judaismunpacked: Judaism doesn’t just allow pets—it calls us to care for them with compassion and responsibility.

From feeding them before ourselves (Talmud, Berachot 40a) to the mitzvah of preventing animal suffering (tza’ar ba’alei chayim), our tradition sees animals as part of the moral universe.

While pets don’t have a neshama like humans, they have a nefesh—a sacred life-force. And the way we treat them says something about the kind of Jews we are.

In caring for them, we fulfill a piece of our divine mission.

The IDF on Sunday said that it was unaware of injuries caused by military gunfire within the humanitarian distribution zone, after news of an alleged Israeli attack in the area killed at least 31, according to Palestinian and Hamas-affiliated media.

The IDF later said that the matter is being reviewed.

The attack was reportedly carried out near the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation's (GHF) distribution center in Rafah in southern Gaza.

Following the incident, the GHF denied claims of casualties and injuries at the aid distribution sites. The GHF said in a statement on Sunday that "All aid was distributed today without incident. No injuries or fatalities."

"We have heard that these fake reports have been actively fomented by Hamas. They are untrue and fabricated," GHF noted.

The US-backed group said on Sunday that it had distributed over 4.7 million meals within six days.

"We’re scaling up as quickly as possible, but the truth is stark: for every truck we successfully bring into our network, other humanitarian groups are being looted before reaching those in need."

GHF says it will continue to grow operations, including in northern Gaza

GHF said that it distributed 16 truckloads of food in Tel Sultan, totaling 15,360 boxes, around 887,040 meals.

They noted that they will increase operations and build additional sites across Gaza, including in the northern Gaza Strip, in the weeks ahead.

On Thursday, the GHF opened its third food distribution center, located in central Gaza. Two other food centers previously opened near Rafah in deep southern Gaza, and one more is still due to open in Khan Yunis in mid-southern Gaza.

henmazzig: They said Israel massacred 31 people.

Turns out—it never happened.

CCTV proves it. Statements from American forces, the IDF and investigations confirms: Aid was delivered peacefully. Even Netanyahu’s opponent says it’s fake.

So why the headlines?

Because Hamas is losing control—and lying louder.

Watch. Share. Stay smart.

EDIT: New video footage shows Hamas gunmen shooting Palestinian civilians by the humanitarian aid distribution point makes this story even more obvious.

Absolutely. I’m happy to interact with anybody who strives to be civil and intellectually honest. C'mon in.

I’m mutuals with a number of people who describe themselves as Pro-Palestinian and Zionist - and that’s not a contradiction.

Since both of those terms have been muddied by propaganda, let me clarify:

A Zionist is someone who believes that the Jewish people have a right to national self-determination in a portion of their indigenous homeland. I’m a Zionist.

If being Pro-Palestinian means wanting safety, security, prosperity, and dignity for the people of Gaza and the West Bank, I’m Pro-Palestinian.

If being Pro-Palestine means being open to the idea of a new Arab state living in peace next to Israel, I’m conditionally Pro-Palestine, depending mostly on how to arrange for security and how to build trust for a lasting peace with a partner who has never previously had leadership to actually seek it.

If being Pro-Palestine means wiping Israel off the map, the murder or ethnic cleansing of Israelis, or depriving the Jewish people of national self-determination, I’m not Pro-Palestine.

Most of the Jews I know are somewhere in between loathing Netanyahu and actively praying for his demise. I’ve hated him 19 years longer than most of the Western “Pro-Palestinian” mob has known his name, and my loathing has only increased over time. I look forward to reading about his demise because lasting peace won’t be possible to pursue while he’s in power. He has to go. If he makes moves to start settling Gaza, that’ll be a disaster for everyone.

Hamas has to go, and I’d like to see the PA either radically reform into a genuinely peace-seeking and effective governing entity (which seems pretty damned unlikely in historical context), or go.

I think there hasn’t been an honest partner seeking peace on either side for nearly 20 years.

I hope that Arab Israelis, Emiratis, and Saudis will be very deeply involved in rebuilding Gaza after the war because none of them have much patience for radical Islamism or Jihadis these days, all have enormous resources to bring to the effort, and all have much to gain from that kind of success.

I think the situation in the West Bank is obviously unethical and not sustainable. Security is the biggest issue there and I really don’t have any idea at all what the answer to that problem is…but finding an answer will require a completely different set of leaders with a different set of priorities on both sides.

I think Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib is on the right track with Realign for Palestine, and trying to actually seek peace.

I don’t agree with Ahmed on everything, but he’s smart, intellectually honest, capable of holding two narratives in mind as valid at the same time, and sincerely wants peace. That’s exactly the kind of person I most want to disagree constructively with.

