#jewish for our palestinian brothers and sisters

[girlfictions]

something i’ve been thinking about lately is like. growing up muslim right after 9/11 is something i’d never really reflected on much because it was all i’d ever known — at 5, my friend’s mum didn’t let her invite me to her birthday party because i was the only brown girl in our class, at 12, my classmates would joke about my family being part of isis, at 16, my dad was interrogated by american airport security for hours — and it always stung and it always hurt but it was just the way things were because the western world hated muslims. but i don’t think i’ve ever fully comprehended the extent to which we were hated until now.

palestine is being turned into a mass graveyard. every single day there are new photos of the atrocities being carried out against them and videos of them pleading for help and still those who can actually intervene turn a blind eye. israel is claiming to only be targeting hamas “terrorists” while bombing a refugee camp. israeli police raided and assaulted a non-zionist jewish neighbourhood. israeli soldiers are posting tiktoks of them torturing captured palestinians. this is not a complicated issue and it never has been. ethnic cleansing is being committed right in front of us. and yet the western world leaders refuse to call for a ceasefire.

and while zionist organisations accuse pro-palestine demonstrations of anti-semitism, while zionist celebrities insist that they’re afraid to leave their mansions in los angeles, a six year old muslim boy was stabbed to death and his mother wounded in the same attack in chicago. a muslim doctor was murdered while sitting outside her apartment complex in texas. hundreds of peaceful protesters have been arrested (many of whom have been jewish). despite what zionists want you to believe, this is not a jewish/muslim conflict. i have so much love and gratitude to my brave jewish brothers and sisters all over the world who are condemning israel for their actions.

ultimately, israel have been granted impunity by the west. they have slaughtered thousands upon thousands of innocent palestinians. they have bombed hospitals and schools indiscriminately. they have used white phosphorus, violating the geneva convention. they have completely eradicated nearly 900 bloodlines. how many more need to be wiped out? how many more children need to be buried underneath the rubble? how many more doctors need to be confronted with the bodies of their own family members? how many more journalists need to detail the horrific acts of violence they are witnessing? what more can be done to the palestinian people that has not been done already?

i truly believe that palestine will be free one day. i believe the palestinian people will receive the justice they finally deserve. but what breaks my heart is how much they have suffered and will continue to suffer before they are deemed worthy of help. and it would be to all of our detriment if we ignored how much of a factor palestine being a predominantly muslim state has played into the way the world has reacted to their genocide.

#edit: this is completely okay (and encouraged frankly) to reblog <3 #i just needed to get this off my chest because i don’t know how much more i can take #palestine #free palestine

[tikkunolamresistance]

Zionism has taught Jews that we are ontologically different from the rest of humanity and collective community. Instilled within us that our only claim to safety, the only true way we can be undoubtedly safe, was through the existence of a quasi-Religious, ethno-nationalist state strictly dictated by the Zionist project. That the self-determination of Jews can only, exclusively, be achieved through the establishment of this colony of forced-assimilation. The equation of Zionism equals Judaism, no matter the disastrous consequences of which, has raised millions of Jewish people around the world.

And trust, it has not only been by the hands of Jewish Zionism. For Christian Zionism plays a major, glaring role in this indoctrination. With there being more Christian Zionists than there are Jews in the world (with much of the Republican and Democratic parties being Christian Zionists) the ideology of The Rapture, second coming of Jesus, with establishment of Jerusalem as the World’s new Capital following; Jews and Palestinians are just canon-fodder; pawns to summon Jesus. We implore that you do further reading on this matter and it’s instrumental role in Zionist ideology.

And one can only wonder, one can only assume, that has this not since opened an irrefutable Pandora’s Box of a new kind of capitalist nationalism onto the global Jewish community? To appoint a group as above another is a complexity of supremacy that we’ve seen through history. If we look at Imperialist history, we see what ideology has forced its way through epochs to excuse brutal expansionist policy.

