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it’s insane to me that people are painting the protestors at columbia and yale as “anti-war.” in fact they are very much pro-war! they have cheered for iranian missiles and hamas rockets, shouted “october 7th will be every day” and “burn tel aviv to the ground.” they don’t want the war to end, they just want the side they support to succeed in killing more jews. absent that, they themselves are happy to harass and physically assault local jews that they can get their hands on.

#what if instead of being pro-country or anti-country we were just anti-war and pro-peace

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fun fact: westerners don't believe their countries should be bombed

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It’s really bizarre watching western leftists bend over backwards to support the Islamic regime. The regime that killed Mahsa Amini. The regime that repressed the protestors by killing and torturing men, women, and children. The regime that remains one of the top enforcers of the death penalty—for things like apostasy or being gay. The regime that tortures, rapes, and kills political prisoners. That has very limited freedom of speech and imprisons journalists.

If you’re able to praise the Iranian regime as “the resistance” then you’ve completely shown that you don’t actually care for any of the people in the Middle East. You only care about your edgy western leftist street cred.

#the amount of people on this website that literally want missiles to hit civilians is really upsetting #like do any of you actually want a ceasefire #israel #israel palestine conflict #jumblr

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Work has been a bizarre hellscape lately. My job is already two jobs in one (and everyone pretends it’s normal), but now it’s even overloaded by those standards… but today my next contract came in with almost exactly the (significant) raise I’ve been asking for and it’s amazing how much I suddenly feel completely above it all.

#personal #time to go spoil my cat

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#she loves freesias #black cat #cat #house panther #my house panther #fyi these are all cat safe flowers #PSA to avoid ANY lilies in the home and only let cats interact with safe plants!

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#perfection. #house panther

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Some views and some critters

#point reyes

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I cannot tell you how many times, as an Israeli American, I’ve had to shock an American by telling them I don’t know anything about bagels.

American to Israeli culture shock is so real. I miss the high accessibility of bagels

u traded it for high accessibility of falafel and shawarma

#sometimes my overlap with American Jews feels very small

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“ואהבת לרעך < גם אם הוא לא > כמוך”

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Protesters set fires during a demonstration outside the Ministry of Defense in Tel Aviv. source

#ישראבלר

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I don’t know what was cosmically off in the universe yesterday but something wasn’t right.

#can’t give details #but mainly #at one of the sites I work at #which otherwise has a wonderful team of people I really love working with #has one person who has been acting so unprofessionally #and it reached a boiling point on Friday #I hate being yelled at #especially when it’s a coworker who is not in any way shape or form my manager #personal

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#lol

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One of the most frustrating parts of the extreme rhetoric around Israel/Palestine (besides the obvious reliance on antisemitic & anti-Arab, Islamophobic tropes) is that it exceptionalizes so many things that are actually pretty standard features of nation-states and war in a way that completely compartmentalizes the criticism of these things into just being about criticizing the “few bad apple” countries instead of criticizing the entire institution of nation-states and war as a whole.

For instance: the fact is that war kills civilians, at an alarming average of 6:1 civilians-to-combatants deaths. The status quo of war, across the board, is that way more civilians die than combatants. And yet, despite the high death toll, despite Hamas using civilian infrastructure & noncombatants as human shields (which Hamas has openly admitted to doing), despite the imprecise & destructive nature of using bombs on urban targets, and despite the inadequate humanitarian aid that has been able to make it into Gaza… the IDF has still managed to stayed well below the average of civilian casualties.

The point of saying this is not “this is what war looks like so it’s not a big deal” it’s “this is what war looks like so we as a species need to stop doing it”—seeing the devastation war has brought to the people Gaza should move you, and it should make you never want to see another war again. It should make you want a ceasefire not just for Israel and this war but all wars always. And obviously, in practice, it’s not that simple—peace is more than “just don’t do war” and the thing about ceasefires and peace treaties is they kind of have to be mutual to mean anything—but the point stands: War Bad.

However, if instead you see the destruction in Gaza and think it’s an exceptional case, where Israel is evil and the only way war could be this destructive is genocide, you get to preserve this romanticized, idealistic fantasy of war as, violent yes, but perhaps only in a cathartic, tragic-but-beautiful way—a glorious struggle where two armies clash on a battlefield far removed from everyday life and only soldiers die. You get to preserve your belief in Just War, to look forward to a morally uncomplicated Glorious Revolution™️—you may even preserve your ability to cheer on the death of Israelis.

And that’s just one issue. There are others: the claim of “ethnostate” obscures criticisms of nation-states as a concept, the claim of “apartheid” obscures criticisms of how borders & citizenship are set up across the world, etc. This inverse Israeli Exceptionalism where Israel is treated as uniquely or exceptionally problematic isn’t simply discriminatory or rooted in prejudice (which are reasons enough to criticize it, as I have), it’s actively impeding the left’s ability to criticize the actual structural systems that are the problem.

#i/p

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He... literally self-immolated. He set himself on fire. This is a tragedy of untreated mental illness, not an act of martyrdom.

#done more than him? what has he actually done? #what if our activism should look like the world we wish to create #what if we didn't celebrate and romanticize self-immolation #really fucking disturbing #I've personally had people in my life engage in copycat suicide attempts/suicide contagion #if you think this won't encourage other mentally unwell people... you are wrong