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June 27th, 2016, The End of the Galaxy premieres on Disney XD.  June 27th, 2026, The End of the Galaxy celebrates its 10th anniversary. 

Happened across a pj library stand, picked up a book. Woman who runs it, sweet mother type with a tischel and all goes "just so you be aware, it has gay romance in it"

I lightly tap my they/them pin

Many people don't see anything wrong with this phrase: what about it? Just a call for a free Palestine. The obvious question is, free from what, exactly? But that is not my point just yet.

Let's start with which phrase is actually used in the Palestinian protests, not in the west where it is translated for you. courtesy of u/pitstawp on reddit, quoting:

Modern Standard Arabic (formal register): ** min an-nahr il l-bahr, filastin-sa tatHarrar. ** From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free. I guess you might hear this on a news broadcast like al-Jazeera, or a political speech, or a dinner, etc.

Palestinian Arabic (less formal register): ** min il-mayye l-il-mayye, filastin arabayye. ** From the river to the sea, Palestine will be **Arab.** This is way more common, anecdotally. It's what you'd likely hear at a protest. It's in the more colloquial Palestinian dialect, and it's got an explicit Arab-nationalist/Palestinian-nationalist connotation. You can see it sprayed all over the West Bank, and I would assume Gaza too, though IDK. I don't know how old it is, but definitely several decades.

To simplify, the version the public and foreigners get is a call for freedom, while the protesters call for an arab only territory. But what territory is it? Let's look at that, too. Here is a map of Israel and Palestine

Now, some people who got their knowledge of the conflict from half-baked tiktoks don't even know palestine is not a single chunk of land: it's divided into two parts, West Bank and Aza Strip. Between them lay Israel. Now let me outline to you the territory between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea:

For this territory to be arab, it would imply the wiping of jews from Israel and establishing an arab territory in its place.

Using this phrase when you simply mean you want Palestine to be free, of whatever it is you think it's occupied by, is like using exempts from Hitler's manifestos as motivational speech.

I don't think I had a choice any more than those Jews in the desert. I didn't choose this, Hashem chose me just like He chose all Jews. I guess I could technically refuse to follow Hashem's guidance, leading me home. But if the choice is to be left alone in the desert, never finding home, is it really a choice?

And I'm not even in any hurry to finish my official conversion. If it takes 10 years that's just fine. But I don't think I can ever live without Hashem and the Jewish community again.

That's so funny…

I just came across this post. I don't follow, but it's funny.

You say "you love your Jewish friends" but you are against Zionism and pro-Israel ideology -

that means you don't want them to have a safe homeland, or in other words you "love Jews" but only of a "certain kind", not all of them…

And what a charming info you gave here.. From AL JAZEERA and Hamas' Wikipedia... That says it all. The MASTER of Hamas propaganda. nice!

I don't label my politics, but I'm what someone would call on the left. I spent my teenage years when Tumblr social justice was at its height. I learned things, checked my own biases, and I would like to think became a more empathetic person because of what I learnt from online progressive spaces.

The way these spaces have treated Jewish communities over the past 2.5 years has been nothing short of fucking appalling.

The worst massacre of Jews since the Holocaust was minimised, denied, justified, or outright celebrated.

Jewish people were immediately told to put their grief and trauma over this to away, because Palestine's pain was more important to talk about.*

Jewish and Israeli people were told they needed to try and understand why armed men raped, tortured, and killed members of their community. Because, you know, the murderous rapists are who we need to have sympathy for here. Anyone can be pushed to the point of, I don't know, murdering a young woman and parading her corpse around a street for men to spit on her dead body. If you really think about it, isn't that actually kind of an understandable thing to do?

When raising concerns over the rising antisemitism that was starting to look a lot like the build-up to that little historical tidbit called The Holocaust, Jews were told they were selfish for raising the issue.

When asking people not to call for intifadas that have historically resulted in thousands of dead Jews, they're told they're taking it all the wrong way.

When Israeli victims spoke of the abuse they received on Oct 7 and in captivity, they're told they need to stay silent because otherwise they risk justifying the genocide of Palestinians.

When 15 people were murdered at a Hannukah festival, there were no social media icons, no surge from progressive groups to find out what support they needed.

To be clear here, progressive groups seem more concerned with antisemitism in the Harry Potter books than they are about the actual, you know, string of dead Jews that have been murdered over the past few years. If you condemn antisemitic representations in diction and then turn around and completely ignore real-life fucking murder, then I'm sorry I genuinely do not think you ever gave a shit about fighting antisemitism, you just wanted to fight Jk Rowling. **

Absolutely fuck everyone who has justified or denied what happened on Oct 7th. There were ways to advocate for both Israeli and Palestinian victims, but the people who should have known better have ensured that Oct 7th wasn't just one day of hell for Jewish communities, but that its been currently 2.5 years of hell that seems to just be getting worse.

And the most infuriating part is the people who did justify Oct 7th will never admit they were wrong, because that would mean admitting they argued that the murder rape mutilation torture and kidnap of a Jewish community was acceptable, and that would break their brains. I mean it. The cognitive dissonance between believing you are someone who cares for human rights, whilst also being someone who justified all of that, is too great. The brain will always protect itself. Its why people are currently doubling down on there being no rapes on Oct 7th. Rape is not resistance, it is not self defence, it is not landback, it is not right of return, it is not decolonisation, it is not any of the shit people tell themselves Oct 7th was. Rape is just rape. It is just men torturing people (mainly women) for no other reason than because they enjoy it. You will never see these people admitting rape occurred, because the second they do is the second they realise just how horrifically they have behaved.

And it's not getting better. Hate crimes and murders of worldwide Jewish communities are rising. Jewish people are looking to leave places like the US, UK and Australia, which were once considered some of the safest places for them to live. A KKK slur (zio) is now common online usage. Jewish people are expected to sever any connection to an important part of their culture (Israel/Hebrew) in order to be treated somewhat civily. The more IDF crimes are uncovered in Gaza, the more worldwide Jewish communities bear the brunt of the anger. Typing 'Jewish' into any social media brings you into an absolute clusterfuck of the most horrific things you can possibly see people say about their fellow human beings.

I am just sick and exhausted and furious and it feels like I'm hitting my fists against a brick wall that is not knocking down. How do you even get people to realise how bad this is????

I am not Jewish. I know full well that Jewish people talking about all of this get ignored. I know full well that a Jewish person standing up for Palestine gets thousands of notes, and a Jewish person standing up for their own people barely breaks 100. I know full well that Jewish people are being smeared as paranoid or crazy or selfish. I know full well that non-Jewish people speaking up about antisemitism is taken more seriously than Jewish people talking about their own experiences.

Can you all just start fucking having some fucking empathy for Jewish and Israeli communities who have been facing the worst 2 years of their lives. Fucking please. It is not that fucking hard to feel empathy for lots of groups at once. To empathise with both Palestine and Israel, Muslims and Jews. Empathy for all is part of what brings us away from just being animals and makes us human.

If you can't do it, it is not an issue with Jews or Israelis or Zionists or the IDF, it is an issue with you.

*I am not saying Palestinian pain isn't important to raise awareness of, and the people fearing what the IDF would do immediately after Oct 7th were right to raise it. I'm saying asking Jewish communities to take on the trauma of Palestinians, when they were still reeling from their own inter-community trauma, was wrong and unhelpful. I wouldn't ask Palestinian communities to have centered the trauma of Oct 7th either. Trauma is not a competition and everyone deserves to have their respective pain treated fairly.

We all know that’s bullshit because if you did spend all your time writing “Free Palestine” comments underneath everyone’s posts — more than just Jewish people would be complaining.