You heartless person. Why don’t you actually ask the Palestinians what they want to do and where they want to live. They aren’t cattle you move here and there.
467 days of horror
467 days of children torn to shreds
467 days of journalists being slaughtered
467 days of hospitals attacked
467 days of parents searching under rubble
467 days of children orphaned
467 days of hunger
467 days of lies
467 days we will never forget
467 days…
My first encounter with Israelis was when I was backpacking through South America in my twenties, and I remember being shocked by how consistently awful they all were. I guess after their mandatory military service they tend to go traveling for a bit, and whenever I'd run into them they were reliably some of the nastiest people I'd ever encountered.
They weren't ever nasty to me, though. I am a white westerner, and I never had a problem with them. They were nasty to the impoverished brown-skinned people who were hosting us. They were obnoxious and bullying toward local guides, they'd leave the place in a mess, and they were always trying to screw over the locals for a better deal or extra meals or favors. One time they tricked a hostel into putting up a sign in Hebrew for other Israeli backpackers which said ugly things about our hosts (they told the hostel owner it was a great review), which I only know because they were laughing hysterically about it and told me. They consistently treated the people who were looking after us like they were much lesser than us. Their pushiness and entitlement were just unbelievable.
It was a very educational experience for me. I knew the Palestinians were being treated unfairly because my father had told me so, but I also had a great love of Jews and Jewish culture. I had visited Auschwitz and Dachau and Anne Frank's house in my travels, and I remember having some romantic ideas about kibbutzim. This was my first time directly encountering the reality that there is something unhealthy about Israeli society. Not Jews or Jewish culture, but Jewish Israelis.
Now I see evidence of this on my news feed every day, in the IDF soldiers prancing around in the undergarments of dead and displaced Palestinian women, in the AI translations of Hebrew tweets, in the polls which show widespread Israeli approval for the atrocities in Gaza, in Israeli TikTok videos mocking the suffering of the Palestinians, in the Israelis showing up in my comments justifying the worst things in the world in the most depraved ways imaginable.
My encounters with Israelis in South America were an early taste of ugly things to come. Everything I glimpsed then I've been seeing online over the past year. I keep thinking about those obnoxious pricks I met all those years ago, and about how they didn't know at the time that they were giving me very useful information for me to make use of in the future.
When Israel supporters tell you to shut up about Gaza until you've been to Israel and met Israelis, just ignore them. Don't go to Israel; you're a westerner, they'll be nice to you. Go to one of the tourist spots in the global south that Israelis like to visit, one with lots of brown-skinned people who've been colonized by the west, and watch how they treat people there. That will show you what Israelis are really like.
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Just found out I’m 10% Italian!
I’m now looking for around ten million fellow descendants of the Roman Empire to join me in setting up a colony in Italy - our ancestral homeland.
To join, you need to meet the following stringent criteria:
1. Say you descend from Rome
There’s no “moving on” from the genocide happening in Gaza. Keep boycotting, protesting, uplifting their voices & sharing the info.
Keep doing anything that shows your support for Palestine.
If Iran bombed a synagogue or church and murdered 100 worshippers while they were praying in a school sheltering, and you had images of scattered children’s body parts everywhere, the world would be up in arms. But it’s just more Palestinians.
We are not blind to your hypocrisy.
The International Court of Justice rules that Israel’s settlements are illegal, and that it is an occupying power that enacts systematic discrimination. It demands the Palestinian right of return, and states Israel is clearly in breach of international law.
Palestinian deaths do not matter to you. Our children's beheaded bodies are irrelevant. Our women's scattered limbs are trivial. Thousands of Palestinian hostages in Israeli prisons are negligible. This was never about hostages. It was merely about whitewashing your horror.
I'm feeling very ashamed to be a coloured, muslim from Cape Town, today. The way our people betrayed Palestine, betrayed our poor, betrayed our homeless people. Shame! Shame! Shame!
"Aren't you getting tired of posting about it on social media?"
No because while I'm sitting behind a screen in a house & living in a country where I don't go to bed every night thinking it's my last.
The least I can do is bring awareness.