What Irks Me So So Much About The Pro Palestine Movement And How It Took Place On My College Campus Was

I am genuinely scared for the next two weeks.

It is the high holidays and almost the anniversary of Oct 7th.

Antisemitic attacks and incidents across the diaspora always increase during every major jewish holidays. Then there is the possibility of attacks on the anniversary of Oct 7th. I've already seen people across the world post flyers of planned protests on Oct 7th. Considering how so many past protests devolved from protests for palestine into targeting and/or attack jews, there is a decent chance that with high emotions from the anniversary some of these protests will end up harming jews. In stockholm the Israeli embassy was shot at earlier today.

And in Israel, terrorist groups and Iran love attacking Israel near the holidays + again anniversary of Oct 7th is coming up. It is not lost on me that in Israel it's Erev Rosh Hashanah tomorrow and Iran launched its attack earlier today as well as the terrorist attack in Jaffa.

I hope everyone is safe over the next two weeks

you will not be surprised to learn that not only was the commercial spot in question not “about how we all need to stand with Israel”, but israel & palestine are not referenced or alluded to in any way whatsoever.

here’s the ad:

it’s not even an ad primarily about antisemitism. it’s a campaign called “Stand Up To All Hate” about standing up to racism, Islamophobia, homophobia, sexism, antisemitism, etc.—all hate, as the name suggests.

and, for a split second, there’s a kid wearing a kippah. that’s it. shaq appeared in an ad where a kid wears a kippah and that is what is getting him accused of “supporting genocide”

It is Oct. 7th. One year. A year since the worst massacre of Jews in a single day since the Holocaust and a year since I witnessed on my dash, in real time, people and blogs I enjoyed and respected actually celebrating this utter depravity and imagining this absolutely evil position gave them moral superiority. An entire year of the total dehumanisation of raped, brutalised, and kidnapped human beings. An entire year of atrocity denying, victim blaming justification of the actions of genocidal antisemitic terrorists. An entire year of hostages being held captive in Gaza being subject to unimaginable treatment, for nothing but the “crime” of daring to live.

An entire year of a repulsive and terrifying global explosion in antisemitic abuse and violence, of Jewish pain and grief being ridiculed, sneered at, and ignored. An entire year of the left loudly and proudly betraying every single ideal they supposedly stood for. An entire year of so-called progressives and human rights activists throwing Jews and Israelis under the bus and patting themselves on the back for it.

My Jewish and Israeli friends, I know today is a painful and traumatic day, as it has been a painful and traumatic year. I hold you all in my heart and my thoughts today and every day and I stand with you unreservedly and unapologetically. Your strength and resilience in the face of unspeakable cruelty, your deep love for those who have been lost and your endless hope for those still in captivity has been inspiring and humbling.

May the hostages return home safe to their families and may there be peace 💙💙🇮🇱🎗

Young Jewish woman of Algiers | 'Demoiselle juive d'Alger,' 1842

"She wears a blue and gold djubba over a blue ghlila the short sleeves of which are tied behind her back. On her head is a mharma."

shana tova!

MY violence will stop the cycle of violence

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If you see articles and tweets about how the Star of David is now a symbol of fascism and think to yourself "maybe they have a point," then whatever you define as your antizionism has absolutely crossed the line into antisemitism

The Star of David is one of the most important symbols in Judaism. The fact that it is on the flag of Israel does not make it fascist. The government of Israel is separate from the symbol. Labeling such a widely used symbol by a marginalized people as fascist is incredibly dangerous and seeks to conflate Jews as a whole with the Israeli government- something antizionists continually claim people shouldn't do. So why are some doing it?

High control groups slowly ease you into believing nonsensical things. They provide "reasoning" and "logic" which goes largely unchallenged within echo chambers. People in these echo chambers are prone to believing it because they start to see it as real logic instead of bigoted, twisted reasoning. Even otherwise intelligent people can fall for their prejudices as they begin to view it as a form of justice

It is a fantasy that high control group leaders go from 0 to 100 in five minutes or refuse to answer any questions- they are usually much more manipulative

Please confront your biases. The Jews are tired

Feels like a cruel joke that the October 7th anniversary falls between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. And 101 hostages still aren’t home.

Jews would be laughed out of the room if we demanded our great grandparents’ homes back.