Ari Safari 🇨🇦🎮🇮🇱
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“weirdo with a heart of gold” - a friend of mine. Views are mine alone, and subject to change (as all views should be).
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Joined April 2009
I am a staunch Zionist. Anti Hamas, anti Bibi, pro Palestine, pro 2 state solution. Why is this so complicated for so many people?.
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I work in downtown Toronto. I was standing by the water at Nathan Philips Square waiting for a friend to get off work before seeing a movie. I have a small hand sized israeli flag tied to my bag, every day. This man harassed me and mentioned @CarymaRules as well.
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Edit wars happening on Noa Kirel’s Wikipedia page. For anyone who says antizionism is separate from antisemitism…
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My father had a heart attack today. It would mean a lot to him if any Jews here could say a prayer for him. His Hebrew name is Shalom Ben Avigail.
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@BlueSquidComms @Stealth40k This isn’t a Jason thing. If Pyoro didn’t want sources included he shouldn’t have said anything. A reporters job is to report. Pyoro should have asked him to redact that info.
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I’ll say it again. Mehdi Hasan is a HUGE antisemite. His care for Jews comes when it is politically convenient for him. He’s not much different than his far-right pundit counterparts. He’s a perfect representation of one side of political horseshoe theory.
Another statement from the administration - first Biden, then Harris - which refuses to identify which party is doing the condoning of, & standing with, the deniers of the Holocaust and the praisers of Hitler. No context or details at all. Dems are so bad at attack politics. 🤦🏽♂️.
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@Kotaku Didn’t someone from Kotaku just kvetch about Nintendo not giving them early access to their games? . Do y’all really not understand why? What happened to your org. It’s been on a huge downward spiral for years now.
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@Cheriepb119 It’s been hard for me as someone who grew up with HP. It was the franchise that got me into reading as a little kid. I’m finding it very difficult to reconcile my feelings for the series, and the author who has hurt so many.
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Joe Rogan has a net worth of $120 MILLION, and has the gall to say Jews are obsessed with money?.
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@browsersatdv4 This gives me similar vibes to this one 'ex' friend I had who told me I was being 'classist' because in the midst of the first big covid wave when people were bubbling I suggested that her being physically intimate with 5 different partners was kind of selfish and shitty.
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@BriannaWu Thank you for recognizing this. I have friends that I thought had my back literally sharing 'solidarity' with Gaza posts that say, "glory to the martyrs" as if that wasn't a big ol' red flag.
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@BriannaWu I say this with all earnest intent - now you know how Jews feel. Almost all of us want to criticize Israel when it deserves it. But we're told to either be antizionist and hate israel, or to shut up. It's what pushes some Jews toward the right. We're not allowed nuance.
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Saw this in downtown Toronto today. A few of these signs have been popping up. This ACTUALLY puts Jews in danger. Last year I was pushed and called K*ke on a sidewalk for wearing a shirt with Hebrew on it. This is not “just antizionism”. This is antisemitism and dangerous.
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This looks like the children of Adi. If so then these people are especially human garbage since they killed her in front of the kids they’re now “pacifying”. Adi was my mom’s second cousin’s daughter. The first cousin of my birthright leader, and a human being, now dead.
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@paddy506 @CarymaRules I don’t know that I’d blame this on mental illness. He’s a repeat harasser. Which means he knows he acts this way, and keeps doing it. It mental illness lies at the bottom of it all - he’s making a choice not to get help, and to continue harassing others.
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@TheHalalQueen I spoke with the Zionist Commission of Canada at the Toronto embassy (inside the Bloor/Spadina JCC). I can confirm that the Zionist Lobby has a major stake in Drag Race global. So it’s understandable that this happened.
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@IfNotNowOrg I’m as secular as they get. But there is 100% parts of Judaism that can be done objectively wrong. Believing in Jesus, Havdalah in the afternoon etc.
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Yesterday I saw someone tearing down Israeli hostage posters in Toronto. I walked up to them asking them to stop. They spouted dual loyalty tropes to me, amongst other antisemitic comments. This person then kicked me a couple of times. Things are getting so scary.
