Mr Fox noted that data within Hamasโ lists undermines its claim that most casualties have been civilians. โThe demographics are the most important thing in all this. Weโve heard the claims that about 70 per cent of the deaths are women and children, and these lists, especially the most recent, show thatโs complete nonsense,โ he said. About 72 per cent of fatalities aged 13-55 are men, which is the rough age range of Hamas combatants, Mr Fox said. โWe know that Hamas uses child soldiers, and these statistics show clearly that Israel is targeting fighting-aged men.โ
video where a Gazan dissident explains he has heard heโs been issued a red classification and is โon the kill listโ here:
he knows this is not an idle threat:
I kid you not that they found extensive Hamas records monitoring at least 10,000 Gazans. This in a territory that (1) needed to rely on the UN for basic services and (2) failed to provide bomb shelters for civilians, even using an extra hospital storage space that the Israelis had built which could also double as a bomb shelter. And yet somehow none of the civilians were down there when the hospital was attacked. Gaza deserves better than Hamas and the fact that so much of the Western movement has been influenced by them is a shame. Normal governments don't hide their military bases under sensitive civilian targets. Normal governments report civilian casualties separately. They've been using their own people as human shields for years and they finally did something bad enough that it gave Netanyahu the "justification" to shoot through the human shield. "Free Palestine" should include freeing them from Hamas.
"Vibes" are not a basis for justice. "Everyone thought he was creepy and weird so we should've known he was a serial killer" is a stupid as hell thing to say, lots of people seem creepy and weird to their neighbors and are just completely average people. Stop pushing narratives that kill people, especially neurodivergent people and men of color.
I've said it before but a lot of self-declared leftists on tumblr give off very strong "would join a lynch mob in a heartbeat" energy. Maybe because many of them have explicitly said they would join a lynch mob.
Why do all the dumbest most easily proven incorrect political posts get thousands of notes where I rarely see any with actual reason behind them reach over 100. I mean I know why but itโs frustrating. Anyway I guess go back to explaining how North Korea is no worse to live in than America and itโs racist to think otherwise. We can ignore reality here.
"Why does Group A deserve human rights if Group B doesn't have them?"
Both groups deserve human rights. That's how human rights work.
Anyone who convinces you to barter one group's rights against another is not interested in giving them to either group.
It's just so hopeless. The main "pro Palestine" student organization was already investigated under the Biden administration and found to be partially funded by Hamas. Now there's ironclad proof that student organizers had prior knowledge of the Oct 7th attacks and that instead of reporting it, they coordinated a planned propaganda campaign in support of it that began before the attacks even started. And no one is going to give a shit. This should be headline news. It should have been headline news last year when the House Committee on Oversight and Accountabilityย found they were being funded by Hamas. But it wasn't, and it won't be now either. I'd bet a good chunk of my savings that no non-Jewish news networks besides Fox News and the NY Post will pick this story up at all. Even those will just run it once before going back to their regularly scheduled programming about how immigrants are coming to eat your cats and dogs.
It's so fucking crazy. We have actual terrorist propaganda arms operating out of Ivy League universities, that are receiving funds from their parent terror organizations, that are being given prior knowledge of terrorist attacks in order to coordinate propaganda campaigns in support of them. And no one is doing anything about it. No one is even talking about it. The media coverage these university organizations recieve is entirely positive and sympathetic. No one ever mentions that they were already previously found to be receiving funds from Hamas and no one ever brings up how their own stated goals in their own words is the support of Hamas and the "total eradication of Western Civilization." The second any of these universities face any consequences for allowing their students to operate as actual terrorist collaborators, the entire planet freaks out and says the peaceful anti war protesters are being oppressed. What the fuck is going on right now. Sometimes I can't even fault gentiles for claiming we're all being hysterical and lying, because this is all so insane and hard to believe.
@knyght-of-skyloft
hello fellow non-Black tumblr users. welcome to my saw trap. if you'd like to leave, please name one (1) Black woman author who is not Maya Angelou, Toni Morrison, bell hooks, Octavia Butler, or N.K. Jemisin. bonus points if she's published a book in the last five years.
posted this four hours ago and the notes are. genuinely dire.
special shoutout also to the people who mention Ta-Nehesi Coates and Tochi Onyebuchi who are both men
god I could be so wealthy if I had no ethics. that's so fucking frustrating. I'm living paycheck to paycheck because I'm not grifting vulnerable idiots on TikTok. I feel like I have the ability to very easily scam people. I could make a killing with AI. but god. I have morals and ethics and so I get to be poor as shit. I hate this fucking world
this was linked in his replies and is worth sharing:
The left is long overdue a reckoning of its fetishisation of Islamic fundamentalism
another thing i don't think i've heard anyone mention yet is that while yes, jews have been talking about musk's nazi salute and if non-jews don't know about that it's because they're not listening, but... yeah we're not screaming as loud as people "expect" or whatever and there are reasons for that. yes in part the obvious "no one is listening so why bother" but also the fact that we've been freaking out about the alt-right's rise to power for like ten years by now and at some point you sort of just stop actively freaking out in the same way. i processed a lot of the more active fear emotions around like 2017 and 2018. or maybe you could say i've gone a little numb? i don't know. anyway, i'm not saying this isn't a big deal but like. this isn't a change, this isn't unexpected, it's just an escalation. we're not suprised by it. this was one of the stops along the way that we could already foresee a decade ago, and unfortunately, it's not the last stop either. we don't necessarily have the emotional reserves to freak out at every stop. call it conserving energy to prepare for future fights or call it resignation or just simply call it burnout (my figurative nerves have already fired too many times to fire again at full strength), but... yeah.
It's honestly amazing how deeply committed a number of people are to absolutely idiotic reactionary antisemitism. All there has to be is the most tenuous connection to Jews or Judaism, and they're off speeding into the distance in hot pursuit of that detail, the rest of the issue at hand being completely forgotten except where it's useful to prove that the Jew in question is corrupt or evil.
We find out that Trump's goons are using insufficiently secure messaging apps to discuss their bombing plans in southern Yemen, to the point of having invited in a known journalist into the chat, and what's the only thing a significant portion of people can discuss?
That the journalist was Jewish, and therefore somehow morally responsible for the resulting bombings against the Houthis. Not the fascists being dumb, or cruel, or xenophobic, but that there was a Jew involved.
Seriously, these people are so bigoted and so easily distracted by the slightest sniff of the object of their bigotry. In the end, there's no difference between them and those right-wingers who throw a tantrum when there's a hint of melanin involved.
sure enough hamas is scrambling:
