My Jumbled Thoughts

Yup, definitely sounds like death cult behavior.

adielofisrael:

Listen to Dara Horn at the AJC Global Forum 2026.

Antisemitism is not about what Jews do, it’s about what Jews represent to the antisemites.

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It. Literally. Doesn't. Matter.

Spoiler alert: trans people can be antisemitic!

Franz Kafka was a real person who died not too long ago, and just because a trans person relates to his writings doesn't mean they can claim he's trans. It's not the same as relating to a fictional character. You can't 'headcanon' an actual person. I don't care how much you relate- he wasn't trans, don't call him a woman. He was an actual person, not a fictional character you can project on. An treating Franz Kafka like a fictional character you can project any label onto and separate him from his actual life is dehumanization and *also* antisemitic.

It's no different than queer people co-opting Anne Frank's memory and erasing her story to just herald her as a "bi icon" when she never had the chance to live long enough to label herself. Queer gentiles need to stop dehumanizing Jewish people and turning them into blank slates they can project onto.

I don't care how much you relate- he wasn't trans, don't call him a woman.

At some point relatively recently, people seem to have come to the conclusion that you can't empathize with a character (or real fucking person, in this case, and I cannot stress how gross that is) unless you're just like them. "Oh, I, a nonbinary person can identify with this cishet man? He must actually be nonbinary!" "Oh, I, an autistic person, can identify with this Ambiguously Quirky™ person? She must actually be autistic!"

Being able to relate to a person--real or fictional--who isn't just like you is a good thing. It's good that you see yourself in the writings of a cisgender man! Maybe it will teach you that cis people aren't the enemy. It's good that an autistic character resonates with NT people! Maybe they'll gain new insight into their autistic friends and family!

It's called empathy, and it's so important to understand that you are going to see your experiences reflected in people who are unlike you. Those connections are important. Deciding that Kafka must be a trans woman because you're a trans woman is missing the entire fucking point. It means that you do, in fact, have some things in common with a cisgender man, and conversely, it means that cisgender men have things in common with you. To flatten them out so they're just like you is missing out on so much of what they have to say.

People are beautiful and rich and layered and the fact that we can connect with other people and share experiences despite how different we are? That's the whole fucking point. That's what makes life worth living.

Because we've seen that before. We see it very often because it's a fundamental premise of some incredibly antisemitic forms of Christianity, and when it turns out that we're real people with real opinions and real beliefs and real feelings who don't just exist to validate someone else's perception of who and how we could be, people don't just abandon their pretense at allyship, they get violent.

It's also a common failing in how the Holocaust is taught. People like to present this lens of "it was random violence that came out of nowhere and could've happened to anyone. It could've happened to you! Imagine if you'd been one of the victims! That would've been a tragedy wouldn't it?" And the thing is, that's bullshit. If you were just a random German citizen at the time? You would've been one of the perpetrators. And it was a tragedy in and of itself; it doesn't become a tragedy by imaging a scenario in which people who were perfectly safe would've actually been potentially in danger (never killed, of course, because Holocaust education is also commonly sanitized, which is a different rant).

Edited to take out a rant that was in drafts and got added to this by mistake, but. Well, the Tl;dr, since that's been reblogged

No, but everything in his writing that gets commented on is something that speaks to feeling out of place in society, or something that conveys emotional or social vulnerability.

So for someone to say “because of these things I think she was a trans woman teehee!” they are implicitly 1) denying that any other aspect of identity might cause these feelings, and 2) asserting that if someone feels these things, they must be a woman.

Ignoring his Judaism AND implying that men can’t feel alienated or vulnerable and if they do they must actually have been a woman. Doesn’t seem very respectful or deconstructing of gendered norms to me.

Later, she admits her problem is with "hebs"

She's a Republican.

You've probably seen people online spouting nonsense like "Israel killed most of its own people on October 7th. The Hannibal Directive proves it. Hamas didn't do the massacre - Israel did."

Let's go over what the Hannibal Directive actually was, its status on 10/7/23, and how stories about it have been dishonestly spun.

