I forgot to mention a very important thing though. Don't get me wrong, I am not a "peace activist" I am a peaceful human. There are tremendous differences. I am not into politics and I absolutely despise politicians specially killers.
@suno_ai_ Guys wtf have you done? you did not only cure my write block you also cured my recent lack of passion! I fuckin love you guys! please please don't stop what you are doing! I am already in the works on my new album two tracks deep.
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This is a story about actions that defy humanity —acts that blatantly cross the line into outright cruelty
This exclusive thread reveals incidents reported for 1st time showing Israeli soldiers in Gaza & West Bank. From wishing Gazans to b*rn alive, brazen theft & etc.
This man wearing a green jacket was berating and harassing a halal cart vendor off 83rd and 2nd Ave in NYC. Does anyone know who this man is? Planning to report to the authorities.
3/3 Finally. You can consider me a weak consider me helpless you can think of me as you want. I, as a human, as a father, as a fellow creature just don't want to see children stripped out of their right to live and have their own dreams in dignity and peace.
You might hate Palestinians, hate Arabs and Muslims. We might've done something that made us deserve your hate. But the children, what have they done to you? can't humanity win for once? can't you do something as human for these newly arrived humans?
2/x Any child from any religion from any race deserve better than being left for death because of a siege. If you assume a child deserve to die because they are used -according to you or your sources- as human shields, please remove your bias and think again.
Children of this world deserve better than what we had, please break the cycle and don't bequeath the hate to them. It's such a shame that the forces of evil in this world, and I don't even mean it in a theological sense, have succeeded in making peace such a fringe concept!
Now more than ever the voices of peace should be louder than the voices of war. The irrational decisions being made by evil corrupt politicians should have no place on the table. Don't be fooled don't think they care about you or me they care about money and only money.
In January of 2017, I snapped this photo. I don’t know why I snapped it at the time, but something in my brain told me to save this image. I stood there, looking at the view across a beautiful meadow at what my tour guides described as “the enemy”. I remember feeling confused. I was 24, fresh out of college. I had no enemies.
I had just spent 7 days going around Israel, all the way from Mount Hermon in the Golan Heights to a kibbutz in the Negev. I was introduced to loads of new friends, foods, and a culture that was so welcoming and familiar to me because of my upbringing as a Jew. I was on a “birthright” trip - a free trip to Israel that is entirely funded by donors and the government. I had a great and memorable time. I fell in love with Israel. I fell for it all.
Just a few days prior to this photo being taken, I sat in a classroom in Jerusalem where I was lectured for a few hours on the “conflict” with Palestinians. They went on about the first and second intifada. They showed us gruesome images of innocent Israelis murdered. They made it clear who they wanted us to hate.
I stood there overlooking that meadow with Gaza in the distance on January 18th, 2017. We stood at the Black Arrow monument - it stood there to commemorate the actions of the IDF and the memory of 8 Israelis killed in battle. But the details they gave us on that battle were foggy. Operation Black Arrow was carried out in Gaza in 1955 as a retaliation for one Israeli civilian being killed. For that one death, they killed 38 Egyptians and wounded countless more. It set the stage for Israel’s reputation for harsh and unbalanced responses.
I looked this info up on the bus on the way to a nearby town for dinner. I remember feeling this sinking feeling that I was only given one side of the story. Not just being in Israel for birthright, but growing up with a Jewish education going to Hebrew school. We were only ever taught one way of thinking. We were brainwashed from childhood to believe that we were the peacemakers and they were the attackers.
I knew in the back of my mind that the existence of Israel was inherently problematic, but I allowed it to be clouded by a culture and language that I grew to love for a good amount of time after birthright. But as my presence on the internet grew, so did my awareness of the perspectives of those who were on the other side of all of this. People having their homes taken from them, people displaced, people humiliated, and people killed in cold blood. Some bad people but overwhelmingly innocent people. The hardest pill to swallow for me is that I made Israel part of my identity since birthright, all to come to understand that Israel has always been the oppressor.
Over a year ago I made a twitlonger about taking down my Israeli flag in my apartment. I talked about it sending the wrong message on stream. I still heavily identify with being ethnically Jewish, but we have all hopefully come to understand that Zionism is not the same as Judaism. I hope we can also learn that Anti Zionism is not Anti Semitism. I don’t think I will ever go back to Israel. I may lose friends I made, and a small piece of me that I identified with for a long time, but I don’t think that I’m owed that piece of me as much as others are owed their land, lives, and peace of mind. My “birthright” is far less valuable than people’s rights to live peacefully.
If this message is for anyone, it’s for Jews that are so convinced that the world wants another Holocaust that they’re willing to turn a blind eye to one child being killed every 10 minutes. Yes, anti semitism exists, but supporting genocide and apartheid makes it worse. Open your minds, step out of your shoes for once. Also, I’m truly sorry for staying silent about this until now.