#why do gazans have to prove their humanity

[fairuzfan]

It's all just so unfair

[the-ind1gen0us-jude4n]

as a zionist, do you suggest that a ceasefire in Gaza is antisemitic? curious about your values

I don't believe a genuine ceasefire is inherently antisemitic, no. A ceasefire which benefits Israeli and Gazan civilians is acceptable in my view (although I don't advocate for it).

But a ceasefire which keeps Hamas in power - who has made their intentions of wiping out EVERY SINGLE Jew on earth VERY CLEAR, and who poses a major threat to Israel - is antisemitic. It proves that the world is more interested in the lives of terrorists and of criminals than innocent Israelis and Jews. It proves the world doesn't care that more Israelis (Jews and Arabs) will be killed if Hamas is to stay in power.

Before someone says that a ceasefire right now will help gazans, no it won't. Hamas oppresses gazans, restricts their freedoms and human rights, steals their aid and money, builds terror tunnels instead of actual civilian infulstructure, and keeps draging gazans into unnecessary wars with Israel which would ultimately lead to gazas defeat.

As such I can say that a ceasefire is NOT in Israels or Gazas best interests. If Hamas is to stay in power, Israel will continue to be at threat, and gazans will continue to live a miserable life under the rule of a terrorist organisation, will keep living in poor conditions which their leaders have put them in.

Not to mention, there was a ceasefire agreement on October 6th, who do you think broke it?

Edit: the hostage situation (which Hamas caused) is another reason for why there isn’t a ceasefire.

[the-garbanzo-annex-jr]

The Palestinian Center of Human Rights is a respected organization by the human rights community. 

It is also insanely antisemitic.

The headline of a news release this week says, "Latest Israeli Displacement Orders Further Prove Their Genocidal Nature.

The very things the IDF does to avoid civilian casualties in order to get to Hamas targets hidden in civilian areas are being viewed as evidence of genocide!

The press release says this statement that no sane person could write: "The establishment of these so-called ‘humanitarian safe zones’ reveals a genocidal pattern designed to forcibly displace Palestinians to areas lacking essential services necessary for their survival. "

If the IDF wanted them dead, why spend the time and effort and resources to ask them (not force them) to leave?

That's not even the only example in this very press release of interpreting Israeli actions to save Gazan lives as genocidal.

Israel has been working hard with UNICEF and WHO to bring polio vaccines into Gaza, a complex undertaking to do safely. Over 1.2 million doses have been imported. The entire operation is complicated by the fact that thse vaccines must be kept cool, so appropriate cooling equipment must also be brought in and there must be assurance that they will work during power outages. The entire operation so far has been accomplished in only a couple of weeks.

Israel has also appointed a brigadier general whose only job is to coordinate with international organizations for aid delivery and distribution into Gaza. I'm pretty sure that no army in history has ever done so much to ensure aid to the enemy's side.

But here is how PCHR reports it:

The delay in the vaccination campaign due to Israel’s displacement orders highlights a trend of weaponizing previously eradicated, highly infectious diseases as a tool of genocide. This strategy deliberately uses such diseases to inflict permanent disability or death on Palestinian residents of Gaza.

This is simply a 21st  century update of the Black Death blood libel against Jews. 

It isn't coming from neo-Nazis but from a respected human rights organization - one that partners with Amnesty and HRW, among others, and whose reports are trusted by those organizations as well as the UN.

To PCHR and other "human rights" NGOs, the idea that Israeli Jews are immoral, homicidal maniacs is the first principle from which these organizations interpret everything else. Once the idea that Jews are the worst people is established, then any counter-evidence becomes, instead, evidence of the  truth of their antisemitic conspiracy theories.

[nerdylilpeebee]

Not gonna lie, a little disappointed in @tracingpapier. Turning off reblogs so I couldn't even respond to her is a bit of a petty move. This is a long ass response, so I'm gonna use bullets to respond to each point.

If you have me blocked, tracinpapier must be a side-blog or something cuz I can see your blog just fine, reblog your posts, and mention you.

