#Jews from Ukraine

[nikk-il]

Odessa is preparing to award the title of Honorary Citizen to Roman Shvartsman, a Holocaust witness and head of the Association of Jewish Prisoners of Ghettoes and Concentration Camps

https://nikk.agency/en/odessa-is-preparing/

Odessa is preparing to award the title of Honorary Citizen to Roman Shvartsman, a Holocaust witness and head of the Association of Jewish Prisoners of Ghettoes and Concentration Camps

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[jewreallythinkthat]

I've not seen a single person (other than my friend who has ties to Ukraine) talk about the fact Russia fucking killed 51 Ukrainians in an airstrike today (number from BBC) along with injuring 271 others. The airstrike also partially hit a hospital. Did it trend on Tumblr? No. Did a single person acknowledge Russia is literally an imperialist state with expansionist tendancies? No.

The war in Ukraine and attempted annihilation of Ukraine by Russia is still happening and once again the world (especially self proclaimed anti-war and anti-racists) are silent. It shouldn't be like this. I hate that people are not anti war when it doesn't make them look morally superior and hide their bigoted tendancies.

No Jews, No News.

[rotzaprachim]

one of the things I think a lot of goyim esp western based don’t clock about Jews is that a lot of the places we lived before mass immigration to the US&west and the creation of the state of Israel not only often pretty violently killed or expelled us, but were and are sights of continual warfare and dislocation that was and continued to be fucked up by external and internal conflict, by the direct actions of the British ottoman French American and Russian imperialisms….. Jews only became a “western” people through the acts of violent dislocations from our homelands we’d often lived in for hundreds and thousands of years.

We lived in Afghanistan. We lived in Yemen. We lived in Iraq. We lived in Serbia. We lived in Bosnia & Herzegovina. We lived in Belarus. We lived in Ethiopia. We lived in Algeria. We lived in Morocco. We lived in Syria. We lived in Iran. We lived in Kurdistan. And we lived in Ukraine. We often have complicated histories with these places, varying extents to which we identified with them or with the nationalisms that drew their borders, but we lived there, and in so many ways, from our language to stories to food, we carry them with us and are hurt by the loss of their memory in our lives, pushed into the diaspora of the diaspora. None of this justifies the often profoundly violent antisemitisms we found there, nor should it allow for simple rounds of flag waving - our communities were almost always older than the modern states, and many institutionalized Jewishness as something irreconcilable from the modern National Citizen. But we lived there. Inextricably we are a part of their history, just as they are a part of us.

Any simplistic takes about how Israeli jews should just LEAVE AND GO HOME without understanding the contexts of why that isn’t possible not only whitewashes histories of violent antisemitism but also the CURRENT ongoing realities in many of the countries we lived in, and it comes off not only as callous to Jews but to the people who continue to live there, after our links were severed. Any antizionism that doesn’t seriously reckon with these histories is incomplete. “Why don’t you go back to where you came from?” The American goy asks. I think of my friends and community. To Odessa? Or to Baghdad? To Aleppo? Or to Herat? YOU TELL ME.

[unopenablebox]

i admit that i find it a little bit frustrating how Wildly Astonished other antizionist jews act when i tell them my israeli jewish family have lived in the region since [some unknown length of time before 1800 when there start being records about it]

[ineffablecrisp]

Do I or do I not want to make Tom Kazansky a Soviet immigrant

[sourkitsch]

It’s is genuinely so funny being half ethnically Jewish like. My mom is Irish, English, Brazilian, Italian, and Polish. Vs like. Well my father is a Jew it is very simple.

[keirametzbrassknuckles]

I've been Very quiet about current events on this blog and always have been because this is my little safe space away from the real world and once again I have to say: just because I don't talk doesn't mean I don't care and that I am not engaging with stuff Irl.

This blog isn't the entirety of me. Thank you for your understanding.

