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#Leftist antisemitism
silly-little-zio · 2 days
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hi! fun fact:
commenting “free palestine” on a post made by a jewish person simply living their life is actually not activism! it is antisemitism. hope this helps! :)
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charleezard · 1 day
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why would you be unsafe at pride
I'm going to assume this question is asked in good faith and with a genuine interest in my safety. I'm also going to be very direct and blunt.
Jewish people are being targeted and attacked worldwide. Not just in right-wing spaces, but also leftist spaces. And yes that includes Pride and queer related events. If I want to attend pride wearing my kippah and my magen david, there is a good chance I will have some unpleasant words thrown at me, at the very least. There is a chance I will be physically attacked and/or kicked out of the march.
I would recommend spending more time listening to Jewish people on their struggle with antisemitism in the present. I don't mean that as a snarky comment, I just think listening to minorities about their struggles is a crucial part of activism. Hope this answered your question! If you'd like to ask more questions, feel free to reach out again, either in my ask box or my DMs
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One of the many, many, many reasons why seeing "Antizionists" claim that "Israel is acting just like the Nazis!/Jews are the New Nazis!/Israel is committing a genocide!" and other forms of Holocaust inversion is so incredibly offensive is that these claims undersell the horror of the Holocaust itself.
Let me just give two comparisons to show why the claim of "Zionists are genocidal!" is flat-out wrong.
First, it's been about (as of this writing) 200 days since the Hamas mass murders in early October--just under seven months. In that time, 34,262 Gazans have died according to the Hamas-run Gazan health bureau's official statistics. They are not distinguishing between Hamas' own combatants and civilians (by design), but that is the current death toll as of 29 April, 2024.
And this is a number that is claimed to be proof that Israel is attempting, with intent, to wipe out the Palestinian Gazan population.
Meanwhile, historically, 33,771 Jews were murdered in two days at Babi Yar in what is now Ukraine, near Kyiv, on the 29th and 30th of September, 1941. Three weeks later, on the 22-24th of October, 1941, another 34,000 Jews were killed in Odessa.
Those are just two massacres, each of which was accomplished with 1940s technology, while in the middle of a war with the USSR, each with a death toll comparable to the current death toll of Gazans, including Hamas combatants, each of which took two or three days to do all of the killing.
Compare that to Israel, with far greater technology for killing at its disposal, a civilian populace that is packed into a smaller area, and not having to fight against a technological peer...
And their death toll, while tragic, is at under 1% of the Nazis' own genocidal efforts. And that's because, as hard as it is for people to accept, they're not trying to kill all of the Gazans. They are, in fact, taking tremendous efforts to minimize the casualties (although there are legitimate criticisms to be made about their thresholds for what constitutes acceptable collateral damage to get at Hamas fighters).
But clearly, since they're (((Zionists))), they're the epitome of evil and must be worse than the Nazis.
And all the Jews hear from those claims is a slap in the face to both our dead and the efforts by the IDF to not kill, despite how easy it would be.
The thing is...
If the IDF did want to kill all of the Gazans, they could have easily done a Babi Yar or Odessa level massacre every day starting from October 8. At 33,000 deaths per day for 200 days, that's 6.4 million, or three times the total population of Gaza.
Instead, 98.5% of the Gazan populace is still alive.
But that apparently counts for nothing, and, in fact, "antizionists" are upset that more of them aren't dead, and are instead inflating the numbers...
Because it's more important to them to defame Israel than it is to actually improve the lives of Palestinians.
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fromchaostocosmos · 23 hours
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all these people who keep calling for a cease fire will happily ignore that Hamas is the one who has broken the cease fire in the first place and is one who will not agree to any sort of deal.
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Honestly fuck these antisemitic cowards. I wish we all lived closer together so we could protect each other!!
I reposted this on my instagram story:
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Someone I have been in classes with responded with:
“An intifada does not incite violence against Jews. Intifada means revolution. A revolution is necessary when Palestinians are being actively massacred and forcibly removed from their indigenous land. It is called Genocide.”
So I replied:
“Do you know what the intifada was? It was suicide bombings and violence and destruction. You can isolate a word all you want but it doesn't change the meaning to a group of people who it hurt”
They left me on read. Either they didn’t know and didn’t know how to respond or they knew and don’t like that they were called out for it. Either way they clearly didn’t understand the message of the post which was: “what you are participating in is making me feel unsafe”
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jewish-vents · 2 days
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many western leftists hate the israeli government because calling for the destruction of israel gives them an "acceptable" outlet for their deep seated jew hate, i hate the israeli government because i love israel and i want it to be a better, more equitable society that can live in peace with its neighbours
THIS!!
We all want a better government and peace. And people can ask for that without resorting to hate and antisemitism. Or at least they should.
Thank you for putting it so well into words anon!
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lazykurocat · 1 day
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This is how Queers for Palestine seem to think Queer rights are in Palestine based on how much they support it...
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No Courtney from Ohio they/them in Bio you can NOT get your fucking top surgery at Palestine Hamas would shoot you with the slightest hint that you're queer, get a grip and drink your damn pumpkin spice latte.
