#october 7

[girlactionfigure]

#Israel #October 7 #Hamas Massacre #Hamas Kidnappers #Gaza #Palestinians #Yarden Bibas

[bsof-maarav]

Editor’s Note: Sanne DeWitt is a microbiologist, geneticist, researcher, and author of a memoir: “I Was Born In An Old Age Home”. She has lived in Berkeley, California since 1957, where she moved for advanced studies in microbiology and genetics, and worked there until her retirement. The views expressed here are those of the author. View more opinion on CNN.CNN — 

In 1957, I moved to Berkeley, California: a bastion of American liberalism that squarely aligns with my progressive values, and a hub of American scholarship that nurtured my academic quest and professional growth. I came here for advanced studies in microbiology and genetics. Since then, I have lived, worked as a scientist and retired in this community.

Over the 65 years that I have called this beautiful area home, I have occasionally encountered antisemitism, but these one-off incidents never succeeded in destroying my spirit. When I was four years old, Nazis burst into my bedroom and sent me and my family to Dachau, the first Nazi concentration camp. We were soon released and I was smuggled out of Germany by a Christian woman. After this harrowing experience, not much in the Bay Area could scare me.

But since the October 7 Hamas attack on Israel, the hatred towards Jews that I have seen in Berkeley terrifies me more than anything I have experienced while living here. I am still reeling from being called a liar at a Berkeley City Council meeting, where I asked for a proclamation to mark Holocaust Remembrance Day and spoke about October 7. The Jews at that meeting were circled and called “Zionist pigs” by menacing protesters.

We are approaching the holiday of Passover, which commemorates the freedom of the Israelites from Egyptian slavery and our formation as a free Jewish people in our own land. But this Passover is like no other in recent history, with scores of hostages still held in Gaza and Jews worldwide fearful for our future — including Jews in the US. We are facing the worst global antisemitism since the Holocaust and while it is not state-sanctioned as Nazism was, it is a threat going unchecked in California’s East Bay.

It is incredibly painful to see my neighbors vilify Jews, tear down posters of Jewish hostages in Gaza and not believe Jewish rape victims. In this hotbed, hatred and hostility have become normalized. Families have moved their children out of public schools. Jewish businesses have been vandalized and boycotted. And lies about Jews and Israel have gone unchecked and unchallenged in our public forums. Our local Jewish community is both horrified and petrified.

This onslaught of Jewish hatred cannot become the new normal. This epidemic must be treated as seriously as all other hatreds that our society is confronting, such as racism and homophobia. We need more education about Judaism and how the long, sordid history of antisemitism ties into other forms of hatred in our public schools.

We need colleges and universities to unequivocally denounce hate speech and actions directed at Jews. We need public officials to urge mutual respect, understanding and civil discourse during city council and town hall meetings.

I have seen where unchecked antisemitism can lead, when people will do nothing — or worse, join the mainstream, such as our German neighbors during Nazism. This Passover, I resolve with whatever time I have left in this world to fight for the safety of the Jewish people, in Berkeley and around the globe.

During Passover, we are commanded to tell the story of the exodus out of Egypt to our children. We believe in the lasting power of sharing this history with younger generations and reflecting on this hopeful new beginning. There is also lasting power in sharing my history as a Jewish refugee — and I invite my Berkeley neighbors to hear my story. Without understanding and acceptance, we are enslaved by our biases.

The hatred, violence and bigotry against the Jewish community cannot continue — for our shared future, we must confront it and root it out.

#jumblr #october 7 #israel #antisemitism #frumblr #terrorism #usa diaspora #Jewish women #Shoah survivor #Pesach #Passover #Sanne DeWitt

[jewish-vents]

I’m so tired of the left, I’m still very much still left leaning Jewish person. But I can’t be in left online spaces without feeling dehumanized, they just so evil.

I’m an Israeli Jew, I grow up in Israel and Israel is all I know. I knew few people that were kidnapped on 7/10 (some of them returned in November, one of them is still there) a friend sibling was murdered in 7/10… and seeing those vile people cheer on their death is so evil they so evil.

Talking to them is like talking to a wall, they don’t want to listen they just want to spew lies and slander without actually knowing anything. (I gave up trying to understand them months ago) and if they can’t refute your argument in anyway or form they spew slurs and name calling in seconds because they don’t want to admit they are wrong.