I actually am worried about someone being scammed. GoFundMe's on Tumblr have nearly all been scams since they first started appearing. GoFundMe's based around Gaza are all phrased the same way, often have the same images and are usually vetted by one single person. But all of them completely lack evidence they're legit in any capacity. I don't want scammers taking advantage of people's compassion to get a little richer. If this wasn't my motivation, I'd just leave y'all to keep donating. XD

(The next screenshot requires reading the one above and the below as it involves that screenshotted post)

How is that deligitimizing what they experienced? If it's not a genocide, it's not a fucking genocide. Correctly labeling something is only "deligimizing" if you think it needs to be wrongly labeled as a worse thing to be legitimate. A very Oppression Olympics way of thinking.

The UN has Iran on it's human rights council, has uncritically backed Hamas' lies to the point they've had to roll back their estimations on how many have died in the conflict due to Hamas doing so themselves, the ICJ, a UN court, fell asleep listening to Israel's defense in the South Africa case, and an UN judge stated he was going to go to Israel to gather evidence and instead didn't go to Israel and called for arrest warrants against israeli leaders. This is all to say, I really don't give a fuck if a random UN Reporter (or "Rapporteur") said something. This is an appeal to authority fallacy using a very biased authority. And for that matter, it was was so cut an dry, and the UN had evidence of genocide, why didn't the ICJ convict Israel of genocide? Sounds to me like this is more an opinion piece than an actual piece of evidence.

The next screenshot and half of the following is the rest of the excerpt she provided. Feel free to read if you want.

If you can't verify the GoFundMe's are legitimate, and I know for a fact you've 100% been on Tumblr long enough to know that most GoFundMe's on here are scams, sharing them uncritically is irresponsible.

Your best option is 100% to ignore it. GoFundMe themselves say that they cannot send money to Gaza, as it is not listed among their supported countries. And quite frankly, it is far FAR more likely to be a scam than a legit cry for help from a group you think is facing genocide and, given you hold pro-pal beliefs, famine. This means you also likely buy into the idea they have no electricity, water or shelter. Tell me, how does that equal "is capable of live-blogging to social media"? Hell, if this is legit, why would they ask for tens of thousands of dollars instead of the actual amount they'd need to evacuate (which is a LOT smaller than that)?

Hey, you can post what you want. I wasn't telling you to delete it. If you want to spread a likely scam because there's tiniest fraction of a chance a Gazan is actually asking for help, and being greedy as fuck while they do so, them by all means, spread it. As you say, it's your blog. I was just giving the info that GoFundMe does not operate in the middle east, so that way anyone who uses their brain and looks through the notes of your post can realize they're most likely looking at a scam. Just as you have the right to post whatever you want, I have the right to give information proving something you posted is unlikely to be legit.

My tag isn't a general discourse tag, it's a general filter tag. One I've used for years and see no reason to stop using for potentially triggering content simply because it's a bit more serious than the usual stuff I use it for. And I disagree about this being a genocide. That should already be obvious since you called me a "Zionist" and you people think basically means "Nazi who gets off to the idea of dead kids."

Yes you are, and I never said you were the person to argue with about this. I wasn't trying to argue, I was giving information to anyone who sees the post. Unlike you, apparently, I care about avoiding giving money to monsters who take advantage of people's compassion.

As I said before, I can see your blog, mention you and reblog from you. I had no way of knowing I had been blocked by you, especially since I've followed you for years and you've not once even TRIED telling me you weren't comfortable with that despite all the times I've faced and reblogged your art. So don't pretend I'm doing something wrong here. I had no way of knowing you did not want me interacting with your blog.

Let me make this last part clear so you can't complain about it later:

I will only respond to you. I will not seek your blog to send you asks or to stalk any posts you might be making behind my back. This conversation ends when you stop responding.

If you don't want to have this conversation, then go ahead and ignore this post. :P

I love your art, and your choice of ship. I have nothing against you personally, even if you might have something against me for not agreeing with your point of view. Have a good day/night, or whatever time it is for you if you choose to ignore this.

