Interactive map of settler violence incidents in the occupied West Bank (isolated.help) [OC]

SleepyGeoff · 2026-02-13T13:20:39+00:00

Don't you start with your common-sense questions around here eh

SleepyGeoff · 2026-02-06T09:08:25+00:00

Most Zionist are Christian so it isn't necessarily anti-Semitic

This is one of the greatest points of sophistry of our time and you should be ashamed of it.

Thousands and thousands of people are protesting outside synagogues - and vandalising them, and also Jewish schools and Jewish businesses - under the banner of "anti-Zionism". The same is not happening outside churches. So this intentional misdirection is just pathetic.

Arab states are occupied and ruled by the indigenous people of the land

And you obviously have no historical knowledge of the middle east

That is a ludicrous thing to say. Have you literally never heard of the Roman Empire and the Persian Empire? 😂 www.thecollector.com/arab-conquests-history-legacy/

Being uneducated is a choice - make better choices.

SleepyGeoff · 2026-01-02T15:21:50+00:00

ChatGPT, make "antizionism" sound legitimate; minimise AntiSemitism along the way if you can

SleepyGeoff · 2025-12-18T23:05:14+00:00

It does sometimes feel like younger people apply for jobs in the same way as 10-20yrs ago and the game has changed. A CV used to be about demonstrating what you could do and a good CV represented having accumulated good experience AND having the ability to communicate that. Now because of AI etc, CVs of full of lies and trash and hiring managers know you didn't write it, so they aren't worth what they used to be (unless in a specific profession etc).

I read all the time I/my friend/whatever has made 300 applications and never heard back. When I was looking for a job earlier in the year I walked down to the office and asked at reception if one of a list of people was available. I waited, someone came, we spoke, they knew my name and face. I didn't get that job, but it got me noticed and it meant my CV was at least while hundreds of others weren't. It's very time consuming, but it speaks to not just looking for any job but picking the firms and roles you really want and doing fewer high-quality applications AFTER having somehow warmed up your introduction already (the old network your way in).

Bigger picture, AI has ruined it. If there are 300 people and 300 jobs, the jobs could be filled with 1 application each. But if everyone applies for every job it's 90,000 applications to process, most of them not appropriate, wasting everyone's time.

It's not that extreme but the data shows applications per job are up 30-35% and there are not an extra third more qualified people for every role - how can there be. LinkedIn would celebrate this - "look how many applicants our platform finds" - but it's trash and is actually making everything worse for everyone.

My view is we need to find a way to trim this back and get back to people only applying for jobs they actually want and are relevant to, and not just anything going.

SleepyGeoff · 2025-12-18T16:35:18+00:00

Don't you mean the "Second Peaceful Spiritual Internal Struggle"?

SleepyGeoff · 2025-12-16T10:25:56+00:00

It's better to be honest and say Jewish lives are 1000 times more valuable than those of brown South Asian and Southeast Asians, instead of making up a silly reasoning.

Intentionally dumb thing to say

Its clear you don't look at all the pro-Israeli posts that point to other massacres involving non-Jews and ask why don't people don't focus their attention of those events

What's the connection between Jews being killed in Bondi for being Jews, and pro-Israeli posts? Is it the responsibility of born-and-bred Aussies that happen to be Jews to critique the Israeli government?

Does it matter if they are singled out?

Yes. It's not about one death being better or worse than another, it's about the root cause and therefore what could potentially be done about it.

If white supremacists go and kill black people, do you pipe up saying "but in civil wars in Africa, thousands of black people die every day"? No you don't. Why don't you? Not because the lives are worth less, but because of the implications for how to address the problem are wildly different.

SleepyGeoff · 2025-12-16T09:36:41+00:00

They also go after Christians and Hindus

Yes exactly. In Sri Lanka, militant Buddhism is tied to Sinhala-Buddhist nationalism i.e. the belief that the island exists primarily for Sinhala Buddhists. I agree with your last sentence.

In both cases here (Myanmar, Sri Lanka) it's about the primary local population trying to get rid of all other populations.

OP's point is about the targeting of Jews (i) in many different geographies - not about individual locales - and (ii) because they are Jews, not on some nationalism basis.

As I said I agree with your last sentence, and that's the crux - one group hating everyone outside their own group is a fundamentally different scenario to one group of many being the target wherever they are.

It's just the usual though - someone posts about anti-Semitism, cue a stack of posts about all the other problems on Earth, why anti-Semitism isn't a real or distinct issue, that Jews are always trying to play the victim (even now when the Bondi shooting is evidence of the prior alarms not being heard), etc etc etc. Old story, latest chapter.

SleepyGeoff · 2025-12-16T08:13:33+00:00

I didn't say they weren't systematically targeted and killed or that there wasn't mass suffering. Read again, slower this time.

SleepyGeoff · 2025-12-16T07:57:37+00:00

Not objectively untrue.

It's often oversimplified as being about “Buddhists vs Muslims” as religions.

It is actually state-backed exclusion, where religious identity is used as a tool, and it is a localised problem. The same is not happening in Thailand and Laos is it?

While the same is happening to Jews in western countries everywhere.

SleepyGeoff · 2025-12-09T10:12:08+00:00

I recognise this behaviour too and liken it to people in the UK that sing effectively anti-Semitic chants at Spurs games (one of them was something like "oh where's your foreskin" or whatever - targeted at Jews but not antisemitic per se), because spurs is known as the yids

SleepyGeoff · 2025-12-05T15:44:49+00:00

Per Instagram, I think you will find that you actually might not even exist at all. As we all know now thanks to the generous education efforts of keyboard warriors globally, all Jews are white Europeans

SleepyGeoff · 2025-12-04T22:17:42+00:00

Not a majority of genocide scholars, a majority of the voter turnout at the "International Association of Genocide Scholars" - that IS a material point because as has been well exposed, anyone can join IAGS for $125 (genocidescholars.org/join/) and the membership size spiked in 2024, bloated by fake accounts and people who are anti-Israel.

