The most humane and technologically sophisticated army is too busy creating its own Stalingrad to stop getting its shit kicked in by hizbollah's truck mounted rocket launchers from ww2
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Anonymous asked:
im jewish and i identify with one of the 4 nonbinary genders as written in the torah (thats right christians trans ppl are in the bible) and every time i see someone making fun of "weird" genders i think "my ancestors didnt die for me to give into the false concept of the gender binary"
:OOOOOOO do those 4 nonbinary genders have names? ive head of culture-specific genders like two spirit but never this !!
also ur right nb people have been around since forever
sherlocksholmes
HEY HI HELLO I AM HERE TO TALK ABOUT MY FAVORITE TOPIC JEWISH NONBINARY GENDERS
ahem
yeah so we have 4 nonbinary genders!!! or. like 4 trans genders. 2 are binary but 2 are nonbinary
androgynos: sort of controversial as to who can and can’t use it, as it refers to someone who is biologically male and female. i personally don’t think non-intersex ppl can use it because it seems to be intersex-only, but im not intersex, so any intersex ppl who wanna comment on it can totally correct me.
tumtum (thats me!!!): cutest name ever, to begin with. second of all, has a “hidden” gender. really hard to explain but the tumtum is p much just “yeah you can do whatever you want”. they have the choice of presenting male or female and it can change and stuff. its somewhere between genderfluid and agender.
saris: trans woman!
ay’lonit: trans man!
I never knew this!
novaslastblog
OMG I just looked this up to be sure and it’s actually so super real I honestly am not able to effectively describe the feelings of love and positivity I have for my people right now
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Me arguing with Zionists on facebook: Zionists have been collaborating with antisemites since the beginning. Antizionist socialist, communist, and anarchist Jews, on the other hand cared about real liberation.
Zionist: hahaha. Socialist Jews founded Israel.
Me: Yes, it is true that some of the socialist Jews of the 19th and 20th centuries were Zionists. Others weren’t. Have you ever heard of the Bund?
Zionist: *laugh react*
the horrifying inverse of this: there are actually folks who think Bundism is nationalist
which… yes, I guess? but cosmopolitan borderless nationalism explicitly confined to no single state and designed to be not separatist, but part of a strategy of cross-ethnic proletarian struggle??? how many levels of internationalist anti-opportunist purism are you on right now, comrade?
or, on a more finicky note: that the related concept of ‘Yiddishland’ (the grand diasporic stateless entity comprised of Yiddish-speaking Jews, or, to cleave more strictly to Shandler’s coinage, the transnational, post-vernacular cultural entity created by Jews and others who are joined in a love for Wex’s ‘the language of nowhere’) belongs in a litany of Jewish national entities along with Israel and Birobidzhan (which, also: none of these things are the same)
reading this written in earnest felt like honestly the biggest self-own I had ever witnessed
do these people who say bundism is nationalist count it as one of the good nationalisms or one of the bad ones?
these are ultraleft folks who think the Zapatistas are ‘natlib’ and thus losers who nobody should support, and that because of Soviet national policy, we can functionally ignore all the forced deportations
honestly I think the core of them just dismiss any actually-existing left tendency as 'natlib’ because critical support might require them to leave the armchair, but this seems surprisingly influential beyond the immediate circle of fucking nerds who are just gonna be like that, and that’s the dismaying part
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France’s politicians and community leaders have criticised the “intolerable” violence against Paris’ Jewish community, after a pro-Palestinian rally led to the vandalizing and looting of Jewish businesses and the burning of cars.
please please please spread this around, please speak up about this, please let everyone know that this is not okay, please please please protect my people from a second kristallnacht, please
Listen. I love my followers and my mutuals dearly. You know how occasionally I post something like ‘every Jew on this site has a list in their head of who reblogs what and who ignores posts about Jews’? I’m talking about this shit. I have been seeing things on my dash about the situation of Jews in France for over a year, but it’s coming from other Jews 99% of the time. Please stop ignoring this. This is literally history repeating itself and we can’t be the only ones calling it out again.
'Never Again' my ass you spineless liberals. The far right is coming back and the liberals sit around with their thumbs up their arses waiting for actual genocide to start happening before they take action, and demonizing groups like antifa, who are doing the best they can to organize to make 'Never Again' actually fucking mean something.
In 70 years, we're going to read another Palestinian or Syrian or Eastern European girl's diary, and say "Never Again."
Not saying that antifa is perfect, we're not. We've failed in large scale organization, recruitment, and coming into mainstream politics where the far right has succeeded. Maybe we don't want to be mainstream, but we can't keep pretending that the resistance culture is going to make any lasting change to protect ourselves and oppressed classes from far right politics. The far right has charismatic mouthpieces in the media, while we have footage of breaking windows, which without the proper context, looks pretty shitty. Whether it's our fault or the capitalist media defending the interests of the Bourgeoisie is up to debate.
It's time to organize for realsies. All successful movements had a militant action section, and a more pacifistic, palatable section. We already have the militant section (still need to iron out some kinks but for the most part it's well fleshed out). Let's start working on the other one.