[gayvampyr]

when i talk about people (mainly westerners) who are turning a blind eye to the genocide in Palestine, im not talking about people who just aren’t blogging about it but are organizing or donating. im not talking about people who are going to rallies and protests and calling their congressmen but aren’t making posts on tumblr.com. im talking about the people who are ignoring what’s happening, tuning out the news, blocking tags and posts and articles related to Palestine, and refusing to even acknowledge that there is a brutal ethnic cleansing going on. im talking about the refusal to even take a stance and say to yourself that this is a horrific violation of human rights, or to simply sit with any uncomfortable feelings or guilt you might have, and instead pushing them aside and saying “it’s not my fault, there’s nothing i can do, so why should i care? why should i feel bad?” im talking about a lack of sympathy for other human beings. i couldn’t care less about your internet presence. im talking specifically about the people in positions of privilege who are taking the spineless stance of doing nothing and closing their eyes while a genocide takes place, allowing the media blackout and silencing of Gazans to prove effective so they don’t feel inconvenienced. im not asking you to be paralyzed with fear. in fact its the opposite. im asking you to have hope, to have faith that Palestine will be free, and to do what you can as a person who cares about human suffering to help in any way. stop acting like everything is about you. stop thinking that people asking you to give a shit is asking you to perform fruitless emotional labor. cry if you have to, but don’t block it out. people need help.

[matan4il]

Just curious, not an attack or even confrontation but will you ever write about Israel’s government/military response in Gaza?

Hi, Nonnie. I didn't set out to post daily updates. It started with just wanting to update friends on how I am, how Israelis in general are, what we're dealing with, and not finding the words.

So instead of saying, "We're terrified," I wrote about the rockets fired at Israel from several fronts (Hamas in the south, Hezbollah from the north, and Syria from the north east). Instead of saying, "We're hurting," I shared the personal stories that keep coming out and break our hearts. Instead of saying, "We're all in this," I shared my personal connection to this. Instead of saying, "We're worried about our brothers and sisters abroad," I've shared stories about the rise of antisemitism worldwide.

I'm not providing information. I'm providing information that can help you understand what Israelis and Jews are dealing with.

I'm not a military analyst, IDK what insight of worth I can offer in terms of talking about Israel's action in Gaza. And I think what this website needs more than anything is a reminder that Israelis are human beings, so that's what I'm trying to provide, and I doubt a military analysis can do that.

So instead, I'll maybe just add that for Israelis of all political persuasions, it's become clear that Hamas has to be taken down. We've spent billions of shekels building the most technologically advanced fence so we wouldn't have to, because it's clear that taking down Hamas will have a cost in human life, both Israeli and Palestinian. Hamas took down that fence, and proved it did so without any care for the lives of the Palestinians that it governs in Gaza. Please understand that this whole time, Israelis have been telling themselves Hamas does, to some degree, care about the Gazan population, so its genocidal intents towards Jews can be kept at bay by offering Palestinians as many financial benefits and incentives not to drag both sides of the border into an all-out war. But Hamas knew what it would mean to attack and massacre Israeli civilians. Its leaders, many of which (like Khaled Mashel) live comfortably in luxury hotels in Qatar, knew that Israel would have to react, and this would inevitably mean some Palestinians would die. Yet, Hamas attacked. Brutally. Viciously. And it took down the fence with means we didn't even know Hamas has. That means no fence can protect our children, our women and our elderly. That's why there's only one option, to take down Hamas.

And that this means airstrikes first (that's what we're currently seeing), to weaken Hamas as much as possible, to stop its ability to fire at Israeli civilians, until a ground action can start, in order to get to all of the infrastructure and hiding leaders that airstrikes just can't.

(for all of my updates and ask replies regarding Israel, click here)

[audhdnight]

Hey hi hello I am extremely pissed off

Maybe this point has been beaten into the ground already but THE HUMAN SHEILD ARGUMENT IS COMPLETE AND UTTER BULLSHIT

While my family members were just telling me that Israel didn’t actually bomb that first hospital everyone was up in arms about, Israel bombed THREE MORE HOSPITALS. And immediately after began a campaign to completely decimate the entire health system. THEY DONT HAVE ANY FUNCTIONAL HOSPITALS LEFT

But when I proved to aforementioned dumbass idf bootlicker relatives that YES ACTUALLY THEY DID BOMB THAT HOSPITAL AND NOW ALL THESE OTHERS I get the “wElL hAmAs sHoUlDnT hIdE iN hOsPiTaLs tHeN”

Listen to me. Carefully. Come closer.

I DONT GIVE A SHIT

EVERY SINGLE MEMBER OF EVERY SINGLE TERRORIST ORGANIZATION IN THE FUCKING WORLD COULD HAVE BEEN IN THAT HOSPITAL AND YOU STILL DONT GET TO BOMB A FUCKING HOSPITAL

This applies to the churches and refugee camps and schools and relief centers too. These are places of REFUGE. They are supposed to be SAFE when homes and open streets are not. THATS WHY THIS IS CALLED A FUCKING WAR CRIME.

