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Jews will not replace us (white supremacists who think jews fake being white to take over the white race) vs jews will not replace us (thinking jews are pretending to be a targeted minority to take away from the real sufferers) crowd

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I bring a "zionism is first and foremost a term and philosophy for jews that was co-opted by both sides of the political spectrum because they aren't allowed to say kike anymore" vibe to the function that frankly makes a lot of people uncomfortable

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Young bride and her Mother at the Mikveh (Jewish ritual bath), Mashdad, Iran, 1978

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getting real tired of explaining this one

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so fucking weird living in Orlando when Pulse happened—the deadliest mass shooting at the time, done by an ISIL-affiliated extremist—and the entire queer community coming together over it, and now literally every last queer person I knew from when I lived there, bar literally 2, has made factions with the same ideology behind the shooting their bedfellows over Israel/Palestine.

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local sociologist deeply fucking tired of people on the internet using basic soc terminology incorrectly and harmfully

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Your parents ended up emigrating to Israel in 1988 when you were in university. You wore a yellow pin honoring the October 7 Israeli hostages at The White Lotus premiere in February.

I always wear it if I’m on a red carpet and a press line.

Public sentiment on Gaza seems to have shifted a lot since then. I wonder where you are right now on the issue?

Where I am is either a full magazine or no comment about it, because two or three sentences in a profile are not enough to deal with the issues. I wear the hostage pin because there are innocent people who were taken from their homes. Most of them are peace activists who lived in border communities where they were ferrying sick kids to hospitals and working with people from Gaza constantly. There are Holocaust survivors, there are children who were taken, there are people being starved and tortured and raped who have no access to the Red Cross. People are rightfully talking and thinking about all the civilians that are in danger everywhere else. But those people in tunnels, it’s now 600 days they’ve been there, they’ve been forgotten entirely. And so I wore the pin once and the hostages’ families got in touch with me and they thanked me enormously. I now am aware that they are watching me and that it matters to them. If my son or sister or daughter or father was being kept in a tunnel somewhere and weighed 25 kilos now, or may have been strangled or shot, and it felt important to me that some actors somewhere wore the yellow hostage pin, then who am I to not wear it?

So when it comes to more nuanced arguments about Netanyahu and the right-wing lunatics in the cabinet, or whether the IDF is or isn’t doing things, or this new Gaza Humanitarian Foundation is or isn’t handing out food correctly, or whether Hamas’s press releases should be printed as fact, and whether there aren’t journalists in there — there are so many complicated arguments. It isn’t a place to dip one’s toe or to have a simple quote on it. What I wish for everybody, obviously, is peace. Who doesn’t? I don’t know anybody, apart from the extremists on all sides, who want either continued war or tension.

The argument that you make for the ribbon is a humane one. Why don’t you think more actors have worn them?

Because just for wearing it, I’ve been called a Zionist baby killer, a Zionazi. Even a yellow hostage pin for innocents is deemed political, which it isn’t.

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yall can scream all day long about how you Hate Zionists, Not Jews, but you tell on yourselves when you accuse random strangers of being “zionists” for straight up just condemning domestic terror attacks on jews in the united states.

if “zionist” to you means “someone who has basic human empathy for jewish people,” i’m sorry to say you do in fact just hate jews

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Could've sworn we were all aware the Iranian regime was bad. Could've sworn just a few years ago my dash was full of people posting that Iran in the 70s video and spreading awareness about women getting murdered. Now that the fight is with Jews it's fine though, right? The enemy of (((my enemy))) is my best friend or whatever?

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If the swastika has permanent connotations towards Nazism rather than as a religious symbol then zionism RIGHTFULLY has permanent connotations towards apartheid, colonialism, and genocide. There is no version of Zionism divorced from this reality, and the Zionism you made up in your head ain't SHIT compared to the life of a single murdered Palestinian. Die nazi scum

You obviously didn’t send this for any meaningful discussion so all I’m gonna say is: nah, I don’t think I will.

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It's really simple, actually.

If you want to stand against antisemitism — actually stand against it, not just claim you do — you need to listen to Jews and believe us when we talk about our issues and community. You need to seek out the mainstream, consensus views of the Jewish community regarding:

Jewish history

Jewish culture

Judaism and Jewish religious beliefs and practices

Jewish identity

Jewish pain and trauma

The meaning of Jewish words and texts

What counts as antisemitism

When people are being antisemitic

Boundaries and what counts as cultural appropriation

What is respectful engagement from outsiders

Who we consider community leaders and legitimate spokespersons for the community

Etc.

You need to seek out this information, you need to verify it carefully to make sure it isn't a fringe opinion, but has majority community buy-in and support.

And then you need to trust us to be the experts on our own identity, community, and experiences.