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@pali15515 Almost every country in the middle east is an ethnostate. I have no issue with ethnostates so long as people can have freedoms in them. Since Jews, and Palestines are different ethnicities with different goals I’m for 2 side-side ethnostates. Both should have freedoms.
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@Bowblax I miss when video game and meme channels didn’t make their political views the primary scope of their personas.
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@JaceyAmaris Honestly I think it’s all on @LeeMajdoub. The movies are great fun - but I think about the interactions between him and Eggman - and I just don’t see the character having legs without Lee’s take on it. His comedic timing is A+ and his timid performance is a great foil for Jim.
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You want Jews to support positive change in Israel? Stop telling Jews Israel has no right to exist.
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Kanye said the Jews come from money because our ancestors were divorce lawyers… I don’t even… what?.
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@CP24 "Mmmm, yes. I would love it if the sommelier could recommend a port that goes well with a cajun-bbq taquito".
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@DiscussingFilm Early 2010s I really hated Amy Schumer but Trainwreck was hilarious. Honestly I'm inclined to give this a chance.
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Biggest fail in Israel: My first week living there (2018). I try to buy some chicken. I remembered that chicken breast was Chazeh Oaf. I forgot which word meant chicken. So I kept, in frustration, asking the large kavkazi man, “Ani Rotseh Chazeh”.
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Please. Someone tell me to stop dating. I can’t take this anymore. This keeps happening. #zionism is good actually. And gatekeeping any Jew by asking them about their take on Israel is #antisemitic actually.
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@EmilyCa30955136 @CarymaRules What worries me more than him, were the countless people passing him, laughing at or totally ignoring his harassment of me.
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@user05051818 We don’t. One Palestine, one Israel. If you don’t like it? Then tough for you.
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@ZionismTakes I too, can put random words together in anger and hope it makes sense felicity jones cactus.
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@BNODesk Two CEOs coming out with very different messaging. Neither with any hard science to back them up yet. Perhaps it's best for their very sophisticated teams and others actually concluded some studies before claims are made.
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Eventually he stops me and in English says, “oh Mister American, you are asking me for titties”. I left the store without buying anything. 😭🫠🍗.
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@LauraSimoneLew @HarvardHEB I mean I think this is a simplistic take and again is forcing the amalgamation of gender and sex. But aside from intersex people there are 2 general sexes that are agreed upon when studying hormones. Maybe it's time to use different sex-based and gender-based words.
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@minoria_rapaz @haaretzcom This is the face of a "European" Settler? Carlos respectfully - piss off. Also love your empathy for a father who has been without his sun for well over a year now.
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@TAHK0 I guess that’s the issue many have is - myself a bit included. I’m not an intrinsically motivated player. So building for the sake of it was seldom fun for me. And the rewards for building were also quite minimal. I’m in awe of the tech. But as a player I’m not as interested.
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Legitimately one of the funniest memes I’ve seen in a while. I am vehemently pro 2 state solution(s) and extremely anti Bibi. But blatant lying like this is just so stupid. Normally irritates me. But this one I find actually quite funny.
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@Vandalay_Inc Fiddler literally sings, "To Life" as they're doing a cheers. Not sure how anyone could get Long Live from it lol.
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@DoctorFishbones Some people getting mad that Bernie insisted both Gazan's get aid while Israel gets replenishment of what is a strictly defensive system. You don't attack with Iron Dome. The last war in May, Hamas sent over 4,000 rockets @ Israeli civs in 11 days. Without ID 1000s would be dead.
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@coconutbreaddd @TheBigTicketJS @GavinNewsomAlt Israel could easily survive without US aid. The US gives the aid it does to Israel because it financially and security-wise helps the US. Financially through weapon buybacks + more, and security-wise because of Israel being one of if not the most stable democracy in the region.
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@Joe_Roberts01 @EliSennesh I hate Bibi as much as the next person. But this is just the running of the Jew.
