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Today is a good day to remind the Islamists and their supporters that Jews are from Judea (Israel) and the Islamists are the invaders and occupiers, not the other way around.

In 70 CE, Romans destroyed the Jewish temple and attempted to banish the Jews from Jerusalem. Simply because the Jews would not go silently into the night, dared fight back, and attempted to thwart the most technologically advanced army the world knew at that time.

We Jews commemorate this Roman invasion and colonization, by observing the Tisha B'Av annual fast.

This proof of Jewish indigeneity is literally carved in archaeological artifacts and in this case, carved in stone, depicted the Frieze on the Arch of Titus in Rome. This arch depicts Roman soldiers carrying the relics and loot, stolen from the Jewish temple. Look at the Menorah. Jews still use the same candlesticks and symbols.

So what is "Palestine"? Roman Emperor Hadrian renamed the land (Judea) to "Palestine", to attempt erasure of any connection with the Jews.

Muslim identity and religion was created more than 500 years later (in 600 CE). And Muslims started calling themselves "Palestinians" only much much later.

There is absolutely no way to twist history so that Palestinians appear before Jews. But it doesn't stop some people from trying...

Does indigeneity matter? Do Native Americans deserve their own land, or that might makes right, and European colonizers should be allowed to displace them? Native Americans have 56.2 million acres of land, governed by Native American Tribal nations that own them. This colored to about 4.8 million acres of land administered by Israel.

If you do not believe that indigeneity matters, if you believe who co where'd last is what counts, then guess what? We still arrive at the same place.

Like Yuval is a perfect example of moving the goalpost. He has described himself as an antizionist, helped raise money for people in Gaza - more than the average person too.

Yet he is being called a zionist online for speaking out about holocaust denial, which is antisemitism, as well as the jews control the world trope, which is also antisemitism.

To a fuck ton of people online, he is considered a zionist, despite literally not being one. Therefore, to a fuck ton of people, he deserve to die.

Whether or not you yourself, want all jews dead, if you think all zionist jews should die, you are at the very least enabling those who move the goalpost to include all jews, in who they want dead, to A) think it's okay to want all jews dead and B) to act on their thoughts.

And like, this is ignoring how zionists should not even be subject to being killed as it is low-key facist to kill someone for their political opinion + 80% - 90% of the Jewish population are self identified zionists so even wanting the majority of jews dead for virtue of political opinion is also fucked.

If you’ve ever noticed how the “Zionism = Settler Colonialism” narrative eerily shares the core components of the far right’s Replacement Theory (that there are 1. Jews 2. conspiring to invade a given place and 3. replace the population with Jews), this is why; it’s because the idea that Zionism is Settler Colonialism came from a literal Nazi.

But can we all take a moment to appreciate sanctimonious Tumblr terrorist-sympathisers?

How many instances are there of comments or messages from this platform’s best and brightest that threaten someone pro-Israel with violence?

How many comments are there telling supporters of Israel to kill themselves or some other wildly inventive iteration of the insult? Even on posts that are mourning the deaths of the innocent, and condemning the brutal murders of men, women, children, and animals, these people are relentless.

I do often wonder what they think comments like that achieve relative to their larger cause. It doesn’t solve anything at all, and if anything, hinders support for their side if the only meaningful additions they can make are death threats.

It’s very telling that they can’t make any coherent arguments or rebuttals and they resort to aggressive ad hominem attacks. They don’t have anything significant or mature to contribute to the discourse. They don’t want to engage in the conversation.

It’s almost as if their instincts are to just automatically attack someone for their beliefs and call for violence against them… like terrorists…

*gets up on a stage*

*takes a deep breath*

*screams*

Okay. First: if a certain region is called in a certain name, it doesn't mean it's a country.

Secondly:

Israel (1948-now)

Before that, the British Mandate on Palestine (1920-1948):

Not a country.

Before that, the Ottoman empire (1516-1918):

Not a country.

Before that, the Mamluk Sultanate (1258-1516):

Not a country.

