#i hate benjamin netanyahu

[thedepressedweasel]

I hope Benjamin Netanyahu kills himself soon!

[thegaycousin-upgrade]

The thing is

Its not Israel vs Palestinian

Its Netanyahu vs Hamas

And while Netanyahu wants to destroy Hamas and protect Israel, Hamas pretends to want to protect Palestinian, and wants to wipe out the citizens of Israel.

Also Noah Schnapp SHOULD be doing what he’s doing. Y’all really think Hamas isn’t ISIS? It totally is.

I’m tired of people calling honest Israeli accounts propaganda.

I’m tired of people only feeling sympathy for the innocent Palestinians killed and not the innocent Israelis killed.

I’m tired of people acting like Israel is this white oppressor when Israelis and Palestinians are both middle eastern.

I’m tired of people acting like the terrorist attack was justified.

I’m tired of people saying they stand with with the terrorist organization.

I’m tired of having to check on my Israeli friends everyday to make sure they aren’t dead.

I’m tired of being scared to post this.

I’m tired of people demonizing Israel.

I stand with Israel 🇮🇱.

If you go far enough left or far enough right you end up at the same place: Antisemitism.

[vyorei]

War Criminal Bastard says he has to give answers regarding the Israeli security lapse on the 7th of October

[guineapigwitch]

and then no line was drawn

Biden’s State Department in a nutshell.

[taviamoth]

'We Agree on One Thing' by me

[the-library-alcove]

One of the things that repeatedly pissed me off over the last sixteen months feels like it shouldn't be as impactful as it actually was. Specifically, I hate, hate, hate how the Hamasnik crowd on the Left forced so many Jews to unwillingly play Defense Attorney for fucking Benjamin Netanyahu.

I, and a lot of others, would have loved to play prosecutor against that piece of excrement, zeroing in on every bit of his overreach, political gamesmanship, and corrupt dealings.

But nooooooo. Rather than accuse him and Israel of the actual crimes that were being committed (excessive force, willingness to accept collateral damage, the occasional war crime by overzealous troops, etc), the Hamasnik crowd had to dive headfirst into Holocaust Inversion, virulent antisemitism, and active support for an explicitly genocidal terrorist organization of Islamist fanatics.

So we had to play Defense Attorney instead. We had to point out that it's not a genocide, again and again and again. We had to correct bad faith historical revisionism of Jewish history. We had to defend fucking Benjamin Netanyahu when these people decided to go full Protocols on him and just do full antisemitic canards and caricatures of him. And on and on and on.

And while all of that is just part of the whole issue from the last sixteen months, it's still something I'm stewing on with deep and abiding resentment.

[skotoseme]

Betar traces its origins back over 100 years. The group was founded by early Zionist leader Ze’ev Jabotinsky as a far-right paramilitary force, one that explicitly stood against the leftist Jewish groups who dominated at a time when “Jewish” and “socialist” were seen by many as virtually synonymous. Jabotinsky believed that establishing a state in Palestine would require the creation of what he called a “new Jew,” one that would be willing to fight and die for Zionism. To this end, Betar was established as a fighting organization and received generous funding from conservative benefactors. Jabotinsky instructed members to swear an oath to the unborn Israel: “I devote my life to the rebirth of the Jewish State, with a Jewish majority, on both sides of the Jordan.” The creation of such a state, therefore, would require the mass extermination or expulsion of the region’s native inhabitants. Betar’s formal name was Brit Yosef Trumpeldor, named after a Jewish settler who was killed in 1920 in an early firefight with Palestinians over disputed land. It was exactly men like Trumpeldor who Jabotinsky believed were necessary in order to win, in contrast to the majority of European Jews, who he saw as passive and weak. 1920s Europe was a time of rising antisemitism, and despite their inherent anti-Jewish nature, many conservative Jews admired the discipline and organization of fascist paramilitaries such as Hitler’s Brownshirts. Betar was modeled on these groups, with Jabotinsky believing the Zionist project’s success was dependent on the establishment of such organizations. Because of their anti-communist, anti-worker outlook, conservative money flooded into Betar, helping it become one of the largest and most influential Jewish organizations by the 1930s, with membership rising to around 70,000 people. Betar leaders would go on to become key figures in Israeli politics. These included Prime Ministers, Menachem Begin and Yitzchak Shamir, as well as Benzion Netanyahu, the father of current Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

On its official website’s “Our History” section, Betar writes (emphasis added):

“Betar thus became an incubator for the development of right-wing Zionist ideas and its supporters were sometimes referred to as “Jewish Fascists.” In Palestine, Betar members facilitated illegal Jewish immigration and were active instigators of disturbances and violence, frequently bombing Arab civilian areas in response to attacks and waging guerilla [sic] warfare against the British.”

