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tbh i donât think people who arenât active in jewish spaces have any comprehension of the damage being done and the sheer amount of hate speech/crimes and blood libel and ancient conspiracy theories being remixed and perpetuated boldly across the internet and the world, and how truly terrifying it is. either you arenât seeing it or you donât get it, or you tacitly agree with it. it doesnât have to come from jewish voices, though i have countless of them as sources, have seen so much anguish and fear and people trying to educate others and speak up for innocent life on both sides for the past three weeks, and been met with nothing but silence or hatred, only receiving support from other jews, who also donât want any of this suffering or death. but letâs take yashar ali, who is nothing but fair and measured and intelligent in his coverage, sharing things like:
itâs demented how far this has gone, that anyone reporting on anything, no matter how balanced, no matter how outspoken for all affected, will be attacked with this rhetoric, that anyone offering empathy after a slaughter is immediately torn to shreds, that schools are being tagged with nazi graffiti and synagogues are being firebombed, that jewish students on college campuses are being told to hide during protests, that people are being told not to wear anything identifiable of their jewishness because itâs dangerous, that outright âcleanse the world of jewsâ posters are being displayed, the incidents are endless (the UK estimated antisemitism up by 1350% there, what does that even mean? how do you even calculate it). and people directly affected by this werenât even given the chance to grieve because it went to immediate jubilation and justification and apologism for a genocidal terrorist organization (itâs in their charter, itâs not a secret) that steals billions from their own people and rips out their pipes and intentionally imbeds themselves amongst them to cause maximum harm and subjugates and oppresses and jails and kills anyone who would stand in their way. there was no time to mourn because people were immediately forced to defend themselves and their right to exist as humans. the rampant ignorance and ignoring of things here (do you know about the peace talks with saudi arabia preceding this? do you know about the oppressive regime in iran, that is actively hurting their own people, training and funding this? do you understand how itâs connected to russia and thus do you care about ukraine?). by all means, speak up for human rights, speak up for oppressed people who deserve their autonomy and self-determination and do not deserve to die in a terrible war, but this? this is not doing that. and if you cannot and will not condemn hamas, if you havenât even had a moment of sympathy for the innocent civilians who suffered their torture and brutality, because you donât like the country where they, from elderly Holocaust survivors to infants, were killed, if you quantify innocent deaths with, âyes, but-,â i will never trust you again.
and yes i am saying this here, on the tiny blog. to 30 people, because i am not safe to say it to nearly 2000 on the other one. i am happy to help educate you or send you sources or histories or definitions or anything to clarify all this, but if i am not safe saying this here, and you have a problem with how hurt and scared and outraged people are, then i know fundamentally you are not a friend and will never be an ally when itâs needed.
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wow i love having to block mutuals for sharing incredibly cruel memes abt i/p and reblogging from ppl who have been openly and increasingly antisemitic over the last few weeks.
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