The Midnight Compass

All it takes to respect and want the best for Palestinian people, including an end to the violence they're subjected to, and support for their self determination, is a recognition of their humanity and inherent equality, but in the ideological framework of some of these people, being human isn't enough - you must also be pure and free of any kind of possible wrongdoing.

In some people's minds, it's ok to hurt the bad guys, good even. And the thing that makes the bad guys bad can be inherited from ancestry. So they need to prove that the side they support is inherently good, and the side they don't is inherently bad. They need to trace this goodness or badness throughout all of history to demonstrate this.

It's a fundamentally racist way of thinking. It's inherently violent.

It hasn't occurred to some that neither of these groups is inherently bad or good. That neither possess any kind of intrinsic quality of purity or sin. They don't consider that they should be evaluating people's actions as individuals over their membership in either group.

we’ve been telling leftists for years that they’ve recycled the right wing evangelism and authoritarian politics of their parents into a “leftist” version that informs on why so many leftists will so easily swallow authoritarian ideas and actions and lies and i for one am getting sick of being gentle with them about this bs

like we’re literally at the point where leftists will swallow ahistorical shit and conspiracy theories with the same ease their parents will swallow bs from fox news or qanon

i’m seeing propaganda and outright lies about jews and palestinians every single day and it’s not trumpers parroting this nonsense but 20-something leftists, and these 20-somethings are using these lies to dehumanize jews and palestinians alike — because why would only being in the region for a few hundred years make it suddenly ok that palestinians are experiencing a humanitarian crisis of horrific proportions, and why would you lie about jewish indigeneity to the land of israel if you weren’t convinced that indigenous = good and righteous while not indigenous = bad and evil

and don’t even get me started on how this is all coming through the lens of western political theory and western definitions of race/racism

we’ve been telling leftists for years that y’all are disturbingly susceptible to propaganda, to authoritarianism, etc, and you people just keep on leaning into it

I think a bit part of why this is happening is because some of these ideologies are thought of as "cool" and so people jump on board without any understanding of these ideologies or their histories.

To be frank, the amount of genocide denial from leftists I notice, as a Buddhist, is insane. Especially from people citing Noam Chomsky. I'm tired of telling people that the Cambodian genocide happened, for example. But there are even more cases.

What especially bothers me is the accusations towards other ideologies of imperialism because Marxist ideology is notable for its imposition as a Western ideology onto non-Western cultures.

allow me to translate what he said into the speak of a rational human being "I can't believe people believe a widely accepted historical fact that nearly no historian or anthropologist denies"

Anti-(((zionists))) can't help but show their ass constantly with what they actually are: anti-semites.

Hi! Mizrahi Jew here! Not only is my family from Israel but has been in Israel *long before the Modern State of Israel was a thing*. I myself was not born or raised there as due to the ever-constant threat of war and violence we moved to Norway.

Please dear Naz- I mean "anti-(((zionists)))" explain to me how the continuous presence of Jews in Israel makes sense if we're not indigenous to the land? why every major historian and anthropologist affirms our connection to the land? why our ancestral holy book, holy language, and basically everything about us points to a Middle Eastern orign? Why so many of the towns have ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE of Jewish presence all the way down to the NAMES OF THE PLACES THEMSELVES.

I have no ill will toward Palestinians and wish for them to be free from Hamas and all the suffering that the various organizations have caused. But don't pretend our existence in that land is the problem when that is OUR LAND.

*some countries are recognized by only themselves or by only one or two other countries. They are not on this list.

--North Korea (1949)

--South Korea (1949)

--Bhutan (1949)

--Indonesia (1949)

--Libya (1950)

--Sudan (1956)

--Cameroon (1960)

--Togo (1960)

--Somalia (1960)

--Samoa (1962)

--Burundi (1962)

--Rwanda (1962)

--Jamaica (1962)

--Trinidad and Tobago (1962)

--Tanzania (1964)

--Singapore (1965)

--Nauru (1968)

--Equatorial Guinea (1968)

--Bangladesh (1971)

--Guinea-Bissau (1974)

--Mozambique (1975)

--Cape Verde (1975)

--São Tomé and Principe (1975)

--Papua New Guinea (1975)

--Angola (1975)

--Suriname (1975)

--Marshall Islands (1986)

--Micronesia (1986)

--Namibia (1990)

--Yemen (1990, itself made up of states younger than Israel)

--Slovenia (1991)

--Croatia (1991)

--Republic of Macedonia (1991)

--Bosnia and Herzegovina (1992)

--Czech Republic (1993)

--Slovakia (1993)

--Eritrea (1993)

--Palau (1994)

--Timor-Leste (2002)

--Montenegro (2006)

--Serbia (2006)

--Kosovo (2008)

--South Sudan (2011)

These kids have grown up under military occupation, checkpoints, bombings, home demolitions, and laws that erase their families’ rights. They’ve seen their land taken, their loved ones killed, their futures stolen. And then you act shocked when their anger shows ?

