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I actually love Gnostic Christian texts because of how batshit they are. Only a few of them are significantly more Anti-Semitic than mainstream Christian texts from the time and some are actually more Jewish (or at least Samaritan) like Pistis Sophia, Hypostasis of the Archons, and Apocalypse of James (probably Samaritan because it doesn't like the name Adonai or the Jerusalem Temple but quotes liberally from Leviticus). Even the Gospel lf Judas is more creepy than uniquely Anti-Semitic. The issue is that people focus on the legit super anti jewish ones like Marcion, Saturnilus, The Apocalypse of Adam because of course they do.

We Talk About Christianity like we talk about Judaism

"Idk I don't really feel the New Testament and the Talmud talk about the same G-d. The God of the NT seems really self righteous, narcissistic, hypocritical, and subtly sinister, like some kind of David Lynch villain. I prefer the more humble, compassionate and Self Aware G-d of the Mishnah and Talmud."

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We Talk About Christianity like we talk about Judaism

"Idk I don't really feel the New Testament and the Talmud talk about the same G-d. The God of the NT seems really self righteous, narcissistic, hypocritical, and subtly sinister, like some kind of David Lynch villain. I prefer the more humble, compassionate and Self Aware G-d of the Mishnah and Talmud."

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To LA Jews

So first off what is happening in Los Angeles isn't the holocaust, there are no gas chambers or medical experiments. But it is 100% a Pogrom sponsored by the federal government. I think its important that LA's non latam Jews do the right thing and make an effort to help in whatever way they can. And yes I know there are hamasniks paying lip service but I dont think you should let rich college kids in balaclavas dominate a movement by burning things when there are innocent lives on the line.

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Had a discussion about the Golden Calf incident with my Rabbi (conservative w/renewal tendencies) about how the women of Israel didn't give their jewelry to the golden calf and about the nature of idolatry. Specifically that only humans are in the image of G-d and the divine presence can only rest on humans who have replaced idols as icons of the divine. Making a molten idol theoretically requires no female initiative and can be seen as an attempt by men to hijack the power of birth and make women irrelevant by transferring access from the Shekinah/Angel of the L-rd/Active Intellect from interactions with living humans into inanimate objects and corpses. Things whose mothers were one off exceptions to the "women suck" rule or were made by male artisans.

This applies to the uses of strong ai, which is veering way too close to idolatry for me.

Throughout Jewish history, were men responsible for every single exile and sin? It seems like it….in terms of corruption and idolatry

cough Chava cough.

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“We can do it in America, why can’t we do it here?”

That has got to be one of the most unintentionally hilarious things I’ve ever heard. A mockumentary about left-wing activists could not have scripted that better.

I’m trying to imagine the level of delusional self-confidence a person would need to say that out loud and sincerely.

These righteous activists keep using the term “anti-colonialism”. I don’t think it means what they think it means. (Unless they think, because they believe themselves to be the “good guys”, it doesn’t apply to them? “No, you don’t understand, mr Egyptian man. *I* can come here and lecture you (in English) and tell you how you should run your country and how you should behave and what I (as an American) should be allowed to do in your country and it’s NOT colonialism or missionary work or white saviourism because I’m right and you’re wrong.”

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(Re: March for Gaza activists)

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If taken literally it is rather silly but it does have some merit if taken metaphorically. Judaism especially Rabbinic Judaism has made a big deal about not sacrificing anyone in the community including the gentiles who have connections with or are adjacent to the Jewish community. Even towards slaves despite slavery being one of the main economic engines of the ancient world. This is why the Talmud made it so hard to execute someone.

In the past a lot of gentiles who refused to associate us for religious reasons saw this kind of communal structure as unnatural and sinister. As if we were acting as an army against them. Now as we become increasingly integrated among non Jews and bring those values with us they see us as destroying their societies. The fact that we make altruism towards our communities an obligation and not just a suggestion really pisses people off because they see it as taking away their freedom and their ability to congratulate themselves for doing a good deed. Because now charity is expected rather than rewarded and praised.

i think a main reason judaism is hated because there is no such thing as human sacrifice. I think society craves it for entertainment and social bonding.

Totally 100% definitely this is why Judaism is hated in 2025 and also why Molech worship is currently the world’s biggest religion.

