People Are Claiming Israel Is Blocking Baby Formula From Gaza. Do You Know Where This Rumor Comes From

I’d never really gotten a chance to look before, but I had the urge to look at the AIDS quilt after remembering Duane Puryear, and I was just browsing around when one caught my eye in particular on block #2336.

I’m a sucker for the night sky, and upon further inspection…

Greg Kyper would have been 70 years old today, February 2nd 2024, if not for AIDS, and ohhhhh I’m gonna cry. I can't believe the chances of me stumbling upon his name today of all days. I'm going to try finding out more information about him and his life if possible.

I never met you Greg, but I love your quilt design. It's beautiful.

ok. I've been looking for the answer to this for a long time and I can't find it. Who actually watched the wedding night? I guess the chief and the gothi but were there any others?

WHO WATCHED THE VIKING WEDDING NIGHT?

IN OTHER WORDS, WHO WOULD OBSERVE HICCUP’S AND ASTRID’S CONSUMMATION?

Oh ho ho.  Isn’t this the million dollar question…And the answer may surprise people.

The truth is that no one watched.

I’m going to assume you’re asking this for the purpose of HTTYD, so I’m going to speak in terms of that.  And basically reconstruct the entire wedding process from start to finish.  If you only want to know about the wedding night, skip to the part in bold and then to the very end.

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Key terms necessary for understanding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict : Part 1- Ancient Israel to the founding of modern Israel, Jewish terms

A/N: Hey! The results are in, and this is the topic my followers chose🫶 Writing this felt very much like retaking my high school history finals lol. Enjoy reading.

*These terms and definitions will be organized by topics, in chronological order. **If I have made a mistake or if you feel like I forgot something important- don’t hesitate to tell me in the comments. It is very hard to summarize thousands of years. *** Be respectful, I am human.

1. Key terms in Judaism and the connection to the land of Israel :

Israel and Judea- Were the two ancient Jewish kingdoms.

Zion ציון- Is one of the 70 biblical names for the city of Jerusalem. In fact, Jerusalem is referenced by this name in the bible over 150 times.

The word Zion is very much embedded into our culture: it is used in many prayers and Jewish texts written throughout Jewish history, songs etc.

Zion and the exile from it:

It is especially used when describing longing and the wanting of return to the land of Israel:

The most famous example that uses the word Zion is the biblical prayer from the book of Psalms, 137:

1 By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion.

תהילים פרק קלז א עַל נַהֲרוֹת, בָּבֶל--שָׁם יָשַׁבְנוּ, גַּם-בָּכִינוּ: בְּזָכְרֵנוּ, אֶת-צִיּוֹן.

This verse is an example of the longing for Israel: as it was written after the exile to Babylon.

*Yes, the funky Boney M song is based on this Psalms verse :) Coming full circle- It is also used in the official hymn of the modern state of Israel, Ha'Tikva. התקווה, written by Naftali Herz Imber. This word might sound familiar to you, as it is also the origin of the word "Zionism".

Zionism- is the notion that the Jewish people deserve to have a state of their own.

Semite- is a term for people relating to, or constituting a subfamily of the Afro-Asiatic language family:

Semite languages- are a group of ancient languages, that originated around the same time, in Africa and the Middle East- aka the neighboring countries of Israel.

The Semitic languages are: Hebrew and its other ancient dialects , Arabic, Amharic, Aramaic and more. Unfortunately , most of these are extinct and no longer spoken.

The languages that are still spoken to this very day are : Arabic, Amharic and Hebrew.

Some Hebrew Fun facts :

-While there are only estimated 8 million Hebrew speakers nowadays( most of them Israeli), Hebrew is considered a holy language in is spoken during prayer.

-Ancient Hebrew and modern Hebrew are very similar. So much so that if I were to time travel, I could have a decent conversation with my ancestors😊 (some pronunciations, grammar and words have changed, but it’s essential the same).

-Which cannot be done with Romanic languages or Celtic languages..

