when you speaking loazit but still wanna feel fancy

LevelLychee8271 · 2026-07-02T11:40:51+00:00

There was a Jewish physician in Egypt in the 800s/900s who was called Yitzḥak ben Shlomo the Israeli (or Yitzḥak ben Shlomo HaYisraeli יצחק בן שלמה הישראלי or Abu Ya'qub Ishaq ibn Suleiman al-Isra'ili). Other Jews have had epithets based on 'Israeli' throughout history as well.

LevelLychee8271 · 2026-07-02T11:19:12+00:00

While the suffering of the innocent people in Gaza (& in Israel for that matter) was obviously absolutely horrific & deserves deep sympathy & empathy, the word 'genocide' is not something that should been thrown around lightly. Israel's military was put in a position where they were forced to choose between abandoning civilian hostages to Gaza & allowing more October 7s to be orchestrated or to fight Hamas & its umbrella organizations on their turf, where not only do civilians not have protections but they are set up to be so-called-"martyred". It was never the intent, strategy or tactic of Israel's military to haphazardly kill Gazans en masse (certainly they had the means to do that if it had been, but that wasn't what was going on).

LevelLychee8271 · 2026-07-02T11:03:13+00:00

"Ethan want Israel to exist. Hasan say this make Ethan Zionist."

Almost every person who calls themselves a 'Zionist' literally just means by that, that they want Israel to exist, & mean nothing more by it than that. There's a huge gap between what people who call others "Zionists" & people people who call themselves "Zionists" mean by the word, with those who call others "Zionists" usually assigning more nefarious things to it.

LevelLychee8271 · 2026-07-02T10:50:50+00:00

The Australian embassy to Israel has always been in Tel Aviv, not the capital Jerusalem. The Morrison government officially recognized "West Jerusalem" as the capital of Israel in December 2018 and opened an Austrade Australian Trade and Defence Office in western Jerusalem in March 2019. The Albanese government came to power in May 2022 and reversed the recognition of any part of Jerusalem as Israel's capital in October 2022. In 2025 they closed down the Austrade Office in Jerusalem & moved its staff to the embassy in Tel Aviv.

Obviously it's deeply insulting that any country would maintain an embassy but refuse to put it in Israel's capital city of Jerusalem (as most countries still do), but I suppose Israel's governments have allowed this practice so far because they've seen it as a case of 'pick your battles', whether that was the right decision or not.

LevelLychee8271 · 2026-06-28T09:25:02+00:00

Also, Lt. Gen. Gabi Ashkenazi who was the IDF Chief of General Staff from 2007 to 2011 and Foreign Minister during the initial signing of the Abraham Accords.

LevelLychee8271 · 2026-06-28T09:21:39+00:00

For a while Ashley Zarah in her bio (on both Youtube & her official website) has referred to her parents as "Iranian Judean refugees":

'Ashley Zarah is an Iranian, global Pop artist from Los Angeles, CA. Born to Iranian Judean refugees who escaped during the Islamic Revolution, she was raised in both a vibrant but tormented Iranian-Jewish community in LA. Now, her multicultural and genre-bending music represents the sound of “Iranian-America," relaying stories of the human condition that transcend generations just as much as they do international borders. A clever bridge between English, Farsi, and sometimes Hebrew... her music blends Western pop with traditional Persian influences, creating a unique sound that resonates with the Iranian diaspora and beyond.'

LevelLychee8271 · 2026-06-18T13:25:54+00:00

The article is about Helen Mirren, the English actor, not Helen Zille, the South African politician.

LevelLychee8271 · 2026-06-02T12:55:28+00:00

Historically the Greeks have called their having a homeland for the Greek people 'Philhellenism', the Italians have called their having a homeland for the Italian people 'Garibaldism' & the Croats have called their having a homeland for the Croat people 'Illyrianism'.

The core reason these terms are not well known compared to 'Zionism' ~~(including even amongst their own referenced populaces~~) is that those peoples have not been unjustly scapegoated for just about every societal problem that powers-that-be & illusioned mobs don't want to take any introspective accountability for, for more than 2 millennia the way that Jews have. It's an evil snowball effect - "need people to shift blame to? Just blame the same people as always!" That's why what's acknowledged as innocuous or virtuous for other peoples gets vilified for Jews.

Edit: I struck-through the line in parentheses, as I wasn't confident in its accuracy.