Thus, the organization does not shy away from the fascism label, and it proudly notes that it “frequently” carried out terror operations against Arab civilians in Palestine. (At some point in the past week, after it began receiving increased scrutiny for its connections to the Trump administration, Betar has removed both the “fascist” moniker and the boast about bombing Arabs, but the original page can still be viewed via the Internet Archive. Since October 7, 2023, Betar has greatly upped its presence in the United States, thanks to far-right Israeli-American businessman Ronn Torossian and Executive Director Ross Glick. In July 2024, it successfully applied for tax-exempt nonprofit status, meaning it is classified by the government as a charity. “Since our revival in 2024, Betar has made a powerful impact across the U.S. and is just getting started. We are recruiting, developing, and empowering Jews to become unapologetic Zionist leaders—defending Israel on campuses, in communities, and across all platforms,” Betar writes. Yet an investigation by The Electronic Intifada suggests that Betar might have been illegally fundraising. The same report notes that Glick has faced serious allegations of sex crimes. In 2019, his former girlfriend found nude images of herself posted on her company’s official Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter pages. Glick was arrested and charged with unlawful use of a computer and unlawfully posting the lewd pictures. He pleaded guilty to second-degree harassment, a violation, and paid a fine.

[eugenedebs1920]

If this doesn’t make it clear the anti DEI, immigrant hate, white Christian nationalist agenda in this administration I don’t know what would…

To even suggest the prisoners in the concentration camps of WWII were treated humanely when over 6 million were slaughtered is more than absurd.

[mossadspypigeon]

“Hamas claimed in an official statement that "Gaza today is the 'Auschwitz' of the 21st century" in response to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's Thursday Holocaust Remembrance Day speech.

"Gaza today is the 'Auschwitz' of the 21st century, where the ashes are Palestinian and the perpetrator is Zionist," the Hamas statement said.

"Those who weep for the victims of Nazism are now the masters of genocide in our time," the statement added.”

this is so fucking evil. Hamas denies the Holocaust while wanting to kill all the Jews, but they’ve become the geniuses of Holocaust inversion because of all the bolstering they’ve gotten from the west. I hate Netanyahu but Auschwitz is nothing like Gaza and never will be. there is nothing like the gas chambers and crematorium. Hamas are torturing hostages in underground tunnels and pretending to be victims when they’re the closest thing we have to Nazis, and they get away with it. this world is rotten.

i just have this to add:

z”l 💙

the responses:

the world never gave a shit about the shoah and now they’re actint like they care just to throw that pain and trauma back in our faces. hamas does this purposely to delegitimize us and reverse victim and offender. meanwhile their people sided with hitler and wanted death camps in the levant.

[secular-jew]

I’m a Palestinian American. Here’s Why I Can’t Support the Anti-Israel Protesters. By Elizabeth Gillanders. August 16, 2024

Walking past Union Station in the nation’s capital, I recently was met with a heartbreaking sight. Vandals had defaced the Columbus Memorial Fountain with spray paint, writing the words “Hamas is coming” in big red letters.

Trash and signs discarded by anti-Israel protesters littered the ground. A burnt shopping cart stood off to one side with piles of ash beneath it.

Most depressing, however, were the three bare flag poles that had been robbed of their American flags. Protesters had burned the flags, the only remnant a charred piece of fabric atop another pile of ash.

This was the aftermath of the July 24 “pro-Palestinian” protests in Washington, D.C., organized in response to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s address that day to a joint meeting of Congress.

As an American of Palestinian heritage, some expect me to cheer on these people. They expect me to condemn the U.S., hate Israel, and support Hamas, a terrorist organization dedicated to wiping out the Jewish state.

But these expectations don’t represent me, nor my family.

I inherit my Palestinian background from my mother’s side of the family; her parents emigrated to America from the Middle East. My grandma was born in Israel and later moved to Ramallah in the West Bank and eventually to Jordan.

After arriving in America in her 20s, my grandma worked hard to become a U.S. citizen. She learned the English language while raising my mother and uncle. She opened a restaurant with my grandpa, lovingly named the Chicken Pantry, in Hamtramck, Michigan. When that business closed, my grandma worked as a real estate agent before eventually retiring in the land of prosperity.