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hOrSeShOe tHeOrY iSnT rEaL 🤡

Well heres a nazi and an islamic terrorist agreeing that after a buncha jews are killed for existing, we're talking about antisemitism too much

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The issue with old Labor Zionism is that it was often times an Askhienormative anti religious movement. I know this feels like what the Black Panthers thought of as Pork Chop nationalism but we need to make this an actually Jewish movement instead of just standard Marxism which is fundamentally steeped in cultural Christianity. We need to get into primary texts like the Tomer Devorah or into Archeology like Norman Gottwald, Avraham Faust, and Nissim Amzallag.

I increasingly think a renewed labor zionist movement is necessary to meet the present moment. Non-Jewish leftist spaces and figures are like openly cheering on terrorists and antisemitic hate crimes now, and tbh so are a disconcerting amount of Jewish ones- but yk, obviously the goysiche right still hates Jews, and the Israeli right is still ghoulish. Hence, a renewed Labor Zionism. Am I cooking.

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I think part of the reason why Palestine so popular with far left politicians in the U.S. is that it’s a great way for them to show off how progressive and revolutionary they are without actually having to commit to doing anything for their constituents.

Like if you’re running for mayor of New York, every minute you spend talking about Palestine is a minute you don’t have to fill with any actual campaign promises that someone might try to hold you accountable for.

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So i can't post pictures because then I'd dox myself but my local newspaper did a print of the attack in Colorado ya know the one where a Hamas supporter set Jews on fire. It also talked about the rising antisemitism and attack in DC.

And at the very end my newspaper went "Israel supporters, including Donald Trump, have been calling peaceful pro-palestine protests antisemtic."

In a fucking newspaper article talking about Jews being set on fire. Sure. Peaceful. Not antisemtic. Yep. And Donald Trump is 100% a supporter of Israel🙄. Get out of here.

Can Jews mourn for one fucking second before goyim start talking about how attacks against Jews aren't antisemitic??

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When Gentiles say "Never Again": We should all learn a moral lesson from the Holocaust and remember not to allow crimes against humanity to be committed against any group of people. Bad things are wrong and we should not do bad things to people.

When Jews say "Never Again" about the Holocaust: We have learned that no other nations will protect us, so we will never allow the nations to commit genocide against us again - we will defend ourselves, we will protect Jewish life and sovereignty, we will depend on our army, our state, and our community. Our survival will be insured by Jewish strength, not by the undependable mercy or goodwill of the nations, because those did not save our families.

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number one bibi hater here to say we cannot be surprised by any of the plans to recapture the gaza strip.

1) he sucks 2) the current government sucks 3) the world backing israel into a desperate corner where the only people willing to work with jews (it literally doesn’t matter that they’re right wing, not much would change if a leftist party were in charge) are indeed batshit insane rightoids and everyone’s like KILL DA JOOZ NOW (dismantle israel uwu), it kinda doesn’t help the extremist situation and will make israelis more fearful/desperate, it’s kinda how we got israel back and why we will continue to have it. 4) it’s just as wrong as the existence of hamas and other terrorist groups 5) nothing good can come of any of this, extremism will be on the rise 6) there’s also nothing that can be done because rightoids suck and i don’t think israel can ever be leftist in the future now that the left thinks jews are their only enemy so that means rapidly advancing fascism/rightism…yay!

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Most likely the insiders are eating well while the rest of the populations is turned into props for pity porn via deliberately starving them.

it is absolutely disgusting that gaza has open restaurants and markets stuffed with food, overflowing, that palestinians in gaza post about all of this on expensive phones with working electricity and internet and yet the world believes they are all starving.

the latest video? posted yesterday. before that? 2 days ago. they have been regularly posting throughout the war:

and they claim famine and genocide? absolutely foul. it shits on the memories of people who actually died in real genocides and man made famines. like my own ancestors. and btw, that is all done purposely. it’s supposed to spit on the memory of the shoah and the great hunger and the current ongoing darfur crisis and ukraine etc. the claim of genocide is yet another attempt to single white female the jews.

if you believe this horseshit? you’re a fucking idiot.

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So we all know that antizionists love to talk big about "Jewish Palestinians" being harmed by the Israeli government. Since those Do Not Exist, what kind of Jewish Palestinians do we think they imagine existing?

*(modern Israelis need not apply)

If there's another option y'all think is the true answer please elaborate in the replies!