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You do realise that Hamas, Hezbollah, Houthis, etc.. will kill you too if given the chance,right?
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Honestly, sometimes I argue with left wing antisemites on the internet, and it's like
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hilacopter · 7 hours
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it's hilarious how bad jvp is at pretending to be jewish. like i'm just here to watch the shitshow at this point. every time I think "there's no way they can possibly get worse" they get worse. anyone who believes they jvp is a genuine jewish organisation a. doesn't know shit about judaism b. is desperate for antizionist token jews c. both. and it's usually c. they're literally autism speaks but for jewish people and if you use them as a source or as a gotcha i am not going to take you seriously.
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leor01 · 17 hours
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I hope the irony of going to a university named after Christopher Columbus and protesting against the indigenous people of Israel isn’t lost in the literature department of Columbia University.
Or even the fact that they are on Manhattan island which was stolen from Native Americans.
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charleezard · 1 day
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It's almost Pride month! I'm so excited!!!
Actually I'm not. I'm kind of dreading it this year, and I could bet I'm not the only one. I'm going to have to make a tough choice. Do I go to the Pride march, like I've been going for years? Do I not go? If I go, do I go unapologetically as myself, as almost-Jewish? Or do I have to hide part of who I am to even be allowed to safely march for my rights?
I hate having to hide who I am. I had to do it for years, I just want to be loud and proud and unapologetically me.
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I've commented before that the parallels between the Right-Wing's racism and the Left-Wing's antisemitism are stark, and now I have another parallel for the pile...
Both are deeply invested in a historical conflict that they feel was unjustly lost by their preferred side, and wish to endlessly relitigate and reimagine their preferred Lost Cause.
I'm honestly wondering how long it's going to be before we see an influx of Hamasniks in Alternate History spaces, to stand shoulder to shoulder with the seemingly endless supply "What If the Confederacy/Third Reich had won?" spec-fics. "What if the Arab League had won in 1948?" would be quite on par with those other offerings, I think, with the mass murder and slavery apologia we've already seen from them.
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lem0nademouth · 19 hours
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i guess its just really disheartening to know that this kind of fervor and passion does not exist when our own fucking peers die next to us in classrooms due to gun violence but when the guns are in the hands of antisemites who wish to exterminate Jews from the face of the planet rich kids will do anything to let them get away with it
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a-very-tired-jew · 1 day
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Anti-intellectual/anti-Academia from activists
This post came across my dash and I want everyone to read it.
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This rant about Israeli academia is very telling. What I see here is a person who has little to no understanding of research and development. Yes, many of the things that are produced by academics can be used for military purposes. But that mapping software? It's also used to map rivers, lakes, and wetlands. It's used to map out ranges of endangered species and plant populations. It's used for so much more than killing, and the lack of nuance with which this person writes is indicative of the overall anger and hate we see in Western Activists. Many of the research and technologies that will be delayed or halted due to the academic boycott of Israel that this person is cheering will have a global impact. All they can see is the violent application of science and academia, and while it has always been true that science has been exploited by politicians and the military, there is typically a non-violent and civilian application for it as well. I remember back during the pandemic that the Israeli research teams on the cutting edge and giving us rapid results and data to work with. I know of several people in Israel working on alternative animal agriculture feeds to reduce GHG emissions and biowaste. It's also important to note all the tankie buzzwords in this rant. "intellectual architecture for the bureaucratic class" might as well be a neon sign (the blog owner states they should read more Marx and is a communist btw). So we know that anything they say regarding Israel is just going to be full of malice and sprinkled with antisemitic conspiracies, but I'm also getting big anti-intellectualism vibes as well. Ever since the Khmer Rouge there's been a strong undertone of anti-intellectual, anti-academia, and anti-science to the tankie ideology, and I can't help but notice it here. So yes, go ahead and boycott Israeli academics, but it'll have a larger impact than you think, and not in the way you want. The vitriol and hatred people have is absolutely overwhelming and disheartening.
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jewish-vents · 2 days
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some of my fandom friends care A LOT about celebrity morality and keep casually dragging a few different zionist actors in really unserious ways that makes all of their opinions feel like fandom wank rather than actual political stances. they often default to calling their hated celebs ugly, and it feels so shitty to see all these jewish actors mocked for having frizzy hair and big noses. it gets even weirder because they’ve decided that white eurocentric beauty standards are to blame for the actors still having fans, as if that's not the playbook that invented all the insults that they're quoting
I’ve mentioned how one of the actors they hate most looks a lot like my family and they just joked "condolences to your family’s looks"
Ok first of all. I'm so sorry your friends are assholes, but they are. Making fun of people for their appearance is never ok, and especially not for features related to their race or ethnicity.
Second of all, I don't care if people disagree with me, but I will scream this loud and clear. STEREOTYPICAL JEWISH FEATURE ARE BEAUTIFUL, GORGEOUS, HOT, ADORABLE. BIG NOSES, FRIZZY HAIR, WHATEVER, ALL BEAUTIFUL.
(Jewish people who don't have these "stereotypical" traits are beautiful too btw, obviously)
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