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-mass buy in from the SE Asian subcontinent to the British Isles. I’m talking government, populace, infrastructure, the whole nine yards. Every government from Bangladesh to Morocco to Scotland will have to issue immigration papers, determine sources of income, and set up social safety nets. Etc etc etc.

That in turn will require:

-populations the world over to commit themselves to never creating an environment so hostile to Jews that Jews come to feel that a nation state in the Southern Levant is the only option.

Now let’s go full idealistic. Let’s say that the world decides to free Palestine and send the Jews “home.” Let’s say all the people and governments are committed to making that happen humanely and equitably. What would that look like?

-trillions of dollars in reparations for murder, property theft, bank accounts, businesses, etc compounded over minimum 80 years

-full buy in from all levels of society to educating themselves about anti-Semitism, and eradicating it. I’m talking from executive branch to the working poor.

If you want Palestine to be free from the river to the sea, you really need to sit down and actually think about where you will send those Israeli Jews and descendants who only ended up there in the first place after they were violently expelled from somewhere else. I’m not talking about the Yishuv. I’m talking about the world after 1945. Are they supposed to go back to Poland? Or Yemen? Or France? Or Syria? What would that look like? Genuinely, how do we administrate and create the infrastructure for that?

It’s a hard, shitty question which flies in the face of blind optimism and overly simple narratives of the Israeli-Palestinian situation. But from where I’m sitting as a non-Zionist (I don’t do nationalism point blank; this is not a value judgement or a smug assertion of diasporic Jewish moral superiority) Holocaust scholar, it seems like those Jews are supposed to disappear or like, painlessly immigrate somewhere?

This is another iteration of The Jewish Problem, and if we’re going to seriously say that Israel should cease to exist and be replaced by a Palestinian nation state, we have to answer these questions.

Because in the current global climate? The “solution” to the “Jewish Problem” in the Southern Levant looks like mass murder. And that’s half the Jews in the world right there.

That bothers me. Does it bother you? Or is it the price you’re willing to pay? You don’t have to answer that. Deep in your heart you already know exactly what your answer is.

I know. Aliens pick up on all the screaming over I/P and decide to intervene directly. They rule in favor of the Palestinians but decide this antisemitism thing needs further investigation…so they teleport all the Jewish Israelis to Montana (with the necessarily infrastructure) because it’s empty (it’s not) and then begin investigating examining the history of antisemitism. Anyone disagrees is brutally killed.

I’m not polyamorous, but I am a part of the LGBTQ+ community. I used to think polyamory wasn’t lgbtq+. But I was wrong. Here are some things you might not know.

In many companies, you’ll find pride initiatives and they’ll welcome people from across the spectrum.

But if they find out a married employee has another SO, even if it’s an open polyamorous relationship, they can fire that employee. Even companies with non-discriminatory policies.

Can you imagine coming out to a family that accepts you for being bi/gay/ whatever, but won’t accept that you’re polyamorous?

Can you imagine seeking a community and being shunned by the people who preach acceptance?

Can you imagine being shunned by people in every community?

Can you imagine everyone assuming you just want sex rather than a fulfilling relationship with more than one person?

Can you imagine not being able to date your partner without someone assuming you’re cheating? And them assigning you a moral failing that you didn’t earn?

Poly is like a sexuality, to my limited knowledge. For instance, I couldn’t choose to be poly because i’m just not. But you don’t choose who you fall in love with. And some people fall in love more than once.

An obsession with deadnames: Transphobes tend to insist on calling trans people by the name they had before they transitioned. Antizionists tend to insist on calling Jewish people who Hebrewfied their name or just changed their name to a Hebrew one, by their old name.

"If you want your own representation so badly, why don't you make it yourself?" *representation exists* "omg why do you have to shove it into our faces all the time??"

"One of the good ones", tokenization on the greater scale of hate - Queerphobes will look for transphobic LGB people to use as tokens, and nothing more. Similarly, antisemites will look for antizionist Jews to use as tokens. And nothing more.

