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Okay, here's the post that's been brewing.

Amidst all the Jew hatred, all the attacks, all the murders, this is still one of the things that will stick with me. I will never forget the picture of the sign in DC when Netanyahu was speaking. Big protest. Horrible triangle symbols (used by Hamas to point out where to attack), river to the sea bs, and a guy with a sign that said "Allah is gathering the Zionists for the Final Solution."

THERE WERE SO MANY PEOPLE THERE. AND YET HE WAS THERE. Nobody was kicking him out! All these "I'm not antisemitic, I'm anti-Zionist" idiots, let this guy with this sign stay for their cause.

This is what is meant by "if there's one nazi at your table," every person at that protest that ignored this guy was saying that they approved. He was not kicked out of the nazi bar protest.

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Prayer shawl bag. silk fabric embroidered with silk thread by Charity Solis-Cohen, 1874. the Hebrew text is the name of the patriarch Yitchak.

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thought i would start sharing some of my own pictures i’ve taken over the years at Jewish museums and such. these were taken at the Maltz Museum.

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“These were not protesters, they were a mob. I was there. A private Jewish guest going to a private reception when set upon by the Creating Change mob. I have been an activist with a decades-long pedigree of working in large and small ways for social justice. I have faced down Jerry Falwell, debated on TV with top spokespeople from Family Research Council and Focus on the Family. I have sat on a plane surrounded by fundamentalist anti-gay PromiseKeepers. I have NEVER faced such a mob of indiscriminate hate. ALL of us were called “motherfucking racists”, compared to the Ku Klux Klan and when in the room, several of them broke in and were screaming that we weren’t really queer and queer activists, that we were killing babies in Israel. It was assault in that we were surrounded, denied passage, verbally abused and we saw what happened if someone shouted back. The gentleman who is described as “grabbing a Palestinian flag” was in fact attacked by that protester. He was wearing a Yarmulke, and the protester wrapped the flag over his face, covering his eyes, nose and face and jerked his head back. I personally know many of the attendees, who have given much of their lives and treasure to multiple social justice causes, including that of people of color and to supporting organizations like Jerusalem Open House. We were all tarred with this brush of hate, indiscriminately. Jerusalem Open House was founded about 20 years ago as a community center for Israeli Jews, Israeli Arabs and Palestinians. These were brave LGBT activists in the middle east who have created real, true, positive change. Yet this event to welcome and help raise money for them to continue their activities was shut down hatefully not by the religious right, not by ISIS, but by other LGBT activists. ….We were not allowed to pass to our “safe space” — and in fact one of the protesters inside our reception screamed in my face that we did not deserve safe space. A website called the Electronic Intifada posted video of the event with the note “No peace! No justice!” Featured in the video was a leading Rabbi of Chicago – an incredibly gentle, yet strong consistent voice for kindness and justice in our community, including justice for people of color, for workers, for interfaith respect and dialogue. He has been a force of humanity and care at our congregation for people in crisis…. ….I have been violated and my friends and co-religionists have been attacked and libeled. I am physically sick from the violence and anti-Semitism that clearly singled us out and turned every one of us from Jews with long accomplished records of commitment to justice into demons worthy of their verbal and physical violence. And how they crow on their websites about how wonderful they were!”

— LGBT activist Alan Amberg, who founded LesBiGay Radio in 1994, describing Creating Change 2016,   https://www.washingtonblade.com/2016/01/26/readers-respond-to-creating-change-controversy/

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tuttlesinger

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I need to talk about this.

Misha, I think you're a brilliant actor, I love supernatural. But sometimes you really don't know what you're talking about.

This post needs some context. It was posted at 22.6.25 (yesterday) - just a few days after Trump bombed the three nuclear sites in Iran. Now, don't get me wrong, I am not a Trump supporter in any way. This isn't about him.

Now, I'm not only talking about him. This is a message to all of ya'll who think he's right.

The point is that that post is condemning America for the decision to bomb Iran. Iran, or the IRGC, who have publicly stated their intent to bring the destruction of America (and Israel). The IRGC, who had for years illegally continued in research and development of nuclear weapons. The IRGC, who supported and funded terrorist organizations like Hamas and Hezbollah for years.

Which, I'm sorry, but What The Fuck.

You say you don't want war. You don't think it's a good idea to bomb a country into stopping creating bombs as self defence. But that's not what Iran is doing.

Iran wants to build nuclear weapons. That's not the fucking same. That's not "using bombs to defend themselves". That's a nice and easy way to annihilate a country, like they were saying they were going to do, without facing consequences, 'cuz the rest of the world is terrified they're going to do it to them.

