i was going through this one page on instagram & i really respected their posts, even if i found them challenging, until i started seeing them talk about “abrahamic religions” as part of white supremacy & how they need to be torn down to return to indigenous practices. like absolutely MAJOR decolonization needs to happen around christianity & there is a history of islam being imposed on groups like the persians through conquest but arguing that islam & judaism are inherently white/privileged/non-indigenous or have the exact same beliefs or colonial history as christianity…i can’t get behind that at all

This Wednesday, the March for Racial Justice released a statement apologizing yet remaining steadfast about their decision to hold the event on September 30th this year, a date which happens to coincide with Yom Kippur. It was an eloquent, sensitive, and vulnerable apology. It is also one that should never have had to be written.

Did *you* know that September 30 is the anniversary of the Elaine Massacre of 1919 in Elaine, Arkansas, during which more than 200 Black men and women—many WWI veterans--were killed in cold blood by a mob of white citizens and law enforcement in what was the largest state-sanctioned massacre of black people in US history? Because *I* didn’t. And I’m *Black*. This isn’t like North Carolina Pride which was scheduled on Yom Kippur simply for the arbitrary reason of it always having being held on the last Saturday of September.

And if you are among those who weren’t aware of the significance of Sept 30 to a march specifically inspired by over-policing of Black and Brown minorities, then how is your lack of awareness so different from the lack of Jewish sensitivity that you’re caterwauling about that you should feel so self-righteously outraged?

Also, while we’re on the topic, kindly explain how the choice of Sept 30, without checking for Yom Kippur, for a Black and Brown justice march about anti-minority police violence, is an attack of Jewish liberals or the left “erasing” Jews? And no, don’t *now* pull the “but Jews of Color” card out of your back pocket.

Because we’re convenient talking points for you or as political weapons to expose the failings of intersectionality, but you don’t much want to hear from us when we’re actually in the room. *Don’t* pull out the “Jews of Color” card, because us Black and Brown Jews get stripped of our Jewishness in social movements, and “Jewish involvement” only begins once white Jews arrive. If you’ve ever talked about “Jewish involvement” in BLM, as if one of the very *founders* of BLM wasn’t Jewish herself (ie, Alicia Garza), then have several seats. *Don’t* pull out the “Jews of Color” card, because we’re also part of Black and Brown communities, and active in them, and we’re perfectly capable of talking to and coming for our own. We don’t need you cloaking your upset at having your hurt white feelings denied centering in Black and Brown-led decisions and activism as you “talking for” us. And if you’re so beholden to the idea of white policing of Black/Brown activism, of not allowing Black/Brown decisions to stand without white protest, then don’t “wonder why” the Jewish/Af-Am alliance of the Civil Rights Movement fell apart. Because you’re just repeating the same mistakes.

(And before somebody gets into *that*: Do. Not. Talk. To. Me. About. Jews. During. Civil. Rights. If your most significant proof of social engagement and moral uprightness is an event from *three* generations ago, then that is a problem, and you need to figure out why, just as much as Republicans having to reach 150 years back to claim Lincoln to prove support for minority rights).

So here’s the ugly truth: The [white] Jewish community has not only failed to lead the modern movement for racial justice, it also has not been at its forefront. It has been lethargic to the table at all the formative moments. And this is how things like this happen. There is no strong “pro-Israel” in, say, BLM, because by the time pro-Israel Jews decided to stick their toes in the water, pro-Palestinian and anti-Occupation groups were already in the pool because they answered the call when it was given. There aren’t many Jewishly observant-minded events or gatherings because observant Jews largely don’t come to the table. If you want sensitivity and inclusion and intersectionality, you kinda have to show up *before* the dust clears and do the work of building the table and your seat at it. Jews are not *owed* a seat at any table just by dint of resting on wilted 60-year old laurels of romanticized involvement in the Civil Rights Movement.

And yes, “romanticized”.

The Civil Rights Movement was a predominantly Black one, and its heavy lifting was done by ordinary Black folk. Yes, [white] Jews had a disproportionate amount of involvement, but only in relation to *white* populations, not Black ones. And that involvement speaks nothing to the apathy of Southern Jewry as a whole, or to the reluctance and even opposition of American Jewry on average. The demand for [white] Jews to see themselves depicted in every aspect of the CRM, all the time, is also what partially led to the alliance’s disintegration and its tepid state today. Case in point, the outrage at Heschel's lack of inclusion in Duvernay’s “Selma”. Yet no such uproar from those same folks committed to historical fidelity when the far more pivotal Fredrick Douglass was omitted from Spielberg’s “Lincoln” two years earlier.

