Some Books Covering The Jewish Roots Of The Comic Superhero Genre:

I miss spelled paldea. Please ignore.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/52349689/chapters/132428347

Paldea Saga: Treasures and Trials by @alittlebookdust

Accurate

Another quiz for if you were a fictional character how would your fandom treat you (if you think your life is too boring to have a fandom just think of yourself as living the domestic!au of some sci-fi or fantasy)

reblog with your results

There’s a Senate inquiry into the worsening rental crisis!

Thanks to the Greens you can now write a submission to a committee inquiry into how the rental crisis is affecting you and your community, provide evidence, and shape the reports that’ll be given to the National Cabinet in September and November to suggest how they can address the rental crisis.

This is super important! The information that YOU give to this inquiry will inform both the state and federal government about just how dire the situation is and help it understand how it needs to do more to fix the rental crisis in Australia.

So share - and don’t forget to click here to submit BY 28 JULY!!!

Change.org

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City of Phoenix, Let Our Ancestors Rest.

https://chng.it/HGkzFt6Nc8

HP-like LGBT Books (not written by a TERF)

In no particular order. These are only books I’ve read and enjoyed. There are more out there and I will add them to the list as I make my way through them.

1. The Grimoire of Grave Fates created by Hanna Alkaf & Margaret Owen and written by 18 diverse authors: several non-binary characters, a trans woman, two trans boys + some f/f and m/m. This is an incredible collaboration! The students investigate the murder of a close-minded professor at their magic school.

2. Simon Snow by Rainbow Rowell: m/m. This is the most famous one. I wouldn’t mind a TV adaptation, or even movies, but that sounds less likely.

3. A Hero at the End of the World by Erin Claiborne: m/m. This one is cute and funny. It doesn’t hurt that the cover art is gorgeous.

4. Tim Te Maro and the Subterranean Heartsick Blues by HS Valley: m/m (YA, but very sexual). Simon Snow meets Sex Education, with a fake baby assignment. Simply hilarious!

5. Three Meant To Be by MN Bennet: m/m + a trans boy and an ace girl. This is a magic school adult book, focused on a teacher, though the students are all very interesting too. I adore the magic system.

6. Gallowgate by KR Alexander: queer male protagonist (MG). This one is about learning how to hunt ghosts and has horror vibes.

7. Magic University by Cecilia Tan: m/f and m/m, as the protagonist is bisexual + some trans characters (erotica). This series is surprisingly my favourite, even though I’m very picky with erotica.

8. It Ends in Fire by Andrew Shvarts: m/f and f/f, as the protagonist is bisexual + a non-binary minor character. This takes place in a heroic fantasy setting. I love the magic system.

9. Scholars and Sorcery by Eleanor Beresford: f/f (novellas). This short series is super sweet. It’s mostly about life at the magic school.

10. Magic for Liars by Sarah Gailey: f/f-ish (content warning: murder mystery about a dead queer woman). If you’re looking for something darker, go for this one.

11. [French] L'éveil des sorcières by Cordélia: lesbian major character (MG). This is another cute and funny one, with a lot of diversity. It hasn’t been translated so far, but I’ll keep you updated.

12. When the Letter Comes by Sara Fox: trans girl protagonist (short story). It’s a little sad at first, but it gets better. You can read it legally and for free here.

13. DIY by John Wiswell: queerplatonic m/nb (short story). It’s about climate change and capitalism and also has disability representation. You can read it legally and for free here.

14. My Name is Magic by Xan van Rooyen: f/nb + a major queer male character. I love that this story is inspired by Finnish folklore. There’s a strong focus on protecting nature as magic is being consumed too fast.

15. Trans Wizard Harriet Porber by Chuck Tingle: trans woman protagonist (weird erotica for a laugh). This is the biggest crack I’ve ever read, as well as the biggest F*** You to transphobia.

16. This Is How We Fly by Anna Meriano: the protagonist is questioning her gender identity + some non-binary characters and some f/f (non-magical). This is a novel about muggle quidditch, a co-ed sport where “the gender that a player identifies as is considered to be that player’s gender.”

17. Brooms written by Jasmine Walls and illustrated by Teo DuVall: some f/f + a trans woman major character (graphic novel). A group of diverse women take part in unsanctioned team broom races.

