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Israel was founded as a state for a specific ethnicity, the Jews.

It has never officially annexed Gaza and West Bank specifically because doing so would increase the Palestinian population of Israel. This is also why Israelis, even Liberal ones, find the idea of a one state solution abhorrent, because they'll be a minority.

The "Nation State Bill" declares Israel to be a nation for the Jewish people. Imagine if a country with a significant minority like the US or Australia declared that the nation was meant for White Anglo-Saxon Protestants. Would this be racist?

Palestinians can not get Israeli citizenship even if they can provide proof of having lived in Israel in living memory. People point out countries like Polands "citizenship by decent" law but Poland doesn't only do so for ethnic Poles. A descendant of Jewish or German Polish citizens has the same rights as a descendant of Polish citizens.

On the other hand, Jews with 0 known ancestry in Israel (including converts who have very little ties to the "imagined Jewish people") have the right to move to Israel.

"Arab Israelis" can not pass their citizenship onto their spouse or children if their spouse is from Gaza/West Bank. This has led to Palestinians born in Israel to an Israeli parent and with an Israeli spouse and children being deported. If they were Jewish that would not occur. These are legal discriminations based solely on whether you are Jewish or not.

A Palestinian born in West Bank does not have the right to Israeli citizenship. A Jewish settler in West Bank does have those rights. They live in the same territory, under the same government but the sole difference in their rights is their ethnicity.

This is not even really discussing the occupation of West Bank and the de facto occupation of Gaza but these facts are already far more radical than any other supremacist state on earth. Not Sri Lanka (which gave Indian Tamils citizenship in 2004), not Myanmar, not India, Malaysia or Bhutan. Definitionally, not the pseudo-ethnostates of Botswana, Lesotho and Eswatini.

@khoesib do you want to just stop fucking lying?

1) about 25% of Israeli citizens are not Jewish. A huge chunk of that group is Arab, with smaller minorities like the Druze who are quite literally killed for existing in other Middle Eastern countries.

2) being "a state for the Jewish people" means it is a state that accounts for the needs of an indigenous group that was forced into diaspora 2000 years ago and has never found safety since. It does not say "for only the Jewish people." One might consider, however, that Palestinian leadership has stated that "from water to water, Palestine will be Arab" when asked about the presence of Jews in the region.

3) it's never officially annexed the West Bank or Gaza because it's at least mostly trying to follow the intentions set out in the partition plan of 1947, you fucking asparagus spear. You may notice that in 1947, Jordan annexed the West Bank and Egypt annexed Gaza. When Israel retook both in the Six Days War, they said "we will defend ourselves if you push us. Do you get the picture? Here's your land back" and Egypt and Jordan said "FUCK NO." That's how the existence of Palestine even happened. Israel could have just taken the land. It didn't. It's even come to the table multiple times and said "here's a proposal for a two-state solution" and it's been Palestine, every time, that's said no. Hell, Yasser Arafat actually led Israel down the garden path all the way to "yes, we'll sign, let's set it for this date" and then just didn't show up. It has nothing to do with being a minority. Although I have to say, the fact that Palestinians keep killing Jews for existing is definitely not helping their case.

4) Palestinians can in fact become Israeli citizens. Here's an article about some specific history of Palestinians rejecting Israeli citizenship. Now if you're not from Jerusalem the process is a lengthy pain in the ass. But that's not exclusive to either Israel or Palestinians. Countries that allow noncitizens to become citizens--unlike, for example, Qatar, where all four of your grandparents had to be citizens in order for you to become a citizen--tend to want to be sure you're serious and also that you're not a secret axe murderer or spy.

5) we all have ancestry in Israel, you fucking walnut. There are even genetic studies about this. As for converts, allow me to remind you that Judaism is an ETHNORELIGION. Converts are basically marrying into a family.

I can't even handle more of this Gish gallop right now. "More radical than any other supremacist country on earth" first of all it's not a supremacist country SECOND OF ALL QATAR, WHICH FUNDS THE SHITTY AL-JAZEERA ARTICLES YOU GET THIS SHIT FROM, IS RIGHT THERE.