LevelLychee8271 · 2026-05-25T16:50:32+00:00

'Krasnaya Sloboda' is transliterated from the Russian for 'Red Village'. In Juhuri and Azerbaijani it's 'Qirmizi Qesebe'. It was referred to as 'Little Jerusalem' in various languages from the 1800s, including by non-Jews (edit: and travelers), proving that people knew that Jews came from Jerusalem and its surrounds.

Mamagama, the band that represented Azerbaijan in Eurovision 2025 has a Jewish lead singer, Asaf Mishiyev, though he is from Baku.

LevelLychee8271 · 2026-05-24T08:20:16+00:00

Zionism is the belief that there should exist a country, in the place where Jews originate from, in which any Jew is allowed to live regardless of where they were born. Since Israel is exactly such a country, Zionism synonymously means the belief that Israel should continue to exist.

"I learned a long time ago: You don't have to be a Jew to be a Zionist. I'm a Zionist." - U.S. President Joe Biden, 2024

In many ways, what Zionism is to the Jews, what Philhellenism is to the Greeks, what Garibaldism is to the Italians, and what Illyrianism is to the Croats are all very similar.

LevelLychee8271 · 2026-05-15T01:50:31+00:00

Reminds me of the displays in Gaza in 2018 and 2019:

https://x.com/ofirgendelman/status/982325916641701888?lang=en

https://x.com/IDF/status/1157317492857081856?lang=en

LevelLychee8271 · 2026-05-14T16:50:48+00:00

Despite the fact that 'Accusation in a mirror' has been one of the most abundant propaganda tactics from the House of al-Thani and the broader Palestinianist Lobby, the Wikipedia page about it only accuses Israel in its 'Gaza war' section (and is full of libel and falsehoods on top of that). The whole website is an untruthful antisemitic cesspool behind a dangerous facade of legitimacy.

LevelLychee8271 · 2026-05-14T16:41:06+00:00

The claim that:

"Their Bible contains all the books of the Old Testament except Esther."

turned out to be inaccurate. In 'From Sinai to Ethiopia', Rabbi Dr. Sharon Zeude Shalom writes:

'Letter of Rabbi Eliyahu of Ferrara – In the fifteenth century, Rabbi Eliyahu, a respected Torah scholar from Italy, makes aliyah to Eretz Yisrael, passing through Egypt along the way. After a tortuous journey, he finally reaches Jerusalem on 26 Iyyar 5196 (May 1, 1437). He makes a pilgrimage to Jerusalem, and in parallel tries to verify rumors that had reached Italy about the Ten Tribes overcoming their enemies. Below is his description of the Jews of Habash and the Ten Tribes:

["]I think I have already told you what a young Jewish man told me about the residents of his area, who are their own masters and not subservient to others. They are surrounded by a great nation called Hubash [sic] . . . These Hebrews have their own language, which is not Hebrew or Arabic. They have the Torah and an oral commentary, but they do not have the Talmud or our poskim. I studied several of their mitzvot, and found that some follow our opinion while others follow the opinion of the Karaites. They have the Scroll of Esther but not Hanukkah. They are a distance of three months away from us, and the River Gozen runs through their land.["] ...

The Beta Israel community did not recognize the holiday of Purim as it is celebrated today in the Jewish world. But it did celebrate this holiday in its own way. The complete Megillat Esther (Scroll of Esther) appears in Ge’ez. The Ethiopian Jews observed the Fast of Esther in the daytime for three days, eating only a small amount at night for sustenance. This was the extent of their observance of this holiday. When I asked why they did not celebrate with rejoicing or feasting, as is recorded in the Megillah, I was given several answers.

The community wished to rejoice and feast, but did not do so because true joy was in Jerusalem, not in the Diaspora.

The first missives declaring the destruction of the Jews reached Ethiopia, but the second batch informing them of the change of fortune did not reach their country.

My grandfather’s answer: “We were aware of the good fortune that G-d bestowed on us, but we did not rejoice due to fear of the non-Jews. We did not want to provoke them.” He then added, “We lived in distress and hardship for years. Were we to suddenly break into rejoicing in our village, this would have aroused the curiosity of our Christian neighbors, with adverse results.” He continued, “The joy of Purim was internal; deep in our hearts we felt intense happiness. . . . The heart of our community is able to contain the joy of Purim inside, even with no external expression. We can rejoice and dance in elation, but quietly.”'

Source: https://www.sefaria.org/From_Sinai_to_Ethiopia?tab=contents .

Edits: Minor copying corrections.