Do you understand that the people of Gaza (Palestine in general actually but I’m specifically speaking about Gaza right now) have been stripped of all dignity???

They can’t bury their dead, or if they manage to, it’s in mass graves marked with fucking cinder blocks. Bodies can be seen sticking out from under rubble, covered in flies. Because of the ceasefire, doctors have returned to a hospital they were forced to evacuate, leaving patients behind, and found the bodies of the children they were not allowed to take along, rotting in their beds. Imagine the absolute abject misery of being a doctor in Gaza right now. You can’t save everyone, you can’t even save almost everyone. You are forced at gunpoint to make the decision to leave your patients behind so that at least you can continue to help those who leave with you, hoping to return soon enough to save those who remain. Imagine the heartbreak of coming back days later and finding these poor broken bodies. Children with limbs missing or splinted who could not get up out of bed to even try escaping. They died slowly, and painfully.

Gazans are watching as their oppressors burn their olive trees, their cultural heritage, their livelihood, their source of food. Those trees mean so much to them, and have been cared for by generations of the same families in many cases. It’s not just a plant, not just a crop. Those trees are their inheritance, bearing the sweat and blood of their foremothers and forefathers. And Israel burns them.

Gazans are now being punished for COLLECTING RAIN WATER. Because even though Israel bombed the water reservoirs and poured cement in their pipes, apparently the fucking rain still belongs to Israel. Large numbers of deaths come from those who died of dehydration, or those who got sick from drinking dirty water. Illness is everywhere, because not only is the water dirty, but what food they can scavenge has been expired or left open from explosions or picked out of ashes.

These people cannot even eat and drink with human dignity. They don’t have blankets to sleep with despite the fact it is winter and nights are freezing. People sleep in the streets wherever they can find a less rubble covered place. Bisan mentioned in one of her videos from two weeks ago that many people lose clothing every time another bomb drops, and so people are walking around half dressed or in literal shredded rags. Do you wonder why everyone in the videos you see is covered in ash and dirt? It’s because they don’t have water for showers. A bomb falls, sending dust and rubble raining down over every surface, and the survivors just have to walk around like that, wearing the blood of their family members or friends or pets who didn’t make it out.

This is the literal definition of “cruel and unusual punishment”. They have no dignity in life, and certainly none in death. This is inhumane and absolutely disgusting, and I am ashamed to live in a world alongside people who loudly and proudly support it.

I don’t care if you hate me, I don’t care if you think my identity means I shouldn’t have rights. No matter how much I dislike or abhor someone, I still know they deserve their dignity. All humans should have that most bare minimum of basic rights.

[lepartidelamort]

US Now Saying the Obvious: Instead of Telling Jews to Stop Killing, They Will Just Bring Gazans to America

Andrew Anglin

Someone please ask fat retarded Republican Jew-lovers if they want millions more Arab immigrants.

Because that is what their lunatic support for the mass murder of children in Gaza is going to lead to.

How stupid? How fat?

What is the purpose of supporting Israel? Why would you support the sickening Jews of all people? If you were going to support anyone murdering children, why the Jews, who hate you, who think you’re an animal that was born only to serve them?

If it’s ��Evangelical Christianity,” you can forget it, because I know for a fact no one believes that horseshit anymore, save maybe the fattest of the fatties. All of these Zionist mega-churches are either closed down or filled with Mexicans, and Mexicans don’t have opinions on anything.

From the beginning of this nightmare, it was obvious that the government was going to move towards massive immigration of the Palestinians. The Jews are telling you “these are human animals and they’re all terrorists” – then the Jews turn around and tell you they’re sending them over to move in next door to you.

The Gazans do not even want to leave. But you’re going to bring them here, to the country that funded bombing their homes and killing their families?

New York Post:

Top Biden administration officials are mulling over plans to potentially welcome into the US a small number of Palestinians fleeing the region amid the bloody Israel-Hamas war, according to a report. One idea officials floated over recent weeks is to tap into the United States Refugee Admissions Program to grant refugee status to those who escaped the Gaza Strip into Egypt, CBS News reported, citing documents. That effort would likely require cooperation with Egypt. Palestinians who have family in the US may also get admittance, per the report. US officials have reportedly been considering various arrangements to that effect and multiple federal agencies are involved with the plans. To gain entrance into the US, would-be refugees would likely need to pass screenings assessing their medical condition, eligibility, and any security concerns.

