Tae Phoenix
@taephoenix.bsky.social
songer/singwriter✨activist ✨@berkleecollege mfa student✨iron front zionist ✨founder @trekthevote✨i am not your good jew 🕎
We all have to make sacrifices, and none of us are free until we all are. Blessings on you all until we meet again. 💖🇮🇱🕊️🇵🇸🎗️
February 11, 2025 at 7:43 PM
We all have to make sacrifices, and none of us are free until we all are. Blessings on you all until we meet again. 💖🇮🇱🕊️🇵🇸🎗️
We have a right to our country in our ancestral homeland AND they have a right to theirs. The hostages need to come home AND we must end the war in Gaza. Jews must let go of Judea and Samaria AND Palestinians must give up the obsession with right of relocation.
February 11, 2025 at 7:43 PM
We have a right to our country in our ancestral homeland AND they have a right to theirs. The hostages need to come home AND we must end the war in Gaza. Jews must let go of Judea and Samaria AND Palestinians must give up the obsession with right of relocation.
Bottom line: the freedom and sovereignty of Jews and Palestinians are bound up together.
February 11, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Bottom line: the freedom and sovereignty of Jews and Palestinians are bound up together.
I’m not sure what all this means for my future on this platform, so for now I’ll leave you with a few photos of the antisemitism popping up daily on the streets of supposedly bleeding heart, liberal, intersectional, lovey-dovey Seattle.
February 11, 2025 at 7:43 PM
I’m not sure what all this means for my future on this platform, so for now I’ll leave you with a few photos of the antisemitism popping up daily on the streets of supposedly bleeding heart, liberal, intersectional, lovey-dovey Seattle.
Palestinians have faced intolerable disrespect from the entire region and they deserve so much better. From now on, I’ll be discussing this with my fellow Zionists in person.
February 11, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Palestinians have faced intolerable disrespect from the entire region and they deserve so much better. From now on, I’ll be discussing this with my fellow Zionists in person.
I also need a break from online arguments about the human and national rights of Palestinians with my fellow Zionists.
I get why folks are angry but that doesn’t excuse the dehumanization I’ve heard from some of you.
I get why folks are angry but that doesn’t excuse the dehumanization I’ve heard from some of you.
February 11, 2025 at 7:43 PM
I also need a break from online arguments about the human and national rights of Palestinians with my fellow Zionists.
I get why folks are angry but that doesn’t excuse the dehumanization I’ve heard from some of you.
I get why folks are angry but that doesn’t excuse the dehumanization I’ve heard from some of you.
I need to focus on the ongoing, block-by-block fight against antisemitic posters, stickers, and graffiti alongside my fellow progressive Jews.
February 11, 2025 at 7:43 PM
I need to focus on the ongoing, block-by-block fight against antisemitic posters, stickers, and graffiti alongside my fellow progressive Jews.
I’ve had too many arguments that require me to re-educate well-meaning people who cannot see the antisemitism in the decades of propaganda they’ve consumed, and it’s exacerbating my depression.
February 11, 2025 at 7:43 PM
I’ve had too many arguments that require me to re-educate well-meaning people who cannot see the antisemitism in the decades of propaganda they’ve consumed, and it’s exacerbating my depression.
We should be working towards a permanent partition plan and stable peace.
To do that, we have to stop supporting extremists and focus on uplifting the voices of Israelis and Palestinians who acknowledge one another’s indigeneity and right to sovereignty in the land we all come from.
To do that, we have to stop supporting extremists and focus on uplifting the voices of Israelis and Palestinians who acknowledge one another’s indigeneity and right to sovereignty in the land we all come from.
January 7, 2025 at 8:46 PM
We should be working towards a permanent partition plan and stable peace.
To do that, we have to stop supporting extremists and focus on uplifting the voices of Israelis and Palestinians who acknowledge one another’s indigeneity and right to sovereignty in the land we all come from.
To do that, we have to stop supporting extremists and focus on uplifting the voices of Israelis and Palestinians who acknowledge one another’s indigeneity and right to sovereignty in the land we all come from.
This is why I reject claims of genocide in Gaza - specifically because:
- Human rights advocates were accusing Israel of genocide before the war began.
- Amnesty International had to redefine genocide to accuse Israel.
This is antisemitic determination to smear Israel as uniquely bloodthirsty.
- Human rights advocates were accusing Israel of genocide before the war began.
- Amnesty International had to redefine genocide to accuse Israel.
This is antisemitic determination to smear Israel as uniquely bloodthirsty.
January 7, 2025 at 8:46 PM
This is why I reject claims of genocide in Gaza - specifically because:
- Human rights advocates were accusing Israel of genocide before the war began.
- Amnesty International had to redefine genocide to accuse Israel.
This is antisemitic determination to smear Israel as uniquely bloodthirsty.
- Human rights advocates were accusing Israel of genocide before the war began.
- Amnesty International had to redefine genocide to accuse Israel.
This is antisemitic determination to smear Israel as uniquely bloodthirsty.
Furthermore, human rights advocates often speak of the 1948 displacement of 750k Palestinians (the Nakba) without speaking of the simultaneous displacement of nearly 1M Jews from across the region.
This hyperfocus on Israel’s wrongdoings is rightly met with skepticism by Jews around the world.
