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UnfairRepresent
10/24/19 1:42:54 PM
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A public reading and talk at a New Jersey library by the author of the childrens book P is for Palestine went forward amid protests outside after being postponed in May due to objections from the local Jewish community.

Four adults and three children attended the event Sunday at the Highland Park Public Library, the Bridgewater Courier News reported. All were reported to be members of the Jewish community in the Central Jersey town.

Approximately 125 people protested the reading as 10 supporters of the alphabet book also demonstrated, according to the report. Critics of the book say it glorifies violence, notably a two-page spread on the intifada, uprisings from the late 1980s and early 2000s.

A local resident, Lisa Ben-Haim, was among those who protested the reading, saying it promotes anti-Semitism and the BDS movement.

We feel enough is enough, she said.

The Iranian-born author, Golbarg Bashi, is a supporter of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement against Israel. Bashi has said intifada encompasses a broader and largely nonviolent Palestinian cultural resistance.

After the library postponed its May reading, it canceled a public hearing over objections to the book, citing safety and crowd control, and then announced it would reschedule the event.


Full Article : http://www.jta.org/quick-reads

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Doe
10/24/19 1:44:20 PM
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Mega_Greninja
10/24/19 1:45:42 PM
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UnfairRepresent posted...
Feels like this could be a definition of a 1st world problem to me

Tell that to the Israelis
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Zikten
10/24/19 1:46:55 PM
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what people don't realize is that the palestinians are the original Hebrews. people see them as just muslim. and assume they are arab. they are not. they are Hebrew. not every Hebrew left Israel 2 thousand years ago. some stayed, and then later got converted to Islam. in some ways, the Palestinians have MORE of a claim to their homeland than the Jewish Israelis who moved back to Israel less than a century ago, do
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Garioshi
10/24/19 1:47:51 PM
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Mega_Greninja posted...
UnfairRepresent posted...
Feels like this could be a definition of a 1st world problem to me

Tell that to the Israelis

who are bulldozing Palestinian homes and making illegal settlements in Palestinian territory as well as bombing the fuck out of it. Don't forget how Palestinians are second-class citizens in Israel.
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UnfairRepresent
10/24/19 1:47:51 PM
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Mega_Greninja posted...
UnfairRepresent posted...
Feels like this could be a definition of a 1st world problem to me

Tell that to the Israelis

ok

Hello Israelis

This feels like it could be a definition of a 1st world problem
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pogo_rabid
10/24/19 1:47:53 PM
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Well, you know how Prussia isn't a thing anymore?
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spudger
10/24/19 1:48:24 PM
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Zikten posted...
what people don't realize is that the palestinians are the original Hebrews. people see them as just muslim. and assume they are arab. they are not. they are Hebrew. not every Hebrew left Israel 2 thousand years ago. some stayed, and then later got converted to Islam. in some ways, the Palestinians have MORE of a claim to their homeland than the Jewish Israelis who moved back to Israel less than a century ago, do

the palestinians are not the same ethnic group as jews.

they did live in the same area but they are not the same people.
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UnfairRepresent
10/24/19 1:49:55 PM
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spudger posted...

the palestinians are not the same ethnic group as jews.

Who cares tho?
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pogo_rabid
10/24/19 1:51:59 PM
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UnfairRepresent posted...
spudger posted...

the palestinians are not the same ethnic group as jews.

Who cares tho?

People gotta tow the party hivemind. Israel bad. Jews bad. Palestinians deserve all the mental gymnastics to make excuses for them.

Reminds me of the people who make excuses for the Turks. The Armenian genocide deniers.
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konokonohamaru
10/24/19 1:53:06 PM
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Easy, fight it with I is for Israel
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vigorm0rtis
10/24/19 1:53:51 PM
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Zikten posted...
what people don't realize is that the palestinians are the original Hebrews. people see them as just muslim. and assume they are arab. they are not. they are Hebrew. not every Hebrew left Israel 2 thousand years ago. some stayed, and then later got converted to Islam. in some ways, the Palestinians have MORE of a claim to their homeland than the Jewish Israelis who moved back to Israel less than a century ago, do


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spudger
10/24/19 1:55:34 PM
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pogo_rabid posted...
UnfairRepresent posted...
spudger posted...

the palestinians are not the same ethnic group as jews.

