#cw israel

[houseofpurplestars]

Palestinian lives do not suddenly matter to those who simultaneously support their slaughter. What is happening is that empire sees the writing on the wall.

Do you realize how bad bibi has to be failing, what kind of RISK the occupation must currently be at if schumer- the occupation's eternal cheerleader- is actually trying to save face by admonishing the occupation for its atrocities? That's not because he suddenly cares about Palestinians. Its because he sees how badly the occupation is losing.

#cw israel

[octisticsopinions]

About the mentally disabled Palestinians murdered

I strongly support spreading awareness and honouring the memory of disabled Palestinians killed in the genocide. I am not at all against mentioning their identity as disabled people, because a lot of the time it is related to their deaths.

But please, I am begging you, be respectful.

Eyad Al-Hallaq was a 32 year old Palestinian Deaf Autistic man. He was murdered on his way to his school, the Elwyn El Quds center, which provides services for both disabled children and disabled adults. An Israeli officer shot him dead on the 30th of May in 2020, and then claimed he thought he was trying to murder a woman who was screaming. I have also seen it be claimed the officer thought he was a terrorist because he was wearing gloves.

Some people, while trying to honestly spread awareness, have used extremely disrespectful and infantilising language to describe him, repeating claims he had "the mental capacity of an 8 year old" and saying that his doctor said that, when it was not.

This is never an acceptable way to describe a 32 year old Autistic. He did not have "the brain of a child", he had the brain of a Deaf Autistic adult. This is extremely disrespectful to Eyad Al-Hallaq, and does him no favours, especially when such rhetoric has been used to justify the murder of Autistics. Eyad Al-Hallaq being an adult man should not make him less of a victim- not only is insisting on treating him like a child disrespectful and ableist, it perpetuates the idea that Palestinian men are not victims.

We should remember Eyad Al-Hallaq. We should remember his identity as a Deaf Palestinian Autistic. And we should remember him in a respectful way.

Rest in power, Eyad Al-Hallaq.

#Eyad Al-Hallaq #palestine #free palestine #save palestine #from the river to the sea palestine will be free #feminist #mentally disabled #ableism #actually autistic #autistic #autism #deaf #hard of hearing #cw murder #cw ableism #cw israel #israel #mental disability #disabled #disability #ableist society #fuck ableism #ableist #israeli government shame on you #west bank #israeli occupation #free west bank #support palestine #palestine is a disabled rights issue #intersectional feminism

[some-teeth-in-a-trench-coat]

Ok I'm done putting up with this and I'm done asking anonymously. Please tag your posts about the conflict between Israel and Palestine. All of them. Next time I see an unfiltered post I'm asking in DMs so hopefully people will actually see it and respond and I don't have to look at their unfiltered blog while I wait. And if that doesn't work I'm unfollowing no matter how long we've been mutuals.

If you try to put words in my mouth or claim this post is taking any specific stance on the issue I will block you.

#sfw #personal #I am so tired I am done being quiet and vague about this for fear of being misinterpreted in bad faith and canceled #Don't make me turn off reblogs #tw Palestine #cw Palestine #tw Israel #cw Israel #tw war #cw war #tw genocide #cw genocide #Would be kinda hypocritical if I didn't tag this #I am using so much of my energy to restrain myself from preemptively arguing with every possible negative reaction to this

[plaguedoctormemes]

Real talk if you reblog shit about israel and gaza, and honestly any sort of situation where REAL LIVES are impacted and give it a cute little tag like “ ___ discourse” thats just like, absolutely disgusting and shameful. It’s like some internet debate game for you. Open a window and get some fresh air. Look at yourself in the fucking mirror. you arent helping people by tagging triggering content. If you really care you’d use normal fucking tags. Just say it like it is: What you’re really doing is creating a little shelf of posts that make you feel morally superior and justified by collecting “gotchas” over people you disagree with. A box of clout that makes you feel better about your tiny existence by having “the right opinions”. You don’t care about the people that its actually affecting. No fucking compassion or sympathy for those who are actively suffering while you argue semantics and make bad faith claims on your stupid fucking device like it’s made up bullshit on Netflix. No further introspection or questioning of values or morality.

