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"In the nineteenth century the problem was that God was dead; in the twentieth century the problem is that man is dead." - Erich Fromm, The Sane Society

"A popular argument against religion is that many evils have been perpetrated in its name. But it seldom is noted that the two most murderous societies in history, the Nazis and the Soviet Communists, were aggressively atheist. Hitler declared his life's mission the destruction of the "tyrannical God of the Jews," while during its seventy-three-year history, the Soviet Union made it a crime to advocate belief in God.

The 'death of God' to which Fromm refers was a notion first articulated by the late-nineteenth-century philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. At about the same time, Feodor Dostoevsky wrote in The Brothers Karamazov, "If there is no God, all is permitted."

From Jusaism's perspective, Dostoevsky's comment is a logical conclusion: If there is no God, who is to say that anything should be prohibited? To this day, there is ultimately no philosophically compelling answer to the question "Why was Hitler wrong?" aside from "Because God said so."

Bertrand Russell, this century's most prominent secular philosopher, himself articulated the dangers of a God-free subjective ethics: "I cannot see how to refute the arguments for the subjectivity of ethical values, but I find myself incapable of believing that all that is wrong with wanton cruelty is that I don't like it." Although Russel lived well into his nineties, he never was able to produce a more compelling argument against wanton cruelty than that he didn't like it. Unfortunately, a considerable number of people do."

- Jewish Wisdom, Rabbi Joseph Telushkin, pages 290-291

#joseph telushkin #judaism #jumblr #bertrand russell #religion

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They do have manners! They just choose not to use them.

(Except when they do. Then they're somehow even more terrifying because nobody knows what they're planning.)

Btw Captain Hook is an absolute hypocrite as a parent. He's like: "I hate kids. Not my kids though. They're raised right and they have manners."

Everyone who has met any of the Hooks for more than two minutes: „...Excuse me?!“

(this does not translate to actually raising them right, there's a reason why all of them essentially moved out by like twelve)

(and said manners are used solely when they can be weaponised)

#descendants #disney descendants #captain hook #harriet hook #harry hook #cj hook

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Is it anti semitic to be anti zionist?

Well, generally, yes, because it's very difficult to say "I believe the Jews are the only nation on earth that have no right to their national homeland and anything they do is evil and wrong and will also ignore history" without being antisemitic.

Zionist means "person who believes in the development and protection of the Jewish nation." So if you're against that, well, you're antisemitic.

#ask #israel #antisemitism #zionism

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#antisemitism

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List 5 things that make you happy, then put this in the askbox for the last 10 people who liked or reblogged something from you! Get to know your mutuals, followers and all the wonderful people on here! 💖

Thanks for sending this!

Things that make me happy are:

Reading

Flowers

Adorable cute little kids

Being outdoors (usually)

Writing

#ask #ask game #hannahhook7744

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"The US, UK and Europe all are warning Israel not to go into Rafah, even though Israeli hostages were rescued there....despite knowing that destroying the Hamas infrastructure there is key to ensuring that it will not be able to rebuild. Instead of asking why two Israelis were being held in Rafah,  the media was more focused on claims by a terrorist organization that people were killed during the rescue operation."

- Yaakov Katz, The Jerusalem Post, February 15

#pro israel #israel hamas war

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Hey speaking of Coco (prev post), that’s the subject of my 6-year-old WIP. And guess what? I finished it! Yes my friends, it’s possible to revitalize a fic you haven’t touched in half a decade. I’m linking chapter 1, but the entire fic is up. If you decide to give it a read, I hope you like it!

*the author of this fic would like to issue a warning to the readers to schedule a visit with the dentist due to the overly sweet nature of this story being liable to cause cavities*

Edit: okay for some reason every time I link this, it only shows 3 out of the 4 chapters. Idk why that’s happening but I promise I posted it in its completion. I’ll try to work on that bug

Edit 2: I fixed it but I had to link chapter 4 specifically in order to get it to work. But it’s all there now

#coco

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1,468. The number of UNRWA employees who are active in terrorist organizations.

