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plitnick · 11 months

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How long can Israel keep insulting its benefactors

The increasing gap between Israel and its liberal defenders and supporters in the US did not come about accidentally. Nor was it due to any great ethical awakening by Americans, Jewish or otherwise. Rather, it was created and is being greatly exacerbated by Israel and Israeli officials. This isn’t a new phenomenon, but it is increasing. It’s really shocking in its dimensions considering the…

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historicity-was-already-taken · 9 days

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pixeljade: #it IS very much a complex issue and I feel like saying that has been pissing off a lot of folks on both sides #one fact i would add to the table is that the current actions against palestine DO constitute a genocide by definition #its a word i hear pro-Israel people get very upset by because they think it is inherently comparing this to the holocaust #but its not. some people DO and thats its own discussion. but calling it a “genocide” is simply accurate and undeniable

Speaking as someone who was that pro-Israel person in her teens and very early 20s, the reactions you're describing are 800% cognitive dissonance freak outs. Most of these people, like me, received either directly or indirectly from their Elders in the Jewish community a very trauma-induced and deeply emotional information about the history of this situation, which boils down to: "They tried to kill us all once and they didn't now we finally have returned to the Promised Land, the only place we have to shield ourselves against It Happening Again. Israel's detractors hate that Jews can defend themselves now, and if any of them, including the Palestinians, were to have their way, they'd see us all dead. We must defend ourselves at all costs, and not let anyone ever put us in existential danger as a people ever again."

And then to have some rando 19 year old who knows jack shit about your or your community or your community's trauma to get up in your face and start screaming at you about genocide? It's only going to trigger that intergenerational trauma, and cause the party being screamed at to dig deeper into their defensive, cognitive-dissonance fueled response. Which, if we were to boil that response down to a thought process, looks like "This person hates me and all Jews. They think we're a hive mind who don't deserve to live. Thank G-d for Israel."

What's complex, is that not everything in that trauma response is wrong, and not everything the dumbass 19 yo who has no interest in unpacking their own learned anti-Semitism was wrong.

Israel's actions towards Palestinian Arabs since 1948 does fit several definitions of genocide and/or ethnic cleansing. And many of the Westerners who scream about it the loudest are fairly openly anti-Semitic.

Now, as someone with big Holocaust intergenerational trauma in her family, I am sympathetic to the Jewish kid in this scenario. But cognitive dissonance is just that: the domain of a child. Adults understand that cognitive dissonance is a little voice in our head telling us "Hey comrade our discomfort with this is a little much. Maybe this is a learning opportunity?"

I mean, that's what I did. But it's difficult. Its uncomfortable, and that scares people. It's much easier to believe that "They call it the Naqba because they hate us and think our survival and access to national self-determination is a disaster,"* than it is to understand that "They call it the Naqba because it was the near total dispossession and ethnic cleansing of Palestinian Arab populations from their generational homes and properties."

And again, everything I'm saying here is a result of my journey from a hardcore Zionist-in-the-contemporary-sense child (though always left in terms of domestic US Politics), to a grown Holocaust historian who understands that Israel is no better and no worse than all the other nation states (for new readers, I understand the nation-state as a political entity, the logical end point of which is genocide and/or ethnic cleansing), and openly criticizes it on those grounds.

*A rabbi in a youth group I belonged to told me this almost verbatim when I was 15. And when you're 15 and somebody tells you they love you you're gonna believe them.

#this post is clunky but i have a fever so w/e #i have great love and compassion for my community as an american jewish woman #so much of how american jewry remembers the history of israel is shaped by our collective trauma #sometimes in ways that we ourselves don't understand #i'm not here to shit on them #but i am here to compassionately call them in #and the only groups who i don't expect that compassion from #are actual palestinians

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queerism1969 · 6 months

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edenfenixblogs · 6 months

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Got this message today. Blocked the person but to anyone else thinking this way:

I didn’t fucking betray anyone. I’m just a Jewish person trying not to get dragged into another ethnic cleansing or genocide of my people Israel doesn’t owe you or the left Jack shit. You wanna talk betrayal? How about the betrayal of watching people you thought cared about you celebrating the violent torture and murder of your people? And then telling you that YOU betrayed THEM by being sad about it?