(Or worse, inciting another world war. I don't think we would want that either)

the current Iranian government is not only dangerous to America and Israel, it's also oppressing it's own people. Ever since the Iranian Revolution in 1979, which resulted in the rising of Khomeini to power, the regime had oppressed its citizens and violated their human rights countless times. Try to remember the protests for Mahsa Amini that everyone talked about not so long ago. Have you all forgotten what the IRGC is capable of?

Of course, I hope the people of Iran will be free of the oppressive government. I hope this will end with as little civilian casualties as possible. But that post isn't about them.

Misha, I assume you were talking about America attacking Iran - because you always conveniently ignored Israel when it came to anything political - but. America didn't just bomb civilian areas. They attacked, very specifically, only nuclear sites. There were no civilian casualties. This wasn't America saying Iran couldn't have any bombs at all, it was trying to make sure they didn't have nuclear weapons. I really, really hope you see why no one would want that.

On a slightly different topic, I have something else to say.

So you don't want war. Okay. You don't think it's a good idea to bomb a country to convince them they don't need bombs to defend themselves.

Interesting.

Hamas and Hezbollah - Iranian proxies, as I'm (not so) sure you know - have threatened Israel for decades now. They are terrorist organizations. They have had a lot of bombs they were more that willing to send against Israel, many times against Israeli civilians and civilian areas.

Israel had been forced to develop an exceptional defence system - Iron Dome, the Arrow system, etc. - in order to protect itself from those threats. In a way, Israel is the perfect example that bombing a country won't convince them that they don't need bombs to defend themselves. But did you ever say anything about that? No?

On October 7, 2023, Hamas had entered Israel, kidnapped more than two hundred people and murdered more than a thousand. Most of the dead were civilians. 50 hostages are still in Gaza. We don't even know how many of them are alive.

But let's see, Misha, what did you say about them? What did you say when all these people were killed and kidnapped?

Oh, right. You didn't.

If you really wanted "No More War", supporting countries that want exactly the opposite maybe isn't such a great idea. And if you don't know what you're talking about, you really should just shut up and find something you know better to talk about.

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“This is the only acceptable item that can poke through between my seats”

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absolutely insane menorah

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A reminder to anyone who wants to participate in this:

Marc Spector punches Jew-haters, and if you are a nasty antisemite who FETISHIZES fictional Jewish characters while attacking Jews in real life (aka most of the Moon Knight fandom on here), Marc would punch you too.

Moon Knight Week

September 23 - 30 2025

Day 1 - New Year

Whether it’s Rosh Hashanah or New Year’s Eve or something else entirely. Tell me how the boys celebrate it, are they with friends, alone or are they out in the field because crime doesn’t take holidays and neither does moon knight

Day 2 - Scars

A bleaker one. Can physical ones or mental/ emotional ones

Day 3 - Family

A flashback on the younger boys and their family or perhaps a look at Moon Knight’s current found family? Maybe something entirely

Day 4 - Moon and Stars

Delightfully open ended

Day 5 - Vengeance

Khonshu may be the god of vengeance but he certainly doesn’t have the monopoly on revenge

Day 6 - house cleaning

Moon Knight does have a huge reality shifting house. Or maybe it’s a flashback to much more normal house cleaning. Or perhaps we’ll take the darker meaning behind cleaning house

Day 7 - Forgiveness

The context and whether any of the boys are the one being forgiven or doing the forgiving is up to you.

There are no alternate prompts but you are encouraged to skip days if you have writers block or feel ill equipped to handle the theme

Reminder I set this contest during ten days of awe to have something to do during the holiday but it is a holiday for me and you will respect that. The first and last prompt reference Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, respectively. If you want to explore that I implore you to do a bit of research before you do. If that’s not something that interests you, that’s ok.

Please tag your writing or art accordingly. Bigotry of any kind will not be reblogged

to participate either tag #moonknightweek2025 or simply tag me

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Tell me what you accuse the Jews of, and I'll tell you what YOU are guilty of.

It's the joy with which some pro-Palestine activists hurl terms like "genocide" and "Nazi" and "Holocaust" that gets me.

There is such a smugness to it. Like they couldn't wait to hit Israelis with those particular accusations. They couldn't wait to start drawing swastikas on their placards.

They absolutely know what they are doing by using those specific terms/words/symbols and applying them to Israel. They know and they enjoy doing it.

I've never seen that kind of behavior by activists with any other issue. The gleeful sadism of it.

I try to imagine left wing activists using the worst atrocities of another race or people's history against them like that and I just cannot. They would NEVER call black people (or black people of a particular nation) the "new slavemasters" to underscore their point, no matter what was going on in Sudan or Haiti or Zimbabwe. No white activist would ever dare put that on a sign. They'd understand that it would be abhorrent and racist. But when it's Jews and Israel, they seemingly could not wait to grab those terms from Jews and throw them back at them like grenades.

And these activists really consider themselves righteous.

