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Having a thought about how I have seen, recently, so many people insisting that things like posters about the hostages and marches for the hostages in the disapora are a sign of like. Some kind of conspiracy or manipulation.

And how all of these people who think that this is just Jews doing the Jew Thing of Manipulating People and Lying to Get What We Want... Know absolutely NOTHING about us.

The thing I wish every goy would understand. Is that Jews are a people, and we are one people. Every Jew on this earth- whether I know them personally or not. Whether I agree with them or not. Whether I like them or not. Is my FAMILY. All Jews are one people, one family. When one Jew is hurt, we all hurt.

"Until we are all free, we are none of us free" is a quote I see used all the time (or some variation of it). And the quote is from Emma Lazarus. She was speaking about assimilated Jews who were ignoring Eastern European Jews, who were being murdered and tormented in pogroms. Which was unacceptable- because this is how Jews work, as a people.

We are all one people. We are all family. When one Jew is attacked, we are all attacked. When one Jew mourns, we all mourn with them. We are a people bound by a deep sense of connection and love for one another.

So when Jews in the diaspora are talking about the hostages, about the war. About Israel and Israelis. I need you all to understand that this is not simply politics to us. This is not just a political discussion that we are detached from.

This is our family. These are our loved ones and our people. The Jews of the world are one family, and we all must love and look out for one another. THAT is why Jews in the diaspora, and in America, where I am from. Care so deeply. Because those hostages are our family. They are our people. It isn't political manipulation. This isn't some kind of Jewish Sneaky Conspiracy.

It is a family. Begging for the safe return of their loved ones. Begging for the lives of their kin.

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Fuck I need to find that dumb person who was like "Iran doesn't want to kill me. They wouldn't want to kill amercian citizens" on one of my posts talking about why Iran having nukes is bad. I need to find them to specifically show them this quote from an article about the US bombing iran

"commentator on Iran’s IRIB state broadcaster declared following the strikes that every American citizen and soldier in the region was now a “legitimate target.”"

Iran has literally stated that they personally would like to kill you.

It's almost like this is what we have been saying for over a week now. Sucking Khamenei's dick won't save you

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American leftists got told “THIS group of Jews is ok to hate!” and went full Nazi against all Jews in under 3 years.

You would not have hidden Jews in your attic in Nazi Germany because you would not hide a “Zionist” or Israeli in your attic today! You would not have spoken up if your Jewish neighbors were attacked by locals wearing swastikas because today you remain silent (or even cheer) when Israelis and American Jews are attacked by people yelling “free Palestine”!

The Germans who saved Jews did so even though everyone was telling them there were evil Jews out there killing babies and controlling the news. Germans who defended Jews did so even though their friends who found out shunned them, smeared their names, and ejected them from their communities.

Not all of the Germans who didn’t defend Jews were Nazis. Most of them just stayed quiet. They didn’t want to become social pariahs. They didn’t want to risk their own lives.

You will lose friends if you speak out against antisemitism. You will lose friends if you condemn these attacks. But you’ll make friends too, if you reach out. You won’t be alone. You can leave this hate behind.

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I see the same old refrain in many “progressive” spaces - “you can’t even criticise Israel without being labelled antisemitic, blah blah blah.”

Yeah, that’s probably because most people actually do seem to find it impossible to talk about Israel without resorting to tired, old, done to death antisemitic tropes - “they secretly own and control the media and have world leaders in their pockets”, “baby killers”, literally accusing Israel of poisoning wells, as if that isn’t one of the oldest libels that exists.

If the shoe fits, either shut the fuck up and wear it or get some new material.

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Our blessing for the new year: to continue to see the quarter full glass.

The Israeli national broadcast presents

Admit, for a moment it looked like the end of the movie. Returning to the diaspora, closing the store, here history comes back. But somehow were still here. Searching for some glass half full, but after this last year, we'll do with a quarter too.

The south is bruised, the north is burnt, they broke our heart, and out body as well. But we're still here.

One of the most Israeli sentences is "this too shall pass". But it's not always true, because the pain of grief, of trauma, of a mother whose sun was kidnapped, of a kid whose father was kidnapped, is a pain that doesn't pass.

