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It's because there are antisemites in the movement and people don't do shit to get rid of them.

I don't have time to stand there and go "hmmmm which people in this group is going to attack me and which are fine" because I would be harassed or attacked by whoever the antisemites in attendance are, whilst I try to figure it out. I would much rather avoid the protest all together, and not be harassed.

It doesn't matter if 99% of people in attendance aren't antisemitic, I would much rather avoid the 1% of people who are.

And I would feel fine walking past the protest if there was an actual attempt at removing antisemites within the movement. Because at least then I know that if I am harassed, I would have people come to my defense.

And I know antisemites will be in attendance as I have had to take down or cover up multiple antisemitic posters such as the happy dolphin meme you use to express joy with the text "how it feels to kill jews", a pro Palestine poster with the literal nazi (like actual used by nazis in nazi germany) antisemitic caricature depiction of jews labeled Israel, and a poster which had a different literal actual nazi propaganda image of the octopus on the world labeled Israel, etc.

It's also that there have been many open, blatant attacks against Jews, explicitly in the name of this movement.

And when the movement pays any attention to them, it's only to DOUBLE DOWN.

I can tell you exactly which coffee shop I can't go into while wearing a star of David. Because not once but at least twice, the owner has yelled at people to get out, told them they're wearing a hate symbol, and called the cops on them.

This, for context, is in a major city where nobody at any coffee shop would EVER think of messing with me or even side-eyeing me for being openly trans.

Although I do kinda wonder what the owner of that place would do if I came in with no necklace and no binder.

The reaction from the left? People got together a petition claiming that "workers and owner were harassed with the explicit goal of provocation by two bad actors. In both instances, the agitators were wearing blue caps with a white Star of David.

"In the first instance, the cap also said, “Am Yisraeli Chai,” which translates as, “The people of lsrael live.” By June 2024, over 65,000 Palestinians had been murdered, over 18,000 of which were children. In this context, such a hat is an act of racism and violence. Wearing it is rubbing it in the face of Palestinians that so many Palestinians have been killed by Israel."

That is the most unhinged shit I have ever heard. I've watched the video from the first guy. His kid needed a bathroom. The place they were in didn't have one. It directed them to this shitty coffee house. He even ordered coffee while his kid went to the bathroom. Then the guy behind the counter started ordering him to get out and yelling at him.

I don't know what happened with the second person. But if somebody walks into your coffee shop wearing a star of David to see if you'll kick them out, it's still on you if you do.

The coffee shop had a juice drink named after Yahya Sinwar. Like, preexisting Hamas juice. This one is not the Jews' fault, my friends.

That's not the worst story I have. The worst one is probably the woman who got the shit beat out of her, and all her stuff stolen, because of a call-out video by another woman who followed her down the street, yelling at her that she was racist, for... putting up anti-Hamas stickers.

And doxxed her. And then their Instagram followers doxxed other people who told them this was fucked up.

It's a horrible, horrible fucking hate-filled movement. I don't give a shit how peaceful the protests any of you have been lucky enough to go to were. I am telling you, this is the same moment that firebombed the small pro-hostage walk in Denver.

This follows directly and consistently from all the protesters who tore down hostage flyers and counter-protested hostage vigils and hostage protests.

This is a movement that regularly holds its protests outside of synagogues. This is a movement whose encampments repeatedly called for their schools to get rid of Chabad and Hillel.

This is a movement that routinely defaces Jewish schools, synagogues, Jewish community centers, with everything from "Free Palestine" to "Khaybar Khaybar." One where people routinely join in chants, on video, that mean, "From shore to shore, Palestine shall be Arab." One where teens sing joyfully about how they're going to burn the Jews, and people flock to the comments to defend them.

Sorry, wormnoodless, you’re a heretic.

@identitylambda

Ask yourself could you say this about the us?

My country has done infinitely worse including bankrolling Israel, despite this my country features groups that are just as if not more discriminated against then jewish people, as well as including jewish Americans.

If you told people from around the world and including countries hurt by america to treat Americans as people or else youre not leftist, you would be laughed at and ridiculed for being too pro american. So its a two way street pal.

If these protestors actually cared about the Palestinian people, they would recognize that there was a concrete difference between Harris, who called for a ceasefire and was also part of the administration that was actively trying to negotiate a ceasefire (and who, by all very publicly available reporting was working behind the scenes to get Biden to be more pro-Gaza) and Donald Trump, who called for Gaza to be leveled for real estate and continues to give free rein to Netanyahu.

Maybe in some smaller circles i am not part of? But mainly on jumblr, you were called a self hating jew if you gave a free pass to antisemites to be antisemitic and/or if you wanted Israel to be disestablished. Because you are throwing half of your siblings under the bus as there is no way for Israel to be disestablished in our lifetime where it would not cause jews in the region significant harm.

Most jews on jumblr have maintained that valid genuine criticism of Israel like I did in the post which likely prompted this, such as pointing out how an Israeli court recently ruled that Palestinians were facing human rights abuses in prison through starvation, is not antisemitic. And what is antisemitic is using common antisemitic tropes and replacing jews with zionists/israelis

But regardless, it's an intracommunity discussion. It also does not have any meaningful bearing on antisemitism as people will find any reason to justify their jew hate. And I say meaningful bearing as for john smith down the street, that may have been his tipping point into antisemitism, but for the vast majority of antisemites it wasn't.

Firstly, "they carried only a symbolic amount of aid" according to an RNZ article I will link at the end.

Secondly, they denied help from Italy and the Vatican to get aid through proper channels into Gaza.

Thirdly they also denied Israeli instructions to dock in Israel to deliver the aid through the proper channel.

All previous flotilla attemps have failed. Why would they think this one is different?

Like yeah sure in a better world they would be able to get through, but that's not how shit works in the current world.

I get they're trying to change how things work, but a flotilla is not going to end the blockade.

So at best, they're all woefully stupid and at worst they actively know it's all PR and propaganda and won't actually help Palestinians

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I don't use tiktok, but my husband tells me that "PDF" is weird tiktok Newspeak for "paedophile"... But if someone this stupid knows how to convert a document to .PDF I would be shocked.

(Yeah, everyone hates it but if you make a living on youtube I guess you can't really afford not to play ball)

(Censorship sucks)

This is a symptom of a larger through-line in the Christian New Testament of Jesus and his followers frequently defining what is good and bad against the consensus of the Jewish community—from Jesus’s conflicts with the Pharisees, to the deicide charge (especially in Matthew, which claims the Jewish crowd explicitly called for Jesus to be killed and cursed their lineage by saying “His blood be upon us and on our children”), to G-d’s presence supposedly leaving The Temple and ripping the curtain to the Holy of Holies on the way out as a “sign” that He had abandoned the Jews as His Chosen People in favor of Christians, to the Incident at Antioch (Paul and Peter arguing over whether Gentile converts to Christianity should have to follow Jewish Law), and basically Paul’s entire theological framework.