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.

No. Semite is a linguistic category. Middle Eastern is a racial subcategory to which all Jews belong. Groyper scumbag.

The Irish pro-Pals insist that Jews are only a religion. Not a race. But at the same time, in their eyes, I'll never be truly Irish. Because I am a Jew. It's almost like they don't believe even half the things they say.

@Isa_Smooch @Mr_Andrew_Fox If you think dismantling a terror group is "genocide" you are evil and deserve to be locked up

@Mr_Andrew_Fox Haha, you lot are insane. Oh no, young women want an end to massive wealth disparity, oppose genocide and care about the environment! Monsters.

Whilst everyone was focusing on the manosphere and watching Adolescence, nobody has considered the radicalisation of young women, which appears numerically to be a far greater problem.

Be quiet Chicken

You are objectively shit.

HEALTH UPDATE Two days ago, the OCD was so bad that the rituals began demanding self-harm and that... yeah. I went absolutely crazy. Started taking Lybalvi after that and it reduced the OCD significantly, but also resulted in almost two full days of sleep.

OCD treatment starts in June Fuck

Have survived many things. Years of isolation. Addiction. Alcoholism. Poverty. Loss. Global antisemitism. But there's one thing that can't be survived: this brain. It is pure hell.

Can't take this brain anymore. Want to get rid of it. Trade it for almost any other brain - one that isn't wracked with OCD. Don't even care what benefits it may bring. It is trash. It needs to be destroyed. Would rather die than deal with this any longer.

To put things in perspective for Ukraine supporters... Israel has built hospitals for Ukrainians. It has taken in refugees, including ethnic Ukrainians. It has built missile defense systems for Ukraine. The majority of Israelis and diaspora Jews support Ukraine over Russia. Israel is not pro-Russia. At all. Russia is allied with Palestine and the Islamic Republic. Netanyahu hasn't spoken to Putin since 2019. Trump coerced Israel into voting against Ukraine *one time* and a private company within Israel, perhaps unknowingly, bought stolen grain from Russia. If you think that alone makes Israel your enemy, then you were (most likely) already anti-Israel to begin with and are merely looking for an excuse to vilify it. Ukraine, on the other hand, has consistently voted against Israel at the UN, allied with Israel's enemies, supports Palestine, and has issued one-sided and hypocritical condemnations knowing full-well that it would whip up mobs against Israel and further ignite the flames of Jew-hatred worldwide. Israel has helped Ukraine repeatedly and Ukraine has only harmed Israel in return. Israeli politicians have every right and every reason to be frosty towards Zelenskyy/the Ukrainian government. They deserve it. They act no differently from our other European enemies, yet demand to be treated as allies. Meanwhile, Ukraine's "real" allies - Western Europe, Turkey, etc - are still purchasing oil from Russia and have openly chosen the side of the Islamic Republic (and by extension, Russia). Ukraine has said absolutely nothing about that.

רוסיה אינה חברה שלנו. הצענו עזרה לאוקראינה, לא לרוסיה. אנחנו מדינה קטנה שעומדת בפני מלחמה מכיוונים רבים, ואנחנו לא מקבלים את העזרה או התמיכה הציבורית שאוקראינה מקבלת. גם המנהיגים שלכם אינם חברים שלנו. הם לא תומכים בנו ולא מבקרים אף אחד אחר. אל תתנו לפוליטיקה של שנת הבחירות להטעות אתכם, המנהיגים שלכם הרעילו את מערכת היחסים הזו.

This account will be private until morning

@GruessGott2018 The one that doesn't hang protesters from cranes

Which Iran do you support ?

Golders Green is home to one of the largest Jewish diaspora communities in the UK and is also home to a sizable Iranian diaspora. Yesterday, an Iranian memorial was vandalized. Today, two Jewish men were stabbed. Both are under attack from the same forces.

@kabostebeznihuy If that's your attitude, then fuck you

@AngryLevantine yeah whatever just don't buy ruSSian grain

Sorry, no comprehend. You're gonna have to speak in a HUMAN language. Not Turkish.

Turkey 🇹🇷 is built entirely on stolen land, illegally occupies 3 countries (Iraq, Syria, and Cyprus), has repeatedly threatened to invade both Greece and Israel, has an atrocious human rights record, jails dissenters, and is a thoroughly racist society with oceans of blood on its hands. Almost no one cares. Iran 🇮🇷 has been occupied and its people held hostage by Islamic Nazi terrorists for 47 years. 40,000 protesters killed and thousands more kidnapped in just a single weekend. People are imprisoned in torture dungeons, sold as sex slaves, hung from cranes. Women are beaten and have acid thrown in their eyes just for showing a strand of hair. Again, few people care. China 🇨🇳 has illegally occupied Tibet for almost a century, is genociding Uyghurs, shamelessly allies with the worst human rights abusers on Earth and has an appalling record itself, and has plans to invade Taiwan. Crickets. The UK 🇬🇧, France 🇫🇷, and Spain 🇪🇸 colonized ("discovered") half the globe and have destroyed countless peoples and civilizations. All 3 still hold colonies to this day. Spain in particular was and remains absolutely atrocious. They all have chosen the side of the Islamic Republic, Russia, and China over the United States, their supposed NATO ally. "UGH! How DARE you criticized the enlightened Europeans, you ignorant American???" Won't even get into Italy 🇮🇹. The things their Roman ancestors did to the peoples they occupied would make the Spaniards blush. Israel 🇮🇱 wrests its land back from foreign rule, ousts 2 colonial occupiers, avenges a genocide carried out on its soil, and (stupidly and perhaps unknowingly) buys stolen grain from Russia - something dozens of other countries (including most of the ones listed here) have also done. The world is no longer silent. It is furious. Not at all of the countries that bought grain from Russia, of course. Just Israel. Not even North Korea 🇰🇵 is hated as much as Israel. And the less said about North Korea, the better. You want to know why Jews/Israelis think most criticism of Israel is antisemitic? This is why. Because, nine times out of ten, it IS antisemitic. Do not think for even a millisecond that this is about grain. It's never about the rights or wrongs, real or imagined, that Israel commits or does not commit. People by and large do not obsessively criticize Israel because of its actions or policies. They do so because they harbor immense anger towards Jews - be it because we rejected the "superior" religions, bloodlines, and cultures their ancestors tried to force on us or because we are so successful that it threatens their own racist illusions of superiority. Or because we humiliated them either directly in combat or in spirit by taking our land back. Whatever the reason, the fact that Israel is there at all - the fact that it breathes - offends them on a cellular level. This is why everything it does, big or small, is obsessively scrutinized. Because they are chomping at the bit for something - ANYTHING - to attack Israel with. Something that would morally vindicate their own hatred while bringing the Jewish state down a peg and, hopefully, back to the trashbin of history "where it belongs". For too many gentiles - far too many - Jewish self-determination in Israel is an insult to their pride. To their ancestors. To their racial, religious, and cultural patrimony. This is why anti-Israel sentiment permeates the most - almost exclusively in fact - in countries and communities that have had a traditionally hostile relationship with Jews.

OCD is hell But it will be beaten