America brought my family prosperity. My grandparents taught my mother to “kiss the ground you walk on” because they knew what a blessing America is.

They passed this lesson on to me.

Although many seem to think that my Palestinian heritage should cause me to align with protests that supposedly are “pro-Palestinian,” it’s precisely because of my heritage that I cannot do that.

Israel went to war with Hamas in the Gaza Strip only after Hamas terrorists slaughtered 1,200 and kidnapped about 250 in a rampage of rape, torture, and murder Oct. 7 in southern Israel.

About 10 months later, as pro-Hamas protesters march in this country to “free Palestine,” they call for the death of America. As they burn the American flag, they burn all that my family has worked to achieve.

As the protesters pledge their allegiance to Hamas, they encourage a group that my grandmother wouldn’t hesitate to call a terrorist organization that operates with a strategy of human sacrifice.

Think about it. Why are there no Hamas military bases in the Gaza Strip adjoining Israel? Because the terrorists hide behind their own people.

They dress like noncombatants in Gaza. They establish bunkers in hospitals. They commandeer ambulances for transportation.

These actions are all in direct violation of Article 18 of the Geneva Conventions, the international pacts that set minimum standards during armed conflict for the treatment of civilians, soldiers, and prisoners of war.

One example is Hamas’ use of Gaza’s most important hospital, Al-Shifa. According to the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, Hamas uses a bunker under the hospital as a base for military operations. This not only makes the hospital a target, but takes medical resources needed for the sick.

In contrast, the Israel Defense Forces have given civilians in Gaza opportunities to evacuate and warned of impending attacks. No other nation goes this far to protect enemy civilians.

How can I support pro-Hamas demonstrators who wish to end the nation that brought my family so much? How can I back a terrorist group that uses its own people as human shields? How can I hate Israel, when the IDF has worked to keep Palestinian civilians out of harm’s way?

I believe it’s important to point out that, contrary to popular belief, not all Arabs think the same. Some of us do see this conflict differently. And our thoughts and beliefs should not be snuffed out because they go against the “narrative.”

To some, perhaps our stance makes us walking oxymorons. But we are proud ones, nonetheless.

[whereiamgoingisrightwhereiam]

He did it.

Trump has won.

(EDIT) Before I begin, it appears to be critical I say this. In no way, shape, or form do I support Genocide in any way, shape or form. What Benjamin Netanyahu is doing is despicable. It needs to end, and it needs to end soon

(EDIT) Please stop weaponizing my words as a way to prove Democrats are wrong. Or weapons my words. I merely wished to push a vent into the abyss. I am saddened by his Victory. Shame on you for weaponizing this post. I am very politically centralist.

(EDIT) Some of yall in the comments prove my point of ignorance. My points have unfortunately passed way over some heads.

(EDIT) To the conservatives who have weaponized this post. Why? You’ve already won.

To the people who voted against her in protest. Are you happy? Are you happy that millions of people are losing their rights?

There is a reason we put our plane mask on before our kids.

You have to save yourself before others.

Your protest, to save Gaza, has led to the dismantling of our democracy.

Protest in the streets. March and make it known. I HATE the war. I hate both sides of it (Hamas, Netanyahu’s regime)

Harris has NO ability to do ANYTHING relating to what is going on there. A simple Civics textbook can tell you that. But many can’t be bothered, and stay in an endless cycle of online algorithm.

But to dismantle your rights? To dismantle the rights of our queer, non-white, disabled friends? That’s too far. Worry about our own issues first. Your vote? It means nothing.

You have voted, in essence, for Russian Nuclear Weapons in Ukraine. You have voted for someone who has bragged about Sexual Assault. You have voted for someone who has made it clear that if you’re not cis, Straight, and aryan, you do not belong in our wonderfully diverse country

Incredibly bright young students will not be able to afford school. People who can solve major issues in our world. But anti-Netanyahu is more important? Yea. Sure

I did not like either candidate. In a heartbeat i will vote for Harris. Should the DNC have pushed a different, less left candidate? Absolutely

I am scared for what the future holds. The nuclear weapons.

Please stop using personal social media blogs for your research.

Thank you for reading this.

God bless you, the reader, god bless this country, and god please have mercy on us.

[subdee]

While Trump hasn’t made a final decision about whether to strike Iran, he suggested that “the next week is going to be big” and said “I like to make a final decision one second before it’s due, you know, because things change.” Earlier in the day, Trump told reporters: “I may do it, I may not do it. Nobody knows what I’m going to do.” The U.S. military, meanwhile, sent a second carrier strike group and F-22 fighters to the region. Trump said he told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to “keep going” and claimed Iran is “defenseless” under Israeli pressure.

