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Just an update: they "closed" all their blogs to long strings of nonsense. Makes it easy to identify all their alters in your followers list, though. Will definitely add getting called a "terrorist" to my resume. :)

Heads up, that Hitler RP blog is going after you and your post warning about them. I reported and blocked but here’s pics so you’re aware of it. I think the Hitler, Haniyeh and probably the @/tutankhamonrp blog that is constantly interacting with both of the others are all from the same person. Here’s the pics below, and sorry about all of this. Chag pesach sameach, remember that we will survive even assholes like this.

Was sort of expecting this because Haniyeh blog was already harassing me via messages. I'm still assuming they're the same person because the idea of there being 2 Italians rping antisemites who think it's fine to follow jewish blogs is too much for my head.

The funniest part is them coming after a fellow rper saying I "don't understand anything" ngl

Believe people when they tell you who they are. :)

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And so it continues. They've changed URLS to mizhahijewhiterp, theblackbaronrp, and we're assuming tutankhamonrp is them as well. They haven't unfollowed any jews that haven't blocked them, they just changed urls and are rping a different nazi.

Again, if you and your friends see this: the issue is not the nazi rp. Do whatever you want in the fictional realm. Just don't follow real jews from the accounts where you're doing it.

Heads up, that Hitler RP blog is going after you and your post warning about them. I reported and blocked but here’s pics so you’re aware of it. I think the Hitler, Haniyeh and probably the @/tutankhamonrp blog that is constantly interacting with both of the others are all from the same person. Here’s the pics below, and sorry about all of this. Chag pesach sameach, remember that we will survive even assholes like this.

Was sort of expecting this because Haniyeh blog was already harassing me via messages. I'm still assuming they're the same person because the idea of there being 2 Italians rping antisemites who think it's fine to follow jewish blogs is too much for my head.

The funniest part is them coming after a fellow rper saying I "don't understand anything" ngl

Believe people when they tell you who they are. :)

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The evening of Wed, Apr 23, 2025 through Thu, Apr 24, 2025 is Yom Ha'Shoah.

That's the specifically Jewish Holocaust Remembrance Day.

Why is it different than International Holocaust Remembrance Day, which is January 27?

The one in January is for everyone on earth to learn about and remember all the different victims of the Holocaust, and subsequent genocides.

This one is a day when Jews can grieve, light a candle for, and remember all of the six million Jews killed in the Holocaust, as well as to honor the survivors.

The one on January 27th is on the Gregorian calendar. It's the same date on your calendar every year.

This one is the same date on the Jewish lunar calendar every year: the 27th of Nisan. That's the penultimate day of Nisan, because it's the day before the new moon. Sometimes that's in April, sometimes May.

(Except when that interferes with Shabbat, in which case it's moved back or forward. This year it's on the 26th of Nisan, because the 27th ends with the beginning of Shabbat.

Listen, it's not easy to preserve the traditions of a culture that's over 4,000+ years old, and add new ones.)

You're not Jewish? Here are some things you can still do to support Yom Ha'Shoah!

Follow Jewish blogs!

Reblog posts that taught you something new!

Use the "new post" button when you feel inspired to talk about other genocides!

Ask good-faith questions! (That is: ask questions you really mean, about things that interest you. Don't put judgement, criticism, arguments, or snark in the form of a question.)

Remember (or learn now!) that as a result of the Holocaust, the Jewish community is really fucking tiny and extremely interconnected. Most Jews alive today have been directly affected by the Holocaust.

I'm a convert-in-progress living in California, and I have still personally met multiple people who turned out to be Holocaust survivors.

Every Jewish friend I had, growing up, was missing huge chunks of their extended family because of the Holocaust.

Remember (or learn now!) that the Holocaust did not happen in a vacuum. It was not a one-off event. It was preceded by centuries of pogroms and exiles. Then in 1903, the Russian Empire invented Jewish global conspiracies with the Protocols of the Elders of Zion. In that same empire from 1917-1920, 150,000-200,000 Jews were murdered in incredibly brutal pogroms. And from 1940-1980, in the Damgana - one of the largest ethnic cleansings in history - countries across the Arab world systematically stripped Jews of their rights, expelled them, and killed them.

Remember (or learn now!) that Jews were 0.75% of the world population in 1939. If that were still true today, there would be four times as many Jews on earth right now. (60,465,000, instead of 15,700,000.)

There are a lot more trans people on earth than Jews.

There are, at least, a lot of trans Jews.

Remember (or learn now!) that the Holocaust wiped an entire world from the earth that can never be rebuilt. Jewish villages. Coffeeshops where everyone was speaking Yiddish. Jewish cultural hotspots with music, theatre, poetry, community.

Yad Vashem offers amazing free online courses like:

The Holocaust through the Perspective of Primary Sources (see what people were saying about it and experiencing at the time! Survivor testimonies, German bureaucracy, and letters and photos along the way.)

The Final Solution to the Jewish Question (how did Nazi ideology develop? What actions and policies did the Nazi Party start out with?)

Antisemitism: From Its Origins to the Present (what does antisemitism look like today? How has it changed over the centuries? Why is it so common? Where does it come from?)

