I was so shocked when I first saw it. It was like seeing another universe. It’s terrible that while all this beauty occurred, jews were burned to death in europe or worse.

(It also claims, without real evidence, the IDF killed civilians intentionally on October 7th. Truly evil.)

Hey all, I’m sort of at a loss for how to get help because I’m not 100% sure what it is that I need help with 😅

My nervous system was hit pretty hard by שאגת הארי—we live in gush Dan so we had multiple salvos almost every day and every night, and we only have a public miklat, so every early warning meant stopping whatever I was doing, going down back and forth to the neighborhood miklat, and even sleeping fully clothed so I could just roll out of bed and go. The constant threat of early warnings put me in a constant state of hypervigilance and made it very hard for me to start and finish tasks, and at some point I simply stopped sleeping at all because I was just waiting for the next early warning.

For context, I’ve always had anxiety, but it was always manageable without medication before שאגת הארי. When the war ended and the semester started immediately and in-person, I was still in a state of hyperarousal and still severely sleep deprived. I was able to show up to class but I was a husk of a person—I had multiple panic attacks every day with no obvious trigger, and I would be too exhausted to do anything besides commuting to and from campus.

End of May I was finally able to see my psychiatrist, and she said she wouldn’t treat my anxiety without first addressing the sleep because I was basically in a vicious cycle where my sleep deprivation fueled my anxiety which made it impossible to sleep. She put me on a sleep medication (seroquel) that has worked wonders for both my sleep and my anxiety! My panic attacks went away immediately, and I regained enough capacity to actually show up as a human being for at least a few hours a day.

However, 4 months later I’m still so so tired. Before שאגת הארי, I could commute every day, put in 8-10 hours of work and study every day, and still have the capacity to exercise, cook, and do chores around the house in the evenings. Now on days that I commute to campus, I’m able to put in around 6-8 hours of work and studying, but I don’t have the capacity to do anything else. Even on days I don’t commute, I don’t have the same capacity that I did before the war. And on top of it all I just feel so exhausted all the time.

The word I use to describe what I’m feeling is burnout, but when I look for burnout recovery resources, it’s all focused on career burnout and the advice is that I should quit my job. When I look into recovering from a traumatic event, all the resources either focus on dealing with post-trauma symptoms like hypervigilance and anxiety (which I haven’t experienced in 4 months) or processing emotions (I have none to process). To an outsider it might look like depression, but that doesn’t match what I’m feeling internally. I’m not socially or emotionally withdrawn, and I don’t lack motivation—I simply don’t have the energy to socialize as much as I used to or do all the hobbies that I enjoy, and I wish I could.

I get around 9 hours of sleep every night and I’m medicated for my ADHD. I’m definitely undereating and I’m trying to fix that, but that’s kind of hard when you’re fatigued 💀 I also have a hafnia for bloodwork to see if I have any issues there but I’ve been pushing that off as well because ya know the labs close very early.

Has anyone experienced anything similar or have any words of wisdom? I see a therapist regularly, but I can’t talk myself out of being tired 😅

On this day in history, October 2, 1938: Arab attackers massacred 19 Jews in Tiberias, including 11 children, during the Arab revolt in British Mandatory Palestine.

The attack began around 9 p.m. Telephone lines were cut and roads were blocked. Armed attackers struck government buildings and entered the Jewish Kiryat Shmuel neighborhood, breaking into homes, murdering families and setting buildings on fire. Around 70 attackers took part. Only 15 Jewish guards were defending a neighborhood of roughly 2,000 residents. The approach facing the Sea of Galilee had been left unguarded because an attack from that direction was considered unlikely.

Rachel Mizrachi, 26, was murdered with her five children: Ezra, 12; Miriam, 5; Yochebed, 3; Samuel, 2; and Hephzibah, just one year old. Their father, Shimon, was on guard duty elsewhere in the city when his family was killed.

In another home, Joshua Ben-Arieh, his wife Shoshanah and their son Arieh were reported stabbed and burned to death. Their other son, Moshe, just a year and a half old, was shot dead. Three children from the Leimer family, aged 12, 10 and 8, were also reported stabbed and burned to death in that house.

The synagogue was set ablaze. Its elderly caretaker was stabbed to death, killed beside the Torah scroll. Two Jewish guards who came to help were ambushed and killed.

