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God bless our brave men and women 🇮🇱🫡

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The only reason Hindus/indians are supporting Israel is because they’re also fascists who hate Muslims for existing so congrats on celebrating the approval of people who are happy of the deaths of thousands of innocent people! Birds of a feather flock together. You’re no better than a Hamas supporter or the people you condemn as “anti semites”.

As soon as I heard about the Pahalgam attack I knew that the left would take the side of the terrorists instead of the victims. Terrorist propaganda has completely rotted any credibility or respect the left used to have. Preaching about tolerance and acceptance when you force Jews out of leftist spaces (and now, maybe even Indians/Hindus until they tell you which side they support, just like they do to Jews with Israel.)

For anyone who doesn't know about the Pahalgam massacre, on April 22 a Pakistan-based Islamic terrorist group called The Resistance Front (TRF) mass murdered nearly 30 Hindu tourists, and demanded them to recite the kalima (Muslim declaration of faith) to identify who was/wasn't Muslim.

It blows my mind that leftists can't think for two seconds that maybe Hindus and Jews understand each other because we have experienced decades of terrorism and mass murders from the same group of people, who have repeatedly declared that their intentions are to completely annihilate us and colonize our land. We have also experienced privileged Americans telling us how we should feel about our attackers and the our people's deaths, that we should be more sympathetic to the people that celebrate in the streets when they kill us.

Stop using the western-centric lens of identity politics to understand two deeply complex issues about groups of people and places you don't know anything about.

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Pogrom is one of four words that antisemitism has given to the contemporary vocabulary - the others are genocide, the attempt to kill an entire people; Holocaust, the Nazi murder of six million Jews between 1939 and 1945; and ghetto, the name given to the enclosed areas in many European cities where Jews were forced to live until the twentieth century, and during the Holocaust.

While technically, the word "pogrom" refers to three waves of attacks against the Jews of Russia (in 1881-1884, 1903-1906, and 1918-1920), today the term is used to refer to any antisemitic attack.

The Russian pogroms radically affected Jewish life. American Jews, many of whose ancestors come from Russia, are very likely living here because of the pogroms. In 1881, when the pogroms began, more than half of world Jewry lived under Russian rule. However, the violent attacks quickly prompoted waves of Jews to flee the country, with most going to the United States. Twenty years later, during a second wave of pogroms, the number of Jewish immigrants in 1905-1906 alone exceeded 200,000.

The pogroms also caused a major upsurge in Jewish support for Zionism. The First Aliyah (wave of immigration to Palestine) came in response to the 1881 Russian pogroms, and the Second Aliyah in reaction to the ones that began in 1903. In 1989-1990, rumors of impending pogroms caused an immediate and enormous upsurge in Soviet-Jewish emigration to Israel.

In addition to the killings and looting, the most disquieting feature of the pogroms was the support they received from the Russian government. In the aftermath of six hundred pogroms that took place between 1903 and 1906, it was revealed that the pamphlets calling for the attacks had been printed on the press of the czar's secret police. My grandfather Nissen Telushkin, the rabbi of the small shtetl of Dukor, told me that Russian Jews used to wish for a corrupt police chief because he could be bribed to stop a pogrom. It was the "idealistic" police chief whom the Jews dreaded because when the order to make a pogrom was issued he could not be bribed. 

What was a pogrom like? Shocking eyewitness testimony was given by Sholem Schwartzbard. I offer it hesitantly The description is so sickening that images from it have on occasion haunted my nights. Schwartzbard himself was a survivor of the pogroms of 1918-1920, which occurred during the brief interval when the Ukraine was an independent republic under the rule of Simon Petlura. After the Soviets defeated the Ukrainian forces, Petlura escaped to Paris, where Schwartzbard assassinated him in 1926. After a three-week trial, in which Schwartzbard offered evidence of what Petlura, his troops, and the Ukrainian masses had done to the Jews, a French court acquitted him. This excerpt reveals the nature of a pogrom:

"At the end of August [1919], when I was in Kiev, Petlura's advance guard entered. They murdered all the Jews they met on their way. In the center of Bolshaya Vasilkovskaya Street, I saw the corpse of a young man stretched out on the pavement and, her head on his dead body, a woman lamenting for her one and only son. Hoodlums shouted obscenities, mocking her despair. One sermonized: "This is good. We'll show you, damned Jews, we'll slaughter you all."

[Elsewhere} they forced unfortunates to eat their excrement. They shoveled earth over them and buried them alive. Nor did they spare the dead...In Tripole on the Dnieper, Petlura's birthplace, after the fifth pogrom, forty-seven corpses of the old, the sick, and the children were left lying in the street, and no living soul remained after them. Dogs began to pick at the bodies, and pigs to nibble. Finally, a Gentile who used to work for Jews, out of pity dug a grave and buried them. The Haidamacks [Ukrainian soldiers] learned of it and for that they murdered him...."

