RandomLini

In reality what it did was something both sides can't stand, actually making the world a better place

i really dislike the notion that the people who colonized and destroyed my people's native land and forcibly converted indigenous people are equally indigenous as the people they colonized and forcibly converted. or that their descendants who openly identify with said colonizing empire are equally indigenous.

Friendly reminder that Antisemitism is a term coined SPECIFICALLY to mean Jew hatred. Every Arab and Middle Eastern person calling themselves a semite as a deflection when someone calls them Antisemitic has a fundamental misunderstanding of the term, and a deeply rooted hatred of Jews that they won't care if they're wrong, only that they hurt Jews in the process. Semitic is used to refer to a group of languages. A semite is someone who belongs to those who speak said languages, Antisemitism, AGAIN, IS SPECIFICALLY TO MEAN JEW HATRED! THAT IS ALL IT IS! Stop trying to take away our ability to identify hatred and then attempting to turn it back on us saying that WE'RE Antisemitic bc you're "semitic"

pro palestiniks are so fundamentally stupid they’d hear about kibbutzniks draining israel's malaria swamps and call it ecological imperialism

Because they envision Palestinians as needing to fit the model of the Ecological Indigene™ whose close relationship with and stewardship of the land was in perfect harmony, and hence they envision the state of abject ecological degradation and collapse the land was in for centuries under imperial Greco-Roman and Islamic rule as a romanticized, natural state that had been carefully nurtured and undisturbed since time immemorial. When in fact the colony of Palestine was such a blight on the native ecosystems that dozens of keystone species went extinct, most of the land was unnaturally desertified and swampified, and during several historic periods experienced such long and intense famines and droughts that human population declined drastically because most of the country was uninhabitable. Invasive species like tzabar - originating in Mexico - were heavily adopted and spread by settler communities, many staple crops like our ancient grape cultivars and date palms were wiped out, and things like our terrace farms (madregot or ma‘alot) and other native landscaping practices that used to keep local ecosystems and water systems and soils were mostly destroyed. Almost all large carnivores like lions, bears, monitor lizards, and crocodiles were extirpated due to overhunting, habitat destruction, and extinction of a lot of their original prey species: oryxes, hartebeests, onagers, ostriches, etc. Ancient Israel was not filled with swamps and deserts. Romantic nationalists see images of "Palestine before Zionism" and interpret its decay and neglect as being the normative condition - or even a beautiful indigenous cultivation - when the truth is that before Zionism, the colony of Palestine's exploitation of, violence against, and apathy towards the land and its oldest inhabitants brought it to ruin.

no joke i've seen plenty of lefties call aborting after a down syndrome test "genocide" and "eugenics" and post shit like "imagine if my mom aborted me just because i was autistic.....#SoSad" like there is definitely a wider discussion to be had about destigmatizing developmental disabilities and neurodivergence but truly shocking that the conclusion they come to is to force people to give birth. or at the very least guilt them into it

if your "queer safe space" bans the star of david then it is not a safe space.