#israel solidarity

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To the girl who stands with "Freedom Fighters"

On Friday, pro-Hamas groups on my campus started an encampment. I, along with a few Chabad peers, decided to stick around to keep an eye on things and be aware of the situation.

In that time, a non-Muslim, non-Arab, non-Palestinian girl approached us, and in the conversation when Hamas were brought up, she said she "stands with freedom fighters".

So this is to the girl who stared me right in the face and said she stands with "freedom fighters".

"Freedom fighters" don't cut off a woman's breast and toss it around like a plaything. "Freedom fighters" don't steal babies from their homes and keep them in dark tunnels for months on end. "Freedom fighters" don't take women hostage to hold them at gunpoint and command them to perform sexual acts. "Freedom fighters" don't gang rape civilians attending a music festival for peace, recording the whole thing with pride. "Freedom fighters" don't parade the naked bodies of their victims along the streets and pass out candy in celebration.

Maybe for you, girl who stands with "freedom fighters", this war is just some fandom to follow. You bought your cheap keffiyeh on Amazon and decided you're a revolutionary. Decided to set up camp illegally on campus and deemed yourself a rebel.

But did you stare at your screen in shock as your heart and hope and trust shattered into twelve hundred bloody pieces, trampled in the dirt? Did you frantically text friends to make sure they were home and safe and alive? Did your hands shake as you realized what was being done to your brothers and sisters?

Did you ever stare at a "missing" poster and miss people you've never met, because they're family all the same? Did you stare at graffiti scratched on a baby's face on the walls of your school's Chabad and realize that this is how little your lives and theirs mean to your peers?

Have you ever read the news and seen a Jewish brother murdered in your home city? Felt your heart drop to see another brother dead, so far from the war and yet somehow never far enough?

No, you haven't. Because you think you're such a rebellious revolutionary, standing in front of me in your keffiyeh, supporting your "freedom fighters".

Because you never had to hear your mother say she used to live on one of the kibbutzim that were attacked and realized that this could have been your future.

Because you have never had to look in the eyes of someone who has lost friends and family to your "freedom fighters" and struggled to find what to say to offer even a shred of comfort.

To you, this war is a trend. A fandom. A quirky little phase.

To so many others, it's a fucking nightmare come to life.

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[bottlepiecemuses]

Pro-Palestine This Is The Result Of Your Toxic Bigotry And Activism

It's funny she was on your side and you went after her after you thought she was Pro-Israel I don't see this on the Pro-Israel side you demonize. It just shows how toxic you are and this movement is based on extreme self-righteous bigotry dressed up as social justice. And in my opinion even those who condemned this would support it if she was actually Pro-Israel because you guys are sociopaths who lack any real compassion and love hurting anyone you deem as morally inferior to yourselves. It really just shows how bigoted anti-zionism is and I hope your movement is seen as the hate movement it is someday. Throw the words pro-genocide and pro-child killing around to justify your rotten support but the more your scumbag behavior is revealed the more it shows that you keep anti-semitism alive more than ironically the white supremacists can.

[former-leftist-jew]

Hamas Charter 1988: "Palestine is an Islamic Waqf land... the same goes for any land the Moslems have conquered by force, because during the times of (Islamic) conquests, the Moslems consecrated these lands to Moslem generations till the Day of Judgement.

"It happened like this: When the leaders of the Islamic armies conquered Syria and Iraq, they sent to the Caliph of the Moslems, Umar bin-el-Khatab, asking for his advice concerning the conquered land - whether they should divide it among the soldiers, or leave it for its owners, or what? After consultations and discussions... it was decided... the real ownership of the land and the land itself should be consecrated for Moslem generations till Judgement Day." - Hamas Charter, Article 11

But sure, Israeli/Judaism was founded on a violent colonial religion. :/

[starry-suri]

The Harris poll from February reports that 82% of American's surveyed support Israel's fight against Hamas with the majority of surveyed wanting a cease fire only after the hostages are returned and Hamas is removed from power.

With the vitriol that's been spit at "Zionists" (we all know what they mean) and the negativity on this site, I hope this can bring a bit of hope to those feeling alone in their schools and cities.

[tacticaltransfemme]

L Zionist + L for overshadowing actual antisemitism by saying that calling out fascist and racist imperialism is antisemitism when you know in your heart it isn't + L bozo + L Israel propaganda believer (it's such an obvious lie like how are you this dumb) + Isnotrael + free Palestine + fuck u for good measure

Let's unpack this one, shall we!

Zionist - I am! How did you know?

Overshadowing actual antisemitism - No, no, I think your rallies shouting 'Gas the Jews' and other genocidal slogans and chants is "actual antisemitism." What isn't anti-Semitism, you may ask? Defending the Jewish homeland and the people of Israel

Bozo - I mean, I'm not the dumbass who gets their information from Tik Tok then makes it blatantly clear by saying shot like this...

Israel Propaganda Believer (it's like an obvious lie) - Says the Hamas Propaganda Believer...? Are you joking? Hamas' propaganda is so fucking obviously faked! Take your beloved Mr. Fafo for example (See below!) who happens to be the Barbie of Gaza if she were an ugly, lanky propogandist

Isnotreal - Israel is internationally recognized as a nation, so it is pretty real. You wanna know what isn't tho? Palestine

Free Palestine - You're right! Free Palestine... FROM HAMAS!

Fuck you for good measure - you know, this is the most logical thing you've said this whole time! Great job!

To sum it all up,

Am Yisrael Chai!

No Ceasefire!

Bring The Hostages Home NOW!