[nikk-il]

Jews from Ukraine: Golda Meir, born May 3, 1898 in Kyiv, became the most influential woman of the century #еевреїзаука

https://nikk.agency/en/jews-from-ukraine-15/

Jews from Ukraine: Golda Meir, born May 3, 1898 in Kyiv, became the most influential woman of the century #еевреїзаука

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[florallychaotic]

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[adelle-ein]

anyway i've muted like everyone i follow on twitter and when i poke my nose on to see gaming news (that's literally all i use the account for now) it's STILL all the same three kinds of gamer discourse (BORED) and incorrect world politics information from bluechecks (VERY BAD) so like. ew

[unhonestlymirror]

If I had a nickel for every time a history major&Roman Empire fan also supported genocide of Jews, I'd have... 6 nickels??? Wtf

[thestrangerinyourmidst]

I have to wonder, why do antizionists try to push so hard for Jewish assimilation.

I have seen so many comments saying "go back to poland/germany/ukraine" or "you should change your name back to your real polish/german name" or "mizrahi and/sephardi Jews are just arabs who don't want to be arabs" or "yiddish/[insert other diaspora language] is the REAL Jewish language" or "stop speaking Hebrew because it is traumatising to Palestinians"

and I have to ask. why is it that just as Jewish culture is allowed to re-establish itself free from the confines of diaspora that has held it down for 2000 years, that 'leftists' are coming out of the woodwork and demanding that Jews assimilate. Why does Jews reclaiming their ancestry, their language and culture, offend you so much?

[nikk-il]

Jews from Ukraine: Yura Lifshits. How a Kiev resident stopped a train heading to Auschwitz with just one pistol and saved more than a hundred prisoners

https://nikk.agency/en/yura-lifshit/

Jews from Ukraine: Yura Lifshits. How a Kiev resident stopped a train heading to Auschwitz with just one pistol and saved more than a hundred prisoners

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[badolmen]

Saw this on my dash again - Eva Bartlett is a conspiracy theorist and Russian propagandist. B’Tselem’s channel, which has been recording Israeli war crimes for a similar time frame, is still up, so it’s unlikely YouTube removed her channel for its coverage of Palestine.

[ilookattextile]

I got a job at a Ukrainian museum.

On the first day someone asks me if I have any Ukrainian heritage. I say I had ancestors from Odesa, but they were Jewish, so they weren’t considered Ukrainian, and they wouldn’t have considered themselves Ukrainian. My job is every day I go through boxes of Ukrainian textiles and I write a physical description, take measurements, take photographs, and upload everything into the database. I look up “Jewish” in the database and there is no result. 

Some objects have no context at all, some come with handwritten notes or related documents. I look at thick hand-spun, hand-woven linen heavy with embroidery. Embroidery they say can take a year or more. I think of someone dressed for a wedding in their best clothes they made with their own hands. Some shirts were donated with photographs of the original owners dressed in them, for a dance at the Ukrainian Labour Temple, in 1935. I handle the pieces carefully, looking at how they fit the men in the photos, and how they look almost a hundred years later packed in acid-free tissue. One of the men died a few years later, in the war. He was younger than I am now. The military archive has more photographs of him with his mother, his father, his fiancé. I take care in writing the catalogue entry, breathing in the history, getting tearful. 

I imagine people dressed in their best shirts at Easter, going around town in their best shirts burning the houses of Jews, in their best shirts, killing Jews. A shirt with dense embroidery all over the sleeves and chest has a note that says it is from Husiatyn. I look it up and find that it was largely a Jewish town, and Ukrainians lived in the outskirts. There is a fortress synagogue from the Renaissance period, now abandoned. 

When my partner Aaron visits I take him to an event at the museum where a man shows his collection of over fifty musical instruments from Ukraine, and he plays each one. Children are seated on the floor at the front. We’re standing in a corner, the room full of Ukrainians, very aware that we look like Jews, but not sure if anyone recognizes what that looks like anymore. Aaron gets emotional over a song played on the bandura. 

A note with a dress says it came from the Buchach region. I find a story of Jewish life in Buchach in the early twentieth century, preparing to flee as the Nazis take over. I cry over this.

I’m cataloguing a set of commemorative ribbons that were placed on the grave of a Ukrainian Nationalist leader, Yevhen Konovalets, after he was assassinated. The ribbons were collected and stored by another Nationalist, Andriy Melnyk, who took over leadership after Konovalets’ death. The ribbons are painted or embroidered with messages honouring the dead politician. I start to recognize the word for “leader”, the Cyrillic letters which make up the name of the colonel, the letters “OYH” which stand for Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN in English). The OUN played a big part in the Lviv pogroms in 1941, I learn. The Wikipedia article has a black and white image of a woman in her underwear, running in terror from a man and a young boy carrying a stick of wood. The woman’s face is dark, her nose may be bleeding. Her underwear is torn, her breast exposed. I’m measuring, photographing, recording the stains and loose threads in the banners that honour men who would have done this to me. 