If you are blaming individual Jews or the Jewish community because of the actions of Israelis, you’re an antisemite. If you think the Jewish community doesn’t have a right to grieve or ask for emotional support you’re an antisemite. If you send a message like this to a Jew you’ve never met, you’re an antisemite.

I cannot believe how many people have read my post saying “I am a Jew. I am in pain. I have fought alongside leftists my entire adult life and feel like the leftist movement does not care that they are causing harm to me and all other Jewish leftists who need support right now” and thought to themselves “Well, it’s your fault, actually. And you should apologize to us. And if you don’t declare that you support Palestine with every single post you make about your OWN community, I will assume you like to murder children in Gaza so I don’t have to care about hurting your feelings.”

Fuck all the way off. Jumblr, here’s a block recommendation.

#antisemitism #leftist antisemitism #you’re all cruel as fuck #I didn’t do anything to you #Israel doesn’t owe anything to American leftists #I can’t believe you would say the Jewish community did fucking ANYTHING to you #we didn’t do anything to any of you #leave us alone

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nero-neptune · 2 months

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i'm afraid that there's Never gonna be a concentrated effort to get the nazis off of tumbler dot com, bc no one knows what a nazi (or neo-nazi, for that matter) actually is! additionally, no one knows what nazi rhetoric even is, not when it's passes the "Uses Progressive Language" test, bc using the Good Words™ is all you need to let extremely racist messages fly under the nazi-detecting radar. god forbid anyone look in the mirror and ask "am I the bad guy??" and get their shit together.

this website: "hey staff !! >:((( when are you gonna get rid of all the nazis?!?!"

also this website: *makes the 358th conspiratorial post that Strongly Suggests that bloodthirsty jews (with dual loyalty, Of Course) control the media. this post has over 20k notes*

#i've never seen this happen with any other group of people. no nationality no ethnic group no religious group.#soooo many posts digging into one single group's holidays and beliefs and traditions and language(s) and subgroups #among other (you would think) intracommunity-exclusive discussions #it's appalling!#i highly doubt that THIS many people on tumblr dot com of all places #gave a second thought to ethiopian jews or yiddish speakers or jewish diaspora communities or israeli food or any number of things #like am i missing something?? DOES this happen to other ethnic groups and or nationalities? this constant need to debunk and analyze #and rip apart and criticize? bc again. i'd find it Beyond offensive if people did that to black americans (for example)#why is it acceptable Here? clue me in Please!#bc i've done my research on white supremacist forums (like stormfront!) and switch out some of the vocab #and Many of you would feel right at home. are you comfortable with that? goddamn.#antisemitism #nazis #rambles

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torahtot · 5 months

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ok ive had enough of queering judaism. can we start judaizing queerness now. or something

#like. it feels like so much of this queering judaism shtus just layers an american/secular queer identity over judaism #which i guess is fine for certain communities. but it's only going to push you away from orthodoxy #and if as queer jews we already feel like our queerness makes us into secularized outsiders in our own communities #how does this help? is trying to get our communities to embrace an essentially secular american iteration of queer identity supposed to mak #us feel LESS like outsiders? it's not quite doing it for me #we need a queerness that comes from within judaism that is essentially jewish #ive seen a couple of articles recently from ppl talking abt how word/concept of butch doesnt exist in their language & culture #but they use it anyway #& like. i love being butch. it's important to me ill never give it up #& i am american too. but my whole identity as a butch he/him lesbian is exclusively secular american it came from the outsifr #which is definitely due in large part to the fact that my Gender Problems were really tied up w orthodox jewish gender roles #so naturally to get out of that i'd pull on something not jewish. but i wish there was another option? idk if that's possible #or how it would look #maybe that's why im obsessed w the idea of a butch w long curly payos.... 😦#i forgot where i was going w this but yeah it's frustrating #this is a large part of why im wary of starting a queer Jewish club on campus bc the people who would wanna start it w mr #well no offense but they are insufferable about this #(incidentally they're also insufferable about chanukah. no surprises there)#nachi speaks #jew blogging #others have Actually written abt all this tho

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gay-----pisces2 · 3 months

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I hate how minorities emotions are blow way out of the water.

like, "oh your a minority experiencing anger, a normal human emotion, JESUS YOU DANGEROUS MONSTER!"