Yeah, sure.

No one else is passing any screenings. People just walk across the border.

They would also likely have to provide evidence that they are fleeing some form of persecution. That could prove tricky for individuals who claim to be fleeing persecution from Israel, which is a key US ally in the region. Individuals may be able to claim they are fleeing Hamas, which the US designates as a terrorist organization.

Haha.

Refugee status provides individuals the ability to gain permanent residence in the US, an avenue towards citizenship, and financial assistance. Such a policy would mark a dramatic shift for the US refugee program, which has generally not permitted Palestinians into the country en masse.

Again, it was obvious from the beginning.

Jew-lovers are willing to sacrifice anything for the Jews. It is like satanic possession. They will destroy their own children to help the Jews kill children.

That psychopathic dweeb Mike Johnson says he believes it’s his duty “as a Christian” to service the Jews in the most disgusting ways a man can comprehend, as well as in filthy modes beyond human comprehension.

This is disqualifying. You cannot have a top political official who follows a religion that requires him to swear allegiance to a foreign country. That is just obviously not viable.

What if he thought the Bible said that Chinese people were the chosen ones, and it was the duty of the US to send infinity money to China? Do you see that this is not workable? You cannot have government officials swearing allegiance to a foreign country.

The Arabs that come over through this program (which will obviously be more than just Palestinians) should be sent to live in the neighborhoods of Jew-lovers. No one else deserves this. Everyone else was saying the Jews should be defunded and boycotted.

[jellybeanium124]

could you explain to me how gofundme's fundraiser organizing works?

no.

but I can go to their website and check their list of supported countries:

I can also look at their withdrawal requirements by country, which generally include an address in the country, a bank account in the country, one or more forms of ID (sometimes required to be issued by the country, but not always), and a phone number from the country. where and how gazans stuck in gaza are getting these things I do not know.

I am not an expert on gofundme and you sending me this question shows that you are baiting me into poorly explaining gofundme to you so you can prove that I'm an idiot who knows nothing. well guess what buddy! I'm an idiot who knows nothing! I don't know how this works, I just know how to find websites and read the words in front of me and put them together to form meaning! I have actually asked if there is some known way to fool gofundme into thinking you are somewhere you're not. because I don't know if there's a way to do that. maybe there are ways for random gazans to fake all these documents and requirements cheaply, because if they had money they wouldn't be ebegging. I don't know! I do not know! I initially called them all bots and was corrected and told it's more likely a coerced scam ring being run by humans.

so please, explain to me why now, all of a sudden, 10 months into this war, there are suddenly all these accounts flooding our asks boxes. please explain why it didn't happen sooner. please explain to me how a person in gaza can fake the requirements and get gofundme to send them money in gaza while thinking they're in canada. I would love to hear it (hey, if you're gonna ask me questions I'm not qualified to answer, I'm gonna ask that from you back). no but seriously I would love to hear it. I'm dead fucking serious 0 sarcasm please explain to me how it is possible if you know.

I'm not saying there are no real gazans ebegging on tumblr. but you don't find this sudden wave of new accounts suspicious in the least? you don't think it is identical to every other wave of scammers that have ever happened? you don't find their identical asks sus? you don't get the vibe that these are scammers sent by tumblr-savvy people who know y'all see the word "palestine" and suddenly all logic is out the window and y'all're frothing at the mouth to send thousands of dollars to accounts with a single ebegging post???

[puff-nugget]

even with the good news of the ruling that israel's presence in palestine is unlawful and apartheid, i can't get the story of Mohamed Bhar out of my head.

he was brutally attacked by israeli police dogs and his family had to watch, they made them leave the house while their son bled to death and weren't able to do anything.

they were allowed back a COUPLE DAYS later to find his body covered in blood.

this is only one of the many stories that have come from the needless violence and bloodshed. why? just to assert some kind of power and dominance over people who can't fight back?

how many lives did it take to prove that the israeli attacks were volitious? how much blood and rubble does it take for people to gain humanity and realize the destruction they were doing was wrong? how many hospitals have to be destroyed for people to care? how many children had to die? how many orphans created?

it's sick and fucking twisted it took this long, and it will continue to happen until israel can get its dirty fucking hands out of palistine.