Every day I can’t stop looking at my phone, looking up the news from Gaza, tapping through Instagram stories that show what the news won’t. Half my family won’t talk to the other half, after I share an article by a scholar of Holocaust and genocide studies, who says Israel is committing a genocide. My dad makes a comment that compares Gaza to the Warsaw Ghetto. This gets him in trouble. My aunt says I must have learned this antisemitism at university, but there is no excuse for my dad. 

This morning I see images from Israeli attacks in the West Bank, where they are not at war. There are naked bodies on the dusty ground. I’m not sure if they are alive. This is what I think of when I see the image from the Lviv pogrom. If what it means for Jews to be safe from oppression is to become the oppressor, I don’t want safety. I don’t want to speak about Jews as if we are one People, because I have so little in common with those in green uniforms and tanks. I am called a self-hating Jew but I think I am a self-reflecting Jew.

I don’t know how to articulate how it feels to be handling objects which remind me of Jewish traumas I inherited only from history classes and books. Textiles hold evidence of the bodies that made them and used them. I measure the waist of a skirt and notice that it is the same as my waist size. I think of clothing and textiles that were looted from Jewish homes during pogroms. I think of clothing and textiles that were looted from Palestinian homes during the ongoing Nakba. Clothes hold the shape of the body that once dressed in them. Sometimes there are tears, mends, stains. I am rummaging through personal belongings in my nitrile gloves. 

I am hands-on learning about the violence caused by Ukrainian Nationalism while more than nine thousand Palestinians have been killed by the State of Israel in three weeks, not to mention all those who have been killed in the last seventy-five years of occupation, in the name of the Jewish Nation, the Jewish People — me? If we (and I am hesitant to say “we”) learned anything from the centuries of being killed, it was how to kill. This should not have been the lesson learned. Zionism wants us to feel constantly like the victims, like we need to defend ourself, like violence is necessary, inevitable. I need community that believes in freedom for all, not just our own People. I need the half of my family who believes in this necessary “self-defence” to remember our history, and not just the one that ends happily ever after with the creation of the State of Israel. Genocide should not be this controversial. We should not be okay with this. 

Tomorrow I will go to work and keep cataloguing banners that honour the leader of an organization which led pogroms. I will keep checking the news, crying into my phone, coordinating with organizers about our next actions, grappling with how we can be a tiny part in ending this genocide that the world won’t acknowledge, out of guilt over the ones it ignored long ago. 

[greco-roman-jewess]

Yeah we kept participating in the Olympics too- we don’t bow to terrorism.

(In case you missed it the entire Israeli delegation was murdered at the 1972 Munich Olympics)

The goal of Nazis is to remove us from society.

Israel is not our ghetto it is our homeland.

Yuval is not a “pro-Israel advocate” she is a survivor of terror attack who would like her attackers to be held accountable.

“Ukraine didn’t have to send out a pro-Zelenskyy advocate. They could have sent some neutral or sympathetic to Russia. Or even *Gasp* a Russian Ukrainian” - how you sound

“Another Eden Golan” the only similarity between Eden and Yuval is that they’re both Jewish women.

There have been previous Arab Israeli (that’s what they’re called not Palestinian-Israelis) contestants it just happens that the judges liked her performance during the selection process the best- because the contestant is decided by a panel of judges NOT THE ISRAELI GOVERNMENT.

How the hell was Eden the victimizer. She was a 19 year old girl who only left her room for the contest.

Israeli security forces were worried that there might be an attempt on her life because there have been previous attempts on Israeli participants in international competitions and because there was a giant terror attacker that killed the most Jews in a single day since the Holocaust seven months earlier. Including a massive attack on a music festival.

She is not scared of queer or autistic people (as an autistic person the way your framing Greta Thunberg here feels pretty infantilizing. Autistic adults are adults who are fully responsible for their actions and capable of hurting people) she is scared of the people dressed like terrorists screaming at her and chanting for the destruction of her country and violence against its citizens.