HARRY AS DANNY ZUKO X

#though if you aren't willing to condemn violence against Israeli civilians #maybe ask yourself why not? #and don't give me that “antizionist not antisemitic” bullshit #hating the actions of the Israeli government is one thing #but if you hate every civilian of the country where half the world's Jews live #then guess what? #You hate the Jews

something that's fucked me up over the last three weeks is the constant barrage of non palestinian goyim saying "why should we have to condemn hamas???????? why do we have to focus on jews or israelis when palestinians are dying??????????" and i know ppl who have already decided i'm guilty by virtue of being a jew won't give a shit, but i'm hoping people who still have a bit of humanity left in them will.

i've gotten so many anons chiding me and demanding to know why they should give a shit about the people killed by hamas (not all of whom were jewish or even israeli), and the answer i keep wanting to give is that. honestly you don't fucking have to. quite honestly, i wouldn't have cared if no one talked about it. i would be hurt to see people didn't see the loss of (assumed to be jewish) life as a tragedy, but i would have much preferred silence to the utterly horrific things i have had to see over the past three weeks.

bc that's the thing. we as jews are so fucking jaded when it comes to gentile reactions to violence against us. we're used to you saying it doesn't matter or even that we deserved it. gentile apathy has so thoroughly broken us that we consider it a win when y'all don't actively celebrate instances of antisemitism. and you had the opportunity to disrupt that pattern, to either take a single moment to offer condolences for the loss of so many lives (not all of whom were jewish or even israeli) or just simply back off and give us space to grieve.

but instead, i witnessed people, who just over a month ago had been wishing their jewish followers a happy rosh hashanah, post or repost some of the most appalling displays of antisemitism i have seen since may of 2021. i have watched you post about the "zionist media" ("jews control the media"), tell jewish israelis to just use their dual citizenship to go back to their third beach house on long island ("all jews are rich"), that jews israelis are bloodthirsty monsters who get pleasure from killing children (modern day blood libel), that jews are the "new nazis" (holocaust inversion), that jews in the diaspora are responsible for the actions of the israeli government (dual loyalty), and that every single israeli should die (literally genocide???????????)

i witnessed people who call themselves antizionist gleefully become tools of political zionism, bolstering the claims that the diaspora is not safe for us and therefore we must support israel when the countries we currently live in turn on us like they have without fail for the last 2000 years. and when i point this out, instead of taking this to heart, people double down. they insist if i'm pointing this out it must mean i believe it.

you all had the opportunity to do nothing, to prioritize the safety and liberation of palestinians over your own hatred of jews, and yet you still chose antisemitism. and i will never forgive you for it.

Hey you know it's possible to care about the safety, happiness, and freedom of all kids, regardless of their nationality, ethnicity, religion, or who their parents are, right?

trouble is, idk what to do with the fear that we're going to wake up to seeing people dragged out of their homes and shot in the streets around the world, like that feasibly feels like a thing that is coming. and that will be justified by the left when it does

eta: i am not being overdramatic, as an example:

yay walkies :D

PRIDE & PREJUDICE (2005) dir. Joe Wright

“Perfume? You shouldn’t ask that. It’s a girl’s secret. But I have two, one for daytime, one for evening. No girl should buy her own perfume. It’s the one thing you should get from a beau. But ever since I’ve been able to afford it I’ve bought my own. Dreary, isn’t it?"

-Audrey Hepburn, Photoplay magazine, January 1954

#this post is honestly baffling to me as a non-jew who's been screaming in every leftist space available to me#y'all are out here trying to give praise i genuinely. fuck. not to be dramatic but i dont know a single leftist worthy of that right now?#bc ive been sitting here thinking about this nonstop for days#how are we supposed to just#a c c e p t that a majority of western/EU leftists just.... cheered for a terrorist organization for a week and counting#a literal nazi organization#that the people of PALESTINE protest against#like a majority of leftists just. stood up and screamed and cheered and blocked out the voices of the people actually involved#and i read posts during the first wave of that bullshit from jewish ppl that were like#'when this is over we will set it aside and we will continue to coexist with you (how can we not? what choice do we have?)'#'but know that the trust is gone'#and im still in genuine fucking awe because y'all were literally in the MIDDLE OF IT and STILL managing to be more level headed and i just#i want to take the hand of every single jewish person who interacted w this post and be like#'nope. we havent earned that.' bc we havent!!!!!!!#on a FUNDAMENTAL level if we as leftists cant even make this space safe enough for our own members to point out violent antisemitism#AND OPPRESSION!!! then we absolutely have not earned a back pat#if so fucking many of us fell into that trap of racist radicalism then we have failed REPEATEDLY for too long#it means we havent fully removed that bigotry from our foundations. it means we arent teaching enough critical thinking within our little#interconnected echo chambers. the deep rooted/intergenerational demons reared their heads on this one#if anything the jewish people interacting w this post should save that praise for when/IFFFF we finally get that fucking straightened out#anyway shoutout to y'all. i literally cannot imagine the strength it took to get through this week. the weight would crush me. (via @commanderquinn)

To all the non-Jews who are actually standing up and speaking out against this terror and able to recognize the harm done to the Jewish people: Thank you. We will not soon forget who stood with us.

there’s so much i feel a bit relieved about leaving behind, because it was fraught, and so many people i want nothing to do with anymore, but i am very sad about all my EP related posts being stuck in the purgatory of my other blog forever once i leave it permanently

THE NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS (1993), dir. Henry Selick