Like I'm not hurting anyone I'm just upset at the way I get treated and the hurtles I must jump over to hopefully be happy one day

#minorities #lgbtq #lgbtq community #lgbtqplus #lgbt pride #queer #queer community #lgbtqiia+#trans #transgender #trans rights #people of color #civil rights #african american #black history #jewish #judaism #jews

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leroibobo · 5 months

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oh if you ever are curious about non-maghrebi/egyptian african synagogues i highly recommend this website. they're unfortunately not as recorded in pictures as the other sorts of synagogues i post, but there is comprehensive information on them.

#jewish #info #my posts #also how interesting that there's such a marked difference between the ones for the 'black' and 'white' jews #like zimbabwe and south africa have synagogues for european jews that came but not one for the extant lemba jewish community #afaik they just didnt have them (and just prayed at peoples homes) but i could be wrong #(man the bullshit lemba jews have to go thru re: their 'legitimacy' reminds me of treatment of native americans w black ancestry in the us)#but ya synagogues in the maghreb and egypt are pretty well-documented so i dont include them #unfortunately info online on african synagogues everywhere that isnt those places is scarce

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biblicalhorror · 6 months

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The most frustrating part of engaging in any of this discourse with pro-Israel people is that they claim there's just something ineffable about "seeing and understanding" how supporting Palestinian liberation is directly calling for the eradication of Jewish people (as if that type of rhetoric isn't exactly how actual antisemitism often manifests in online spaces but that's a topic for another day)

They get through people debunking the "the land belongs to the people of Israel anyway" argument and the "LGBTQ Palestinians are safe in Israel" argument and the "Genocide isn't what's happening here so you should educate yourself" argument and when all of those points are meticulously disproven over and over they still stand with "Well, myself and your Jewish friends see the hate you have in your heart for us" and it truly doesn't matter what you say at that point because even if you yourself are Jewish they will claim that refusing to support the state, government and military of Israel is inherently hateful and bigoted, as if a religious ethnostate is some inherent human right that is being taken away from them. I know many of them are blinded by the relentless propaganda that's been around their whole lives and how hard it is to break free from a belief system that is so tied to your core identity as a human being but it is so frustrating watching people being led straight to the point over and over again and just turning around and refusing to see it.

It's also so frustrating to see people using the momentum of this movement to casually tack on actual antisemitism to these discussions, as if having Jewish people in positions of power is why the US bends over backwards to excuse the actions of Israel and not, yknow, the fact that our government directly benefits from having a military stronghold in the middle east. I've talked to some well-meaning pro-Palestine friends irl who casually use antisemetic talking points because they've ALSO bought into the narrative that Israeli = Jewish and so they blame the actions of Israel and the IDF on Jewish people's "religious values" and ignore the fact that this conflict really has almost nothing to do with religion itself and everything to do with capitalism, imperialism and maintaining the US's status as a so-called "global power".

