#israel

[ashwantsafreepalestine]

Israel is mass murdering the innocent civilians of Lebanon, especially children.

On Monday (23 September, 2024) Israel killed one person in the country every three minutes.

Thousands more civilians have been wounded.

Source: AJ+

[ace-hell]

Ok so i am late by like a month, i have been busy and STILL didn't finish my native jewish miku but fuck it here's indigenous, native israeli miku with a little of my touch and a small analysis:

The clothes:

The dress is double layered and based on biblical description i saw of the clothes ancient jews wore i added yellow hoops at the end of the dress to represent the color of our oppression- yellow belts under the muslim rule and yellow stars in the holocaust

The embroidery:

The Rikma(embroidery) is a personal project i am working on for the past 3 months. The embroidery that WAS practiced on the land eventually was allowed only to muslims and arabs, jews in ottoman syria/palestine were so oppressed and poor they didn't have access to threads and around 1800's some rabbis discoraged jews being involved in arab activity, not only that the jews has completely disconnected themselves from most of the arab culture after the spread of zionism to the land as a form of building their own identity. And if there were jews involved in embroidery it is unknown bc all the photos i see are labeled as "palestinian woman" with no explanation if it is a christian, muslim or jewish.

My project consists of making patterns and motifs based on jewish history, symbols, traditions, land etc and i try to make it original, unique and as diverse from the tatreez as possible to avoid conflict. If any of you want i can explain in a different analysis on what each pattern represents.

The jewelry:

I genuinely suck at drawing gold and jewelry and tried my best to adorn her with as much jewelry as i can. The side piece(that can barely be seen) is also a pattern i came up with, i call it "amulet"

(ps. I forgot to make her a normal necklace, wanted to make it with a hamsa)

Henna:

Henna is still practiced by jews, mainly sefardic and mizrahi jews + ashkenazi jews who grow up and participate in mizrahi culture. The henna on the hands is based on patterns i saw some jewish artists made (on google unfortunately it didn't have names) which has the star of david on it and on the legs i made a mix of bukharan and yemeni jewish henna.

So here it is. A native, indigenous jewish/judean/israeli(te) miku. I tried my best✨

[boreal-sea]

I would LOVE to post about all the fucked up shit Israel as a country has done. I would LOVE to have discussions about the murders and evictions being perpetrated by illegal Israeli settlers in the West Bank. I would LOVE to talk about how fucked up it is how Israel blockaded and ground down Gaza in the last few decades. I would love to actually get into the nuances of the fucked up, violent, and xenophobic branches of Zionism. I want to talk about all the wars started by the surrounding Arab states and the long history of antisemitism in the region without people accusing me of making shit up! I’d love to talk about Hamas and Hezbollah and how they’re puppets of Iran. I want to talk about Lebanon!!!!

But I can’t do any of that. Because y’all wanna kill all Jews. Y’all wanna destroy a fucking country. You want to paint an entire country and all its citizens as evil. You believe a group that makes up less than 1% of the population of earth is somehow controlling the world and forcing everyone to do their bidding.

And I can’t have discussions with people like that.

[probablyasocialecologist]

The U.S. government’s two foremost authorities on humanitarian assistance concluded this spring that Israel had deliberately blocked deliveries of food and medicine into Gaza. The U.S. Agency for International Development delivered its assessment to Secretary of State Antony Blinken and the State Department’s refugees bureau made its stance known to top diplomats in late April. Their conclusion was explosive because U.S. law requires the government to cut off weapons shipments to countries that prevent the delivery of U.S.-backed humanitarian aid. Israel has been largely dependent on American bombs and other weapons in Gaza since Hamas’ Oct. 7 attacks. But Blinken and the administration of President Joe Biden did not accept either finding. Days later, on May 10, Blinken delivered a carefully worded statement to Congress that said, “We do not currently assess that the Israeli government is prohibiting or otherwise restricting the transport or delivery of U.S. humanitarian assistance.”

[...]

Separately, the head of the State Department’s Bureau of Population, Refugees and Migration had also determined that Israel was blocking humanitarian aid and that the Foreign Assistance Act should be triggered to freeze almost $830 million in taxpayer dollars earmarked for weapons and bombs to Israel, according to emails obtained by ProPublica. The U.N. has declared a famine in parts of Gaza. The world’s leading independent panel of aid experts found that nearly half of the Palestinians in the enclave are struggling with hunger. Many go days without eating. Local authorities say dozens of children have starved to death — likely a significant undercount. Health care workers are battling a lack of immunizations compounded by a sanitation crisis. Last month, a little boy became Gaza’s first confirmed case of polio in 25 years. The USAID officials wrote that because of Israel’s behavior, the U.S. should pause additional arms sales to the country. ProPublica obtained a copy of the agency’s April memo along with the list of evidence that the officials cited to back up their findings.

24 September 2024

[chanaleah]

Very recently, the FBI published hate crime statistics from 2023 in the US.

In the past year's data that has been reported (September 2023-January 2024), Jewish Americans faced the largest amount of hate crimes of all groups in the country, irregardless of category.