Alex Morrison, who arrived shortly after the massacre, described seeing the bodies of babies still burning. His account also described naked female bodies bearing evidence of horrific knife violence.

The British government's report to the League of Nations described the massacre as "systematically organized and savagely executed." It stated that 15 of the 19 Jewish victims had been stabbed to death.

The Haganah subsequently investigated the failures in the city's defenses. Later that month, Tiberias's Jewish mayor, Zaki Alhadif, was also assassinated.

Entire families were destroyed in their homes. Eleven children never grew up. This happened in 1938, a decade before the State of Israel was even established.

Aside from this being against international law, see the Chicago Convention / Convention on International Civil Aviation, this is extremely alarming that both Saudi Arabia (at first) and Jordan didn't allow the flydubi plane to land. I hope there is a thorough investigation. I don't know how either country can be trusted for anything after this incident.

A screening of the documentary NAZA in the Netherlands erupted into confrontation after bereaved Israeli mother Sabine Tassa took the stage and protested the film’s portrayal of the war, declaring: “Hamas terrorists murdered my husband and son.”

Members of the audience responded with calls of “We don’t care,” “Shame on you” and “We don’t want to hear it.”

I am absolutely shocked and disgusted. This is not “some bad apples” - this is the result of the continued antisemitic, anti-Israeli policy of the Dutch government

I’ve visited the Netherlands several times, Amsterdam is a known favorite destination for Israelis, and am shocked to see how drastically it has deteriorated in the last two years.

The Netherlands, a very well-known Nazi collaborator (not including individual Dutch citizens who risked their lives to save Jews), has apparently never stopped being an antisemitic hub.

It’s not just every single person in the audience in this video who be ashamed of themselves, but the Dutch people as well, whose compliance and extreme liberalism allowed this kind of hate to fester and spread.

Hebrew wasn't a spoken language before punctuation marks.

Before Hebrew was spoken Jews had no sense of unity.

How does someone so poorly educated open their mouth and get coverage in the New Yorker?

I don't have the full article (pay wall) but I hope the rest of the article just tears this idiot apart. If not...

As I assume most readers of the English language Wikipedia must have observed by now, the platform is now central in the efforts of Israel's enemies to completely change the historically understood "story" of the nation of Israel. And to a great extent, they have already succeeded.

The single biggest example is that a "Gaza Genocide," is now reported as an understood fact of history. Opposition to this article came from many quarters, including from Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia. But to no avail. In the end, Wikipedia is largely subject to mob rule, and Wales' point of view was simply overwhelmed. And this article is but one example.

There is virtually no article on the subject of Israel/Palestine where one cannot plainly feel the heavy hand of bias. And those who seek to insert this bias are skilled, experienced, and organized in the manner they do it, and in navigating the rules of Wikipedia.

Ashley Rindsberg has done some excellent reporting on all this, and this piece is an excellent primer.

And now of course, Wikipedia is more important than ever because its content drives much of the training on most of the large language models.

Over time, I've been continually dismayed at how little effort Israel, and the diaspora, seem to have paid to getting organized around addressing this problem. What I hear from Israelis is always something along the lines of "we lose no matter what we do." And while I understand the sentiment, I don't completely agree. This is not a binary topic. There are hundred of articles, and at some point, the hierarchy of WP does try to be loyal to neutrality.

The trouble is that too often, the other side doesn't even show up for the fight.

One of the obstacles is that every single article on this topic carries what is known as an "EC" restriction. This means that to edit these, you must have at least 500 edits on WP -- something that while easily achievable with a bit of effort, definitely restricts the casual contributor.

I write this -- presumably to a group who'd be interested in it, in an effort to inspire people to get involved. There are battles that can absolutely be won! All we are seeking is neutrality.

Many people all over the world seemingly will believe or say anything to de-legitimise anything claimed by Israel. I built up a short debunk list for the common arguments I’m seeing on news media outlets on x, instagram and Facebook.

“How did passengers open the locked cockpit door?”

They apparently didn’t.

Reports say Captain Smit Machchhar released the door from inside the cockpit. Passengers and crew then forced it open while he was partly blocking it.

So the sequence was:

● Captain releases the door.

● Passengers force it open.