The Hannibal Directive was issued in 1986. Here's what it actually said:

"א. בזמן מחטף הופכת המשימה העיקרית חילוץ חיילינו מידי החוטפים גם במחיר של פגיעה או פציעת חיילינו. ב. במידה ויזוהו החוטפים והחטופים ולא נענו לקריאות לעצור, יש לבצע ירי נק"ל (נשק קל), על מנת להוריד את החוטפים לקרקע, או לעצור אותם. ג. אם לא עצר הרכב או החוטפים, יש לירות לעברם ירי נשק קל בבודדת, במכוון, על מנת לפגוע בחוטפים גם אם המשמעות פגיעה בחיילינו."

"A. During an abduction, the main mission becomes rescuing our soldiers from the captors, even at the cost of harming or injuring our own soldiers. B. If the captors and captives are identified and do not heed calls to stop, use small arms fire to bring down the captors or halt them. C. If the vehicle or captors do not stop, use aimed small arms fire to hit the captors, even if that means harming our own soldiers."

This isn't particularly controversial in principle. A captured soldier becomes a massive piece of political leverage, a tool for extortion, and a severe threat to national security - and accepting the risk of injuring your own people during a rescue attempt is a standard, tragic reality of combat. The underlying logic is standard across professional militaries.

Note that the directive as written applied specifically to soldiers. That distinction matters when we get to October 7.

From its inception, the directive was controversial within Israel. Some commanders refused to pass it down, as they were permitted to do under the Spirit of the IDF booklet. In 2011, Chief of Staff Benny Gantz clarified that the directive did not authorize deliberately shooting a captured soldier - it aimed to stop terrorists from escaping with them, not to kill the hostage. The directive was revised several times, with legal reviews consistently recommending every effort be made to avoid harming soldiers who were hostages.

In 2016, Chief of Staff Gadi Eisenkot officially cancelled it.

It was long gone on 10/7/23.

A Haaretz investigation, though, identified three specific instances where local commanders invoked a Hannibal-style order at points along the Gaza border: at the Erez crossing, the Re'im army base, and the Nahal Oz outpost.

The orders were primarily aimed at striking the gaps in the border fence and vehicles moving back into Gaza to stop the mass transfer of hostages. Because Hamas was taking civilian hostages, not soldiers -local commanders were adapting a soldier-focused doctrine on the fly, in chaos, without official authorization. That context matters for understanding what actually happened.

So what does the evidence actually confirm?

The UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry confirmed at least 14 Israelis likely killed by IDF forces. The Be'eri incident (where a tank commander ordered fire on a house holding hostages, killing 13 of 14) is the most documented single case.

These deaths are real, they are serious, and the officers responsible should face accountability - that's the only acceptable reaction to a friendly fire incident.

At no point has any investigation found that the IDF deliberately targeted Israeli civilians.

Every documented IDF-caused death on October 7 occurred in the context of combat decisions made to stop Hamas from dragging hostages back into Gaza. These decisions were chaotic, unauthorized, and in some cases probably a bad call. A commander who orders fire on a vehicle he believes contains Hamas fighters and accidentally kills Israelis in the process has made a bad decision, but he has not committed a premeditated massacre of his own people.

There is no evidence -NONE WHATSOEVER - that the IDF identified Israeli civilians and chose to kill them. This claim exists solely to launder the responsibility of Hamas (and others from Gaza) for the atrocities visited upon Israeli civilians on 10/7/23.

The total October 7 death toll was approximately 1,200 Israelis. That number is documented and forensically verified. The 14+ deaths caused accidentally by the IDF are worth investigating and accountability should be sought- but they are not an alternative explanation for the massacre.

That's how Hamas supporters spun it.

In July 2024, when Haaretz published an investigation into Hannibal-style orders at those three military sites on October 7, this was journalism. Israeli reporters, using IDF documents and soldier testimony, holding their own military accountable for specific decisions made in specific locations.

The article did not claim Israel caused most of the deaths. It did not claim Hamas was innocent. It reported on a real institutional failure at the Erez crossing, Re'im base, and Nahal Oz outpost.

Within two weeks, that article had been shared over 16,000 times on X, almost entirely by accounts using it to argue that Israel, not Hamas, was responsible for the October 7 massacre.

Hamas supporters have elevated this sort of dishonesty to an art form: they take legitimate accountability journalism, remove every qualifier, delete the specific scope, and present it as proof of something the article explicitly does not claim and try to make the IDF responsible for the crimes committed by Hamas and other Gazans.