It becomes part of the DNA. Here, fact- who remembers who have we been before this?

It's like imagining the Jewish people without the holocaust, without Evil Haman, without walking in the desert for 40 years, and on the difficult road as well.

Without the sound of the sirens, without running to the apartment shelter with 30 seconds on the stopper, without the 7th of October.

This pain is what sculpted us, and it is fucked up how death is so good at bringing us together.

And when in the Knesset there were shoutings and arguments, here in our nation there were millions of donations, thousands of volunteers, families that opened the door to families who lost their homes, strangers who looked eachother in the eyes.

And even when the tears chocked the throat people left everything and went to BBQ for the soldiers in the south. WhatsApp groups, War rooms for food, right, we experienced a slaughter, but no way we'll go to it like sheep.

And this is the story of our lives. Because for us there's nothing like only a celebration and yalla cheers. Even in the weddings we remind of Jerusalem's destruction.

It's always both memorial day and independence day. Heros are born only when someone is nearing death. Returning 4 hostages and lose one hero. This is reality. So what, isn't it sad? And simultaneously, isn't it happy?

I don't know. We were born in one crazy place. In one bright morning life comes and places a fact in front of you- October 7th, deal with it. And what do you do?

Survive. And we're the world champions in that. In falling down and standing up. Here in the land the pain is inseparable from existence

What can you do? Europe isn't us. We are of a different kind. Kind, hpt-tempered, ruse and far more brave.

So how will they understand us there in Switzerland? It isn't the same world, it isn't the same vibe. There, there are no wars, and here, both in the winter and in the summer

And it is fucked up, right, but how will you explain to them that this fucked up, for me, it's a home. And last year it was almost destroyed , yet somehow we're still here, pointing an M16 and a middle finger to the hamas.

From Kiryat Gat to Ofakim, to the Golan heights to the Galilee, to Tiberius.

If we learned something from the 7th of October is that in the land there's no such thing as a periphery. Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Nahal ?oz, Kiryat Shmona

We all are a single body, and there's yet to have risen the mother fucker that will change that. "We're still here". That's what we need to shout, to put on a billboard, to choose a strong color, to increase the font size.

Biden told them "Don't", and it's nice but a bit American. We are coming and saying Fuck You, we are still here.

And we'll say it 200 times more until every Israeli will be able to live in quiet, until every hostage returns home already

So our cup isn't empty, and will never be. Cause there are too many heros who in their death, they really ordered us life. Ordered us to continue the journey, to get married, to bring kids, to continue to dance in nature. And not to forget that we have a cup three-quarters empty, but to continue to see the quarter too

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there are only French sources on this so far. from google translate:

An ambush involving minors turned into an anti-Semitic attack in Colomiers, west of Toulouse, Europe 1 reveals. The incident reportedly occurred on Thursday, June 19, 2025. The 15-year-old boy was allegedly lured by a young girl via social media for a date. Upon his arrival, several individuals were waiting for him at the entrance to a cellar.

Violence and Humiliation in a Cellar

One of the attackers, armed with a knife, allegedly forced the victim to remove his T-shirt and dance. He then grabbed him by the neck, forcing him to kneel, while ordering him to "beg and pray." During this humiliating scene, the attackers called him a "dirty Jew," even though the victim was not Jewish. According to information from La Dépêche, the teenager is said to be attending the ORT high school in Colomiers, a Jewish educational institution that is "open to all students and where all faiths have coexisted in perfect harmony for years," we are told.

An attack filmed and broadcast

"He was indeed filmed and threatened, while being called a dirty Jew," confirmed a source close to the investigation. Footage of the attack was broadcast on social media. Although the young boy showed no physical injuries, the act was deeply shocking. The victim quickly filed a complaint. Less than 24 hours after the incident, one of the alleged attackers, a 14-year-old student in Colomiers, was arrested on Friday and taken into police custody.

An ongoing investigation

The investigation, still ongoing, has been entrusted to the Toulouse police. Two other minors, identified as potentially involved, are being actively sought. The offenses charged in this case are numerous: aggravated death threats based on religion, religious insults, violence with a weapon, and recording and disseminating images of violence.

