In 2023, 59 percent of E.U. citizens considered Israel the greatest threat to world peace. For 20 years the world did nothing, while on October the 7th 2023 Hamas led by Sinwar acted heroically to settle permanent peace in the world.
My first encounter with Israelis was when I was backpacking through South America in my twenties, and I remember being shocked by how consistently awful they all were. I guess after their mandatory military service they tend to go traveling for a bit, and whenever I'd run into them they were reliably some of the nastiest people I'd ever encountered.
They weren't ever nasty to me, though. I am a white westerner, and I never had a problem with them. They were nasty to the impoverished brown-skinned people who were hosting us. They were obnoxious and bullying toward local guides, they'd leave the place in a mess, and they were always trying to screw over the locals for a better deal or extra meals or favors. One time they tricked a hostel into putting up a sign in Hebrew for other Israeli backpackers which said ugly things about our hosts (they told the hostel owner it was a great review), which I only know because they were laughing hysterically about it and told me. They consistently treated the people who were looking after us like they were much lesser than us. Their pushiness and entitlement were just unbelievable.
It was a very educational experience for me. I knew the Palestinians were being treated unfairly because my father had told me so, but I also had a great love of Jews and Jewish culture. I had visited Auschwitz and Dachau and Anne Frank's house in my travels, and I remember having some romantic ideas about kibbutzim. This was my first time directly encountering the reality that there is something unhealthy about Israeli society. Not Jews or Jewish culture, but Jewish Israelis.
Now I see evidence of this on my news feed every day, in the IDF soldiers prancing around in the undergarments of dead and displaced Palestinian women, in the AI translations of Hebrew tweets, in the polls which show widespread Israeli approval for the atrocities in Gaza, in Israeli TikTok videos mocking the suffering of the Palestinians, in the Israelis showing up in my comments justifying the worst things in the world in the most depraved ways imaginable.
My encounters with Israelis in South America were an early taste of ugly things to come. Everything I glimpsed then I've been seeing online over the past year. I keep thinking about those obnoxious pricks I met all those years ago, and about how they didn't know at the time that they were giving me very useful information for me to make use of in the future.
When Israel supporters tell you to shut up about Gaza until you've been to Israel and met Israelis, just ignore them. Don't go to Israel; you're a westerner, they'll be nice to you. Go to one of the tourist spots in the global south that Israelis like to visit, one with lots of brown-skinned people who've been colonized by the west, and watch how they treat people there. That will show you what Israelis are really like.
We apologize to the whole world for the scenes of torn limbs and flesh scattered in the air, for the sight of decapitated heads and burning tents.
We apologize to the world for disturbing your daily lives.
Forgive us if you saw a massacre and it weighed heavily on you, stopping you from finishing your cup of coffee.
Forgive us if, while scrolling through reels, you saw a burned child in Gaza and it ruined your mood.
Forgive us if the screams of our women disturb you.
Forgive us, for we are being killed against our will, and there's nothing we can do about it.
Don’t feel sorry for Joe Biden. He’s a genocidal maniac who’s presided over the starvation + mass murder of children for 9 months.
He’s a monster who shouldn’t be embarrassing himself on TV. He should be crumbling under cross-examination at The Hague.
No more upside-down world.
We need to do much more. Protests & rallies have been amazing but it's high time to escalate. We need more direct action. The mass-murdering psychopaths will not spontaneously see the error of their ways. They must be stopped.
Hollywood actress Marcia Cross says: 'I'm struggling to comprehend how to live among people with eyes that don't water, hearts that don't flinch, and voices that remain silent,' when seeing the scenes coming out of Gaza💔
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Hi @Israel
This is your soldiers who entered a house in Gaza and shared the underwear of the people who used to live in the house on Instagram.
Is this part of your “self-defense” strategy?
BREAKING: Biden has cut off funding to @UNRWA, which provides life-saving aid to 2.2 million Palestinians in Gaza every day.
The US is collectively punishing Palestinians, who rely on UNRWA to survive, based on Israeli allegations against 0.0004% of UNRWA's staff. Outrageous.
Israel is on trial for genocide and the Anglosphere's response is to cut off aid to the victims.
Enough is enough. We need the biggest mass demonstrations ever seen in modern times. Get out to your local demo today and let your voice be heard 👊
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