#October 7

[girlactionfigure]

[lostinsidelostoutside]

Kfir Bibas 💔 kidnapping a baby makes absolutely no sense and nothing you Pro Hamas / Palestine supporters can say that can make it make sense .

Only cowards do things like this .

This is EVIL !

[probablyasocialecologist]

[whydidisavethistomyphone]

[mysharona1987]

[dailykafka]

— October 7, 1915 / Franz Kafka diaries

[emptygoldstudio]

[7] Eldest daughter brother 🎀

Prompt source for October

[jewish-mccoy]

Given how unsafe queer spaces have become for Jews, I’d really love to hear how queer goyim plan to make these spaces welcome for us again.

Because you are the reason they’ve become hostile and unsafe. You haven’t stood up for us or said, “hey, this is wrong, we shouldn’t be pushing our own people out!”

What do you plan to do to make your spaces inclusive? Do you care that the queer Jews who have also been a huge part of the movement have fled your spaces?

[sh0rtins0mniac]

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[palestinegenocide]

Casualties

26,422+ killed* and at least 65,087 wounded in the Gaza Strip.

387+ Palestinians killed in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem

Israel revises its estimated October 7 death toll down from 1,400 to 1,147.

557 Israeli soldiers killed since October 7, and at least 3,221 injured.**

*This figure was confirmed by Gaza’s Ministry of Health. Some rights groups put the death toll number at more than 33,000 when accounting for those presumed dead.

** This figure is released by the Israeli military.

[eretzyisrael]

henmazzig

If you were honestly more concerned with advocating for Palestinians than you are hating a specific group of people, you would be disavowing these actions the loudest. But instead all we hear is a deafening silence, and worse… When a minority group tells you there’s a problem with your movement, listen to us, don’t “but” and “if” our concerns. Don’t bring up one Jewish person or 12 who agree with you or are too afraid to tell you what they really feel. Because tokenism is racism.

[girlactionfigure]

[floralcavern]

My least favorite Pro-Palestine argument/quote is “It was never about the hostages.”

Fuck you. Fuck you for downplaying October 7. Fuck you for ignoring the hostages who were murdered in captivity, ignoring the women in Hamas’s grasp who’ve stated they were raped. The one year old in custody. The people who are being tortured and slowly dying.

[probablyasocialecologist]

The latest questions are centered around Anat Schwartz, an Israeli who co-authored several of the paper’s most widely circulated reports, including the now well-known and scrutinized December 28 article headlined: “‘Screams Without Words’’ How Hamas Weaponized Sexual Violence on Oct. 7.” Independent researchers scrutinized the online record, and raised serious questions about Schwartz. First, she has apparently never been a reporter but is actually a filmmaker, who the Times suddenly hired in October. You would expect the paper to look for someone with actual journalistic experience, especially for a story as sensitive as this one, written during the fog of war. Surely the paper had enough of its own correspondents on staff who could have been assigned to it. Next, the researchers found that Schwartz had not hidden her strong feelings online. There are screenshots of her “liking” certain posts that repeated the “40 beheaded baby” hoax, and that endorsed another hysterical post that urged the Israeli army to “turn Gaza into a slaughterhouse,” and called Palestinians “human animals.” (Just this morning, more evidence emerged online; Schwartz apparently also served in Israeli Military Intelligence.) Finally, one of her co-authors on two of the reports was Adam Sella, who is her nephew.  Let’s pause here. What would happen if the Times suddenly hired a Palestinian filmmaker with no journalistic background, who had recently publicly “liked” posts that called for “pushing Israeli Jews into the sea,” to co-write several of its most sensitive and contested reports? 

[...]

There’s another related example of how the Times has botched the sexual violence story. One of the first Israeli organizations that arrived on the scene of the Hamas attack was Zaka, a volunteer group that recovers dead bodies. On January 15, Times reporter Sheena Frankel wrote a positive profile of the group; she included 3 or 4 sentences of criticism, only to quickly dismiss them. This site had already raised serious doubts about Zaka weeks earlier, pointing out that “the organization’s volunteers have systematically given false testimonies, and continue repeating them to journalists on behalf of the Israel government.” Then, on January 31, the Israeli daily Haaretz published a long investigation, that highlighted “cases of negligence, misinformation and a fundraising campaign that used the dead as props.” Haaretz cited one Zaka report that said a volunteer had seen a murdered pregnant woman, with the baby still attached by the umbilical cord — before concluding that the incident “simply didn’t happen.” At this stage, there are serious doubts about many aspects of Israel’s overall account about October 7. Only a genuinely independent and impartial investigation might some day get closer to the truth. But meanwhile, at the very least the New York Times must publicly recognize its errors, and assign new, unbiased reporters to try to clean up its mess. 

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[tsuyoshikentsu]

jews: the friends we lost are dead.

I've been thinking about how to say this for a while. None of us want to hear it, but it's true. The friends we've lost since October 7th? The ones who suddenly went mask-off, or started spouting horrible shit without a second thought?

They're dead.

They're dead, and like a parasite emerging from the host, they were killed by the people who were revealed to be within them the whole time.

You're not mourning the loss of a friend who's antisemitic. You're mourning the death of the version of them that wasn't. Because that version? It's dead, and it's not coming back.

Oh, sure, they might grow a brain and/or a conscience, reform themselves, and come back full of apologies. But that won't be the same person. It'll be a person who looks like that person and has many things in common with that person, but is also a reformed antisemite. The version of them that was never an antisemite? Died.

Does this mean you shouldn't forgive them? There's no way I can make that decision for you. There are people I've lost that I would forgive in a heartbeat. (I miss you, M. It was hard to lose you, Ja.) There are people I will never trust again as long as I live. (You deserve nothing more, Ju.) But you need to admit to yourself that the person that you knew, as you knew them, is gone forever.

If it felt like your friend died when they betrayed you? This is why.

[mysharona1987]

It didn’t just start on October 7.