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that one random nonbinary Israeli on Pinterest whose trans vents sometimes come up on my page I love you so much you make me feel less alone in this horrible ‘community’

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(we keep having to deal with important points being made with poor phrasing, or worse, with more denial, as if meeting apathy with apathy isn’t furthering harm - so: the hostages are starving. there are Gazans who are too. one doesn’t negate the other. disparity in the coverage and the slanted one-sided blame, however, is driven by intent and often malice)

Hamas is not concerned about how terrible these images they’ve released are - in fact, they’re counting on the non-reaction.

the photo of Evyatar has now been approved for publication by his family.

he will not make front pages, celebrities’ instagram stories, activists’ feeds. they will not have rage and tears for him.

I know it sounds small, the number. I keep seeing it said. “only.” only 50, only 20 still alive, it’s not that many, it’s “insane to keep shouting about them.” I can’t process those dismissals, and the inability to understand that the hostages’ suffering and the humanitarian crisis in Gaza are fundamentally intertwined. they must both be resolved. the hostages must be freed. it is day 666.

please don’t forget them.

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something else hardly anyone cares about: Hamas chose to do this on Tisha B'Av. they’re tactically brilliant. there is no other way to describe it, or to explain the precisely calculated way they have won the ideological and psychological war since Simchat Torah 2023.

they understood the additional toll it took, massacring Jews in their homes on a joyous holiday.

they understand the additional toll it takes, releasing photos of Jewish hostages starving to death and sadistically being forced to dig their own graves, deliberately evoking the generational trauma and pain of the Holocaust, on a day of mourning and sorrow.

the hostage release ceremonies earlier this year were intentional injury too, gruesome and degrading for no reason other than to harm an entire people, and they knew they would get away with that, and they did.

eli_sharabi7:

I also experienced severe hunger! Rom, Evyatar and all the other abducted lives are in a bad and critical condition, everything must be done to save them!!

Bring them all home now. 🎗️

those details of torment aren’t being waged for the notice of the world, they’re a specific hurt done to the Jewish community. Hamas is regaling themselves with this, and they’re satisfied because they know the world is complicit on their behalf.

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the brits are blaming us for the new online censorship security ban thing lol I’m dead. I’m fucking dead. I can’t take any of you any more you’re all evil

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two separate incidents from Greece:

A group of Israeli teenagers was attacked early Wednesday by a gang of anti-Israel assailants while vacationing on the Greek island of Rhodes, the teens and their families said.

The teens told Hebrew media they were at the island’s Hakuna Matata club, frequented by Israeli tourists, around 3 a.m., when anti-Israel demonstrators started rallying outside, sparking a confrontation, with the two sides shouting and cursing at each other.

“There was commotion and shouting, and we said we didn’t want to get involved and we should go back to the apartment we’d rented,” one of the teens, Shachar Gutman, recalled to the Ynet news site.

The teen said that as he and his friends were leaving the club, they happened upon some more of the pro-Palestinian demonstrators, “and one of them came up to us and asked if we were Israeli.”

“He called out to all his friends — some 30 to 40 people — and they started to chase us. We also started to run, and we didn’t think it was anything serious,” he recalled.

“At one point there was a curve in the road and we didn’t see them for a second — but then we heard motorcycles coming fast in our direction, and we realized there was nowhere to run.”

Friedman told Ynet the assailants were armed with knives, and added: “I jumped up over a wall that I saw and hid there, and another friend saw steps and hid there. Another one hid behind a bush and another one behind a van. They came and kicked the one who was behind the van, and he begged for his life, that they wouldn’t do anything to him. They photographed him and let him go.”

“I’ve never been so afraid in my life. We just wanted to go to a club to have fun, and suddenly people with knives were chasing us. We were afraid it would end in a really bad way,” he said.

Correspondence between Friedman and his parents in Israel, published by the news site, showed texts reading: “Urgent; answer; urgent; they’re coming for us.” The teen hid, and spoke briefly with his parents, who phoned the Foreign Ministry.

According to Channel 12, one of the teens caught in the assault was let go by the assailants after speaking some Dutch and convincing them he wasn’t Israeli.