[eretzyisrael]

When We Said “Never Again,” We Meant It

My heart is breaking. What I surmised yesterday, but was afraid to write has turned out to be true. I have never wanted to be wrong more than I do this morning. But I can’t pretend that “it will be OK,” as Israelis like to say.

The IDF has been ready for some time to begin the operation to eliminate Hamas from Gaza. The plans were made long ago, and updated regularly. Hundreds of thousands of reservists have left their jobs and families, at great expense to the government. The tanks are poised near the border. Why aren’t they moving?

The reason is that they have been ordered not to by the Americans. Whether or not they planned it, Hamas struck gold when some twelve Americans and ten British subjects were included among the roughly 200 hostages that were carried back to Gaza by the terrorists. Now negotiations are taking place, brokered by the despicable Qatari regime, to obtain their release. The demonic Hamas have released two American women (for what in return?) to prove that a deal is possible.

I’m not surprised and I’m not criticizing the US president and British PM for trying to protect their people. That is the top job of a government – a job, incidentally, that ours has been failing to do for some time. But that’s another story.

Now our government has a different job. This is our last chance, after the disasters of Oslo, the withdrawal from Gaza, the Second Lebanon War, the Shalit trade, the ongoing loss of Area C, and countless other losses and humiliations, to end our slide to destruction. If Hamas is not ripped out of Gaza by its roots, the immediate result will be the loss of the northern and southern parts of our country (who would live there?) and the evaporation of any honor and deterrence that the State of Israel still has. And then there will be no peace agreement with Saudi Arabia, no hope of preventing a nuclear Iran, and no possibility of obtaining sovereignty in the strategic hill country and the Jordan Valley. We are suffering the death by a thousand cuts, and today the knife is poised over a vital artery. We are at the point of no return.

Israel today has no choice but to invade Gaza and wipe out every trace of the poison that poured out of it two weeks ago today. Otherwise, we are finished here. And if we are finished, the Jewish people are finished too, perhaps for another 2000 years or perhaps forever.

The situation of the hostages, American, British, and Israeli, is horrific. You may ask: would I say the same thing if my children were among them? Of course not, because I am only human. But that doesn’t make me wrong.

Maybe there is some magic by which the IDF can effect an Entebbe-like rescue. Who knows? I’m sure the IDF is trying mightily right now to locate them. If we invade now we may lose some or all of them, and if there is hope of rescue, then perhaps we can delay a few days longer. Of course, we have already lost 1400. And every day the international pressure not to invade, thanks to the media’s embrace of Hamas lies about its suffering civilians, is growing, along with the vicious antisemitism that our humiliation feeds.

My heart is breaking. But I say to the Prime Minister, the Minister of Defense, and the Chief of Staff: do it. Give the order to start the tanks, to open fire with the artillery, to bomb every military target (even if it is called a “school” or a “hospital” or if it is the property of the UN). Do not allow humanitarian aid into Gaza, force Egypt to open the Rafah crossing, and let the world community express its love for the Gazan civilians there, in the northern Sinai. Make the campaign as short as possible and as brutal as necessary.

Show the world: when we said “never again,” we meant it.

[thatsgoodweather]

What the cats of Gaza teach us is that Palestine’s trauma is a multispecies trauma. They do not teach us that Palestinians are human, too, for that is an iteration that continues to define the human against something that it is not, something that will always be excluded and abject and therefore excisable. Palestinians and their cats I think are so compelling to many of us because they challenge liberal understandings of humanity and expose them to be colonial ways of defining the world, personhood, and imaginings of freedom. “Humanity” will never lead us to a universal justice and peace. The ongoing Nakba since 1948 is a structure of violence that attacks all life—and therefore Palestinian multispecies world-making is central to resisting this occupation. In our support for Palestinian life, then, perhaps we should stop appealing to humanity and to proving who is human enough to live—what would our forms of resistance and fights against occupation look like if we abandoned the idea of shared humanity and centered radical multispecies kinship instead?

