Dani

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.

@Seventeen1958 @tanamakomakoto Pictured below: the innocent children

@tanamakomakoto Yes Israel is beyond fucking fragile considering they've murder thousands upon thousands of innocent children!!

People united by hatred are fragile. People united by love are strong. That's what I believe.

@godunov_borys @tanamakomakoto Shut up goy

@ReptileReckless @tanamakomakoto Colonizers?

@tanamakomakoto ppl united by the love of genocidal colonizers are complicit.

@GREGLIONS @tanamakomakoto Shut up Nazi

@tanamakomakoto so you "stand with" killing children, starving people, sex with kids, eating babies and allthe other atrocities israel commits? you are a piece of shit.

40 years old isn't considered middle aged anymore? That's a relief.

The only settlers in Israel are Arab-Muslims Spread the word

I'm tempted to create an alt-account and post but anti-Israel tweets just to see how many of the "likes" are from bots.

@joshbrunsting The bots really showed up for this tweet, didn't they

Instantly disqualifying. The moral question of our time.

🇺🇦🇮🇱🇹🇼 Good smart idealist 🇺🇦🇵🇸🇹🇼 Good dumb idealist 🇺🇦🇮🇱🇨🇳 Good smart opportunist 🇺🇦🇵🇸🇨🇳 Good dumb opportunist 🇷🇺🇮🇱🇹🇼 Evil smart idealist 🇷🇺🇵🇸🇹🇼 Evil dumb idealist 🇷🇺🇮🇱🇨🇳 Evil smart opportunist 🇷🇺🇵🇸🇨🇳 Evil dumb opportunist Shouldn’t be controversial

@cellobuddy @Ok_Solly @jengland004 @AbdulElSayed @HaleyforMI Norman Finkelstein is a Nazi and most Jews are Zionists

@Ok_Solly @jengland004 @AbdulElSayed @HaleyforMI No because I don't consider normal functioning people like Bernie Sanders, Norman Finkelestein, Brad Lander as Zionists. Are you claiming all Jews are Zionists? The literal definition of antisemitism. Are you America first or Israel first?

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@yesheisalive @GeneralMCNews There's only one party responsible for Gaza and that is Hamas

@GeneralMCNews If we merge our military with Israel’s, then the USA is also responsible for Gaza and Lebanon.

BREAKING: Thomas Massie is set to introduce a new amendment to stop the U.S. military from merging with Israel's military under Section 219 of the NDAA.

The man who killed Paul Kessler, a Jewish American, at a 2023 peaceful pro-Israel rally in Ventura County was sentenced to 365 days in county jail. That’s little more than a slap on the wrist and not in proportion with the enormity of this crime. @ADLCalifornia’s Joshua Burt wrote in the @nypost: “Inadequate public responses to such violent crimes leave the American Jewish community feeling deeply insecure and fearful." It sends a message that “when Jews are the victims, accountability is optional.” nypost.com/2026/07/10/opi…

@avygal There was an influx of Iraqi/Persian Jews and Jerusalemites into Europe during the same period. Presumably, they were exiles.

@AngryLevantine Oh I need to read more about that. Maybe it will be my next post 🤓

🚨LONG POST ALERT🚨 about the Muslim Conquest of the Holy Land. This is for those that like to read still. At the time of Muslim Arab colonization of the Levant in 637-638 CE, the region was mostly Christians followed by a minority of Jews. After Muslims conquered the region Christians and Jews were dhimmis, that is second class citizens with a separate set of rules and laws that applied to them as non-Muslims, such as: -Subjugation: Non-Muslims held a legally inferior social status compared to Muslims. -Proselytism: Converting Muslims to other faiths or openly criticizing Islam was strictly forbidden.Public -Worship: Ringing church bells, displaying crosses, or building new houses of worship was heavily restricted. -Dress Codes: Laws occasionally required distinct clothing or badges to differentiate dhimmis from Muslims. Over the next several hundred years, financial and social pressure on dhimmis resulted in a gradual conversion to Islam of the population. The jiyza tax, said to have been for "protection" of non-Muslims (protection from whom??? lol) was burdensome and the only way to avoid it was to convert. The burden of taxes and levies on property owners of non-Muslims was also too heavy for most and the only way for financial relief was to convert. Positions of power and governing was reserved solely for Muslims as well, so if anyone wanted to have authority over their own village they needed to convert. In the Holy Land the demographic shift from a Christian majority to a predominantly Muslim majority took roughly 400 to 500 years. Arabic became the majority language of the land and the Hebrew names of towns and areas were replaced with Arabic names. Meanwhile the region was devastated by plagues and massive earthquakes (in 749, 881, and 1033 CE). The total population was cut in half from natural disasters and plagues and the financial burden of the jizya became untenable for many of the non-Muslims, triggering waves of mass conversion just to survive. While the early Muslim rulers initially allowed a Jewish revival, ongoing civil wars between Jews and Muslims, heavy taxation, and instability in the 8th and 9th centuries drove significant Jewish emigration out of the Levant and into safer regions of the Islamic empire, like Baghdad, which retained a significant Jewish population after the destruction of the first temple. Then came the rule of the "Mad Caliph", al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah (who reigned from 996 to 1021 CE), whose goal was the total erasure of non-Muslim cultural visibility and the forced assimilation of the dhimmis. Al Hakim launched a brutal and violent campaign against the Jews and Christians of the region, making it nearly impossible for most to avoid conversion. In 1009 CE he commanded non-Muslim places of worship (churches and synagogues) to be destroyed en masse. The most severe event occurred in Jerusalem: Al-Hakim ordered the total demolition of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, the holiest shrine in Christianity. Fatimid laborers stripped the massive structure of its gold, mosaics, and artwork. Workers hammered away at the bedrock itself, nearly erasing the rock-cut tomb traditionally associated with the burial of Jesus. The Mad Caliph and his destruction of Christian holy sites was one of the main triggers of the Holy Crusades, launched by European Christians to retake the Holy Land and save it from destruction. Al Hakim established new laws for dhimmi that were extremely burdensome: -Christians were legally forced to wear massive, heavy wooden crosses around their necks. -Jews were forced to wear heavy wooden blocks resembling a calf's head, a mocking historical callback to the golden calf. -Public religious celebrations like Epiphany, Easter, and Passover were completely outlawed. -Christians were barred from ringing church bells or carrying crosses in public. -Non-Muslims were purged from all state bureaucracies and tax collection offices. -Al Hakim encouraged and allowed local mobs to terrorize Jewish and Christian villages. -Businesses were looted, homes were broken into, and physical assaults were common as dhimmis scrambled to hide their families or protect their properties from the mobs Those who openly refused to wear the humiliating visual identifiers (the heavy wooden crosses or the calf-head blocks) or refused to convert faced severe physical beatings, public shaming, and potential execution at the hands of the state police. Around 1012 CE, al-Hakim issued an ultimatum: Jews and Christians had to convert to Islam or leave Fatimid territory. Thousands of local Judean and Syrian Christians fled into the Byzantine Empire, while others feigned conversion to survive. Al Hakim also banned all women from leaving their homes entirely, and shoemakers were forbidden from manufacturing women's shoes to enforce the house arrest. This ban included Muslim women as well as non-Muslim women. While Muslims lost control of the Holy Land temporarily to the crusaders, they eventually regained control through sieges and conquest, re-establishing dhimmi laws and treatment. This is the reality of the Muslim Conquest of the Levant. Don't ever let people parroting Muslim revisionist history tell you that the region was conquered peacefully and people converted because they just all of a sudden realized Islam was so great. The entire Levant was forcefully colonized and converted, Arabized and Islamified. It's actually truly amazing that the PR campaign by Arab Muslims to frame Jews as the colonizers of our own land has been successful. But people don't read anymore, and I doubt many will actually read this whole post to learn the real history lol Thanks to those who took the time to read this! Please share so others that are interested in the history of our land can learn what really happened.

