But, for real, do you give a shit about real live Jews? Do you care about the violent antisemitism they face? Do you care about their physical and mental well-being?

OR do you only care about "antisemitism" when it's calling a piece of media out for being "antisemitic?"

Regarding the Israeli court's decision to grant lgbtq+ Palestinians asylum, I really can't wait to see JVP's response that will be queerphobic.

I am not ashamed to be Jewish.

I am sad that some in our community are. I wish you weren’t. I wish that you could see the value and beauty and joy of being Jewish. I wish that you did not feel survivor’s guilt. I wish that you had not been swayed to internalize the logic of collective punishment that tells you that you must feel shame for things you did not do and have no control over.

We deserve to see ourselves, not with the eyes of our oppressors, but those who love us. I hope you will learn to see yourself and your people that way—not with shame & self-loathing but love & pride in who you are 💙

god i am sick of pro pals erasing the history of israel

there is literally the ruins of a building OLDER THAN ISLAM (byzantine era) on a hill near my house and archeological sites are SO GODDAMN NORMAL IN JERUSALEM that while it started out fenced off they eventually gave up on keeping kids out of it and instead CLEANED IT UP, PUT A DECK ON IT, AND ADDED A LIL MULCH PATH OVER TO IT

like theres an irl running gag that every time they start a new major construction project in jerusalem it ends up getting postponed or cancelled because they found possibly important archeological artefacts. there is so much fucking history here and its absolutely insane that people would choose to pretend that it doesnt exist

Apparently the UCLA encampment is being instructed not to talk to “agitators” (ie media, Jews, the uninformed and curious, or generally anybody not already wearing a kiffiyeh). I’ve already seen this being heralded a sign of righteous solidarity against the “hordes of Zionism”. Which is weird to me because usually systematically refusing to engage in good-faith conversations with non-members or potential members is a sign of a bad movement. A movement that refuses to include anybody who doesn’t already agree with them. A movement free from diversity of opinion. A movement that will refuse to accept change or critique. You usually see that absurd a level of blind faith and unwavering conviction in alt-right conservative spheres, not lefties on college campuses.

Any movement that will not bend when faced with realities of the real world will break. The less forgiving and accepting your movement is, the faster it will flicker out. I’m astonished they haven’t figured that one out already.

Oh my god, once again reminding people that Jews in the SWANA region being scared of being murdered if Israel is dismantled are not comparable to white Americans and Canadians being scared of indigenous sovereignty. The entire world, and that includes Muslim countries, has a very very long history of violently expelling and brutally murdering its Jewish communities; Israel itself has many, many refugees and descendents of refugees from other countries in Asia and Africa, countries that do not want those people back.

The comparison to white North Americans is absurd, cruel, and ahistorical; the claim that Jewish people lived in happiness and peace and safety in SWANA countries before Israel's founding is a complete fabrication and blatant victim blaming. Many of the countries surrounding Israel and throughout the SWANA region have Jewish populations that can literally be counted on one hand and that isn't because people just abandoned their homes and friends and communities to move to Israel for funsies, it's because many of them were brutally murdered or expelled from their homes, with the rest fleeing out of fear for when they would be next.

I am saying this as a Native person who is 100% in favor of indigenous sovereignty in my home country and who is fully against the treatment of Palestinians by the Israeli government. If you cannot acknowledge how antisemitism is still very much alive and an active danger to Jewish people all across the world and how many people fled to Israel specifically to escape violence, then you really cannot have any sort of meaningful conversation about Israel.

quite possibly one of the funniest things you could've said.

I think people forget that the Nazis never said they were the bad guys. If someone says, hey, I’m evil! You don’t let them take over your country. They presented themselves as scientific, not hateful. By their own account, they were progressives, and the superiority of White Europe over the other races was a proven and immutable fact. They had scientists and archaeologists and historians to prove it. They didn’t tell people they wanted to kill the Jews because they were hateful. They manufactured evidence to frame us for very real tragedies, and they had methodological research to prove that we were genetically predisposed to misconduct. Wouldn’t you believe that?

Hollywood has spent the last 80 years portraying the Nazis as an obvious and intimidating evil. That’s a good thing in some ways, because we want general audiences to recognize that they were evil. But we also want them to be able to recognize how and why they came to power. Not by self-describing themselves as an evil empire, but by convincing people that they were the good guys and the saviors. They hosted the Olympics. Several European countries capitulated and volunteered themselves to the Empire. There were American and British Fascist Parties. They had broad public support. Hollywood never shows that part, so general audiences never learn to recognize the actual signs of antisemitism.

People today think they can’t possibly be antisemitic, because they’re leftist! They abhor bigotry! They could never comprehend Nazi ideology coming from the mouth of a bisexual college student wearing a graphic tee and jeans. How could they? The only depiction of antisemites they’ve ever seen have been gaunt, pale, middle-aged men in black leather trench coats with skulls on their caps.

If the Nazis time-travelled from the 1930s and wanted to take power now, they’d change their original tactics, but not by much. They would target countries suffering from an identity crisis and an economic collapse. They would portray themselves as the pinnacle of what that society considers progressive. Back then, it was race science. These days it’s performative wokeness. Once they’d garnered enough respect and reputation, they’d begin manufacturing propaganda and lies to manipulate people’s anger and fears at a single target— Jews.