You should probably have a little more tact and at least pretend like you dont view this shit as the same as fandom or shipping discourse. If you’re doing this i hope you know that if i knew your face, i’d spit on it.

#the doctor is in #cw israel #pls let me know of better tags to use #palestine #free gaza #cw genocide #honestly if you see anyone reduce real world issues to ‘discourse’ you should not engage with them. #im not kidding i would stop being friends with someone for that type of shit #posting because i just saw someone trying to ‘debate’ + spreading misinfo and being pompous and passive aggressive on a post abt palestine #while at the same time reblogging disgusting zionist posts ridiculing palestinians and tagging it as ___ discourse like… what the fuck #but honestly this even applies to many people that claim to support palestinians but pull this shit in the same breath as well as taking #any moment they can to squeeze in antisemitsm #like… at LEAST make a new tag jesus christ but dont reduce this shit to DISCOURSE.

[peridot-tears]

A former German friend of mine accused me of only supporting Palestine because I wish I had been there to prevent imperialism in China.

Um. Yes? So you agree? This is an imperialist project that's needlessly taking Palestinian lives?

(Personal rant, feel free to scroll past.)

#cw gaza #cw palestine #cw israel #germans have gone through a lot in the last couple of centuries but they've never experienced that level of occupation and invasion #they were the ones colonizing namibia and carving up spheres of influence in my ancestral home #i say this with all the love in my heart for germans but germany has no right to tell us what is and isn't genocide #cw genocide #tears falling like peridots #from the river to the sea

[espeonkin]

Honest question: Why do you refuse to speak a word or even share anything against Israel during this time as someone who has connections to it? Why does defending your view of otherkin and furry drama come before defending the real lives of innocent people being killed?

Your online space is ultimately yours to choose what you do with, but this silence is deafening. Pouring blood sweat and tears fighting against some dumb kin jokes made by a few young teens, yet refusing to make a peep over real life genocide and ethnic cleansing being done by a place you frequently visit, is concerning, to say the very least. Please think about this and do better.

hi, i want to preface this response with the fact that while i am going to try to be as eloquent as possible in this response, this is a stressful topic, and i'm probably going to misspeak or forget to include certain things i mean to say because this was an additionally stressful message to receive. i don't want to come off as though i'm refusing to speak at all, though, which is why i'm responding now, instead of after I've had a bit more time to process everything you've said to me.

first, i'd like to address you saying that i "have connections" to israel and "frequently visit" it. i have absolutely no connection to israel. i have no family that lives there, and i have only been there once, four years ago. the only "connection" i have is that i'm jewish, which i don't consider to be a legitimate reason to say i have a connection to israel or especially its government. is that what you're insinuating here? because i'm jewish i'm connected to the state of israel? when i was there, i was personally very uncomfortable with how militarized everything was and frankly wanted nothing more than to leave, but it was a vacation with my family and rabbi, so i couldn't very well leave and go home on my own. and again. this was four years ago and before i was better informed on what the state of israel has done and is continuing to do.

on that note, the reason why i haven't been speaking on the current events related to israel is because it's a very stressful topic for me and i've been going through a rough mental health patch as is already. i can't begin to describe how horrible it feels to hear the constant claims that these are being taken in the name of the religion that i was born into and holds such deep personal value to me even still. i never asked for this. my jewish friends never asked for this. do you know how it feels to have your parents so thoroughly indoctrinated by propaganda that they call you a traitor to your religion for not believing every word that comes from the israeli government? to try so hard to help them unlearn the propaganda only to be met with such thorough resistance? so. please forgive me if i'm trying to make my little corner of the internet just a bit less stressful for me to exist in.

as for the "why is it more important to you to defend your views of otherkin" part, it's because it's less emotionally taxing for me than a literal real world genocide. it's something personal to me, and i'd like to be able to talk about it when possible, but I would like to emphasize that there have been periods where even this has been too much for me to handle and i've had to back off from the topic at points.

i don't like being told to "do better" here. because the fact of the matter is that i know my limits and talking about a literal genocide for weeks on end is frankly not within them. continually exposing myself to travesty when i know it's not within my limits isn't activism, it's emotional self harm. i also would like to know where you heard that i "frequently visit" and "have connections to" israel. or is that something you just came up with because i'm jewish?

i hope i addressed things eloquently enough. sorry if this isn't what you wanted to hear, or if i forgot anything in efforts to make a faster response. i hope this answer is sincere to you.