@JamieFollese @havivrettiggur Calm down Adolf

@havivrettiggur You realize you disgusting freak that the idea of having any control of coordination at all with anyone is bullshit I’m the first place and you know that but you’re a disgusting liar who would rather advance an agenda than tell the truth you freak

Alas, Mr. Congressman, I'm not lying. And I started this line of questioning assuming you were telling the truth. I've written long essays on extremist Israeli violence in the West Bank. I know it happens. I was ready, at first glance, to believe it happened here. But it didn't. This wasn't Israeli violence. This was agitprop for your American audiences. I said explicitly that I'm not familiar with the details of that area. It took a lot of effort for JPost to find out what it found out -- which was that it was a closed military zone only recently opened. But if you'd coordinated your visit with Israeli authorities, this would have been sorted out from the start. Those soldiers weren't angry or aggressive, they seemed mostly just confused about the status of the area and how to handle your visit. Because, you know, there was no coordination. JPost suggests all that in the article you yourself shared. And what of the violence? Your group had cameras -- a professional photographer and at least one bodycam -- yet you've produced no evidence that I've seen of the violence you claim to have experienced. Remember that you claimed the violence was sufficient to demand that Netanyahu order the prosecution of those soldiers. I've seen that sort of violence before; if you produce that footage, I'll join your demand for prosecution. That's not rhetoric. I really will, wholeheartedly. But if you don't, I think it's safe to assume you blew up a small inconvenience caused by your own refusal to talk to Israelis. In a similar vein, you used the word "detained" as if you were unlawfully held against your will -- and hide behind its second meaning, that you were a bit delayed in driving forward into the area. The first is on the spectrum of kidnapping crimes, the second is the sort of problem you'd encounter at the entrance to a federal building as you search your pockets for an ID. Which was it? Anyway, you were angling for some domestic political brownie points, and congratulations, you got 'em.

@Ana_Bastet911 @havivrettiggur "Settlers?" There were no Arabs there

@havivrettiggur That’s a lot of words to dodge the fact that armed settlers blocked the group before soldiers arrived. The IDF acknowledged civilians blocked the vehicles. Confused soldiers don’t erase the detention, and an uncoordinated visit doesn’t give settlers authority to hold anyone.

@AngryLevantine @EYakoby None of us are white. For 1,000 years in Europe we were never considered European. We were Middle Eastern, other. Because I respect my ancestors, I’m not going to call myself white now.

Here, in the United States of America over 23 million of my neighbors and fellow citizens see the genocidal lunatics who carried out the most prolific  and deadly mass murder of jews since the Holocaust... as favorable. This according to thePew poll released a week and a half ago. ●There are approximately 4 million muslims in America.  44% of them view Hamas favorably.  That equals 1,760,000 people ●There are approximately 17 million Black adults in the United States who identify as Protestant, 17% of them hold favorable views of Hamas . That equals 2,890,000  people ● There are 87 million people religiously unaffiliated people in the U.S.  11% of them view Hamas favorably. That equals 9,570,000 people ●There are approximately 70 million Catholics in the U.S., making up about 20% of the country's population. 8% of those 70 million Catholics view Hamas favorably.  That equals 5,600,000 people ●There are approximately 29 to 30 million white non-evangelicals in the  USA. 6% of them view Hamas  favorably That equals 1,770,000 people ● There are appx 37.5 million evangelical protestants in the USA. 4% of them view Hamas favorably. That equals 1,480,000 people ●There are 7.5 million jews in USA. 2% view Hamas favorably That equals 150,000 people This is disgusting. I dont want to live here anymore. My family tree is a testament to how this ends.