What’s worst, and what’s most enraging, is that Shoah has been weaponised not only from the Holocaust industry— the billions made from displaying Jewish generational trauma and the cinematic brutalisation of our people— to ensure the West can constantly remind us that their role in the war was for Jewish liberation, and certainly not due to fearing Nazi imperial domination as a threat to Western imperial interests… but to merit the Israeli States’ “right to self determination” and “self-defence” against inevitable Native Palestinian uprising.

Zionism is a right-wing, ethnonationalist idology that has been used to control and influence Jewish communities for decades, to justify imperialist expansion. It’s an insult, a disgrace, to Jewish history, identity and peoplehood.

Anti-Zionism is the radical rejection and desire to dismantle the very systems that harm not only us, Jews, but our brothers and sisters in this fight against capitalist regime. We seek unity, liberation, equity, justice. We seek love where there has been unprecedented hatred. We seek grace where there has been insolence. Anti-Zionism is integral in the fight for true global liberation.

There is pain upon the Holy Land, Palestine, and we must admit that we can do something about it.

#free palestine #palestine #anti capitalism #anti imperialism #jumblr #judaism #israel #jewish thought #jewish #antizionism #jewish antizionists #antizionists unite #christian hegemony #christian zionism

[matan4il]

Update post:

It's exactly six months since the start of the war. Six months since the worst massacre of Jews post WWII. Six months since the worst tragedy in Israeli history, for Jewish and non-Jewish citizens, and for non-citizens who happened to be here. Six months of still not understanding how it could happen. Six months of looking for a way to comprehend that the age of defenceless Jews being mass tortured, raped and murdered isn't behind us. Six months of watching people deny the murders, the rapes, the intentionality of these crimes, the identity of the perpetrators, the pain that we feel, the fact that on October 7 we were the victims, all of which denies our very humanity. Six months of even more Israelis getting killed, soldiers and civilians, in Israel and in Gaza. Six months of wanting my people back. All of them. Alive. The kidnapped and the massacred. Like having an adult's brain, which understands the finality of death, and a child's heart, which doesn't. Six months of trying to process images and realities I will never forget, and never understand. Six months of watching with horror as my Jewish brothers and sisters abroad are being targeted as well, of searching for ways to stand with them even from afar. Six months of hearing some non-Jews (and a minority of Jewish people) acting as if Israelis' right to live is dependent on how many Gazans the antisemitic, genocidal terrorists of Hamas manage to get killed, in order to turn the world against us. Six months of having to realize those terrorists, who never made it a secret that their intents for every Jew in the world are genocidal, might succeed. Six months of wondering how the Holocaust, the genocide perpetrated against the Jews for being Jewish, is being hijacked, distorted, and All Lives Matter'ed, by the same people who would have screamed against how wrong that is, if it were done to any other marginalized group. Six months of finding comfort in the compassion, strength and solidarity of the Jewish People, of the Israelis, and of our true allies. Six months of working to allow joy in again, even as the pain doesn't let go for a second. Six months of having to face the devastating fact, that the family scars, born out of millennia of antisemitism, are not going to stop with this generation, either. Six months of experiencing the betrayal of people who were supposed to be friends, and to listen, and to know better. Six months of discovering that there is no limit to the human heart's ability to break. Six months of grieving every day like it's the first one, because October 7 never ended here. Six months of knowing I will never be the same, right from the start, from the very first horror video I happened to come across online. Six months of never being more Jewish in my life, or closer to what my Holocaust survivor grandparents had gone through, or more broken, or stronger, or prouder, or braver, or more full of love, for my people, for my friends, for my heritage as a Jew that teaches choosing to hold up even one little light, because in a world so full of darkness, so willing to embrace it, nothing matters more than the light we choose.

<- -> <- -> <- ->

Yet another Palestinian terrorist attack happened today. Two people were shot by the terrorist attacking vehicles driving by, and one of the vistims, a 19 years old female soldier, is said to be in serious condition. The other victim is a 50 years old man. The army is in pursuit of the terrorist.

