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The Orphaned Progressive @therealaubrey.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Yes! It is indeed a fragile and flawed ceasefire. This is what you get when one side remains committed to using the ceasefire to re-arm for its perpetual campaign of “resistance”, while the other is determined never to let that happen.

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Gingit @gingit.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

“Not comfortable” talking about anything that doesn’t fit their little racist narrative.

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The Orphaned Progressive @therealaubrey.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

“Stop the genocide!” Me: There’s a ceasefire. “Israel is genocide!” Me: So what’s your solution? “From water to water, Palestine is Arab!” Me: What about the 7M Jews who live there now? “Go back to Poland!” Me: Hm. What was that first thing you were shouting?

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Kim Wexler's Ponytail 🐝💛🎗 @madisonkittay.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

A Palestinian from Gaza calls out Mamdani.

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Boaz Hepner @boazhepner.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I told everyone on 9/11 to check up on the 9/11 community who were not okay. I'm telling everyone on 10/7 to check up on the Jewish community, who are not okay. Nothing in life is ever that simple. But this really should be. #October7 #WeWillDanceAgain #MentalHealth

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The Orphaned Progressive @therealaubrey.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Dear pro-Palestine movement, Just give us this one day. Just this one day. To mourn our dead. To grieve. To collect our thoughts. To pray for peace. To commemorate every single innocent human we’ve lost in this utterly senseless conflict. Just one day. You fucking psychopaths.

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The Orphaned Progressive @therealaubrey.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I should be clear, it was always Jew hatred. I’m simply pointing out that most are no longer even pretending that it’s about anything else.

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The Orphaned Progressive @therealaubrey.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

It’s not a political movement; it’s a cult. Mamdani and El-Sayed are both staunch antizionists. But for a movement whose litmus test now includes unadulterated, unhindered Jew hatred, it’s no longer enough just to hate Israel.

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JStar @jstar2.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Real Talk. Cut through the crap you thought you knew for the last 3 years. 1. There was *never* a chance of Hamas giving back all on the hostages immediately after 10/7 ("That's Bullshit") 2. Hamas slowplayed everything. 3. Netanyahu repeatedly made concessions. www.youtube.com/watch?v=j51C...

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The Orphaned Progressive @therealaubrey.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Toronto is a cesspool for this type of shit right now. That said, (minimal) credit where due, but U of T denied them their campus as a venue for their appalling attempt to appropriate and erase their victims’ grief. I’m sure they’ll slither over to some other public space, though.

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Gabrielle🇸🇨 @djangoroo.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Well when you put it like that

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The Orphaned Progressive @therealaubrey.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Like many who lived in the Gaza Envelope region, Vivian Silver was an activist who didn’t just talk the talk on Palestine; she moved to Israel from Canada and did real work to make lives better. None of that mattered to Hamas. Nor, it seems, to the antizionist mob that celebrates her murder.

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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

A recurring controversy in left-wing spaces is "Was Person X being antisemitic or does he just call everyone he's arguing with a 'filthy lapdog of the globo-capitalist elites who should be liquidated along with his spawn'?" and I'm kind of tired of it, to be entirely honest.

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The Orphaned Progressive @therealaubrey.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Oh…I’ve got a big bag of “Fuck you!”s for these lying sociopaths.

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The Orphaned Progressive @therealaubrey.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

And I know what you’re thinking: Well, isn’t part of being a paid shill not telling people you’re a paid shill? Not sure, tbh. Maybe?

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The Orphaned Progressive @therealaubrey.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I am not paid by AIPAC, Bibi, the ADL, JNF, UJA, B’nai Brith, the Rothschilds or their top-secret banking cabal to be a Zionist. But if any of them want to pass along the rumoured $7k, I wouldn’t say no 😉

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The Orphaned Progressive @therealaubrey.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

It’s pretty insulting to anyone from Cairo to say an aerial photo of their city is proof of genocide. You’d think they’d be the first to say, “Hey, back up for a second!” And yet not. Must be a lack of civic pride.

