#israeli

[thebrightestwitchofherage]

You guys I’m cackling with laughter

The Hebrew text says “ you will swim back to the ghettos”.

[secular-jew]

Article by Masih Alinejad, Iranian exile, journalist, writer, women's rights activist. Probably the most wanted woman by the Iranian regime.

I've spent the past four years of my life being hunted by Iran’s Revolutionary Guards. They sent agents to kidnap me from my home in New York. They hired assassins to kill me on American soil. They even followed me to Davos, Switzerland, where I had to be helicoptered out from my hotel.

If not for the FBI’s protection—and the more than 21 safe houses I have shuttled between over the past few years—I might not be alive to write these words.

So yes, this moment is personal. But it is also far bigger than me.

For more than four decades, the Islamic Republic of Iran has exported terror, crushed dissent, and pushed the Middle East to the brink of war, all while robbing its own people of dignity, opportunity, and peace. Now, the regime is feeling consequences at the highest level.

Israeli air strikes have reportedly killed some of the Islamic Republic’s most senior military leaders, Hossein Salami, commander in chief of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC); Amir Ali Hajizadeh, architect of the regime’s ballistic missile program; and Mohammad Bagheri, chief of staff of Iran’s armed forces.

For many people around the world, these will just be foreign names. For me and for the people of Iran, they are the monsters who have impoverished and tyrannized our families.

They are the ones who have made millions of people's lives miserable, not just in Iran, but across the entire Middle East.

While sanctions choked the economy and hospitals ran short of basic medicine, IRGC commanders lived in luxury. Today, viral images on Persian-language social media show their rooftop pools, penthouse suites, and VIP elevators, many of these destroyed in the recent strikes.

These commanders didn’t defend Iran, they defended the regime from its own people. The only people who sacrificed for the sake of the country were the poor, the women who dared to show their hair, the students shot in the streets.

This is why many Iranians are not mourning today. Despite the profound uncertainty that lies ahead, they’re celebrating.

I’ve received thousands of messages from inside Iran showing young women dancing in the streets, or families cheering in their kitchens. They remember these commanders as the ones who gave the orders to shoot protesters in the eyes, jail teenage girls, and lie to the world while building bombs in secret.

One mother in Tehran who was imprisoned for protesting the 2019 murder of her child wrote to me that “waking up to the news of Salami’s death, I started to scream out of joy that I’m seeing justice.” She told me that “soon you’ll be back to Iran and we’ll dance on the graves of these killers.”

Another woman, whose mother was shot dead by the IRGC in 2022 for protesting the brutal death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini in police custody, wrote, “We’re all happy for the elimination of the killers of our loved ones. War comes with a price. Innocent people might get killed. But we know who we should blame: the Islamic Republic.” This particular woman shaved her head over her mother’s grave—an image that soon became a symbol of resistance in Iran.

Millions of Iranians have marched, danced, sung, and bled for a better future. In 2022, after Amini’s death, the world saw the courage of young women facing armed soldiers with nothing but their hair and their hope. That movement was not crushed. It is still burning, quietly and bravely, in homes, schools, and prisons across Iran. Today we are reminded of that. The courage of these Iranians might very well spell the end of the Islamic Republic itself.

Now, the world faces a choice. It can focus solely on missiles and maps, treating this as another geopolitical chess move. Or it can recognize the human story unfolding beneath the surface, the story of a nation rising from the shadow of its captors. The story of a rising lion.

Israel’s strike may have taken out top military figures. But the real victory is still ahead: the day the Islamic Republic falls under the weight of its own crimes and the strength of the people it has tried so hard to suffocate and silence.

The Islamic Republic built its empire of tyranny on blood: of protesters, dissidents, women, children. That empire is now cracking. The people of Iran are watching to see what will come next and hoping that the world is watching, too.

[heritageposts]

🇵🇸 From BDS - What to Boycott:

Fruits, vegetables and wines from Israel are often wrongly labelled as “Produce in Israel” when they come from stolen Palestinian land. Boycott all produce from Israel in your supermarket and demand they are removed from shelves.

thank you @leandra-winchester for making the graphic above! if any of you are active on other social platforms, you have her permission to use the image however you want (no credit required)

keep in mind, though, that this isn't a complete list: you should still check the origin labels on other types of fruit and veggies, and see if any local orgs have produced a more complete breakdown of israeli produce that's specific to your country

[ursashash]

Yuval Sliper

[originalscreenname]

I am sorry but if you think that the Jews who say out loud "we want to live in peace with Palestinians and we want a two state solution" are the bad guys While the people shouting "death to Israel", "Israeli settlers should be killed", "we need another October 7th", "Jews dont deserve a country" and etc are the good guys Then your moral compass is fucked

[kropotkindersurprise]

April, 2025 - it's beautiful how everyone joins in, from old grey hair dudes, to random other tourists, to tiny little Thai ladies kicking the piece of shit Israeli tourists in the face. A real bonding experience for everyone involved. It's how Zionist Israelis need to be welcomed everywhere.