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The amount of misogyny @BriannaWu has had to endure from so-called leftists is mind boggling and disgusting.
My name is @BriannaWu & I bully people opposed to the slaughter of 200,000 precious & innocent Palestinian human beings. You are hideous on the inside & outside—dear lord you’re ugly🤢. No sympathy for Zionist ghouls like yourself, Brianna🤷🏽♀️. Don’t dish it, if you can’t take it🤡
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@CP24 Unless I'm reading the article incorrectly it looks like he had surgery on his jaw. I'm not sure how you could do that without having you beard shaved.
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@jasonschreier @DenisVi @caseyjohnston On my first day living in Haifa I tried to order chicken from a meat counter. I remembered chicken breast was chazeh oaf. But I forgot which word meant what. So I kept asking, “Ani Rotseh Chazeh”. Eventually dude said to me, “Mr. American, you’re asking for tities”. 😭😭😂😂.
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@tonyverna @CarymaRules Violence is never my way. In the full 12 min video I don’t even raise my voice to him. I’m not perfect in my execution when dealing with harassers - but I’m working on continually being calm. Helps that this happens so often now, I’ve gotten a bit numb to it all.
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@pali15515 Nearly every country in the region is built as an ethnostate as you describe. Unless you want to topple all of them, I have no issue with creating 2 more so everyone has a chance at success.
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Welp. I’m not watching @GameXplain anymore. This makes me so sad. A distant family member of mine was brutalized and killed by Hamas just weeks ago. Her body booby-trapped to a bomb set to explode. But apparently she was bad for “the brand”
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Update on being asked if I’m a Zionist as a response to asking a girl out on a date.
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@academic_la It's very frustrating that people want us to all have binary and static opinions on things that are objectively not moralistically binary.
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@DCDribble @POTUS 1) most high profile people don't do their own tweeting. 2) You can also set tweets on delays.
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Y’all. Please stop commenting on this man’s teeth. I know it’s hard, but would be nice to punch up than punch down. This man is a harasser to me and Caryma’s videographer. He can and should be condemned for that. Making fun of physical appearance is not cool or ok with me.
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@IvanTorchinsky Someone who believes Israel has a right to exist as a Jewish state in some form.
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@AvivaKlompas One of those Canadians was a distant relative of mine. My mom’s second cousins daughter. But all being from small-town Ottawa with an even smaller Jewish community- this has hit people hard. I never met the woman who died. But in mourn with the family I do know, and all Jews.
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@kat_blaque I went on a date with a trans woman a few years ago. I had no idea until the end of the date when she told me, after I had asked her for a second date. I didn't really understand at all until then how exhausting and intimidating it must be for trans folks to even tell a date.
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Roger Waters using a phrase so close to: Work will set you free, with some german text underneath. hrmmm.
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@isaacdecastrog In support of Boycotting half the world’s Jews in a way that’s totes not antisemitic we swear.
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@mehdirhasan Says the guy who cherry-picks antizionist Jews to platform, and then tries really hard to convince the world that Judaism and Zionism are not intrinsically linked. If you continue to talk over and gaslight Jews then you're also being super, duuuuper, antisemitic.
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@kat_blaque So it makes me especially peeved when I hear people talk about trans people trying to date as anything other than just people trying to date. I wish I had more to add to the conversation than just that. I just wish the world didn't make it so hard for them, or demonize them.
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@afalkhatib Ahmed has been an incredibly supportive voice in this conflict - and has not been demonizing Israel for existing at all. Y'all need to show him way more empathy than you are. He sees his family suffer, that's awful. We should not be demonizing him for talking out about it.
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@JennyENicholson Because they say they don't work on commission but they clearly have some metrics to sell to which makes them the uncanny valley of salespersons. Too keen but not keen enough.
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@IfNotNowOrg @SFJCRC Most subway systems have gone digital these days. How do tokens like you even use transit?.
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@user05051818 Oh no. You put "Israel" in quotes. That has delegitimized the country for me, and now I'm sad boohoohoo you must be right.
