#jumblr

[spacelazarwolf]

the most devastating thing about the rhetoric a lot of gentiles use saying israeli jews “have no culture” or are “stealing” culture/music/food/etc from the surrounding countries is that for a lot of these jews that is their last connection to the places they lived for thousands of years. these jews didn’t “steal” anything, they were eating hummus and using the maqam system and speaking arabic alongside their arab neighbors for millennia and simply took it with them when those neighbors violently expelled them. like what did you expect them to do?

because i think the answer is that you believe jews never truly had a claim to any of that. you think we are (at best) guests (and at worst leeches) wherever we go. perpetual strangers who come from nowhere and belong nowhere. perhaps you’ll be gracious enough to let us live in your guest room for a while, maybe even a few generations, cook us food, sing music with us, (maybe it’s by choice, a cultural exchange, but maybe it’s that you won’t let us cook our own food or sing our melodies) but if one of us in a completely different house does something you don’t like, you drag us out the front door by the hair, keep all our stuff, and ban us from your house. we move onto the next house. now the recipes our kids know are the ones we made with you, the melodies we know are ones we sang with you, and maybe the next house who lets us stay there allows us to make that food and sing those melodies. and maybe there are other people there who know variations of those recipes and melodies. what right do you have to barge into our new house and tell us to stop singing and making food?

we are from everywhere and nowhere. we are supposed to be everywhere but where we are, doing and eating and singing everything but what we are. your holy books (that you got from us) teach you to love the stranger. but we are not strangers to you. we are you. we are a reflection of you, of everything you don’t like about you, and that’s why we don’t belong anywhere. that’s why we can’t have what you think is rightfully yours, because if we don’t have it anymore then maybe we won’t look so much like you and it’ll be easier the next time you have to drag us out by the hair.

[kosherplasmid]

In a similar vein of my previous post. I just went to a lesbian orthodox wedding. It was normal. No one was rude or offensive. I cannot stress enough how deeply normal and average this wedding was. Aufruf, rabbi, yichud et al.

Religion, acceptance, progress, is very different online than it is offline. When we throw ourselves in great big debates online, it is important to remember that life isn't that complicated, and complex sounding as we make it out to be.

Sometimes people are frum and queer and that just how life is.

[chroniclesofajewishteen]

Just because your church was a cult it doesn’t mean my synagogue is one

[magical-girl-coral]

The Tanach writing Moses as having a bad stutter from burning his mouth as a baby and needing his brother Aaron to come with him to talk to the Pharaoh and still not being questioned once as God's prophet has done more for Jewish disability rep than 95% of current media.

[mossadspypigeon]

it’s wild that both humanity and the media can display so much empathy for hezbollah leaders facing the consequences of their own heinous actions when they had none for:

druze children murdered while playing soccer.

the north being set on fire.

the thousands of israelis displaced from their homes due to hezbollah aggression.

the casualties as a result of hezbollah’s rockets.

they can condemn israel while refusing to acknowledge hezbollah started a war on oct 8.

8,000 rockets and no condemnation.

the world and the media are jokes.

[applesauce42069]

if anyone had any doubts left on wikipedia re: zionism, this is one of the citations:

[kosher-salt]

Just saw a post that was basically "Hey off of the internet people usually aren't so crazy antisemitic and most of my day to day interactions as a visible Jew are normal, everything is gonna be ok" and I'm making a new post to not derail, but...

I'm super glad, obviously, that this is the case for many of you. But I do think we should be ringing the alarm bells. Because while you enjoy your grocery trips and post office in relative peace (as you ought to), here is a VERY incomplete list of things I have dealt with in the last 11 months.

-assaulted on my way to class, followed, spit on repeatedly (magen David necklace)

-professor took me outside of class and told me I needed to denounce my Judaism (I mentioned in passing my dad's family in an anthropology class)

-same professor refused to accept my final paper for reasons that did not match up with paper, email full of dogwhistles

-same professor told everyone to attend the protests and "teach those zionists to know their place" she is a Black Latina young professor. Yep.

