Blessed be the Cheesemakers

claiming bosnian muslims are levantine 😂😂

The result of these vain fucks coming down to protest the Cuban people rebelling against the regime that has held them hostage for 67 years, is the following;

All patients on ventilators at a Cuban hospital died after the Irish band Kneecap used all of the electricity during their “humanitarian performance” for the communists, while the performers and activists stayed in a five-star hotel with power.

Yes, this is the regime's, and the activists faults, why?

there are a lot of reasons that jews make aliyah (move to israel). but yeah: violence against jews is a pretty big reason. and then, of course, there's constant violence against jewish civilians there too. because the roots of the "jews shouldn't be there in the first place" movement is in the lunatic fringe of hamas and PFLP and palestinian islamic jihad. and their collective goal has always been to drive jews out by force, because the land belongs to arab muslims forever by right of conquest 1,400 years ago.

oh.

The reason that the Pro-Palestine movement in the West so passionately identifies with what it thinks of as ~Palestine~, and so systematically ignores, silences, and speaks over Palestine's actual activists, isn't just that its activists hate Hamas's dictatorship over Gaza.

Or have nuanced, complex takes.

Or that the progressive movement has a very fucking serious Western paternalism problem.

The core reason is that progressive Westerners think of Palestinians as doing Morally Correct Violence to Force Out Jews.

And how do white people respond to that fact?

They project their white guilt onto the Jews that survived by fleeing.

Those Jews are now the Bad European Colonizer Genociders. Actual white Europeans are off the hook; the people they tried to wipe out are the real bad guys.

They also resent having that guilt in the first place. So they project their resentment onto the same Jews, and call for them to be driven back to the lands that yeeted them.

(Which still don't want them! if someone can find me a sign in polish that demands israeli jews go back to poland, i'll pay you $20.

countless jews have been kicked out of businesses or beaten up in public for speaking hebrew, lately. not just in europe, but especially in europe. there's no fucking way anyone in the EU is yelling, "come back here.")

White people imagine Palestinians as this bewildered majority who have been exploited and brutalized by Jews.

It's an image that just makes sense. It sparks a feeling of kinship.

I am convinced that this is why it's so easy for people to believe the propaganda that Hamas & Co. put out there.

If you want to find out if you, too, have bought into the Jews Are Sus thing on some deeply unconscious level - whether you are Jewish yourself or not! because everyone can buy into shit about a group, even if they're a part of it - try this!

Take a second. Get in touch with your gut. Your intuition. Your feelings or whatever.

And then imagine realizing a friend is Jewish. Or that the author of some political article you're reading is Jewish. Or some new person who comes to your GSA or whatever is Jewish.

Is your first response that little flinch that says, "Ohhhhhhhhh. I really fucking hope they're not a BAD Jew?"

(I don't care what word you use for this. If you think "Zionist" instead, but you're ready to come at me with some shit about how #NotAllZionistsAreJewishSoIt'sNotAntisemitic, I invite you to now imagine that you realized a friend, an author, or a random newbie to your org is Christian. Just like, a random everyday Christian.

Is that usually normal to you? Or do you actually approach every owner of a cross pendant with "shit, is this a Genocidal Maniac?" Have you ghosted Jewish friends, but never even approached this topic with Christian ones? Have you ever heard of anyone protesting outside of, shooting at, spray-painting swastikas on, or firebombing a church "for Palestine"?)

because let me tell you, I've been seeing Jews talk about getting the "What's Your Opinion On Israel" litmus test since like. 2016??? Since I started following Jews on Tumblr. Which means it's probably been happening for even longer.

And the longer it's happened, the more obvious it's become that people are mentally dividing Jews into The Good Ones (Who I Like! And Support! And Have No Problem With!) and The Bad Ones.

And WE KNOW THAT'S FUCKING GROSS. EVERY SINGLE PERSON WHO IS DOING IT KNOWS, INTELLECTUALLY, THAT DIVIDING A MARGINALIZED GROUP INTO THE GOOD ONES AND THE BAD ONES IS A BAD FUCKING SIGN! But every single person who is doing it has a mental exception for at least the Jews!

"we just need to show jews they don't need israel"

Except they never actually bother to do this. No one who advocates for Palestine ever actually says "Hey, Yemen, you need to repatriate your entire Jewish population and enact laws that make them safe in their communities."

It's all "a curse on the Jews" and "death to Israel" after deporting all their Jewish people there. Not one of these people has ever actually bothered to be like "hey, what's making Jews feel unsafe in my community" and actually doing jack shit to make it safer.

Let me sum this up simply so you might understand.

Jewish people: yayyyyyyyyy woohooooooo yeehawwwww giddyUP

they will say “Zionism means the oppression of the Palestinians around Israel by Israel.”

explain why they are murdering random jews in diaspora, attacking shuls, intimidating jews, protesting at shuls/ schools etc

not only did our families live through the horror that was the ussr but now we gotta be reminded of that shit constantly in the community that we're supposed to share as queer people

not to mention that the ussr wasnt even communist it was just fascist. why are u communists using the symbols of fascists. it just looks like ur idolizing a fascist state.

off the top of my head:

the rose (which is more a demsoc/socdem symbol but is a cool looking one)

the three arrows (a very standard 'anti authoritarian leftist' symbol which represents being against fascism monarchy and authoritarian 'communists')

the black cat (a symbol very often used by syndicalists)

the symbolless red and black flags (or any of the diagonal combo anarchist flags)

the raised fist (commonly associated with BLM nowadays but has historically been connected to left wing stuff in general)

or if youre a complete weirdo like me some people identify with the chaos star (most commonly seen in warhammer 40k but originally created by noted anarchist fantasy author michael moorcock)

oh my god yeah the soviet national anthem meme always weirds me out because its still used to this day, at least on any of the russian news channels

i used to hear that play all the time when i was growing up because my family had access to a handful of russian tv channels

it being associated with communist memes put that shit in an entirely new perspective for me

like do you have any idea how frustrating it is to go 'yes, everyone's been saying this for YEARS, you didn't care because you thought everyone against this were unworthy of your attention'.

Brain farts, a thread

Nothing upsets the bigots and haters more than seeing Noam's beaming expressions of joy and of pride.