Silvery Moon

Anonymous asked:

This is just a random observation but smth I noticed:

Most of the pro-Israel crowd on Tumblr are mainly Jews, and a few goys. But mainly Jews, and plenty of people residing or living in Israel

But those advocating for Palestine? We have a Russian pysop who ran a popular Tumblr blog and disappeared after Trump got reelected. A Shia living in Sweden, allegedly, and celebrating Hamas and Hezbollah. And then a racefaker from Turkey. And their posts get reblogged by tons of self-proclaimed leftists and marxists residing in the US, Canada, South America and Europe and them cheering for the "resistance"

But the main question is, where are the Palestinians on this site? There are def plenty few here, but none has reached that prominence

Basically, a Tumblr community of Palestinians is quite absent

I know one might say it's because of Internet censorship (tho that doesn't stop people doubting the Gaza scams and reblogging them), but even we have plenty of Iranians here who are outspoken against the Islamic regime

And it's not like a Palestinian diaspora is absent. We have plenty descended who were expelled/voluntarily left during the 1948 War and 67 War and having prominent profiles overseas, whether as lecturers or journalists (and also spewing hate against Israel). In fact, plenty of them are active on Twitter, while ofc there's plenty of Palestinians who also advocate for peace and deradicalisation

It's just odd, I find, of the general lack of actual Palestinian voices on this site. Ofc there are people who do repost stuff by Palestinians from other social media platforms like tiktok. But interestingly, the pro-Palestine side also tends to laud token Jews villanising Israel

Similarly, I also note seldom do posts really talk about Palestinian culture. Yes, they do whine about Israel destroying cultural sites in the Gaza War (like mosques and some churches). And I've seen a few posts on Palestinian dance and cuisine

But very overwhelmingly, the posts are more or less denunication of Jewish culture in Israel or claiming Israeli culture has been "appropriated" by Palestinians. And ofc there's the promotion of Palestinian Arabic, but more to supersede the use of Hebrew

Palestinian history and culture only seems to be wielded to villify and undermine Israeli and Jewish history and culture. It ends up giving off the impression that Palestinian culture doesn’t exist outside of hating Israel and Jews.