DeliCatCollector

''The founding of Israel was based on displacement of Palestinians''- Look, I don't want to minimize that at all because people losing their homes is fucking terrible but that doesn't mean the solution is expelling Israelis now. There was a population exchange between Greece and Tuurkey in 1922. Both sides ethnically cleansed people. It was a terrible thing to do. But both Turkey and Greece exist now as two seperate states with clearly defined borders (if you ignore some shit erdogan tries to pull in the agean). And you don't question Greece's or Turkey's right to not be wiped off.

''Israeli identity is fake because it was based on smth that happened 3000 years ago!!!''- Ok sorry to break it to you but us Greeks have made our entire national identity revolve around who we were 3000 years ago. And if you want to argue abt fakeness of identity I would argue ours was a less organic one. Jewish people maintained the same religion and basic belief systems for 3000 years. They continuously felt the connection with Eretz Yisrael. We switched to Orthodox christianity from whatever 12 god shit we had, we lost most of our literacy that allowed us to keep tpuch with ancient texts, we embraced so many customs from the Ottomans and YET it was still valid when we tried to reclaim our ancient greek identity to build a nation partly on the basis of that

''European colonial powers helped prop up Israel which means it is an imperialistic state!''- Do you think Greece got independence or gained more land purely through OUR military strength lol?

jewish + rromani lgbt solidarity!

You gonna give that land back????

No. Of course not. You're using it.

I fucking hate this rhetoric so much. Like, in terms of buzzy sound bite horseshit to sound like you care when you just want to show how you're the best at being liberal.

Just shut the fuck up.

no girl we don't "understand martyrdom" because we love our children & want them to be alive while you're glad to see them dead for the Omnicause.

I don't call myself a Zionist, because I feel that as I'm not Jewish, and it is a deeply Jewish ideology, it wouldn't be right to claim myself as one. I agree with it wholeheartedly, but a straight person defending LGBT rights doesn't make them LGBT, you know?

On one hand, I'm always happy when I see straight people show open support for the LGBT, so I think in that direction. What's important to me isn't Israel's politics (which i know nothing of) but the country and the people who live there. I'd defend the rights of someone LGBT that i hated if homophobic remarks were thrown at them, because that's just common sense.

On the other, I'm not Jewish, and I'm taking a stance on something that I ultimately know little about, and that technically does not concern me. To me, being on the defensive for a historically oppressed and persecuted minority is just the most basic, logical, common-sense thing to do, but I worry it comes across as condescending. In the end, I am just another westerner who is "choosing a side" on a conflict thousands of kilometres away from me.

I've never said "You can trust me, I'm one of the good guys!!" because it makes me feel so slimy. I sometimes leave comments on how I will always support and defend Jews no matter what, then I realise only later how performative that sounds, and I worry it may be seen as disingenuous.

I think it's important to show open and loud support for Jews in these times, especially from people who aren't Jewish, without expecting trust in return.