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drawnbypaw · 6 months
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it’s going to be Halloween and there’s poorly timed media releases, but we need to keep talking about Palestine and the Palestinian people. Please.
I’m a Jewish, third generation Holocaust survivor. I am telling you now that this is genocide. The Israeli government wants to wipe out the Palestinian people entirely. They speak of Palestinian people the same way we were spoken about, the way my grandmother was spoken about when she was in the concentration camp. Inhuman animals. This is wrong, and it is clearly wrong, and it is fucking evil.
Of course I want a homeland. It’s horrifying to exist in a world with so much antisemitism and nazism. But I do not want it at the cost of blood on my hands. That is evil. That couldn’t ever be worth it. I want my Israeli cousins who are being drafted to refuse and take the jail time. I want my entire people to realize that we are watching history repeat for another group and we cannot stay silent or compliant, like people were when it was us or our ancestors. The Israeli government is destroying the Palestinian people. Speak up against them NOW! Please, please.
There’s not much I can do from the comfort of my home. Please link petitions to sign below, preferably not from change.org. I do not have control of where my money goes and I don’t have a platform either. I’m just making this post because we need to stay focused and fight for a free Palestine. Please listen.
edit: I’m making updates in the notes for those who haven’t seen. I linked a petition I signed and PCRF’s website as I was able to make a donation. Please continue sharing resources, I’ll keep updating!
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tortoisewithoutashell · 6 months
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Please do not stop posting about Palestine. At a time when Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter are taking down accounts advocating for Palestinian freedom, please be even louder! They want us to give up, but we won't!
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mightyflamethrower · 7 months
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By: Abigail Shrier
Published: Dec 2023
According to a popular meme, “Queers for Palestine” is like “Chickens for KFC”: To sign on to that slogan, you’d have to be suicidal or an idiot. That, at any rate, seems to be the prevailing view in the circles I travel in when it comes to the transgender activists who support Hamas. The climate activists, the feminist extremists, Gays 4 Gaza, and sad-sack members of Jewish Voice for Peace—each of them strikes us as dupes of a regime that would happily jail, repress, or massacre them. Can they really be this self-defeating? Can they really be this gullible and dumb? Well, at the poker table of today’s leftism, if you don’t know who the fool is, more than likely, the fool is you.
Consider Black Lives Matter Chicago, which announced its support for Hamas in the days after the massacre with a gleeful post on X (né Twitter), featuring a Palestinian flag and a silhouette of a paraglider, presumably on his way to rape women and butcher children, as Palestinian paragliders had just done. “I stand with Palestine,” the poster read. Does BLM, an organization whose aim is to “bring justice, healing and freedom to Black people across the globe,” not know how Ethiopian Jews would be treated if they dared visit Gaza?
Similarly, an associate professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara, called Israel a “white supremacist Zionist project.” Anyone who has ever visited Israel knows this to be absurd on its face. The 100,000-plus Ethiopian Jews are far from “white,” and a majority of Israel’s population—the Mizrahim, or Easterners, who have been living in and around the Middle East since antiquity—could not be and should not be considered any “whiter” than their Palestinian neighbors.
The foolishness extends beyond race. Climate activists like Greta Thunberg took to Twitter to pledge support for Gaza in the days after the massacre—almost as if they didn’t know that the unprovoked war launched by Hamas on October 7 and the thousands of rockets fired from Gaza into Israel will result in both increased carbon emissions and devastation to the local environment.
Meanwhile, gender-studies departments in the United States have sought to “amplify” the call from Palestinian feminists “to join the struggle for Palestinian liberation.” So, in a struggle between an Islamist police state—quite literally, a patriarchy—whose terrorists were encouraged to rape Israeli women on October 7 and a society where women enjoy full rights and serve in the military, Western academic feminists choose the former. And at Columbia University, the queer nonbinary women student group, LionLez, held a movie night: “It’s FREE PALESTINE over here. Zionists aren’t invited.”
Why are the BLM supporters, climate extremists, academic feminists, and trans activists so quick to side with Hamas? Why are those who champion women’s reproductive rights so quick to align themselves with a Hamas-controlled Gaza where women lack the right to drive, let alone get an abortion? Why would they rally to a society where men are encouraged to hit the stray uppity wife? For that matter, why would so many LGBTQ+ groups side against a society that hosts some of the largest Pride festivals worldwide so that they can throw in with another that puts homosexuals to death?
