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And all I can think about is how a year ago, I watched as people in the Harry Get Some Sleep discord server tried to argue that Ishitreal would never do something like this 🥺 I remember R***** (one of the mods) claiming we don’t know enough right now to say isnotreal has bombed the Baptist Hospital but also at the same time claiming they would never do this. I watched as people like K*** and C******** C**** and T******* and others tried to shove western propaganda down our throats by claiming CNN and BBC were more legitimate news sources than Al Jazeera and we can’t trust the brown Arabs to give us the unbiased truth but we can trust our lord and saviour the white colonizer to tell us what’s really happening. I watched other members who are openly Zionist (like T*****) try to argue about how izzy has a right to exist because they need an ancestral land and the poor indigenous people of Palestine don’t deserve to be there as much as they do and anyway they’re also indigenous to turtle island and know better than the Palestinians 🙄 I watched this all as the mods sat silent. And when they did speak out they decided to protect the Zionists and not the people who were trying to use their freedom of speech to raise awareness of this genocide taking place right before our eyes. Instead they were more upset about us calling Zionists Nazis and fascists and terrorists and saying Hamas was justified for what they did than they were about actual people in the server outright supporting the genocide of a whole people.

and now we get to watch another hospital destroyed, patients murdered or burned to death, doctors kidnapped and killed, and we know that the iof pigs are enjoying every second of it. We have literal proof from a Haaretz article saying they’ve been allowed to just shoot people for fun. And we know that the majority of ishitreal society supports this and the colonization and displacement of Palestinians.

One year since the Al Ahli hospital was bombed by Israel and 500 people were murdered. Also one year since hgss showed its true colours. I will never forget watching people I’ve known for years try to justify this genocide to my face and get absolutely zero repercussions.

Hgss supports the genocide of Palestinians. Hgss supports colonizers and nazi fascist Zionists/jewish white supremacists/extremists. The mods may pretend to be fair. But this day last year set off a series of events that shows otherwise.

They are just as tied to the Zionist propaganda as the rest of the world is. And like the rest of the world, they’re cowards and too comfortable with the status quo to stand for what’s right.

They would have supported Hitler and any other genocider in the past if it meant keeping the server “drama free”

It’s been one year where everyone had plenty of time to educate themselves instead of expecting me or my friends to educate them (only to denounce our sources as illegitimate for being brown/muslim and not white western media). What excuse do they have now?

Hgss chose specifically to ban the topic of the genocide in Palestine and no other topics because they claimed they were not educated enough on the issue. Yet they have no problem talking about a thousand other serious topics and looking up research for that…

This is suppression of the truth, of genocide. It’s dehumanization of the Palestinians because the Israelis and Zionists in the server apparently deserve a “safe space” more than bipoc and/or Muslim members

Imagine: something who supports the colonization of an indigenous people is given more of a safe space than people speaking out against the atrocities that same colonizer supports

That’s who the Harry Get Some Sleep discord server actually is. That’s who the mods are. And the people in the server who stayed silent and didn’t stand up for what’s right or supported the Zionists are to blame for what happened. I hope this haunts them in their consciousness

For anyone who has found this account either through the Rigel Black Chronicles fanfic or have come across these quotes through your casual perusal of this website and then found the fic and/or made your way over to the Harry Get Some Sleep (HGGS) discord server...

I want to address a few things:

Those of you not living under a rock the last 10 months or so will know about the genocide happening in Palestine at the hands of Nazi Zionist Israelis and their supporters. This is not contested, but fact. I'm not here to debate this.

The HGSS server, a server where discussions of politics and world events happens frequently, decided to ban all talk of the "Israel-Palestine Conflict" back in October. The mods claimed to be unable to educate themselves thoroughly on the topic because they were "busy" and had lives outside of this server–something they could not claim for many other discussions that took place over the last few years.

This whole escalation happened after a server member and her friend both made Islamophobic remarks over a completely different subject, but which did end up crossing over into the discussion on what was happening in Gaza (which involved quite a few members, notably some who were outspoken Zionists). Obviously, the Islamophobia and racism was never fully addressed by the mods and no members were banned from the server, despite refusing to acknowledge what they did. Announcements and updates on this took forever from the mods, and it was decided that everyone would start off with a fresh slate (*rolls eyes* whatever that means). I left the server briefly during all of this because of the Islamophobia that I have had to deal with for years since being in HGSS and because of the outright genocide denial and pro-Israel/Zionist rhetoric.

I came back to HGSS because in part I missed some aspects of it and the good people I got to interact with. But I also came back because I wanted to make every single Zionist in that server uncomfortable.

The blatant Palestinian censorship by the mods and the refusal to let us discuss a genocide happening live before our eyes made me angry. I was livid. As one should be when a genocide is occurring. When I first left, I felt a little bad about how I had handled things, until I listened to a Palestinian talk about how she didn't want to be a calm, collected, "peaceful" Muslim that everyone expects you to be in order for you to be taken seriously. These times we are living in, don't call for peace and sweet words, but justice. Justice by whatever means possible. We have every reason to be angry with our voices, our chests, our eyes, and our words. And it isn't up to us to educate people who don't want to be educated and who are more upset about our anger than they are about the people being murdered by Israel and all of their supporters.