He's getting off on this, I hate him so much.

My fellow elder millennials ... Do you remember when literally all of this happened already? Because I do. The protests against the war in Iraq were the LARGEST in our nation's history until the Women's March against Trump in his first term and the #NoKings rally just this past Saturday. Going to war with Iraq was overwhelmingly unpopular among the large number of people who knew it was bullshit. Didn't matter. We went to war. The newspapers lied about weapons of mass destruction to sell the war to Americans who weren't paying attention. Literally no one outside of this country was fooled. If there's another 9/11 type event this time it WILL be an inside job (and I'm no 9/11 truther). You hear that? If Iran conveniently bombs a US base in the next few weeks... no they didn't. Trump's administration did because they're a bunch of delusional warmongers trying to keep their poll numbers up, and they want an excuse to use the military to crack down on the domestic protests this war will inevitably bring on. Only 16% of the country wants to go to war with Iran. Not even Republicans want this war. That's why they will have to manufacture a fake crisis - a Trumpian speciality.

Anyway.

Some reading for you guys, because knowledge is power:

Timothy Snyder: The Next Terror Attack

Laurie Woodward: Trump's Delusion, Our Consequences

Your reps already know you don't want this, but feel free to call them anyway. Write letters to the editor of the local newspaper. Talk to your neighbors. Post anti-war things on social media. And if there's an anti-war rally in your area - show up.

[mariacallous]

Assailants firebombed a synagogue in a Montreal suburb for the second time in just over a year, the latest in a series of attacks on Canadian Jewish institutions since Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, invasion of Israel.

As in the other recent attacks on Canadian Jewish sites, no one was injured in the incident.

Mordecai Zeitz, the emeritus rabbi at Congregation Beth Tikvah, a modern Orthodox synagogue in the suburb of Dollard-des-Ormeaux, said the congregants met for morning prayers on Wednesday morning outside the synagogue.

“We were able to recite the morning prayers in an abbreviated way,” he said.”We did not close even if we had to go outside to avoid the fires on the inside, but we had the fires of Jewish identity and Jewish pride very much front and center, in front of the charred doors of the synagogue,” Zeitz told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency.

Police told the Montreal Gazette there were no injuries and that witnesses reported seeing a suspect at the site prior to the arrival of police. The building suffered minor smoke damage in addition to its front glass shattering.

Assailants tossed a firebomb at the same synagogue in November 2023 just weeks after Hamas’ invasion, which launched Israel’s multi-front war. There have been a number of similar attacks on Canadian Jewish institutions since then, including shots fired at Jewish schools. In August, bomb threats were sent to dozens of Jewish institutions across Canada.

This week’s attack also comes after a violent pro-Palestinian demonstration in Montreal in late November where protesters burned Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in effigy. And it comes roughly two weeks after an Australian synagogue was firebombed.

Zeitz said the damage was limited to the shattered glass and to the vestibule, and that he expected services to be held inside on Wednesday evening. The synagogue was inviting non-congregants to attend a solidarity Shabbat service on Saturday morning, he said, noting that the day school attached to the building had stayed open and functioning.

“We are never out of business,” he said.

B’nai B’rith Canada called on the authorities to do more to stem the violence.

“This is a terrifying reminder that Montreal is increasingly unsafe for Jewish people,” the synagogue’s cantor, Henry Topas, said in a statement.

“This is the result of the failure of leaders at all levels to hold accountable those responsible for the hate and violence that is infesting Canadian society,” said Topas, who is  also B’nai Brith Canada’s regional director for Quebec and Atlantic Canada. “Specifically, Mayor Valerie Plante must act now to stop the exponential rise in hate and antisemitism which she has permitted to get out of control in Montreal.”

Plante and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau condemned Wednesday’s attack and vowed to track down the perpetrators.

“This vile antisemitic attack against Montreal’s Jewish community is cowardly and criminal,” Trudeau tweeted. “I trust the perpetrators behind this hateful act will be quickly brought to justice.”

Plante wrote on social media that “antisemitic actions are criminal actions,” adding, “It is intolerable that citizens of Montreal should live in insecurity because of their faith.”

[melancholic-pigeon]

also it just really sucks that if you look at my blog for 0.2 seconds you will notice that my position of "harming civilians is bad" is completely consistent with my politics and has been since I fucking made this account, it is EXTREMELY, EXTREMELY EASY TO TELL that I in no fucking way support the Likud party or Benjamin Netanyahu or the harm being done to Palestinians...

