poetry in a silent world

The word evolver from the Latin "subtilis" which became "sotil" in Old French. So we kept the Latin spelling and the French pronunciation!

Subtilis means "fine, thin, slender."

Another fun fact - there's a bacteria called bacillus subtilis and, as you can guess, it is thin and slender! It has been used as an extremophile survival indicator in outer space, which involves testing whether an organism can survive extreme conditions. A strain of it is also used to make the Japanese food natto, or fermented soybeans, which I simply did not have the courage to try when I was in Japan.

The word evolver from the Latin "subtilis" which became "sotil" in Old French. So we kept the Latin spelling and the French pronunciation!

I don’t hate Jewish people. I don’t even necessarily hate Israel or think it should cease to exist completely. I do think that the Israeli government needs to be held responsible for the decades of Palestinian oppression and should be required to give back stolen land. What happened last October was horrible and I condemn Hamas’s actions; but ultimately, I think the Israeli government is to blame.

I’m not sure there’s a “best” way because people can be generally unreasonable when discussing the topic regardless of how you approach it. Many equate antizionism with antisemitism which is not fair. You can criticize Israel, the state, and their Zionist campaign without being anti-Jewish.

It has an amazing section in the middle addressing various questions regarding Palestinian liberation and touches upon this argument too.