once-i-was-hopeful

[once-i-was-hopeful]

It's actually INFURIATING when people cry about Israeli "apartheid" when *I'm* the one banned from certain areas my family used to live in, when Muslim countries literally ban any non-Muslims from driving to certain areas, when pretty much anyone is welcome in Israel if they don't threaten to murder Jews.

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It's actually INFURIATING when people cry about Israeli "apartheid" when *I'm* the one banned from certain areas my family used to live in, when Muslim countries literally ban any non-Muslims from driving to certain areas, when pretty much anyone is welcome in Israel if they don't threaten to murder Jews.

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kidnapped my ass.

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gabedraws

✡︎ 🇮🇱 ✡︎ This needs to end.

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this is something thats been on my mind for a little while, especially seeing the rise in antisemitism grow only more and more vicious with every passing day. but after this report showed that Jewish people are being more and more openly rejected from queer spaces, it actively felt important to me.

it feels wrong to me, as someone who is not Jewish, to use any of the inclusive pride flags while ignoring the glaring fact that Jewish people are again and again being made to feel unwelcome and unsafe.

so, i wanted to make some pride flag variants to express that open, unconditional acceptance of ALL Jews. and by all i do mean ALL Jews, not only after they meet some arbitrary measure of "pureness" or shame for being Jewish, not only after they personally disown all ties to Israel.

two versions purely because i think the unifying filter colour on the second makes it look nicer, but people might want the Raw colours

anyone can feel free to use this, but just know that if youre someone who has "ZIONISTS DIE" or anything similar on your bio, then you are automatically going against the point of this flag, and are making a lot of Jewish people feel unsafe around you.

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Media coverage of I/P: Yes of course the Jews Zionists killed 14,000 babies in 48 hours. Because they’re bloodthirsty of course. No, we don’t need to verify because we heard it from a friend of a friend. Who happens to have friends in Qatar.

Media coverage of blatantly antisemitic attacks: People were allegedly injured it what might have possibly been an attack, but we really can’t verify the motive. As journalists, we have a certain integrity and code of ethics we must follow of course. But also they were jews existing outside their house, so what did you expect?

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What exactly is it going to take before people wake up and say “This is too far. We can’t close our eyes, turn away and remain silent anymore”?

Almost two years of extreme worldwide antisemitism - synagogues and Jewish community centres vandalised and destroyed, Jews beaten and abused in the street, Jewish women and girls raped in ‘revenge’ for Palestine, Jews systematically ostracised and made to feel unsafe and unwelcome in almost every sphere of life, while so-called “Pro Palestine” activists revive ridiculous and ancient blood libel conspiracies, and gleefully chant for and justify violence against innocent people.

“Globalise the Intifada.”

Two weeks ago, a young Jewish couple were executed in the street by a man yelling “Free Palestine.”

Now, several Jewish Americans, including elderly Holocaust survivors and children, have been left with serious burn injuries after a peaceful walk to raise awareness of the hostages in Gaza was FIREBOMBED WITH MOLOTOV COCKTAILS.

Congratulations. You did it. You got what you wanted.

Ironically, the only thing all of this despicable shit does is prove why Israel needs to exist, why a safe haven for Jews is absolutely necessary, because the world is doing their fucking damndest to prove they’re not safe anywhere else.

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violet: he’s probably thinking about other girls

xaden: I need to figure out a way to attach the tiny dragon to the big dragon

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Thanks for the reminder!

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henmazzig: “I had to beg for food, beg to use the bathroom. Begging became my existence. And through it all, I held on to the hope that I would see my family again.”

Eli Sharabi describe the horrific conditions in captivity, how he lost his entire family and his brother is still held in captivity.

He asks for one thing: #BringThemHome! 🎗️

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“would you slap your best friend for a million dollars?”

Sawyer: “I would slap Ridoc for free”

Ridoc: *tearing up* “I’m your best friend?”

Violet: “if you slap me and then I slap you we each get a million”

Rhiannon: “great thinking, fuck the system”

Garrick: “fucking FINALLY”

Xaden: “bold of you to assume you can even get close enough to my face to… what are you— Garrick— Garrick NO STOP TRYING TO HIT ME THAT WASN’T A CHALLENGE—”

Quinn: “no.”

Imogen: “for a MILLION? girl I’ll slap YOU if you don’t start acting right”

Liam: “I would never hit Violet.”

Vi: “what if it was during sparring?”

Liam: “well—”

Vi: “what if Xaden said you could?”

Liam: “he can’t give me permission to hit you??”

Vi: “what if you were being held at sword point”

Liam: “do I still get the million dollars?”

Vi: “yes.”

Liam: “still no!”

Vi: “WHY NOT?”

Liam: “DO YOU WANT ME TO HIT YOU??”

Vi: “IT’S A MILLION DOLLARS I JUST CAN’T FIGURE OUT WHY YOU WOULDN’T TAKE THAT OPPORTUNITY!”

bonus:

interviewer: “would you slap—”

Cat: “yes.”

interviewer: “I didn’t finish the—??”

Cat: “the answer is yes, I will slap anybody you put in front of me.”

interviewer: “…even Maren?”

Cat and Maren, at the same time: “yes”

Maren: “I’m still mad at you for that”

Cat: “you shouldn’t have tried to take my fucking strawberries??”

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elie’s son.

exactly.

chag purim sameach 💙 stay strong!

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so tonight I’m at synagogue, listening to the Purim Night reading of the Book of Esther, like you do

and near the end of this chapter my brain presents me with the following:

nooooo ooooone plots like Haman calls the shots like Haman plans a genocide by casting lots like Haman

(It only works with the Hebrew pronunciation of Haman, which, like Gaston, is accented on the second syllable.)

By the time we get home my brain has added:

for there’s none so well-favored and kingly yes, we all can be certain of that he’s so rich that his pockets are jingly and he looks really sharp in a three-cornered hat

*face in hands*

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Me at the start of Fourth Wing: Dain Aetos sounds unquestionably like the sort of character I would normally get obsessed with (childhood friend, lots of history, she secretly loves him, he would die for her, friends to lovers trope, self-sacrificing fighter hero type). Let’s buckle in.

Me during and after Fourth Wing: FUCK THIS GUY.

Me during Iron Flame: ……....👀

Me after Onyx Storm: Okay, so as it turns out…