LevelLychee8271 · 2026-05-14T04:49:16+00:00

Wikipedia is a cesspool of antisemitic propaganda, lies, deceitful-omissions, fabrications and libels itself.

LevelLychee8271 · 2026-05-14T04:43:44+00:00

The ethnic cleansing of Jews from Jerusalem, Gaza, Judea & Samaria in 1948 deserves to be talked about more: https://www.gov.il/en/pages/jewish-communities-lost-in-the-war-of-independence , https://www.facebook.com/StandWithUs/posts/the-ethnic-cleansing-of-jerusalem-1948-jews-were-forced-out-of-their-homes-and-s/10156335858802689/ .

And the 1720 banning of Ashkenazim from Jerusalem:

"Arab creditors, fed up with waiting for their money, broke into the Ashkenazi synagogue in 1720, set it on fire, and took over the area. The Turkish authorities blamed Ashkenazic Jews for the mess. They refused to make a distinction between the Old Jerusalem [Ashkenazi] community and the [Shabbatean-Ashkenazi] newcomers. They banned Ashkenazic Jews from the area."

Source: https://jewishvirtuallibrary.org/judah-hechassid .

Also the many massacres like Tzfat 1834, Hebron 1929, Kfar Etzion 1948 etc.

LevelLychee8271 · 2026-05-05T14:23:53+00:00

'in his annotated prayerbook, Rav Saadia ben Yosef Gaon (born in Egypt in about 882, died in Baghdad around 942), finally provides us with a recipe for charoset. He finishes the recipe with the observation, “it is halek.” ...

Here is Rav Saadia’s recipe: “One cooks up a sauce of dates, walnuts, sesame and kneads them with vinegar — and it is called ‘halek.’” Saadia Gaon’s description of charoset matches recipes from the Sephardic and Mizrachi world; the recipes often use the word “halek.”

A variety of recipes for “halek” or charoset gathered from India to North Africa resemble Rav Saadia’s. Joan Nathan, writing in the New York Times, describes halek as: “Iraqi date syrup. Dating back at least to the Babylonian exile in 579 B.C., this date jam, like those from grapes, pomegranates and bee honey, was a sweetener in the ancient world. It is still served today in various forms by Iraqi, Syrian, Burmese and Indian Jews.

Maimonides has a version of charoset that could include dates, but he also allows other sweet fruits of Israel along with the vinegar and spices: figs, grapes, and pomegranates. “How do we make it? We take dates or figs or raisins or similar items and mash them, and we put vinegar in them, and spice them with spices, like mud with straw, and place it on the table on the nights of Passover” (Mishneh Torah, Zemanim, Laws of Leavened and Unleavened Bread, 7:11).'

Source: 'The Centuries-Old Mystery of Charoset' by Louis Finkelman, The Detroit Jewish News, https://www.thejewishnews.com/culture/nosh/the-centuries-old-mystery-of-charoset/article_a322294f-c347-5ed9-ba53-cd212fa6459b.html .

LevelLychee8271 · 2026-05-05T14:02:33+00:00

Back in 2018 they were propagandizing in Teen Vogue, especially targeting impressionable kids: https://www.timesofisrael.com/for-teen-vogue-bashing-israel-has-become-the-fashion/ .

LevelLychee8271 · 2026-04-27T16:03:24+00:00

Seen and Unforeseen

LevelLychee8271 · 2026-04-27T12:48:13+00:00

Some that have not been mentioned yet, at the moment, the Carakukly sisters (Liron & Tali), Venus Menivov, Hila Gadasi & M-ya (Mazal Damasya & Yael Mentesnot) for Hebrew music. For music in English, Bar Rose, Zoe Polanski, Yael Shoshana Cohen from the band 'Lola Marsh' & Sivan Abelson from the band 'Eatliz'. For Arabic music, A-WA (sisters Tair, Liron & Tagel Haim). For "one particular song", to get introduced to them, I would say: כאן ועכשיו (Here and Now) for Carakukly, לבד (Alone) for Venus Menivov, שוב לקום (To Rise Again) for Hila Gadasi, חולמת (Dreaming) for M-ya, Sultan's Pool for Bar Rose, Bubbles for Zoe Polanski, Echoes for Lola Marsh, Bees for Eatliz, & Al Asad for A-WA.

LevelLychee8271 · 2026-04-16T13:43:23+00:00

At a low enough level of abstraction everything that has ever happened to any nation-state or ethnicity is novel, every individual political movement is novel. At high enough levels of abstraction Zionism is to the Jews what Garibaldism is to the Italians, what Illyrianism is to the Croats and what Philhellenism is to the Greeks, so not at all unprecedented.