[aviya932]

So it's been a while since i last posted, what with my country being in war and all, but let's do a quick recap of things i found absolutely absurd in the last couple of weeks:

1. People denying the rape and gender abuse caused by the Hamas terrorrists on October 7th. Yes, those things did happen. Yes, we can prove that via GoPro cameras, eyewitness and survivors. No, many of the victims cannot testify themselves because they were murderd right after. BTW, major women's rights organizations had yet to comment on the crimes commited on October 7th, despite having given proof and several requests to do so by 150 women's rights groups in Israel.

2. People on Tiktok legit support Bin Laden now?? The man who constructed the biggest terror attack on the USA ever in the name of getting rid of "infidels"?? His letter to America is FULL of antisemtic propaganda, but then again - people did say "gas the jew" in an anti-Israel rally so that's not really surprising that those who suddenly view him as hero can't tell the difference between opposing a country and being antisemite.

3. People claiming Jews appropriate the term "antisemite". Yes, "semite" is an umbrella term for the descendants of Shem, son of Noah. BUT the term "antisemite" was created, and used, as a term describing hate against Jews specifically. I srsly CANNOT belive i need to protect a term that was created to explain hate against my and my religion, but here we are.

4. People claiming hostages were taken to Shifa hospital for treatment, and that that shows Hamas' humanity. Dude. DUDE. Just by using the word "hostages" you should understand why this is fucked up. In released footage you can see that the people taken were workers (from Thailand iirc), and definitely not soldiers. So no matter how you look at it - violation of international law.

5. This deserve another point - even if Hamas did treat some of the hostages (and that is a BIG if, considering the Red Cross had never visited them, nor really demanded to do so) this does not make them the good guys - these are civilian hostages taken to a hospotal under threats, and then never heard of again by Hamas. This is a hospital that was proven to have had waapons and tunnels within and that not only Israeli intelligence says was used as a terror based. How can one watch the footage of a civilian capable of walking being dragged around while medical workers only watch and say "oh yes, these Hamas guys are decent"?

6. No one talks about Hamas propaganda od hostages. So i will - since October 7th Hamas has uploaded several videos of hostages as a psychological war. Most containd hostages reading a statement (probably in order to cause political and social mayham in Israel), but some others were worse and showed 2 hostages (one of them an 86 year old man) dead. There are 7 videos in total as far as i remeber. Compare that to the videos ISIS used to make, imagine what this does to a family. And before you start saying "imagine what it's like for a Gazan to see their family dead online" - i have NEVER said Gazans aren't suffering, nor will i ever will. But those videos in Gaza are not posted by israelis, and Israel has not posted a single video of Palestinian prisoners (yes, prisoners, none of the Palestinians taken into Israeli prison were taken for the kick of it) directed at Gaza or at Hamas. This is ISIS tactics.

[confluence-and-drift]

Uuugh. What is it with people's weird fixation on trying to "prove" gazans are scammers? Ghoulish fuckers... And you look at their blog and it's got a pinned post full of uninformed drivel on how the Palastinians are being bad for calling it a genocide and how they're 'devaluing' genocide by trying to apply it to them and how anyway Hamas are at fault for resisting their occupier, ie, the "look at all these children Hamas made us kill, they're so evil" defence so often wheeled out by the zionist settler colony and it's most ardent defenders. At least, when they're not making up lurid tales of butchery and sadism that sound suspiciously similar to accounts of barbarity the occupation soldiers carried out on villages in Palastine and Lebannon in the past... I mean...a part of me thinks maybe they're just american or something and don't know better, but then then spell out the legal definitions of genocide...one that anyone who paid the slightest bit of attention to what the zionist entity has been saying all along, ie, very clearly and repeatedly declaring their genocidal intent without punsishment or rebuke woul know has been fufilled. I mean, considering the pending arrest warrants for their leaders...do they not realise just how many hoops need to be jumped through before the ICJ can declare that a country's jucidiary either cannot or will not prosecute their own leaders for their breaches of human rights and internationl law? We've got respected scholars, academics and lawyers aghast at what's one of the most open genocides ever recorded, where the intent and relish with which it's carried out is being fucking livestreamed to our phones and computers around the world... I mean, ffs, how many of us now know what white phosphorus burns on a child look like thanks to this? I know I can't ever forget those images or of the sheer cruelty of such deliberately inflicted suffering carried out upon those tiny bodies by a relentlessly racist, occupation military. It's a nuclear power funded and backed by the global hegemon, the USA, carrying out a military strike on a civilian population that's 50% children. Even their resistance soldiers are almost entirely orphans and survivors from the previous times when their slow genocide has turned fast. And this dense fucker thinks there's been 'no intent'? It is sickening that we live in a world where this is happening, but that's why we cannot just sit down and shut up about it. It's your choice whether you share posts etc or not, whether you donate or not, obviously. But the fucked up relish zionists and their supporters have for trying to spread around the same discredited lies that could be disproven with a moments thought and basic logic is just... it's beyond words. *sigh*. I guess in the end, all you can do is try not to let it upset you too much, do what you can, spread what you can, try to make sure as many people as you can manage understand the truth of the matter and spread it around. I suppose when it comes down to it, I'm going to do what I tend to do when encountering actual supporters of such open and unapologetic malice and block the users involved, clean my dash up etc so I don't get "mysterious" hate mail, leave a correction for the benefit of a third party who still has a conscience that hasn't been scrubbed away by caustic hasbara, and remind myself that the zionist entity resembles nothing more right now than South Africa in it's last years. And today we live in a day where Rhodesia is just a name in a history textbook, but of a kind you wait until the young'uns are a bit older before you start teaching them about it. Here's to one day it being the same thing with the zionist entity, a name forgotten and the population living in peace and equality, side by side.