-another professor straight up refused to accept any assignments that mentioned Jewishness (they were assignments about our families). Gave a student who submitted nothing except a picture of a Palestinian flag full marks. Failed me. I am an all As student, btw. Forced to drop.

-the chair of the anthropology department threw my complaints wabout said professors away without due process. His social media is full of blood libel.

-had to miss my finals as I could not physically get to them due to the protests

-followed and harassed in stores

-synagogue was vandalized multiple times

-called a kike while things were thrown at me

-protestors stood outside of my apartment patio with final solution signs

-new apartment, away from campus: friends of roommates harassed me constantly, to the point I could not use common spaces. Roommates told me that's his right because it's his "political view." He didn't even live there.

-new roommate moved in, less than 48 hours before she attempts to stab me, after learning I eat kosher style. "...kosher? kosher?! FUCK YOU" stab stab, etc. Bitch that was my good knife.

-the other roommates tell me to gtfo of the home I'm renting, keeping my rent ("you people can afford to lose money") and destroy a good portion of my belongings while cursing to me random nonsense about Israel. The police took 25 minutes to get there. We live in the middle of the city.

-fun fact: I had never mentioned my political stance to these people and it's not on my face-out social media (very bare bones profiles)

-been disbelieved by everyone I told this to including the police, my school, the leasing company, and my now ex best friend of 7 years

-cursed at in a store when I asked if there was a kosher section

-told nobody likes Jews because we bring down the vibe and have a victim complex. My knuckles are healing just fine after that, btw, thank you for asking! She is not.

I don't know how to request the 7th off from my school without basically incriminating myself with a threat of violence. There is no world where I just sit there when a classmate says "happy October 7th."

Hope this helps.

[xclowniex]

Okay talking about the pagers and walkie-talkies seriously now.

I have seen quite a lot of misinformation going about and I just wanted to correct a few things.

The devices were not given to civilians

We know this as whilst civilians have bought their own pagers of the same brand, they did not explode. Only hezbollah ones exploded. This was done by a shipment meant for hezbollah being targeted, not all pagers going to Lebanon.

Hezbollah isn't also going to just give their communication devices to random ass civilians unless they're no longer in use. The pagers were a somewhat recent investment, not something which is old and no longer of use. It's just military basics 101. Don't give civilians equipment you are still using and still need

Most of the casualties were children and innocent citizens

The casualties were mainly adults. Whilst some children were harmed, the majority affect were adults. We also do not know how many hezbollah vs non hezbollah were affected, but considering to be seriously injured or killed, a person would need to be holding one of the affected devices or be close to someone with one, it's safe to assume that the majority of people affected were hezbollah members. Hezbollah are trying to keep their communication away from Israel's prying eyes. This was literally the reason why they switched from cellphones to walkie-talkies and pagers. They are not going to hand their devices to random ass civilians as there is a non zero chance that an undercover Israeli agent is that civilian.

Israel knew that lots of civilians were going to be harmed

Israel did as targeted of an attack as they could. To have one joke in this, Israel casted "fire ball but only if you're a terrorist" it is impossible for Israel to know exactly where every hezbollah member is at any given second. They cannot make sure that there are no civilians near all hezbollah members. The only way an attack could have been more targeted is if Israeli agents confirmed that someone is 100% a hezbollah member and shot each confirmed person square in the head. That is literally impossible to do on a mass scale, especially since any Israeli agent who entered Lebanon would get killed by hezbollah if they are found out.

You can (and should) mourn innocent civilians who lost their lives or were injured due to the attack whilst also recognizing the attack was a targeted attack at hezbollah. Those two things are not mutually exclusive.

[lunarian-anarchist]

Alright new game for jewish converts only;

Why did you become Jewish?

Wrong answers only

[genderfluid-jewish-lesbian]

If you're all so "indigenous," then why don't you all just go back to your homeland and stop subverting the rest of the world. If you did that, we really wouldn't care so much about the ongoing genocide.

Honestly I’m very confused. Many of us DID go back to israel, and you get mad at us for that. Now that we don’t, you get mad at us. If we went, you would still care about the “genocide” because we’re white colonizers now. You just hate Jews.

