Trying to improve relations between Muslims and Jews is one of the most frustrating jobs known to man, particularly since the Palestinian issue isn’t fundamentally about religion at all.
Mizrahi (Middle Eastern) Jews really got fucked and I mean hard. The hatred I receive from Ashkenazi (European) Jews daily is pretty astounding and not just because Mizrahis have more in common culturally with Middle Eastern Muslims (obviously). It’s like there’s no winning with either side and I perpetually want to shake Israeli leaders and Zionists as hard as I can and scream “HEY, KNOCK THAT SHIT OFF. YOU’RE FUCKING THE REST OF US IN THE ASS AND WE DON’T LIKE IT, YOU FUCKING ASSHOLES.” I’m losing patience with you people.
There’s a really good reason as to why I’m so bitter towards Zionist Ashkenazis and you can leave me the usual “you’re an anti-Semite/self-hating Jew” messages if you want but continuing the occupation of Palestine is the most anti-Semitic shit of all time. You’re hurting people, you’re hurting Jews and if you can’t understand that, then I have 0 sympathy, 0, for your “Jewish plight.”
The “Jewish people” are not all one people. I have nothing in common with you Ashkenazis. Nada. Never associate yourself with me.
perfect.
my dad’s directly descended from Welsh Ashkenazi. nobody in my family really thinks of themselves as jews, but the matrilineal thing makes sense for us, as it was Grandma Hanna (on my father’s mother’s side) who converted to christianity to marry my great grandfather.
my daddy raised me to be anti-Zionist, although sadly a lot of Delaware Jews we know are super fucking Zionist, and they’re all white.
so fuck zionism and fuck intra-religious colonial bullshit. solidarity, comrade!
Word on the Delaware Jews. My dad is Jewish, and never had much to say about the situation — I couldn’t even tell you what he thinks about Zionism. But my best friend growing up was clearly fed the Zionist kool-aid, and started telling me about it, as long as I can remember. We became friends when we were EIGHT, and she talked about it then. What kind of eight-year-old is a Zionist? The one who has had a lot of Zionist thinking forced on them, obviously.
Why I perform abortions: A Christian obstetrician explains his choice -
Willie J. Parker, an obstetrician based in Washington, D.C., didn’t always perform abortions. He’s a Christian from Birmingham, Ala., who initially refused to even consider the procedure.
But about halfway into his 20-year career, he changed his mind. Now, he’s one of those rare doctors who is willing to push the limits and provide abortions at 24 weeks of pregnancy. That places him among only about 11 percent of all abortion providers who will do the procedure that late in the second trimester.
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This interview is wonderful. He talks about who he sees coming in for later-term abortions, fetal pain, waiting periods, and anti-choicers targeting racial minorities. Read it!
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WikiLeaks: U.S. troops Handcuffed Children and Shot Them in the Head -
According to a diplomatic cable published by WikiLeaks, U.S. troops willfully massacred an Iraqi family in the town of Ishaqi in 2006, handcuffing and then shooting 11 people in the head including a woman in her 70′s and five children ages five and under.
McClatchy is reporting that the soldiers then called in an air strike on the house to cover up evidence of the killings.
This account differs sharply from an official version of the 2006 incident, which indicated that coalition forces captured an al Qaeda in Iraq operative in the house, which was destroyed in a firefight. The WikiLeaks cable, however, corroborates accounts by Ishaqi townspeople and includes questions about the incident by Philip Alston, the U.N.’s special rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions.
The cable is dated twelve days after the incident, which took place March 15, 2006. In it, Alston says that autopsies performed in Tikrit on bodies pulled from the wreckage of the farmhouse indicated that all of the dead had been handcuffed and shot in the head.
If true, this action, although not as egregious as the My Lai massacre of March 16, 1968, wherein 347-504 unarmed civilians were shot to death by U.S. forces during the Vietnam conflict, still speaks volumes about war and the atrocities committed for war’s sake.
Read the original article (Warning: Graphic Images)
I guess war crimes and crimes against humanity, cease to be of importance when you’re the USA (and when Obama’s got your back, ensuring your immunity).
Nearly any other developed country in the world - Bush (and Blair) would be at the International Criminal Court right now.
But hey, I guess ‘democracy’ has it’s perks.
This and many more human rights violations by USA.
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“If we shared more than bought, there’d be a lot less profit to go around — but maybe we’d also be a lot less interested in profit as our life goal.” —
What Pinterest Taught Me About Marriage as a Capitalist Prison | Slacktory | This seems legit. (via sociolab)
Great article.
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It Happens All the Time
Six Years of D.C. Murders, Mapped -
what this map wont tell you is the number of trans women of Color who are murdered in dc. our nation’s capital is not safe for trans women of Color (much like most of the US and world)
Disturbing, yet deeply unsurprising.
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