Because I'm only seeing other Jews posting about this, non-Jews I need you to be aware that for the past month or two there has been a wave of bomb threats and swattings at synagogues all across the US. They usually do it when services are being livestreamed. I haven't seen a single non-Jew talking about this. High holidays are coming up in a few weeks, which is when most attacks happen against our communities. We're worried, and we need people to know what's happening to us.
Remember to make space for the heteros this month too - yes, really.
Lesbians who became straight men
Gay men who became straight women
All straight drag artists (note that not all of them are cis!)
People with complex identities who thusly encompass multiple orientations (like genderfluid and multigender people who, yes, are sometimes straight, or even simultaneously with other labels)
Hetero aro and ace people. Especially. Seriously.
People with fluid orientations
Gnc people who find joy in their straightness
Many queer people are also straight. Queerness is note solely reliant on gayness. These people too, are a part of pride. Remember that.
[All discourse attempts will be swiftly blocked. Exclusionists fuck off]
I don't EVER wanna hear you say they don't know how to act again.
The short answer is no, not based on what he did.
Pathologizing resistance and protesting in all its forms, including the selfless act of self-immolation in order to communicate an urgent message to save countless innocent lives is a colonial imperialist tool.
Fight any attempt to pathologize Aaron or any activist. They delegitimize Palestinian liberation when they paint us as “mentally ill” as if freedom and liberation are mental diseases!
Rest in peace Aaron.
*Please seek help if you have thoughts of self-harm.
The Percy Jackson renaissance and The Hunger Games renaissance happening in the same year is something so special to me
It has failed to achieve a single one of its goals and thanks to the actions of the Israeli armed forces, Israel is now in court for genocide. Thousands of IDF soldiers have been injured or killed. Their image as the invisible moral army has been thoroughly destroyed
Meanwhile the IDF stationed at the West Bank have failed to stop the Resistance groups operating there. The IDF have repeatedly raided the West Bank, destroying homes and killing civilians, many of them children. The Resistance has spent months pushing them back. There's a belief that there could soon be a Palestinian uprising in the region
A week or so ago, the IDF withdrew 25,000 out of 50,000 soldiers from northern Gaza after failing to dismantle Al Qassam there. In fact, every time rockets are launched from Gaza to the Occupied Territories, they are launched from the north, in order to make sure no settler believes the IDF when they claim victory over northern Gaza
Still, this is a huge victory for the Resistance. Let Henry Kissinger tell it
In the process we lost sight of one of the cardinal maxims of guerrilla war: the guerrilla wins if he does not lose. The conventional army loses if it does not win.
“Israel is committing genocide.” Yes. They are. But so is the US. The US is 100% complicit in this, and Israel would not have been able to do as much without the help of the US. I’m disgusted to be living in a country that is complicit in the literal MURDER of civilians. Men, women, children, elderly, families. All dead because of Israel AND the US. This needs to STOP.