And tons of amazing digital collections and online exhibitions, like:

Jews and Sport Before the Holocaust

The stories of Jewish communities before the war, in places from Macedonia to the Carpathian Mountains

What everyday life was like for Jews who had been rescued from the death camps

The names and biographical details of 4,800,000 people murdered in the Holocaust

And a podcast, with episodes like:

Emanuel Ringelbum and The Warsaw Ghetto Secret Archive

Jews Saving Jews

The Shtetl: Between Myth and Reality

The First Female Rabbi

Profits and Persecution: German Big Business and Holocaust Crimes

There's also a video from the United States Holocaust Museum that includes home movies from before the Holocaust, which is pretty fucking amazing:

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“Why are you converting to Judaism?”

Because I have not felt the sheer joy of life and existence until I made that decision. For once in my life I want to live, not simply exist, endure and expire.

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Esther Scroll, Ancona, early 18th century

Handwritten text, unfinished decorated cut-away parchment Parchment, 8 membranes, 39 text columns,  23x458 cm Carved wooden roller Gift of Mrs. Erna Ascoli in memory of her husband U. Nahon Museum of Italian Jewish Art ON 0495

This scroll is a beautiful example of the particular style of decoration that flourished in the Italian towns of Ancona and Lugo in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Artists in these towns specialized in a laborious technique whereby the parchment was cut away to create an intricately patterned frame for the text that reminds us of the beautiful lace used in fashions of that period. This elaborate technique was employed to adorn megillot, ketubbot and a variety of Judaica objects. Only a few such Italian cut-out parchment scrolls remain today.

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Heads up, that Hitler RP blog is going after you and your post warning about them. I reported and blocked but here’s pics so you’re aware of it. I think the Hitler, Haniyeh and probably the @/tutankhamonrp blog that is constantly interacting with both of the others are all from the same person. Here’s the pics below, and sorry about all of this. Chag pesach sameach, remember that we will survive even assholes like this.

Was sort of expecting this because Haniyeh blog was already harassing me via messages. I'm still assuming they're the same person because the idea of there being 2 Italians rping antisemites who think it's fine to follow jewish blogs is too much for my head.

The funniest part is them coming after a fellow rper saying I "don't understand anything" ngl

Believe people when they tell you who they are. :)

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My parents’ chuppah, quilted by my great aunt. Made in a style to mimic stained glass

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Heads up, Jumblr! Some asshole is roleplaying Adolf Hitler and Ismail Haniyeh and follows a TON of jewish accounts. I just got followed by them. If you haven't noticed yet, preemptively block @theredeagleroleplay and @ismailhaniyehrp

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when people are like “he’s not even attractive you could find a guy that looks like him at any gas station” i’m like….. well you see there’s beauty everywhere actually

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holy shit y’all should watch this one, what an admirable person

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I've been ruminating on this, and I think that the main difference between political liberalism and (illiberal) leftism is that the first one is universalist, while the second one is deeply factionalist.

Liberalism believes that certain values are universal, and strives as much as possible to treat everyone equally. Illiberal leftism, on the other hand, is based in its core on dividing people into categories and treating them differently. Proletariat and bourgeoisie. Kulak and Bednyak. White and black. Oppressor and victim. Ally, and enemy.

Which leads us to the shock that liberal jews worldwide felt after October 7th. Because while we assumed that leftist would apply their values equally to us, in reality they were never going to, because we were never part of the good groups. We were not, in their eyes, deserving of the same values. And even though we had always been their allies, they saw us as enemies.

We thought we believed in the same things, but our views were actually diametrically opposed.

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travis showing up at the secular jcc like:

i’ve been dying over this for the last 15 minutes lmaooo

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If somebody does or says something objectionable, go ahead and boycott them.

If an individual has not done anything you can point to as particularly objectionable, but you want to boycott them because they're of a particular nationality, then you're not disagreeing with a particular action, opinion, or viewpoint. You're objecting to a particular kind of person.

For example, I object to the CCP. I believe they are carrying out genocides against Tibetans and Uighurs. I understand, however, that my objection is with the CCP and not Chinese people. So, I boycott particular corporations and individuals who I see as contributing to the oppression of these people (Huawei, for example). I do not object to Chinese nationals being in films, being hired at my university, and I regularly consume art and media created by Chinese nationals.

If I objected to my university hiring a Chinese professor, I would rightly be called Sinophobic. I would be doing something racist. This wouldn't be a boycott, it would be bigoted and discriminatory behavior.

You should object to certain actions and attitudes, not to certain kinds of people.

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A polish propaganda poster saying “whoever buys from the Jews is a traitor to the nation”. This was in 1937.

I have seen polish people and other Eastern Europeans all over the internet claim either that antisemitism was forced upon them by the Germans or that it was all the Germans who killed Jews. The truth is that many Eastern European peoples, including polish, Ukrainians, Lithuanians and even Russians, collaborated with the Nazis to kill Jews and other groups such as the Roma.

If you want proof, look at how many polish jews actually survived the holocaust.

This notion that Eastern Europe was innocent during the holocaust is and should be considered holocaust inversion.

The worst part is that this isn’t even the beginning of antisemitism in Poland and other Eastern European countries. Many parts of my family wouldn’t have had to flee if there weren’t so many rampant and deadly pogroms.