That isn’t fair. It isn’t just. But it is reality. If Otto Frank had let this be included in the published version, there’s a large chance the homophobic backlash would have prevented the book from reaching the audience it did and spreading the message it needed to. It was NINETEEN. FORTY. SEVEN. The Holocaust had ended TWO YEARS AGO. The acceptance of LGBT identities was basically nonexistent. Otto Frank made a decision based on the time and place he was living in, about what the world at that time was and wasn’t ready to accept. 

Let me say this as bluntly as I can - I am a bisexual Jewish girl and I would have made the same decision Otto Frank did. Making sure Anne Frank was unambiguously seen as sympathic and heroic was more important. Making sure people weren’t sidetracked from the main issue of the Holocaust was more important. He shouldn’t have had to make that decision, without doubt. Anne Frank’s sexuality (however she would have identified in modern terms) shouldn’t be considered relevant to her status as a hero or a sympathetic victim. But in 1947, it undoubtedly would have been.

im bisexual and i had experiences like that, kissing other girls at sleepovers specifically, and it not only took me another half a decade to start identifying as bi, but all the girls i did that with grew up to be straight women.

he actually says, “go back to your Zionist homeland, because it won’t last much longer,” which is worse.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/07/05/london-pride-march-jewish-revellers-harassed-met-police/

Metropolitan Police officers watched and made no arrests as Jewish people were abused at London’s Pride March at the weekend.

Scotland Yard said it was investigating anti-Semitic abuse after footage posted online showed Jewish attendees being harassed, heckled and intimidated in Soho on Saturday.

The clips showed people holding Israeli and rainbow LGBT+ flags being told to “go back to your Zionist homeland” and told that “you kill Arab children, you kill gay children” in reference to the war in Gaza.

One woman appeared to shout “f--- you, Jew”, while other people repeatedly shouted “free Palestine”.

Although officers could be seen standing in the street, the Met admitted that it had made no arrests for racist or religious abuse, but had done so for several unrelated offences.

A force spokesman said: “We are aware of videos circulating online that show anti-Semitic verbal abuse directed towards attendees at the Pride in London event. Officers are currently reviewing footage to assess and investigate.”

A number of videos showed several people abusing Jewish attendees at Pride.

One woman was called a “Jew-hater” as she was seen repeatedly asking “how many babies did they kill?” before making a reference to the Israel Defense Forces.

A man wearing a rainbow-coloured Star of David on his T-shirt was told by an elderly man: “You kill Arab children, you kill gay children.” Police watched as he said: “What you need to do is go back to your Zionist homeland, because it won’t last much longer.”

A spokesman for the Campaign Against Antisemitism said: “The transition from ‘free Palestine’ to ‘f--- Jews’ is usually silent. This incident shows it loudly and explicitly.

“It’s incredible, not to mention depressing, how many people still trip over themselves to apologise for and defend the extremism of the ‘Free Palestine’ movement. The authorities need to recognise it for what it is. That can start with identifying and punishing the perpetrators of this incident.

“Jewish people have given up expecting to be included in so-called inclusive movements, but they should still be entitled to the same protections under the law as everybody else.”

The incidents are the latest in a spate of anti-Semitic attacks in London, including the alleged attempted murder of two Jewish men in Golders Green, north London, and the firebombing of ambulances operated by a Jewish organisation in the same area.

The Met previously announced a community protection team of 100 officers to safeguard the Jewish community.

Sir Mark Rowley, the Met Commissioner, had called for 300 extra officers to tackle what he has called a growing “pandemic” of anti-Semitism in Britain.

If you're just a random innocent person being verbally abused, they don't care.

Jewish people are not the same people as the megalomaniacs in Israel genociding Palestinians

Why are people so stupid?

Why can they only separate the demographics from a criminal when they're White, Christian or Atheist, Straight, Cis, a National

First if all the people targeted were not "just" jews. They EXPLICITLY displayed the israel flag. You CANNOT make israel your whole identity WITHOUT support for zionism. You CANNOT compartmentalize this one. You are with it or against it. They were zionists. The hate was well deserved.

If you don't want to be the target of hate for displaying the flag of a government that is currently committing a (well documented) genocide, during an event celebrating minorities historically targeted by systemic cleansing (newsflash queer people were in the camps too, and then were left to die in the AIDS crisis among other things) then maybe do not associate and support the genocidal group and make it part of your proudly displayed identity.