All of the events described above occurred in the twentieth century.

- Jewish Literacy, Rabbi Joseph Telushkin, pages 258-259

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My father, who had a Type A personality, had expectations from his children. He wanted us to achieve. He cared about the life decisions we made, especially those that affected our potential financial success. He couldn't understand it when we had difficulty doing our homework or how we could have forgotten our books in school the night before a test. You may have noticed that I wrote all that in the past tense. Something changed my father. When I was eighteen years old, studying in Israel for the year, my parents called me on the phone. They were both on different extensions. "Should we tell her the news?" my dad said. "Let her guess," said my mom. "Um...." I tried to think of the most outrageous news possible. "You're pregnant." "That's right!" "What?!" I said. Anyway, we were all very excited. In May, when I came home, my baby sister was four days old. I went with my parents to a doctor's appointment the next day. She went into the hospital the day after that. She had severe heart defects, and needed several surgeries. For the next three years, my parents were in and out of the hospital with her. "When I found out that she might not live, I just wanted my mommy," my father said later. "Not my mother as she was then, although I counted on her support. I mean I just wanted to be a little boy again whose mommy could make everything all better." My father is different now. "I can't control what happens to my kids," he says. My nineteen-year-old-brother wants to move to Israel and join the army instead of going to college. "It's his life - I hope he's happy," he says. My sister wants to marry a guy who hasn't finished college. He shrugs. "I hope she's happy." Any one of us makes the kind of decision that used to infuriate him and induce him to spend hours attempting to talk us out of it? His answer: "It's your life - I hope you're happy." My father's realization that he had no control over his child's fate had a powerful impact on him. He realized that his vehement desire to control his children's lives and fates was an impotent attempt to assert control over the universe, control that he doesn't have and never will. This knowledge has changed his actions. There is a reasonable, calmer way to talk to your kids about decisions they make. But when it comes down to it, the only life you can make decisions for is your own.

Jessie Fischbein, Infertility in the Bible, pages 57-59

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They should have given hawkfrost an apprentice, this is a super small hill I will die on. Hawkfrost should have at least recently gotten an apprentice by the time he dies both to give his death more impact and also to make it seem like hawkfrost is actually...making moves in riverclan to gain power

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Thinking of Wish again and I'm wondering what if Amaya and Magnifico had kids. They would've been great parents.

Come to think of it, why didn't they have kids?

They've been married for however many years, they certainly seemed deeply in love - why don't they have kids?

Take into account the time period this is set in - the 1200s.

Kingdoms generally wanted a lot of kids, to make sure the throne would be inherited by a member of the family.

Regular people also generally wanted a lot of kids, because the infant mortality rate was pretty high, so the more kids you had the more kids had a chance of actually reaching adulthood.

Plus even once you were past infancy you could always die of some other illness, infection.....Maybe this wouldn't have been as much of a concern among royalty, since they had access to the best doctors, but, well, having access to doctors was not necessarily a good thing back then when medical care often caused as much damage as it healed

(Also birth control wasn't exactly really a thing back then so...)

Anyway, all these are reasons why it would make sense for Amaya and Magnifico to have kids. Which for some reaosn they didn't.

Shame, because they would've had the cutest kids.

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It is fucking devastating that every time I post about antisemitism, non-Jews frequently assume that I'm Jewish, because why would anyone talk about antisemitism unless they're a Jew trying to deflect criticism from zio-nazi Israel, while Jews also assume that I'm Jewish, because practically every non-Jew has abandoned, betrayed, or attacked them in their hour of need.

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When Moses softened Pharaoh's heart

That was a miracle too

That line in Miracle of Miracles always confused me, because wasn't Pharaoh's heart rather infamously not softened?

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This is inaccurate.

The only reason we think it's "impossible" to move around when wearing all those layers of skirts and petticoats is because we aren't used to wearing so many layers. Ask anyone who's ever performed in a Victorian or Regency era play with period-accurate clothing. After a few months of practice you can run around in your petticoats perfectly well. Let alone if you actually grew up wearing them.

Oh, and corsets were not "purely decorative." Corsets were used for things like, y'know, supporting the body. What, exactly, do you think women and girls in the 1800s used instead of bras?