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The Orphaned Progressive @therealaubrey.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

To be clear, I don’t expect the world to stop on behalf of me; just an example of how isolating it is to be the only Jew in the room, when moments that matter a great deal to us don’t matter at all to anyone else.

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The Orphaned Progressive @therealaubrey.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I guess it’s just a typical example of how lonely and morally suffocating the post-10/7 diasporic Jewish experience can be at times. I honestly assign no ill intent to the timing of the event. But if I called it out, I’m not confident they’d understand.

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The Orphaned Progressive @therealaubrey.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

What do I do? Call in sick? Go but stage some kind of subtle protest to ease my conscience? Do I openly state my objection, consequences be damned? Complain to HR?

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The Orphaned Progressive @therealaubrey.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

My work is taking everyone out for lunch to celebrate recent success. But it’s on Wed - 10/7. Far as I know, I’m the only Jew in our department and I generally don’t talk politics, let alone about Israel. I kind of need to attend, but still it feels gross for me to be celebrating anything that day.

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The Orphaned Progressive @therealaubrey.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

But enough from me. Because I would never respond to a guy who would never respond to me with anything coherent or reality-based, anyway.

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The Orphaned Progressive @therealaubrey.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Not to mention, Oct. 7 didn’t occur in a vacuum, true, but it was still an unprecedented event that Israel had every right to respond to, regardless of what you think of the response or whether you like Netanyahu, hate him, praise him or blame him for everything that’s happened these past 3 years.

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The Orphaned Progressive @therealaubrey.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Pro-tip to antisemites and antizionists: Israel and the Jews don’t have to be responsible for *all* the world’s evils. Just pick 2-3 evils and you should be covered. Otherwise, it kind of gives away the whole game, doesn’t it?

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The Orphaned Progressive @therealaubrey.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I won’t respond to him because a) who the fuck is he anyway? And b) what a completely inane strawman argument! Oct.7 was a horrible, generational tragedy, whether or not Netanyahu saw it coming. Both things can be true at the same time and judged separately. You fuckwit.

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Samuel ✡️ 🗽 @bluelion70.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The “modern Holocaust of our time” has lasted nearly the length of the actual Holocaust, by formal reckonings at least, and has resulted in one-one-hundredth the number of people killed. That’s not to say that genocide is defined by casualty numbers, because it isn’t. But the rhetorical invocation

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But nope, for a bunch of supposed allies, when their da mayor sends his goons in the NYPD out to arrest anti genocide protestors at the UN, they need to exert their energy to defend that lying scumbag. They distract from the modern holocaust of our times that is ongoing to discuss anti semitism. 3/4
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The Orphaned Progressive @therealaubrey.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

This illustrates perfectly the rhetorical trap that has so poisoned the current discourse. Jews are defined as oppressors who can never be victims. Then, when Jews are objectively victimized, they are treated to an elaborate gaslighting effort couched in pseudo-academic language.

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The Orphaned Progressive @therealaubrey.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Punctuation marks were added to the Hebrew language as part of the Zionist project to oppress Palestinians? Huh. Well, that’s a new one. What a fucking deranged, utterly ahistorical argument. Are we seeing through it yet, rest of the world?

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The Orphaned Progressive @therealaubrey.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Antizionists are the ones shouting the slogans, so they should know: the only “forced statelessness” in their equation is the one they want to impose on Israelis.

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Gingit @gingit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Attempted hijacking of an airplane. 170 humans were almost murdered but thanks to the hero pilot and passengers they were miraculously saved. They were jews, though, so these are the trending topics on @bsky.app today.

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The Orphaned Progressive @therealaubrey.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

that should tell what you need to know about many of Israel’s accusers and antagonists. It’s not about what they’re doing; it’s that they exist at all.

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The Orphaned Progressive @therealaubrey.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I think this is a really good point. There are a number of plausible things you can argue about Israel’s actions, policies, etc. Its current government is appallingly bad and has made horrible decisions that have cost lives on all sides. You can speak to these things without using to the g-word. But

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The Orphaned Progressive @therealaubrey.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Exactly - the few token Jews who will provide cover for their Jew hatred.

