to report on the actuality: the profound inability of this student to understand what other people are experiencing. That is the actual story.

Image 1: Our statement on the march (Na'amod UK): Pitting Jewish safety against Palestinian freedom doesn't make Jews safer, it makes fighting antisemitisim harder.

Image 2: Why is traffic stopped ahead (tweet). On the shut down of the Manhattan Bridge on Nov 26, 2023.

#palestine #israel

[matan4il]

Daily update post:

I have to start this one with the sad news that the hero who saved others by stopping the terrorist yesterday, despite being stabbed in several places (including in the neck), has passed away. His name was Uri Moyal, he was 51 years old, he leaves behind a wife and three kids. Yesterday, the number of wounded was still not fully clear, today it's confirmed that in addition to Uri, the terrorist managed to injure 2 more people. In the pic below you can see Uri holding up a lifetime achievement award. At his funeral today, his daughter Sapir mourned him: "Thank you for being a dad, who was also a teacher for life. There is no one who knew you and didn't fall in love with you."

The German press has reported (so far I've only managed to find this English source) that this week, the antisemitic, genocidal slogan "From the river to the sea" has been found painted in Arabic on the site of the 1972 kidnapping and massacre of 11 Israeli athletes by Palestinian terrorists. I'll point out that recently, the grandson of one of the murdered athletes was attacked (he had several bones in his face broken) in Berlin by an Arab anti-Israel activist.

A terrorist attack was prevented from happening, when two Palestinians, carrying a big knife and a sword, were arrested on their way to a Jewish community in the middle of the night. They're currently being questioned.

After Canada and Sweden, now Australia has also announced that it will renew its funding of UNRWA. I may sound like a broken record, but this is morally broken. They KNOW that UN agency is complicit in countless crimes of helping anti-Jewish hate and violence, the IDF evidence uncovered thanks to the war are just the tip of the iceberg when we're actually talking about decades of complicity, and resuming the funding without any changes, without even an investigation into this being completed, means these countries don't even care about looking as if they care about Jewish and Israeli lives. It's beyond ccontemptible. So. Canada, Sweden and now Australia, whenever these countries' heads tell you that they care about human rights, know that this includes, "but not for Jews."

And because I mentioned the long, long complicity of UNRWA (and many in charge of or dealing with it), here's the CEO of the NGO UN Watch explaining it better than most can, because they have been working for years on calling attention to the wrongdoing of UNRWA:

There's this common lie spread by the anti-Israel crowd, that everything was just peachy between Jews and Muslim in the Middle East, until Zionism came along. This is a blatant erasure of repeated discrimination, persecution, forced conversions, expulsions and massacres perpetrated against Jews living in Muslim majority countries for centuries. The ethnic cleansing of the entire Middle East of Jews (other than in Israel) is only the climax of that long history of antisemitism under Muslim rule, exactly like the Holocaust is just the climax of the long history of antisemitism under Christian European rule. And yesterday, I came across another reminder.

I was listening to an interview with Rabbi Abraham Cooper, an American rabbi, about the discrimination he had recently suffered during a trip to Saudi Arabia. I'd read the headlines, but hearing him tell it in his own words (in amazing Hebrew, might I add) really drove it home. He was heading a US delegation meant to inspect the state of religious freedom in Saudi Arabia, when he gets a phone call from the Saudi Ministry of Foreign Affairs, telling him that the Saudis have laws which must be respected, and which dictate that no one but "the members of our religion" (meaning, Muslims) can walk around publicly displaying signs of their religious identity. In other words, Rabbi Cooper was told to remove his kippah (the head cover religious Jews wear). Rabbi Cooper asked the official on the phone, whether he was sure, and tried arguing against this decision. When the demand was reaffirmed, Rabbi Cooper responded that he wouldn't take off his kippah for the Soviets decades ago, and he wouldn't be taking it off for the Saudis, either. That meant he had to leave, and so the delegation had to end its visit. This isn't a small incident of anti-Jewish discrimination in the 1930's, in an Arab country where no one would even bat an eye at that. This is a Saudi official, speaking to an American Jew, in 2024, during an official visit, meant to check the state of religious freedom in that country, while Saudi Arabia is doing its best to present a more tolerant, modern and progressive image for the world. And this still happened. There is a long tradition of antisemitism in the Middle East, it doesn't simply disappear even when Jews were forced to, and the attempts to deny it with the excuse of "But Zionism!" are antisemitic, too.