The people doing this aren't engaging with the Haaretz investigation. They're borrowing its brand as a prop to make the absurd allegation seem credible. It isn't - and anyone who actually read the article knows that.

The claim that Israel killed its own people on October 7 isn't a good-faith misreading of a complicated story. It's a conspiracy theory.

It takes a documented atrocity with 1,200 named victims, forensic evidence, and survivor testimony, and replaces it with a fairy tale where the Jews did it to themselves.

That's not skepticism. That's not "asking questions."

The people spreading this libel aren't engaging with the Haaretz story or the UN or any of the investigations they pretend to cite without having read them. They're using the language of accountability journalism to run interference for a massacre.

~6,000 people including Hamas, other militant groups, and Gazan civilians burned families alive, took 251 hostages, and committed widespread torture and sexual violence on October 7. That happened. The Hannibal Directive didn't make it happen. Israel didn't make it happen. Hamas made it happen.

They filmed themselves doing it, they livestreamed it, they called their families to brag about it, they celebrated it in Gaza, their leaders praised it and promised to repeat it. They want the credit for their massacre.

Yep I'm not shutting up about the fact that women--including Hillary Clinton--warned everyone things like this would happen 10 years ago, and were screamed at for "scaremongering" over SCOTUS. And now we keep seeing stories like this and the only people who seem to care are those very same women who knew this would happen way back in 2016, because everyone else a.) can't face what they did during that election and b.) genuinely does not care, because they don't view misogyny as a real form of oppression. Young women today have fewer rights than their mothers but are treated as hysterical bitches for daring to be outraged about that, as men scream and cry that Democrats don't coddle them and their uwu needs uwu enough

Human remains were found Wednesday evening in the young people's neighborhood of Kfar Aza and taken for identification at the Institute of Forensic Medicine. Part of a skull was found in the kibbutz, and authorities are examining whether it belongs to Nirel Zini, a Givati officer and resident of the neighborhood who was decapitated during the Hamas massacre on October 7 and whose head has not been located since.

On Oct. 10, 2015, two and a half weeks before his 23rd birthday, Zini, then an Givati officer in the IDF, was critically wounded during an operational activity in Hebron. But that did not stop him. Even before he had recovered from the injury, after one of his soldiers was stabbed in an attack in Jerusalem, he fled the hospital and returned to IDF service.

He served as a platoon commander in Givati, deputy company commander in the Bardelas Battalion, later as commander of the auxiliary company and commander of the mobility company in the Paran Brigade mobility company. Eventually, after 10 years of service and because of the severe injury he had carried since 2015, he was forced to end his service with the rank of major.

Since his 2015 injury, Zini held a thanksgiving meal every October 10. On that same date in 2023, he had planned to propose to his partner, Niv Raviv, whom he had met in the army eight years earlier and with whom he lived in Kfar Aza. But just three days earlier, on Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas terrorists carried out their massacre in Israel.

At 10:04 a.m., Nirel still managed to send a message to his family. “I’ll update, they’re here. I’m putting down the phone, pray,” he wrote, while holding a knife in one hand and the door of the safe room in the other. His partner Niv was hiding under the bed.

When the terrorists stormed the home, Nirel decided to try to distract them. He tried to escape the house, which had already begun to burn, drawing their attention in the hope that his partner would survive the inferno. In the end, both were murdered. Only six days later, after they had been listed as missing, the families were informed that their bodies had been found.

But at Nirel’s funeral, the Zini family’s ordeal began. Before he was buried, relatives were not given the opportunity to identify him, and they were told it was better that way because of the condition of the body. Given the state of the burned home, the family decided not to insist, despite a “very strange gut feeling,” as Nirel’s father, Amir Zini, described it.

Months later, the family was summoned to Israel Police’s Lahav 433 unit to hear findings from the investigation. They asked to see photos from the scene or anything that could help them understand what happened to Nirel that morning. Instead, they were shown only footage of the body bag being opened at Shura Camp, the IDF base to which bodies of victims were taken to identification. That’s when they discovered that Nirel had been decapitated by the terrorists.

Until that horrifying moment, not when they were told he had been killed, not at the funeral, and not in any official briefing, the family had no idea what had actually happened to their son.