#dont get me wrong there are lots of people on the pro palestine side who are very much aware of and vigilant against antisemitic rhetoric #but i genuinely worry about some of my non-jewish leftist friends and allies falling down some super shady pipelines because of all of this #i spend a lot of my time on my public facing social media sharing articles and graphics and whatnot about antisemitism #and how careful we need to be when calling out these atrocities and our government's complicity in them #but when one side is genuinely claiming with no evidence or argument that being against colonial occupation is just antisemitism #it makes it so hard to call out actual antisemitism within these spaces bc it delegitimizes antisemitism as a concern #i just want to scream #like. im not even jewish and i vividly remember when we had a special lesson in girl scouts about how wonderful Israel is #and they had us make little mini versions of the israel flag and they told us that israel stood for the safety of the jewish people #and i came home and i told my mom about how cool israel was #and she promptly pulled me out of girl scouts #which at the time felt unfair because she didnt explain why #but also how do you explain the horrors of colonialism and imperialism to your newly zionist 10 year old #anyway the point is that if i as a non-jewish girl scout was exposed to that kind of propaganda #i can only imagine how inescapable it must be for many american jews in the US #and i truly empathize with the amount of unlearning that needs to be done #and how hard it must be to let go of some of these ideas #but that doesnt make it any less frustrating to watch these dynamics play out on such a massive scale #and i hold so much respect for people in white jewish communities re-educating themselves and standing on the right side of history #as well as for all of the people of color and especially American Palestinians standing up and using their voices as much as they do #personal

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very-lost-hobbit · 2 months

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Seeing so many people I once respected and even adored/admired prove themselves mask off antisemites when given the chance and an "appropriate" enough reason is so incredibly heartbreaking. So many left leaning and supposedly empathetic people apparently do not hear themselves right now.

#my entire heart to the jewish community because MAN. I know it's never GREAT but the last few months have been ROUGH.#Obligatory of COURSE I care about the people suffering in Gaza too but. I should not have to qualify this post by saying that.#My empathy contains mulititudes I can care about multiple things at once.#Anyways. I can't imagine how much harder all of this in its entirety is for people actually affected by it <3 <3 <3 #also it's very easy to criticize the current Israeli administration without being antisemetic because FUCK Bibi he's an enemy to peace #just as much as Hamas is! They both suck! Hey look at that I just did it!#Wish things could hurry up and get the two state solution activists in the region have been calling for & an end to the cycle of pain.#Also. INCHERESTING how it was ''poor poor Russians they can't help where they live :('' vs ''ALL JEWS ARE COMPLICIT IN THIS ATROCITY''#really really INTERESTING 🤔🤔🤔 (not to make everything ever about my main mantle- BUT. lol)#I also think some North Americans esp are projecting their own guilt for living on stolen land onto this conflict #but that's a different conversation #antisemitism #kat gets personal #me

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plitnick · 1 year

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Yair Lapid conducts damage control with wavering allies: Democrats and American Jews

It was easy to miss, but Israeli opposition leader Yair Lapid was in the U.S. last week, visiting with American Jewish leaders and a couple of members of Congress. Lapid is himself not in a great political position right now as the notable plummet Benjamin Netanyahu has taken in the Israeli polls has benefited Benny Gantz, not, as one might expect, Opposition Leader Lapid. Still, he tried to…

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mossboys · 7 months

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i’ve been trying to stay off social media in general but honestly nothing has radicalized me like this has. i think about it constantly. i’ve never been on the verge of tears almost constantly because of anything in the news before

#text #most of all i feel absolutely fucking insane seeing the videos i do #reading palestinian testimony in gaza and in diaspora #seeing raw grief and anger just all over my tl every single day is doing a number on me i don’t know what to do with myself #i have never felt a rage like this before i’ll be real. rage at my own country rage at the jews who do nothing and rage at my family #i have family in israel i will never see or talk to until i die. there’s been a permanent rift between me and my parents for years #i am so angry at american jews who have been fed propaganda since childhood and never unlearned any of it at their big ages #i found out what palestine was when i was 13 because i was raised so ultra zionist i did not even know what the land was called before #and when i found out i cut off most of my jewish friends slowly and then most of my family slowly as well #i’m no longer part of any jewish community and i have not been for a long time because of this. it is such a specific kind of heartbreak #and it’s hard to really put into words #mainly i just want to scream i think.#being an anti zionist jew should not be this lonely. where are all your hearts.