We learned that yesterday, four more Israeli soldiers were killed during the fighting in Gaza, bringing the totaly number of fatalities in the ground operation to 260, and in the war and Hamas massacre combined to 604. May their memory be a blessing.

A 17 years old Palestinian was detained, searched and then arrested yesterday at the Damascus Gate in Jerusalem, when they found a concealed knife taped to his body, stopping him before he was able to carry out a terrorist attack. In a Facebook post, he talked about martyrdom and the road to heaven, a message typical of Jihadists.

Liri Albag is one of the four young Israeli female hostages, who were featured on the cover of the Daily Mail, showing them before the kidnapping, and just several hours after. Her family was sent a funeral laurel wreath, and security forces believe this was done by Iran, as part of its psychological warfare against Israeli civilians.

Here's another reminder that Hamas operates outside of Israel, and is a danger to all Jews, not just to all Israelis. This week, German and Dutch police jointly arrested four Hamas terrorists. While investigating their intent to launch attacks during Christmas, these forces ended up uncovering a Hamas weapons cache in southern Bulgaria, meant to be used against Jewish targets in Europe.

This is 47 years old Elad Katzir.

He was a farmer, and a passionate soccer fan. On Oct 7, his dad Rami was murdered in their community of kibbutz Nir Oz. His mother Chana was abducted, then released during the hostage deal, at the end of November 2023. The Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) claimed she was murdered, but it turned out they lied. Yesterday, we got the news that Elad, who was also kidnapped with his mom by the PIJ, was murdered in captivity, likely back in January. Intel that the IDF had collected led soldiers in a risky operation to the spot where Elad's body was buried. They brought him back home. As he volunteered so much, in so many domains, with so many people, his friends described him as, "a bachelor with many children."

May his memory be a blessing.

(for all of my updates and ask replies regarding Israel, click here)

#israel #antisemitism #israeli #israel news #israel under attack #israel under fire #terrorism #anti terrorism #hamas #antisemitic #antisemites #jews #jew #judaism #jumblr #frumblr #jewish #israelunderattack #resources #europe hamas

[grendelsmilf]

obviously there are a lot of jewish zionists whose ideology is born of trauma and a generational existential fear of extermination. i'm not saying this to excuse their ideas and actions insofar as they directly harm palestinians, but i do think it is valuable to understand why so many jews feel that seeking refuge in a nation designed for their own safety is the best (and only) option, and why they have such a violent "us or them" mentality. my friend who has suffered more trauma at the hands of the israeli state than anyone should ever have to endure recently said to me that israel is a nation of extremely traumatized people and many of them truly feel that they have no other choice but to commit atrocities for the sake of their own existential protection. it was an especially compassionate way of putting things considering he has every reason to hate them. however, while so many jewish zionists act through fear, scapegoating and dehumanizing palestinians in a tragic replication of what jews have undergone throughout history, israel's international allies do not have a vested interest in protecting the state of israel out of some moral obligation to preserve jewry. it's transparently obvious that countries such as the us (turned away shoah refugees), uk (literally banned jews from entering the country from 1290-1650), canada (recently honored a nazi), france (a country so antisemitic and racist i literally could not live there) etc etc. only use the language of antisemitism as a rhetorical device to justify their imperialist interests in using israel as a proxy state through which to exert power over the rest of the [quote-unquote] middle east. israel functions as an extension of these colonial interests, and the existential fear of jews across the globe is being exploited to couch the true intentions of these western imperialist powers, even though it should be blatantly obvious to any jew that our safety cannot be accounted for through colonial discourses of exploitation and domination, that we cannot rely on "protection" from states that view human beings as capital. so many jews fall for this propaganda that they have been inundated with and indoctrinated into since birth, that preys on their real fears through promising dangerous lies. and while it emboldens me to see so much jewish denunciation of and resistance to the atrocities being committed in our name, it also deeply saddens and frightens me that so many of my people cannot see through the hollow rhetoric to extend compassion to our palestinian brothers and sisters.

