Aaron Bushnell, a 25-year-old member of the US Air Force, intentionally set himself on fire, killing himself in front of the Israeli embassy in DC in protest of the Israel/Gaza war.
Those of you praising this as heroism have his blood on your hands.
This is not heroism or admirable; it is a clear sign of someone deeply troubled, heavily influenced and indoctrinated by pro-Hamas propaganda to the point of sacrificing his life.
Those praising and idealizing him need to consider the impact such extremist narratives and disinformation have on the most vulnerable among us, rather than admiring this heartbreaking event.
He is not a martyr, just as all the Palestinians who gave their lives for suicide missions are not martyrs.
He was a young, idealistic, and clearly sensitive person who is now gone.
Shame on all of you.
Look how these "innocent civilians" were cheering and joyfully beating the dead and living bodies of Israelis on October 7.
Now Israelis are supposed to feel sorry for them?
Rape against a Jewish woman requires “𝐟𝐮𝐫𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐢𝐧𝐯𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐠𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧”
Harassment towards Jewish students on campus requires “𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐱𝐭”
We live in a world of selective morals based on who’s being targeted.
You should be outraged when evil is evil, not only when it fits 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐧𝐚𝐫𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞!
A man says that the people in the West who attend anti-Israel marches are doing so because:
“It has become a fashion. These women protesting here… in Gaza they wouldn’t be allowed to open their mouth”
https://t.co/LxF9mdnbZ3
I have a basic fundamental question I’ve yet to hear a valid answer to.
“Israel stole Palestinian land. They need to return it or else, all Palestinian resistance is justified. Now Israel is an apartheid state committing genocide against the Palestinian people.”
Just one question.
I’m not even talking about the fact that we have actual artifacts that say Palestine on them alongside a Star of David showing clearly that Palestine was Israel before 1948.
I’m not even talking about the fact that before any occupation, before there was even a state of Israel, Arabs were terrorizing Jews. See Hebron Massacre, 1929.
I’m not even talking about the fact that Israel has Arabs in every position in Israel including parliament members and Supreme Court justices.
I’m not even talking about the fact that the Palestinians have grown 6x so we either stink at genocide or that’s just another lie.
I’m not even talking about the fact that there was never an Arab Palestinian state in history, and a terrorist named Arafat woke up one morning and decided to call a group of Jordanians, Palestinians.
Forget all that. One question.
Should any country in the world that conquered land in a war or who took land from someone else, return that land?
Is a Native American violent uprising justified in the United States?
If the answer is no, if you understand that in war, nations take land, if you know history and know that Israel never started any war in history (it’s called Israel DEFENSE forces for a reason) but won them all, if you put all the facts I mentioned above aside, please tell me why Israel should return land that it took in a war it didn’t start but won, but that same standard doesn’t apply to any other country.
Why should Israel return any land when every other country took land in a war and no one is saying they need to return land?
I’d love a real answer.
Why is Israel held to a different standard?
If Israel should return land in your opinion, what other countries should also return land?
Canada? Australia? America? India? Poland? UK? Spain?
I’d love a real answer.
I’ve heard a lot of people complain recently that they can’t criticize Israel without being accused of being an antisemite. In fact, it’s very easy to criticize Israel without being called an antisemite, I do it all the time.
Here's a helpful guide:
🔷 If you advocate for an “Intifada”, which means a violent uprising against the Jews in their homeland – you’re an antisemite.
🔷 If you say Israel is “Occupying Gaza” without knowing that Israel forcefully removed all 9,000 of its residents from Gaza in 2005, and since then the only Jews living in Gaza have been 229 hostages that Hamas kidnapped - you’re an antisemite
🔷 If you chant from the “River to the Sea”, meaning the elimination of the sovereign state of Israel and home to its 9 million residents – you’re an antisemite
🔷 If you think indiscriminate violence against civilians by a bloodthirsty mob is a form of "resistance" – you’re an antisemite.
🔷 If you say there is “ethnic cleansing” without understanding that Israel does everything to minimize civilian casualties including pleading with the local population to evacuate before an attack - you’re an antisemite.
🔷 If you say there is “genocide” without saying that if Hamas lay down it’s weapons today there would be peace, but if Israel does the same it will be eliminated - you’re an antisemite.
🔷 If you say “Free Palestine” without acknowledging the Palestinians refusal to in fact “free Palestine” themselves by signing all the offers Israel offered it over the years asking for only peace in return – you’re an antisemite.
🔷 If you say Israel is a “white supremacist” country despite more than half of Israeli jews being from Arab and north African countries – you’re an antisemite.
🔷 If you say Israel is a “settler colonialist” state, despite Jews being indigenous to the land and Israel being a sovereign country for 75 years – you’re an antisemite.
🔷 If you say indiscriminate violence against civilians by a bloodthirsty mob is a form of resistance – you’re an antisemite.
🔷 If you call Israel an Apartheid country without acknowledging that Arab-Israelis have equal rights and freedom of religion in Israel, and are freer here than in any other Mid East country – you’re an antisemite.
🔷 If you refuse to acknowledge the worst massacre of Jews since the Holocaust and instead call it “the situation” or “the tensions in the Middle East” – you’re an antisemite.