...but because I also think Jews are people and have the same stance re Jewish peoples' human rights that I have re all human rights globally, I'm apparently "not normal" about Palestine.

Which means to these jackasses, being "normal" about Palestine requires vocal, unapologetic Jew-hatred.

So yeah. I guess I'm not "normal" about Palestine, because I think human rights violations are universally bad for all humans and believe marginalized people when they provide MOUNTAINS AND MOUNTAINS AND MOUNTAINS of evidence again, dating back MILLENNIA, that they're being harmed.

Human rights for all humans, no exceptions ever. I'm disgusted that this makes me an outlier. I'm still low-key ashamed to call myself a leftist because of the gleefully, sadistically hateful cruelty that has apparently become required behavior in the supposed Human Rights Are Good party.

I keep ranting about this and it probably isn't helping much and that frustrates me too.

[thatstormygeek]

Mamdani’s win is also a defeat for the gang of crooked dinosaurs known as the Democratic establishment, which went out of its way to humiliate itself in this race. A parade of elected officials, well-connected unions, and political machers, all of whom had demanded that Cuomo resign the governorship just a few years ago, stampeded shamelessly to get behind him this time around. Cuomo wheeled out endorsements from party grandees like Jim Clyburn and Bill Clinton, neither of whom has any real connection to the city. None of it mattered. Voters looked at this panoply of power and recoiled. Cuomo and his cronies were a symbol of everything ordinary people currently hate about the political class, and they failed. So did the city’s moneyed elite. Billionaires like Mike Bloomberg and Bill Ackman poured tens of millions of dollars into Cuomo’s Super PAC, which drowned New Yorkers in a vast sea of apocalyptic anti-Mamdani propaganda. (Judging by the endless number of Mamdani-bashing mailers I received, there’s a small forest missing somewhere thanks to these bozos.) The New York Times editorial board, which had vowed to stay out of the race, reversed course, warning readers to leave Mamdani off their ballots. They will all be licking their wounds this morning, and that is wonderful. Most importantly, Mamdani’s victory is a seismic defeat for the forces of anti-Palestinian, anti-Muslim bigotry. Cuomo and his backers ran one of the most nakedly racist campaigns I can remember seeing, even darkening Mamdani’s beard in one mailer to make him look more like a stereotypical Scary Muslim. And they went all-in on weaponizing his support of Palestine, smearing him relentlessly as an antisemite who would all but send the city’s Jews to the gas chambers. New York’s equally ossified media joined in, framing Mamdani’s opposition to Israel’s apartheid and genocide as “troubling” and peppering him with questions about whether he’d visit Israel as mayor. (Meanwhile, Cuomo’s decision to literally join the legal team fighting to keep Benjamin Netanyahu out of the Hague went completely unaddressed.) And it didn’t work. The voters in one of the Jewish capitals of the world said no. They sent the message that standing up for equal rights and an end to mass slaughter doesn’t make you a danger to the world—it makes you the kind of person who should maybe be the mayor of New York City. That has huge implications for the politics around Palestine and Israel more generally. What more evidence do you need that people don’t want a blank check for Israel than New York City voting for a Muslim, socialist, pro-Palestinian mayor? That is earth-shaking stuff—and, amid the never-ending hell in Gaza, it is a cause for some hope.

[tiredgirlvent]

Hamas wants war

Israel wanted peace

Hamas doesn't care because they are psychopaths !

The more this war goes on the hostages will continue to be starved and tortured but if Israel concedes then later on down the line you will have more Oct 7's , they will continue to murder ,rape and kidnap Israelis and make future victims and grieving families .

They will not stop

This is a death cult of hate

Radicals

Israel is in such a tough spot I feel sorry for Benjamin Netanyahu and the tough decisions he has to make

If he gives in and lets Hamas go the hostages will be released ( so they say ) and you will have future hostages and murders when these psychopaths do it all over again .

However ...

If you continue with this war most certainly those hostages will not be coming back ( alive or dead ) I doubt Hamas will let them live . They are just bargaining chips for them .

What a terrible position to be in

I am sorry Israel

You didn't deserve any of this hell that you have been put through !

I am sorry for the families of the hostages and for the hostages themselves

I am sorry for the families of the murder victims and justice needs to be given for those who were murdered for no reason whatsoever.

I am sorry 💔😭