#tw antisemitism

[chroniclesofajewishteen]

Can people stop writing the holocaust from the perspective of goyim?

Edit: I do not mean to erase the experience of other groups, but when cis het white people are writing a self insert hero complex, it’s kinda annoying

[arisharkboi]

The antisemitic tiktok brainrot is so real. Someone posted a pic of their dog with a kippah and the top comments were, in order, "he's got the nose for it," "You're too nice to be jewish" and "gas the dog"

I'm so fucking tired of getting reminded every day that people want me dead bc I'm Jewish and believe both Jews and Palestinians matter 😭😭

[186-3]

courting antisemitism

so i recently decided to take a look at the latest stonetoss comics (probably because i love suffering). and while i was expecting some content on the israel palestine conflict, what i did not expect was how... standard it seemed. well, most of it at least, but i'll get to that in a second.

for context, if you don't know what stonetoss is, it's a (poorly drawn) webcomic known for having radical alt-right views - meaning it's incredibly racist, homophobic, transphobic, islamophobic, antisemitic. all that fun stuff.

so while i was expecting to see bad stuff, one of the first things i saw on the topic of israel was this:

terrible art aside, this comic is making a point that i usually see in left wing circles: that israel is pinkwashing genocide.

curious if there was more like this, i kept looking, and the comic right before that one was this:

again, this makes points that i usually see in left wing circles. that american healthcare is crazy expensive, that canada tells poor people to commit suicide, and that israel is bombing hospitals.

why does stonetoss, this well known alt-right nutjob, now seem to be bringing up left-wing talking points?

curious, i kept going deeper:

well this is... odd. clearly, stonetoss is trying to say that israel is on another level of bad, even worse than russia, iran, and north korea. i can possibly see someone on the left making the argument that the russian invasion of ukraine isn't as bad as what israel is doing in gaza, or that at least north korea isn't invading any other countries, but... iran??? the country that has a police force designed to enforce religious law, and gets away with murdering women who do not properly cover their hair? the country that props up paramilitary groups in countries all over the middle east, including lebanon, yemen, and yes, palestine?? that's completely ridiculous

but, given how much more israel is in the news nowadays than any of these other countries, i could see why someone would buy this

and now, we're starting to get to the crux of what stonetoss is trying to do. when someone sees this, they might be inclined to agree with it. they might begin to think that israel is the worst country on the planet

and that might not seem so bad at first. but the more you hate israel, especially irrationally, the more you feel allowed to dehumanize those who support it. the more you might be willing to agree with this comic, which came out two days prior to the one above

this comic says that jews, as a whole have no desire to exist with other people. it is blatantly antisemitic

i'm sure you could imagine some young leftist who sees the comics above this one and thinks, "this guy makes some good points". and then, when they get to this one, they might realize that this is antisemitism

or, they may not.

and that would start them down the road to becoming an antisemite.

this is what stonetoss and other alt-right nutjobs are hoping to achieve. to take left wing fury at israel, and direct it at jews.

we saw it with those neo-nazis at the palestine rally, and we're seeing it again here.

and if you've found yourself agreeing with what stonetoss has said so far, i would like you to see the last comic stonetoss put out before october 7th:

this horrifically racist comic is in reference to an environmental activist who was murdered by a black man in early october. this blatantly racist garbage is the kind of stuff stonetoss usually puts out.

but as soon as october 7th happened? these were his next two comics:

stonetoss completely changed the comic's tone as soon as the current crisis started. why?

to get as many people as possible to get on board with hating jews.

and i know many of you might be thinking that "well, everyone knows that stonetoss is racist garbage. nobody is going to fall for this"

except, as we saw with the neo-nazis at the rally for palestine, it's not always that obvious who the antisemites are and who is just rallying for peace. they are often a lot better at disguising it than stonetoss is.

AND EVERYONE NEEDS TO BE AWARE OF THAT

EVERYONE, no matter HOW much experience you have, can fall victim to propoganda. EVERYONE needs to be aware of what people around them are saying, and able to pick out hateful rhetoric, because even the stuff that is just kind of toeing the line of what's hateful is still putting your foot in the door

be cautious, everyone. and stomp out hate where you see it.

