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I think more people need to understand

Jew =/= zionist (at the very least not the non-jewish definition of the word)

also

not all people who call themselves zionists are Jews

ALSO, that zionist (as far as I have read from posts from Jewish people on and off tumblr) has more than one interpretation/meaning/definition. Not all those definitions include an ethnostate or otherwise removing other people (Palestinians or other Arabs) from the region. In fact, this is an outlier definition.

So with this information, how about we only judge people on their actual opinions rather than assumptions

Yall gotta stop being antisemitic in the name of Palestine. Just because you think you're justified doesn't mean you arent being a hateful jerk (it also doesn't help Palestinians)

If I got any of that wrong, I'm more happy to be corrected by anyone (jewish) who is willing to tell me

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The U.S. State Department announces the imposition of sanctions on members of the PLO and the Palestinian Authority due to: support for terrorism, incitement to terrorism, glorification of terrorism (especially in textbooks), providing payments to terrorists and their families, turning the conflict into an international issue by appealing to the International Court in The Hague and to the International Criminal Court in The Hague, contrary to previous commitments, and more.

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As part of the sanctions, those individuals will be denied entry visas to the U.S.

Abu Ali

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It's hard to say this without sounding like a right wing dickhead, but the thing about progressive spaces is that they may naturally attract people who are always on the lookout for excuses to start a fight. Like you can find yourself faced with someone whose political outrage is totally justified, and whose humanitarian ideals are right on the money, but simultaneously they are carrying a ton of psychological baggage about being wronged and getting revenge, and they will exploit literally any opportunity to live out this psychodrama with anyone in their line of vision. I have thought of several related anecdotes since I started typing this post, but I'll limit myself to the thing that inspired it, which is that I just visited this ultra-lefty cafe/bike shop/community gathering space where I've heard that the proprietor is constantly in a fight with everyone around her. When I paid for my stuff I noticed that there was no tip option, but I thought I had heard something about this, so I snuck away to look at the website and it made me really glad I didn't ask! I think there should have been a really enticing and exciting way for her to say "I've decided to be the change I want to see in the world, so I'm paying my baristas a full living wage, I'm making sure EVERYONE feels welcome and comfortable here, and I'm selling products I believe in!" -- but instead all the web copy sounded more like "You're either with me or against me, you're a fucking piece of shit asshole if you can't handle the inclusive atmosphere here, and by the way tipping is for fascist cavemen and if you ever try to tip someone you are refusing to relate to them authentically and you are enforcing a dangerous and evil power dynamic that should be purged from human society (so therefore I pay my staff well)." Like everything she stood for was totally agreeable, but why did she have to put it like it was directed at her worst enemy, rather than at the kinds of people she wants to attract? If the word on the street is to be believed, the reason for this posturing is that she spends quite a lot of energy making as many enemies as possible, and she probably likes it that way. I guess I'm just reminding myself, and perhaps others, that while one might think of "politics" as being broadly social and theoretical, no individual can fully separate the political from the intimately personal. Even somebody who seems to want to uplift and protect their fellow humans may be getting some perverse inner satisfaction out of that valiant crusade, and you may never realize it until you find yourself in a confusing fight with them.

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there's this thing where online leftists will be like "no history book talks about this!" and it's just blatantly untrue, like almost every history book talks about that, just not the specific one the Republican state board of education mandated for use in your middle school. most recently I saw this on a post about how gay people put in concentration camps by the nazis weren't freed after the war and the op was like "no one is ever taught this!" like no I'm sorry. most people who study the Holocaust in basically any depth will encounter that information fairly early. it was in my high school textbooks in Canada. it's in a LOT of the books you could take out from your local library. it will be mentioned in university courses. the hyperbole is not endearing actually

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i found the one decent irish person (jk there are a lot). @librastrai

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by Aaron Bandler

A Jewish Israeli researcher faced “discrimination and insidious, malicious conduct intended to permanently tarnish his reputation and career” at Stanford University, including “tampering with his lab results and manufacturing a bogus complaint against him, merely for being Israeli,” according to a federal lawsuit filed on Thursday.

The suit, brought by the Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law and the firm Cohen Williams, accuses the private school in Stanford, Calif., of being “complicit in permitting an environment saturated with intimidation and harassment of Jewish and Israeli students to flourish on campus.”

Shay Laps, a postdoctoral researcher, arrived at Stanford roughly six months after the Hamas-led terrorist attacks in southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, having been recommended by a Nobel laureate, according to the lawsuit. He aimed to “develop his research of synthetic and ‘smart’ insulin, which would revolutionize treatment for millions of people suffering from diabetes,” the Brandeis Center stated.

He faced extensive discrimination in the lab of Danny Chou, an associate pediatrics professor at Stanford, per the lawsuit, including tampering with his research, a fabricated sexual harassment complaint against him and being locked out of a lab.

“I was just shocked by the set of facts,” Rachel Lerman, vice chair and director of appeals and critical motions at the Brandeis Center, told JNS. “We all think we’ve seen it all, but this guy, he’s really traumatized by what happened.”

