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(hope its ok im reblogging with this) THANK YOU. this original post could have been worded better i admit but in case anyone has no idea what i was talking about, ive seen a bunch of antisemites say things like "talking to an israeli person normalizes israelis and israel as a country" and people basically saying that if you even acknowledge an israeli person who exists you are "normalizing israelis and support genocide" its crazy shit. its literally the kind of thing hasan piker has been saying (link to post with screenshot) - actual quote: “All jokes aside, Gal Gadot serves an important role in normalizing Israel as not a fascist ethno-state, but instead a place where a lot of beautiful women come from. And those beautiful women happen to serve in the IDF, because there’s also this weird sexualization of the forces as well that takes place, and it plays another role in normalizing Israel and its activities and actions, and whitewashing it.” (source)

like literally weve gotten to the point where an actress' nationality means she is sexualizing her country's military and everything they have ever done wrong???????? theres like ten layers of misogyny and xenophobia wrapped up in this one.

its so ass backwards that we now see people who proclaim themselves to be progressive people who care about humanity to suddenly decide that extreme xenophobia, sexual harassment, and straight up text book nazism is now justified as long as its against someone from a country they dislike. imagine for a moment that someone said having a conversation with a mexican person is "normalizing mexicans". imagine saying that being friends with a gay person is "normalizing the gays". arent we supposed to be against extreme social isolation based on a persons identity??????

now to bring up the BDS thing. this is so fucking frustrating to me. again, they want to fully isolate israelis and by extension literally any jew anywhere as we have seen time and time again. the thing about BDS is that its literally ALL PERFORMATIVE!!!!!!! they boycott any business that they even THINK might POSSIBLY be (((zionist))) and yet that energy is completely gone the moment the israeli product in question is life saving medical technology and medications. these people will say that israeli doctors finding an affective treatment for lymphoma is pinkwashing whitewashing sciencewashing whatever the hell washing israel. they hate israeli people so fucking much that they think theres an evil plan by (((them))) behind curing fucking cancer. and yet i fully believe that if they were in the emergency room with a life threatening medical issue, they wouldnt be asking the doctor if the technology used to keep them alive "supports genocide" or not.

and i also want to bring up the mapping project. this is something i cant believe we dont talk about very much. i am not going to link their official site here but i have read through it. instead, heres the overview from the ADL:

FAQs on the Boston Mapping Project | ADL

it is literally a map of every single "zionist" institution in Massachusetts. this includes jewish nonprofit orgs, jewish schools (yes, including ones for actual kids), medical schools & medical institutions. the language used on the site is straight out of the protocols and mein kampf. they literally say an education program for teenagers contributes to "ecological apartheid". the funniest part is that they have a ton of land acknowledgements on the site and keep comparing palestine to native tribes in their area. and idk any native ppl reading this are free to correct me, but somethings telling me that the people in those groups probably dont want their names attached to an organization that literally wants to purge the country of anything remotely jewish. i am not going to get into jewish indigeneity here because im sick of explaining it. jews are indigenous. we did not colonize our own ancestral homeland.

anyway, suggested reading:

List of Israeli inventions and discoveries - Wikipedia

The top 64 innovations developed in Israel - Unpacked

(i better see the bds people boycott cherry tomatoes.)

am yisrael chai zona

this is part of what i was thinking of when i wrote this post but forgot to include it.