Added June 10th, 2025: I realize that because this blog is an angry-driven one, things may need to be calmly laid out and that's fine by me! It's the Internet.

What's my stance on the conflict?

I don't like death or people killing each other.

Up to you to believe me or not. Though if you're the type to just scream at a person's inbox, there's a chance I'll just block you. It's a blog in the public, yes, but here's a really handy-dandy phrase from the fandom community:

Don't like, don't read.

"There's a genocide--"

There are dozens happening. The world sucks and is scary. It was sucky and scary before you were born and yet here you are, alive and well and picking fights with strangers online.

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Hi everybody! This is my separate account from my main one where I vomit out all of my thoughts and feelings and rage (imagine No Face) without making my happy place fandom blog get gunked up.

Or another way to put it, I don't wanna see really depressing news on my feed between pictures of guys going at each other (violently or sexually or both). Kinda tasteless and tacky if you ask me.

If I'm following you on my fun and main and proper account, I'll probably let you know. I'll still post about fandom but from an angrier and snider stance because of how the conflict itself has become a fucked up fandom of its own! And it'd be general fandom not the ones I'm specifically in.

The Confilct = I/P one

If I reblog with a comment it's me expressing thoughts. If you respond and I don't it's probably because I had nothing to add, thought I responded, or just outright forgot because that's how it be sometimes.

As for the picture and banner--it's a picture I took of the pathway to Belzec and the banner is also of Belzec.

My grandmother's cousins and aunt were murdered there. Or on the way. Or maybe both since there were 4 kids and a mom to spread it out. Who knows! The place served its purpose in wiping out the local Jewish population, so it didn't need to stay up and running for long.

Because I can't counter lies if I don't know where they came from or how they came to be in the first place.

I’m also on r/Jewish left and I think what you’re talking about is basically because there’s a group of r/jewsofconscience posters there as well. They’re generally the ones saying people on r/jewishleft aren’t actually leftist because we think antisemitism is; A) Real and B) A bad thing. Or making posts about how Jews need to stop being Jewish and admit they’re just white people.

Ugh I'd believe it.

A user who was a mod at r/BDS and possibly the JOC sub. They haven't shown up in jewishleft for a while, but that doesn't mean other JOC users aren't in the sub.

JOC is a, uh, fascinating place. But that would probably explain the weird back-and-forth about antisemitism on the jewishleft sub :/

It isn't r/JewsOfConscience level self-hating, but it's got some members in there that make me feel like the sub has turned into a "good ole boys" club.

Accusations from the flotilla should be taken seriously, but I am bothered by how quick that sub is to being okay with taking every accusation at face value. And the way comments get completely wiped away for no discernible reason is baffling. A reasonable post can be made, but if the mods disagree with it it gets removed. Yet some dipshit bro can say "you keep going on about that" in regards to rape denial can stay?

And I won't lie, there is a part of me that is going "Oh, okay, once again the victims aren't Jewish, so we aren't going to try to get to the truth of the matter" and it's making me just not want to engage. Apologize for downplaying or denying what happened on October 7th and then perhaps I'll give listening a chance.

Also Kristof article being accepted on there despite dubious sourcing is just...YES ACTUALLY A BAD THING?? With how they will shred sources from Jews or Israel but take it for face value if it makes Israel look bad is disappointing.

The video maker is making good points about people being stupid over this. Her then going that the land is Palestinian and "people started showing up around...I forget when, I want to say the 1950s?" made me want to fucking die because holy fuck people have strong thoughts and feelings on this situation and are this ignorant about it

Do we have a prayer/comment for being grateful for diversity of thought because I feel like I need one now to avoid the pitfalls of black and white thinking. On the one hand I'm glad she's saying the reaction is batshit bananas, but also how incurious do you have to be to not look at a basic ass timeline?