🔷 If you say you oppose Israel because you stand with Muslims, but never made a peep about hundreds of thousands killed in Yemen, Syria, Sudan, Iran etc. – you’re an antisemite.
🔷 If you say you stand with Palestinians, but don’t demand rights for Palestinians in Syria and Lebanon where they have none -- you’re an antisemite.
🔷 If you refuse to believe the IDF, but think Hamas is a legitimate source of information – you’re an antisemite.
🔷 If you believe everything Hamas says, except their charter where they say they want to kill all Jews - you’re an antisemite.
🔷 If you say murdering 1,400 men, women and children and kidnapping 229 is a response to Netanyahu being “right wing” – you’re an antisemite.
🔷 If your response to a massacre is to call for a "ceasefire" instead of the immediate release of the hostages and dismantlement of the perpetrators - you may not be an antisemite, but you're really dumb.
🔷 If you say Israel attacks indiscriminately, and not in precise airstrikes against Hamas targets that happen to be purposly placed in schools, hospitals, and mosques – you’re an antisemite.
🔷 If you say Israel attacks just to “punish” Palestinians, and not in order to prevent more harm to Israelis from stockpiled weapons and terrorists – you’re an antisemite.
🔷 If the only Israeli perspective you are willing to listen to are a few fringe Israeli academics or artists who hate their country – you’re an antisemite.
🔷 If you say you “stand firmly” against antisemitism when the perptrator is someone from across the political divide, but mix words over Palestinians massacring Jews in Israel – you’re an antisemite.
🔷 If you say you oppose “victim blaming” but feel the need to put horrors of October 7th “in context” whenever they are mentioned – you’re an antisemite.
🔷 If you’ve ever said “believe all women” but demand to see autopsies before believing women were raped in front of their friends’ eyes – you’re an antisemite.
🔷 If you’ve ever proudly declared that “hate has no home here” but don’t speak up against harassment of your Jewish friends– you’re an antisemite.
�� If you say you support indigenous people yet don’t care that Jews have had a steady presence in the land of Israel for thousands of years - you’re an antisemite.
🔷 If you say you're an LGBTQ+ ally…I can’t even do this one, it’s too stupid.
🔷 If you’re more concerned with exactly how many babies were beheaded instead of why the babies lost their heads – you’re an antisemite.
🔷 If you say people are brainwashed by watching Fox News, but that Palestinians who are fed a steady diet of Jihad-glorification and Jew-hatred in their textbooks and children’s shows are freethinking freedom fighters – you’re an antisemite.
🔷 If you say Gaza was “stolen” from a country called “Palestine” and not won in battle against Egypt, who controlled Gaza until 1967 when they tried to destroy Israel – you’re an antisemite.
🔷 If you say Arab terrorism against Jews is solely a response to settlements, meaning it only began in 1967 when Israel won a war against Jordan (West Bank) and Egypt (Gaza) after they tried to destroy Israel – you’re an antisemite.
🔷 If you say there was a sovereign country called “Palestine” with a president and a flag before 1948 instead of the British Mandate of Palestine – you’re an antisemite (and also ignorant).
🔷 If you say poor living conditions and lack of food in Gaza are the fault of Israel and don't mention Hamas spends billions of foreign aid dollars on weapons I you’re an antisemite.
🔷 If you say Israel cuts off electricity to Gaza, without acknowledging that Israel itself provides the electricity in the first place, and that Hamas repurposes virtually all the electricity and fuel for terrorism – you’re an antisemite.
🔷 If you blame Israel for Gaza running out water, but not Hamas who ruins the water infastructure and takes the water pipes and repurposes them as rocket launchers – you’re an antisemite.
🔷 If you compare the bloodlust of Hamas, an elected government that controls Gaza, to a few fringe extremists who exist in Israel like they do in every society – you’re an antisemite.
🔷 If you are afraid to call out Hamas terrorism because you think it’s offensive to Muslims – you’re an antisemite, and also racist.
🔷 If you don’t call out Egypt, which shares a border with Gaza through which they could send relief and take all the refugees, but refuse to - you’re an antisemite.
🔷 If you call to “end the blockade” without acknowledging that the blockade is only on 2nd use materials, and is a response to the smuggling of weapons aimed at Israel into Gaza – you’re an antisemite.
🔷 If you compare death tolls like they’re basketball scores without acknowledging that Hamas is the source, and that they use their own people as human shields, preventing them from leaving dangerous areas despite the IDF warning them to - you’re an antisemite.
🔷 If you say you worry about Palestinian refugees but not about tens of thousands of Israeli refugees from the north and south who have had to evacuate their homes because of Hamas & Hezbollah – you’re an antisemite.
🔷 If you say you’re not an antisemite but merely an antizionist, meaning you oppose the mere existence of a safe haven for the Jews in their ancestral homeland alongside it’s neighbors - well, you get the idea.
If that doesn’t help – know also that you are also hurting Palestinian chances for afree and independent state.
You are actively pushing for war and fighting from the comfort of your home, instead of peace and co-existence. How does that feel?