Natalie Portman is the most popular Israeli celebrity in Hollywood. She is a vegan and a so called activist.
And talks about feminism and how she admitted she has white privileges. She said she wants to debunk the police because her colored friends don't get the same treatment as her. But, she is quiet about Palestine and is not saying anything. She labels herself white in America but always supports israel. She admitted she has blood from European ancestry who moved to Israel due to the Holocaust for shelter. Proving that Palestine was the original country.
It's ironic that to her animal's lives are more sacred to her than Palestinians. I used to have gifs of the movie tale of love and darkness on my blog. The point of view of a Jewish boy in Israel. Funny how Palestinian movies gets cancelled. So, I watched it. The main character wanted to tell a pretty Arab girl that both people should live in Israel in peace. Ironically. He mentioned in the book and not the movie ....
This movie lied to me. I am so disappointed.
So call me a cunt and pos and whatever. These were celebrities I used to worship and was stupid to believe in their lies. I hate Hollywood.
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I'm not posting about it on Twitter because of the strike but every time I see Nex Benedict come on my feed I get so fucking emotional because they were a kid, a KID. 16, so was Brianna Ghey. BEATEN to death by their classmates at school. They were a member of the Choctaw Nation, if I had been a decade or so younger, that could've been me. That could've been my cousin. That could've been my friend. Every Native and queer kid that we lose and is brutally killed feels like a stab to my most vital fucking organs when will society and this country stop killing us and killing our youth. Nex was just like me, just like me. And they're gone. They're fucking gone, beaten to death god I want to puke. Banko Brown, O'Shae Sibley, Eden Knight. All beautiful souls taken and so many more in the most horrific ways. We are experiencing a trans genocide and it must end, please it has to stop. People and kids around the globe, victims of every genocide, in Palestine in Congo, Sudan and Tigray, it all has to stop. But the people causing it see the deaths and they cheer. How fucking vile. We have to keep fighting against them, we must see all oppressed people liberated in our lifetime. Keep fighting, keep boycotting, keep marching, keep protesting, keep striking, keep screaming from the rooftops. The world cannot continue to go on this way or we'll have no world to come back to.
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Does what's happening in Palestine fit the steps for genocide? (Spoiler: Yes): Part 1/2
A lot of people have been taking issue with calling what Israel has been doing to Palestine a genocide, so I thought we’d go over the 10 steps experts say take place before/during a genocide and see if Israel’s actions qualify.
To be clear: I’m NOT saying that all Jewish people are complicit in Israel’s actions nor that they all agree with it. Jewish people are no more monolithic than any other group and people should be judged based on their personal beliefs and actions, not as a group. In fact, most Jews outside Israel have been speaking out AGAINST Israel's actions.
I’ll be using the Montreal Holocaust Museum’s resource on the ten stages of genocide and will link to sources for all the claims that I make (if I forget to link anything by all means remind me to fix it).
Step 1: Classification
Groups in a position of power will categorize people according to ethnicity, race, religion or nationality employing an us versus them mentality.
According to Pew Research, slightly more than half of Israelis think that Arab Israelis should be expelled from the country.
Step 2: Symbolisation
People are identified as Jews, Roma or Tutsis, etc., and made to stand out from others with certain colours or symbolic articles of clothing.
Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip have different colours of IDs from those of people in East Jerusalem and Israel to set them apart (those in the west have green IDs, those in the east have blue IDs.)
Step 3: Discrimination
A dominant group uses laws, customs, and political power to deny the rights of other groups. The powerless group may not be granted full civil rights or even citizenship.
In the occupied West Bank, Palestinians must have their IDs for internal travel, due to the checkpoints interspersed within the territory. This system has drawn comparisons to laws in apartheid South Africa designed by whites to control the movement of blacks and mixed-race people and to keep them in inferior positions.
It is illegal for a Palestinian in the occupied West Bank to travel to Gaza and Jerusalem unless they have a special travel permit from Israel. Likewise, Palestinians in Gaza are forbidden from going to Jerusalem and the West Bank unless the Israeli military issues them a permit.
“Israeli law had different military orders in the West Bank and Gaza Strip,” Elayyan said. “Each territory was administered by a different Israeli military commander. The point of that was to maintain the division between the two territories, to make them easier to control.”
Step 4: Dehumanisation
The diminished value of the discriminated group is communicated through propaganda. Parallels are drawn with animals, insects or diseases.
The Prime Minister of Israel tweeted from his official account that Palestinians are “the children of darkness” and implied that they were animals by saying that Israelis are fighting for “the way of humanity” whereas Palestinians are fighting for “the law of the jungle”.
Step 5: Organisation
“A state, its army or militia design genocidal killing plans.”
This one is harder to discuss because we don’t have access to that kind of government information. That being said, however, 300 rifles were handed out tto Israeli civilians.
Make of that what you will.
Step 6: Polarisation
Propaganda is employed to amplify the differences between groups. Interactions between groups are prohibited, and the moderate members of the group in power are killed.
The Israeli government employs a tactic it calls “hasbara” in the news it puts out.
Hasbara has its roots in earlier concepts of propaganda, agitprop, and censorship. Like them, it is communication calculated to influence cognition and behavior by manipulating perceptions of a cause or position with one-sided arguments, prejudicial substance, and emotional appeals. Unlike its progenitors, however, hasbara does not seek merely to burnish or tarnish national images of concern to it or to supply information favorable to its theses. It also seeks actively to inculcate canons of political correctness in domestic and foreign media and audiences that will promote self-censorship by them. It strives thereby to decrease the willingness of audiences to consider information linked to politically unacceptable viewpoints, individuals, and groups and to inhibit the circulation of adverse information in social networks.
The “Hasbara Handbook” explains many standard techniques of propaganda and deceptive rhetoric. It rehearses specific arguments and counter-arguments and outlines a program of training for advocacy and rebuttal. It also stresses the importance of labeling or “name-calling” – the linking of a person or idea to a negative symbol. The handbook places itself in a larger context. It commends the work of “CAMERA” – the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America – an organization notorious for the viciousness of its efforts to blacken the reputations of those who criticize Israel or advance accounts of events that deviate from the official Israeli narrative by branding them as “anti-Semitic” or “self-hating Jews.”
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I dont think "im watching it for black rep" anon is even Black in a sense they seem to harrass everyone with that line but never expand on what that rep is. They also seem to avoid black blogs that criticize Asha's character and how she was not written with black people in mind
Oh yeah that anon be giving “white savior” teen girl vibes. I didn’t for one second think it was a black or brown person because oppressed communities know to stand with other oppressed communities. It’s probably even a Zionist whos trying to act like Palestinians are erasing BLM but we know better 🤷🏻♀️✊🏽
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