(sorry @fairuzfan but apparently you still cant add videos to replies on tumblr so I had to post it this way)

[fallingrainandburningsuns]

what if I, an israeli, don't feel like educating people about the conflict? what if i don't want to have to explain to you the last year and a half of grief my family, my friends, my community, went through, still going through, can't heal from until all of us are home? i don't have to justify my anger, my fear, or my resentment to you, jewish or goy. i don't need to provide a explanation before saying that people of my country are dying and my family is under missiles and my friends are enlisting to the army and I'm devastated because there was a fucking massacre. I don't want to talk about the people of gaza. I want to have the space to grieve the trgady we experienced oct. 7, to heal our people with all of our hostages home.

But we didn't get that. People were celebrating while the blood was still warm. so I am not interested in explaining myself or this conflict to you.

[nimrochan]

I thought people would like this photo of a plump little hyrax in Israel I took maybe ten years before I even knew what the heck a hyrax was lolol

I don’t have words for my confused delight at the time

[ave-atqu3-vale]

Clarification on a common misconception about Israel.

(pasted from my reboot of an antisemite’s post because this needs to be said)

Israel is by definition NOT an ethnostate.

The definition of ethnostate is:

"a sovereign state of which citizenship is restricted to members of a particular racial or ethnic group."

As of 2022, the religious population makeup of Israel is:

"Jewish 73.5%, Muslim 18.1%, Christian 1.9%, Druze 1.6%, other 4.9%"

Clearly, citizenship and residency is not denied based on religion. How about race?

"73.2% (about 7,208,000 people) are Jews. 21.1% (around 2,080,000 people) are Israeli citizens classified as Arab, some identifying as Palestinian, and including Druze, Circassians, all other Muslims, Christian Arabs, Armenians (which Israel considers "Arab") An additional 5.7% (roughly 554,000 people) are classified as "others". (various ethnic/racial backgrounds.)

A quick google search shows that while Jews are the majority, many people of different races reside in Israel. White Christians are the majority in America and many European countries, and yet I have never heard them called ethnostates. Is this only because Jews are the majority? Hmmmm....

In contrast, Gaza WOULD fit the definition of an ethnostate. It has specific ethnic requirements not only to gain citizenship, but also to even enter the territory legally.

[girlactionfigure]

[thebrightestwitchofherage]

Friendly reminder that Iran a theocratic dictatorship , that has been threatening Israel with nuclear weapons and terror proxies since the 70s.

Israel has only been targeting nuclear sites. Iran is targeting civilians.

[secular-jew]

🤡🤡🤡

Iran claims to have shot down three Israeli F-35 jets planes and captured the pilots. A bold step - if only any of it were even remotely true.

This is Iran's “Evidence.”

AI-generated aircraft debris, footage and images stolen from the video game "Arma" that are so incoherent that they might as well come from hair dryer instructions.

One of the alleged "captured pilots," a in reality, a Chilean female pilot, is currently alive, well, and probably watching HBO at home.

The other captured pilot is the famous Russian rock singer Andrei Makarevich. No, for real. Apparently this rock star has gone from the performing stage to flying strategic missions for Israel!

Meanwhile, real footage shows Israeli jets and drones penetrating deep into Iranian territory, as Iranian air defence... absolutely can't straighten anything. Not even a cloud of smoke. The only confirmed shootout? A drone. One and only. Not exactly Top Gun gun material.

What can we conclude?

Iran can't win an air war, so they launched a photoshop contest.

And if the goal was to confuse, amuse and humiliate on a global level, then mission accomplished.

If this continues, Israel doesn't even need more rockets, just better WiFi to keep up with the memes.

[david-goldrock]

Would you keep me in your closet?

When they tell you that we're the murderers of Christ, blasphemous heretics, who poison the wells and eat christian babies, would you still keep me in your closet?

When they tell you we're of an infirior race, that our presence destroys culture, that we backstabbed your country, that having kids with us will leave them with the same flaws, that we are inherently and unchanginly evil, and that killing us is a mercy, would you still keep me in your closet?

When they tell you we're overlords of a secret society, secret cosmopolitiains of the deep state, controlling the media and the economy for our benefit, leaching on the work of good, hard working people, would you still keep me in your closet?

When they tell you we're white supremacists, fanatic nationals, colonizers, explotators, slave owners, oppressors, occupiers, starving, ethnically cleansing, genociding, harvesting organs off of Arab children...

Today, when they knock on your door and ask politely if you happen to hide me in your house or basement, whatever they may call me, whatever excuse they came with

Would you keep me safe in your closet?

[shkedia]

[originalscreenname]

I cant believe people still dont get this

[logicalnonsense-smiley]

Since the start of the war i see posts on tiktok about how many cultures makes the Israeli culture, and every time i see pro Palestine say its not true. A black Israeli Jewish explained how her family ran away to israel and live here decently. People call her a liar. That she is paid to say that. A video about a black person and a muslin and a russian guy sitting next to each other on the train and pro Palestine dont believe this.

Israel is not a white European country. Most of us not even white. Dont make the beliefs that we are another reason to hate us.