[hermthejewishwyrm]

This shit is actually comical. If you are Israeli please start going around touching random objects so that these people due to their own moral code cannot use it anymore.

[certified-pinkwasher]

why are people so convinced that israel somehow got remote access to random lebanese civilians phones and blew them up somehow without ever interacting with them????? ignoring the obvious (they were literally pagers who tf is going to use a pager in this day and age) that is literally not possible

ive actually seen random pro pals in america say that they're scared their phone is gonna explode and im just like be so fucking for real right now the mossad DOESNT KNOW YOU EXIST

[kosherplasmid]

Shabbat Shalom everyone,

I know we all have faced the onslaught of irrational and outright offensive takes this week. We all had to deal with extremely online people telling us how we should feel.

And, so, I want to tell you, for this shabbat, take a moment, look back and remind yourself that life is not like this outside of the internet.

I am a visible jew. I live in London, I have peyos and a kippah. Sometimes my tzitzis are visible. I look like this everytime I go outside, to go to the post office, the doctor, grocery store etc. Clearly I would be a prime target and my life would be in danger everytime I step out of my house based on the kind of content we see on tumblr, right? Well.

Have I faced harassment? Yes of course. But you know what? That was 1% of the time. And I won't talk about these 1% occurence this time.

99% of the time when I go out, I get no comments, no hate, no weird looks. People at the post office, at the doctor's, at the grocery store are respectful.

When I took my partner to the hospital, there were kosher meals, a shabbes room, kind accomodating people on the lift on shabbat.

When I go outside, I am a completely normal person living a completelu normal visibly Jewish life and 99.9% of people have no issue with it. Please remember this.

The world isn't as dark as it seems online. Not everybody is out to get you. Reach out to your friends, neighbours, classmates. Share a meal, be generous, do tzedakah.

This will end and it will be ok.

Shabbat Shalom.

[ritavonbees]

listen, it is important, for those who can, to confront antisemitism wherever you find it, including in leftist spaces, AND you need to think before you speak.

when something trips your antisemitism sensor, you could be looking at:

a committed believer in an anti-Jewish ideology like Nazism

a grifter who may or may not believe that shit but is saying it on purpose to attract people who do

a troll who believes in nothing and is just Saying Trigger Words To Upset Someone

an approximately regular person who has casually absorbed some cultural stereotypes and not yet questioned them

someone expressing genuine grief and rage about a recent atrocity using clumsy word choices that may not reflect an underlying anti-Jewish ideology

someone talking about a specific thing that you associate with Jews in general but they only associate with Israel (rightly or wrongly)

and probably more options I haven't thought of!

each of these requires a different approach. for the latter half, a sudden escalation will probably do more harm than good (and while Jews are not obliged to educate people about our own oppression we should probably let someone else handle it if we're seriously triggered and unable to approach constructively).

everybody wants to punch a Nazi, but that's just not the kind of situation most of us are going to be confronted with. we're going to see messy, contextual shit because we live in a messy, contextual society. we need to maintain a level of self-awareness that allows us to do the best we can with what we've got. thanks for listening

[stardevices]

I think pro pal antisemitc goyim call Israeli's and zionists "nazis" because they know how cruel and evil that label is for us.

[a-very-tired-jew]

Can't believe I saw someone say "What if this pager attack had happened in NYC or London, or any other major Western City?!" to try and make this into a big racist thing about not getting media coverage or having sympathy for terrorists. The pager thing has been all over the news, it just hasn't been covered the way certain people want. Which is to make Hezbollah seem like it's this little innocent group of freedom fighters instead of the recognized terrorist organization that it is, which has done attacks around the world and is funded and created by the IRI Also, if this operation had occurred in NYC or London it would have been targeting the closest equivalency of Hez. This means it would have likely been, in this hypothetical, targeting the Five Families or another massive crime syndicate in NYC or something like the Hunt Syndicate in the UK.

The refusal of the anti-Israel activist crowd to recognize terrorist groups for the violent criminal organizations that they are is absolutely astounding and takes some significant mental gymnastics to justify organizations that commit acts that the activist themself object to regularly and did so vehemently before October.