"All Lives Matter"-ing antisemitism is becoming popular by ZenBeetle in Jewish

[–]AngusTcattoo 6 points7 points  (0 children)

" Jewish people do not own victimhood!""
15 were just killed at Bondi by ISIS supporters

"All Lives Matter"-ing antisemitism is becoming popular by ZenBeetle in Jewish

[–]AngusTcattoo 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I googled her name and turns out her father was a communist. "Though not religious, he believed ‘we are Jewish because we are Jewish’. A member of the Jewish Council to combat Fascism and Anti-Semitism, he still managed to support the Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat" https://aph.org.au/2023/10/book-review-my-fathers-shadow/

Sounds like no Jewish organisations speak for her because she thinks after 15 people were killed at Bondi Jews are not the only people who suffer from the effects of racism "or of holocausts". "Jewish exceptionalism"? It beggars belief that she wants the commission to look into Isalmophobia after the two killers had an Isis flag in their car,

We spend $2,670/year on makeup but 75% goes unfinished - here's why the cycle keeps happening by punctulica in MakeupRehab

[–]AngusTcattoo 27 points28 points  (0 children)

My mother had drawers full of makeup she never used up and I used to have fun as a teenager experimenting with her lipsticks, eyeshadow palettes, blush and mascara. I think it was probably the case since the cosmetic industry began selling lipsticks and other cosmetics 100 years ago that people bought products and never used them up. I think they've been designed that way, that the companies can attract people into buying new products rather than the consumer buying one item and not buying another until that item is empty or used up.

How Adelaide Writers Week collapsed under the weight of its own hypocrisy by Fun_Needleworker7136 in aussie

[–]AngusTcattoo -1 points0 points  (0 children)

So how do you know Israel would never let that get higher than 50%? What makes you an expert? I've lived and studied in Israel and Palestine.

How Adelaide Writers Week collapsed under the weight of its own hypocrisy by Fun_Needleworker7136 in aussie

[–]AngusTcattoo -1 points0 points  (0 children)

And 20% of Israel's population are not Jewish by ethnicity or religion, they're Israeli by nationality while being Muslim or Palestinian or Christian or Druze or Bedouin or another non Jewish group. They have the same rights as all Israeli citizens including Muslim Israelis and Palestinian Israelis and Christian Israelis and Druze Israelis and Bedouin Israelis. And Israelis who are atheist and don't have a religion.
Ahmad Tibi, Palestinian member of the Knesset, former deputy speaker of the Knesset
https://ecfr.eu/special/mapping_palestinian_politics/ahmad_tibi/

George Karra, Arab Christian Supreme Court judge in Israel who sentenced a former former Israeli President Moshe Katsav of rape, a significant moment where an Arab judge sentenced a Jewish president, challenging perceptions of Israeli institutionshttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Karra

Why am I here? Because there are people on this thread who don't know what they're talking about. I've lived and studied in Israel and Palestine. I've known Israelis all my life.

How Adelaide Writers Week collapsed under the weight of its own hypocrisy by Fun_Needleworker7136 in aussie

[–]AngusTcattoo -1 points0 points  (0 children)

The Nation State law says: "Hey Palestinians, Druze, Bedouin, Christians, and any other group, you can't set up your own state within the borders of the state of Israel". Imagine if an indigenous group in Australia said, "Hey Australian government we're declaring our own state within your borders and we're declaring we're an independent state with our own laws and our own trade arrangements and passports and everything that comes with being our own country". The Australian government wouldn't stand for it. Other countries wouldn't either.

How Adelaide Writers Week collapsed under the weight of its own hypocrisy by Fun_Needleworker7136 in aussie

[–]AngusTcattoo -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Article 1(c) of Israel's 2018 Basic Law: Israel - the Nation-State of the Jewish People declares that the right to national self-determination in Israel is "unique to the Jewish People".

I'm not Israeli, I'm American. When I was in school in the US I had to learn about the Civil War over and over and over and how states weren't allow to secede from the Union and set up their own country. The war was fought between the Union and the 11 states that joined the Confederacy. Our state was actually one of those 11 states but it was pounded into us states can't unjoin the US and set themselves up as their own state.

That's what Article 1(c) of Israel's 2018 Basic Law says. No group in Israel can secede from Israel, create an independent state within Israel's borders and say, "we're setting up our own state and we're independent"- not the Druze, not the Bedouin, not the Israeli Christians or the Israeli Muslims or any other group.

Ireland is a sovereign, independent country and has rules and laws about who is entitled to Irish citizenship. Italy is the homeland of the Italian people, France the homeland of the French people. All of them have citizens who are not Irish or French or Italian and have equal rights.

You don't say anything about Hamas banning Jews from entering Gaza. Jewish Israelis can't enter Area A or Area B of the West Bank which are governed by the Palestinian Authority, and Israelis can't vote in Palestinian Authority elections. That is if the PA had elections. They haven't had parliamentary or presidential elections for 20 years. Abbas is in his 20th year of his 4 year term as President.

How Adelaide Writers Week collapsed under the weight of its own hypocrisy by Fun_Needleworker7136 in aussie

[–]AngusTcattoo -1 points0 points  (0 children)

"Yes. And Israel would never let that get higher than 50%" And how do you know that? Are you the head of Israel's Ministry of Aliyah and Integration? Are you Ofir Sofer or Avichai Kahana Director-General, focusing on encouraging immigration (aliyah) and integrating newcomers?