The 3 a.m. incident in Rhodes came less than a day after an Israeli-owned cruise ship was prevented from docking at the Greek island of Syros on Tuesday and was instead rerouted to Cyprus due to a large anti-Israel and pro-Palestinian protest taking place at the port.

Greece is a popular tourist destination for Israelis, and an estimated 621,000 visited the Hellenic Republic in 2024.

The country has seen a rise in antisemitic and anti-Israel incidents since the October 7, 2023, Hamas-led onslaught in southern Israel that started the war in Gaza.

Athens in particular has seen several attacks on Israeli tourists.

The Israeli National Security Council’s current guidelines for travel to Greece put the country’s threat level at two of a possible four, meaning Israelis and Jews are advised to take “increased precautionary measures” there.

An Israeli-owned cruise ship was prevented from docking at the Greek island of Syros on Tuesday and was instead rerouted to Cyprus due to a large anti-Israel and pro-Palestinian protest taking place at the port.

The “Crown Iris” cruise ship, operated by Israeli shipping giant Mano Maritime, was carrying roughly 1,600 passengers when it arrived at Ermoupoli, in Syros, at around midday for a six-hour visit.

Initially, Mano Shipping said that there would be a “slight delay” in disembarking the ship, as it estimated that the demonstration would disperse “within half an hour.”

But as 3 p.m. came and went and the delay stretched on, Mano Shipping decided to skip Syros entirely and reroute the ship to Limassol in Cyprus instead.

Passenger Dror Marshalkowitz told Channel 12 that it took the police two hours to arrive at the scene and that “whoever took the decision” to reroute to Cyprus “apparently did the right thing,” given that there were 300-400 children on board and it was best not to put them in danger.

During the extended delay at the port, passengers told Channel 12 news that they had been told by onboard security to remain indoors, rather than to go out onto the deck.

One Israeli passenger told the Kan public broadcaster, however, that when one of the passengers saw the protest, “we raised Israeli flags and some of us started singing.”

“We felt safe inside the ship, but the children are a little stressed,” the passenger said.

The protest was organized by a group of the island’s residents who said on social media that the purpose of the demonstration was to “raise their fists in solidarity with the Palestinians in Gaza.”

“It is unacceptable that tourists from Israel continue to be welcomed here while the Palestinians are suffering in the Strip,” the protesters said.

Greek reports estimated that around 300 people attended the protest in Ermoupoli, which has a population of roughly 11,000.

Local outlet Syros Press reported that flyers demanding to “Stop the Genocide” had been scattered on the ground along the entire route leading to the dock, and videos showed a group of protesters carrying a large Palestinian flag as they made their way through the streets. Chants of “Free, Free Palestine!” could be heard in the background.

Other videos showed protesters waving Palestinian flags on the edge of the dock, chanting slogans in Greek.

According to the news outlet, the Syros Port Authority and the Hellenic Police were on standby throughout the protest. Another local outlet, Syros Today, reported that a large parking lot near the dock had been shuttered until the evening due to “increased security measures.”

Before it was decided that the ship would reroute to Cyprus, Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar said he had spoken with his Greek counterpart, Giorgos Gerapetritis, to request “intervention in an effort to resolve the docking of the ship in Greece.”

The Foreign Ministry was closely monitoring the events via its embassy in Greece, he said.

The Israeli embassy was in contact with senior officials in Greece throughout the incident, Ynet reported, and emphasized to them that it could end up harming Israeli tourism to the country.

According to the report, the decision to prevent the passengers from disembarking did not come from Greek authorities, but from the Israeli crew aboard the ship, who feared that the protest would turn violent and endanger the passengers if they came ashore.

[…] Last July, Greek police arrested seven people accused of planning to attack a synagogue and an Israeli-owned hotel in central Athens. The year before, Greece detained two people thought to have been sent by Iran to attack a kosher restaurant in the city.

More recently, a new Israeli-owned restaurant in Athens was vandalized earlier this month in what its owners said was an antisemitic attack, and which Greek authorities were treating as a likely hate crime.

