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Leftists, when Russia attacks Ukraine: people are not their government

Leftists, when China puts Uyghurs in concentration camps: people are not their government

Leftists, when Myanmar slaughters Rohingya: people are not their government

Leftists, when Turkey invades Cyprus: people are not their government

Leftists, when Azerbaijan occupies Armenian homeland: people are not their government

Leftists, when Israel and India defend themselves: I FUCKING HATE ISRAELIS AND INDIANS I HOPE THEY GET TORTURED/RAPED/BEATEN UP THEN DIE IN THE MOST PAINFUL WAY POSSIBLE GRRRRR ��🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬

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Thinking about how I went to the hairdresser to get my hair cut. Turned out that my hairstylist and I were both martial artists, and I casually mentioned I wanted to try Krav Maga

She laughed and continued shaving my head with her blade and went like. "Oh, krav maga is cool, but I don't practice it because I fucking hate Jews"

Scariest haircut of my life.

Also how the fuck has it become normal to just say that out loud in a public place.

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How is that bibas fault

18/01/25

Kfir Bibas’ 2nd birthday, 2nd birthday in captivity. That’s 2/2. Taken at the age of 8.5 months from his bed with his 5 year old brother and his mother, his father taken separately. He’s been held hostage like an object or a criminal for 470 days since.

Kfiri, hopefully in the next few weeks we’ll get to see you and celebrate your birthday the way you deserve, but until then… Happy birthday, baby. Stay strong for a little longer, please. 🧡

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I am sorry but if you think that the Jews who say out loud "we want to live in peace with Palestinians and we want a two state solution" are the bad guys While the people shouting "death to Israel", "Israeli settlers should be killed", "we need another October 7th", "Jews dont deserve a country" and etc are the good guys Then your moral compass is fucked

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Something nice I saw today: I went to get a haircut, and the salon I go to is this very lefty, queer space, and their bathroom door is completely covered with all kinds of stickers- queer flags, leftist slogans etc. This is a place where I would not have been surprised to see watermelon or "From the river to the sea" stickers. But! What I saw instead were these: "No Pride in Hamas" (on a rainbow background), "Bring Them Home NOW" and "#Believe Israeli Women". That was a nice surprise :)

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joking about 9/11 over the course of your entire childhood and young adulthood primes you to see terrorist attacks as something funny and not serious (who give a shit about the 3,000 people who died on 9/11 or the nearly one million people who died in the war on terror lol!!! 1 million deaths funnieeeeee)

10/7 happens and immediately becomes a big joke. lol 1,000 deaths!!! very funnieeeeeee

young americans are also the least educated on the holocaust in the first place, and due to outside factors are already primed to see israelis as inhuman monsters who deserve death

the pro-palestine movement was already completely infiltrated with nazis and general antisemites, who have young people who genuinely care about the palestinian plight coming to them that are also completely ignorant on israeli and palestinian history as well as jewish culture and antisemitism, and are therefore able to feed these people antisemitism as their first political beliefs about the jewish people

I feel like I shouldn't have to explain how being spoonfed nazi propaganda under the guise of "pro-palestine" eventually leads to denying the holocaust. the link is there. the pro-palestine movement is full of holocaust deniers and holocaust universalizers

in conclusion: terrorist attacks aren't funny

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Happy first night of:

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For all your Jewish-Pride needs. Reblog to make a goy angry :)

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Jewish Representation

I’ve been having a lot of thoughts about Jewish representation in film and on TV for a long while, and I guess I’m finally at the point where I want to write down some of them.