[thecorvidforest]

so um….looks like Bradley Cooper (goy) has been cast to play Leonard Bernstein, a Jewish man, in his upcoming film Maestro (a biopic about a real Jewish composer). rather than hiring a Jewish actor to tell a story about a Jewish man, they cast a goy…who will be wearing a prosthetic nose.

and if that weren’t enough - they cast Carrie Mulligan, an Irish woman, to play Leonard’s wife…who was a Latina. and Maya Hawke, a white woman who is neither Latina nor Jewish, has been cast to play their daughter.

AND don’t forget that Bradley Cooper grabbed the rights to Bernstein’s music before Jake Gyllenhaal, A JEWISH MAN WHO WAS GOING TO MAKE A BIOPIC ABOUT BERNSTEIN, was able to. we could have had a respectful biopic about a Jewish man, told by Jews. instead we get this.

i…don’t have words to explain how insidious this is. the absolute goydacity to keep a Jewish man from telling this story, whitewash the other people in a true story, and to cast a goy instead of a Jewish person to tell a true story about a Jewish man, and have that goy wear a prosthetic nose. they would rather Jew-ify a goy than cast an actual Jew. i’m disgusted.

[firekit21]

I remember a year ago, someone at my school did a presentation about antisemitism dogwhistles on social media. It was extremely extensive and powerful. Afterwards, me and a friend were walking back, and I ask what they thought, and they tell me:

"I wish they had talked about LGBTQ+ rights in it, though."

They wanted to have a mention of homophobia. In a lecture about antisemitism.

Of course homophobia is a real thing. Of course there are definite intersections between the two forms of discrimination. Its just that, when there was a presentation about the daily hurt a marginalized group faced, they thought to themselves: 'Why wasn't this about me?'

Remember: If a group is talking about their issues, do not compare them to another group. Its not cool.

[starlight-bread-blog]

Leftists: Everyone is a little bigoted. Bigotry is deeply integrated into our society. Everyone picks up on it. You have to actively unlearn it. Check your bias. Your intentions might be good, but you're not immune to bigotry learnt since childhood. Even if you're an activist already. Even if you have friends from the minority. Listen to marginalized voices. Take the critisism. This is the only way to overcome our internalized prejudices.

Jews: Hey so–

Leftists: ZIONIST!!

[jewelleria]

“But there are nuances to sadistic barbarity against Jews, we are told, and sometimes gang-raping Jewish women is actually a movement for human rights. It hardly seems fair to call people anti-Semitic if they want only half of the world’s Jews to die. The phrase “Globalize the Intifada,” currently chanted at universities across America, perhaps widens the net a tiny bit—but really, who can say? Even the phrase “Gas the Jews,” chanted at a rally organized by NYU students and faculty, is so very ambiguous. How dare those whiny Jews presume to know what’s in other people’s hearts? It remains unclear why anti-Semitism should matter only when it is lethal, or if so, how many unambiguously anti-Semitic murders would be necessary for anti-Semitism to be happening outside whiny Jews’ heads. A realistic estimate might be 6 million. Even then, Jews have had to spend the past 80 years collecting documentation to prove it.”

— Dara Horn, Why the Most Educated People in America Fall For Anti-Semitic Lies

[thisgingerhasnosoul]

This is the person inciting people to spam the Hanukkah/Chanukah tag, if anyone wants to report or block.

[david-goldrock]

Would you keep me in your closet?

When they tell you that we're the murderers of Christ, blasphemous heretics, who poison the wells and eat christian babies, would you still keep me in your closet?

When they tell you we're of an infirior race, that our presence destroys culture, that we backstabbed your country, that having kids with us will leave them with the same flaws, that we are inherently and unchanginly evil, and that killing us is a mercy, would you still keep me in your closet?

When they tell you we're overlords of a secret society, secret cosmopolitiains of the deep state, controlling the media and the economy for our benefit, leaching on the work of good, hard working people, would you still keep me in your closet?

When they tell you we're white supremacists, fanatic nationals, colonizers, explotators, slave owners, oppressors, occupiers, starving, ethnically cleansing, genociding, harvesting organs off of Arab children...

Today, when they knock on your door and ask politely if you happen to hide me in your house or basement, whatever they may call me, whatever excuse they came with

Would you keep me safe in your closet?