If you think antisemitism doesn't exist in the US today, you need to rethink your position.

Here is a link to the FBI's Crime Data Explorer if you wish to view the data yourself - note that you will need to filter by hate crimes.

disclaimer for anyone who tries to twist my words: this post is not meant to nor should be used to invalidate discrimination faced by any other group. all hate crimes are awful, no matter who is the target

clarification: largest amount of hate crimes in the fall of 2023. (Sep 2023-January 2024) So far, the FBI has not published statistics for hate crimes in 2024. If you’re looking at the statistics, filter by 1 year to see just hate crimes in that time period.

[zionistbeyonce]

[xclowniex]

Had my first antisemitism whilst dating.

My tinder suddenly fucked out on me and said my profile was under review as it had been reported. I ended up emailing to see what was wrong as I've been talking to someone who I am really getting along with.

And turns out my account was reported for a message I sent to a different person, and I managed to get the customer help person to tell me the message.

During me and this antisemites conversation, she asked me what my plans were for the weekend and I mentioned I had synagogue and a challah making class. I had not mentioned Palestine or Israel to this person. That is all I mentioned, shul and challah baking.

That was the message that was reported.

And like, I know that she just didn't want to date anyone religious as well, I have jewish selected on the bit where you can add your religion so its visible on my profile, as well as the fact that you can unmatch with people and not report them. If she assumed I was a secular jew and realized I'm a religious jew she could literally have unmatched. And I do totally understand if she just wasn't looking for anyone religious. People are allowed to have their preferences that is not an issue for me at all.

But no, instead she reported my message of me mentioning I'm Jewish. And because I hadn't mentioned anything about Israel or Palestine, I know it wasn't because I'm zionist. She didn't know that. She just saw that I'm Jewish and assumed I must hate Palestinians which isn't even true.

Jokes on her my account was given back to me as obviously there was nothing which broke tos with my message. But it does sting and worsen my fear that being jewish is going to make dating harder for me.

[jujusjunk]

I’ve been in a stuffy basement for about 2 hours now. There are no flights to Jordan because they keep getting cancelled. I miss the smell of fresh air. I’m living off of a sugar sandwich today cuz all we had to cook was raw chicken and we didn’t have gas (we’re getting some tomorrow Nchallah) I can’t even hear myself anymore because of the Sonic booms and bombs. I’ve seen more blood these past 2 days than I have in my whole life. I genuinely don’t know how to feel or what to feel. And yet I’m not in the worst situation because my house is still standing. I’m not in the worst situation because I didn’t have to flee my home. I’m not in the worst situation because I can still go up to my room and sleep whenever the bombs stop. I can still afford to go buy gas tomorrow, I can still afford to bribe myself into getting a roll of bread, I can still afford to flee the country when and if that becomes available. My family is still alive. A lot of people don’t have that and it’s important for me to understand that I am lucky to be in the position I’m in because people wish that they’re in my position rather than on the road for 2 days with bombs dropping around them. Rather than holding their family members dead bodies. Rather than saying a forever goodbyes to their babies and children. Rather than looking tirelessly for their missing children and brothers and husbands and uncles and wives and grandparents. I am lucky.

But I don’t feel lucky.

[politijohn]

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[mysharona1987]

[ashwantsafreepalestine]

My heart is with the people of Lebanon.

May Hezbollah burn Israel to the ground. Israel is a true terrorist organisation.

[adropofhumanity]

[troythecatfish]

[qylinscafvne]

Help Elara and her family evacuate Lebanon

Please donate if possible and fucking reblog this post. she's a teenager who has to take care of her family and due to the attacks in south Lebanon, they evacuated to the capital. It's unclear how safe it will be anywhere in Lebanon in the next few days. even the smallest donations will help.

GOFUNDME LINK

don't normalize seeing stuff like this and just scroll past.

[some-israeli-guy]

Do the American pro palis who add #freesyria to all their posts know that Syrian refugees are absolutely LOVING these attacks on hezbullah?

Hezbullah fought alongside Assad and their "journalists" mocked Syrian civilians while they were being bombed and starved. And now Syrians are watching hezbullah be humiliated and crushed.

You can't use both "free Syria" and "free Palestine" when the two are enemies.

Unless what you actually mean is "protect civilians in both Syria and Palestine from harm", which is wonderful but… why doesn't that extend to Israeli civilians too? Why do you tear up posters whos only political message is "free the hostages"? and if you don't personally do that, why is no one in your movement speaking against this?

[xclowniex]

I am side eyeing a lot of people in that "should I donate to AO3" poll post.

Like people are actually telling people to kill themselves because they're willing to donate $3 to a fan fiction site.

I think it is a very bad thing to guilt people into donating full stop. But it is even worse of a thing to go "oh well you didn't donate all of your spare money to this group who needs it so you are a terrible person"

If a person wants to donate some money to Gaza and then some money to AO3, then they can!

The idea that you are committing a morality crime because you chose to donate to one group over another is very bad and not at all true. You are not contributing to what is going on in Gaza by not donating every spare dollar you to have to those there.