Seeing them spam hostages instagrams with vile comments and making fun of hostages just show how evil they are.

I can’t call myself woke anymore, nor I’m part of their evil left anymore. The fact that their antisemitism was always there, now they unmasked themselves and can be antisemitics in the open.

I’m still very much left leaning in my personal ideologies though so that is that.

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#jewish vents #leftist antisemitism #israel #october 7

[probablyasocialecologist]

#october 7 #israel #palestine

[whydidisavethistomyphone]

#israel #palestine #comic #political art #2009 #it didn’t start Oct 7 #october 7 #oct 7th

[mysharona1987]

#Israel #idf #news #South africa #October 7 #democrats #republicans #politics #doctors #gaza strikes #gaza

[dailykafka]

— October 7, 1915 / Franz Kafka diaries

#my head started aching so much and so suddenly i had to make that shinji pose #yeah slept badly too but thats just normal at this point #October 7 #1915 #october #franz kafka #daily kafka #franz kafka diaries #quotes #alt text

[emptygoldstudio]

[7] Eldest daughter brother 🎀

Prompt source for October

#mlp #my little pony #art prompt #artists on tumblr #twilight sparkle #shining armor #october 7 #emptygoldstudio #personal art #i forgor shinings qutiemark so dont pay too mach attention to in #everything is normal <':^)

[jewish-mccoy]

What seems to continuously get lost in the news stories about Israel and Palestine is the innocent civilians who were murdered, raped, tortured, and captured — all for the mortal “sin” of existing.

It’s not resistance to parade the bodies of civilians who were at a fucking FESTIVAL FOR PEACE. To rape and murder the Israeli leftists who were advocating for a peaceful solution to the war. Who were *allies* to Palestine. There’s no nuance in the current discourse about Israel and Palestine. There’s no reasoning with people who scream “GENOCIDE” and argue that Israel is to blame for the actions of a group that regularly puts their own civilians up as human shields.

It’s all antisemitism. It’s virtue signaling, because collectively, white leftists have decided Palestinians are The Most Oppressed and that they are never wrong. Which is infantilizing and insulting, and one might even say… racist… but that doesn’t matter to these leftists, because it makes them feel better about hating Jews. Because they’re hating *zionists*, not Jews. The Good Jews that agree with the destruction of the last safe place for Jews definitely won’t be immediately thrown to the wolves after they outlive their usefulness.

#israel/palestine #i/p conflict #october 7 #antisemitism #jewish tag #israel

[palestinegenocide]

Casualties

26,422+ killed* and at least 65,087 wounded in the Gaza Strip.

387+ Palestinians killed in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem

Israel revises its estimated October 7 death toll down from 1,400 to 1,147.

557 Israeli soldiers killed since October 7, and at least 3,221 injured.**

*This figure was confirmed by Gaza’s Ministry of Health. Some rights groups put the death toll number at more than 33,000 when accounting for those presumed dead.

** This figure is released by the Israeli military.

#free gaza #israel #gazaunderattack #gaza strip #israel is a terrorist state #gaza #genocide #palestine #free palestine #jerusalem #west bank #october 7

[girlactionfigure]

My heart aches thinking about Liri and the 132 hostages still held in captivity, enslaved, tortured and violated.

Please let them go back home by this passover, please bring them back out of hell.

Hen Mazzig

#Israel #October 7 #Hamas Hidnappers #Hamas Massacre #Hostages #Pesach #BringThemHomeNow

[floralcavern]

My least favorite Pro-Palestine argument/quote is “It was never about the hostages.”

Fuck you. Fuck you for downplaying October 7. Fuck you for ignoring the hostages who were murdered in captivity, ignoring the women in Hamas’s grasp who’ve stated they were raped. The one year old in custody. The people who are being tortured and slowly dying.

#release the hostages #free the hostages #bring them home now #October 7 #i stand with israel

[bsof-maarav]

This happened in late February. As far as I know this area has a decent number of Jews including Israeli Americans.

So a boy called a Jewish girl a "dirty Jew," threatened to beat her up, and then did proceed to push and punch her. He faced no consequences, was just told he had to change seats.

The head of the school made some mealymouthed statement about how the bullies just need to be educated because they don't understand the impact of their behavior. Cause it's really ambiguous to call someone a dirty Jew and then hit her. How could you possibly know how that would impact her and other Jews?