Conservative thinkers James Lindsay and Christopher Rufo have painstakingly traced the Marxist roots of all of these groups, showing that they all branch from the same rotten revolutionary trunk. These groups aim to overthrow the West, and so they support one another. Nests of critical theory fill their interchangeably empty heads.
But I want to suggest a motivation less highbrow and more straightforward. They are all fed by the same polluted water source: hatred, envy, and resentment.
What leads them to show up at the pro-Hamas rallies in remarkable numbers is not ideological commitment. Sure, some may want Marxist revolution, if they even understand what that is. But whatever beliefs they may hold about gender, race, or climate quickly unravel under the clumsy weight of the obvious contradiction of supporting a regime so hostile to these causes.
Which means they are no more motivated by ideology, in other words, than Adolf Hitler was when he allied himself with Haj Amin al-Husseini, the Arab mufti of Jerusalem, or the Japanese—another race allegedly inferior to whites in his despicable hierarchy—and made war upon the white French and British. Hitler believed Nazi racial theory, of course. But sometimes hatred simply burns brighter and hotter than all other ideological commitments combined.
So don’t bother informing Gays 4 Gaza that same-sex attraction is proscribed by criminal law in Gaza, backed by a penalty of 10 years’ imprisonment, in that very territory they’re so wild about. No need to educate them about the finding by Pew Research that the Palestinian population’s opposition to homosexuality is among the highest in the world; that in 2016, Hamas responded to a senior commander’s homosexual activity with a firing squad; or that gay adoption and gay marriage are strictly forbidden in Palestinian territories.
They already know—and they really, truly don’t care.
You could plead with Greta Thunberg and her dead-eyed friends that Israel leads the world in desalination efforts and technology. You could suggest to any of the climate activists marching for Hamas that if they cared about conservation, they might want to side with the state leading the world in renewable-energy technologies. You could remind them that Israel turned over ecologically advanced greenhouses to Gaza worth $14 million as part of the 2005 disengagement—only to see those greenhouses promptly destroyed by the Gazans. If these activists can’t be moved to care for the women who were raped, the babies and elderly butchered, then perhaps Israel’s remarkable efforts to produce electricity from the ocean and seawalls ought to earn it a shout-out from the climate-change warriors? Nah.
They aren’t stupid, and they aren’t suicidal.
Here’s what they are.
They are LGBTQ+ activists who aren’t primarily motivated by gay rights. They are climate radicals who aren’t principally motivated by concern about the climate. And if there were ever a BLM member sincerely concerned about racial justice, no doubt he has long since left the organization behind. Its remaining rank-and-file are no more committed to their putative causes than Hamas is to improving the lives of ordinary Palestinians.
The postmodern left celebrated Lia Thomas, the mediocre male athlete who swapped genders his senior year in college and won NCAA female swimmer of the year, not because it wants to improve the lives of gay and transgender Americans. Had that been the goal, the left would have accepted a fair and sustainable solution, such as an open category for all gender identities alongside a female-only team, and safe transgender changing rooms.
No, they want to take over women’s teams and women’s restrooms, for the same reason a vandal loves a clean white wall. They enjoy making women afraid. They enjoy deleting girls’ names from the record books. They thrill at seeing average Americans squirm.
When a DEI staffer named Nahliah Webber informs parents and children, “There is a killer cop sitting in every school where white children learn,” that isn’t a statement of values. You don’t glue yourself to the Mona Lisa, as eco-warriors have done, or vandalize the Wellington Arch in central London because you love the earth that much. You do it because you despise the civilization that cradles such treasures, because your desire to inflict pain on those you resent deeply overshadows any aim you may espouse on behalf of Mother Earth.
Same with the tearing down of a poster with an image of a child held in captivity, then laughing at a woman who tries to stop you, crying out for mercy. In videos, those who vandalize the posters rarely even react. Their indifference is chilling. At Boston University, confronted by a man holding a camera phone who tells her she should be ashamed of herself for taking down the posters and allying with movement that spreads anti-Semitism, a woman named Anna Epstein stares him coolly in the face. “Dude, you literally know I’m Jewish,” she says.