But back to today, you can’t sit on the sidelines and offer minimal or implied support, but then get in a tizzy when scheduling leaves you out. This march began its planning on June 16. No Jewish groups thought to come to the table until the date was announced *last week*? C’mon now. And then, when given the rationale for the date, you patronizingly acknowledge its significance to Black history, then summarily dismiss it as not mattering because *you* have to be in shul? Also, by whose terms must Black/Brown-led activism conform to religious practice? Especially when it comes to Jewish practice?

After all, there are Jewish organizations that *specifically* plan actions, marches, and protests on Jewish holidays for the added gravitas. Furthermore, Judaism is the only religion which contains any kind of denomination or observance that restricts travel, carrying, etc. Why would the organizers think that Jews *wouldn’t* be able to just…walk? Even myself, as an observant, Orthodox Jew, there is nothing inherently keeping me from participating in the march during the break between Musaf/Mincah and Neilah except perhaps lack of blood sugar.

Is there anti-Semitism on the left? Yep. Is there an erasure of Jews in general? For sure.

But this march is not an example of either. If we want to be represented, we need to show up. And not after the fact.

And now, after all this righteous indignation and outrage, there had better be an outpouring of Jewish attendance on October 1st—from individual Facebook Jews all the way up to the Mayim Bialiks of the world—to justify all of this belly-aching.

Otherwise this was just all sound and fury to justify something that was never a priority in the first place.

(And, as always, feel free to share.)

Belgium: Journalist Writes Jews Have Ugly Noses & Oppress Palestinian Ragheads – Jews File “Hate” Complaint With Police

Jews are absolutely totalitarian bastards, aren’t they?

A based Belgian journalist is being harassed by Organized Yids in that country because he apparently said they have big and ugly noses in a newspaper column, where he also criticized the criminal Jewish state for murdering Palestinian ragheads and stealing their land.

From The Times of Israel:

Representatives of Flemish Jews have filed a police complaint after a Belgian journalist joked about Jews’ noses and accused Israelis of stealing Palestinian land.

The reference to Jewish noses appeared in a July 27 column by Dimitri Verhulst in the left-leaning Belgian daily De Morgen. Its title, “There is no promised land, only stolen land,” paraphrased a quote attributed to the late French-Jewish singer Serge Gainsbourg.

Verhulst misquotes the singer as saying: “Being Jewish is not a religion, no God would give creatures such an ugly nose.” The actual quote by Gainsbourg speaks neither of God nor ugliness, reading: “Being Jewish is not a religion. No religion makes you grow such a nose.”

The column begins with the words: “Because God has His favorites and they have their privileges, Palestinians were driven out of their homes in 1948 to make place for God’s favorites.”

Verhulst also accused Israel of “murdering” 10,000 Palestinians over the past 17 years and said that “talking to the Chosen is difficult” because he said they accuse him unjustly of racism for his anti-Israel views.

The Forum of Jewish Organizations of Belgium’s Flemish region called the comments “rabid anti-Semitism” in a statement Friday about the complaint.

So all he did was misquote some other person talking about Jewish noses. Hey look, there’s even a whole wikipedia article on Jew noses. Oh, but he also said Jews stole Palestinian land. Now THAT’S a double whammy against the Yids, isn’t it?

The instant reaction of these Jews to any form of critique of their culture, religion, looks, or political activities is to run like cowards to a “higher authority” and have it shut down and the critic silenced.

Why is that? Why can’t Jews handle any criticism of their culture, religion or state (Israel) from Gentiles? Because they’re living by a backwards ancient law code, Judaism, which prohibits outsiders from scrutinizing their monstrous practices and culture.

Apparently Jews are allowed to criticize these things, but non-Jews aren’t, because Jews have a racist double standard which says that “inferior non-Jews can’t criticize the chosen people”. There literally are some crazy passages in the Jewish Talmud saying such, that a Goy must be put to death if caught criticizing a Jew, or something like that.

All this proves is that totalitarian Jewish culture is not compatible with a functioning democracy where different points of view are allowed to be aired freely without state intervention. Jews obviously don’t want the Goyim hearing any opinions critical of them because they’re psychotically paranoid that any and all criticism of the Jews will lead to another “Holocaust”.

These Yids are absolutely insane and have no place amongst civilized people. It’s truly surprising that they don’t get along with Moslem ragheads who have a similar authoritarian culture.

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