#o #i know its uncool and unsexy to admit this but i can empathize with the zionist pov (to an extent) so im just working thru that here i gues #i do think that knowing how to distinguish between zionism and other colonial ideologies means understanding the history & mentality of jew #not to excuse it of course. but willfully ignoring it is not helpful or productive either #100

[sorrymyrabbisaidno]

I've been trying to find words to put to the Israeli Palestinian conflict.

And I'd like to obligatorily start off with the "the Israeli government is far from perfect. And the displacement of Palestinians when Jews went back home is sad and it's important, in my view, to hold a balance between 'Jews deserve to go home AND Palestians don't deserve displacement'. That we can be both sensitive to the needs of Palestians and to the needs of Jews."

We good? Okay.

I don't care if you think Israel is settler colonalism, that does not justify harming civilians. It's been said before but most people hold Israel (and often by extention Jews) to a higher standard than the rest of the world. Britain colonized Canada and here I am, a descendant of them living on stolen land. And yet, do I deserve to be killed for being here? How about you in the US, Canada, Australia, etc?

And regardless of your feelings on G-d, Jews were exiled from the Levant (from Israel!!) about 2,000 years ago. And Jews have been living in exile since. And I don't think most people understand how central Israel is to our liturgy, how central it is to our concept of self, and our identity as a people. Jews don't just want it just to have it. Israel is very central to us and our understanding of our origins.

And Israel has been so important in keeping Jews safe(r). Jews fleeing persecution now have somewhere to go. A place to call home. And that's important for Jews to have.

And Hamas does not represent Palestine. It's a terrorist organization. The enemy of your enemy is not always your friend. They're intolerant, they deny the Holocaust, they actively harm the Jewish community. These people are literal neo-nazis. And y'all are cheering because you don't like Israel.

Innocent lives were and are being lost. Someone's son/daughter, brother/sister, someone's friend. Is now gone. Because of terrorism.

Terrorism is never justified. Ever.

#antisemitism #jumblr #israel #palestine

[gael-garcia]

Dear Elia, Thanks for the flowers. I finally got through to my family. My brother insisted that nothing serious happened. The scud hit the neighborhood, he joked, because it smelled the amba. As for my relatives in Baghdad, I have no idea. This war has only intensified my schizophrenia. As an Arab Jew, the dilemma of my identity has become almost dizzying. Most of my family was born and raised in Baghdad, and now lives in Israel, the U.S., England, and Iraq. When my grandmother arrived in Israel in the early 50s, she was convinced that the European Jews she encountered who looked, spoke, and ate so differently were actually European Christians. Jewishness for her generation was associated with Middle Easterness. My grandmother, who lives in Israel and still speaks only Arabic, had to be taught to speak of us as Jews, and them as Arabs. We Iraqi Jews have lived in Mesopotamia since the Babylonian exile, yet once in Israel, we were stripped of our history and forced to repress our nostalgia. We even came to question our own identity. For years, my sister dyed her hair blonde. My uncles and cousins have been arrested and beaten when they were mistaken for Palestinians. The dream of one people reunited in their ancient promised land has led us to abandon our affectionate memories of life before Israel. Yet, 40 years after we were forced to leave Baghdad, my family and I still long for its sights and sounds. My anxiety and pain during the scud attack on Israel does not cancel out my anguish for the victims of the bombing of Iraq. Yours, Ella.

Homage By Assassination (1992), dir. Elia Suleiman (watch)

#homage by assassination #elia suleiman #gulf war #short film #screencaps #film #post #dailyworldcinema #random letters keep getting sized up to regular im??? just gonna leave everything reg size then

[i-cant-sing]

Please ignore this, I'm sorry to rent I just really need to get this out of my system after seeing some of the gross messages people have been sending you...

All these idiots defending Israel and calling people who support Palestine anti-semitic need to wake up...