Your queerness does not absolve you of ongoing crimes. You are not welcome. Zionists are not victims, they are the perpetrators and the criminals and deserve to be shunned.

Denouncing zionists for the crimes they commit is NOT antisemitism.

That ONE PERSON (black person with braids in the video) throwing insults did not say "Fuck you jew" as the tweet claims but "fuck you too" in response to someone from the israeli group. This is another lie from zionists to control the public opinion and use antisemitism as a shield. They distorted the words of a black person for their narrative. NO ONE SAID THE WORD "JEW" IN ANY VIDEOS IN THE LINKED ARTICLE

I agree, zionism is NOT intrinsic to judaism. All jews are not zionists. In fact a lot of jews hate zionists too.

Now stop playing the Zionist's game by getting mad at each other when THEY wrongfully associate other jews with their crimes, instead of them.

Why is it something that happens only to Jews?

And yes, mister "you're being manipulated, nobody said a word "Jew":

i just…dont like that it’s in black and white. like, okay yes, stylistic choice, fine great. but also, it kinda feels like this is putting the picture into the past. like this is an image that belongs to a time fifty years ago, where chassidus belongs. a little bit of, oh look at these jews clinging to olden day things. (perhaps even oh the world of chassidus is black and white and colorless? but let’s say not)

and that really bothers me, the idea that chassidus/orthodoxy/judaism/religion is something that belongs in the past, is dated and a remnant of ancient times. something that doesn’t really have a place in the updated enlightened present or the glorious unified future.

because no. jews are here in the present. we’re not clinging to the past, we’re using the present in religion and innovating for the future. there are so many new inventions and ideas by religious jews for religious jews. and news flash, this idea of Judaism being a thing of the past isnt new either. it was around in the 1800s during the haskala, it was around when xtians declared themselves the new jews, it was around when the hellenists conquered israel. people 2000+ years ago thought that judaism was old and outdated, but here we are. still davening. still keeping kosher. still learning torah.

What would I do without them

I refuse to believe that we dressed that ugly.

You expect to believe that there was no color, no bead work, no embroidery? Just the most blah and bland item ever.

We have the clothing for Kohanim and Kohan Gadol described in the Torah and it is so beautiful.

Sure regular people aren't going to dressed like that, but seriously I'm expected to buy that no didn't interesting patterns with their weaving.

That no dyed their yarn? That everyone worn shades of brown and tan and white and the occasional light blue.

I know us. I know we enjoy beauty too. I know that it would a way to express ourselves and the areas of the land we live in.

We expect to buy that not single one of use didn't have pomegranate something going on in their clothes or any of the 7 species.

That we didn't go all out for Shabbat wear.

Give me a break.

This one just about kneecapped me, though.

For context: I'm researching a list of every pogrom and massacre and anti-Jewish riot in the past 200 years.

It's already just annual mass murders peppered with, "At the time, this country had limited Jews to only 6 years of school, and school exams were purposely held on Shabbat, and also they were just getting beat up in the streets all the time?"

And yet, one bullet point still managed to jump out and sucker-punch me a lil bit.

Those examples I just gave were ALL from Syria.

Now, first of all: In 1947, Syria had a 2,500-year-old Jewish community.

This painting of Moses parting the Red Sea is from the Dura-Europos synagogue in Syria that was in use about 1,800 years ago.

Then the United Nations voted to create Israel and Palestine. And Aleppo rioted against its own Jews.

Rioters killed at least 75 Jews; set ten synagogues, five Jewish schools, a Jewish orphanage, a Jewish youth club, several Jewish shops, and 150 Jewish homes ablaze, destroying them. Thousands of Jews illegally fled Syria, including half of those living in Aleppo.

The Aleppo Codex, also called the Crown of Aleppo, disappeared for a decade. It was the earliest known Hebrew manuscript comprising the full text of the Torah. And, as the Israel Museum puts it, it was also "the most authoritative, accurate, and sacred source document, both for the biblical text and for its vocalization, cantillation and Masorah (literally, 'transmission' of the Bible, the oral and written tradition by which the Holy Scriptures have been preserved and passed on from generation to generation).... It was probably the manuscript used by Maimonides when he set down the exact rules for writing scrolls of the Torah."