[thatstormygeek]

The Israeli government is using the Hamas attack as pretext to forcibly displace and kill the Palestinians left in Gaza in order to complete the region’s annexation. One former government minister, Galit Distel Atbaryan, used explicitly genocidal language in saying Israel should “erase all of Gaza from the face of the earth.” Current Defense Minister Yoav Gallant said the country was at war with “human animals,” employing dehumanizing rhetoric that precedes nearly every genocide. At different times this past month, the Israeli government has turned off Gaza’s internet access, electricity and water. The Israeli Defense Force has bombed apartments, United Nations buildings and refugee camps. You can be horrified at deaths caused by airstrikes from Hamas, but the asymmetric nature of Israel’s response shows which side truly has power here. Israelis were at music festivals when the attacks began. Gazans were in an open air prison. Israel’s actions in Gaza have been called “a textbook case of genocide” by Raz Segal, associate professor of Holocaust and genocide studies at Stockton University. Craig Mokhiber, the former director of the New York office of the U.N. high commissioner for human rights, noted that it’s usually difficult to prove genocide in international prosecutions as intent is a requirement in the International Criminal Courts. He said, “in this case, the intent by Israeli leaders has been so explicitly stated and publicly stated by the prime minister, by the President, by senior cabinet ministers, by military leaders, that that is an easy case to make.”

[fairuzfan]

I think if your main indicator of support for a cause is whether or not the people who are under attack are percieved to support LGBTQ+ rights based on your perception of what that means then I don't think you actually care about queer people.

Relishing in the destruction of millions of people because of whether or not they have rainbow flags in their window is by far one of the most sinister and selfish things I've seen when people talk about how countries in places like the middle east """""deserve"""" to be bombed because they're homophobic or whatever, neglecting to mention that these places DO have people who ARE queer but they have the misfortune of being part of a culture deemed too homophobic to let its people survive. ALSO forgetting that only a few years ago, major colonial powers even dained to acknowledge the humanity of queer people and it being a contested aspect of society even now. Instead deciding to paint their own cultural climate to be the moral judge of what types of people decide to live, becoming 21st century versions of the same people they ridiculed in their history classes for being so shortsighted and unacceptable and falling prey to, at this point, ancient tactics of dehumanization that's a natural part of colonial justification.

And the one part Queer community that says through their silence, yes, these people SHOULDNT live, only prove that justice is only applicable to their own perceptions of what is an acceptable society. When Queer Palestinians fight so desperately for the rights of their people, putting 'Palestinian' ahead of any indicator of self because we know that no matter what, we're in danger of being erased and our existence thereafter can be fought after the threat of complete annihilation is disposed of.

Why is there a need to justify the right to human life, to apply some moral justification that verifies whether or not a society can exist other than the simple fact that they're alive? Those same people that brag about being against the death penalty won't look twice to Gazans being massacred because they're not the type of people worth fighting for. I'm just so tired with the constant need to ask "why" when it comes to the Palestinian's right to exist, right to LIFE, when no one is wondering why we're even asking this question.