Who cares tho?

People gotta tow the party hivemind. Israel bad. Jews bad. Palestinians deserve all the mental gymnastics to make excuses for them.

Reminds me of the people who make excuses for the Turks. The Armenian genocide deniers.

this is a lot of diarrhea for a shitpost
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Zikten
10/24/19 1:56:18 PM
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vigorm0rtis posted...
"I'm not entirely literate."

i'm sorry to hear that
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pogo_rabid
10/24/19 2:01:37 PM
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spudger posted...
pogo_rabid posted...
UnfairRepresent posted...
spudger posted...

the palestinians are not the same ethnic group as jews.

Who cares tho?

People gotta tow the party hivemind. Israel bad. Jews bad. Palestinians deserve all the mental gymnastics to make excuses for them.

Reminds me of the people who make excuses for the Turks. The Armenian genocide deniers.

this is a lot of diarrhea for a shitpost

Yeah, I guess it would look that way to someone who wouldn't bat an eye if the surrounding countries succeeded if what they tried to accomplish during the multiple attempts at genociding the Jews in Israel.
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Paragon21XX
10/24/19 2:05:28 PM
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Zikten posted...
what people don't realize is that the palestinians are the original Hebrews. people see them as just muslim. and assume they are arab. they are not. they are Hebrew. not every Hebrew left Israel 2 thousand years ago. some stayed, and then later got converted to Islam. in some ways, the Palestinians have MORE of a claim to their homeland than the Jewish Israelis who moved back to Israel less than a century ago, do

lol nope
The vast majority of Palestinian residents not counting Israeli settlers are ethnic Arabs. Very few native residents in the Palestinian territories are either ethnic Jews or have Jewish ties (such as the Samaritans who currently number less than 1000).
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Mega_Greninja
10/24/19 2:11:46 PM
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Zikten posted...
what people don't realize is that the palestinians are the original Hebrews. people see them as just muslim. and assume they are arab.


Except they are Arab. The Jewish population was completely flushed out of Jerusalem and forbidden from returning.
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FrozenXylophone
10/24/19 3:05:44 PM
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Zikten posted...
what people don't realize is that the palestinians are the original Hebrews. people see them as just muslim. and assume they are arab. they are not. they are Hebrew. not every Hebrew left Israel 2 thousand years ago. some stayed, and then later got converted to Islam. in some ways, the Palestinians have MORE of a claim to their homeland than the Jewish Israelis who moved back to Israel less than a century ago, do


Actually many Jews stayed.
What you said is factually incorrect.

And 2000 years ago isn't when the majority left anyways.
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ThePrinceFish
10/24/19 3:07:50 PM
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There is no such thing as Palestine.
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UnfairRepresent
10/25/19 7:36:03 AM
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ThePrinceFish posted...
There is no such thing as Palestine.

Then why does the book bother you?
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ArchiePeck
10/25/19 7:39:33 AM
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Boycott Israeli apartheid.
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unpleasant_milk
10/25/19 7:57:11 AM
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One day the world and its inhabitants might stop giving a fuck about religion and stop it influencing politics and demanding how we behave, dress and conform to a set of archaic rules from outdated and far fetched fairy stories.
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pogo_rabid
10/25/19 8:00:34 AM
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ArchiePeck posted...
Boycott Israeli apartheid.


How about we stop support the surrounding countries who's every day citizens would dance in the streets and praise god if every Jewish man, woman, and child was genocided in Israel.
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Garioshi
10/25/19 8:29:38 AM
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pogo_rabid posted...
ArchiePeck posted...
Boycott Israeli apartheid.


How about we stop support the surrounding countries who's every day citizens would dance in the streets and praise god if every Jewish man, woman, and child was genocided in Israel.

EDIT: It's not like they havn't tried multiple times already.

but what about other countries!!!!??
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UnfairRepresent
10/25/19 8:40:04 AM
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Godnorgosh posted...
Author realizes children's literature isn't for her and goes on to write "P is for Fucking Palestine, Dammit."