I'm literally 100% Jewish but I'm anti Zionist and people are accusing me of going against my religion. Zionism is a political ideology and it does not define my jewishness. Anyone who thinks otherwise has literally been brainwashed by the Israeli government and it is so shameful for me to currently live in a western country whose government is falling victim to the same type of brainwashing. For anyone who claims to be jewish, christian, or muslim, you cannot claim yourself to be a child of God yet sit back and be silent when Israel is committing genocide against other children of god, in the name of God. There are rules and Commandments at the forefront of all these abrahamic religions and a constant in every single one is to not kill another human. How do you think the so-called God you claim to worship will react if you are participating in the murder of hundreds of thousands of innocent people?

If Israel is claiming that their efforts are focused on getting rid of hamas, why are they attacking the West Bank where there is no hamas? why are they attacking Palestinian Christian churches when Hamas is an Islamic extremist group? Why have they been constantly harassing and attacking Palestinians for over 75 years when form a majority of that time, Hamas did not exist? Sounds like genocide to me

And to add on to that, people who are claiming this is Palestinians fault for voting Hamas in, 1-Israel created Hamas and 2 over 50% of the population wasn't alive when that last election happened and over 70% of the current adult population weren't even of age to vote in that election.

To those saying it's about the hostages, Israel does not care about the hostages because if they did they wouldn't be blindly blowing up Gaza not knowing where these hostages are being held. If they did they would have released the thousands of Palestinian hostages and political prisoners who have no confirmed affiliations with Hamas. Please do not misunderstand my words, obviously there are innocent Israeli civilians who should not have died, but there no way there can be peace if Israel's retaliation comes in the form of purposely targeting civilian homes and murdering thousands of innocent people, a majority of those being literal children.

It's just really blowing my mind that some of my Jewish brothers and sisters who have family who have directly experienced the holocaust, and have lost family during the Holocaust are sitting idly sit by and watching as the same exact thing is happening to another group of people. These are the Jews that are claiming Israel is a holy land given to them by God and that they are indigenous to israel, but if they're saying this they have obviously not read the torah. The Torah explicitly states that they were people in the land of Israel before Abraham led the Israelites there, and they were murdered so that the Jews can have the land. There are certain sects of Judaism is that believe we jews are not entitled to Israel because our Messiah has not arrived and those people have been very openly Pro-palestine.

Netanyahu and his entire cabinet are a bunch of war criminal, power hungry freaks who are using this as an opportunity to seize more power, more money, more support, and more Palestinian lives. As a Jew, it is my responsibility to speak up about this and I will never stop until Palestine is truly free.

Good anon👏

#free palestine

[softdedue]

Honestly as a Jewish person I understand that it’s easy for a lot of Jewish people to feel defensive right now—we have been raised to feel persecuted at every turn, after all, and why should this situation be any different—but it is so important to step back and take stock of the actual events that are occurring.

The actions of Israel are not justified. The creation of Israel was never justified. Any Jewish person who disagrees with either of those statements on any level, any Jewish person who still believes that the situation with Israel is in any way “complicated” with regard to morality, is complicit in this genocide and deserves to face the consequences of that. Jewish people who support genocide do not deserve to have their hands held any more than any other person who supports genocide. Having suffered through a genocide as a people ourselves should only make us more horrified by what these monsters are claiming to do in our people’s name.

I saw a post yesterday that said global antisemitism made the actions of Israel “understandable”. How could we expect Jewish Israelis to feel safe anywhere other than their own country if the rest of the world hates them? Well, I challenge you this: how could you live with yourself if you felt pride for a country that could do such things?

I am an American. I am hated by many people for being an American. I think those people are entirely justified in hating me for being an American, and I agree with their criticisms of my country, because I know my country fucking sucks. Any Israeli who doesn’t feel critical of their country deserves my hatred. That’s kind of the point.

Obviously we need to talk about the spread of antisemitism in response to this horrific tragedy. We should not hate Israelis for being Jewish, and we should not hate average Jewish people around the world for being Jewish. But we also need to acknowledge the Jewish role in this tragedy as well, and to keep the true victims—the people of Gaza—at the forefront of our minds. It is understandable that there would be antisemitic backlash at this time. We must have grace with a world who is reeling in the horror of us—yes, us—slaughtering their children by the thousands.