It's the joy with which some pro-Palestine activists hurl terms like 'genocide' and 'Nazi' and 'Holocaust' that gets me. There is such a smugness to it. Like they couldn't wait to hit Israelis with those particular accusations. They couldn't wait to start drawing swastikas on their placards.

Anon isn't just describing slander. They're describing the gleeful and specific pleasure some activists take in throwing the worst Jewish trauma...at Jews.

Anon's right, it's not normal. We don't see this kind of behavior anywhere else.

Imagine going to a Rwandan genocide memorial with a sign calling Tutsis the new Hutus.

But with Jews? With Israel? They can't wait.

They act like they've been holding this in for years.

They treat Jewish trauma like a Halloween costume. They strip it of context, put it on for shock value, and dare anyone to call them out.

And they think it makes them righteous.

This phenomenon is called Moral Sadism: Deriving pleasure from the suffering of others when that suffering is inflicted under the guise of moral righteousness or judgment.

It uses morality as a justification for inflicting pain or punishment on others by judging others' actions/character as morally deficient. This can manifest as enjoying the downfall of those perceived as immoral or directly applying moral condemnation as a weapon to cause harm.

It's the weaponization of empathy for one group...in order to justify hatred against another.

When they accuse Jews of being the new Nazis...and they do it with a smile, a selfie, and a smug sense of moral superiority?

They're not just "criticizing a government." They're deliberately reaching into a cultural wound and twisting the knife.

They know what it means to Jews. That's why they say it. It's emotional warfare and they enjoy it.

Why Would Anyone Do That?

As Dara Horn writes, "people love dead Jews."

They love the morality tales, the museum exhibits, the tidy slogans like Never Again. They love Jews as symbols of abstract suffering as long as we stay in the past tense.

Once Jews become real people with a present, a country, moral agency and difficult decisions to make, Jews are too messy to play the role of sacred victims anymore. Our having a country, sovereignty, and national self-determination...breaks their image of us.

The Shoah gave Jews, for a time, a kind of moral capital. This wasn't because anyone envied the suffering, but because it branded Jews, for a while, as the ultimate victims in a global morality fable.

Never Again may have started as a Jewish cry, but it got universalized. Flattened. Marketed. Turned into a script where Jews became side characters in someone else's morality play.

And now, many activists resent that. They look at Jews and say: "You had your genocide. You had your sympathy. Now you're the problem."

They flip the script. They point to Israel and say "You're the Nazis now." They take the very language, symbols, and traumas of Jewish history and gleefully throw them at us.

This isn’t just distortion and/or inversion. It's usurpation.

They want the emotional power of the Holocaust. They want the symbolism, the drama, the righteous victimhood, but without the unpleasant pain, history, moral complexity, or Jewishness.

To them, it's just a costume. A meme. A weapon.

You can tell from the absurd things they say that they don't actually want to learn from Jewish suffering. They want to replace it.

They know what they are doing… and they enjoy doing it.

You're right. Maybe it was once clumsy and ignorant, but it isn't anymore. This is intentional, weaponized humiliation disguised as moral clarity.

That's what makes it feel different than other protest rhetoric.

It's not just hyperbole. It's not even just antisemitism. It's a kind of ritual shaming. Its a public exercise in stripping Jews of our moral legitimacy by using our own trauma against us.

They don't do this to other groups because they know it would be racist, grotesque, unthinkable. But they do it to Jews because they've decided we don't count as a vulnerable minority anymore.

We're "white adjacent." We have a state. We have the wrong kind of power. That makes us, in their eyes, fair game. They believe that when they attack Jews, they're punching up.

Since we're Jews (and not, for instance, Tibetans or Armenians or Rohingya), no one flinches when activists draw swastikas and yell "genocide" at us.

They get applause, likes, and invited to panel discussions.

Why It’s So Hard to Talk About

Many Jews struggle to explain this feeling. The revulsion, the shock, and the the moral dissonance. We've mostly been trained to see our trauma as historical, not current.

But this is happening now.

It's not just about being called names. It's about being ritually degraded in the public square...with the symbols of our greatest suffering...by people who think they're doing it for justice.

That's what's new. That’s what's different. That's what hurts.

It isn't any kind of political discourse, it's emotional cruelty masquerading as moral courage.

You can call it moral sadism, Holocaust inversion, weaponized empathy, or performative righteousness through humiliation.

What you can't call it is "activism."

If your activism requires the deliberate psychological violation of a minority's deepest trauma, it's not activism. It's just another kind of abuse.

We've been watching something dark unfold, and we're right to feel horrified by it.

Large, loud segments of the Western left have built a whole theater of virtue around righteous cruelty to Jews. It's grotesque, and we should be talking about it.

Thanks for the Ask, Anon.

ETA:

So I wrote this post and queued it, but before it went up, I got a great example of this I need to add.

Thank you, @scarrshell, for the excellent illustration and volunteering yourself as an example!