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google give me images of androgynous faces— no Google that is a short haired woman— no Google that is a long haired man— no Google that is a long haired man with a dyed beard— no Google that is a really weirdly rendered ai image— no Google that is a—

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The realization that wearing a magen David or otherwise being clockable as Jewish means that every tiny thing you do in public is being used to confirm people's antisemitic biases. Like if I am not a Jew and my card doesn't read immediately it doesn't matter. If I ask if there are coupons available it is mundane. If I ask someone to respect a quiet/study zone it's normal. If I accidentally take someone's seat (happened today) it's either ignored or I'd be asked if I could move (happily!). Nothing odd.

But existing visibly as a Jew it's just... you always must be Up to Something. Tiny, meaningless actions, habits, mistakes you make are held against the whole people. I took an empty seat today and learned that apparently this is somehow proof that Jews Steal Land. Your chair isn't Palestine, dude. Just let me know you were sitting there like we do in society. Ffs.

This is textbook but it's exhausting.

I try regardless of whether or not I think I seem Jewy looking to do kind things because that's how I was raised, luckily. But if I let someone in front of me in line is it being twisted in people's minds? Am I up to no good to them? My community volunteers and all of a sudden we're just "doing PR?" It's "hasbara" that my synagogue helps clean up a mosque? We'd have done it 2 years ago. We'd do it for the Sikhs across the street, too. It makes no difference, but is that how we're perceived?

We can do no right?

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late (ish) night angsting cause wanting to be on any scale androgynous (actually androgynous, not just like in presentation but physically, sex characteristics) seems like such an impossible task— and feels completely unsustainable past the age of like 25 or something, too. But nothing else feels right and uuughhhhhh why couldn’t I just be ftm if my brain was so set on making me miserable at least go all the way and give me the chance of happiness and congruence

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Hot take apparently but being lgbtq+ is not a choice, which means that it should not have to be a political statement.

This means that bigoted right wingers need to stop trying to politicize the existence of people that they don’t like

And it also means that lgbtq+ people need to stop acting surprised and betrayed when other lgbtq+ people are just lgbtq+ and would like to exist in peace and free from bigotry, and don’t want to burn down liberal democracies and replace them with the Soviet Union 2.0

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I’m not done thinking about this, cause it’s like… in the same Assyrian community and forum that I went to, everyone seems to confidently and incorrectly say that Jews in Iraq and Iran are all just genetic and cultural Assyrians with a different religion, (for the record, this is laughably false and actively goes against both anecdotal and scientific genetic findings—yes there’s some genes from the area in the various different Jewish groups for a couple different reasons, but no we are still absolutely not genetically identical to Iranic and Mesopotamian groups, and are still closer to Jews than anyone else). But it’s also like a good two thirds of the people on the forum hate Jews, call Judaism an evil and disgusting religion, say that Jews control the world and are still bitter about bavel and that’s why Assyrians don’t have independence, and it’s just…

They hate us, clearly. They hate us so much, but they still try to claim that we’re nothing more than a part of them, as a way to like boost their numbers or credibility or something idk. And it’s just so uncomfortable and the way they’re all so smugly confident about it freaks me out and makes me feel like I’m crazy and it’s just very unsettling for me.

Sorrryyyy I know this makes no sense but it’s still on my mind even after going to sleep and I’m still annoyed

really weird thing that happens when Jews are gone from certain areas or countries, and the people from said areas or countries try to retroactively say that the Jews who lived there are actually a part of their community and their ethnicity and their people, while also understanding the general place of Jews as an ethnic group exiled from Eretz Yisrael with the genetics and cultures to follow that. Like it’s hard to explain but I see it a lot with Assyrians towards Nash Didanim, Persians towards Persian Jews, Kurds towards Kurdish Jews, even like Ukrainians towards Ukrainian Jews. The weird thing about it is that it’s NOT an attempt to delegitimise Jews as a whole as an independent group, just to try to lay claim to and ‘absorb’, for lack of a better word, the Jews that hung around them a couple generations back. It makes me incredibly uncomfortable whenever I see this happening, more so than the usual khazar conspiracy style bullshit. It’s just… ugh, idk it just makes me really annoyed and grossed out an I need a place to fling that out there

