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Hey, you all wanna see something real fuckin funny?

She's either cosplaying as a Native Jew or is the single most uncritical thinker in the entire world and I'm not actually sure which option is funnier

Actually I did some googling and holy SHIT is there lore here, check out this post for it, it is INSANE, apparently she pretends to be all different kinds of things for attention

Also the second guy is one of those people who likes to cosplay being mentally ill, but I probably didn't have to tell you that

Magneto, aka Max Eisenhardt aka Erik Lehnsher, from Marvel comics is a Zionist, and canonically lived in Israel!

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Ask the people who support "armed resistance" for Palestinians to get their "land back" if they would also support Jews doing domestic terrorism to get their homes back in Germany, Poland, Yemen, Iraq, etc. and you will have your answer of what they actually support.

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“The whole world is cheering and wants you dead” yeah we know. It has never not been like that. Over 40% of the population openly call themselves antisemites, and the rest got their fingers on the keyboard, spewing anonymous hate on tumblr while swearing up and down they’re just antizionists. None of this is new. It’s not fresh. It’s not even clever. It’s tired, and it's been going on forever. You’re not making some bold statement. You’re just recycling the same old nonsense. You’re not sleek. You’re not new…. You’re just predictable.

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Still bothered by the US cultural idea that men can only be non-romantically intimate with one another in war-like or competitive circumstances.

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Non online people: I love Harry Potter! I use Chat GPT to write my emails ;) Come find me on X, I'll send you my ai-generated spotify playlist! I'm thinking about buying some cryptocurrencies, do you know which ones are good? Me taking 500 points of psychic damage trying not to turn into a unskippable cutscene: Haha, conversations are so fun.

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Look. The links between the Jews being attacked and Palestine/Israel are going to become more and more tenuous. The attack on the embassy workers was justified in the pro-Palestine crowd because they directly worked for Israel. The attack in Boulder was justified because they were walking for the current hostages still held by Hamas. Not walking for Israel, not walking for Zionism… but people are assuming they’re “Zios” anyway. Because they have to, to justify their deaths.

And because the left has been using Zionist as a slur (just like Nazis do), they now have an out for any violence against Jews.

And we TOLD you this was going to happen. We told you to stop using Zionist as a slur, we told you to stop using “Zio”, that it was literally a slur invented by a white supremacist. We told you that Nazis and the far right have been using Zionist to mean Jew for decades, and you ignored us.

Slurs are verbal violence, and they encourage and justify physical violence. And now that violence is murder. If you ever used Zionist in a derogatory way online or irl, you are personally responsible for these murders. You used violence with your words, and you enabled physical violence. You have given people permission to enact physical violence against any Jew they dislike as long as they call them a Zionist.

American Jews will die, and the attacker will yell “free Palestine” even though the Jews in question have nothing to do with Palestine. And you will shrug and go “well, they must have been Zionists”. And you’ll justify the deaths of innocent Americans because you’re a leftist, and you can’t possibly be antisemitic.

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Bringing this back because the point we're actually at is "Firebomb old American Jewish women to free Palestine!"

You and all those leftists like you are directly responsible for this violence. Just know that "from where a spray of Jewish blood does fall / There will sprout the strength and courage of us all."

We will outlive your hatred.

BEHOLD, TUMBLR LEFTISM

"Punch a Nazi!"

"Zionists are Nazis!"

"All Jews are Zionists!"

"Punch a Jew! I'm not antisemitic though uwu"

"And don't forget to wish the good Jews Happy Chanukah this year! #HappyHolidaysForEVERYONE"

(Credit to the original author who was too worried about reprisals to post.)

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Absolutely horrifying news from Colorado 💔

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I have dozens of spam asks of scams to "donate to my family in Gaza" and I feel like that poetically summarizes my feelings on the entire conflict more than I ever could.

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@nochd Publish this. I'm not kidding, I think this is publishable if you can formalize it a bit and find a journal to take it.

This was on @whatareyoureallyafraidof's post where they put up this:

And I responded with this image:

and promised in the tags to elaborate if asked. And, @frodo-the-weeb, I will. But it's going to get long and I'm going to have to split it up into several reblogs.

First of all, since not everybody in the world is a Silmarillion enthusiast, let me explain what we're referring to.