[stolen-stardust]

why do people want a cookie for not harassing random jews living their lives. “the people i racially profiled were nice to me, peace is possible ✊” is a fucking INSANE take

[chroniclesofajewishteen]

Y’all can be activists and not be antisemetic. You are choosing to be antisemetic.

[gay-jewish-bucky]

you have to care about living jews more than you hate nazis

punching nazis does not automatically mean protecting jewish lives

you aren't fighting nazi ideology if you aren't fighting antisemitism coming from either end of the political spectrum, especially if you ignore it from your own side

you aren't fighting antisemitism if you argue with jews about what is or isnt antisemitic or exclude jews from activism

you aren't fighting antisemitism if you subject jews and claims of antisemitism to a "good jew"/"bad jew" litmus test

you aren't fighting antisemitism if your activism begins and ends with talking a big game about punching nazis

you aren't fighting antisemitism if you only care about dead jews

you have to care about living jews more than you hate nazis

[i-aint-even-bovvered]

All these stories I hear about people removing anything that even mentions Jewish people (not Israel, just Jews in general) from public view and citing the ongoing war as their reasoning behind it is very telling. The people doing this have wanted to do this for a while, they just needed a good enough excuse

[fromgoy2joy]

I don’t think I’ll ever forget my friends’ experience that is perfectly representative of American Universities when it comes to Jews.

I have friends at a college dealing with virulent antisemitism. Being told to go back to Brooklyn, being called Nazis without any provocation, vandalism in their community spaces etc. This is all while their Jewish community has no campus-worker representative like the other faith communities. The university, after years of not filling the position, introduced a woman who could fill in the spot that matched what they approved of.

Luckily, the Jewish students were able to sit down with her and ask her important questions before the hiring process.

When asked about her strengths, this candidate started on a spiel in how she specialized in lgbt issues and interfaith dialogue.

“Respectfully,” My friends interrupted. “We’re all gay here- reconciling our Jewishness with our sexualities and genders has never been the issue. At all. Ever.”

She continued to talk about how she was amazing in interfaith circles, and the Jewish students were happy enough to hear it. But they felt like it was steering away from their own problems.

“So what can you do with us and antisemitism?” They asked in that line of thought. “How can you advocate for us?”

Here, the woman stumbled and returned to talking about the struggles of LGBT people in the Jewish community as well as interfaith work.

“We’ve got the gay stuff figured out, thanks.” The students reiterated. “And we really can’t focus on interfaith when all of this is happening to us in the moment. What can you do to help us?”

She floundered so badly that the person overseeing this interview stepped in. And predictably, the Jewish students did not approve of her being hired so the spot still sits empty.

And I just.. I think it’s this game, you know? Where colleges get to point to their faith communities and say”look ! It’s that Tikkie Olamie thing with the gay Jews! And they get along so well with everyone else!” This is all while they push the actual concerns of Jewish students under a rug and never deign to throw them scraps of actual advocacy.

[baroque-hashem]

@sephardigf put these tags on on a reblog of a post I reblogged, and it inspired me to make a post about this topic.

Goyim who assume that Jews are "white" and "oppressors" and have always lived the good life in America are truly laughable. Jews have never been treated as white. We were even victims of segregation. And if you notice all the new "No Zionists Allowed" signs on American businesses these days, we still are segregation's victims.

In the 1950s, the ADL looked into segregation of Jews by businesses in the US, and what they found was depressing to say the least. So many businesses, in all fifty states, had policies of discrimination and ostracization against Jews. Many places were designated "Gentiles Only". Jews started compiling travel guides to help each other know where was safe to visit. These guides later inspired African Americans to do the same. And Jews definitely saw ourselves in the struggles of African Americans for rights. Jews helped organize the NAACP and marched right alongside African Americans in their demonstrations demanding civil rights.

Don't you dare tell me Jews are "white" or "oppressors". We know all about oppression, from the perspective of the oppressed.

And this was the case no matter what kind of Jew you were. The goyim didn't distinguish between Ashkenazim or Sephardim. We were (and still are) just Jews to them. And we were "other".

Anyone who has the chutzpah to say that Jews are oppressors and "white colonizers" is a schmuck, no doubt about it.

You can ignore the realities of Jewish oppression all you want. But ignoring reality won't make it go away.

The more things change, the more they stay the same.

[that-jewish-bitch]