Antisemitism A\N: This word is getting its whole section because it simply deserves it. Nowadays, every time a Jewish person says something is antisemitic, they will usually be bombarded with mocking comments about how Jews like to call everything antisemitic. If had a nickel for every time I got those comments or an Arab person tried to troll me in the comment section by saying "I can't be antisemitic if I'm a Semite myself"... Let's make it clear (once again).

As I have explained before, the word Semite refers to a group of ethnicities. However, the word Antisemitic refers to Jewish hatred: "Antisemitism is hostility to, prejudice towards, or discrimination against Jews.[2][3][4] This sentiment is a form of racism,[5][6] and a person who harbors it is called an antisemite. Though antisemitism is overwhelmingly perpetrated by non-Jews, it may occasionally be perpetrated by Jews in a phenomenon known as auto-antisemitism ".

TLDR: Don't be a Jerk and use antisemitic rhetoric, blood libels, and stereotypes... You don't get to choose if something is antisemitic or not, Jews do.

2. Modern Israel and its founding

The Knesset- Is the Israeli parliament consisting of 120 members, elected democratically every 4 years. Usually- there have been 5 elections in the last 5 years. It also currently has 36 ministers. Yes, that _IS_ a lot.

Kibbutz- "Kibbutz is a community where people voluntarily live and work together on a noncompetitive basis. The first kibbutzim were organized by idealistic young Zionists in the beginning of the 20th century."

As time moved on, starting in the 80s, many Kibbutzim struggled financially and closed down. Today, there are 265 Kibbutzim left, with approximately 200,000 residents. Less than 20% of them are communal.

Unfortunately today, the word Kibbutz has a different connotation:

British mandate- Yep, they colonized us too lol. After the first world war, Between 1917 and May 1948 (Israel was founded literally as soon as the mandate ended).

Fun fact- Today, there are still a few rules left from the British mandate In Israel (Most of them were updated or changed by Israeli law makers after it's founding, usually by the Knesset and the Supreme court of justice).

“Homa U’migdal” (חומה ומגדל Tower and stockade)- During the British mandate, Jewish settlements were built overnight due to a legal loophole still valid from the Ottoman rule. The loophole prevented the British from destroying the new settlement: "Homa U'Migdal is the name of an operation that the leaders of the Yishuv initiated in Palestine, during which 52 new settlements were founded. This operation was a response of the Yishuv to the 1936-1939 Arab Revolt and the restrictions the Mandatory authorities placed, both on the building of new Jewish settlements, and on the amount of Jewish immigrants allowed into Palestine. The building of each settlement began at night. First, the guard tower and the defense stockade were set up, so the operation was named “Tower and Stockade”. According to an old Ottoman law that was still valid during the Mandate period, the destroying of a building was not allowed after the roof had been erected. For this reason the British did not destroy the "Tower and Stockade" settlements which had not received building permits. "

The 2-state solution - The notion that the solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict should be two states for two people- one for Arabs and one for Jews.

Balfour's declaration- is the famous letter sent by then-British foreign secretary Lord Balfour to Lord Rothschild in 1917. In the letter, Lord Balfour stated that the British Empire would support the forming of a Jewish Zionist state in the land of Israel.

Peel Commission- was a community created in 1936 by the British rule during their Mandate over Israel. As the name suggests, the head of the Commity was Lord Peel. A suggestion for a Two-state solution was suggested to representatives of both Jews and Arabs. Unfortunately, the Arabs have refused it.

1947 Partition Plan- A partition plan suggested by the UN, that included another draft of the two-state solution, with different borders. The Arabs have refused it once more.

Declaration of Israel's Independence from Britain:

And so, as the British mandate ended on May 14th, 1948, the people's Council (that later served as the initial government of Israel) declared the formation of the modern state of Israel.

The day following the declaration, the Arabs in Israel revolted and with the help of 5 foreign armies that invaded Israel, tried to stop the formation of Israel: Iraq, Jordan, Egypt, Syria, and Lebanon.