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@KhaledAbuToameh It's so odd. Because this is the perfect time for them to co-opt the Ukrainian struggle, yet they somehow go with undisputed aggressor in this case. Politicking clearly isn't their thing. .
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@RealLyndaCarter I’ve been kind of depressed lately. The new medication I’m taking isn’t really helping. I know I’m not who you’re talking about. But I hope people can still think of me as a delightful young man. Unrelated a picture of my dog and myself a few months ago.
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@DFisman lol U of T. The 'prestigious' Canadian school that almost everyone leaves saying, "wtf was the hype for?". This doesn't surprise me in the slightest :/.
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What in the actual fuck is going on with Jews telling the black community they're not stepping up RE: Kanye right now? Like:. 1) Yes they are. 2) There are many black Jews/\. 3) And most importantly: Kanye being an antisemite does not, in any way, reflect every black person.
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@DamonStrong @CarymaRules Sadly it wasn't the end. It goes on for nearly 10 more minutes. I just couldn't upload the whole thing w/o subscribe to a premium account. The next 2-minutes are up on my timeline/feed/whatever it's called.
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Hrmmm. I wonder what was going on in Europe during the development of the nuclear bomb?!? If only there was a way of knowing Oppenheimer’s motivations.
People seem to love #Oppenheimer but I'll just say it: I was uncomfy watching yet another movie about tortured white male genius when the victims of the atrocities glossed over by the script—Japanese people, interned Japanese Americans, and Native Americans—had no voice.
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@jamesjammcmahon Idk dude. Maybe you shouldn’t be a Joe Rogan apologist then… this isn’t the first or last hate monger he’s let onto his show unhinged.
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@RealLyndaCarter I have to take biologics for my arthritis, and that's a pretty light immunosuppressant compared to what some have to take. When I'm in indoors in public and don't have to eat, I keep my mask on. It makes me feel safer, it keeps others feeling safer.
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@SaskiaPopescu It's always about, "save the children" until they ask you to do the bare minimum like wearing a mask at the grocery store. Guess people don't give that much of a shit about the wellbeing of children. .
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@billyeichner Billy runs down the field, a defensive linebacker steps in front of him to prevent the pass from completing. Billy whips out his microphone, "OMG IT'S JOAN RIVERS BACK FROM THE DEAD", he screams, the linebacker stops in confusion, the pass completes. Superbowl won. #iknowsports.
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@NBCNewsWorld NBC news has not verified the claims, but I’m pretty sure @AP did. So not sure why that isn’t part of the story?
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@jaketapper Look @jaketapper, I know Canada isn't perfect at least we don't have ads like these representing constituencies. We welcome you to Canada whenever you want, and really recommend you choose to stay.
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@ElderGrizzly @sailorrooscout It's always 'yet' that's how evidence works. You can hypothesize but you can't have evidence until you do.
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@academic_la He isn't to blame for the rise, but his government has been INCREDIBLY complicit in it. His opposition in the NDP are far worse, willingly promoting blood libel and blaming world peace issues on Israel. But the liberal leadership has been so bad it's pushing left-Jews to CPC.
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@EVYSTADIUM This is peak Canadiana at this point that if SCTV made a comeback this could easily be a skit.
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@MiddleEastTakes The thing I’ve been doing is taping our hostage posters next to ceasefire posters. I cover both in the same tape. If you rip one down, the other gets stripped as well. Both sides deserve to be heard and feel safe. Dehumanize one, and you dehumanize all.
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@PeacockFlu There are little birds that are constantly hopping around my local coffee shop looking for food. Sometimes they jump on the tables. How neurotic should we be? Should I not sit and eat on the tables since their bacteria might linger?.
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@nerdist This is why I should choose which Jewish characters should have representation.- Written by Tariq Raouf. Gonna go out on a limb here, and say Tariq probably isn't Jewish and likely not qualified to talk on this.
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@Jerusalem_Post "Hungary and the Czech Republic opposed the resolution, while Albania, Bulgaria, Denmark, Germany, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia." . I think you're missing something here mid-article. Did the other countries abstain?.
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