This is not our moment to speak out about injustices done against our people. This is our moment to apologize, and to distance ourselves from the monsters who have condoned this, and to speak out in support for our Palestinian brothers and sisters who are facing adversity that makes the acts currently being committed against us look like nothing.

Free palestine

#israel #palestine #free palestine #I don’t know how many times I’m going to say it but We Are All Complicit In This #Americans and Jewish people both tbh but ESPECIALLY American Jewish people #with our fucking birthright trips #every Jewish scholar I know has spent a term studying in israel lol #‘oh but I’m not a Zionist’ Are You Sure

[messymindofmine]

Some small moments from the January 13th march for Palestine in Washington DC. It was a truly surreal feeling to be a part of an international moment of solidarity. 30 countries across the world are marching for Palestine this weekend. This was the largest pro-Palestine march in US history with over 400,000 people in attendance. There were people of all walks of life there expressing solidarity with our Palestinian brothers and sisters. We had imams, pastors and rabbis speak. We had Palestinians share their stories and the stories of their families. We had two Palestinian journalists speak to us via video message from the ground in Gaza. We had various secular and Orthodox Jewish organizations in attendance as well as secular Arab and Muslim organizations and Christian organizations. There were LGBTQ organizations in attendance.

As a Muslim, it has been painful and at times demoralizing to see the massacre of innocent people while the world remains silent. But today, I saw that we are not silent nor will we be silenced. The tide has well and truly turned and the world wants a free Palestine.

#palestine #free palestine

[radical-revolution]

(My desperate and sad prayer.)

I…

I pray…

I pray for Israel.

I pray for Palestine.

I pray for all of us now.

And if you condemn me for taking sides,

or judge me for not taking sides,

then maybe you don’t understand

the depths of this love.

Because love itself is the prayer.

And the one who prays.

And the longing and the light.

And the darkness and the answer.

And so I pray for you too.

For all of your conflicting parts.

For all the children fighting within you.

And I pray for you to know

the Consciousness prior to identity.

I pray for you to know

the I Am itself.

Before I am a Palestinian.

Before I am an Israeli.

Before I am Jewish, Muslim, Christian, Buddhist, Hindu, or an atheist.

Before division itself.

Before any notion of God or her absence.

Before time.

Before all of this began.

Before the world,

the joy and the sorrow of living.

Before territory and history.

I am what you are.

I am your rage, your grief, your loneliness.

Your fear. Your vulnerable heart.

Your powerlessness. Your shaking.

And through these non-dual eyes,

perhaps we can finally love each other.

In spite of our beliefs.

In spite of our ancient rage and our lust for revenge.

In spite of religion.

In spite of what the holy books

tell us to think.

You are my brother.

My sister.

My child.

My mother.

My father.

I pray for love to permeate the world.

Before it’s too late.

I pray for awakening.

I pray for Palestine.

I pray for Israel.

Before it’s too late.

I pray for all the children.

All the babies.

All the mothers and fathers.

Sisters and brothers.

Friends and enemies.

I pray for the end of hostilities.

Before it’s too late.

I pray for all those who are scared right now.

I pray that my small, sad prayer helps in some way.

Even in some small way.

Even in some tiny way.

I pray for you.

I pray for me.

I pray for us.

I pray…

I…

- Jeff Foster

[unbidden-yidden]

how are the Hanukkah preps going for u ?? do u feel safe enough to share what it’s like in the diaspora ?? (im super curious to see what it’s like outside of israel !!)

Hi there! An early chag sameach! 😊

So I can only really speak for my area, but so far so good on the "being visibly Jewish in my area" thing. My situation is weird, in that I live in a rather blue (liberal) big city that happens to be in a deep red (very conservative) state. As a queer/trans person and reproductive rights advocate, it's been rough and feels like a powder keg waiting to explode. My queer/trans spouse and I may need to flee the state if things get worse for somewhere more liberal overall (and hopefully not violently antisemitic) but we'll see what happens.