It wasn’t immediately obvious to me, but something that I’ve come to notice over the years is that Jewish representation in the US (and to whatever degree I got to see Jewish rep in film and TV from other countries, such as the UK) falls into one of two categories (when it even exists):

The “positive” Jewish rep: This is when a Jewish character is the one we’re rooting for, usually a protagonist or a part of the main cast. They’re generally likable. The most notable thing about this is that they are never too Jewish. They don’t use Jewish terms too often, Jewish tradition isn’t too present in their lives, they are not guided nor shaped by Jewish thought and values. The degree to which the audience is even aware the character is Jewish may vary: it can be more present or it can be something people aren’t aware of almost at all in canon. IMO Jake Peralta from Brooklyn 99 is on the “more present” end of this spectrum, while Rachel Green from Friends is someone that I learned just a couple of years ago was meant to be Jewish. From an interview with one of the Jewish show creators. You can argue that it’s implied on screen that she’s Jewish, but why is it never said? Why isn’t it present in any way? We meet her parents, we meet both of her sisters. We see her almost getting married in s1, getting drunk married in the s5 finale. We see her talking about her dream wedding to Ross (who’s also Jewish) and nothing in her description in any way relates to any Jewish traditions she’d like the ceremony to include. We also see her make the decision to have a child with Ross, and again there’s not a single word expressed related to possibly wanting to educate the kid as a Jew, wanting to pass on to Emma Jewish traditions, etc.

The “negative” Jewish rep: This is when either the character itself is Jewish and in some way repulsive or reprehensible, or the situation the character is in is repulsive or reprehensible. Unlike with the “positive” Jewish rep, you can’t miss the Jewish identity/context in the “negative” version. If we’re talking about the character itself being repulsive or reprehensible, the spectrum runs between being utterly annoying and nerdy (many times the annoyance and repulsion other characters feel towards this Jewish character is treated as a comic relief), to downright creepy or even worse. In these cases, the character will be very explicitly Jewish, for example they will use Jewish terms a lot, they will reference Jewish traditions quite often, and they will sometimes even have very explicitly Jewish names. More often than not, they will also be played by a Jewish actor (usually with a more stereotypical “Jewish look.” For example, on Glee, Diana Agron and Lea Michele are both Jewish, but it’s Lea who’s cast as Rachel, the explicitly Jewish character who starts out being incredibly annoying and overbearing, even immoral at times during s1, while Diana is cast as the WASP cheerleader Quinn. On the same theme, actors are more “known” to be Jewish when they play comedic characters than when they are romantic leads. Comedic actors like Andy Samberg, Larry David and David Schwimmer are more often known as being Jewish than people like Harrison Ford. And I can’t think of a single explicitly canonically Jewish character that Ford has played).

If it’s the situation that’s repulsive or reprehensible, we’re usually talking about one of two scenarios: either we’re following a character in the ultra-orthodox community where being Jewish is depicted as being oppressed by one’s own people, or we’re watching a story from the Holocaust, when being Jewish proved to be exceptionally dangerous.

I wanna make it clear, none of these is problematic in itself. Jews are just like everyone else, no better and no worse, so some Jews will be less connected to their Jewish identity. Some Jews will be annoying, or even creepy. Some Jews will very much suffer within their ultra-orthodox communities and will feel oppressed by them. And representing the Holocaust is absolutely vital. It’s the fact that there’s nothing else, nothing between being hardly-Jewish and being very-Jewish-but-it’s-bad-news, that’s the problem. Where are the characters who are proudly Jewish and who find it important to be, who actively engage in being Jewish, who are enriched by being Jewish, and we still cheer for them? The ones whose weddings are held under a Hupa? The ones for whom their Jewish values matter and shape their decisions? The ones who enjoy Jewish food and Jewish culture? Who love celebrating Jewish holidays and find pleasure in getting to know Jewish history? The ones for whom being Jewish isn’t just a throwaway joke about embarrassing stuff that happened at their bar/bat mitzvah? Where are the Jews who talk about it being important to them (not to their “outdated / narrow-minded” parents) to pass on their Jewish heritage to their kids? Without becoming a caricature or the target for mockery? (and not just in one episode out of 235 over the course of ten seasons…) There’s so many Jews like that in real life. People who occupy this huge spectrum of Jewish existence and experience. Why do they hardly exist on our screens?