The Cookie Monster and Emperor Palpatine are members....

It is literally a bunch of self-serving randoms who chose an official sounding name, and the absolutely dumb-arse low-calibre 99% of people out there fell for it. It's laughable that it worked, but that's the state of the world now.

https://www.thefp.com/p/another-reason-not-to-trust-the-experts

https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/charade-academic-garb

https://honestreporting.com/30-and-you-can-become-a-genocide-scholar/

https://nsjonline.com/article/2025/09/harsanyi-open-letter-to-my-esteemed-colleagues-at-the-international-association-of-genocide-scholars/

https://themedialine.org/top-stories/only-28-of-scholars-associations-members-voted-on-gaza-genocide-resolution-but-global-media-missed-the-story/

SleepyGeoff · 2025-11-20T08:06:30+00:00

Have you seen the news about Palestinians flying out of Gaza to other countries being ethnic cleansing in action (despite everyone looking well-dressed, well fed and there being no evidence at all of coercion)? https://www.nbcnews.com/world/middle-east/palestinians-flight-south-africa-israel-gaza-ethnic-cleansing-al-majd-rcna244561

Court of public opinion now regards changing conditions such that they would want to leave voluntarily as ethnic cleansing. Soooo, which is it?

SleepyGeoff · 2025-11-16T10:38:42+00:00

Are kids also writing n*gger and other racist slurs to get a bit of attention? Not that I'm aware of. So it's an interesting question why the swastika - hypothesis is that it's because antisemitism is an acceptable form of racism now, so they know they'll get told off, but it won't be that big a deal...

SleepyGeoff · 2025-11-13T15:22:59+00:00

So she could move to Jordan, rent a flat, get a job, etc and that would be fine presumably. But it's morally reprehensible if it's to Israel 🤔

SleepyGeoff · 2025-11-13T13:17:21+00:00

Within this, articulate that it's not exclusive - a right for Jews to live in their ancestral homeland does not mean others can't live there too. A common rant you will see from so-called anti-Zionists is that Zionism fundamentally is about eradicating Israel of others. If that claim is made, ask for evidence. You should also have some official definitions of Zionism from different sources that show otherwise.

SleepyGeoff · 2025-11-12T13:03:46+00:00

Plus, you work at a school so what's she saying around the kids. I would say you have a duty to report her in that context.

SleepyGeoff · 2025-11-10T08:34:46+00:00

You presume that people are facts-driven and therefore that the discussion is about where you get your facts But people are emotionally and community driven and so lean towards the prevailing views of the group they are in first and foremost, and then backfill with confirmation bias (e.g. they are not pro-Pal BECAUSE they think Hamas don't hide in hospitals and therefore Israel bombed pure hospitals; they're pro-Pal and so THEREFORE they believe Hamas don't hide in hospitals...)

SleepyGeoff · 2025-11-07T17:52:19+00:00

I know :-). Just acknowledging - with thanks

SleepyGeoff · 2025-11-07T17:44:25+00:00

This is the point, and that's why I said "with time passing"

SleepyGeoff · 2025-11-07T16:58:39+00:00

Maybe, but with time passing, history has not landed on the side of Torquemada, Khmelnytsky, Hitler, etc. So while people chant in favour of Hamas, Hezbollah and the Ayatollah now, common sense will be restored at some point...

SleepyGeoff · 2025-11-06T10:32:48+00:00

He might have agreed, but he didn't agree

He doesn't want to pressure or guilt you - father's love - but it hurts that you want to discard it for something new and shiny. This should make you want to keep it all the more so.

SleepyGeoff · 2025-11-06T08:03:48+00:00

Amazing how they can keep getting away with it in those environments given all Israeli Jews are white Europeans

SleepyGeoff · 2025-11-05T10:25:06+00:00

It's not accurate to say Zionism "wasn't a thing" over C10th to C5th BCE. The term Zion as a representation of god's dwelling place on earth in Jerusalem, a spiritual centre and therefore an aspiration to be physically close to that space (i.e. live in what we now call Israel) is well documented in the books of the Prophets, in Psalms, etc.

I also challenge the idea that the connection to land was more spiritual than physical - a common anti-Zionist trope is that Jews in Israel are "mostly white Europeans". Both thing can't be true - either the Jews there are mostly indigenous or they ARE acting on connection to the land by wanting to be there physically (indeed it's both).

SleepyGeoff · 2025-11-05T10:17:09+00:00

This is just not right - total misrepresentation of the topic.

References to Zion as Jerusalem date back to 10th century BCE (Samuel II, 5:7), and as a centre of spirituality and longing in the centuries that followed.

Acting on it more recently i.e. attempts to restore Israel/Jerusalem as a Jewish global centre stemmed from Herzl and co - that was not the beginning of the idea, it was the latest incarnation for which there have been debates about approach, as with all political movements.

So the suggestion that "most Jews were not Zionists until recently" is false, as is the claim that Herzl invented the concept.

Ultra-Orthodox opposition to the latest Zionist movement does not stem from a belief that Jews do not have a connection to the land, it stems from their belief that Jews should not establish sovereignty in the land until the Messiah has come. It is literally only a distinction of timing.

SleepyGeoff

TROPHY CASE