#but because i'm not sufficiently educated and don't have a relevant perspective on a lot of it

[bogunicorn]

i'm not a world politics expert by any means but it kinda feels like if you know that hamas' violence against civilians is unacceptable and horrific and needs to be stopped, it should be a quick mental jump from that to admitting that israel "fighting back" by doing worse to palestinian civilians is also unacceptable and horrific and needs to be stopped.

genocide is always wrong, violence against civilians is always wrong. but doing this "israel is fighting back against hamas, that's why it's okay that they're cracking down on gaza" song and dance is a disgusting reaction. if you can understand that american imperialism is wrong and often nurtures the very terrorists the US was supposedly there to stop by visiting horrors upon the civilians of the countries it invades and radicalizing them, then you also fundamentally understand why israel is responsible for hamas.

no reblogs and shit on this one, i'm not opening the floor for debate on whether or not it's proportional "retribution" to commit genocide, you can just block me. i have no delusions that this will meaningfully help anyone or anything, i just won't be considered a "safe" person for zionists.

#bog post #i don't really ~do~ international politics on my social media #not bc i don't have strong feelings about it #but because i'm not sufficiently educated and don't have a relevant perspective on a lot of it #not to the extent that i think my contributions to the conversation online are useful #but it feels important at this point to invite zionists and israel sympathizers to please fuck off #and if criticism of israel openly committing war crimes and genocide feels to you like antisemitism #1) no it's not; 2) ask yourself if justifying genocide is something you really want to be doing in any circumstance #'but bog what about the related rise of antisemitism in other countries in direct response to this situation?' good question! #that's also fucked up and wrong #but just like how you can be anti-gov't in the US and be hypercritical of far right christianity's impact on bigotry and violence in americ #you can also be hypercritical of israel without being antisemitic #hope that helps