The great 20th-century economic journalist Henry Hazlitt once noted that Marxism itself ultimately reduces to highly concentrated envy: “The whole gospel of Karl Marx can be summed up in a single sentence: Hate the man who is better off than you are.” Universities may add intellectual arabesque to the expression of this hate. But in the end, when these groups bang their bongo drums, their chants reduce to a single creed: Hate those who have something you don’t.
That is what unites this motley crew of mutually exclusive values. When they cry for genocide of the Jews across America’s campuses—“Intifada Revolution,” or “Glory to Our Martyrs,” as one George Washington University student group did—they simply want to inflict fear and instill chaos in a peaceable civilization they despise.
They are not the dupes of a hideous regime in opposition to their values—racial justice, reproductive rights, women’s liberation, climate awareness. We are the dupes for believing they sincerely held those values in the first place.
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diablo1776 · 5 months
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queergraffiti · 6 months
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"lesbians for a free Palestine"
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angelcrash · 4 months
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Celebrate pride in Gaza? Hamas says no
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sayruq · 4 months
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politijohn · 6 months
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kimslovebin · 2 months
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hi again, im gonna link the KOSA masterpost and try and get the kosa tag to go on trending, we need more people to talk about how dangerous KOSA is and can affect all of us. If we can get the tiktok ban tag to trend, so we can with the stop kosa tag.
EDIT: IT HAS NOT BEEN PASSED YET. READ THIS TWEET.
if this bill passes (which I'm guaranteed it won't since it violates the first amendment and it has been shut down before.) it can affect queer people, palestinians, and more. you would need your ID to use socials, your parents can see what your doing online, you will NOT have any privacy if this bill ends up passing. (Which again it won't, we need to keep speaking up about it.)
also if you have an issue with me talking about this so much then just block me and move on, this is serious and should be more well known.
SPEAK UP ABOUT KOSA AND STOP INTERNET CENSORSHIP.
small edit: if this post has any misinfo then please let me know, a lot of misinformation has been going around and I don't want to spread something that is false !!
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ahaura · 5 months
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"How Do I Balance Looking Left-Wing While Pro-Israel?" - Douglas Murray 🔥🔥 Response
Interviewer: It's difficult because there is a huge range of beliefs and I have Jewish friends of mine who go on the Saturday marches.
Douglas Murray: Really?
Interviewer: It's awful and…
Murray: Wow, there's a case for psychiatrists.
Interviewer: I mean, unfortunately they're probably not my friends anymore but there is a minority of people who, Jewish people, who go on the marches on a Saturday. "No, it's amazing, we're marching for the poor people in Gaza." And you have that side of things, you know, it sort of goes on to a question that I want to ask you, which lots of people have asked me to ask you, which is this.
You know, the Jewish Community is a real mix of political beliefs and there is a large group of people who would call themselves far more to the left. They would be the Guardian readers, they would... that side of view. And they have said to me, I love Douglas, I love what he says. But he's a bit right-wing. And they say, how do I balance my political beliefs with what he's saying and his more right-wing beliefs? And they're struggling with that.
Murray: I tell you, I've got one response...
Interviewer: Tell me.
Murray: ... and how about asking them to tell the truth? How about urging them to orient their life not by a boring political seesaw game that no one cares about, except for themselves, and instead of orienting themselves by, "oh, exactly how can I position myself?" No one cares. No one cares.
Interviewer: This is why we love Douglas, right?
Murray: Instead of saying how, will I balance myself to make sure I keep my Guardian reader friends on-side, say, how about you just orient yourself towards the truth?
If something exists in front of you, and when you come across a mental blockage like this, you can keep head hitting your head against the wall. Or you can realize that you've got to do something else, and the something else in this case is, to look frankly at what is actually happening.
Also, by the way, it's a serious moral defect in a person to believe their membership of a political tribe should override anything else.
I don't care whether I'm thought of as as right-wing or not. But if somebody said to me, oh Douglas, you know I don't agree with you on Ukraine and you know you're likely to tarnish your right-wing credentials, I'd say, so what? So what? What's that got to do with... I don't care. Kick me out of your boring club. Why would I want to be a member of it anyway?