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Pro-tip: your resistance movement might have an antisemitism problem if the Jews in your city are afraid to go out tomorrow.

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I have to admit that my jaw still drops at how viciously, openly, and proudly antisemitic this site is. Every plea for basic human decency to be extended to Jews gets shouted down by freaks on here who view their bigotry as akshewally social justice praxis, because they somehow think they’re special as opposed to belonging to humanity's long, ugly history of deeming the targets of their bigotry as inhuman and therefore ineligible to receive human rights. That’s how tumblr sees Jews: ineligible for human rights.

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Pro-tip: your resistance movement might have an antisemitism problem if the Jews in your city are afraid to go out tomorrow.

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I am not claiming to be an expert on this but, man, once you start learning about antisemitism and how it operates, it is fucking EVERYWHERE.

Like, I am sure there is a lot of antisemitism that I can't see and don't realize is there but even with my limited knowledge, it is fucking EVERYWHERE.

It's so... baked into everything. Like. Holy fuck.

I don't know what to do about this. Something so big and all-encompassing can't be fought by one single person. And I have seen Jewish people saying time and again how they are (at best) abandoned by gentiles. I am angry - like, furious. Here's a group of peope that is hurting and suffering, and there is so little compassion for them.

I just... I love you. I wish you happiness and safety. I don't know what else to say. I love you.

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The Aesthetic of Resistance: Why Some Western Leftists Support a Regime Which is Everything They Claim to Hate

(Dedicated with appreciation and admiration to literally every single Iranian person I've ever met for educating me.)

A vocal current within the Western Left has become inept at recognizing abuse of power…when it speaks in the language of 'resistance.'

Objectively, Iran isn't a scrappy underdog challenging imperialism. It's a repressive regime that embodies everything the Left claims to despise.

A Theocracy Run by Religious Extremists

If you believe in the separation of Church and State, the regime isn't an ally.

Iran is ruled by unelected clerics who claim divine authority and answer to nobody.

The Supreme Leader, currently Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, is not an elected politician. He's a religious messianic figure with ultimate say over everything from military policy to women's clothing.

The Guardian Council is all male, conservative religious fanatics who regularly disqualify moderates, reformists, or women from participation in any public matters.

This is textbook authoritarian theocracy, a system where dissent is heresy and religious doctrine is law. There is no religious freedom in the Regime's Iran.

They Stone Women. Yes, Still.

The regime's laws on women would make the Taliban proud.

Women must cover their hair and bodies in public.

They cannot sing solo in public.

Their testimony in court is worth half that of a man.

They need male permission to travel, study, or even get a passport.

And yes, they have been stoned to death for adultery — in the 21st century.

When 22-year-old Mahsa Amini was arrested in 2022 by Iran's morality police for allegedly wearing her hijab improperly, she was beaten to death in custody. Her murder sparked mass protests, which the regime crushed with bullets and mass arrests.

There is no question what the response would be if a US state like Alabama enforced such laws. The outrage would be deafening and justified. So why does that same righteous fire for justice seem to extinguish itself somewhere over the Atlantic? What principle justifies this selective vision?

If you chant "ACAB" as a denunciation of state violence and the enforcement of oppressive norms as a moral principle, consistency demands you cast that same critical gaze towards the Regime and it's morality police.

These enforcers serve as agents of the state's ideological control. They target women for unveiled hair, arrest dissidents for defying religious codes, and violently suppress basic civil liberties.

If your anti-authoritarianism stops at Tehran's border because it feels geopolitically inconvenient to criticize a state opposed to Western influence, you're not anti-authoritarian and are not promoting moral principles. You're just performing selective, aesthetic outrage.

Solidarity, if it means anything, must extend to all those resisting state oppression, not just those who fit your aesthetic of revolution.

They Kill Gay People. By Law.

Iran's government executes gay people.

In public.

For being gay.

As state policy.

Consensual same-sex acts between men are punishable by death. Between women? Up to 100 lashes. The regime often forces gay and trans Iranians into exile, prison, or coerced surgery.

This isn’t some rogue judge. This is the actual legal code of the Islamic Republic.