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Not only that but the way they're centering themselves and assuming this is targeted at them. Israel is absolutely doing some shady stuff in Gaza, not a Genocide, but some less than moral solutions. But the sheer narcissism to assume people are dying including Israeli troops to mess with a western Goy's mind is astounding.

Apparently the goyim now think the war is meant to be psychological warfare against them. Like, random western goyim think that they are being made to "witness a genocide" and it's a mental weapon. Like The Jooz are trying to give them mental illness. PTSD for fun, I guess?? I would wonder why they think they're a target of Israel at all but... I think the mental illness in question was already present and unfortunately goes under diagnosed and undertreated. Paranoid political delusion is sweeping the nation across the aisle.

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@indecisiveavocado asked me for a citation yesterday. (This is a good thing to ask for! Especially since I don't have it yet!)

Right, so, I didn't find my original source, but I've found some solid leads on what-I-suspect-to-be their sources, so whatever. I am not done looking through them, and indeed I think I've exhausted no more than a tenth of my most promising leads.

Wikipedia is obviously not to be trusted on this subject given their institutional antisemitism, but I reasoned that I could safely presume that they were unlikely to lie in my favor here, so I could use their sources for a measure of how far the truth can be stretched the other way.

Wikipedia cites this 1994 novel by a Professor Mark Tessler for the Arabic language becoming lingua franca in the region by the ninth century.

Which would be all well and good, I'd certainly be more than willing to admit my error if I'd found a source citing the ninth century when I thought it was the tenth... Except, Tessler is manifestly full of shit. He does make that claim on the top of page 70, but literally the page before he lies and claims that modern Palestinians are descended from the long extinct hellenic Philistines, which they can't be because of the aforementioned being-extinct thing, as well as the Canaanites. The later is sort of true, in that while most Palestinians are descended from immigrants post 1800 (especially from Egypt), a minority of Palestinians can credibly trace their lineage back to the aforementioned Samaritans, with some Samaritan surnames even being quite common in some areas.

Tessler also goes on about how the Israelites wiped out the Canaanites, which they didn't; they were the Canaanites. Tessler rewrites the history to cast the Palestinians as surviving Canaanite pagans who converted directly from paganism to Islam starting in the seventh century.

This is insane.

Its also grotesque to completely rewrite Samaritan history, especially in this way. The history of the Samaritans since the rise of Islam has been one of persecution, oppression, and eradication. There were hundreds of thousands of Samaritans at least prior to their genocide at Roman hands in the fifth century, tens of thousands still when the region was conquered by the first Caliphate. They were massacred repeatedly over the next thousand years, and by the beginning of the Ottoman period in the 16th century there were only 54 families of them. Total. In the world. Only seventy years later the number was down to 33 families.

These are the people Mark Tessler is lying about to justify his claim of the primordial nature of the communities that wiped the Samaritans out for the crime of predating them. And to do it, he's parroting a nineteenth century accusation (that Samaritans were basically just pagans) muslims in Nablus (site of Mount Gerizim, the most holy site in Samaritanism) levied against Samaritans to advocate their murders.

There are no Samaritans left in Nablus, by the way. The last of them fled from their most holy city around 1990 in order to escape the bloodshed of the First Intifada. They'd been living in that city continuously since the beginning of the fucking Iron Age.

Obviously I had to read this section before I could determine that the source was unreliable, and- I could chew glass, I'm so pissed off.

Anyway, assuming that Professor Tessler wasn't entirely making up numbers (a BIG assumption) we can place the ninth century as the earliest point when Arabic may have replaced Aramaic as the lingua franca in Eretz Yisrael. That does, at least, correspond with some of the other numbers I've seen. Considering that the Samaritans themselves were a some point pressured by their Muslim rulers to abandon their ancestral Aramaic in favor of Arabic, the point when Arabic replaced Aramaic in the region does not likely post date, and could predate, the point when Islam overtook the local religions.

I do not, at this time, yet have a solid citation for or against my original statement. I am cautiously suspecting that I may have misremembered the date by a century or so, but do not yet know.

Indecisive Avacado, I promise that I will either find you a proper citation for my statement or a proper citation against it.

I need to take a break now.

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April 16, 2025, Pro Palestine Activists at Harvard and JVP Boston prepare to protest Joe Biden’s visit to Campus.

Joe Biden is no longer the president. Attempting to disrupt Biden’s speech only serves to empower Donald Trump’s current administration.