So I came back, and hung around, and things got worse and worse. How many massacres have happened in just the last few weeks, let alone couple months? You lose track of time. Every day, I would open social media and see the same things: dead bodies, people still alive while they bled out, amputated limbs on full display, headless babies, bags of flour covered in blood, starvation, bombing of hospitals, bombing of schools, people trapped under the rubble unable to be buried, dogs eating dead bodies on the street, Zionist Nazi terrorists posting pics of themselves in lingerie and laughing while bombing and destroying houses, Zionist Nazis parading half-naked Palestinian men who they've kidnapped for no reason, and hearing accounts of torture and rape. The list goes on and on and on.

I also watched as every Zionist lie fell apart–even though we knew they were liars from the start. But nothing changed. No apologies by the mods for letting server members call us rape deniers and accuse us of supporting "terrorist media sources" like Al Jazeera while NYT and BBC lied through their teeth about accusations of rape and beheaded babies. (Of course the western media sources are superior because they're unbiased and not funded by terrorism, said the usual racist, Islamophobic discord member who we all know by name for being the most problematic individual to exist in all of HGSS server history).

So me and a friend of mine began to silently protest using our nicknames in the server. And we eventually got banned thanks to a bunch of Zionist Nazis in the server who were more upset about the truth of their and Israel's actions than they were about Israel using their religion to justify a genocide. It's honestly such a classic Zionist thing to do, it would be almost funny if we weren't watching a genocide through our phones.

The warnings we got were vague and were from one mod who clearly agreed with our opinions, but was unable to say so publicly in the server. Instead we watched as Zionists accused us of the usual charges of antisemitism and denial of history. This frustration crossed onto Twitter of course because we were not allowed to discuss anything Palestine related in the server.

I stand by everything I said and did and do not apologize for any of it. Trying to argue with Zionists is like trying to talk to a brick wall. No matter how many times you tell them that you have an issue with Zionism and not Judaism, they will just refuse to hear you and conflate the two anyway. They hate any comparisons to other ethnonationalist movements like the Nazi Party or accusations of being complicit in genocide because they believe since they've experienced genocide they are somehow immune to committing genocide on others.

We were never given an explicit list of what we could or could not say, before the HGSS mods blocked us from posting on the server. So we tried to find ways around it as you do when you're being censored and surrounded by a bunch of fascist cops. I used Zio as a short form multiple times to get around the ban of using the word Zionist, a word that I was not aware was a slur since I do not believe Zionism is in any way associated with Judaism or Jews, and was never told by any mod that it was considered a slur. Less than 24 hours after not being able to post unless I found unique nicknames to continue my protest, me and my friend were both kicked out of the server. I did not receive a message or explanation of why I was being kicked out because I had blocked Rime, the main mod in the server I was told was making most of the shots and was clearly supporting the zionists in her goal to make the server "apolitical" (of note: the server is still allowed to talk about politics just not Palestine). Having zero access to the server and the conversations taking place, I had no idea Zio was a slur until I was told by a mutual who was still in the server. I stopped using the word after stating again for the hundredth time that I don't associate Zionism with Judaism and don't see a problem with a slur against Zionists (which of course was not taken well since Zionists are almost begging their war crimes to be associated with Judaism). However, the HGSS mods will have you believe that I did know this was a slur and did this on purpose in order to justify my permanent ban from the server. A server I wouldn't even want to be in, even if they begged me to return. The back and forth between me and one of the mods was later used as proof of my permanent banning from the server–except conveniently, my responses were censored as a way to hide any evidence of the mods duplicity and villainize me further.

Their purposeful misinterpretation of everything I have said and done proves their intent clearly. They did this with the pure intention of shutting down pro-Palestinians in the server and to make this server a "safer place" for Zionist Nazi terrorists. You would think after 10 months, the mods would know better, but they have clearly learned nothing and have only proven to many of us that this server has been headed in a downward spiral for years.

Just a few days ago we watched Congress give multiple standing ovations to the Hitler of our time as he spouted lies and propaganda that has been debunked by multiple news sources (including your American ones). We watched as your new fav Kamala Harris called protestors antisemitic and anti-American, lied to our faces that she wants a ceasefire while also supporting the genocidal, apartheid, illegal, colonial state of Israhell the right to defend itself which is illegal according to international law. And we saw as the White House made baseless claims that protestors are somehow funded by Iran to manufacture consent for more war and innocent bloodshed. This is the world we live in. And to have the audacity to try and make a Harry Potter discord server "apolitical" during the times we are living in right now is downright hypocritical–especially since all other discussions of politics is allowed in the server. While maybe not all the mods in the server are pro-Zionist and pro-genocide, their statement given in unison creates an environment that welcomes Zionists into this space. Zionists. Should. Not. Feel. Welcome. In. Any. Space.

HGSS is not a safe place if you are anti-zionist, anti-fascist, anti-genocide, and anti-Israel. It has not been a safe space for Muslims, disabled and neurodivergent individuals, or any marginalized communities. So if you find this tumblr account or the associating Twitter account and love the fic, but want to join the discord server, I would advise against it if you're looking for a place that will value and respect you and the people you love and hold close to your heart. It is not worth your time or your energy.

(Unless of course you want to join just to wreak havoc in the server, that I can 100% support)

If you're currently in the server, maybe take some time to consider the people you surround yourself with and whether they agree with your values and ideals. We're not just living through history, We ARE HISTORY. This is an open book test and many of you are failing it. And those of you who aren't, there are smaller ways to protest than going to DC and setting Isnotreal flags on fire (something we should do if we can, but I know is not accessible for everyone). You can make a small impact, even if it's in some niche discord server that barely anyone has heard of.