They failed and Israel was formed.

You can watch David Ben Gurion, head of the council (and Israel's future first prime minister) declare its formation/independence here.

PS- this was the flag of Palestine before the current one:

Sources:

-Semite languages pic: https://www.britannica.com/topic/Semitic-languages

-Kibbutz: * https://kibbutzulpan.org/about_kibbutz/ *https://www.hamichlol.org.il/%D7%A7%D7%99%D7%91%D7%95%D7%A6%D7%99%D7%9D_%D7%91%D7%99%D7%A9%D7%A8%D7%90%D7%9C (Hebrew)

-Homa U'Migdal" : http://www.zionistarchives.org.il/en/Pages/TowerStockade.aspx

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a collection of custom Jewish tattoo designs, 2020-2023

reminder: custom tattoo designs are for client use only. it's disrespectful to get an artist's work tattooed without permission, and incredibly so to steal a design that was made for someone else. if you're inspired by these, you can commission me to create something for you!

descriptions & details below

as a Jew with (Jewish) tattoos, i'm delighted whenever someone commissions me for a design that speaks to some core aspect of their personal relationship with Judaism. the first of these is an angelic meditation on the phrase "hineni" ("here i am") & its connection to fearless self-embodiment, the next two are illustrations for passages from the Talmud (one about being self-made, featuring the miraculous "first tongs", the other about the life cycle of Jewish demons), and the last is a more traditional tree of life with torah scroll.

if i had the time/money for a tattoo apprenticeship, i would love to learn & be able to do this work myself - as it stands, i'm honored to be part of it as a designer & grateful to the talented tattooers who have inked or will ink my pieces!

image descriptions:

an ink line drawing of a black heart with four angelic eyed wings, over a ring of flame around it and the word הנני

an ink drawing of a pair of tongs, with flames wrapping around them that contain the words ועשיתם אתם

an ink line drawing of a hyena skull, surrounded by thorns with a pair of bat wings above it and the letter ש

a vector drawing of a stylized tree with a torah scroll below it and the words עץ חיים היא

you know what fuck it if any goy wants to talk about zionism, israel, or antisemitism with me you have to get an A on the following quiz (90%+), without looking up anything:

(read more because it’s a 54 question quiz)

(the question set on the whole covers a wide variety of topics and time periods. if you don’t know any one specific thing, like questions about the torah, you can still pass.

it also does not cover everything required for a full understanding of zionism, israel, or antisemitism. this is just a test of basic background knowledge of judaism, antisemitism, and the levant.)

how old is judaism? [1 point]

briefly describe the story told in the torah, particularly from joseph onwards (though further back if you are able is good). [3 points]

describe the stories of purim and of chanukah (which are not in the torah). [2 points]

when was the first documented instance of antisemitism? [1 point]

who was jesus? what do jewish scholars believe about him? [1 point]

what is deicide? how does this affect jews? [1 point]

what figure in christian media are jews most often compared to? list at least 5 stereotypes associated with this. [2 points]

explain the basis for much of jewish law. (hint: what does the phrase “chosen people” mean to jews?) (bonus point: what is jewish belief surrounding outside observance of judaism? which ritual(s) and/or figure(s) most appear in discussions on this topic?) [1 point + 1-2 bonus points]

explain the connection between the black plague and jews. list at least 3 stereotypes associated with this event. [2 points]

define “diaspora”. how does this term apply to jews? [1 point]

define ashkenazi, sephardi, and mizrachi, and explain how each group got to the region/country to which their name refers. (bonus point: list at least 3 other countries with jewish communities, as well as when those communities were at their largest.) [3 points + 1-2 bonus points]

describe the treatment of jews in europe pre-19th century (1800s). what jobs were jews forced into? list at least 2 stereotypes associated with this. [2 points]

what were the crusades? [1 point + 1-2 bonus points for detail]