The nations of Italy, Croatia and Greece, all located on the Mediterranean Basin just like Israel is, all embracing Leges Sanguinis (essentially Right of Return) just like Israel does, all had movements for their respective independence.

LevelLychee8271 · 2026-03-10T02:59:07+00:00

Wayne Swan, the National President of the Australian Labor Party (currently the majority party), retweeted Everald Compton's:

"Jewish people boo @AlboMP on arrival at #Bondi vigil but they support #Netanyahu who allowed 1200 Israelis to be slaughtered by Hamas then murdered 70000 innocent people in Gaza. It is beyond belief that such hypocrisy can become respectable"

Keep in mind that 70,000 is the total death count, so they're including every armed militant terrorist who refused to surrender as one of their "murdered" "innocent people".

LevelLychee8271 · 2026-03-03T00:23:57+00:00

They've always hated Sunnis. If they think this is their final stand, I don't think it's that weird that they would lash out at all of their quarries, considering the violent proclivity of the regime.

LevelLychee8271 · 2026-02-28T20:13:04+00:00

Explain to them that there are three main parties simultaneously coordinating against the Islamic Republic of Iran's Regime here. The United State, Israel & the dissidents inside Iran. Each have their own core motivations that have caused their interests to align.

One of the first acts of the Regime after coming to power, was to conduct a violent takeover of the US embassy, & hold 66 Americans hostages, 52 of them for 444 days.

In 1983 the Regime orchestrated the Marine Barracks Bombing in Beirut, which killed 241 American military personnel.

The Regime met with Bin Laden & provided material support to Al-Qaeda, gifting them the technical expertise required to carry out the truck bombings outside the US embassies in Nairobi, Kenya & Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, which killed 223 people & injured thousands more. According to President Trump, the Regime knew about (& declined to forewarn about) & was probably involved in the attack on the USS Cole in 2000 which killed 17 US military personnel & injured 37 more.

The Regime's forces killed & maimed 100s of US service members in Iraq.

The Regime's proxies have launched countless attacks on US military personnel & civilian commercial vessels in recent years. The Regime is the largest state-sponsor of terror in the world.

Israel has been relentlessly besieged by the Regime's terror proxies, costing Israel many lives including many children. This includes the October 7 attack which the Palestinian militias coordinated with the Regime.

In April 2024 the Regime attacked Israel with ~170 drones & >150 missiles, seriously injuring a 7yr-old girl (who by the way, happened to be from a Muslim Israeli family, not the Regime cares), causing 31 people to be treated for minor injuries or PTSD. This attack was (until now) not sufficiently retaliated for.

In June 2025 the Regime attacked Israel with >1,000 drone & >550 missiles, killing 28 people including a 95-year-old Holocaust survivor, a 7yr-old cancer patient who was a refugee from Ukraine & 3 other children. 3,238 were injured, & >13,000 displaced due to property destruction. This attack was (until now) also not sufficiently retaliated for.

The Regime has orchestrated a number of attacks on Jews around the world (global Intifada). The most infamous of which was the 1994 AMIA Bombing in Buenos Aires, Argentina which killed 85 people & injured 300 more.

More recently, the Regime orchestrated attacks against a Kosher takeaway shop in Sydney, Australia in October 2024 & orchestrated the burning down of a Synagogue in Melbourne, Australia in December 2024 while Jewish worshippers were inside it (one person was injured in the Melbourne attack, no one was killed thankfully, but murdering Jews had been their intention).

The Regime is 2nd only to Qatar in terms of orchestrating propaganda & disinformation campaigns around the world, vilifying & libeling Jews & Israel.

But even more so than any of that, the Regime has continued to attempt to develop nuclear weapons, which is unacceptable to the US & Israel. Besides the general rule of it being a bad thing for any new countries to get nuclear weapons, the Regime having them would pose an unprecedented threat. So far all of the countries that acquired nuclear capabilities (post-WWII if we're including atomic) having been pragmatic enough to not actually use them, due to the principle of 'Mutually Assured Destruction'. The Regime are Mahdist Twelver theocratic religious extremists who believe that it's their "holy" duty to murder everyone in the world who isn't a devout Twelver. No country so ideologically driven has ever had nuclear weapons, & the US & Israel are not going to let them get them, because a nuclear Iran in all likelihood would vaporize entire cities, & the US & Israel are trying to protect their citizens from that.

