Just a little PSA: I'm deleting every reblog I have talking about Israel and Palestine.
I knew I didn't know very much about what was going on, but seeing the horrors of what was happening, I felt compelled to try and help. One way I thought I was helping was by reblogging things I thought seemed important/worth sharing as a way to spread the word.
It's since been pointed out to me that this wasn't actually helpful and was actually quite the opposite. What was actually happening, unfortunately is that I was spreading misinformation and hate. That was definitely not my intention and I want to sincerely apologize for doing so.
Until I've completed the much needed research I need to do on the subject, I'll remain quiet and on the sidelines. Reading posts by Jewish people and learning real ways to be helpful.
I am so genuinely sorry for my ignorance, and I cannot believe my actions may have contributed to getting people killed. That's not my intention and it never will be. ❤
If anyone would like to chat privately - whether to vent or whatever - please feel free! I want Jewish people (and other minorities) to feel nothing but safe talking to me/on my blog. I'm here to listen, if needed.
"In a recent Harvard-Harris poll, 53 percent of Americans between 18-24 said that October 7 was justified by Israel's wrongs torward the Palestinians.
Those most likely to say so were also the most likely to know nothing about the history of Israeli-Palestinian conflict: e.g. that Gaza has not been occupied since 2005; that it is Hamas, not Israel, that limits the import of food and medical supplies; that far from committing genocide against Palestinians, the Palestinian population grew rapidly under Israeli rule, with life expectancy skyrocketing and infant mortality plummeting; that the Palestinians have been repeatedly offered a state since the original UN Partition in 1948; that far from being colonizers, Jews are indigenous to Israel, and purchased, not conquered, all the land on which Israel was originally founded; that at the time of the Second Aliyah of Jews, the land was desolate and largely unpopulated, and only when the Jews had drained the swamps and caused the deserts to bloom was a large Arab population attracted to live there; and that most of Israel's Jewish population today is descended from Jews of color ethnically cleansed from Arab lands."
There’s always ever going to be two things in everything
If you are ignoring someone or things or people then
It’s either
1. You have had enough even after you’ve set boundaries & they still cross it
Or
2. You haven’t really communicated any of your barrier in detail but expect them to just read your mind & leave you in peace while you’re still also giving them a mixed signal of willing to work things out
If you’re the one getting ignored by someone or people or things then it’s either
1. You’re not reading the message correctly that when people have verbalised their words & action at the same time regarding space means you must respect it & leave them be
Or
2. You’re maintaining a healthy way of keeping them in your life including giving them the space they want & need but they choose not to liaise their intention of unrequited energy & yet still sending you lack of clarity & contradiction to which you’re uncertain with the whole situation if they want you in their life or they’re just having a mood swing of a day
The thing is either being the one who ignore others or getting ignored by others; the universe will always see justice to it. No matter what.
We can always say we ignore people because they don’t get us or understand the concept of boundaries but also at the same time have we really set the perimeters in ways or shapes or forms they truly able to fathom that will cover all corners for them to reach the comprehension of such a consequences of being “ignored” will occur if they traverse the line? Or do we merely get high from being too superior & too good to even be relaying the actual intention while still hoping for the person we ignore to still continuously be giving us the attention we have claimed with do not want?
To ignore people for the right reason knowing you have completely expressed your limitation versus the wrong reason to which you don’t converse over what’s on & what’s off , will only create a damaging society rather than one that can nourish an effective communication skill between two people or an entire population -
Then you have chooks running around mimicking each other with the same “I hate this generation / era“ line when really instead of the hate speech why not make a difference or change by taking action on what you don’t actually hate rather than be copying & pasting the same plagiarised sentence with no meaning but for a trending purpose only-
D C de Oliveira | From Unsang, Insensitivity | January 10, 2023 | Tuesday, 5am
(please don't take it as a dig at all #notallwesterners, but just as silly fun and illustration how some people can be stupid regradless of where they're from)
People from other countries also have amazing stories to tell:
Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.
I don’t care what people would think after i post this!!
Hamas is not ISIS. Hamas is not a terrorist group, it’s a resistance movement/group. Hamas is a resistance force fighting an apartheid regime and state. I’m tired of people saying Hamas are terrorists just because people are very used to the narrative of muslims being terrorists.
The palestinians fight back against their colonisers once and they’re called terrorists. All resistance movement in the past have been called terrorists but for all i know they all did free their country.
Don’t believe everything western media shows you about Hamas. They have been many videos going viral on social media about the released hamas hostages and all were taking nothing but positively regarding the treatment of Hamas members.
It’s a propaganda they want you to believe in. Because they believe everything muslim is terrorism. They make the bad guys look good.
How’s resisting and defending one’s country defined as terrorism?
Israelis get a taste of their own medicine and start crying?!?!?!
You have done worse to the Palestinians and it’s hasn’t just been a year, it has been 75 years and 40 days for torture, genocide, extermination and murder.
Also here is a blog post by @tamamita explaining how Hamas is different from ISIS, i found it very well articulated. 👇
And, Zionism is not judaism.
Noah Schnapp made a video giving away “zionism is sexy” and “Hamas is ISIS” stickers and was very much laughing about it with his fellows. People supporting him or excusing his behaviour are disgusting and inhumane as much as he is.
Imagine if the stickers said “genocide is sexy” because to me that’s what it says. Saying zionism is sexy is the equivalent of saying genocide is sexy.
There is much to be said in favour of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community. By carefully chronicling the current events of contemporary life, it shows us of what very little importance such events really are. By invariably discussing the unnecessary, it makes us understand what things are requisite for culture, and what are not.