#cw genocide #current events #long post #cw israel

[thegayfromrulid]

I apologize for how little I've been on tumblr in the latter half of 2023. I know there's a lot of people on here who used to look up to me as a fan and some who still do. I'm sorry for being disappointing.

This year started out really good. I thought most of my absence would be because I'm doing really well in school, and I'm so so close to the final step to becoming a doctor in my field. In fact, my goal for 2024 is to start my dissertation, and that's a huge step and grand accomplishment that has taken hours of dedication, and I appreciate my readers' patience as I write during this time.

I passed (unofficially, just have to do some cleanup) my final doctoral qualifier. I finished up two fanfictions after trying so hard to get back into my pace after my accidents in 2021. I got engaged to the love of my life, and I reached spiritual and emotional peace over a 14-year-long trauma that I've been fighting. These were such good things that happened this year, and I'm ready to receive what goodness lies in 2024.

October sent me into a spiral I am just struggling to recover from. Not only is my family in a war zone, but that war zone is one of the most controversial ones in the world right now. And I have spent hours, days, weeks wailing over this genocide. I cannot help the people I love in either Palestine or Israel, who are caught in these crosshairs. And I drag myself to my university, where people scream and tell me that all Jewish people should leave or be accountable for these crimes. It was everything in me to make it to break. I rarely want to go home to my parents for extended time, but I practically fled my campus, and I broke down in tears in my mother's arms. I weep both for the injustice and for the guilt my own community forces on me, as if I am responsible for the sins of Israel.

I cannot promise a lot of activity from me in 2024. As long as Israel behaves this way, I will most likely remain distant from tumblr. Please don't take it personally. The flood of activism isn't wrong; I am just very weak from those voices which are loudly being antisemitic instead of critical of specifically Israel's government. Those voices are so loud I could some days barely get out of bed.

In 2024, I do ask people to be kind. Being kind will not fix everything. But it is one of the greatest things an individual can do during hard times. Kindness is treasured so much right now, especially as I am at such a low from the antisemitism around me. Give a compliment. Do a nice thing for someone. Sit in silence with someone who is too hurt to speak. And, most crucially, love those who struggle to love themselves.

Happy New Year, Shana Tovah

— AJ

#aj update #happy new year #cw israel #cw palestine #sorry for those cw again im just so emotionally devastated #i promised myself i would focus elsewhere but its so close to my damn heart #i have agonized over this most of my life as someone whose family are israelis #and i watched my best friend move back to palestine and die so #this is years worth of trauma and emotional hurt #im walking into my new year afraid of my community #because they assume i support my family's government #and i need all of the support from my friends that i can get

[busydrinkingdrnut]

Being Jewish in America and talking to non-Jews when Israel comes up is such a bizarre experience.

(This rant got a little long. CW for mentions of bigotry, violence, genocide, occupation, the Gaza conflict)

The average moderate or moderate liberal, someone who might otherwise be entirely disengaged with politics, gets really cagey about Israel. The people who treat politics as some paltry, insignificant thing, the people who talk about politics like it's a sport they're disinterested in, suddenly have to pretend to care. They bend over backwards to avoid even appearing critical of Israel. Of course, they tend not to know anything about Israel (or Palestine, or apartheid, or Judaism for that matter). At least for me, they either express unwaivering support or just tip-toe around the topic entirely with meaningless platitudes about violence or something.

...Until the exact second they realize you don't support genocide.

Then they suddenly become experts on the topic. Suddenly you don't know what you're talking about. Suddenly the topic too complicated. Suddenly you're playing up attacks from the IDF, or it's actually Hamas killing all those people.