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The Orphaned Progressive @therealaubrey.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

It explains why it’s so hard to even have a discussion on the issue. In musical terms, one side is classical, the other is free jazz. There is virtually no common denominator grounding a discourse other than the subject of the discourse itself.

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The Orphaned Progressive @therealaubrey.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Zionist becomes an epithet. Genocide becomes an accusation without a legal standard. Their meanings are fluid, floating freely from context to context. There are no facts. There is no neutral position, nor is there neutral language. And debate becomes impossible.

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The Orphaned Progressive @therealaubrey.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The unfortunate result is that these words have become unmoored their meanings. So when we (Jews/Israelis/Zionists) try to explain why they’re wrong about crucial foundational concepts, it falls on deaf ears.

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The Orphaned Progressive @therealaubrey.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Where things get murky is in the meaning of those words. Antizionists are less concerned with the objective meaning of words than they are about the power contained within them. Thus they can bandy about the word genocide as shorthand for whatever they want to say about Israel, Zionists or Jews.

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The Orphaned Progressive @therealaubrey.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

For antizionists, it’s important that you use the words and say the slogans. They will welcome or ostracize you based on whether or not you recite their prescribed words.

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The Orphaned Progressive @therealaubrey.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Been thinking about the use of words by the Palestine movement/antizionists. All of us agree that words are important, but how we use those words is fundamentally different.

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The Orphaned Progressive @therealaubrey.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Further to that, what does he really mean by “fighting genocide?” Who is fighting? Activists? The people harassing and taunting Jews outside their synagogues on Yom Kippur? Hamas?? The IRGC?? What is the end goal, who is driving this movement? Do they truly know what they’re “fighting” for?

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The Orphaned Progressive @therealaubrey.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

“Why would anyone support the genocidal apartheid state” Well, first of all, because it’s not those things. But, secondly, good for you! You’ve said the words! Rest assured, you can remain in the club now.

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The Orphaned Progressive @therealaubrey.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Because the Palestine movement doesn’t actually care about genocide, only the use of the word as an accusation against Israel and its supporters.

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The Orphaned Progressive @therealaubrey.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I’ve resisted all the “defund the CBC” talk from right-wing partisans over the years. But shit like this? It really makes you reconsider. What, exactly, landed the reporter in so much trouble? This kind of behaviour has been non-stop in Toronto since 10/7 and needs to stop!

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Kim Wexler's Ponytail 🐝💛🎗 @madisonkittay.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

So hey, harassing Jewish people outside of synagogues during their holiest observance is antisemitic as hell, even if you wrap yourself in an appropriated Jordanian flag and claim you're just criticizing the Israeli government.

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The Orphaned Progressive @therealaubrey.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I suspect they know and they don’t care. Which…raises other questions, no?

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The Orphaned Progressive @therealaubrey.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This binary mindset gets us nowhere. It’s not the words; it’s the entire bad-faith narrative. But I suppose it’s a framing he supports, so good luck with that. You’ll never get Israelis on-side, let alone actually understand their position, so you will never make any meaningful difference.

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The Orphaned Progressive @therealaubrey.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I could go on. But any political movement that makes no space for any diversity of viewpoints, let alone dictates only one acceptable way to speak on it, is not interested in any kind of freedom for the people it claims to support.

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The Orphaned Progressive @therealaubrey.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The Palestine movement’s behaviour towards Ed Sheeran demonstrates how they operate. If you hold an opposing view, you’re pro-genocide. If you’re trying desperately, at least publicly, to remain neutral? Pro-genocide. Sympathize with Palestinians but won’t recite the slogans? Still pro-genocide.

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The Orphaned Progressive @therealaubrey.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

And here’s where my issue lies. He will never find his absolution because the audience he seeks will never grant it. They will always expect the Jews to wear their shame. It gets us nowhere.

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