The Jerusalem Post, February 16

#unrwa is hamas #defund unrwa #antisemitism #terrorism

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"...I found myself in Medina, Saudi Arabia.

The first mention of Jews in Medina dates from the First Temple period. By the 7th century CE, there was a large population of Jews in the area who were respected by local Arabian tribes. In 622, Muhammad, the founder of Islam, is said to have fled to Medina from Mecca. In 624, the Jews of Medina were expelled.

Saudi Arabia has only recently started to permit non-Muslims into the city."

- Rabbi Steven Burg, Mishpacha Magazine, Issue 1000, page 177

#history #saudi arabia #medina #jewish history

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#pro life

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Katniss as a canary 

One passage I love so much in CF (p.420-421) is when Katniss explains to Finnick and Johanna what a canary is and its use in the mines. It makes her think of her losses starting with her father’s death in a mine explosion. And each time I read that part, I think of how Katniss stopped singing when he died, just like a canary does. 

But by the end of the war, as she became the mockingjay, lost (almost) everything and is clearly suicidal, she starts to sing again (MJ p.253). Cause “it’s not over until the mockingjay sings”. 

#katniss everdeen #the hunger games

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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.

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

#israel #antisemitism

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Agreed.

Hey descendants fans, I'm making a moodboard and need some help:

When you think of Coach Jenkins, what do you think of?

#descendants #disney descendants #the isle of the lost #coach jenkins

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Say something good about this character!

#baymax #big hero six

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absolutely mystified by people's blunt disappointment that the iranian attack did not lead to massive damage and casualties especially pretending as if it's not only thanks to israel spending a couple of decades and a stupid amount of money developing multiple defense systems (DUE to past mass damage and casualties, not just for shit and giggles) which ALL had to be activated to counter the attack. the minimal damage was not in lack of iran's best attempt to the contrary

"The house was sprayed with bullets and grenades, but all the reinforced glass and concrete mostly stopped them so the violent murder attempt didn't really count :\" is literally what y'all sound like

#israel #antisemitism #iran

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Are there Jewish characters on screen? Of course. From Jerry Seinfeld to Fran Drescher’s nanny and Debra Messing’s “Grace,” there are Jewish protagonists that are writ large in the American pop cultural canon. But for every Larry David, there’s a Cheryl Hines, a non-Jewish spouse, friend — foil, if you will — to offset the Jewishness. To make it more “accessible” for American society at large. (Unless the storyline is about the Holocaust; then Hollywood seems to be OK with an entire family being Jewish, especially if they die at the end.) When there is a Jewish actor playing a Jew, Hollywood effectively demands said actor to express at least slight moral disdain and psychological discomfort with one’s Jewishness. The edgy, neurotic misfit Jew has become synonymous with Jews in film and TV, from Woody Allen in every movie he’s made to every actor playing Woody Allen’s surrogate to Seth Rogen’s nebbish-y pothead slacker in “Knocked Up.”

Because, God forbid, Jews like being Jewish. Far more fashionable to be a little self-hating.

Actors ignoring or nonchalantly brushing off antisemitic comments — statements further perpetuating the damaging mythical assertion that Jews imagine the hatred directed their way —can be cast as Jews. And they are. Hollywood has no issue with this at all. Take “Mank,” for example, David Fincher’s biopic about “Citizen Kane” screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz. Gary Oldman, who netted an Oscar nom for his portrayal of Mank, told Playboy magazine in 2014 that people should “get over” Mel Gibson’s infamous 2006 antisemitic rant. And they did, of course. Despite Gibson’s antisemitic (and misogynistic and racist) slurs, he’s continued to work as a director and actor. His status in the biz has thrived; in 2017, Gibson earned an Oscar nom for directing “Hacksaw Ridge.”

The messaging here, too, is clear: You can say and do things that are antisemitic, and still go on to have a flourishing career.

#antisemitism