This hyperfocus on Israel’s wrongdoings is rightly met with skepticism by Jews around the world.
January 7, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Furthermore, human rights advocates often speak of the 1948 displacement of 750k Palestinians (the Nakba) without speaking of the simultaneous displacement of nearly 1M Jews from across the region.
This hyperfocus on Israel’s wrongdoings is rightly met with skepticism by Jews around the world.
This hyperfocus on Israel’s wrongdoings is rightly met with skepticism by Jews around the world.
I'll be the first to admit that Israel violates Palestinian human rights. We should all condemn that.
But since 2006, 63% of human rights censures have been directed at Israel. It's impossible for a country the size of NJ with a population of 9M to commit 63% of global human rights violations.
But since 2006, 63% of human rights censures have been directed at Israel. It's impossible for a country the size of NJ with a population of 9M to commit 63% of global human rights violations.
January 7, 2025 at 8:46 PM
I'll be the first to admit that Israel violates Palestinian human rights. We should all condemn that.
But since 2006, 63% of human rights censures have been directed at Israel. It's impossible for a country the size of NJ with a population of 9M to commit 63% of global human rights violations.
But since 2006, 63% of human rights censures have been directed at Israel. It's impossible for a country the size of NJ with a population of 9M to commit 63% of global human rights violations.
What on earth have you been reading?
December 30, 2024 at 6:09 PM
What on earth have you been reading?
This tinkering with refugee status and right of return is an intentional effort to undermine Israel as a Jewish-majority state.
It’s yet another way in which antisemitism has co-opted the language of humanitarian concern.
This dynamic is something we have to be especially vigilant about right now.
It’s yet another way in which antisemitism has co-opted the language of humanitarian concern.
This dynamic is something we have to be especially vigilant about right now.
December 18, 2024 at 11:31 PM
This tinkering with refugee status and right of return is an intentional effort to undermine Israel as a Jewish-majority state.
It’s yet another way in which antisemitism has co-opted the language of humanitarian concern.
This dynamic is something we have to be especially vigilant about right now.
It’s yet another way in which antisemitism has co-opted the language of humanitarian concern.
This dynamic is something we have to be especially vigilant about right now.
But for their 5 million descendants - people who were born and raised in Ramallah and Gaza City and Khan Yunis by people who were born and raised there as well - there can be no right of return.
Especially since they still live in our shared ancestral homeland between the river and the sea.
Especially since they still live in our shared ancestral homeland between the river and the sea.
December 18, 2024 at 11:31 PM
But for their 5 million descendants - people who were born and raised in Ramallah and Gaza City and Khan Yunis by people who were born and raised there as well - there can be no right of return.
Especially since they still live in our shared ancestral homeland between the river and the sea.
Especially since they still live in our shared ancestral homeland between the river and the sea.
Here’s the part that’s left out:
There is no other population on earth apart from the Palestinian people for whom refugee status is conferred intergenerationally.
Around 750,000 Arab Palestinians were displaced from what is now Israel in 1948. Their right of return should not be questioned.
There is no other population on earth apart from the Palestinian people for whom refugee status is conferred intergenerationally.
Around 750,000 Arab Palestinians were displaced from what is now Israel in 1948. Their right of return should not be questioned.
December 18, 2024 at 11:31 PM
Here’s the part that’s left out:
There is no other population on earth apart from the Palestinian people for whom refugee status is conferred intergenerationally.
Around 750,000 Arab Palestinians were displaced from what is now Israel in 1948. Their right of return should not be questioned.
There is no other population on earth apart from the Palestinian people for whom refugee status is conferred intergenerationally.
Around 750,000 Arab Palestinians were displaced from what is now Israel in 1948. Their right of return should not be questioned.
If the answer is yes, then Israel ceases to be a Jewish majority country, which is a necessity in the region and globally.
If the answer is no, we are *told* we are violating one of the most basic human rights - the right of a refugee to return home.
So… what are we *not* being told?
If the answer is no, we are *told* we are violating one of the most basic human rights - the right of a refugee to return home.
So… what are we *not* being told?
December 18, 2024 at 11:31 PM
If the answer is yes, then Israel ceases to be a Jewish majority country, which is a necessity in the region and globally.
If the answer is no, we are *told* we are violating one of the most basic human rights - the right of a refugee to return home.
So… what are we *not* being told?
If the answer is no, we are *told* we are violating one of the most basic human rights - the right of a refugee to return home.
So… what are we *not* being told?
Right of Return is among the thorniest issues we have to settle before we can build a lasting peace.
Do the 5 million Palestinians currently recognized as refugees have the right to return to the olive groves their grandmothers and great grandmothers once tended in places now part of Israel?
Do the 5 million Palestinians currently recognized as refugees have the right to return to the olive groves their grandmothers and great grandmothers once tended in places now part of Israel?
December 18, 2024 at 11:31 PM
Right of Return is among the thorniest issues we have to settle before we can build a lasting peace.
Do the 5 million Palestinians currently recognized as refugees have the right to return to the olive groves their grandmothers and great grandmothers once tended in places now part of Israel?
Do the 5 million Palestinians currently recognized as refugees have the right to return to the olive groves their grandmothers and great grandmothers once tended in places now part of Israel?