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The thing--the absolutely frustrating thing--for many Jews is that the Left's ideals say that they should be our allies. We are a long-persecuted minority who were displaced from our homeland by colonizers, who have been the repeated victims of genocides and ethnic cleansing. Biased beliefs against us are common, and we need to be listened to. All of these things are points that Leftists say and idealize as being points they're in support of helping.

But, because antisemitism is foundational to a lot of Western ideologies and beliefs, the biases against Jews and Judaism is deep and unrelenting.

So we need to ask, and ask, and ask...

Will they live up to their ideals, or down to their biases?

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bruh you can't be serious

at least the comments are being normal for once. for now.

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Why is it that no matter what you say, no matter how detailed or nuanced or well-worded of a point you make about the humanity of Jews/Israelis, no matter how logical and empathetic and pro-peace you are, arguing with goyish leftists will always without fail gets you the exact same wordsalad "genocide babykilling colonialism etc etc etc" rant, like they're all sharing one braincell. Like you're arguing with a particularly racist brick wall. It feels so hopeless. Jew hate turned large swaths of previously compassionate people into angry, frothing, irrational bigots. Any attempt to educate or inform is written off as propaganda. Like how do you even argue with that? It's like the lefty version of far-right conspiracy theorists. It feels like there is nothing you can say to them to actually make them see reason, and it all feels so hopeless.

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Jews are just eastern europeon whites, leave our land kīke

Not true there are also western European whites, Moroccan whites, Iraqi whites, syrian whites and more!

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People are so normal and hinged, just one near death experience during a bombing of her city would put her brain back into place, vocally wishing death on predominantly young women on tumblr who are understandably having an emotional reaction to some people's obsession with exoticizing and drooling over russian culture when said ukrainian women's home is under a real, looming threat of occupation and subsequent forced russification, which nobody except other ukrainians and some eastern europeans seems to acknowledge much while talking about how "war is hell.. i wish everybody would just put their weapons down and hug each other.. :(".

Also "cultural genocide of everything russian across the globe" LMAO one can only laugh. Not like russia is a former empire and russian is to this day the dominant culture in most of the former soviet union.

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Someone just said to me, 100% seriously, “the US is the most oppressive country in the world and you’re brainwashed by propaganda if you don’t see that.” Come the fuck on now.

While it certainly cannot be denied that there are certain aspects of the US and her government, just like my own country, that are horrifically, brutally repressive, especially of minorities, keeping a straight face while saying that while the governments of countries like Iran, Afghanistan, China, Russia, exist is deeply, farcically ludicrous.

People who say this are functionally no different to MAGA arseholes, but instead of AMERICA BEST EVER it’s AMERICA WORST EVER - still imagining that the U S of A is the centre of the fucking universe.

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“alt text for more info” “turn on cations for more info” no actually this is not where more info goes. These have a very distinct purpose. There are plenty of other places for more info. If you’re going to make your post inaccessible, the least you could do is not use accessibility tools at your own leisure for whatever purpose you see fit.

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This Administration is just shameless. I'm disgusted to live in this country. This is who a majority of Americans chose to put in power.

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see your argument that israel doesn't need to exist for jewish safety would be a lot more valid if you would stop actively making the diaspora more unsafe for us

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My shalomies,

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Source

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The thing about all those beauty influencers and tiktokers with 20 step skincare routines is that the vast majority of their time, their skin just. Looks like everyone else's. Like they've still got redness and bumps and discoloration and acne. And with the exceptions, it's always either clearly edited or it's solely because of the person's genes.

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Thank you wayback machine for helping me bypass paywalls on fucking RECIPES

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High quality tomfoolery

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Also not that there aren’t any commonalities but I’m so tired of how Americans will see something happen in global politics and be like “this is just like (x)!!!” like girl idk maybe it isn’t. There are lot of things that make this not like the US invading Iraq, actually. Which doesn’t mean it was a sound or good decision. But it is, yknow, occurring in a completely different time and context, which does matter in terms of how to navigate that conversation actually. Sometimes it seems like Americans are so insufferably myopic they can only figure out how to understand an act of warfare with tremendous ramifications by going “what if shape looked like other shape” and “I have memory of exactly one other war this country did so this must be exactly the same as that”