So, let me say first of all on the, I mean, first I should address the question of the lunatics you mentioned the sort of, Jews for Suicide groups... they were always like this. I mean there's Neturei Karta, of course. There is -- this is a joke that may only work with this audience, but there's also of course, there was Queers for Palestine.
Interviewer: I mean, it's the best.
Murray: I called recently -- and, again this doesn't work with everyone, not everyone gets the reference, I think you can -- I call Queer for Palestine the Gay Neturei Karta.
It's exactly saying, okay, yeah there's some people who like to die and just struggle madly beforehand. I... it's just... okay.
But then inside from that, I would urge your friends who say this to listen to the testimonies of people from the kibbutz, who I've spoken with, who were far to the left of any of the people you're talking about I can guarantee.
Interviewer: Absolutely right, absolutely right.
Murray: And you know, if you go around the sites -- they've been cleaned up a lot now, they weren't when I was there, it was pretty fresh -- and if you go around, you can literally see "Peace Now" stickers on what remains of somebody's fridge.
And you can see, and I mean, you speak to the people. I spoke to a man in a Hospital in Tel Aviv the other month, in October, November, very nice man, been in the kibbutz all his life, total leftist Peace Now activist, believed in peace with the Gazans, lived just by Gaza in Nir Oz. And he was in the safe room on the morning of the 7th with his wife and teenage son and daughter, and they shut themselves in the safe room, as you know, the safe rooms didn't lock because nobody expected this to happen.
They tried to hold the door closed and they did for quite a long time -- he did for quite a long time. And then the terrorists found the air vent because by then they'd set light to his house, and they were trying to burn them out. And a lot of families had this and you had to choose whether to burn to death with your family or flee and be shot. And they stayed, and the smoke was getting too much, and they opened the vent and then Hamas saw this, and they threw grenades in and one of the grenades killed his wife and then they stuck a Kalashnikov through the shutter, and they shot his 14-year-old son through each side of the chest, and he bled out in front of his father and his sister. And his father also lost both his legs.
And it was heartbreaking. He described his son said to him as he was dying, would you bury me with my surfboard? He said would you bury me with my surfboard? And when the authorities came to ask if he wanted anything from the house that was burnt, he said only one thing, if you can find my son's surfboard. And he buried him with it.
He said to me at the end of our time together, he said, you know, Douglas, I've been a leftist all my life. I want nothing but potato fields from here to the Mediterranean. I can't, we can't live with these people.
Now, there are hundreds of stories like that. Everyone's heard of the 75-year-old woman who spent her life driving Palestinian children to hospital. I mean, imagine what it's like for the people who, and I've spoken to a lot of them, were so dedicated to the idea of people in Gaza, Palestinians in Gaza working with them in Israel, getting a better life.
Just around the time of the 7th, there was meant to be another increase in the number of workers allowed each day from Gaza into Israel to work. And that was all the international community were pushing Israel to allow more and more workers in. And I've spoken to a lot of people in the kibbutzes who were friends with these people, were friends with Palestinians, employed Palestinians, worked with Palestinians, tried to do everything they could to make this work.
And they discovered that when people came into their communities, they knew exactly where to go. They knew, for instance, in one of the kibbutzes they knew where house of the head of security in the kibbutz was and they went and they shot him and his family and then they went door too everywhere else.
So, I'd say to your friends, you know, sleep and dream while you can. Because not everyone has that luxury. The people of Nir Oz didn't have that luxury the people of Be'eri didn't have that luxury people of kibbutz after kibbutz and town after town. But everybody who went to the Nova party wanted peace. They were young people who wanted to dance and have a good time. And if you'd have said to them, do you dream of a day that you can dance with your Palestinian neighbors, they would have all said yes. Absolutely.
But you know, then these people could have been your friends and mine. And if this party had been going on in this country, our friends would have been there.
So, I would say to your friends, I beg you, have some empathy and understanding for the people who can no longer afford to dream dreams that you dream.
Interviewer: That's really beautiful. I really don't have any reply to that, Douglas. It's really, it's really powerful.
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catofox · 17 days
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feeling some kinda way tonight
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kropotkindersurprise · 4 months
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It's specifically not "Be Gay, Do War Crimes". [link]
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