The Jewish community would probably buy that
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Unsugarized_Foo
10/25/19 8:53:38 AM
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As long as S is for shit show
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EzeDoesIt
10/25/19 8:57:02 AM
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I dont see how anyone with a conscience could support what Israels government is doing to the Palestinians.
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PokemonYoutube
10/25/19 10:01:55 AM
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EzeDoesIt posted...
I dont see how anyone with a conscience could support what Israels government is doing to the Palestinians.
I don't see how anyone with a conscience could support what the Middle-Eastern governments want to do to the Israeli's.
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Paragon21XX
10/25/19 10:10:16 AM
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EzeDoesIt posted...
I dont see how anyone with a conscience could support what Israels government is doing to the Palestinians.

And I don't see how anyone with a triple-digit IQ doesn't even realize that they are being played like a fiddle by Israel-hating countries such as Iran who is directly supporting all of the terror activities in the West Bank through Hezbollah.
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Garioshi
10/25/19 10:10:16 AM
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PokemonYoutube posted...
EzeDoesIt posted...
I dont see how anyone with a conscience could support what Israels government is doing to the Palestinians.
I don't see how anyone with a conscience could support what the Middle-Eastern governments want to do to the Israeli's.

These two are not mutually exclusive, stop deflecting from Israel's treatment of the Palestinians.
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Damn_Underscore
10/25/19 10:13:34 AM
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Garioshi posted...
PokemonYoutube posted...
EzeDoesIt posted...
I dont see how anyone with a conscience could support what Israels government is doing to the Palestinians.
I don't see how anyone with a conscience could support what the Middle-Eastern governments want to do to the Israeli's.

These two are not mutually exclusive, stop deflecting from Israel's treatment of the Palestinians.


That's interesting, then why is this entire issue a dichotomy where people generally either support one side or the other with no regard for the other side?

At least on American internet forums.
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s0nicfan
10/25/19 10:41:16 AM
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Zikten posted...
what people don't realize is that the palestinians are the original Hebrews. people see them as just muslim. and assume they are arab. they are not. they are Hebrew. not every Hebrew left Israel 2 thousand years ago. some stayed, and then later got converted to Islam. in some ways, the Palestinians have MORE of a claim to their homeland than the Jewish Israelis who moved back to Israel less than a century ago, do


You realize that there were Jews living in the Ottoman empire when it collapsed and Israel was formed, right? Like... they didn't just create empty space and then they all came from Europe. Israel's first citizens were people already living in that area.
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Damn_Underscore
10/25/19 10:56:39 AM
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Yeah, the First Aliyah (migration of Jews to Palestine/the Holy Land) was in the late 1800s.

Modern Palestinians are descendants of original inhabitants of Israel but they are culturally Arab now. To say they have more of a claim to Israel than modern Israelis is treading onto the territory that the Jewish state of Israel shouldn't exist. Most Israelis and Palestinians want a two-state solution, and that would probably go a long way to solve problems that exist now. Israel obviously isn't fully innocent, but the reason these problems exist now is because of attacks on Israel by outside nations, including Palestine, since 1948.
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Damn_Underscore
10/25/19 11:02:56 AM
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Yeah, the First Aliyah (migration of Jews to Palestine/the Holy Land) was in the late 1800s.

Modern Palestinians are descendants of original inhabitants of Israel but they are culturally Muslim now. To say they have more of a claim to Israel than modern Israelis is treading onto the territory that the Jewish state of Israel shouldn't exist. Most Israelis and Palestinians want a two-state solution, and that would probably go a long way to solve problems that exist now. Israel obviously isn't fully innocent, but the reason these problems exist now is because of attacks on Israel by outside nations, including Palestine, since 1948.
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Zikten
10/25/19 11:47:57 AM
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s0nicfan posted...
Israel's first citizens were people already living in that area.

that was my point actually. I was just saying the citizens were muslims. the people saying I am wrong, showed no proof, and I don't know if they are telling the truth. I've always been told that not all hebrews left 2 thousand years ago
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s0nicfan
10/25/19 11:51:53 AM
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Zikten posted...
s0nicfan posted...
Israel's first citizens were people already living in that area.

that was my point actually. I was just saying the citizens were muslims. the people saying I am wrong, showed no proof, and I don't know if they are telling the truth. I've always been told that not all hebrews left 2 thousand years ago


They weren't all Muslim. That's what you're missing:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1914_population_statistics_for_the_Ottoman_Empire

Edit: demographics for that specific region over time showing that Jews always lived there:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographic_history_of_Palestine_(region)
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UnfairRepresent
10/25/19 12:00:32 PM
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Why is any of this important?