Iran's LGBTQ+ rights record makes Putin look like RuPaul.

Yet somehow, the same activist movements that cover their feeds in rainbows during Pride Month can't seem to work up a single post about Iran's state-sanctioned homophobia.

If your pride doesn't cross al borders, it's not pride. It's an aesthetic, just branding and performance. You can't claim to support LGBTQ+ liberation while ignoring the regime's brutal state-led persecution...unless your solidarity is only for show.

Real allyship doesn't flinch when it's inconvenient or challenges your preferred villains. Pride isn't pride if it's selective and intersectionality is meaningless if you use it to excuse abuses in one nation...which you'd condemn in another.

They Crush Labor Movements and Workers' Rights

Iran doesn't just jail journalists and students. It jails bus drivers.

Labor unions are illegal. Strikes are illegal. Demanding back pay is treated as "national security sabotage."

Teachers, steelworkers, truck drivers — anyone who organizes is beaten, arrested, or disappeared. In 2023 alone, dozens of labor activists were sentenced to multi-year prison terms for trying to negotiate wages or demand safety protections.

You can't champion the "worker’s struggle" while turning a blind eye to a regime that jails, tortures, and executes labor organizers.

If your solidarity skips over Iranian workers because it complicates your anti-imperialist narrative, that’s not internationalism, it's performative ideological convenience. You don't get to wave the red flag for workers' rights while ghosting the ones bleeding for it under a theocratic police state. Labor solidarity isn't real if it ends where the slogans get uncomfortable.

They Colonize and Militarize Their Neighbors

The Islamic Regime of Iran is not just a local bully. It's a regional empire.

It bankrolls and controls violent militias in Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, and Yemen not to support anyone's liberation, but to spread its own political and religious dominance.

In Lebanon, Hezbollah functions as an Iranian outpost that undermines democratic politics, murders critics, and uses civilians as human shields.

In Syria, Iran helped Assad murder hundreds of thousands of people, including with chemical weapons, just to keep Assad in power as an ally on Israel's border.

In Iraq, Iranian-backed militias have assassinated reformists, hijacked politics, and turned protests into bloodbaths.

In Yemen, Iran arms the Houthis, prolonging one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises so it can poke Saudi Arabia from afar.

If any other country did this, the Left would call it neo-imperialism. When Iran does it? It's "resistance."

You can't claim to stand against imperialism and ignore Tehran's regional warlords. If empire is wrong when it’s Western, it's still wrong when it wears clerical robes and claims to operate under the banner of "resistance."

They Practice Ethnic and Cultural Domination

Iran itself is not a culturally unified state. It's a multi-ethnic empire where Persian Shi'a identity is imposed from the top down.

Kurds are surveilled, imprisoned, and gunned down in the streets.

Baluchis live under occupation-like conditions, with entire towns attacked by the military.

Ahwazi Arabs are denied clean water and education in their own language — in the very province that produces most of Iran’s oil.

Azeris, Turkmen, and others are pressured to assimilate and punished for cultural expression.

Baháʼís, Sunni Muslims, Christians, and Zoroastrians face discrimination, harassment, and systemic exclusion from public life.

The regime bulldozes indigenous cemeteries. Bans non-Persian names. Executes poets and religious leaders.

And yet the Western Left doesn't call this apartheid or colonialism.

If your anti-colonialism skips over this because it clashes with your chosen narrative, then it's not principle. It's just performance.

The Iranian Regime Censors Everything and Jails Everyone

There is no freedom of press. No freedom of religion. No freedom of speech. None.

Journalists are imprisoned for reporting the truth.

Filmmakers are banned or exiled.

Internet access is filtered, throttled, and monitored by the state.

Peaceful protests are met with bullets and mass arrests.

Torture is standard. Forced confessions are routine.

When students protest, they get shot. When families demand answers, they get threats.

Iranian prisons are filled with feminists, union leaders, teachers, students, environmentalists, atheists, reformists, and even children.

Where is the Western Leftist solidarity for them?

You rally for free speech and civil liberties at home, so why the silence when Iran shoots students and jails teachers for demanding the same?

A regime that censors art, criminalizes dissent, and tortures activists is authoritarian.

