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I noticed an interesting pattern of erasing ethnic minorities on Wikipedia that is not exclusive to Jews. We all know how suddenly, especially since late 2023, Jewish actors, singers and historical figures/figures of interest became anything but Jewish on Wikipedia, with their Jewish background being hidden in 1 or 2 sentences spread out in the article. This also seems to be happening with Druze people. For example, I looked over at the wiki page of Farid al Atrash, who is basically the middle eastern equivalent of Paganini, and he is described (in English) as being "Syrian-Egyptian". His Druze background is only mentioned in his Early Life section, described as "being born to a Druze family". Bro is neither Syrian nor Egyptian, he is Druze. Syria didnt even exist when he was born, but his large community of Druze people in Jabal al-Druze did. In the Hebrew version of his article he is described properly as Druze, and later as Egyptian, after receiving Egyptian citizenship. His mothers wiki page suffers the same fate, she is not referred to as Druze but rather, "born to a Druze family". Every single notable Druze figure I saw on Wikipedia in the world of music, acting, literature etc is not described as Druze, in any of the English articles. In the Hebrew articles however, they are all first and foremost recognized as Druze. Pretty crazy imo

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Hillel Yafe Street in Haifa, Israel, in the 1960s. (image source)

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עדיין תקועה על זה שאיזה מפגר.ת אנטישמי.ת כתב.ה לי שאם אני אוהבת את ישראל כל כך אז שאני אלך להגן עליה במקום רק "to simp for it online"

כאילו, מי מספר לברו

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I have to admit that my jaw still drops at how viciously, openly, and proudly antisemitic this site is. Every plea for basic human decency to be extended to Jews gets shouted down by freaks on here who view their bigotry as akshewally social justice praxis, because they somehow think they’re special as opposed to belonging to humanity's long, ugly history of deeming the targets of their bigotry as inhuman and therefore ineligible to receive human rights. That’s how tumblr sees Jews: ineligible for human rights.

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Meital Sumkin (israel), ball bronze medalist, rhythmic gymnastics european championships, tallinn 2025 (vid source)

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“Jerusalem. The Jew’s Wailing Place”, the Western Wall, 19th century.

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not a single person talking about egypt stopping the march for gaza folks but everyone talking about israel stopping the freedom flotilla is peak “no jews no news”

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It's crazy how many people suddenly became Jewish immediately after Oct 7th and conveniently all of them are in support of Oct 7th and Hamas's stated goal of killing all the Jews in the Middle East? That's crazy. The total global Jewish population must have at least quadrupled according to the sudden population boom on just this website alone! It's an Oct 7th miracle.

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eden golan presenting the jury points from israel at the 2025 esc final

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Fuck I need to find that dumb person who was like "Iran doesn't want to kill me. They wouldn't want to kill amercian citizens" on one of my posts talking about why Iran having nukes is bad. I need to find them to specifically show them this quote from an article about the US bombing iran

"commentator on Iran’s IRIB state broadcaster declared following the strikes that every American citizen and soldier in the region was now a “legitimate target.”"

Iran has literally stated that they personally would like to kill you.

It's almost like this is what we have been saying for over a week now. Sucking Khamenei's dick won't save you

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Some people went on an introspective journey of self-discovery that took them all the way from "My (cishet) experience is universal" to "My (queer) experience is universal".

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A Girl at the "Gan Shaked" Shelter during the Six-Day War. Kibbutz Be'eri, Israel, 1967. (image source: Be'eri Photos)

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I think the last few years have turned me into a warhawk.

I'm sorry but sanctions and diplomacy didn't fucking work on Putin, it hasn't worked on Iran. Appeasement doesn't work. Pussyfooting around and hoping they give up on their imperial ambitions doesn't work.

I think that maybe sometimes the only way to eliminate a threat is, well, to eliminate it.

People are already crying WWIII because being able to cry "genocide" every time someone dies has fried their brains and they can't think of anything in terms other than extremist language.

I certainly hope that targeted air strikes in Iran won't drag the US into a long war. I sincerely hope that these strikes destroy their nuclear capabilities and cut the head off the snake.

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Tamar David on the cover of LaIsha magazine, 12/8/2024 | Photographer: Shay Cohen Arbel [image source]