They are fucking people with Hopes and dreams and flaws and emotions who grow and love and hate and learn and eat and try.

You guys are talking about them like they are exports or something

Why does what ethnic groups they came from or their religion matter?

Israeli or Palestinian, they are hunan beings.
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Zikten
10/25/19 12:01:12 PM
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the ethnic group matters if discussing who is the real native to the land and the one who should be in charge
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Damn_Underscore
10/25/19 12:03:42 PM
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Zikten posted...
the ethnic group matters if discussing who is the real native to the land and the one who should be in charge


Are you implying that the Jewish state of Israel shouldn't exist?

Criticizing the actions of Israel is not anti-semitic, but saying that Israel shouldn't exist is anti-semitic.
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UnfairRepresent
10/25/19 12:03:56 PM
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Zikten posted...
the ethnic group matters if discussing who is the real native to the land and the one who should be in charge

why?
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Garioshi
10/25/19 12:12:21 PM
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Damn_Underscore posted...
Zikten posted...
the ethnic group matters if discussing who is the real native to the land and the one who should be in charge


Are you implying that the Jewish state of Israel shouldn't exist?

Criticizing the actions of Israel is anti-semitic, but saying that Israel shouldn't exist is anti-semitic.

Let's say that I have a religion called, I don't know, Garism. My religious text says that my one true savior, Garioshi, gave me a holy land that your house just so happens to be on top of, and I want to demolish your house to live on my holy land. Are you bigoted against Gars for not wanting your house to be demolished so I can live on my holy land?
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Damn_Underscore
10/25/19 12:14:45 PM
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Let's stop with the hypotheticals and realize that there really is a history of the Jewish religion in that region. And this isn't some random religion, the Jewish, Christian, and Muslim religions are all connected.
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Zikten
10/25/19 12:18:03 PM
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UnfairRepresent posted...
Zikten posted...
the ethnic group matters if discussing who is the real native to the land and the one who should be in charge

why?


because it's someone's homeland
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Zikten
10/25/19 12:19:01 PM
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I have long said the best solution would be a nation where it has 3 presidents. one for jews one for muslims and one for christians. but that will probably never happen. the next best thing is to let the natives of that region rule
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Zikten
10/25/19 12:21:07 PM
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and I am complicated. I sympathize with the palestinians. at the same time, I think the jews should be able to rebuild their "3rd Temple". but it would require bulldozing that Mosque on the Mount or whatever it's called. everything is complicated and has many factors and issues. I am not black and white and nobody should be
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UnfairRepresent
10/25/19 12:23:03 PM
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Zikten posted...
UnfairRepresent posted...
Zikten posted...
the ethnic group matters if discussing who is the real native to the land and the one who should be in charge

why?


because it's someone's homeland

It's the homeland of every fucker who lives there
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Garioshi
10/25/19 12:25:25 PM
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Damn_Underscore posted...
Let's stop with the hypotheticals and realize that there really is a history of the Jewish religion in that region. And this isn't some random religion, the Jewish, Christian, and Muslim religions are all connected.

But who cares
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Damn_Underscore
10/25/19 12:26:07 PM
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Garioshi posted...
Damn_Underscore posted...
Let's stop with the hypotheticals and realize that there really is a history of the Jewish religion in that region. And this isn't some random religion, the Jewish, Christian, and Muslim religions are all connected.

But who cares


The reason this is an issue at all is because of religion. Literally billions of people care.
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UnfairRepresent
10/25/19 12:28:24 PM
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Damn_Underscore posted...
Garioshi posted...
Damn_Underscore posted...
Let's stop with the hypotheticals and realize that there really is a history of the Jewish religion in that region. And this isn't some random religion, the Jewish, Christian, and Muslim religions are all connected.

But who cares


The reason this is an issue at all is because of religion. Literally billions of people care.

Then fuck that religion

dont dehumanise and fuck the people
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