One of the stories in the Silmarillion, and possibly the one Tolkien cared about the most, is the tale of Lúthien and Beren; a highly condensed version of a narrative poem called the Lay of Leithian, which Tolkien began writing in the 1930s and tried to get his publisher interested in after the success of The Hobbit.

(Their readers said no, and they tactfully asked him to focus on his Hobbit sequel instead. "The result," in Tolkien's own words, "was The Lord of the Rings.")

The skeleton of The Lay of Leithian is as follows; I'm intentionally leaving out a bunch of information that weaves it into the overarching story of the Silmarillion but isn't relevant to the thesis I'm advancing here.

Lúthien, an Elven princess and enchantress, falls in love with a mortal man, a ranger called Beren. Her father, the Elven King Thingol, disapproves and sends him Beren off to fetch one of the jewels from the crown of the Dark Lord Morgoth. Lúthien tries to join Beren but her father imprisons her in a tower to stop her, only it's actually a treehouse because they're forest elves. Lúthien magically grows her hair long and uses it to escape. By the time she catches up with Beren he is chained in the dungeons of Morgoth's second-in-command, Thû (whom Tolkien later renamed Sauron). She rescues him with the help only of a dog, who defeats Thû himself in single combat. They then live in the forest together for quite some time, but Beren feels bad about being the reason she can't go home to her family, and still intends to finish his mission and get the jewel. He leaves one morning while she's still asleep, so as not to put her in danger, and then when he's on the threshold of Morgoth's underground fortress in the far North of Middle-Earth she catches up with him again and he accepts that she's not going to be put off. Together they enter Morgoth's fortress and make their way to his throne room. They are in disguise but Morgoth is not fooled and uncovers Lúthien in front of everyone, declaring his intention to make her one of his many slaves. Lúthien offers to sing and dance for him, which is the way she works her magic. She puts everyone in the throne room to sleep, including both Beren and eventually Morgoth. She wakes Beren and he takes the jewel and they flee, but as they get to the outer door they are stopped by Morgoth's guard-wolf, who bites off Beren's hand holding the jewel.

That's as far as Tolkien ever got with the poem, but we have the synopsis in the prose Silmarillion to tell us the rest of the story; again cutting it down to the quick, Thingol accepts Beren as his son-in-law, Morgoth's guard-wolf attacks Doriath, Beren goes and hunts it but is mortally wounded, his spirit goes to the Halls of Waiting in the Undying Lands where the dead in Middle-Earth go, Lúthien also goes there and, again through her magical song, persuades Mandos the god of the dead to let him come back. Mandos offers her a choice: live on immortally as an Elf without Beren, or return to Middle-Earth with Beren but both of them will grow old and die. She chooses the latter.

Tolkien created Lúthien as a portrait of his wife Edith, which makes Beren a picture of himself. We know this for a fact because he had LUTHIEN written on her grave when she died, and when he joined her in it two years later the name BEREN was written for him:

Now on the lower right side of my response image you'll see Pauline Baynes' illustration of the Lady in the Green Kirtle from The Silver Chair, one of C. S. Lewis's Narnia stories. A quick synopsis of the Lady of the Green Kirtle's part in the story:

The Lady is a witch who rules a gloomy kingdom underneath Narnia, accessible through a fissure in the earth in an old ruined city far to the North. Before the story opens she has enspelled and kidnapped King Caspian's son Prince Rilian, whom she intends to send leading an army to conquer Narnia in her name. For twenty-three hours a day he is her willing slave and lap-dog; to maintain the spell, he must be bound to the titular silver chair for the remaining hour, during which he is sane and aware of his imprisonment. The protagonists, Eustace and Jill and their guide Puddleglum, meet her and Rilian unawares on their journey to the North; she sends them astray and almost succeeds in getting them eaten by giants. Eventually they rescue Rilian from the chair, but she sings a magical song which very nearly puts them all to sleep but for Puddleglum's intervention. Foiled, she transforms into a serpent, attacks them, and they kill her.

It is my contention that the Lady in the Green Kirtle is Lewis's caricature of Lúthien, with the enslaved and befuddled Prince Rilian representing Beren; and further, that Lewis knew or recognised that Lúthien and Beren were a literary portrait of the Tolkiens, so that The Silver Chair is ultimately a nasty commentary on their marriage.

In forthcoming reblogs I will lay out my evidence for this thesis.

