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a non-exhaustive list of stuff the left has done since october 7th:

praised actual genocidal terrorist groups

claimed that the rapes on oct 7 were just propaganda and didn’t happen

outright saying that oct 7 was justified

didn’t say a single word about the hostages except to belittle their suffering and that of their families

allowed literal nazis into their protests

stood by as those nazis threw up their salutes and chanted nazi shit

refused to collectively condemn a single antisemitic incident done in the name of pro palestinian activism

made any israeli out to be evil incarnate to the point where israelis can’t even exist outside their country without being attacked, harassed, black listed, etc.

excused away a literal pogrom that happened in the streets of a modern european city as if it were nothing more than a demonstration against the war

gaslit jews constantly about the rampant antisemitism that has been ongoing for over 600 days

said that the guy who executed two israelis at a peace event at a jewish museum was committing a legitimate form of protest against israel

praised the guy who threw molotovs at a group of jews doing a peace march

i’m convinced at this point that the left has never actually cared about social justice since they have more in common with nazis than with people who actually give a damn about justice or standing up for marginalized groups

if it walks like a nazi and talks like a nazi it’s just a fucking nazi

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I need to talk about this because it's making me feel insane.

Last week, my white leftist goyisch friends sat me, a wholeass antizionist Jew, down for a "talk" because they "needed to check in about Palestine" and make sure "our values aligned before we hung out again". They apparently needed to "suss out" where I stood on Palestinian rights, despite having had several conversations about Palestine and them being some of my closest friends. They needed to check, to search for and uncover my true values, because I had said some "disturbing things" that had made them "suspicious".

Disturbing things included:

Supporting IfNotNow which is a "liberal zionist organization" because it normalizes Jewish heritage in the Levant

Not bringing Palestine up enough, despite them also not bringing it up (this was apparently a test)

Mentioning that the Houthi's flag talks about cursing all Jews

Saying Stalin was antisemitic because of the "all the paw-grihms"

...and apparently other things they wouldn't specify, but had been tracking for months.

To clarify, I am an antizionist Jew from three generations of antizionist Jews. I have been vocal in my support of Palestinian liberation and in my condemnation both of Israel's actions and its violent founding as a state, and of zionism in many of its forms. I am a regular donor to Palestinian and Jewish NGOs and advocate for Jewish antizionism in person, at temple, and online. I have been talking about Palestinian liberation before they could point to Gaza on a map. But they needed to make sure, they needed to "suss out", they needed to check. And it's notable that the majority of moments that made them suspicious of me were times where I talked about antisemitism: not about Palestinian liberation, not about Israeli decolonization, not about anything actually relevant to Palestine. It was talking about antisemitism that made them check to see if I was a cryptozionist.

One of the most pervasive and insidious forms of antisemitism is the idea that Jews are inherently untrustworthy and suspicious. You have to constantly be on guard, track what they say and do, "suss out" the real truth. You have to keep them in line and and watch them carefully because they're liars and sneaks, and if you're not looking closely they'll return to their real values (and drag you down with them). This is where the idea of "cryptozionist" comes from and what it's directly building off of: the inherent untrustworthiness of Jews and the need to check. Because no matter how close you become you can't actually trust them, and any upstanding gentile should make sure to avoid associating with Jews before "sussing out" their real allegiances and intentions. You have to make them turn out their pockets, just in case.

I'm the first and only Jew they actually were friends with; I know because they've told me (strangely proud of it in the way white Americans are proud of that kind of thing). They've asked me questions about Judaism and fawned over how beautiful and unique it was for me to be connected to my community and culture. Pre-October 7th, one of them had even mentioned being interested in coming to services at my temple. She still has my copy of our siddur. But now she needed to "check" before she could be seen with me in public. Which is what it was: it wasn't a "you're my friend and I need to give you some feedback because you're fucking up" kind of intervention (which is normal and important to have), it was a trial. It was a last chance for me to prove to them that I'm clean-enough that they could afford to risk being seen with me in public, just in case someone noticed them fraternizing with a hypothetical Enemy and their leftism was compromised. It was a test to make sure that I behave properly when required to, that I'd play along and do what I'm told and turn out my pockets if asked (because any refusal would validate the notion of having something to hide). And above all it was an opportunity for them to reaffirm their own cleanliness by putting my imagined immorality in its place.