The short video of the Jewish students' walkout in protest showed a sweet camraderie between them. But it's born of necessity. You can't let these "small" things fester and I'm proud of these kids--and their parents--that they are not having it.

#jumblr #october 7 #antisemitism #usa diaspora #attacks on diaspora jews

[sh0rtins0mniac]

The Jerusalem Post's frontpage to mark six months since the October 7 pogrom. May the victims' memories forever be a blessing.

Source

#israel #october 7 #jumblr #ישראבלר #post #6 months since the world changed forever.

[probablyasocialecologist]

The latest questions are centered around Anat Schwartz, an Israeli who co-authored several of the paper’s most widely circulated reports, including the now well-known and scrutinized December 28 article headlined: “‘Screams Without Words’’ How Hamas Weaponized Sexual Violence on Oct. 7.” Independent researchers scrutinized the online record, and raised serious questions about Schwartz. First, she has apparently never been a reporter but is actually a filmmaker, who the Times suddenly hired in October. You would expect the paper to look for someone with actual journalistic experience, especially for a story as sensitive as this one, written during the fog of war. Surely the paper had enough of its own correspondents on staff who could have been assigned to it. Next, the researchers found that Schwartz had not hidden her strong feelings online. There are screenshots of her “liking” certain posts that repeated the “40 beheaded baby” hoax, and that endorsed another hysterical post that urged the Israeli army to “turn Gaza into a slaughterhouse,” and called Palestinians “human animals.” (Just this morning, more evidence emerged online; Schwartz apparently also served in Israeli Military Intelligence.) Finally, one of her co-authors on two of the reports was Adam Sella, who is her nephew.  Let’s pause here. What would happen if the Times suddenly hired a Palestinian filmmaker with no journalistic background, who had recently publicly “liked” posts that called for “pushing Israeli Jews into the sea,” to co-write several of its most sensitive and contested reports? 

[...]

There’s another related example of how the Times has botched the sexual violence story. One of the first Israeli organizations that arrived on the scene of the Hamas attack was Zaka, a volunteer group that recovers dead bodies. On January 15, Times reporter Sheena Frankel wrote a positive profile of the group; she included 3 or 4 sentences of criticism, only to quickly dismiss them. This site had already raised serious doubts about Zaka weeks earlier, pointing out that “the organization’s volunteers have systematically given false testimonies, and continue repeating them to journalists on behalf of the Israel government.” Then, on January 31, the Israeli daily Haaretz published a long investigation, that highlighted “cases of negligence, misinformation and a fundraising campaign that used the dead as props.” Haaretz cited one Zaka report that said a volunteer had seen a murdered pregnant woman, with the baby still attached by the umbilical cord — before concluding that the incident “simply didn’t happen.” At this stage, there are serious doubts about many aspects of Israel’s overall account about October 7. Only a genuinely independent and impartial investigation might some day get closer to the truth. But meanwhile, at the very least the New York Times must publicly recognize its errors, and assign new, unbiased reporters to try to clean up its mess. 

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#israel #palestine #new york times #hamas #Anat Schwartz #zionism #october 7

[tsuyoshikentsu]

jews: the friends we lost are dead.

I've been thinking about how to say this for a while. None of us want to hear it, but it's true. The friends we've lost since October 7th? The ones who suddenly went mask-off, or started spouting horrible shit without a second thought?

They're dead.

They're dead, and like a parasite emerging from the host, they were killed by the people who were revealed to be within them the whole time.

You're not mourning the loss of a friend who's antisemitic. You're mourning the death of the version of them that wasn't. Because that version? It's dead, and it's not coming back.

Oh, sure, they might grow a brain and/or a conscience, reform themselves, and come back full of apologies. But that won't be the same person. It'll be a person who looks like that person and has many things in common with that person, but is also a reformed antisemite. The version of them that was never an antisemite? Died.

Does this mean you shouldn't forgive them? There's no way I can make that decision for you. There are people I've lost that I would forgive in a heartbeat. (I miss you, M. It was hard to lose you, Ja.) There are people I will never trust again as long as I live. (You deserve nothing more, Ju.) But you need to admit to yourself that the person that you knew, as you knew them, is gone forever.

If it felt like your friend died when they betrayed you? This is why.

#jewish #jumblr #judaism #antisemitism #10/7 #7/10 #october 7