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OUR HERO RETURNS IN OUR TIME OF NEED

Sorry for yelling I just legitimately missed your content so, so much

I know I just appeared out of nowhere after not posting for over a year. Feels good to be back. I never stopped being aggressively jewish and unapologetically zionist (somehow, I think I got even moreso if that was possible). Hopefully none of you stopped either.

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Chavez: Quickest easily-available source is poor but includes a scan of the letter in question. Would be curious how easy this would be to find in the appropriate databases. https://adarapress.com/2015/03/27/cesar-chavez-supported-israel-condemned-anti-zionism/

MLK: Martin Kramer, "In the Words of Martin Luther King," in Martin Kramer, The War on Error: Israel, Islam, and the Middle East (New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction, 2016), 253-67. Also available online at https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/martinkramer/files/words_of_martin_luther_king.pdf

Cleaver: The source is very good, but the context is not pretty. https://www.jta.org/archive/cleaver-defends-zionism-israel-charges-arabs-with-being-most-racist-people-says-moynihan-is-too-s

Parks: Research indicates that the open letter was published on Sunday, November 23, 1975, as a full-page ad on page 3 of the NYT. Saying this is an open letter she signed in part doesn't do it justice; 200 leaders in the Black community signed that letter, including Coretta Scott King. A facsimile copy is available at: https://ibsi.org/documents-1

Mandela: Unfortunately, taken out of context. From a BBC News report in which he urges withdrawal from all 1967 and later gains. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/478796.stm

Jones: Could not find a source; might be from his book. However, a similar quote appears in a 2008 Wall Street Journal op-ed: "I was [Martin Luther King Jr.'s] lawyer and one of his closest advisers, and I can say with absolute certainty that Martin abhorred anti-Semitism in all its forms, including anti-Zionism." https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB120951797764154811

I'm not putting this in formal citation form because the one I use would be weird to most people. Also if someone could archive these links that would be lovely; it's late and I'm tired.

“Condemning Zionism as racism is an affront to the Jewish people, who have been history’s primary victims of racism. It will encourage the latent anti-Semitism that has been a blot on world history and continues to stain the conscience of mankind.” --Cesar Chavez

“When people criticize Zionists, they mean Jews. You're talking antisemitism."– Martin Luther King, Jr.

"To condemn the Jewish survival doctrine of Zionism as racism is a travesty upon the truth."—Eldridge Cleaver

“From our 400-year experience with slavery, segregation, and discrimination, we know that Zionism is not racism… Only in Israel, among the nations of the Middle East, are political freedoms and civil liberties secure." –Rosa Parks, joint letter to the New York Times

"The Arab leaders must make an unequivocal statement that they recognize the existence of Israel with secure borders.” -Nelson Mandela

“Martin warned repeatedly that anti-Semitism would soon be disguised as anti-Zionism.”—Clarence B. Jones, adviser to MLK

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“Condemning Zionism as racism is an affront to the Jewish people, who have been history’s primary victims of racism. It will encourage the latent anti-Semitism that has been a blot on world history and continues to stain the conscience of mankind.” --Cesar Chavez

“When people criticize Zionists, they mean Jews. You're talking antisemitism."– Martin Luther King, Jr.

"To condemn the Jewish survival doctrine of Zionism as racism is a travesty upon the truth."—Eldridge Cleaver

“From our 400-year experience with slavery, segregation, and discrimination, we know that Zionism is not racism… Only in Israel, among the nations of the Middle East, are political freedoms and civil liberties secure." –Rosa Parks, joint letter to the New York Times

"The Arab leaders must make an unequivocal statement that they recognize the existence of Israel with secure borders.” -Nelson Mandela

“Martin warned repeatedly that anti-Semitism would soon be disguised as anti-Zionism.”—Clarence B. Jones, adviser to MLK

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Q: Why haven’t you said anything about the shooting, DYMX?

A: Because I’m running out of ways to say that we warned you. We told you that violent rhetoric on the right and the left would lead to antisemitic hate crimes and violence. And with every escalation we sounded the alarm again.

We have spoken until our voices have grown hoarse; I know I have.

And now? Now when blood is spilled on the streets of the capitol of the United States in a clear antisemitic hate crime, now you want to hear what I have to say?

I’ve said all I can. You chose not to listen.

So tell me, what are you saying about it?

May their memories be for a blessing.