‘Fraudulent results behind his back’

On Laps’s first day, Terra Lin, a research assistant in the lab, who “knew nothing about him other than that he was a Jewish scientist from Israel,” told him “never to speak with her in person” and if he needed anything, he must do so in writing, according to the Brandeis Center.

“When Laps tried to join a group of co-workers, including the lab staffer, for lunch, the lab staffer instructed Laps not to sit with her or other lab employees. She also urged other researchers in the lab to shun Laps,” the Brandeis Center stated. (According to the suit, Lin also tried to “frustrate, delay or inhibit” Laps’s requests for research materials and equipment, at one point referring him to a colleague recovering in the hospital from a major car accident.)

According to the Brandeis Center, she tampered with Laps’s research, “producing fraudulent results behind his back that could have ruined his career and encouraging him to discard all evidence of her tampering.” It added that when Laps found out about such sabotage, the lab’s leader and his mentor “refused to address the issue.”

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The viral image of 5-year-old Osama al-Raqab, portrayed as a starving Gaza child victimized by Israeli policies, is false. Osama suffers from cystic fibrosis, a serious genetic disease affecting his respiratory and digestive systems, which caused his emaciated appearance, not malnutrition or starvation. On June 12, 2025, Israel coordinated his medical evacuation from Gaza via Ramon Airport to Italy, where he received specialized treatment alongside his mother and brother.

Claims that the IDF shot civilians at an aid center in Gaza have been thoroughly investigated and disproven. Multiple sources, including eyewitness accounts and independent investigations, show that the gunfire came from armed Palestinian militants who were clashing amid chaotic conditions. The Israeli Defense Forces did not fire on the aid center or the civilians there. Video evidence released by Israeli authorities and verified by third parties confirms that the IDF maintained distance and did not engage in shooting at the humanitarian site.

Allegations that Israeli settlers burned the 4th-century Church of St. George in Taybeh (which is not an active church but an archeological site, stone ruins, that can't even be burned) were fabricated. The fire occurred in nearby dry grass and was quickly extinguished with help from local Jewish residents, leaving the church unharmed.

The claim that eighty percent of Gaza’s babies would starve in forty-eight hours was a gross misinterpretation of a UN report and was later corrected by UN officials.

The activists aboard the Handala flotilla were not kidnapped but peacefully intercepted and legally deported after attempting to breach Israel’s naval blockade.

What's up with all the lies? Surely, they wouldn't lie so much if there was really a genocide and Israel was as evil as they want u to think, would they?

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huda kattan claiming that israel was behind the world wars (despite not existing until 1948) should reeeeeally be a wake up call to how many people say "israel" when they really just want to say "jews"

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today i learned that back in the 70s, Wales took inspiration from Zionism and the ravitalization of Hebrew and made Wlpans (in reference to the Israeli Ulpans) to teach the Welsh language and prevent it from dying out.

which i honestly think is so beautiful

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The truth, then, is that Hamas has engineered real suffering in Gaza, and the lie — that Israel is intentionally starving children — enables Hamas to engineer more suffering by creating global pressure on Israel to let Hamas control the aid again.

That way Hamas can keep the cycle going.

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"There's an underlying rage that comes out sometimes. And it's 'What are you getting all mad about? Nobody did anything to you.' But they wiped out my family. I would have liked to have known some of these people."

-Billy Joel, talking about his family history with the Holocaust.

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Just saw fantastic four and I loved it but two hours later the thing that sticks with me the most is Ben Grimm — a Jewish character written by a Jewish creator and played by a Jewish actor — choosing to spend his last night on earth in his nice Shabbat clothes at a Shul with a giant Star of David on the wall. In a widely distributed mainstream Disney film.

Something within me was healed tonight I think.

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I always find it funny that people go "well if israelis didn't support the Israeli government's actions in Gaza why don't they leave???"

Because like, ignoring the economic barrier and language barrier which exists for many, the diaspora isn't safe for israelis.

Israeli businesses get broken into and vandalized. People try and create lists of current and former IDF soliders. Israelis get shamed for existing in public.

Why the fuck would they leave a country where the main threat to their safety is missiles - which most of them get shot down anyway - to a country where they could get attacked for being israeli.

And that's also ignoring how if you have all the anti Netanyahu anti war israelis leave, all that will be left is far right folk who want war.

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I've been seeing a lot of antisemitism coming from comic fans lately and I think it's far too easily forgotten that modern superhero comics were made by Jewish immigrants. These are and always have been Jewish stories. That deserves respect and consideration.

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the most anti-nazi thing you can do is to stand up for jews and stand against antisemitism.

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The new Superman movie really said with its whole S-emblazoned chest that hate is purposefully stirred up on the internet to try to turn people against the good guys (or to hide the truth) and what’s actually the best kind of punk rock is to extend kindness and understanding in the context of seeing all people as human.