"Your existence doesn't add up with my beliefs, so clearly you just don't exist / you're not who you claim you are"

"Actually zionism is the real antisemitism slash the reason antisemitism exists" / "Actually trans people are the ones giving a bad name to queer people"

"They are coming for us": "Trans people want to turn other people" / "Zionists want to take over the world"

Pretending to care about academic sources but actually disregarding most studies made (studies showing Jewish indiginity over the levant / studies showing the results of transgender healthcare)

"Why would you need to be defended? You are already the most protected group on the planet!"

Obviously a lot of Nazi background for both rethorics.

Pretending to care about children, oh but not THOSE children: Transphobes basic off of "protect the children" because "trans people are trying to turn out children trans", ignoring how untreated dysphoria leads to higher suicide rates among trans youth, or how a trans kid is literally murdered for being trans; Antizionists claiming to care about kids dying but cheering on when Jewish kids are being fucking murdered.

Refusing to listen to the targetted group about their own fucking experience (because clearly they're lying to achieve some secret agenda).

This might be a small thing but demonization of a flag to extreme extents: "The star of david is problematic because it appears on Israel's flag" / being "suspicious" of anything that's colored using the same scheme as the trans flag (or any queer flag in this case)

Hating on an identity trait and/or claiming it's not actually an identity trait, thinking that claiming enough that people don't exist will make it true ("Israel doesn't exist" / "there are only two genders")

Treating an identity trait as an ideology (being Israeli equating to an "evil" ideology / being trans equating to an "evil" ideology)

This one is pretty universal but telling people to kill themselves

Telling people their very existence actively causes harm

Being nosy and not minding their own fucking buisness (antizionists actively looking for posts made by Jews/Israelis to send them hate, transphobes actively looking for posts made by trans people to send them hate).

"Why make it your entire personality???"

you lot are welcome to add more

edit א:

"i identify as a toaster" / "it was promised to them 3000 years ago"

edit ב:

"cis is a slur" / "goy is a slur"

edit ג:

making the targeted minority physically unsafe to the point they have to research how safe it is to travel internationally to almost anywhere (the answer is no)

"Everything they say is lies" / "Everything they say is just mental illness" to delegitimize any and all speech of targeted group.

A belief that the only good thing the targeted group can do is not exist (and equating that to kindness when confronted)

"Converts can't be ethnically Jewish" "if you can just decide to be Jewish then Jews aren't an indigenous group" / "you can't just call yourself a woman" "you're not a real man because biology"

edit ד:

celebrating cancer as "proving" their cause: transphobes celebrating trans women/men for getting breast/testicular cancer, "proving" they’re women/men (even tho the rate isn't really higher than cis people / antizionists celebrating "white" Israelis for getting skin cancer, "proving" they’re not indigenous to the levant (even though the rate isn't really higher than in other populations)

edit ה:

making up people/claim to get mad at: "there are Zionists saying 'how dare black people exist'" / "there are men claiming they are trans women just to creep in women's bathrooms"

justification of sexual assault against the "right victim" (i don't even need to elaborate on that one)

edit ו:

Hating for "passing privilege": The idea that Jews benefit 100% from white privilege / the idea that trans men benefit 100% from male privilege

edit ז:

"my grandparents are older than Israel" / "being trans wasn't a thing up until recently"

edit ח:

"white americans convert to judaism just to be able to live in israel (read: colonize palestine)!" / "men transition into women in order to prey on girls/dominate womens sports/etc."

treating white-passing jews like just cool white people and not acknowledging they have actual history and culture beyond just lighting a hanukia on Christmas / treating non binary people as just cool girls with colorful hair without acknowledging their actual gender identity

"you can tell them (Zionists/trans people) apart by their prominent facial features. but just to be sure i'll need to check your genitals for mutilation"

edit ט:

Using the targetted group as a scapegoat (by a major side of politics)

edit י:

- a good faith (but stupid) cis woman

no

this is exorsexism

firstly, presentation doesnt equal gender, if a nonbinary person looks feminine but says they're nonbinary, then guess what? THEYRE FUCKING NONBINARY

secondly, yes if you dont use a persons preferred pronouns because they don't look a certain way then yes you are a transphobe