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This is probably different for different people but for me personally ADHD feels like if you can only carry a cup of water across a room if you’re juggling with your other hand

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjCkZ13kn0I

This V’shamru comes to us from 1960, the height of a wave of serious modern composition for cantors (sometimes backed up with choirs), but before the participatory aesthetic really took over American synagogue life.  The composer is Irving Riskin.  Riskin started his career as a jazz musician, completely focused on secular music.  According to an interview in the American Jewish Archives, Riskin attended a bar mitzvah probably some time in the late 1950s, and met a cantor who needed a choir director.  Bam.  The whole direction of his musical life changed, and he devoted the next fifteen years to composing synagogue music!  It’s kind of a weird story, but given that this is probably one of his earlier synagogue compositions, we are lucky that life turned out that way for him.

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Palestine 🇵🇸 Airways, 1930s.

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I love talking with neurotypical people about my executive dysfunction because I'm like "yeah there's this invisible wall in my head that I'm incapable of getting past no matter what I do and it stops me from doing things" and they're like what the actual fuck

Meanwhile other neurodivergents are like

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I love you, Israelis in my phone. Stay safe.

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chuckling indulgently.. oh go on... i suppose a LITTLE bit of monica in my life wouldn't hurt

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Some improvised weapons are better than nothing. Others were so good that they became military issue across Europe for several centuries!

Anyway, here’s Patreon

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Jews: They attacked a synagogue...

Leftists: That's antizionism, not antisemitism.

Jews: They chanted 'Kill the Jews...'

Leftists: They meant 'kill the Zionists!'

Jews: 90% of Jews are Zionists!

Leftists: We know!

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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!

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obligatory post today

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really bold of antisemites to come onto jumblr and try to win an argument. like we are professional arguers. get clowned on. we have been arguing about stuff for fun for like 2,500 years. I dare you to win an argument. my family has had arguments about everything from the capabilities of shrimp to categorizing napkin positions. our religious texts are full of ditch digging specifications and property law and how deep one should bow in (x) situation. You cannot talk to a rabbi without getting at least one book recommendation. Come on give us a challenge instead of screaming buzzwords. You have to say we are lying because that is the only way for you to compete. Smh ...

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Ouseburn, Newcastle upon Tyne, June 2025

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