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You can't be antizionist and pro-indigenous. You have to pick one.

You can't support "land back," but then say that Israel has no right to exist. You have to pick one.

Or are you only pro-indigenous and pro-landback when it isn't The Jews™️?

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🎯 Conservatives see subjugation as default.

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People who say Palestine existed before Israel and Israel is a ‘new country that’s colonizing’ sound like flat earthers. Every piece of logic and evidence proves that is wrong, yet they deny, deny, deny and say that the government is lying. 

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They used a body that can’t be confirmed as Columbus, the DNA fragments were incomplete, and they didn’t compare the DNA to other Mediterranean groups.

No, the Catholic man who forcibly converted people to Catholicism on the Catholic Spanish Empire’s dime after they expelled the Jews from Spain, was not a Jew. The Spanish monarchy never would have entrusted a Jew with this task or those funds.

This is the time period where the Spanish Monarchy implemented what would eventually become Blood Quantum, to ensure that they wouldn’t mix with Jews. They weren’t about to go fund one of us for a mission as important as bringing back black peppercorns.

This seems like an attempt to further alienate the Jewish community from the rest of the indigenous world, while taking advantage of what’s happening abroad.

This is going to be incendiary in leftist spaces. Wikipedia has already latched onto it.

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btw u shouldn't need to quantify a condemnation of antisemitism with "I'm pro-palestine, but". those are two different topics, yes? antisemitism is not a requirement for supporting palestinian independence, right?

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the scariest thing about the current state of zionism discourse (which should have never left the jewish community, as it is a jewish discussion to be had) is that so many leftists have been radicalized with literal nazi ideology and do not even realize it. if you say you want all zionists dead (which can only mean you want an overwhelming number of jews dead) you will get hundreds of thousands of notes with people agreeing and cheering for the death of zionists jews. you want jews to die. saying it’s zionists instead of jews does not change that zionists are, and can only be, jewish.

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Somehow, the sheer gleeful ugliness of this person's pinned tweet still managed to shock me. Maybe because of the amount of likes...

Twitter actually took it down, much to his outrage:

A year of "you know, you don't actually need to celebrate Jews being murdered to criticize Israel" has done nothing, because celebrating dead Jews is the point for people like that. Really, I don't think you can get much more Nazi-esque than laughing at pictures of Jewish people's graves.

Tweets like that used to only be seen in fringe Nazi spaces before last year. It's just so unbelievably bleak.

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the most devastating thing about the rhetoric a lot of gentiles use saying israeli jews “have no culture” or are “stealing” culture/music/food/etc from the surrounding countries is that for a lot of these jews that is their last connection to the places they lived for thousands of years. these jews didn’t “steal” anything, they were eating hummus and using the maqam system and speaking arabic alongside their arab neighbors for millennia and simply took it with them when those neighbors violently expelled them. like what did you expect them to do?

because i think the answer is that you believe jews never truly had a claim to any of that. you think we are (at best) guests (and at worst leeches) wherever we go. perpetual strangers who come from nowhere and belong nowhere. perhaps you’ll be gracious enough to let us live in your guest room for a while, maybe even a few generations, cook us food, sing music with us, (maybe it’s by choice, a cultural exchange, but maybe it’s that you won’t let us cook our own food or sing our melodies) but if one of us in a completely different house does something you don’t like, you drag us out the front door by the hair, keep all our stuff, and ban us from your house. we move onto the next house. now the recipes our kids know are the ones we made with you, the melodies we know are ones we sang with you, and maybe the next house who lets us stay there allows us to make that food and sing those melodies. and maybe there are other people there who know variations of those recipes and melodies. what right do you have to barge into our new house and tell us to stop singing and making food?

we are from everywhere and nowhere. we are supposed to be everywhere but where we are, doing and eating and singing everything but what we are. your holy books (that you got from us) teach you to love the stranger. but we are not strangers to you. we are you. we are a reflection of you, of everything you don’t like about you, and that’s why we don’t belong anywhere. that’s why we can’t have what you think is rightfully yours, because if we don’t have it anymore then maybe we won’t look so much like you and it’ll be easier the next time you have to drag us out by the hair.

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“Everyone else thinks Zionist means [bad thing] so you have to, too” no I do not actually have to accept your appropriation of our terminology but thanks

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get it bc ur both extremist assholes who are making things worse.

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This is a reupload from Instagram. You may find the original post here, by user henmazzig

May their memories be a blessing

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i will pay somebody to draw one of these israeli mikus being tire necklaced

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Hersh Goldberg-Polin Z”L, 23 🕯️🕊️

Eden Yerushalmi Z”L, 24 🕯️🕊️

Ori Danino Z”L, 25 🕯️🕊️

Alex Lubnov Z”L, 32 🕯️🕊️

Carmel Gat Z”L, 40 🕯️🕊️

Almog Sarusi Z”L, 25 🕯️🕊️

Their bodies were retrieved back home by the IDF last night from a tunnel 20m underground in Rafah, after being executed in the last few days. HY”D. 🕯️🎗️

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I didn’t understand the line “in every generation they rise up to destroy us” from the Haggadah until I lived it. I want to go back to the Seders of my childhood when I couldn’t comprehend the type of raw hatred that has become a part of my everyday life now.

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There is a tourist-industry concept, popular in places largely devoid of Jews, called "Jewish Heritage Sites." The term is a truly ingenious piece of marketing. "Jewish Heritage" is a phrase that sounds utterly benign, or to Jews, perhaps ever so slightly dutiful, suggesting a place that you surely ought to visit- after all, you came all this way, so how could you not? It is a much better name than "Property Seized from Dead or Expelled Jews." By calling these places "Jewish Heritage Sites," all those pesky moral concerns about, say, why these "sites" exist to begin with evaporate in a mist of goodwill. And not just goodwill, but goodwill aimed directly at you, the Jewish tourist. These non-Jewish citizens and their benevolent government have chosen to maintain this cemetery or renovate this synagogue or create this museum purely out of their profound respect for the Jews who once lived here (and who, for unstated reasons, no longer do) and out of their sincere hope that you, the Jewish tourist, might someday arrive. But still, you cannot help but feel uncomfortable, and finally helpless, as you engage in the exact inverse of what Benjamin of Tudela once did: instead of traveling the world and visiting Jews, you are visiting their graves.

-Dara Horn, People Love Dead Jews