الحقيقة دائمًا توجع، وعندما يعجزون عن مواجهة الواقع والأسئلة الحقيقية، يهربون كالعادة إلى نظرية المؤامرة و"التعليمات". الإعلام المهني يطرح الأسئلة التي يخاف غيرهم من سماعها، لقد بات أفيخاي أدرعي فوبيا تسيطر على عقولكم لدرجة أن أي سؤال منطقي أو مواجهة يفرضها تصابون بالذعر وتوزعون اتهامات يمينًا وشمالاً... انها معادلة الخاسر والجبان
And it's getting worse:
Character was the son of the Sha's doctor, yet family were fine until 1997. He got on the regime's radar only when he started to write poetry.
Right...
American tv, a Muslim character:
Religious, but not a terrorist, from Iran. He fled at 18, when the Sha got overthrow (&fakes an Iranian accent in America). Played by a 29 year old (which make sense, show wise).
Only, that means character should have been 50+ in 2012...
Britain’s Jews need allies, perhaps as never before.
I think they also need people who are not Jewish to say where they stand on this profound cultural problem as we stand together at the edge of the precipice.
I stand with them. I stand with Britain’s Jews.
I was in Golders Green yesterday. I arrived just as the police presence was building. My heart goes out to the two Jewish victims and to their loved ones. We need to make our Jewish community know we support them. Even before I knew what had happened I was in tears because you could feel panic in the air. These are just regular people getting with their lives. London has always been a great multicultural city. Our Jewish community brings us so much. They are an integral part of the fabric of this city.
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I am beginning to absolutely DESPISE the left.
I never thought I would say this but, in many ways, they are now even worse than the far-right.
It's bad enough that they openly side with Palestine, China, and Russia (and, in some cases, even North Korea). It's bad enough that they routinely excuse and in many cases cheer on antisemitic attacks in the West. It's bad enough that they celebrated the worst genocide of Jews since the Holocaust and then desperately tried to save Hamas from what they KNEW was coming.
Now they are trying to protect the Islamic Republic - a regime responsible (either directly or indirectly) for literally every war in the Middle East since 1979 - under the phony guise of humanitarian concern and pacifism. Where were these pacifists when 40,000 Iranians were slaughtered? They were too busy grousing about Israel and telling Iranians (and Venezuelans, and Cubans) to "shut up" about their own oppression.
Maybe at one point the left was serious about universal human rights. They aren't anymore. Now they're immersed in some utterly braindead Manichean bullshit about how the West/Israel are the root of all evil and anyone who opposes them is one of the "children of light".
It's all so fucking stupid.
It's possible to criticize and hold America accountable for its wrongdoings without shilling for the absolute worst regimes on Earth just because they share your disdain for the West and its ills.
But, for some reason, you are unable to grasp this. Either that or you've come to hate the West so much that you would rather ally with terrorist regimes who massacre protesters, run torture dungeons, and kidnap women as sex slaves than take America's side on *anything* at all.
That's not brave. That's not edgy. That's not intelligent. And it sure as fuck isn't moral.
That's just mindless contrarianism. And few things are more fucking annoying and insufferable than a pompous, narcissistic contrarian blowhard who is constantly huffing their own farts.
Originally, I was pro-Palestine. Most of my friends in the punk community were. They probably still are.
I absorbed all of the agitprop about how Israel was allegedly built on stolen land, how Jews are nothing more than a religious faith, how Palestinians are the real Israelites, and how Jews would have been better off immigrating to the United States and serving as goody two shoes "white" allies to "real minorities". I wasn't equipped to challenge any of it at the time, so I didn't.
But after a while, I began to have misgivings. The way people spoke about Israel and obsessed over it was unlike anything I had witnessed before, or since. This zealotry oftentimes bled into hostility against Jews qua Jews, all while they furiously denied any antisemitism on their part. It was disquieting.
In 2011, I met Israelis online who challenged my views. They were very patient with me, although I didn't deserve it. They would have been well within their rights to tell me to go fuck myself with a cordless drill, but they didn't. They were extremely knowledgeable. They had etiquette, erudition, and a wealth of sources to back up everything they said. All I had were rehearsed lines.
I didn't immediately have the courage to call out my friends, but I kept everything in my back pocket. Until one night, I gently pushed back against the settler colonialism charges being bandied about. I said something to the effect of "but don't Jews come from that land too?". The room fell silent. Some of them looked at me as though I had just swallowed a kitten whole, others began chuckling and saying "ooooooook?". I left the room without saying anything else.
When I got home, I began posting about Jewish indigeneity on Facebook. This was long before most Zionists were talking about it, so I was nervous. But I did it because, on some level, I felt like I had to.
I lost more than 100 friends within 3 hours. The comments ranged from "fuck off you Zionist pig" to "are the ZOG paying you" to "I hope Iran builds nukes and evens the score with the Zionist regime" (this was said by a self-professed anti-war activist). One quoted the Protocols and "TrueTorahJews" at me.
I was confused and, increasingly, isolated. I was no longer welcome in my old spaces. I got into a lot of fights, some of which became physical. On a few occasions, I was stalked by people who chucked garbage at me.
I became reclusive from that point on, and largely have been ever since.
13 years later, I still have no community. Out of the large scene I was once part of, I only have contact with 2 people.
But, I have no regrets either way. I wouldn't have been able to live with myself if I didn't speak out.
@EYakoby Too soon to know.
Some places say Fox network reported it- I don't trust their accuracy even if they did, some say Israel Hayom confirmed it- but there's about it on it ATM.
Dana Eden, who co-created and produced ‘Tehran’, died on Sunday, seemingly by her own hand. It’s a terrible thing. She was brilliant, and funny, and an exceptional leader. Love and condolences to all who knew her.
@lyntisch@hughlaurie She was from a creative family & creative herself- these ppl tend to have issues in their own head. Bruises on the neck can be for various reasons (kink, rope burn, unreleated assult, an unreleated accident, etc.).
@Nirox3@FirstpostSports The finding of who's rocket it was and location were not only by Israeli government on that specific case (Human Rights Watch November 2023).
@Nirox3@FirstpostSports I don't think the court of Twitter or TikTok can judge.
And I also don't have faith in the UN and it's extensions- as they seem to ignore other world events and being very biased. We can't 100% trust politicians.
@Nirox3@FirstpostSports Shot by who, that's the question. We know that during cease fires Hamas hunted down protestors. I believe the famine (whatever level of it that existed) was orchestrated by Hamas (testimonies of Gaza ppl, that they attack ppl trying to reach the supply) https://t.co/dmSJfRHFTE
@Nirox3@FirstpostSports Al-Ahli Arab Hospital explosion is the first one come to mind - blamed for an Israeli rocket, it was later found to be a failed Hamas launch (I think the location was falsed- it was the parking lot, not the actual hospital, but it was decribed as the building).
@Nirox3@FirstpostSports No, there are deaths (some of them could have been avoided if Hamas wanted it to). But 1)who some of these people were might be fudged. 2)All anybody can see is what's being pushed, especially pumped, on social media.