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heavenboy09 · 1 year

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May Is Back & You Know What That Means

AAPI MONTH IS BACK aka Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month 🇨🇳 🇲🇴 🇭🇰 🇯🇵 🏣 💴 ⛩ 🏯 🇰🇷 🇰🇵 🇹🇭 🇻🇳 🇰🇭 🇹🇼 🇲🇾 🇮🇳 🇵🇰 🇲🇲 🇮🇩 🇵🇭 🐉 🐲 🀄

But wait a minute now hold up

What is this right now.

I didn't know May had 2 Heritage Months

Looks like I am introducing you all to some knowledgeable history that you 😉 may not have even knew or heard 😉 of

May is not just AAPI.

No

May Is Also Known As

Are you Ready

Jewish American ✡ 🕍 🇮🇱 🕎 🔯 ✡ Heritage Month

That's Right, Apparently The Jews Have a Month too. Which i didn't know about. But I always thought the Heritage months were based on Race not Religion. But any who.

(JAHM) is an annual recognition and celebration of American Jews' achievements and contributions to the United States of America during the month of May.

In April 2006, President George W. Bush announced that May 2006 would be considered Jewish American Heritage Month. The announcement followed urging by the Jewish Museum of Florida and South Florida Jewish Community for a celebration of Jewish Americans and Jewish American Heritage.

The president wanted to proclaim a month that would recognize the more than 350-year history of Jewish contributions to America and the American culture. On February 14, 2006, Congress issued House Concurrent Resolution 315 which stated:

"Resolved ... that Congress urges the President to issue each year a proclamation calling on State and local governments and the people of the United States to observe an American Jewish History Month with appropriate programs, ceremonies, and activities."

The Jewish American Heritage Month Coalition states that, "JAHM also enables the exploration of the meaning of religious pluralism, cultural diversity, and participation in American civic culture."

According to Library of Congress hosted website, JewishHeritageMonth.gov, May was chosen as the month of Jewish American Heritage Month because of the successful 350th Anniversary Celebration of Jews in America marking the Jewish arrival in New Amsterdam.

Well Besides The Fact that the Ignoramus President Numero Uno known as George W. Freaking Bush made this a proclamation. Ugh it is a good thing it is a Reality. The JAHM not him lol 😆. Anyway To All

My Fellow Jews/ Jewish ✡ Friends and trust me I don't have too many of them. But I know of 1 or 2 😉. May This Month & Every Other Month Bring You All The Prosperities & Wisdom To Share With The World 🌎 & Educate those who want to learn the Wonders Of The Origins Of Jewish People ✡ & All Of Their Accomplishments Along The Way In History.

LE'CHAIM TO ALL

THIS IS JEWISH ✡🕍🇮🇱🕎🔯 AMERICAN HERITAGE MONTH #JewishAmericanHeritageMonth #Jewish #Jews #TheJewishCommunity

#Jewish American Heritage Month #Jewish #Jews #The Jewish Community #Spotify

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carrionbeast · 7 months

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nobody who has responded to my post is anyone who I am talking about. But it is good to remind people to be aware of the language and rhetoric being used.

#Don’t forget that plenty of Israelis within Israel are against the occupation and colonialism and genocide #just as Americans and Canadians are against the ongoing genocide of first nations communities #Don’t forget just because you have a second passport doesn’t mean you are able to leave #Do not forget that the Jewish people and the Palestinian people we’re neighbors and lived in Palestine together for hundreds of years #We are the same people!! we have always been the same people

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nicejewishcharactershowdown · 1 year

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#IM SORRY LGBT COMMUNITY #njcs jewish american heritage month #nice jewish character showdown bonus round

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terrasu · 9 months

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Boggle rules: only use the language the set is made for. (In our case, English)

My dad: tries to use Hebrew and Yiddish words he's never even taught me

#he grew up in jewish communities in upstate ny so he thinks #a lot of it is american/english slang (my guess at least)#grapefruit dad #boggle #jumblr #my mom isnt using any of her languages dad #i still win with one language

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