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Being a 37-year-old woman raised in a family with fairly traditional gender roles and having little to know familial support for the last couple of years teaches you many things. A lesson to anyone who might be in this situation at some point in life. Yes, changing the filter on your HVAC system does actually matter. Doing it regularly truly does matter. It doesn't just help keep dust particulates out of the air in your home. It also keeps them out of your unit and keeps the unit clean so that it functions properly. The repairman has just informed me of this. I have been living in a hot house, settling at about anywhere from 92 to 97° every afternoon, for the past month and a half because my filter needed changing quite some time ago. The importance of having family to teach you these things really does matter. In the meantime, for those of you who don't have any, take the lesson from me. Change your filters. If you don't know how, hopefully somebody out there will help you. I can relate to that too. 

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I find it very revealing how you aren't even bothering to pretend you're talking about "Zionists." You aren't even hiding your hatred for Jews behind the mask of "antizionism." At least you're admitting it's Jews you hate.

So Kfir Bibas personally committed genocide? Tze'ela and Ravid Chaim Gez personally committed genocide? Halel Yaffa Ariel personally committed genocide? Shalhevet Pass personally committed genocide?

Say this about literally any other group of people, I dare you.

Imagine thinking they'll see this as a negative

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can't believe people are naming their kids things like Brittaneigh when they could instead go full medieval and name their daughter Æthelthryth

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10 Characters, 10 Fandoms, 10 Tags

Thanks @hannahhook7744 for tagging me!

Violetshine from Warrior Cats

Anthony Tremaine from Descendants

Socorro Rivera (Miguel's sister) from Coco

Antonio Madrigal from Encanto

Elizabeth Bennet from Pride and Prejudice

Mosca Mye from Fly By Night

Teddy Lupin from Harry Potter

Cerise Hood from Ever After High

Beatrice Snicket/Baudelaire II from A Series of Unfortunate Events

Lizzie Haines from All The Wrong Questions

Tagging @eahravinqueen @leseigneurdufeu @sagekjs21 @library-child @cleverqueencommander @unramitodevioletas @kanzakurawrites @panthera-tigris-venenata @toaverse @gaia-aviva

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A rant that I just can't post on main but think you might appreciate:

If the left had sided with the Jewish people and mourned our dead with us, even if it couldn't prevent the massacre itself, dayeinu

If the left had extended measured sympathy even if it had not been righteously angry and grieved on our behalf, dayeinu

If the left had just remained silent even if it did not extend measured solidarity, dayeinu

If the left had denied the atrocities against us and throughout Jewish history, even though they could have just remained silent, dayeinu

If the left had engaged in some sick quiet pleasure at our dead for having deserved it, even though they could have just looked away and pretended it wasn't real, dayeinu

If the left had cheered our deaths loudly even though they could have kept that within antisemitic enclaves, dayeinu

If the left had radicalized a generation of activists against us, even though they could have kept it to just being bold talk like they do with everything else, dayeinu

If the left had kept their radical "advocacy" to being in words and marches even though they could have stuck with ugly beliefs, dayeinu

If the left had contented itself with property destruction and defacement rather than escalating to physically attacking Jews in public, dayeinu.

But unfortunately, now we are facing the radicalization of a generation into physically violent antisemitism, where attacks and rockets launched at Israeli Jews are being justified because they're in Israel and physical attacks on diaspora Jews are being justified because *something something* Israel, Holocaust inversion and genocidal rhetoric is rampant, and angry mobs are threatening Jewish students on campus.

I'd love to say that there are going to be a lot of extremely ashamed leftists in the future, but I'm sure they'll just deny it the same way they casually deny the Holocaust and Soviet pogroms now.

Not much to add to this one. You have a way with words, though I'm sorry it's necessary in these circumstances.

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If the IDF didn't carpet bomb Gaza, how come so many buildings are destroyed?

because guerilla warfare....Hamas intricately boobytraps almost every single building in the strip, and when that goes off, the building either collapses (depending on which floor the explosion happened) or starts looking Like That. thats how the vast majority of IDF soldiers die in gaza, from boobytrapped buildings. there are nearly 0 instances of direct fighting (gunfire) in the strip, it is boobytrap+IED guerilla warfare.

another aspect of guerilla warfare is the tunnels. once u destroy a tunnel, everything above it collapses, and what do u know, according to the data retrieved from this war, a huge % of buildings in gaza sit above tunnels, so the math is very simple. the airforce could literally bomb a tunnel in one place and the domino effect of its collapse could bring down an entire neighborhood connected to these tunnels...

its actually pretty mental to believe that Israel, or any country for that matter, would bother downing every single building via air raids or cArPEt bOMbiNG. these munitions are expensive as hell, why use them when u can just come with a big ol D9 dozer and do it for a fraction of the price, if destroying the building is so important? also what is the point of cARPeT bOMbinG in the 21st century when you have guided munitions, and even unguided, dumb bombs that are still leagues more accurate than ye olde carpet bombing, especially when u have smart aircraft systems that can deliver them precisely??