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Rede von Joachim Bruhn in Frankfurt auf der »Demonstration gegen das Bündnis aus Rechtsradikalen, Linken und Islamisten« (20. Juni 2010), drei Wochen nach der Gaza-Flotten-Aktion, die die antisemitischen Wellen mal wieder hochschlagen ließ.

Aus seiner Rede von damals, in der er dafür stritt, die Israelsolidarität nicht als scheinbar selbstlose »kommunistische Caritas«, sondern als »unmittelbar unsere Sache« zu begreifen:

»Indem Israel seine Souveränität behauptet, kämpft es für das Recht des Individuums, etwas anderes zu sein als ein Gegenstand der Zoologie, als eine Pflanze, die schon glücklich zu sein hat, wenn sie einen Boden findet, um zu wurzeln, wenn man sie gießt und düngt. Es gibt nämlich kein ›Recht auf nationale Selbstbestimmung‹, das im Recht der ersten Landnahme gründet, kein Recht der Einheimischen, nur weil sie zuerst da waren.

Wer so etwas behauptet, wer dies ›Naturrecht‹ gegen den Zionismus in Anschlag bringt, der hat den Begriff und die Wahrheit der Gattung liquidiert, hat das ›Weltbürgerrecht‹ aufgehoben. Vielmehr verhält es sich so, wie es Immanuel Kant im dritten Definitivartikel zum ewigen Frieden 1795 erklärt hat: Das Weltbürgerrecht, sagt er, ›steht allen Menschen zu, vermöge des Rechts des gemeinschaftlichen Besitzes der Oberfläche der Erde, auf der, als Kugelfläche, sie sich nicht ins Unendliche zerstreuen können, sondern endlich sich doch neben einander dulden müssen, ursprünglich hat aber niemand an einem Orte der Erde mehr Recht, als der andere.‹

Das Argument der Aufklärung ist so einfach, wie der daraus folgende kategorische Imperativ wahr ist: Weil die Erde keine Scheibe ist, darum ist sie die Allmende, d.h. das unteilbare Eigentum einer Gattung, die sich als die Menschheit erst dann bewiesen haben wird, wenn die Individuen mehr sein dürfen als die blöden Exemplare einer Gattung, und das heißt, politisch ausgedrückt, eines Volkes. Die Propaganda gegen Israel ist – als Agitation für den Ameisenstaat – vorsätzlicher Aufklärungsverrat. [...]

Es ist dieser vorsätzliche Aufklärungsverrat, der uns einen gesellschaftlichen Zustand beschert hat, den man nur als die Totalverschleierung des Bewusstseins bezeichnen kann. Dagegen hilft es nicht, wenn man, wie die staatstragenden Freunde Israels, insbesondere die Deutsch-Israelische Gesellschaft, gegen ›vorschnelle Verurteilungen Israels‹ eintritt und mit leidenschaftsloser Schiedsrichterattitüde ›Unvoreingenommenheit‹, ›Verhältnismäßigkeit‹, ›Objektivität, Ausgewogenheit und Sachlichkeit‹ fordert. Damit werden Aufklärung und Kritik auf Information und Bescheidwissen heruntergebracht. Jeder, der für Israel eintritt, muss doch wissen, was der polnische Philosoph Leszek Kolakowski schon 1956 erfahren musste: ›Der Antisemitismus‹ – und der Antizionismus erst recht! – ›ist keine Doktrin, die kritisiert werden kann [...] Man kann ihm keine Argumente entgegensetzen, denn er ist mit einer Reaktionsart verbunden, der die Beweisführung als Denkart fremd und verhasst ist. [...] Davon hat sich jeder überzeugt, der Gelegenheit hatte, mit einem Antisemiten‹ – oder gleich mit einem Antizionisten! – ›eine jener hoffnungslosen Diskussionen zu führen, die immer dem Versuch ähneln, einem Tier das Sprechen beizubringen.‹«

Rede von Joachim Bruhn auf der »Demonstration gegen das Bündnis aus Rechtsradikalen, Linken und Islamisten« (Frankfurt, 20. Juni 2010)

[thatmezuzaluvr]

if only more people understood what she is trying to say.

(be aware of the comments, there’s some islamophobia)

[funkopersonal]

Can people just acknowledge that both palestenian and israeli citizens are suffering? the israeli people are not the villains, and neither are palestenian people. They are all victims of Hamas, and all the other terrorist groups involved. It hurts me to see people using the issue as fuel for antisemitism and fuel to call for the disbanding of Israel as a whole.

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This is disgusting. It's 2024 and people are marching through the streets with Nazi flags.

[kropotkindersurprise]

February 28, 2024 - American military veterans burn their uniforms calling for a free Palestine, at a vigil for Aaron Bushnell in Portland, Oregon. [source]

[bottlepiecemuses]

Shout Out For Muslim Women's Rights Activists Condemning Hamas And Anti-Semitism

[hack-saw2004]

TWO HOURS AGO: an incredible photo taken by a ut austin student capturing something deeply poetic in my opinion, a line of state troopers eagerly waiting to arrest student protesters standing just behind a sign that reads "what starts here changes the world. its starts with you and what you do each day."

[vyorei]

Beautiful display of solidarity ongoing right now from the US calling for a ceasefire in Gaza

Source: @jvplive on Twitter

[tacticaltransfemme]

You're no different to trump.

WRONG

It should be 'You're no different than Trump' OR 'You're no different from Trump', but I wouldn't expect an individual such as yourself to have the attention span to sit through the English class where you were supposed to learn that...

Am Yisrael Chai!

[agenmossad]

I'll see if I can utilize this account for personal updates after all the problems in other platforms. For now, I just want you to read this.