If your solidarity evaporates the moment it's inconvenient for your narrative, it was never about justice. It was about fashion.

You can't be both pro-liberation and mute about the Regime's prisons overflowing with feminists, filmmakers, and kids. Either stand with the oppressed everywhere or stop pretending you have any moral principles.

If the Regime Wasn't Anti-American, You’d Hate It

The reason some progressives give Iran a pass is because it opposes the US and Israel.

That's it.

If it were a Christian theocracy executing gay people, torturing minorities, and colonizing its neighbors,they'd see it for what it is: a violent, fascist, patriarchal, ethno-nationalist police state.

But because it wears the right aesthetic, they (either through dishonesty or pure ignorance) mistake the Regime as seeking justice.

It’s not.

The Regime Is What the Left Says It's Fighting

It's everything they claim to stand against:

Misogyny

Homophobia

Theocracy

Anti-labor authoritarianism

Militarized ethnonationalism

Colonial violence

Censorship, repression, torture, and propaganda

So the next time someone chants slogans lifted from Tehran, ask yourself: do they know what they’re endorsing? Or are they just cheering for the empire they want to believe is innocent...because that narrative appeals to them.

The regime isn't the voice of the oppressed.

It's just another boot on 90 Million Iranian necks...and millions more in the region.

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Friendly reminder that you're not required to publicly take sides in any geopolitical conflict you don't understand.

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You might wonder, if Iran hit an Israeli hospital, why don't we hear about a massacre?

The answer is very simple: Israel didn't wait. We know we're facing an evil enemy who wants to kill us. So all hospitals moved their patients to the underground parking lots. Specifically, the building which was hit was evacuated only yesterday.

So don't treat this as if nothing happened.

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while we're at it, tearing down the hostage posters was always evil and fucked up.

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Reading up on the Israeli war of independence and it’s hilarious that Israel is called a British colonial project when the British peaced out the moment Israel was declared an independent nation (which they did a lot…. In former colonies…. Hmmm….) and even closed the port in Haifa to make sure that Israel couldn’t get any reinforcements through there. And the Jordanians were trained and armed by the British lmaooooo. I was today years old when I found out that the RAF actually flew with Egyptian squadrons during the war. AND the US put Israel under an arms embargo to boot.

Truly the most-half-assed and counterproductive “colonial project” I’ve ever seen. Truly amazing that the British managed to conquer so much of the world in this fashion.

yeah its almost like reality starts looking very different when ppl actually read those pesky history books they tell others to read sjdkhfbndjh you are also today years old as u find out that not only did the Bri'ish did fuck all to help Israel during the war of independence, they actively fought against Israel via Jordan, which, for all the ppl looking for WesternTM vassal states in the region - its mfking JORDAN. The entirety of the Jordanian army was led exclusively by British generals from the moment it was formed by the British as the Arab Legion all the way to 1948 as the British fought in the "Jordanian" army, funded it, armed it and trained it. You are also today years old as I tell you that the relationship Israel has with the US today only truly started forming in the late fucking 80s, and for the vast majority of Israels existence the US was either completely neutral towards Israel, or had its interest sparked only when it was strategically or financially advantageous for it, which only started happening after the revolution in Iraq which led to the disintegration of the Baghdad Pact circa 1958. The only ppl within the US who tried helping Israel in its infancy were regular Jewish Americans, mostly through donations and hand-shaking. Ppl going on abt how Israel only exists because of the US or Britain or whatever other western country have no idea what theyre talking about and its honestly embarrassing to hear these deluded arguments brought up by ppl who should be grateful theyre literate just enough to spend 5 mins reading an equally deluded and vandalized wikipedia page.

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no like fr the way that a lot of people look at israelis -- there's no group of people on earth i look at that way. literally no group of people where i'd look at posters of hostages from that group and go "that's obviously genocide propaganda i'm tearing it down." certainly not any group of people where i'd watch a video of their house blowing up and hear a woman crying for her dog in the rubble and point and laugh.

i can't even imagine having that response honestly. i can imagine apathy sure but glee? over people suffering? looking at a whole nationality that way? there's no way

i think that has to corrode your soul. i mean how can't it?