If the Nazis made an actual return, they wouldn’t look like neo-Nazis. They wouldn’t be nearly as obvious about their hatred. Their evil wouldn’t give them yellow eyes, and no suspenseful music would play when they walked in the room. They’d be friendly. They’d look like you. They would learn what things your community fears and what things you already hate. They would lie and fabricate evidence to connect the rich elites and the imperialists you revile to a single source of unequivocal Jewish evil. It wouldn’t be hard— they already have two-thousand years of institutional antisemitism they can rely on to paint their picture.

If you’re curious why antisemitism today is coming from grassroots organizations, young, liberal college campuses, suburban neighborhoods with pride flags and All Are Welcome Here signs? That’s why. It’s because, as a global society, we’ve forgotten that the world didn’t used to see the Nazis as bad guys. And what is forgotten about history is doomed to be repeated.

So I know it’s been this way for six months now, and this isn’t exactly new news, but the fact that people have unironically said they believe the intentional mass murder of Jewish civilians, including children, isn’t antisemitism is so fucking scary.

Like. There’s really no coming back from that, is there?

Gonna make a controversial statement—people on this webbed site had more compassion for the poor white rural Trump supporters than they do for Jews

Ashkenormativity was a word that non-Ashkenazi Jewish people used to discuss issues within the Jewish community. It is not for gentiles to use to insert themselves into discourse they have no business in and will never truly understand. Go fuck yourselves.

Sorry for reblogging a long post again but I finally realized what bugged me about the Exodus verses in the Maggid. Here's a screenshot:

Now if you're a Rabbi, or if you've got a sharper eye than I do, you might recognize this as the Contemporary Torah 2006 translation by the Jewish Publication Society. It's the same as the default translation on Sefaria... which is probably where they copy/pasted it from, let's be real. Except they got it wrong. This isn't Exodus 1:10-11. It starts with Exodus 8, and ends halfway through verse 11, conveniently ending before the first mention of our enslavement in Egypt.

Look, typos are the bane of my existence on this very blog. But this is a multi-million dollar organization, putting out a document to be read at multiple events across the English-speaking world. It's the only section of their Maggid that actually tells any part of the Pesach story! They copied it from Sefaria and didn't even bother to double-check their citation! They can't even do their cultural appropriation right

Other notes of insanity from the "JVP Haggadah":

Adonai elohenu melekh ha-olam is translated differently literally every time it appears. First it's "spirit of freedom" then it becomes "the source" and "the eternal determiner of the universe" and "the one who sustains all life". Y'all. It's the same phrase in every blessing. Jews would know this. Pick one translation and stick with it!

Wine is typically a symbol of joy in the Seder-- it's often a joy for our liberation from Egypt. However, I've also seen it represented as joy despite the hardships and captivity many of us still face. JVP does away with all of that and dedicates each glass of wine to a different theme: Education, solidarity, boycotting Israel, and community. Wine is a symbol of joy in Judaism because drinking four glasses of Maneshewitz in a night gets you drunk. The symbolism is inherent to the wine itself. I don't see how getting shitfaced helps you boycott Israel.

Yachatz is fully gutted. The Hagaddah is supposed to detail how and why you break the matzah-- you can't just break it! There's symbolism and meaning to breaking specific pieces and creating an Afikomen. JVP says fuck an Afikomen, everybody just breaks a cracker and thinks about systematic oppression. They try to (incorrectly) address the Afikomen issue later, but it's nonsensical at that point because we never made one to begin with.

There is no Maggid. There's a section called Maggid, which includes a single verse from what I'm almost certain is the Christian Old Testament, not the Torah. There's no story. It literally just goes Bible Verse > Shitting on Israel > Four Questions > Plagues. They literally took out the longest and most important part of the Seder. I'm not shocked that they couldn't figure out a way to make the story of Exodus seem anti-Zionist, but still...

There's no Chad Gadya. Instead, you're supposed to go around the table, wish each other good night, and ask what they learned. This might actually be an interesting way to further involve attendees in the Seder if there were... you know... a Maggid. There's nothing to take away from this because there's zero substance. The story wasn't told. It's just there to force attendees to verbally shit on Israel before they're allowed to leave.

I'm sure there are other major issues with it; feel free to add them if you find any. I'm just personally still too baffled by the stupidity of it all to go through it a second time.

So if the university you voluntarily pay to attend is funding the war in Gaza, the solution isn’t to boycott the University, or drop out and stop giving them money. The answer is constant protests on school grounds, to disrupt the people in charge.

But if the country you’re born into, the country you didn’t choose, the country that all your family and friends live in is perpetuating the war in Gaza? The solution isn’t constant protests. In fact, the people who are constantly protesting in the streets, disrupting the people in charge? They’re actually all fascists who should be killed for being complicit in genocide. Instead, the right answer for them is to fully uproot their entire lives and move to a different country. One that will hate them and try to kill them for their mere existence.

If this is the Ivy League ideology, then I’d hate to see what the idiots in the US think.

This shit is so hilarious I had to reactivate this blog just to share it:

Enjoy that תסורח with your הצמ dumbasses.

I find myself trying to justify to myself why I think it’s bad that Iran attacked Israel and then i realized. I don’t fucking have to.

I don’t want my family to get blown up. I don’t want them to have to run to bomb shelters in the middle of the night.

Simple as fucking that. If you’re celebrating this attack, this attempt at destruction of human life, fuck you.

Without the Iron Dome, the destruction would have been terrible. So Baruch Hashem for the iron dome.

"The Brothers Grimm were important contributors to popular cultural European literature" and "The Brothers Grimm were violently antisemitic and misogynistic" are two facts that can and should coexist with each other.