Before that, the crusades (1096-~1250)

Not a Palestinian country.

Before that, the Muslim conquest (~600-1074):

Not a Palestinian country.

Before that, the Eastern Roman empire - the Byzantine empire (390-634):

Not a Palestinian country.

Before that, the Roman empire (64BCE-390):

And before that, there are even more empires, but it isn't important, because there was something else in this area in that time:

Kingdoms of Israel and Judea

Before that were the Canaanites, a few minority nations that lived in the area that are now extinct (nobody really knows what happened to them).

So, no. No Palestine.

The name itself, Palestine, was given to the region during the Roman empire. They named it as some sort of a "fuck you" to the Jews that lived in Judea in that time, in an act that was meant to erase the history of Jews in Judea.

It was named after the Philistines, a small nation that lived in the area as well. And no, nowadays Palestinians aren't descendants of them. The Philistines are gone.

The Jews, on the other hand, are most certainly not.

Now, a point to think about:

If Palestine existed as you claim, can you tell me when it was established? What was the name of the prime minister/king/whoever else that ruled it? What were the borders? What was the army? Coin? Passport?

There was no Palestine. It was never a country.

While that is true, a lot of parents will do that and fail to see how their own actions are the problem.

If you've spanked him, he's less likely to understand consent.

If you've forced him to sit on Santa's lap, he's less likely to understand consent.

If you've forced him to give hugs and kisses to family members, he's less likely to understand consent.

If you've grabbed him in order to force him to sit still, he's less likely to understand consent.

If you've labeled him as "too sensitive" for not wanting to be touched, he's less likely to understand consent.

If you've assumed he's okay with something because he technically allowed it even though he felt pressured, he's less likely to understand consent.

One of my sisters has young children, both of whom are some flavor of neurodivergent. She is too, and as a result she often lost patience quickly with some of their quirks. The biggest offender is that her kids are extremely wary around anyone they deem to be a stranger, making social connection very difficult for all participants.

When I first met her daughter, she was 3 or 4, and was extremely reluctant to come and meet me. My sister began to shame and push and pull her towards me and I stopped her. I said "don't force her, don't teach her that she has to let men she doesn't know touch her, she doesn't need to hug me"

My sister froze in place, processed it for a moment, and let her daughter go. She went back to hiding behind mom. We continued our conversation and her son slowly approached me, hugged me, and climbed up onto the chair I was in to sit beside me and partially in my lap. After a few minutes, her daughter joined him. She didn't hug me, but she came over to touch and talk to me.

My sister was speechless. Her kids DON'T do that. I've heard many complaints from many family members about how antisocial they are. All I did was stick up for their right to offer or withdraw consent- and really just her daughter's, as her son had met me pre-covid and had already gotten over the hurdle at 2 years old, but her daughter was born during covid and thus it made her severe distrust of strangers even worse.

Now her kids are in elementary school and making friends easily and I regularly get stories from her about how she witnesses them connect with other socially withdrawn kids and stand up for both themselves and their quieter friends. She took my advice to heart and started allowing them to voice whether they consented to something and now her little boy will approach a crying kid on the playground and say something like "do you want to play, or do you want me to just sit with you, or do you want to be alone?" and then actually listen to what the other kid tells him.

My niece has an incredibly traumatized boy in her class who escaped war with his family, and he doesn't talk to anyone. But he visibly relaxes when my niece goes to sit next to him when he's too scared and curled up in the classroom's Quiet Corner. She reads to him and shows him her toys and holds his hand on field trips and yells at anyone who is mean to him. I'm told she's the only person who can approach or touch him without causing a meltdown besides his family, and it started because the first time she sat with him she asked if it was okay if she did so and she waited several minutes for him to nod before she sat down.

But they still avoid the family members that forced them to interact even when they were uncomfortable. I still hear those complaints, hundreds of miles away, and the jealousy that I've only met the kids a few times but they talk incessantly about me. If I call one of my family members and the kids are over, I can hear them in the background trying to talk to me if they figure out it's me on the other line.