When other people inevitably come out of the woodwork to tell us that they know better and/or that their token Jewish "friend" who just happens to agree with them is totally more Jewish than all the other Jews, your best work is to shut them down, tell them they need to listen to Jews about Jewish issues, and then ideally either give them resources written by Jews or pass the mic. If you can't do that, repeat what you have learned and verified, and then make sure to note that this is coming from Jewish sources, who they should be listening to.

These are basic expectations for how to interact with marginalized communities, and ypu need to apply these principles to Jews, a tiny persecuted ethnoreligious group, the way you would to any other tiny marginalized group.

It shouldn't be hard, but so many people who supposedly care about social justice and marginalized groups fail to do this to the point that it's more shocking when someone does actually do this for us.

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FREE IRAN!!!! DECOLONIZATION!!!

💙💙 love to our iranian cousins!!! we will fight beside you always.

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A Jewish politician gets his house firebombed on Passover by someone who declared they did it for Palestine, despite the fact that said politician is a critic of Israel. Jews get shot at a Jewish event at a Jewish museum by a dude shouting "free Palestine," both victims described as advocates for peace, one of whom did her masters on a program fostering Palestinian-Israeli dialogue. And now we've got people throwing Molotov cocktails at Holocaust survivors (yes, seriously, there was a Holocaust survivor in the demonstration in Boulder) because all Zionists deserve to die. Are you guys catching on yet? How good do you feel about all this? Are you fine with it?

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Sorry to rain on the victimhood cultivation but the MOSAD is the most powerful spy agency around the world. Israel is jam-packed with money, secret spy agencies and more.

But perhaps we ommited this for convenience? It's easier to sympathize if you paint the country as victims. Oh. And we don't talk about the colonisation of the XIX either.

Classic Anon Hatemail:

Where Mossad is spelled "MOSAD," facts are invented, and history is apparently something you just...vaguely gesture at.

"Mossad is the most powerful spy agency in the world."

How would one measure the 'power' of an intelligence agency?

Are you one of those guys (it's always guys) who watched Fauda once and now thinks Mossad is basically the Avengers?

Here In reality, Mossad has about 7,000 employees - compare that to the CIA (~20,000), FSB (~200,000), or China's MSS (massive and opaque).

Does Mossad punch above their weight? Yes. Israel punches above its weight in pretty much every way, but not because of illuminati omnipotence, but necessity.

"Israel is jam-packed with money."

According to data from World Bank, Israel's GDP per capita in 2023 is decent. Slightly higher than Sweden's, slightly lower than Austria. That's pretty impressive for a country smaller than New Jersey which has much more limited natural resources than Sweden or Austria. If you're interested in how they accomplished this, Start-up Nation is a really interesting read.

Like the US and much of Europe, though, Israel also has a high cost of living, a struggling middle class, and very real poverty rates.

Jam-packed with money? No. But they do have universal health care, and I'm envious of that as an American.

"Jam packed with money" makes you sound like an antisemitic 60s Batman villain, not someone who knows anything about economics - but if you'd like some suggestions for introductory texts in economics, my Asks are open.

"Victimhood cultivation."

The idea that Jews are faking being attacked, displaced, or killed is not edgy or clever - it's just reheated antisemitism and in denial of history. Jews have been targeted globally for millennia including just in recent weeks, a Jewish governor's residence being attacked by arson, two people murdered for walking out of a Jewish museum in DC, and yesterday, senior citizens including a holocaust survivor being attacked with molotov cocktails.

But you think Jews are just making it up?

That says a lot more about you than it does about me, buttercup.

"We don't talk about the colonisation of the XIX."

My guy. What are you talking about?

If you mean 19th-century European colonial projects, scholars and activists never stop talking about those. Postcolonial studies departments are built on such talk.

If you mean Jews returning to their ancestral homeland in the late 1800s, many do talk about that - but it's not colonization when you're indigenous to the land you're returning to, aren't a franchise from an empire shipping goods back to the monopole.

Anyway, thanks for your entertaining contribution to the international game of Middle East Antisemitic Conspiracy Mad Libs.

"Israel is secretly run by _______, controls all the _________, and is faking ________ to distract us from __________!"

Thanks, regardless. It’s important to hear from voices across the spectrum, including the deeply confused - because it reminds us of the knowledge, intelligence, and rhetorical skills you don't have. 😘

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important to note two things:

1. Boulder Colorado has historically been a progressive liberal part of Colorado. it's blue bubble and Denvers blue bubble is the reason the state, while technically a swing state has been blue. this is honestly the last place I would've imagined a hate crime like this to occur.

2. the victims of the attack were 67-88 years old. On shavuot. at a March for the hostages. this is not some young adults getting into a heat of the moment fight at a protest. this person lit 6 elderly jews on fire.

I don't have any words for this.