the-catboy-minyan

[the-catboy-minyan]

people who spent the past number of years calling for global intifada and the destruction of israel now want to call themselves “anti-war” and clutch their pearls at the threat of global conflict. like what did you think you were advocating for this whole time lol

[the-catboy-minyan]

Hooray! Yay! Dykes!

[the-catboy-minyan]

We can talk about how there’s definitely a racism/Islamaphobia issue in a lot of Jewish communities without…*flips through notebook* literal saying Jewish people should assimilate and give up their Jewishness (ie cultural genocide)

These antisemites are getting way too comfortable and I don’t like it

[the-catboy-minyan]

Reading this after a missile from iran destroyed my neighborhood makes me wish they really did bomb america just so they would shut the fuck up and stop with their fucking main character syndrome

Feel free to find op and harass her honestly I don't give nearly enough of a shit to censor her stupid username

[the-catboy-minyan]

thank god for jason isaacs.

plain text:

Your parents ended up emigrating to Israeli in 1988 when you were in university. You wore a yellow pin honoring the October 7 Israeli hostages at The White Lotus premiere in February. I always wear it if I’m on a red carpet and a press line.

Public sentiment on Gaza seems to have shifted a lot since then. I wonder where you are right now on the issue? Where I am is either a full magazine or no comment about it, because two or three sentences in a profile are not enough to deal with the issues. I wear the hostage pin because there are innocent people who were taken from their homes. Most of them are peace activists who lived in border communities where they were ferrying sick kids to hospitals and working with people from Gaza constantly. There are Holocaust survivors, there are children who were taken, there are people being starved and tortured and raped who have no access to the Red Cross. People are rightfully talking and thinking about all the civilians that are in danger everywhere else. But those people in tunnels, it’s now 600 days they’ve been there, they’ve been forgotten entirely. And so I wore the pin once and the hostages’ families got in touch with me and they thanked me enormously. I now am aware that they are watching me and that it matters to them. If my son or sister or daughter or father was being kept in a tunnel somewhere and weighed 25 kilos now, or may have been strangled or shot, and it felt important to me that some actors somewhere wore the yellow hostage pin, then who am I to not wear it?

So when it comes to more nuanced arguments about Netanyahu and the right-wing lunatics in the cabinet, or whether the IDF is or isn’t doing things, or this new Gaza Humanitarian Foundation is or isn’t handing out food correctly, or whether Hamas’s press releases should be printed as fact, and whether there aren’t journalists in there — there are so many complicated arguments. It isn’t a place to dip one’s toe or to have a simple quote on it. What I wish for everybody, obviously, is peace. Who doesn’t? I don’t know anybody, apart from the extremists on all sides, who want either continued war or tension.

The argument that you make for the ribbon is a humane one. Why don’t you think more actors have worn them? Because just for wearing it, I’ve been called a Zionist baby killer, a Zionazi. Even a yellow hostage pin for innocents is deemed political, which it isn’t.

[the-catboy-minyan]

Mamdani wants to globalize the intifada well here’s what that looks like

[the-catboy-minyan]

the guardian: khamenei isn't a good person! the iranian state has intensified surveillance on women and keeps harrassing and trying to assassinate journalists!

*israel attacks iran*

the guardian: ...okay, maybe he's killed people via the state but he's just really dedicated to the revolution you guys-

[the-catboy-minyan]

anyway you should always remember that all those foreigners you see dying on the news are just as real people as you are who have just as much interiority as you do. there is nothing about you that makes you more important and it is by pure chance that you are not in their position. in fact, this holds for all of history. every person, no matter the horror of the fate that befell them, had just as much interiority as you do. i feel like some people haven't fully internalized this.

[the-catboy-minyan]

So apparently breaking into a synagogue and vandalizing torah scrolls is not antisemetic according to London police?

Like I'm sorry but out of every attack on jews and jewish institutions recently, how is this one not labeled antisemitic by police????

[the-catboy-minyan]

[the-catboy-minyan]

Jews will not replace us (white supremacists who think jews fake being white to take over the white race) vs jews will not replace us (thinking jews are pretending to be a targeted minority to take away from the real sufferers) crowd

[the-catboy-minyan]

“I hate how Zionists have re-defined ‘antisemitism’ to mean any criticism of Israel,” say the people who have re-defined “criticism” to mean “unvarnished, murderous hatred.”

[the-catboy-minyan]

how did we get to a point where saying "i hope every single resident of a particular country dies" is seen in some corners as acceptable

and also how is that not genocidal

if they think that we want all palestinians to die, it must be because they're projecting and assuming that everyone is like them

but normal people don't think this way about anyone!

[the-catboy-minyan]

all of this.

[the-catboy-minyan]

יא בני זונות שאלוהים יקח אתכם

[the-catboy-minyan]

every leftist acting like they don’t understand how antisemitism could be racism “because Judaism is a religion” are lying through their teeth. we spent the last 2 decades plus fully understanding Islamophobia was racist.

[the-catboy-minyan]

FYI, Iran's government has cut off internet access to prevent Iranians from organizing against the regime. That's why you're not hearing from any Iranians here.

It seems really dangerous to do this, since it seems like it would impede Iranians' ability to know about any incoming strikes. But since when has the IR cared about that?

God, to those of you in Iran or with family in Iran, I'm so sorry you're in this hell and I hope you can stay safe. This is sheer brutality.