Jews do not travel to Jerusalem, we return. Jews have been perpetual refugees since the majority us were forced into diaspora, always looking for safety in new lands and never finding it for long.

Jews are the native people of Israel and the Romans named their province Palestine by way of marking their victory over the Jews in the 1st Roman Jewish War. Close to 1900 years is plenty of time for the Helenes, Latins, and Arabs to develop a regional cultural identity that is every bit as distinct and real as that the French developed in the same time period.

They settled and naturalised in our native land of Israel, Judah, Judea. Centuries came and we were repeatedly massacred in our homeland by the swords of crusaders and mamluks and others seeking to claim our holy sites as theirs. Jews returning is an act of decolonisation.

An endless cycle of retribution has no place in decolonisation. The murder of civilians whether they be Palestinian or Israeli is abhorent, and so are forced evictions, it feels ridiculous that this caveat needs to be added.

The combined world population of Palestinians and Jews is 28 million. There is room for all of us equally in the land. Jews are the Indigenous people of the land, Palestinians are a culture Endemic to the land.

We all belong there, in peace, in dignity and safety and the security to live long and comfortable lives.

It is not natural for neighbours to murder neighbours... All Palestinians and Jews should be safe in our shared homeland.

Palestinians and Jews are kin, and it's abhorrent that the Israeli government doesn't act like it.

The dichotomy of Indigenous People vs Western Coloniser is not universally applicable. Jews and Palestinians both belong, but violence does not.

a real blorbo is someone you can both write a lengthy and serious/sad analysis on yet also constantly and i mean constantly make stupid jokes about

Don't worry. I'm not gonna do what you all think I'm gonna do, which is just flip out.

I found her swaddled in a basket on my doorstep when she was 27.

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The first 48 dailies on this blog are going to focus on each episode of the original direct-to-DVD VeggieTales series in distribution order. But before we get there-- a prequel, if you will-- let's start by making a shoutout to the first VeggieTales animation tests, made way back in the early 90s: "Mr. Cuke" and "Take #38"!

The video below shows Phil Vischer and Mike Nawrocki, the co-creators of VeggieTales, as they show and explain the failed pilots as well as the creation of Bob and Larry as characters. It was first distributed on the remastered DVD edition of Where's God When I'm S-Scared? in the bonus features.

A table symbolically set for Shabbat is now at the Jewish Quarter of Rome, with over 200 empty seats, representing the hostages kidnapped by Hamas on 7 October. source

what circle of hell is it where middle schoolers message you to tell you they took pleasure in the deaths of 1,400 human beings.

no you know what? i’m not going to hide behind humor. i’m not going to pretend i’m ok after getting this. this broke me.

we know who this person is talking about when they say “colonizers.” they mean jews. when they talk about the “colonizers” hamas slaughtered, they mean specifically jewish israelis. this is a fucking child coming into my inbox and expressing glee that a thousand of my people were murdered. saying they thought about the people that were tortured, raped, disfigured, dismembered, burned alive in their homes, and felt happy.

i knew y’all hated us. you’ve made that very clear over the last couple thousand years. and with the rise of social media, you always make sure to be loud and clear about it whenever anything happens in israel. i saw some horrific things being said in 2021. someone told me they thought all (jewish) israeli children’s throats should be slit and they should be “bled out like pigs.” i’ve come to expect that level of violent fantasy from gentiles, so i was not shocked when i started seeing the same kind of rhetoric over the last two weeks. but i was not expecting to hear it from a kid. i don’t know how we come back from this.

motion capture actress 曦曦鱼sakana shows how npc moves in early games, common games and next-gen games.

hate to admit to sharing a character trait with fuches but i too am a big fan of watching barry sleep

Tim Robbins

“From working with him, there isn’t a more positive person on the set that I’ve worked with."

“I don’t ever feel that he’s a destructive person or a negative person or a person that plays games or anything like that; he’s always so supportive and so positive when he’s working with you.”

Tim Robbins on working with Tom Cruise (x)

There is this pretty famous psychologist I used to watch on Youtube until one incident. At the beginning of the full-scale invasion he made a video dedicated to people going through acute war-related stress and trauma (honestly, great initiative, props to him). But what pushed me away from his content forever is that he was adressing ukrainians and russians, figuratively putting on the same scales people hiding in the bomb shelters and living in occupation & people living in peaceful european cities who had their ego hurt becuase they were being treated slightly worse than usual for 5 minutes.

Today I went back to check the comments of that video, to see if there was anyone sharing my feelings, and I think the top comments are the best illustration of how we really live in two different worlds.

There are more than 50 Tom Cruises on Oblivion Earth...

Are they...? Do they...? How do...?

okay I know this is a joke post but I will never not seize the opportunity to rec my favorite Oblivion fic of all time that looked those questions in the eyes and answered them all beautifully

You're so right! It is so good and that's exactly the questions I've asked. Thank you for recommending this beautiful fanfic!

:DDD

“why would you write fics for small, unpopular fandoms? you’re not gonna reach that many hits in fandoms not many people know about” ?? because I’m not writing fics for hits or kudos, I’m writing them for me because these characters are my blorbos and I have so many ideas, so much thoughts about them that my brain might explode if I don’t write them out.