I did what I needed to do: I smiled. I apologized. I "didn't know that". I "appreciated the feedback". I turned out my pockets because what else could I do? They'd decided who I was and what I believed, regardless of what I said or did, so there was no point in explaining that they were wrong about me. If I had told them they were being antisemitic, it would just have been proof that they were right. Caring about antisemitism is a dogwhistle in the spaces they've chosen: it's not a real form of oppression, it's a tactic for sneaky, lying Jews to weasel out of admitting their true alliances. There was nothing I could say.

Nothing's really changed for me. I'm going to continue my activism for Palestinian liberation rooted in my culture and my faith. Antizionism is still not antisemitism. But I got a reminder that many white goyisch leftists fundamentally just don't trust Jews, and that the activist spaces they're in not only exacerbate their antisemitism in an increasingly insular echo chamber, but also allow them to finally vent their internalized bigotry in a socially-acceptable way. In my former friends' eyes, what they did was activism—disavowing a Jew (and making me feel humiliated, scared, and unclean in the process) as a cathartic stand-in for doing fucking anything for actual Palestinian liberation—but for me it was a grief that I'll be feeling for a long time: not only over losing friends I loved and trusted, but also over my sense of belonging and security in leftist spaces.

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Reading this open source article on how Jewish tauma and distress is treated by non-Jews made things click for me and helped me realize what happened and why I felt ill when I expressed my fears of antisemitism in my city and globally during a situation that took place roughly a year ago. I highly recommend reading it through.

This is an article about the article:

The article itself:

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Seeing other Americans afraid to attend Pride this year because of right wing hostility. I won't reblog to add because it's a valid fear to have and levels of situational privilege do not negate each other. So don't bother responding to this as if that's what I'm doing because as you can see with your eyes, I'm not.

But I'm afraid to attend Pride because of left wing hostility. I think there is some risk of an unwell right wing touting individual causing violence at a Pride event this year. Often they try. But I think it is absolutely certain that if Jewish people weren't scared off already, and across the board did take part in Pride as visible Jews, there would absolutely be violence taken against us. Likely from more than one person at once in many instances.

And I wish, as awful as the two "options" both are, that I was in their shoes, that I only had to fear one group, the one that is honest about its intent, and could take solace and empowerment in numbers with a whole side of the aisle.

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kind of hit me that we are officially at the point when Jews can be murdered in broad daylight in America and leftists don’t even pretend to care. not saying this as doom and gloom I’m just saying we are on our fucking own.

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“We don’t hate Jews or want them dead, we just want a free Palestine”

We warned you that your language and actions would have consequences. We warned you that the way you were choosing to advocate for Palestine would cause violence against Jewish people. Still, you said no, we don’t hate Jews, and we are not anti-semitic; we just want Palestine to be free.

Well, we were proven right again, and 2 Israelis were shot and murdered in front of a Jewish Museum in DC. The man who killed them shouted “Free Palestine.” as he was arrested. We have seen this before. History repeats itself as people sit and watch.

All the people who recklessly spoke of “globalizing the intifada,” thinking it would have no consequences, who became part of this movement, not because they cared about Palestine, but because they wanted something to be able to yell about or just wanted to hate, Your recklessness and hatred caused this. This will not free Palestine. The people who actually care to make life better for Palestinians are working together with Israelis and Jewish people all over the world. At the same time, you call for vengeance yet believe violence would somehow not come. Violence that has caused the public murder of two in front of a Jewish Museum just because they were Jewish. An act that will inspire others to attack more Jewish people. But the world will continue to not care. We live in a reality where people love dead Jews but are masquerading it by saying Israeli instead. And even with my anger, I still hope that people, even just one, will realize this and change.