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goyim’s favourite hobby is lying about the genetics of Jews and I’m sick of it

really weird thing that happens when Jews are gone from certain areas or countries, and the people from said areas or countries try to retroactively say that the Jews who lived there are actually a part of their community and their ethnicity and their people, while also understanding the general place of Jews as an ethnic group exiled from Eretz Yisrael with the genetics and cultures to follow that. Like it’s hard to explain but I see it a lot with Assyrians towards Nash Didanim, Persians towards Persian Jews, Kurds towards Kurdish Jews, even like Ukrainians towards Ukrainian Jews. The weird thing about it is that it’s NOT an attempt to delegitimise Jews as a whole as an independent group, just to try to lay claim to and ‘absorb’, for lack of a better word, the Jews that hung around them a couple generations back. It makes me incredibly uncomfortable whenever I see this happening, more so than the usual khazar conspiracy style bullshit. It’s just… ugh, idk it just makes me really annoyed and grossed out an I need a place to fling that out there

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really weird thing that happens when Jews are gone from certain areas or countries, and the people from said areas or countries try to retroactively say that the Jews who lived there are actually a part of their community and their ethnicity and their people, while also understanding the general place of Jews as an ethnic group exiled from Eretz Yisrael with the genetics and cultures to follow that. Like it’s hard to explain but I see it a lot with Assyrians towards Nash Didanim, Persians towards Persian Jews, Kurds towards Kurdish Jews, even like Ukrainians towards Ukrainian Jews. The weird thing about it is that it’s NOT an attempt to delegitimise Jews as a whole as an independent group, just to try to lay claim to and ‘absorb’, for lack of a better word, the Jews that hung around them a couple generations back. It makes me incredibly uncomfortable whenever I see this happening, more so than the usual khazar conspiracy style bullshit. It’s just… ugh, idk it just makes me really annoyed and grossed out an I need a place to fling that out there

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fuuuuuck I’m so sick of waiting for top surgery and hormones and everything else ugh. I’ve still like got two years left before I can do anything too but it’s chipped me down so much atp that I just don’t have the energy to even fantasise about it

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Former hostage Romi Gonen was discharged from the hospital on Thursday, after spending half a year there undergoing rehabilitation and two operations to treat a gunshot wound in her arm following her release from captivity in Gaza.

On Instagram, Gonen posted pictures of a gathering marking her release from Sheba Medical Center in Tel Aviv, saying that it marked “another step toward my freedom.”

Gonen wrote she had experienced a “not so simple period,” and that she felt mixed feelings regarding the moment of her release from the hospital.

“Suffering pain, undergoing operations, standing up and falling over again. Unfortunately, I am being released with the knowledge that I will soon return here for my third operation. I felt that I needed freedom and quiet. I felt that I must know what it is to be free and true. Not tied to anything, doing just what I want to do,” she wrote.

“The nation of Israel was with me for every moment, whether it was friends whom I met at rehabilitation or food that was brought all the time, or people who came to give seminars or volunteered with their dogs to put a smile on all our faces,” she continued.

“The hostages are still not with us, and my heart is with them in Gaza,” she wrote, adding that she prayed for the country to be united.

Emily Damari, who was released alongside Gonen, was in attendance at the discharge gathering at the hospital.

Gonen was kidnapped as she and her friends tried to escape the Hamas assault on the Nova rave in the desert on October 7, 2023. She was released as part of a ceasefire deal on January 19 this year.

Since returning, Gonen was treated for a gunshot wound to her right arm that she suffered during the Hamas attack, for which she never received proper treatment in captivity.

Palestinian terror groups are still holding 49 of the hostages who were abducted from southern Israel on October 7, 2023, when Hamas-led terrorists burst into the country. The attack also killed 1,200 people, mostly civilians, triggering the war. Hamas is also holding the body of an IDF soldier killed in Gaza in 2014.

Twenty of the hostages are believed to be alive, and there are grave concerns for the well-being of two others, Israeli officials have said.

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Portraits and candids of Ashkenazi Jewish women and girls from a pre-war photo collection From right to left: Dova Kopperstein (Poland), Miriam Blachowicz (Vilkaviškis, Lithuania), "An unidentified young Jewish woman reading a book in the street" (Warsaw, Poland), "Unidentified young Jewish girl with short hair" from photographs of families Szterman and Zimmerman (Užpaliai, Lithuania), Chana Sura Sindler (Fratauti Noi, Romania), Chava Shub (Duestos, Lithuania)

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days when the binder isn’t working well<<<<<