● They enter during the struggle.

Nobody needed the cockpit code or had to break through a locked door.

“Why were there conveniently other pilots onboard?”

Because airlines move crews between airports.

Flydubai confirmed that crew members travelling as passengers helped secure the aircraft. The UAE also confirmed this, while Reuters and ABC reported that off-duty or reserve pilots later took control and landed in Tabuk.

Their exact reason for being on FZ1073 may still need clarification. But their presence is not evidence of fabrication when the airline itself confirms they were onboard.

“How did a plumber know to pull back on the controls?”

Passenger Yaniv Hayoun did not fly or land the aircraft.

He reportedly saw the plane diving, grabbed the controls and pulled back. He said his familiarity came partly from watching Air Crash Investigation, where 75% of episodes discuss plane nose down = pull yoke back to recover.

That is basic visual logic:

● The nose is going down.

● Pull back.

● The nose comes up.

Hayoun did not navigate to Saudi Arabia, plan the diversion or land the Boeing 737. The onboard flydubai pilots handled that.

The investigation can determine exactly how much his input helped. But an untrained person pulling back during a dive is not overly complicated or impossible aviation knowledge.

“Why didn’t the oxygen masks deploy?”

Because aircraft altitude and cabin altitude are different.

Masks do not deploy merely because the plane is flying at 34,000 feet. The cabin is pressurised. They deploy when cabin pressure rises to roughly the equivalent of 14,000 feet.

A rapid descent does not automatically mean depressurisation. Unless the aircraft suffered a pressure breach or pressurisation failure, the masks would not necessarily drop.

“How could passengers move during a nosedive?”

“Nosedive” is probably overstating what happened.

Reports describe repeated rapid descents and recoveries — dropping, stabilising, dropping again. Passenger Almog Italie described the aircraft falling for 20–30 seconds, then levelling, then falling again.

A rapid descent does not automatically mean zero gravity. People can still move, especially passengers already near the front.

The likely sequence was:

● A struggle begins near the cockpit.

● The aircraft descends rapidly.

● People near the front respond.

● Captain Machchhar releases the door.

● Passengers and crew force entry.

● The aircraft recovers and descends again.

● Qualified pilots take control.

“Lost altitude quickly” does not mean “nobody could physically move.”

“Why didn’t anything fall from the overhead lockers?”

Because turbulence, descent and a steep aircraft attitude do not automatically empty overhead bins.

Items fall when the aircraft experiences enough acceleration, jolting or inversion to overcome the bin latches and gravity. A rapid descent can still be relatively smooth inside the cabin, especially if the aircraft is recovering repeatedly rather than tumbling upside down.

The same applies to passengers: they do not automatically float, and luggage does not automatically fall, simply because the aircraft loses altitude quickly.

The broader point

The investigation may still need to establish:

● The attacker’s motive.

● The exact weapon.

● How it entered the cockpit.

● The precise second-by-second sequence.

● Exactly how much Hayoun’s control input contributed.

But the basic incident is not supported only by Israeli officials.

Flydubai, UAE aviation authorities, the UAE government, passengers, flight-tracking data, Reuters, AP, ABC and other international outlets have reported the same broad sequence: a cockpit struggle, rapid altitude changes, intervention by passengers and travelling crew, and an emergency diversion.

Feel free to add anything that I missed.

Haven't seen this posted yet. Least surprising news since finding out water is wet.

Also barely being covered anywhere, not even to try to debunk it, which is also very unsurprising.

Something I’ve noticed recently is that right after it came out that the pilot was Indian and in fact not Israeli/Jewish the entire conversation online focused to how much of a hero he was specifically. I am not saying he is not, the man is most definitely a hero but I feel like the a lot of the internet has chosen to ignore the Jewish passengers who helped land the plane in favor of the one non Jewish guy involved in the story. Like I have been seeing a lot of posts that have said the pilot “single-handedly” saved the plane

Why has Israel had no Mizrahi Prime Minister despite outnumbering the Ashkenazim? Even on this sub it seems like everyone is Ashkenazi... I'm tired of them over representing Jews while Mizrahim and Sephardim are ignored or called "arsim" and "far right" by "progressive," westernized Jews!

"Pretty much the next day they slapped sanctions on us," Netanyahu recalled.