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James Vaughan @equusonthebuses.bsky.social · 13h

See, I think the BBC needed to do a lot more to contextualise this. There’s a reason the term “Zio” is regarded as antisemitic rather than an innocent abbreviation www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Oxford student arrested on suspicion of inciting racial hatred at pro-Palestinian protest

The arrest relates to a video in which a man appears to chant

www.bbc.co.uk

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as always, in need of hope 🪷 @tikvahchai.bsky.social · 13h

a keyboard warrior is in my mentions giving a not-exactly hinged example of this just now

as always, in need of hope 🪷 @tikvahchai.bsky.social · 13h

So from the Balfour Declaration, you're calling for the annihilation of the Jewish state.
That's as bizarre a leap as the lies you're telling about Zionists and Israel (which is, of course, a multi-ethnic state with a substantial population of Arabs, Druse and others).

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as always, in need of hope 🪷 @tikvahchai.bsky.social · 14h

You literally cited the Balfour Declaration 👏

Anyway. Palestine as an Arab-only identifier only came about post '67. Prior to that it very much included Jews. This is well attested to historically.

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as always, in need of hope 🪷 @tikvahchai.bsky.social · 18h

😂😂

well it *is* more likely to be understood decades on than how many Jdramas you rated over 10 stars 😉

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as always, in need of hope 🪷 @tikvahchai.bsky.social · 18h

all of this is excellent but if you need a smile, what a performance of San Francisco Bay Blues by Peter, Paul & Mary
6:26 intro re Jesse Fuller
7:40 song
youtu.be/HJm-RpPk16M

PETER, PAUL AND MARY 1965

YouTube video by Robert Engel

youtu.be

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as always, in need of hope 🪷 @tikvahchai.bsky.social · 18h

if this is what it takes to get my brain to finish this novel i'll do it

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as always, in need of hope 🪷 @tikvahchai.bsky.social · 18h

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i accept i'm on a slightly lower rung of course, even though there wasn't much i could do at that point to avoid it. kid's sisters were off in their rooms ignoring me 👍
he was a good kid, helped me with child care in the synagogue when he was older. i hope things have gone well for him

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as always, in need of hope 🪷 @tikvahchai.bsky.social · 18h

the *only* reason I've seen the movie was a kid i was looking after decided to watch it again that day

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Ariel Zellman @arielzellman.bsky.social · 20h

Remarkably, as with every previous ceasefire in this war, Hamas is working hard via continued blatant violations, to encourage Israel to "break" its side of the agreement. 3/3

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as always, in need of hope 🪷 @tikvahchai.bsky.social · 1d

For some "Free Palestine" = Gaza & West Bank.

For Islamists like Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, Muslim Brotherhood, Palestine = Gaza, West Bank AND Israel.
It is a call for annihilation of the only Jewish-majority state in the world & putting the land under Arab rule. It has been normalised.

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as always, in need of hope 🪷 @tikvahchai.bsky.social · 1d

And when language calling for the annihilation of the only Jewish-majority state in the world is normalised - even if the majority using it think it means something peaceful and lovely - it's a small step towards returning it to its original meaning and getting everyone to go along with it.

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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 1d

Which codifies the idea of ancient peoples (and any of their modern descendants who preserve their traditional history) as irrational and primitive and ultimately kind of incomprehensible rather than as people responding fairly rationally to their environments with the info they have.

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as always, in need of hope 🪷 @tikvahchai.bsky.social · 20h

a mountain exploding with fire is a pretty literal description of a volcanic eruption too.
it shouldn't have been difficult to work out what they were talking about.

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sheepchase @sheepchase.net · 1d

The BBC is very good at being sly.

www.jewishnews.co.uk/bbc-fails-to...

BBC fails to tell viewers "Palestinian prisoner" is Hamas suicide bomb plotter - Jewish News

A BBC interview featured the weeping sister of a Palestinian prisoner finding out he was deported. They didn't mention he was a Hamas terrorist behind 2006 bombing that killed 4

www.jewishnews.co.uk

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as always, in need of hope 🪷 @tikvahchai.bsky.social · 20h

Yes - stimulation. Which may also include things to react to and gossip about, but stimulation in the moment.

Bit like short form social media in that.

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JM 📎🟦🪬🎗️🥯🥡🥠🦀 @jmdc88.bsky.social · 1d

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⌨️ @elena_of_judea2.0 - "Israeli “apartheid” on full display. Lucy Aharish, an Arab-Israeli news anchor who tirelessly advocated for the hostages, can’t hold back tears as she receives flowers from Itzik Horn whose sons, Yair and Eitan, are survivors."

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as always, in need of hope 🪷 @tikvahchai.bsky.social · 20h

You're a Zionist then?

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Gabriel Milland @gabrielmilland.bsky.social · 21h

"Workshopping". I do love the idea of the most middle class people in the world commandeering the college boathouse or whatever to come up with slightly twee demands for a death cult to commit mass murder.

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as always, in need of hope 🪷 @tikvahchai.bsky.social · 1d

Define Palestine please.

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as always, in need of hope 🪷 @tikvahchai.bsky.social · 1d

And when language calling for the annihilation of the only Jewish-majority state in the world is normalised - even if the majority using it think it means something peaceful and lovely - it's a small step towards returning it to its original meaning and getting everyone to go along with it.

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as always, in need of hope 🪷 @tikvahchai.bsky.social · 1d

For some "Free Palestine" = Gaza & West Bank.

For Islamists like Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, Muslim Brotherhood, Palestine = Gaza, West Bank AND Israel.
It is a call for annihilation of the only Jewish-majority state in the world & putting the land under Arab rule. It has been normalised.

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as always, in need of hope 🪷 @tikvahchai.bsky.social · 1d

"The Intifada" was two long waves of terror attacks in Israel.

"Globalise the Intifada" is a call for terror attacks on Jews outside Israel. Note the 'the'. It matters.

Try explaining this to people who don't want to know though and are convinced it can only mean whatever they've decided it means.

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as always, in need of hope 🪷 @tikvahchai.bsky.social · 1d

A photo of seafood gumbo from thecaiglediaries was put on top of an article about Israeli food from myjewishlearning. It's been circulating for a while, along with similar hate memes which also play on the canard of Jews as rootless, having no/little culture of our own and stealing others.

as always, in need of hope 🪷 @tikvahchai.bsky.social · 1d

that album is a great place to start IMO. i hope you enjoy their music

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