“No one prepared us for this or considered our right, as his parents, to be informed of such a critical and horrific detail before the burial or at any point afterward,” his father wrote in a letter to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, which he hopes reached him. “The gravity of this is doubled by the fact that this information was not shared by anyone except Lahav 433, not the Shin Bet, not the police, not the military.”

And if that weren’t enough, the family also came to understand that no agency was actively searching for their son’s missing head. Over the past two years, and even before the most recent hostage deal, Nirel’s father contacted officials handling captive return efforts, requesting that his son be classified as a deceased hostage whose remains were abducted to Gaza. The response he received was: “We can’t add another hostage to the list.”

The ordeal — and the letter to Netanyahu

After learning the full extent of what happened to Nirel, the Zini family began their own search. They located the exact spot in Kfar Aza’s Young Generation neighborhood where Nirel’s body had been recovered, met with the soldier who reported the site, and consulted with representatives from the IDF’s Gaza Division rabbinate.

Since then, with help from volunteers from the Israel Antiquities Authority and the IDF’s missing persons unit, they have spent countless hours combing the rubble in search of Nirel’s head.

“I had to stop working. My children stopped working. We had to bring in heavy equipment, set up nets, sift through debris,” described the father. “All this while appealing to every authority in the country for help. Needless to say, no one stepped up.”

The family forwarded hundreds of bone fragments and other findings to the National Center for Forensic Medicine in Tel Aviv in the hope of recovering evidence about their son’s final moments. Some were identified as animal remains, while others, hundreds of human bones and skull fragments, were deemed too degraded for DNA extraction.

“These are hundreds of bones, some quite large,” Amir said. “It took eight months to get results, and when we asked to send the remains abroad to labs that might succeed in extracting DNA, we were denied.”

In a letter to Prime Minister Netanyahu, Amir Zini listed several “deeply troubling” findings uncovered during the family’s investigation, including revelations by ynet and its parent newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth that two shipping containers remain at Shura Camp, holding roughly 350 body bags containing unidentified human remains.

Among other things, the father wrote that “an independent committee of ministry directors general called the ‘Attribution Committee’ decided on its own around October 7 not to inform any family about the condition of their loved one’s body at burial. That same committee also decided that if human remains were found, the families would not be updated on the matter.”

The father stressed that “the failure must be corrected,” and in his appeal to the prime minister asked him “to act to correct the terrible injustice caused to us — first in the failure to protect our son, then in burying him without his head and without our knowledge, knowingly, while such a heavy decision was taken for us without us being asked or informed, and a third time in the agony of the searches we have been going through for almost two years, while no official is willing to take responsibility, help, mobilize or show us that the state also cares about this.”

He asked Netanyahu to meet and concluded: “Before it is too late — fix what is broken. Please. Our souls know no rest. Please help us reach the peace we so badly need.”

Now, nearly three years after the massacre, the Zini family will have to wait for the Institute of Forensic Medicine’s examination to determine whether the skull fragment found does indeed belong to the late Nirel.

previous coverage about Nirel and Niv:

Nirel Zini was 31 when he and his longtime girlfriend, Niv, were brutally murdered by terrorists in their home in Kfar Aza on October 7.

He had been planning to propose to Niv just three days later, on October 10.

A decorated Givati officer, Nirel had been severely wounded in action in 2015. After his injury, he returned to civilian life, working in the family carpentry business while preparing to start law school. His dream was to advocate for soldiers wounded, physically or emotionally, during their service.

On October 7, Nirel held a knife in one hand and the door of the safe room in the other, while Niv hid under the bed. When terrorists stormed the house, he tried to distract them, attempting to flee the burning home and draw their attention in a desperate bid to save her. Both were killed. Their bodies were only discovered six days later.

The Zini family was advised not to identify Nirel’s body due to the condition of the remains and the state of the burned house.

Months later, they learned the horrific truth: Nirel had been beheaded, and his head taken as a trophy to Gaza by the terrorists. Amid the chaos following October 7, nobody had warned them.

To this day, his family continues the painful search to recover his remains and give him a proper burial.

Never forget what Hamas did. The horror they inflicted in a single day continues to haunt an entire nation.

She had an extremely sheltered upbringing, then when she snuck out to fight, she went to the Earth Kingdom version of WWE, which, if it’s like real world WWE, is family entertainment, and she never spent time backstage, she came she fought she left

I don’t know if the airbenders taught aang swears or not but I know he’s not really the type to swear anyway