The narcissism is honestly staggering. you push a people to the breaking point, then point at their reaction as proof you were right all along. That’s not concern for children, that’s using their trauma as propaganda.

If you really cared about Palestinian kids, you’d ask why they live under siege, not why they’re angry about it.

pro pallies whenever there’s an opportunity to defend jew hate:

palestinian arabs have not been evicted. they are not the indigenous population. in fact, they built towns ON OUR FUCKING CEMETERIES AFTER CONQUERING THE REGION IN 634 CE. most are descended from either arabs who conquered the region forcibly or arabized egyptians who came to the area under the mandate to WORK. they admit this in their media.

they also say they only want the land because of a waqf.

they took and renamed OUR cities. they destroyed OUR heritage sites. they taught their children to hate us not because we did anything, but because antisemitism is baked into islamism. it always was, from the actual caliphate being pissed we wouldnt convert all the way to panarabism to the black hand movement to the grand mufti to the arab league and their armies to the muslim brotherhood to hamas and the pflp/plo/pa.

this is why hamas states “our struggle against the jews is very great” in their charter. and why they invoke the massacre of jews in saudi arabia muhammad ordered in “khaybar khaybar ya yahud,” their favorite chant. why all of their rhetoric is just poor echos of ancient jew hatred that people like fuck ass @that-palestinianthezionistshate fall for pathetically quickly.

No, they are antisemitic for decades of ignoring attacks on Israeli civilians , being extremely biased and literally supporting terrorists . And i think you know that… do a google search or I don’t know, listen to Jews.

Anyways, Here are a few reasons:

-calling out Israel more than any other country, while there are countries in their board that are actual dictatorships with apartheid & genocide .

They’re fixated on Israel.

-only holding Israel for agreements made while ignoring the fact that other parties have been violating the terms (aka harming Israeli civilians, amassing an army& weapons , moving past certain borders, etc).

*Aka what’s happening with Hezbollah& Hamas over the last 20 years ,,,

-ignoring the events of October 7th for almost a year: kidnapping of civilians, mass murder and torture , women being raped as a weapon of war , etc.

The UN has a long history of being antisemitic and anti- Israel.

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Instead of actually helping Palestinian refugees, the UN donated money and resources to literal terrorists. It perpetuates the narrative that they are refugees instead of actually resolving the issue.

Hell they let a terrorist organisation control the Gaza Strip for years. Said terrorists are higher ups in UNWRA…

Some reading:

For every other refugee population, the priority is finding them a stable place to live, not sending them back to the place they fled from or were driven out of.

And instead of trying to get these people citizenship and the right to vote and engage with their governments, the UN instead says that they're refugees and should eventually be returned.

Imagine saying "Wanting Palestine to exist is Arab supremacist because it supports an Arab state run by Arabs."

So I'm struggling with how much blame, how much personal culpability, there can be for people like, for example, Greta Thunberg, or other Gen-Z "antizionists", who have been deliberately and intentionally mousetrapped into cheering for a literal mass murderer and rapist in Sinwar. Because an enormous amount of money and effort went into trapping them with this belief system.

But on the other hand, they're actively abandoning their previously-claimed principles en masse--as feminists, as minority group supporters, as progressives--in order to embrace the "Antizionist" belief system.

There's more in the formal report, but just the summary has this bit:

 “We have injuries all over our bodies, everything is swollen. We went through what felt like a terror attack. It was horrifying.”

An Israeli mother, 62, and her daughter, 23, were brutally beaten in Thailand by a French tourist.

“He started beating me viciously,” the mother said. “My daughter tried to protect me and was beaten too. We both fought him. I was hit in the head, and at some point I apparently lost consciousness.”

The two women were on the Thai island of Koh Phangan when they were approached by a French national asking where they were from. When they said Israel, he became irate and demanded a debate.

They told him they did not want to discuss Israel/Palestine, and he appeared to walk away, after stating he was "against violence." Then he launched himself at the mother and started biting her ear and punching her until she lost consciousness.

Attacking women on vacation will not help Palestinians. Everyone silent about this violence isn't helping anyone, either. 

All you are doing is harming innocent Jews.

>tries to beat two strangers to death solely based on where they're from

BONUS

Me: you will not earn what you desire by banging the cabinet door.

My cat: This is a test of wills, is it not? We shall see if your ability to put up with my incessant banging outlasts my eternal lust for snackie treats. Years of conditioning have hardened me for this purpose. bang bang bang

Me: ksst!

My cat, throwing herself to the ground like she's been shot: Oh! Oh I have been assailed in my own home! Have mercy, have pity! Surely in the cruel darkness of your heart there is some mote of goodness that might stay your hand! Do not strike me, I pray you!

Me: ok