what is the protocols of the learned elders of zion? what does it say? list at least 3 stereotypes associated with this. [2 points]

describe the treatment of jews under the ottoman empire and at least one other islamic empire. discuss: how were jews treated in comparison to other religious minorities? how were jews treated in comparison to muslims? was the treatment at all related to previous tensions between muslims and goyische minority religious groups (hint: see your answer for question 13)? [4 points]

what is the history behind the names given to the land of the levant? [2 points]

what is blood libel? list at least 2 stereotypes associated with this. [2 points]

what is jewish belief on the existence of other gods? what is jewish belief on the worship of other gods, particularly by jews? [1 point]

what is jewish belief surrounding conversion? [1 point]

what happened to the land of the ottoman empire after world war i? [1 point]

what was the dreyfus affair? [1 point + 1-2 bonus points for detail]

who was theodore herzl? what did he believe and why? (hint: what event prompted his politics?) [1 point]

what is eugenics, and how did it apply to jews? list at least 3 physical traits targeted towards ashkenazim in the context of eugenics. [2 points]

what was the western world’s policy towards germany post-wwi, and how did that contribute to the holocaust? [1 point]

what was germany’s first course of action towards its jewish population? what was the result? [1 point]

what attitudes towards jews did germany share with the rest of the world? [1 point]

what was the holocaust? what beliefs were present that spurred the holocaust? list at least 3. [2 points]

what is the rough estimate of people who were killed in the holocaust? what is believed about that number? [1 point]

what is the rough estimate of jews killed in the holocaust? what is the rough estimate of roma killed in the holocaust? what is believed about those numbers? [2 points]

name every country whose jewish population dropped below 100 after 1935. (bonus point: say what happened to cause that.) [3 points, with partial credit for partial lists, + 1 bonus point]

name every country who put a limit on jewish immigration during the 1930s and 1940s. [3 points, with partial credit for partial lists]

when and how was israel formed? [1 point]

what happened when the british mandate for palestine expired? [1 point]

what did the arab world decide their policy surrounding israel would be? which arab countries have since renounced that policy, and what are their relations to israel? [2 points]

what is a two-state solution? what is the green line? [1 point]

who is benjamin netanyahu? what party does he belong to and what are their politics? how did he come to power? [2 points]

what are the gaza strip and the west bank? how are they distinct from israel? [1 point]

who governs gaza? who are they and how do they operate? [2 points]

what percentage of gaza is jewish? [1 point]

how many jews are alive today? what percentage of the global population do they make up? [1 point]

what percentage of the world’s jews live in israel? [1 point]

what percentage of israel is jewish? [1 point]

what percentage of israel’s jews are mizrachi or sephardi? [1 point]

what country was israel most recently negotiating with? what were they negotiating, and why? [2 points]

what was hamas’s motivation in invading israel when they did (hint: see your answer for question 44)? [2 points]

which jewish holidays have been interrupted by attacks on israel (by any country at any time)? [2 points]

what is the idf? what are the service requirements for the idf? [2 points]

what percentage of jews are zionists in some form? [1 point]

list at least three statements commonly made about zionists or israelis by leftists today. analyze: are the overlap between jews and zionists, and jews and israelis, significant? are there any resemblances between what is said about zionists and israelis, and antisemitic stereotypes you have identified? [3 points, 1 for each correct statement and analysis]

what is antisemitism? what is the origin and history of the term? [1 point]

what is nazism and what are their primary beliefs? how do these overlap with the views of the kkk, neo-nazis, and modern white supremacists? [2 points]

what do the following numbers stand for: 14, 88, 18, 12, 109, 110, 311? what is the general term for signals such as these numbers? [3 points]

what is kabalah? (bonus point: what common antisemitic trope uses a word derived from kabalah?) [1 point + 1 bonus point]

list at least 4 modern conspiracy theories. analyze: what roots, if any, do these share with antisemitic stereotypes? [4 points, 1 for each correct conspiracy theory and analysis]

total score: /90 + /10 bonus points