Sigh In A Storm

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YEAH, THAT'S HER!

So Muslims and Christians have a right to certain sites in Israel because they have deep religious significance, but Jews don’t? They have no right to their own damn indigenous land? To the birthplace of their entire culture, religion, language, and identity? The amount of mental gymnastics and Jew hatred required to make these statements is mind numbing.

And for anyone that’s curious, Muslims and Christians already can and have been to Jerusalem for decades. The whole “Jerusalem is for everyone” is so fucking stupid because literally anyone can visit already. And this argument is even more rich when considering the Temple Mount, the literal holiest site in Judaism, has highly restricted access to non-Muslims. Jews cannot visit their own holiest site without massive restrictions and they are not allowed to pray there. Only as recent as this year have SOME Jews been allowed to pray there (discreetly and out of sight). They’re facing these restrictions in their own indigenous land, no less! You would think since Israel is a “Jewish supremacist” country they’d get rid of these restrictions in their own fucking capital city.

I understand and embrace how he intended it, and why he had this.

many of the people saying this phrase now think he deserved to be brutally murdered after months of torture and starvation.

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New followers, I am a Modern Jewish and Holocaust historian. This means topics like Zionism and Israel are inherent aspects of my field, regardless of whatever my personal politics may be. I also write about Holocaust survivors who were Zionists and/or moved to the Southern Levant in the second half of the 1940s. I will not be doing apologia for them. If you can't cope with those topics existing sans 800 disclaimers about my own status as a Cool Jew [tm], then this is not the right blog for you.

I would also suggest that you avoid interacting with Modern Jewish History if you refuse to cope with the existence of stuff like Israel or Zionism. The practice of history doesn't care about your politics; not yours, and certainly not mine.

FINALLY

don't reply to my content about Jewish history with OH BUT XYZ IS HAPPENING IN PALESTINE RIGHT NOW

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The instant response to El-Sayed being sexist and conspiratorial to Stevens, a highly accomplished female lawmaker is "Calling a muslim mysoginistic is relying on the trope of Muslim Man as unrepentant savage" Here it is:

If the good faith liberal apologizes, the dishonest interlocutor has won. This person is bigoted themselves, and is essentially super okay with using Platner/El Sayed/Chevalier/Mamdani to beat "Libs" and especially minorities who don't get into line, so if their representatives are accurately criticized for the bigotry they show (And they're all demonstrably bigoted) this is instantly flipped back on the good-faith liberal. What this does is give DSA entryists and particularly Muslim men or people these predominately white, upper middle class DSAers are running defense for freedom to say and do whatever they want using the 'noble savage'/they just don't know any better/YOURE holding them to biased standards of western civility" attack. And it is an attack. And it relies on not holding public figures accountable for their own words and actions because they have the right enemies. Women, Black Democrats, Jews, and the other minorites who don't get into line. They're not here to fight the GOP. Here it is in context:

Here's the same thing on Tumblr:

"Mamdani doesn't know any better and it's racist to call him out for what he may or may not be doing, you should focus on the WHITE DEMOCRAT CHRISTIANS. HES A BLORBO" Here's a link to the post:

This is their new move. Policing by outright accusation, being bigoted about their Sufficiently Diverse Blorbos themselves (By holding them to lower standards) and then relying on other people to further police for them