Leftists will be like “watch out for dogwhistles guys, if somebody says they support Jews it’s a dogwhistle for supporting genocide” and then try to tell you “there is only one solution, intifada revolution” isn’t five dogwhistles about committing genocide against the Jews rolled into one threatening chant
‘The opponents of nationalism see us as uncompromising nationalists, with a nationalist God and a nationalist Torah; the nationalists see us as cosmopolitans, whose homeland is wherever we happen to be well off. Religious gentiles say that we are devoid of any faith, and the freethinkers among them say that we are Orthodox and believe in all kinds of nonsense; the liberals say we are conservative and the conservatives call us liberal. Some bureaucrats and writers see us as the root of anarchy, insurrection and revolt, and the anarchists say we are capitalists, the bearers of the biblical civilisation, which is, in their view, based on slavery and parasitism. Officialdom accuses us of circumventing the laws of the land – that is, of course, the laws directed specifically against us…. Musicians like Richard Wagner charge us with destroying the beauty and purity of music. Even our merits are turned into shortcomings: “Few Jews are murderers,” they say, “because the Jews are cowards.” This, however, does not prevent them from accusing us of murdering Christian children.’
Moshe Lieb Lilienblum, The Future of Our People, 1883 (x)
Hey Jumblr, thought you’d enjoy this one! I asked my rabbi a question he never in a million years could have seen coming and I had to preface it with “I am being genuine and sincere. You’re going to hear this question and think I am messing with you, but this is sincere.”
The question? “Is my dryer dairy or pareve?”
The details: I saw on the interwebs the “hack” to turn your empty dryer on high for five or ten minutes and to then use the warm dryer to proof bread. Given that I am currently using my (obviously OFF) oven with a heating pad to proof bread, I figured as goofy and TikToky as it sounds, it’s maybe not such a bad idea.
Then I realized that this would be an excellent way to quickly soften cheese slices for grilled cheese, and immediately tried it out. (it works perfectly by the way and I will never use a different method ever again)
BUT I was immediately concerned that maybe, just maybe, the warm cheese would somehow be enough to render my dryer dairy and thus make it unacceptable to use for bread proofing (even though I know there’s no way the cheese is getting warm enough to release dairy steam).
So I asked my rabbi, who is super religious and kinda stuffy and doesn’t have the sense of humor a lot of Jews have. He was a bit stunned and befuddled, but he at least believed in my sincerity!
He says it’s fine and my dryer can be pareve so long as there’s no cheese steam. Filling this under “things I never, ever expected to be concerned about before I became religious.”
There’s a humor book that I read ages ago of shailos (halachic questions) asked by the residents of a yeshiva dirah (apartment/dorm for young men in yeshiva).
Questions like:
- if I stir milk into my coffee with the right temple of my glasses, does the entire pair of glasses become milchig, or can I use the other side to stir cholent?
- how to kasher a clothing iron used as a panini press
Etc.
Absolutely feral bochurim.
ETA: Dirah Daze/Days by a Rabbi Elbaz! That was the name of the book!
There are a few isolated (and treasured) voices speaking out, but the contrast between those ones who actually have principles and the ones who are relieved that they have an excuse to hate on Jews is… stark.
You often see people calling for a “democratic secular Palestine” while supporting a neonazi islamofascist movement. So, for the people who aren’t aware, that “democratic secular Palestine” you claim to want actually already exists:
No guys, you don’t get it. Yeah, the past hundred times or so this conspiracy theory was used to justify violence against Jews were fake, but THIS TIME it’s REAL!
I’ve seen, verbatim, so many leftie kids online say, “Yeah, Jews were historically oppressed for thousands of years and the Holocaust was bad, but THIS TIME you really were the ones at fault!”
And it’s like, “How… CONVENIENT that in the world’s entire sordid history of accusing Jews of things we obviously didn’t (or couldn’t) do and hunted and hounded us on easily disproven charges, the ONE TIME we were accused of something in YOUR lifetime, that YOU believe, this time it MUST be true.”
All those other times were false, but THIS ONE is real!
Everyone is accusing Israel of genocide. However, as the Arabs like to say, it didn’t start on October 7. For example, here’s a headline accusing Israel of genocide from 1976. Ironically from the nation that has committed the most genocides in European history:
In fact, most people talking about genocide claim it’s been ongoing for 77 years or, if they’re feeling generous, for 58 years. Because, again, it didn’t start on October 7.
I know these days you can be accused of genocide without killing or displacing a single person—For example, I’m regularly accused of genocide for telling off-color jokes—nevertheless, I thought it could be interesting to take a look at the numbers.
Between 1967 (that’s when Israel conquered the territories from Jordan and Egypt) and 1987 (the eve of the first Intifada), the Arabs of Gaza, Judea, and Samaria experienced the following changes to their quality of life:
Annual per capita income rose from $80 to $1,700, an increase of 2,125%
The GDP increased by 200%
The number of cars increased by 1,000%
Infant mortality dropped from 110 to 40
Crude death rates dropped from 14 to around 3.5
Population doubled (In the 77 years since Israel was created it increased six times!)
Households with electricity increased from 30% to 85%
Households with safe water rose from 15% to 90%
Households with a refrigerator rose from 11% to 85%
The number of universities rose from zero to seven (more on that later!)
The majority of these statistics have continued to improve since the ‘80s up to the moment the people of Gaza decided to open the gates of hell and release the flood (yes, I’m also confused.)
So, what does it mean?
If Israel is conducting a genocide for nearly eight decades, it’s the least effective genocide in human history. Many countries in Africa, South America and Western Asia could benefit from the same kind of genocide.
For example, less than 20% of Liberian households have access to electricity. In Burundi it’s less than 8%! The infant mortality in Afghanistan is 112.8. Almost three times higher than that of the Arabs living under the genocidal Israeli occupation up until the moment they were swallowed by the flood from the gates of hell.
In fact, let’s save time. Going by HDI, there are 81 countries with a lower quality of life than that of the Palestinians before the war. This means that most people on the planet have lived in worst conditions than the Palestinians until recently.
So what does this teach us?
Arabs cannot be bribed. When they say they only accept martyrdom or victory, they mean it. An increase in their quality of life won’t contribute to peace or security. It will only make them a more dangerous and determined opponent because it will provide them with more resources.
Give $1,000 to your enemy and he won’t become your friend. He’ll just become an enemy with $1,000-worth more weapons.
The cause of their belligerence never was and still isn’t poverty or ignorance. The toxic brand of Islamism promoted by the Islamic Brotherhood was spread by educated men who went to the above-mentioned universities that were created and funded with Israeli help.
The root of the problem, as well as its solution, lie somewhere else…