And maybe this will sound a bit self-contradicting, but… why do we almost never hear about antisemitism outside of the Holocaust and Nazis? I know, I know, this would seem to easily fit into the “negative” Jewish representation, and yet I’m bringing it out because it seems like such a glaring omission to me that I have to wonder about it. If we don’t represent this, it makes it seem as if antisemitism had died at the end of WWII. It didn’t. By erasing current antisemitism in its many different forms, there’s an implication that unlike other minorities, Jews aren’t that impacted by bias against them. But antisemitism is on the rise globally. This trend isn’t even new. That does impact Jews. But you wouldn’t know it from watching Jews on screen. Which also deprives us from seeing Jews being empowered by fighting back against current antisemitism, who look this hatred straight in the eyes and choose their Jewish identity. Narratives about the Holocaust are often stripped of that because the magnitude of destruction was so great, that simply staying alive is the triumph. We hardly see the triumph over anti-Jewish hate that comes from lovingly embracing one’s own identity, history, community and values. Think about the sense of triumph delivered by telling the story of a girl overcoming sexist obstacles and learning to be proud of who she is. We miss out on that with Jewish characters, in addition to missing out on telling the real stories of current Jewish lives and the hardships they face for being Jewish. When I guide Jewish families in our Holocaust museum, you have no idea how many stories about contemporary antisemitism I hear. For better and for worse, this is a significant part of the Jewish experience of many, it should be represented, and it isn’t.

Whether people (audiences and creators alike) realize it or not, I think the sum of all the parts that have been making up this Jewish representation for decades is, “It’s okay that you’re a Jew. Just don’t be too Jewish.” That’s not real acceptance. It’s equivalent to telling gay people it’s fine to be gay, as long as they’re not being gay in public. It’s the same as having people of Latin American descent in a movie or a show, without giving any real presence or meaning to their culture (other than making quinceañera jokes). And when it comes to this issue with Jewish rep, it goes unnoticed. I think that’s unintentionally harmful. And because it’s so unnoticed, it also goes unchecked. Which is a part of the problem, we can’t make something better when we’re not even aware it is currently wrong.

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Hey hey hey I can absolutely appreciate people criticizing Israeli policies, criticizing certain actions of the IDF, criticizing horrible events that have happened as a result of militarization and escalation of the conflict.

What I can’t understand is criticizing the average Israeli, and this whole business with Gal Gadot makes me nervous, for a lot of reasons.

You are an 18 year old average Israeli citizen. You are possibly quite secular and are certainly not of the ultra-orthodox, so you are conscripted just like everyone else. You don’t get to bow out as only a few get to.

What exactly are your options? You were born and raised in Israel; Israel is the only home you’ve known. Culturally, religiously, and personally, Israel is your home. Legally, you can either join the military or be sent to jail. You are eighteen, just out of high school, and you are required to become a soldier. Where exactly does that leave you? Your family may need the money you earn as a soldier - shockingly, Israel is not full of rich bankers (though I know so many antisemites who’d like you to think so because that is a - gasp! Antisemitic trope!), and more importantly, legally, your hands are tied.

Just what are you people expecting these youth to do? Move? With what money? Protest? With what means to support themselves?

Sometimes I just think people forget that a lot of these soldiers are starting out *conscripted* at 18. I have my own opinions on war and conflict and Israel and Palestine but what I know for fact is that these are eighteen year olds becoming soldiers. Why are they viewed as being at the same level as five star generals? And why are they not viewed as having the same means as any 18 recruit in the US? Or Europe? Or in any Palestinian force, for that matter?

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I think what a lot of people in general don't understand is that every single Jew is my family. We are all family. We are all one people.

We have wildly varying opinions on pretty much everything. The way in which be observe our religious practices, the way in which we engage with our culture, the ways in which we are Jews varies.

But every single Jew is my family. You cannot say "Well I don't hate THESE Jews, who are Jewish in a way I deem acceptable, but THOSE Jews, who are Jewing in a way I don't like, I think it's alright to hate them." and expect me to agree with you, even if I also don't like or agree with those other Jews.

Because no Jew deserves antisemitism. Not a single fucking one. And until the time comes that goyim (and even other Jews holy fuck guys) can understand that simple fact? I am not discussing and debating the behavior of Jews with goyim. Because, contrary to what you racist fucks on this hellsite seem to think. Antisemitism is NEVER a valid, warranted response to a Jew. Ever.

Fuck off. Every Jew is my family. Whether I agree with them or not.

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