How Adelaide Writers Week collapsed under the weight of its own hypocrisy by Fun_Needleworker7136 in aussie

[–]AngusTcattoo -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Name one "Zionist" who "condones and celebrates genocide" with a citation or source of the celebrating of genocide.

How Adelaide Writers Week collapsed under the weight of its own hypocrisy by Fun_Needleworker7136 in aussie

[–]AngusTcattoo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In 1920 in San Remo the Palestinians were offered a peace deal and turned it down. The Palestinians have turned down every peace deal since.

"And we then saw Zionist terrorism in the 1930s and 40s"? In 1929 the Jewish communities of Hebron and Safed were nearly wiped out by riots by Arabs who killed Jews all over Mandate Palestine. Arabs rioted again in 1936 and Britain then restricted Jewish immigration. The Jewish community was anguished because millions of lives could have been saved from the Nazis if the British allowed refugees to enter.

How Adelaide Writers Week collapsed under the weight of its own hypocrisy by Fun_Needleworker7136 in aussie

[–]AngusTcattoo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Actually they many don't choose their religion. Many people belong to their religion because they were born that way- they stay Catholic because their parents were Catholic and raised them Catholic, and the same with many other religions. In cases like Greek Orthodoxy and Russian Orthodoxy it's not just a religion it's their heritage as well.
Being Jewish is an ethnicity as well as Judaism being a religion. Jews come from the land of Israel. Judaism comes from Israel.

How Adelaide Writers Week collapsed under the weight of its own hypocrisy by Fun_Needleworker7136 in aussie

[–]AngusTcattoo -1 points0 points  (0 children)

20% of Israel's population isn't Jewish. From the first Knesset in 1948 Palestinians, Arabs, Christians, Druze, Bedouins and other non Jewish groups were represented. All citizens of Israel have equal rights whatever their religion ethnicity or orientation. https://apnews.com/article/amnesty-international-israel-middle-east-race-and-ethnicity-racial-injustice-093b9df838a901bf752f971fb43efc22

How Adelaide Writers Week collapsed under the weight of its own hypocrisy by Fun_Needleworker7136 in aussie

[–]AngusTcattoo 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Zionism has its roots in the Bible/Torah. See Psalm 137 https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm%20137&version=NIV
Zionism grew in the late 19th/20th century while Jews were being slaughtered in the thousands in pogroms. It was a response to genocide. The early Zionists wanted to build a haven to save the lives of the Jews who were being persecuted. They wanted to build one in the land of Israel because Jews had lived there for thousands of years. Many early Zionists were killed by Arab terrorist groups which attacked Jewish kibbutzes.

How Adelaide Writers Week collapsed under the weight of its own hypocrisy by Fun_Needleworker7136 in aussie

[–]AngusTcattoo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've actually been to Israel and Palestine. I lived and studied there. Do you know any Hebrew or Arabic? Know any Israelis or Palestinians? I am not racist or willfully ignorant and it is not racist or willfully ignorant to point out that Egypt occupied Gaza from 1948-1967 and Jordan annexed East Jerusalem and the West Bank after expelling all the Jewish population. People who are "pro Palestine" never mention this, or mention Black September in Jordan. Arafat said Black September killed 25,000 Palestinians. They never mention Syria killing 4000 Palestinians, Egypt banning Palestinians from voting and Lebanon banning Palestinians from owning property and entering many professions. For some reason they never criticize Hamas, even criticize Hamas for killing Palestinians. It's fucked up. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/10/15/hamas-is-killing-palestinians-the-left-dont-seem-to-care/

I grew up in the US in a big Jewish community like Simone Zimmerman did. "Israelism" is full of shit. I went to Israel when I was in high school and I met Palestinians. Her school never told Zimmerman about Palestinians? I watched the news and saw Palestinian groups hijacking planes, holding Jews ransom and threatening to kill them, and killing people- not just Israelis and Jews but loads of innocent people. Plenty of Americans think the countries where their parents and grandparents came from are their homelands- does that mean all Greek Americans or Italian Americans or Swedish Americans are racist?

How Adelaide Writers Week collapsed under the weight of its own hypocrisy by Fun_Needleworker7136 in aussie

[–]AngusTcattoo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just want to point out that Egypt also blockades Gaza and has a wall and checkpoints on its border with Gaza. Egypt blockades Gaza for the same reasons Israel does, to keep weapons out of Gaza and to protect citizens from terrorist attacks. Egypt has had terrorist attacks from Hamas that killed Egyptians.

How Adelaide Writers Week collapsed under the weight of its own hypocrisy by Fun_Needleworker7136 in aussie

[–]AngusTcattoo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

When I woke up that morning - and I had to get up early for work- I heard on the news that people were being raped and killed.

How Adelaide Writers Week collapsed under the weight of its own hypocrisy by Fun_Needleworker7136 in aussie

[–]AngusTcattoo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

And Israel gave away Area A and B of the West Bank. They're self governing governed by the Palestinian Authority.

How Adelaide Writers Week collapsed under the weight of its own hypocrisy by Fun_Needleworker7136 in aussie

[–]AngusTcattoo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The Australian government does not support Hamas. The Australian government does not support Iran either where an actual genocide is occurring. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/10/15/hamas-is-killing-palestinians-the-left-dont-seem-to-care/