As a person who dresses visibly Jewish though, it's been reasonably fine so far? I haven't wandered onto the liberal campus area since 7/10 and I imagine that would be a lot different of an experience. We have all gathered as a community several times since 7/10 in order to express our grief and prayers and advocate for the US to help Israel recover the hostages. On 10/10, I gathered with the local frum community to daven tehillim and so far that has been my favorite gathering/the one I felt most comfortable at. It was very focused on our grief for our brothers and sisters and siblings in Israel who were killed and captured, and davening for a swift and just resolution. I also attended a much larger community-wide event some days later that was a lot more nationalistic, but at least it was still focused on the human concern. There was another community event I went to at the shloshim mark, and it was a lot more organized (for obvious reasons) but vibed a lot more like it was geared towards the kind of liberal Jew that actively wants the American flag and the Israeli flag on the bimah (idk if that makes sense to you, but it's a very specific Vibe™️ of Jew here.) I could not go to the march in D.C. but people in my community were strongly encouraged to go if they were able.

There have been several talking groups, Peace-oriented Shabbatot, and pro-Palestinian protests happening as well. The first two seem to be going well, but I have no idea about the last one, as the rhetoric from that leadership has become very antisemitic so I have not engaged them at all. I have been able to avoid them in public. Most recently, there was a pro-Israel protest that was supposed to be focused on the captives, but enough people couldn't stay on message that I considered leaving and am still a little conflicted about if I should have. That was the first time I've seen counter-protesting, and it was just one guy yelling a lot of offensive and antisemitic things. There's another rally coming up that I suspect will result in some kind of confrontation or violence because it's right near campus and it's organized by the same people who couldn't stay on message. It's also in an area where there are a lot of cops and has historically been used to kettle protesters. I am more worried about the counter-protesters to be honest, but I also think that if it turns violent it would likely be started by them. I really hope I'm wrong and everything remains peaceful in its protest.

I have yet to find a local group that is analogous to Standing Together, which is unfortunate, because that's effectively my position. I am hopeful I will find the other people that are deeply invested in the safety and freedom of the people of Gaza as well as Israelis.

So in light of that backdrop, it's shocking normal. Chanukah is going forward as usual - if anything with even more vigor than normal. Large, public, annual events are still happening and so far seem well-attended and there has not been harassment. We will see if that continues. I am planning on eating latkes with many a creative topping and proudly displaying my menorah in the window. I plan on going to some of the large public events (Chabad does several of them, but so does the broader community) dressed as I normally do and I refuse to be intimidated. So far I have thankfully not been given a reason to be.

B'ezrat Hashem that continues, and that we all see a just and peaceful resolution to the war soon.

[spindrifters]

I don't know how many people know this, but a sephardic hanukiah often has ten branches instead of nine. eight days, a shamash, and one extra lit each night. that one is to honor the gentiles who welcomed us to their lands after we were expelled from spain and portugal. I've always understood this to mean that, while hanukkah is a celebration of the jewish people's survival against a destructive enemy, taking our gentile neighbor's hand will only ever make us stronger and more safe.

my hanukiah only has nine branches, but I'll be lighting an extra candle next to it each night to honor my palestinian brothers and sisters. if you're jewish and, like me, have been struggling in some way with hanukkah this year, I invite you to do the same.

#this tag is jewish and so am I

[tikkunolamresistance]

since you care about terrorists so much how about you go to palestine and see just how nice they are to jews, you know, the people they collectively blame for their suffering

Hmm. Interesting. Palestinians we’ve spoken to blame the State, and the complicit countries like the US, for their suffering. However, Zionist Israel plasters Jewish symbology all over their war crimes… Do you see how Zionism is the biggest threat to the Jewish people, when it commits atrocities as such in our name? A Palestinian disliking the sight of Hebrew or the Magen David does not even touch upon the antisemitism caused by the Zionist project itself. A Palestinian being resentful towards a Jew for the actions committed in our name doesn’t even hold weight against the rising Nazi movements in America and Europe.