This is Hadar Gadol.

He's an Israeli author, a practitioner of alternative medicine, and as a reservist, he serves as a casualty officer (an army official who lets a family know that their loved one was killed in combat, in Israel a casualty officer also continues to work with and support the family after the initial notification, kind of like a social worker appointed by the army). In January, IDF soldier Mark Kononovich was killed. A few weeks ago, as party of taking care of the family, Hadar took Mark's dad Alex on a tour of the last army post where Mark and the friends who died with him had slept. In the middle of that, Hadar got a heart attack. Alex happens to be a doctor, he recognized the signs, administered some first aid, and made sure Hadar would be taken to the hospital to receive the treatment he needed. This is Hadar after being released from the hospital, visiting Alex to thank him (you can also see Mark's younger brother in the pic):

During this visit, Alex told Hadar, "You took our case as very close to you, you felt it like we do, very close to the heart." I have no doubt their bond is gonna be there for years to come. Hadar is actually not the first Israeli casualty officer I've heard of, who collapsed and was in need of hospitalization since Oct 7, just the latest. I think that in a way says something about how acutely Israelis feel the pain of the massacre, whether we personally lost someone or not.

(for all of my updates and ask replies regarding Israel, click here)

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[beardedmrbean]

White House national security spokesperson John Kirby has rejected a claim by Democratic Representative Rashida Tlaib that Israel's military offensive in Gaza was tantamount to "genocide," calling it "an irresponsible way of describing" the situation.

In a social media video on Friday, the Michigan representative, who is of Palestinian descent, called for a ceasefire—as she and other progressives have already requested—before displaying text which read: "Joe Biden supported the genocide of the Palestinian people. The American people won't forget."

Since around 1,500 Hamas and Islamic Jihad militants staged a surprise attack on Israel on October 7, killing an estimated 1,400 people including many civilians, Israel has conducted an intensive campaign of air strikes on Gaza and a subsequent ground offensive, with the objective of eliminating Hamas. According to the Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry, to date over 10,000 Palestinians have been killed.

Speaking to Fox News on Monday, Kirby noted that members of Congress "speak for themselves," but said that the National Security Council was not focused on the domestic political situation in the U.S.

The president has appeared to soften his rhetoric regarding the conflict since facing criticism from the left over his pro-Israel stance—recently responding to a heckler calling for a ceasefire that he supported a humanitarian "pause"—though one expert previously suggested to Newsweek that this was more likely in light of the realities on the ground in Gaza.

Asked to respond to Tlaib's accusation that the Biden administration was supporting genocide, Kirby said: "Well, of course we're not doing that. And what is happening in Gaza, again, as terrible as all of these civilian casualties are—and we know there's many, many thousands of them, and we don't want there to be any. I don't want to minimize that at all.

"But you can't look at what is happening in Gaza and say that it fits the definition of genocide. And clearly, we don't agree with that description. We think that is an irresponsible way of describing this. We don't associate ourselves with that. In our view, that is not what is happening here."

Newsweek approached Tlaib's office via email for comment on Tuesday.

When previous attacks on Israel have occurred, America has been able to pressure it into less aggressive retaliation. This time, having suffered the worst loss of Jewish life since the Holocaust, the Israeli government refused to commit to a ceasefire.

Commentators have suggested that any pause in its offensive would give the well-entrenched militants time to regroup.

But as Gaza is densely populated, and Hamas is thought to place militant bases within civilian populations, such an operation is likely to incur a high civilian death toll—something that is deeply unpalatable for those who see Palestinians as the victims of historic injustices.

Kirby said the White House did not want to see civilians hurt or killed, and that "we're going to continue working with our Israeli counterparts to try to minimize that to the maximum extent possible."

Other Democrats have increasingly distanced themselves from Tlaib over some of her recent remarks on the conflict.

When asked about whether she agreed with Tlaib's claim that Biden was complicit in a genocide, Pramila Jayapal, a U.S. representative for Washington state and chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, told MSNBC that she was "not willing to say," but that her colleague was "not the first person to say this."

After Tlaib defended the use of the controversial pro-Palestinian phrase "from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free"—which some Jewish organizations argue implies the erasure of Israel and is antisemitic, though others contest this saying it can have a number of meanings—she was openly criticized by fellow Michigan Democrats, while progressive Senator Bernie Sanders suggested the phrase was unhelpful in resolving a "horrendously complex issue."

#nunyas news