When it resurfaced, 40% of its pages were missing.

But that's nothing.

You see, Arab Palestine was plagued by a godawful fascist the Brits had installed as a leader in 1921 -- before anyone knew what a Nazi war criminal was, much less that this guy would become one.

His name was Amin al-Husseini. And instead of having Palestine declare independence alongside Israel in 1948, he got all the surrounding countries to invade en masse and try to destroy it. To reclaim the land for the Arab world. Including Syria.

Syria was not a hard sell. It was voluntarily harboring a major Nazi war criminal: SS captain Alois Brunner, who rounded up and deported the Jews of occupied Austria, Greece, Macedonia, France, and Slovakia.

In fact, Syria was SO on board with al-Husseini's plan that it ALSO introduced a whole bunch of new laws for Syrian Jews!

It stripped them of Syrian citizenship. It shut down Jewish schools. They couldn't have driver's licenses. Or passports. Or buy real estate.

In 1949, it seized Jewish bank accounts. The following year, it banned them from working in agriculture too.

They had to be inside by 10 pm. They couldn't work in public service, in public institutions or in banks. People who worked in the government/military were forbidden from buying anything in Jewish shops.

And Jews were very much forbidden to leave Syria.

They could travel for business or health... if they received permission from the Mukhabarat (secret police), left family members behind to essentially serve as hostages, and left a deposit of $6,000 with the government.

Many people managed to flee the country anyway.

If your kids managed to flee, the Mukhabarat would torture you, and possibly imprison you for several years. Some people died from torture long before it got to that point.

There were repeated instances of Jews getting caught escaping the country and being not only murdered, but dismembered.

(In 1958, when Egypt and Syria briefly joined forces, the curfew became even worse. Now it was at 7 pm. And the Mukhabarat would arrest and torture any Jews who didn't make it home.)

You might wonder why Syria kept them there if it hated them so much. The answer is twofold.

First, along with the rest of the Arab League, it had invaded Israel in an attempt to reclaim the land for the Arab world, and failed. It didn't want its Jews to go strengthen Israel.

And second: for a while, it was more profitable to keep them there and exploit them.

In 1953, and again in 1958, Syria temporarily allowed Jews to emigrate.

But only as long as they handed over all their property to the Syrian government first.

(See?)

All of this mirrored not only what other Arab countries were doing, but much of what the Nazis had done in the 1930s. They stripped Jews of their citizenship, their businesses, their jobs, their bank accounts, and forced them to leave their money and property for the Nazi government if they managed to flee.

In 1964, Jews were prohibited from going further than 3 km (less than 2 miles) from their homes without getting special permits from the Mukhabarat.

In 1973, Jews were forbidden to own radios or telephones, or to maintain postal contact with outside world.

Plus, there was constant intense violence against them.

One Syrian Jew described going to the funeral for a neighbor who had been shot, point-blank, by a random Arab man who just knocked on his door and immediately killed him. (And also described having been aggressively questioned by secret police at that same funeral.)

There were many, many murders of Jews which went unremarked and uninvestigated.

But what got me was one last twist.

When Jews died, their property was confiscated by the Syrian government. If their heirs could afford to lease their homes from the government, they were allowed to.

If they couldn't, the property was handed over to the Palestinian refugees in Syria.

So just to summarize:

The Syrian government, along with every other surrounding country (plus Iraq) invaded Israel to reclaim the land for the Arab world. It failed.

It took revenge on the Syrian Jews, who by definition weren't in Israel.

The Syrian government targeted a Jewish population that had been there for at least 2,500 years.

There was widespread, extremely violent antisemitism. Intense restrictions on who could buy from Jewish shops. On what jobs Jews could have.

Jews were demonized. Deliberately forced into poverty and out of their family homes. They were isolated from the world. They were killed for everything from leaving the country to answering the door.

And once they left their homes, left the country, or were killed, it gave their homes to Palestinian refugees.