It is shocking how fast goyim will try to shift the focus from Israel to you. Thinking genocide, ethnostates, or apartheid are bad instantly becomes a conversation about what's wrong with you, whats wrong with your brain, rather than Israel. The shit they'll spout at you is insane. They'll assume you want Israeli citizens to be slaughtered/enslaved/tortured/etc. They'll think you support ISIS. They'll tell you that you obviously hate [whichever minority they thought of first] because bigotry exists in Palestine.

Hell, they don't just become experts on Israel, they'll call your Jewish-ness into question. Not supporting Israel means, to Western zionists, that maybe you're not really Jewish. I've had my own Jewish identity questioned multiple times in these spaces. My heritage, the way I embrace it, my feelings on being Jewish, it suddenly takes a back seat for Israel. The validity of my identity hinges exclusively on Israel, an illegitimate apartheid state. There's something really horrifying, that there are goyim who think they get to have the final say in whether or not you're "actually" Jewish, and that they use your support for Israel as the scale. Disgusting.

Let's make it clear: If you look for a reason to justify genocide, if you try to "well actually" IDF violence and pretend like it's anything but genocide, if you frame it as an equal conflict, if you treat Palestinians as a hivemind of bigotry, if you respond to the topic with "I'm against violence on both sides," if you act like it's not a big deal, you are a bad person.

Innocents are being slaughtered for the crime of being born on land that Israel wants. If you make excuses for that, I'm going to assume you're doing it out of malice. Too many people are suffering to extend the kindness of assuming you're just stupid. You are stupid if you do this, but you're also a monster. It would genuinely be less unethical to just be an uninformed dumbass.

You don't need permission to hate apartheid, genocide, or military occupation. These things are fundamentally wrong, it does not matter who is doing it. It doesn't matter if the perpetrator of oppressive violence is themselves a target of someone else's oppression, it is still wrong. Do not trip over yourself wondering if one's identity justifies their actions. They don't.

Free Palestine.

#this rant is really for me #i know I don't post very much #but I've been seeing so much stuff about Israel lately #and it's been pretty rough #needed to put some thoughts somewhere #cw genocide #cw violence #cw apartheid #cw israel #israel #palestine #gaza conflict #genocide mention #free palestine #judaism #cw bigotry #cw oppression #cw antisemitism

[houseofpurplestars]

Never ever stop supporting Palestine no matter what the ICJ says. Don't let your voice hinge on this trial. Support Palestine anyway, forever.

#free palestine #free gaza #gaza #palestine #i stand with palestine #icj #icc #genocide #cw israel

[invertedaquariumperson]

new rule: never trust a political ideology that contains 'zi' in the name and has a strong opinion on what to do with the jews

#cw israel #cw palestine #tw israel #tw palestine #anti zionisim

[ellistocracy]

when you're talking to your liberal-not-leftist family and they casually bring up israel like it's a normal country and you have to have an internal battle over whether its worth it

#ellistocracy.txt #i lost the battle btw #they were talking about a celebrity like ''is her family actually israeli or was she just born there'' and i cut in like ''WELL-'' #cw israel

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#free palestine #cw palestine #tw palestine #tw genocide #cw genocide #cw israel #tw israel #israel #war #cw war

[directactionforhope]

U.S. Free Palestine Protests this Weekend: 2/17 through 2/19

2/17 Denver, Colorado Indianapolis, Indiana San Diego, California Seattle, Washington

2/18 Boone, North Carolina Milwaukee, Wisconsin New Orleans, Louisiana

2/19 Aransas Pass, Texas Chicago, Illinois Los Angeles, California - Jews for Ceasefire All-Day Shiva

And there are many more! Check out the US Campaign for Palestinian Rights, Code Pink, and your local Palestinian and/or Muslim groups for protests in your area!

#free palestine #palestine #israel #cw genocide #gaza #palestinian genocide #direct action #protests #colonialism #military industrial complex #genocide #free gaza #ceasefire #i stand with palestine #stop the genocide #palestine genocide #anti zionisim #anti war #united states #us politics #joe biden #biden administration #biden is a war criminal #palestine protest #denver #colorado #indiana #indianapolis #san diego #california