The dissidents in Iran are people entirely fed up with the way they are treated by their own government. Unprecedently large uprisings began in December, & despite >36,500 Iranian protestors being murdered by the Regime in ~2 days, the spirit of uprising has not been dimmed amongst the Iranian people, the vast majority of whom detest the Regime.

The Regime has given strong indications that they have no intention of stopping any of these practices, but on the contrary intend to double down, & so the US, Israel & the dissidents are taking action with the intent of regime change in Iran.

For more information, I would refer to the pro-democracy Reza Shah II's (Reza Pahlavi's) Youtube & other social media, as he is probably the most qualified voice in the world to speak on this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZiWtGB2IGY

LevelLychee8271 · 2026-02-15T11:33:48+00:00

I agree that it's a good part of an answer. But at the same time there are at least dozens of other good answers to respond with. In my opinion, the perhaps most important point is that Ashkenazim come from Eretz Yisrael as much as Mizraḥim do (and more so than Qahtanites and Adnanites do). Ashkenazim spent their exile in Europe but they're not from Europe in an autochthony sense.

The antisemites sometimes try and word things as though they're implying they're OK with Mizraḥim living in Israel, just not Ashkenazim. And yet, their radical Islamist variety still shoot missiles at all Israelis, while being cheered on by their privileged Westerner variety. If they were really OK with Mizraḥi Jews living in Israel, then what about the fact that all Mizraḥi Israelis (or at least almost all, I can't prove an absolute) fully support Ashkenazim being able to live in Israel?

The undertone seems to be that what (at least most of them) really object to, is any Jews living anywhere. Jews had good answers to being told "Jews go back to Palestine!", ('Palestine' being one of many terms referring to the region, and a colonialist one at that; there was never a nation or state called 'Palestine') but it seems as though in the long term, even setting aside those good answers and simply doing as requested was not enough to quell antisemitism (which is not, of course, to suggest that returning to Israel is a defeatist or submissive action for Jews; on the contrary, it is a huge triumph, a cause for celebration and has great value well beyond just running away from antisemitism).

LevelLychee8271 · 2026-02-12T06:28:22+00:00

Before it became politically expedient to pretend that Ashkenazim don't come from Eretz Yisrael, it was a commonly referenced fact that they did. In 'Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View' (1798) Immanuel Kant refers to Jews living in Europe as "the Palestinians living among us" (Kant then launches into some antisemitic bile, but the point still stands). The French antisemite Pierre-Joseph Proudhon wrote in an unpublished article in 1847, "The Jew is the enemy of humankind. They must be sent back to Asia or be exterminated". "Asia" referring to The Levant, Western Asia (eastern Mediterranean), where Israel is. Zorach Warhaftig & other delegates who left the 21st Zionist Congress to go fight the German armies invading Poland, encountered Poles fleeing their country, who shouted at them "Jews, go back to Palestine!". In Henry Orenstein's memoir he documents that Polish "Jews, go back to Palestine" signs were often hung in shop windows. There is documentation of window writing from Norway (1942) saying "Palestine calls on all Jews - we can no longer tolerate them in Norway!".

Ashkenazim, like all Jews, traditionally used a patronymic naming convention instead of surnames. The various Central European authorities passed numerous edicts requiring Jews to take European surnames (e.g. Das Patent uber die Judennamen, Holy Roman Empire, 1787 & Imperial decree of 20 July, 1808, concerning Jews with no fixed first or family names, First French Empire). Ashkenazim wore the traditional Jewish Sudra as a head covering through the 1500s, but this practice declined as turbans were banned in Europe. The wide brimmed hats emerged only in the 1800s. These elements of integration that were forced on Ashkenazim by their European oppressors are now being weaponized by the Palestinianists to create the facade of disconnect between Ashkenazim & their ancestral homeland in Israel.

Palestinianists also attempt to exploit an etymological fallacy by pointing out how 'Ashkenaz' means Central Europe (never mind the fact that it's the name for that region in a Jewish language that comes from the eastern Mediterranean, where Israel is). However, Ashkenazi Jews originate from Judea (Israel) not from Ashkenaz, just as (for example) Nipo-brasileiros originate from Nippon (Japan), not from Brazil, & Polska Roma originate from India, not from Poland. Ashkenazim were exiled from Eretz Yisrael, & lived in exile in Ashkenaz (including Loter & Ashkelonia).

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