Genocide

Genocide is an internationally recognized crime where acts are committed with the intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group. These acts fall into five categories:

1. Killing members of the group

2. Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group

3. Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life is calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part

4. Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group

5. Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group

There are a number of other serious, violent crimes that do not fall under the specific definition of genocide. They include crimes against humanity, war crimes, ethnic cleansing, and mass killing.

https://www.ushmm.org/genocide-prevention/learn-about-genocide-and-other-mass-atrocities/what-is-genocide

yo ima write a professional level article, im trying to gather resources and you may have a few. Please try to get me some for these topics

what really happened in nakba

the origin of the word Palestine (how Arabians didn’t make the word)

a timeline on the Israeli/palestine land mass

Palestinians stories (I do need a rebuttal of sorts as well, so try to get a variety of cases)

numbers on death counts

what the UN considers genocide

Hitlers reasoning for the holocaust (anything like “it’s not about religion” and shit like that)

and just anything else that you think will help me write an article about the complexity :3

nakba - not the expert here but from my understanding is it was a messy war that left generations resentful of each other. Nakba deniers will be blocked and their responses mocked

Palestine comes from the word phillitine and was imposed by the Romans on Judeans to imply they weren't indigenous to the area (sound familiar). It was anglicized to Palestine and the British insisted on calling Israel that from the crusades and until WW2 (hence why Palestine is mentioned in Othello).

The nice little map where the evil israelis Jews are taking over more and more of the original Palestine that the British gave to the arabs and the arabs only is as false as the narrative in the previous sentence. I have yet to see a good map on the subject.

Somebody get me the Palestinean that the columbia university protesters blocked because he didn't fit their narrative, the homochadensis post where gazans curse Bisan Owida and reveal she's a grifter who stole money from them and her readers, and the famous video of the mothers and grandmothers who prove that Hamas is stealing their aid.

NO ONE knows the true death count because one side needs to downplay it for PR and the other needs them to be the worst war in history for sympathy and outrage points but Gaza ministry of health fabricates all their numbers and lists a child three times to "bring attention to the loss" aka inflate their death count

Bro that's a googable document on the Un's on website.

OK THIS is my area of expertise. Hitler fell in with a eugenicist crowd of antisemites that believes lesser races needed to be killed our enslaved by those they deemed aryan. Those who were aryan (western europeans) were meant to rule the world, slavs, asians and arabs were to have their populations murdered by about 50 but the rest would live on as second class citizens and then Jews and Roma were to genocided completely because they were seen as "parasitic races" that brought only harm and would not be allowed to survive. The latter two groups were uniquely targeted, have not recovered either physiological or in terms of population. It was NEVER about religion and all about race and racist pseudoscience

Also static you don't need to prove your right to existance and self determination to those who want you dead so much they tried driving you to suicide

Followers?

What it’s like to be slut-shamed when buying birth control

Even when pharmacists do let people access contraception, whether emergency contraception or condoms or prescription birth control pills, the process isn’t always free of judgment. In a series of recent online discussions, people across the country have begun to share stories of the stigma they’ve experienced. As many have pointed out, this can be especially damaging to teens.

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

Twitter thread by Melissa Caruso about a labyrinthine magical bookstore in Syracuse, NY. Link to the first tweet in the thread; most pictures have image descriptions! Now here are the screenshots of that thread:

And then a hero of the labyrinthine magical bookstores of the world put all the bookstores that people listed in the replies on a map! (Google Maps link)

links to help you actually learn and understand what happened in Israel on October 7

a site that collects the October 7th survivors' stories.

an Instagram profile that also collected survivors stories.

Yoseph Hadad - an Arab-Israeli who shows what it is like to be an Arab in Israel. also explains the situation.

Israel on Twitter - the official account of the state of Israel.

Stand With Us - a nonprofit organization that fights antisemitism.

4IL - an Instagram page for Hasbara (explanation).

Visit2Israel - explains, simplifies and updates on what is happening.

I do warn you - the stories are graphic, there will be graphic pictures. but this is the situation Israel is in, and there are so many stories to share that me, as a sole person here, just cannot bring you all on my own.

SHARE THIS PLEASE, LET THE WORLD KNOW WHAT HAPPENED TO US