Here’s an interview with Ahmed you can check out if you’re not familiar with him:

I don’t think my positions here are anything but centrism which many Israelis would find laughably optimistic, but you’d think from the behavior of Western “activists” on Tumblr that I favor Gaza-a-Lago or nuking Rafah…because they know nothing, but that doesn’t daunt them a bit.

I’m very tired of profoundly ignorant Western idiots centering themselves and their feelings in any discussion of this conflict by condemning things they don’t understand through the use of words they can’t define to condescend to people they’ve never met operating in cultures they’ve never encountered, never studied, and know fuck-all about.

If they actually knew anything about Palestinians, if they actually cared at all about Palestinians, they’d be asking Ahmed how to help - not chanting Hamas’s genocidal slogans and endorsing global violence against Jews.

I hate Hamas, I distrust the PA, I think the Western “pro-Palestinian” movement is doing enormous harm for mostly the same reasons Ahmed details.

But lasting peace won’t be possible to explore until Hamas is gone and these tankie twats in the West are firmly told by parties actually involved to sit the fuck down.

im gonna be working on a Jewish culture newsletter for my shul, and was wondering if anyone had any good resources on some interesting Jewish musicians, artists or, honestly any Jewish historical figure LMFAO I WOULD LOVE SUGGESTIONS FOR WHO TO INCLUDE, especially if they're queer or disabled but that's not a requirement ahhhh

A Columbia University protester with ties to Hamas has been indicted on federal hate crime charges.

Tarek Bazrouk, 20, a U.S. citizen from NYC, was:

– In a chat group with Hamas’ military spokesman Abu Obeida, receiving real-time updates from the terror group’s armed wing, al-Qassam Brigades

– Caught on Columbia’s campus texting about setting a Jewish student on fire during an anti-Israel protest

– Called an acquittance a “F—ing Jew,” and told a friend to “slap that bitch” in reference to a woman with an Israeli sticker on her laptop, according to court documents.

– Allegedly assaulted multiple Jews, including punching a Columbia student while ranting about Hitler

– Found in possession of brass knuckles, multiple knives, and $750,000 in cash during a federal raid

– Had his phone “littered with pro-Hamas and pro-Hezbollah propaganda,” including memes celebrating terrorism and messages calling Jews “worthless”

– Boasted that he was a “Jew hater” and “mad happy” to have Hamas-affiliated family abroad

– Told a friend he would “boom boom” the next Jew he saw

– Traveled to the West Bank and Jordan for approximately three weeks in September 2024 for unknown reasons.

This is the first confirmed case of a U.S.-based protester directly connected to Hamas’ military leadership.

And it happened at Columbia University, where pro-Hamas demonstrators were celebrated by the media and many of our politicians as civil rights activists.

He’s facing up to 30 years in prison.

University officials claim he wasn’t a student, but does that even matter? If anything it makes it worse. Why were these people allowed anywhere near campus?

And why did the NYPD continue to release him time and time again?

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https://x.com/chalavyishmael/status/1930269183914213856?s=46&t=WavuhYisKVKuwWFJUqwhzQ

The settlements are an obstacle to creating a Palestinian state, but ultimately a trivial and manageable one. All neighboring state invasions of Israel happened before there were any settlements; all normalizations and recognitions happened after the settlements. The fundamental core obstacle is rejection and denialism of Israel itself, and the warmongering of Palestine’s “allies.” Israeli or shortly-pre-Israeli governments offered 100% of Gaza and 80-95% of the West Bank to be a Palestinian state in 1937, 1947, 2000, 2001, and 2008 (and also offered 100% back to Jordan and Egypt in 1967), and the answer was always no. You have certainly heard the statement “We don’t want no two-state, we want 1948.” If there had ever, EVER been a Palestinian leadership that accepted the concept of an Israel neighboring a Palestine, in whatever shape or size, they would have done it by now.

You should also take note of just how slow and sporadic the growth of settlements has been. In 2017, they broke ground on their first new settlement in over 20 years; now 7 years later the new settlement (Amichai) houses a whole entire 264 people. Think back to all the sources you’ve ever read on this. If you were sure Israel had been building settlements throughout those 20+ years, and that this was supposedly the obstacle to peace, really reconsider how much trust you put in your sources, how much they - and you - are just going along with the groupthink of what “everybody knows” about Israel.

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I'll help!