There were as many as 35,000 Jews in Syria and Lebanon in 1928 - almost entirely in Syria. The population dropped rapidly when the persecution started: by 1957 there were 5,400. In 1989, only 4,000 were left: 90% had fled. Today, there are somewhere between 4 and 100, depending on whose guess you go with. Syria has successfully ethnically cleansed over 99% of its Jews.

But here's the thing about that plot twist.

At most, 75,000 of the Palestinian refugees went to Syria. The numbers are impossible to fully track; there's great research about how many people left, but not so much on where they each ended up. It could have been significantly lower.

In fact - setting aside, for the moment, the fact that at least four other countries had invaded with it, and at least - hang on, let me count -

at least 10 other countries Acting Like This who hadn't even been involved in the 1948 war -

Basically, Syria started a war to yeet the Jews that displaced hundreds of thousands of Palestinians. And then it turned around and yeeted and attacked its own Jews, confiscated their homes, and gave those to Palestinians.

You can kind of see this as compensation. Maybe. If you squint real hard, tilt your head 39 degrees to the right, and see the presence of Jews as the sole actual problem here.

This is why the social media version of this history is such a successful mindfuck.

It's so far off from the truth, and leaves out such an incredible amount of what happened, that it's almost impossible to counter.

People confidently claim that the Zionists invaded in 1948; that the Zionists attacked in 1948; or that Britain gave Jews the land as some kind of pity gift for the Holocaust.

Nobody has any idea that Britain watched every other country on earth agree that the Jews were about to get killed off if someone didn't take in Jewish refugees - someone else, not any of them - and then turned around and effectively banned Jewish immigration to Palestine in 1939. That it even made boats full of Holocaust refugees turn around and go back to Europe. That sometimes, it just unloaded them and put everyone in its own detention camps.

That if it had followed the League of Nations Mandate for this little chunk of former Ottoman Empire land, and encouraged Jewish immigration, it could have taken in all the 6,000,000 Jews who were instead slaughtered.

Yes, fine, that would have quadrupled the population of the entire country, caused immediate food rationing and massive refugee camps, and terminally pissed off Amin al-Husseini, but it would also have saved six million lives.

Nobody knows, somehow, that Palestine was supposed to be, mandated to be, a place where both Arabs and Jews lived in equality and shared in governing. Or that (if you prefer a two-state solution) it was supposed to be partitioned into Israel and Palestine in 1947. After al-Husseini attacked enough people that Britain gave up on the Mandate.

Nobody knows or wants to believe that no, there wasn't a good fucking reason for all these countries to invade. That THIS was where colonialism and imperialism came in.

When 1,300 years of empire ends, and people who have been marginalized under it get rights, there is an inevitable backlash.

the last time I reblogged this post right before I got a great job, in a permanent work-from-home position, with benefits, retirement, and a salary literally 3x what I was making before, doing something I really like. 

So you know. 

Countries currently controlled by religion and religious practices:

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The vatican is literally just home to the Pope and other figures. But no one blinks an eye, with over 50 Islam majority countries, many of which are run by Islamic law.

Only when it comes to Judaism and Jews does it seem to matter, even when there are many different peoples who live in Israel who have full rights. It doesn't matter every single one of these countries violates human rights you take for granted. In Afghanistan women are no longer allowed to speak to each other, this includes inside the home if their husband says so. They participate in honor killings, they purge other relgious groups from their lands, kill them, or force them to convert.

You say Israelis are colonizers, when there is physical, archeological proof that there has been a constant presence of Jewish life in the area.

People, think about it, you are changing and distorting history, spreading misinformation, altering definitions of words, ignoring the truth, ignore evidence, all to make things fit your narrative. That is the same thing society has constantly done before horrendous acts of antisemitic violence, judenhass.

Stop pretending this is about innocent civilians when you are using them as a tool to spread antisemitism, lies, ancient libels, there is no possible way you can disguise your hate anymore. There is no possible way you can say you stand for life then condemn an entire country just for existing. English colonies aren't saying "land back" for natives, in fact they curl their nose up at the idea. You rationalize any possible way to not have to give the land back to indigenous tribes. The amount of times ive heard "i like in theory, but *sob story about how they've been here for 100+ years* so I dont support it."