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A BRIEF LESSON IN COLONIALISM

SINCE IT IS SUDDENLY A TOPIC OF GREAT INTEREST.

BRITISH COLONIALISM;

SPANISH COLONIALISM;

PORTUGUESE COLONIALISM;

ITALIAN COLONIALISM;

FRENCH COLONIALISM;

JAPANESE COLONIALISM;

ARABIC COLONIALISM;

AMERICAN COLONIALISM;

ISRAEL;

WOW. SUCH COLONY. VERY SETTLE.

WORDS HAVE MEANINGS. CAN WE STOP PRETENDING THIS WAS EVER ABOUT COLONIALISM?

THANK YOU FOR COMING TO MY TED TALK.

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he had no way of knowing they were israeli. they were just jews. just jews who were at a jewish event at a jewish museum. and they were killed for that. just for being jews.

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If you make every jew who accesses spaces like LGBT suppprt groups, Domesric violence support groups, etc, do a monolog about their opinions on the war, and they better use the correct buzz words, or else they're evil and trying to invade your safe space, and don't expect the same of non jews, then you are just trying to erase jews from safe spaces.

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"If theres one nazi at your table and you sit and eat with them, there's a table full of nazis"

If "a few bad apples spoil the bunch" applies to cops it must apply to pro hamas protests and anti israel demonstrations, no?

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For every Jew a .22 if not a. 38

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Can’t wait for, like, 2025 when we look back on the 2018/2019 era and say “hey, remember when we were all really freaking depressed? That was a crazy time! Glad we aren’t like that anymore”

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Eshel and A Wider Bridge (both wonderful organizations that do very important work) just released the results of their study on the experiences of LGBTQ+ Jews since October 7th. It shows that Jews are being pushed out of queer spaces at alarming rates, that queer Jews are more likely to experience antisemitism in our social circles than the Jewish population at large, and that many of us have withdrawn from participation in non-Jewish queer spaces altogether.

This tracks very closely with my own experience and my anecdotal knowledge of my friends’ experiences as well, but the numbers are still staggering. I don’t know why non-Jewish queer spaces are so overwhelmingly antisemitic or how we deal with this, but at some point, the LGBTQ+ community is going to have to reckon with its own prejudice and bigotry.

https://www.eshelonline.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Antisemitism-Amplified-Updated.pdf

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this may be unwelcomed and if so my sincerest apologies but i feel a deep need to say thank you to jumblr.

to keep it as short as i can, i am a mixed race person. my father was latino, my mom was white. since my dad bailed the second he found out he'd have a son, i was raised by my white family. that white family has a neo-nazi in it.

and i mean a literal neo-nazi. i was raised to believe horrors about jewish people. i always felt the things i was told were hyperbolic but admittedly a lot of things stuck. after breaking out of that conditioning, i stayed out of the Israel/Palestine debate.

i figured it wasnt my place to hold any belief in it because i am neither jewish nor Palestinian, as well given my history living with anti-semites, i was predesposed to one side. this changed recently after i broke up with a student activist. the final straw being them wanting me to confront someone close to me about their jewish boyfriend wanting to become a citizen of Israel.

that and wishing Hamas a swift victory and saying Palestine will be free, even if it means killing every jew in Israel. these things didnt feel right to me at all. even if everything was true, killing every jew sounded so much like my neo-nazi family member. after that i decided i couldnt be hands off anymore, especially not while having a zionist in my circle.

that comes to this post. the last weeks ive been blessed to read jumblr posts and see the perspective of Jewish people on this conflict. see how anti-semitism is baked into the very core of the free Palestine movement and society at large. ive also been reading about the history of the conflict and how anti-semetism is the reason for it.

tl;dr: thank you jumblr for educating me. ♡