::gives you a book explaining those books::

If it was really "anti-Zionism and not antisemitism" then you would be working your tuchus off to make the diaspora safe for all Jews, especially Israeli ex-pats. You would be bending over backwards to demonstrate (against the great weight of historical evidence) that the diaspora is safe, that there is no need for Jewish sovereignty, that we can totally trust our neighbors to have learned - or at a minimum, that the majority will step in to stop any antisemitic violence before it gained traction.

Instead, you repeat this antisemitic Soviet propagandist slogan designed from the start to isolate, marginalize, and ultimately murder Jews, because that is your goal. If it's actually not your goal and you are offended that I would suggest it is, then you need to sit down, learn some Jewish history, and shut the fuck up until you understand why and how you got sucked into a hate movement that supports another Holocaust.

And yet without fail, if you even as much as ask them why they're supporting what they're supporting they resort to slurs, holocaust inversion and other false history, and death threats. Doesn't matter whether you're neutrally inquisitive, nice, rude, whatever, I've tried it all over the years, from within and later forced outside the antizionist movement. It almost seems like, with a tiny handful of exceptions, they believe that just being Jewish justifies receiving racist hate, and care more about being called on it than about actually being anti-racist.

@washingtonpost

Barbra Streisand 

She is so beautiful

(many of the responses he got to this are gross, but I don’t feel like putting you all through seeing that right now, it’s the op’s message that matters)

Tumblr, where you can see a post like "As victims of the Global North, we must rise up and crush the Imperial Core. None are without sin." and then find out the person is Dutch.

People really are so, so comfortable saying "we have to keep killing Jews, this is a good and righteous thing for our political cause" and "you can't trust Jews, they play the victim and pretend to care about the deaths in their community so they can weaponize antisemitism"

They are also so very comfortable assuming that when you say "stop killing Jews" you also mean "keep killing Palestinians." That is a WHOLE NEW SENTENCE!!!

Greatest freeze-frame from Sam Aronow's latest video

Tag yourself I'm public transport

Failure of prohibition, easy.

Also I couldn't help but notice "opposition to antisemitism" on the list, which… might be the only true thing here, because it sure as fuck isn't caused by anyone else.

Why would the Jews do this, @david-goldrock ?

Kosher rules, can't have pig based gelatin

Insert blood libel joke here or smth

I'm sorry but what????

I'm the contradiction in "Opposition to Antisemitism" and "the Belief in the Existence of Antisemitism"

While I'm posting correct takes that will make exactly the right people mad - some of you have noticed Jewish people on here accusing you of double standards for only getting worked up over open displays of antisemitism when the other side does it, and have decided to respond not with introspection but by accusing those Jewish people of being dishonest and weaponizing antisemitism. This, as well as the double standard itself, are signs of a belief on some parts of the left that only non-Jews are allowed to define antisemitism

If you are one of the people I'm talking about here, I hope you fall off a cliff and die

People always ignore that it has ALWAYS been all sides that are antisemitic.

During WW2 and the Holocaust, the Allies were not some Jew-supporting heroes who wanted the best for us. They were antisemitic too. They didn’t want us there.

During the Warsaw Uprising, many members of the Armia Krajowa were antisemitic and didn’t want Jews there, but they needed manpower.

And even now, leftists are just as guilty of antisemitism as the right is. But because the left has “moral high ground” on a lot of issues, they could not possibly be antisemitic.

I say this as a leftist, neither the left nor the right are welcoming toward us and I do frequently do not feel safe telling people I’m Jewish. Because yes, leftists perpetuate antisemitism just as aggressively as right wingers do. And when we try to call it out, we have goyim telling us they know about antisemitism.

I was speaking with my wife and one of my friends about this earlier, but it is glaringly obvious goyim only care for us when it’s convenient. We grow up our whole lives learning about the Holocaust, and the horrible ways in which the Nazis were killing us. We have to grow up learning we have been so hated in history that they would kill 6 million of us in the most disgusting ways possible. We have to grow up learning our history is so full of persecution that we were given the dirtiest jobs in history, and they made stereotypes about it that have carried on for thousands of years. We have to grow up hearing people say “never again” but the moment we say it’s happening again, it’s not a big deal.

This is not some long-dead historical evil that couldn’t possibly happen again. You guys just don’t want to listen to Jews when we tell you that it is happening again. You don’t care about our voices until we are dying. You don’t care what we say until you can use us as another marginalised people to play into your moral superiority.

“Never again” takes action, not waiting for something worse to happen.

i think a lot of people struggle with accepting stochastic terrorism as a valid concept because they don’t want their words to have consequences, to have power. they’re just yapping for yapping’s sake, how dare you suggest they have any responsibility for violence they’ve clamored for