I’d love to go to Palestine. The Holy Land. It would be the greatest honour to walk alongside Muslim, Druze, Catholic brothers and sisters in a liberated Palestine.

For Jews to be liberated, we must liberate Palestine first.

#free palestine #palestine #anti capitalism #anti imperialism #anti zionism #zionism is just racism and sugar coated white supremacy #anti zionism is not anti semitism

[nothing-particularly-exciting]

Palestinian UN representative Nada Tarbush criticises Israel’s justifications for the attacks on Gaza, 17th November

the final part of her speech, since Tumblr’s size limit for videos prevents me from posting it in full:

And to Israel’s absurd assertion that Palestinians have a problem with people of Jewish faith, and give the impression that this is a religious conflict, let us say it loud and clear: this is not and has never been about religion. Had the occupiers of our land, or the violators of our rights been Muslim, Christian, Buddhist, Hindu, atheist or of any other conviction, we would have called them out all the same. Palestine has always been multiracial, multiethnic, and multi religious. People of Jewish faith have lived in historic Palestine as Palestinians for centuries. We consider them to be our brothers and sisters, and since the memory of the Holocaust has also been invoked, let us say loud and clear: we have the greatest of solidarity with both the victims and survivors of the Holocaust.  It was not Palestinians that committed that horrific genocide, but the fascist forces that spawned from Europe, and it is unconscionable that a number of European leaders are again beating the drum as another genocide is now underway in Gaza. We are united with those hundreds of thousands of Jews around the world, including from organisations like Jewish Voice for Peace, IfNotNow, Na’amod UK, who are calling out this genocide and chanting in the streets of New York, London, Paris, Berlin, Sydney, Toronto and all major western cities so that their governments can hear: “Not in our name.” “End the genocide in Gaza.”  With them, we stand together to end this pain and suffering. Together, we will not allow this to happen. Never again is now.

#palestine #free palestine #gaza #free gaza #united nations #current events #ceasefire now #end the occupation #end the genocide

[negrophobic]

jewish, christian, and muslim palestinians have all lived together in peace and supported one another for hundreds of years

ppl think the q'uran is anti-christian & anti-semetic but its not as moses and jesus were our prophets

meanwhile the idf routinely assaults jewish ppl who defend their palestinian brothers and sisters and bombs christian churches and hospitals in palestine

its never been palestinian muslims vs jewish ppl its only been the israeli settler state terrorising the entirety of palestines people

#jews for palestine #jewish palestinians #palestinians #christian palestinians #free palestine #palestine #gaza #idf #anti zionist #anti zionism #my post #fp tag

[mymotherwasashiksa]

being told to sing a song of "our people," to weep for a state that supposedly speaks for us, to weep for their pain

"our people" who stripped many of us of our language to force us into intellectual homogeneity to purge outside ideas and cries of peace?

"our people" who sterilized our ethiopian sisters, do we weep for her empty cradle?

our brothers and sisters, hearing nothing but the cries of children between megatons of explosives

do we weep for the palestinian jews who weren't jewish enough to reign alongside the zionist?

do we weep for our hasidic brothers, arrested in the streets for wanting to relinquish a land that is not our own back to the palestinians who freely walked and grazed among them eighty years ago, as they should be now?

do we weep for our kin, who cry out to the same god, as our name is used to pillage and destroy their families and homes?

do we weep for the mothers who have lost children, and cry out to the same god?

no, israel has said. you may not weep for those people, for they are not your kin. only "our people" are, they say.

we may only weep for the exclusionary "we."

the we that makes us all guilty as they murder children in their beds. the we that incriminates us. the we that tells us to grieve the soldier rather than the man he stomps upon.

"we" are not we. they are them, and we know palestine must be free.

#anti israel #pro palestine #jews for palestine #anti zionist #free palestine