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Sometimes it just hits me again that I am living and working next to an active and openly operating terrorist propaganda cell who's members have repeatedly been caught collaborating with Hamas to insight hatred for Jews in the US and not only is no one doing anything about this, they have mass public support throughout the country.

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affirmations for writers: i know how to write. i have seen sentences before, and i know how to make one. i can identify up to several words and their meanings. i am not afraid of semicolons.

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trying to do research about your jewish ancestors in ukraine really is like.

yes there was a synagogue in the town you are interested in. yes it stood there for at least a hundred years. yes they kept extensive records of their attendees' births, deaths and marriages. no you can't visit the synagogue. yes it was closed. and then burned. and then flooded.

you are the only one who remembers the synagogue.

yes there was a jewish cemetery that encompassed at least a century worth of deaths. no we don't know if that included your family. we don't know anything about it actually. no tombstones survived. it was abandoned after the synagogue was closed and burned and flooded. its overgrown with spiky bushes. the land is privatized and will not be given back to any potential future synagogue to restore. there's a factory on it!

you're the only one who remembers the cemetery.

yes there was a census at the perfect time for your family to have been included in it with all their names and locations. no the municipality didn't keep those records. no there is no mention of your family in the archives. did we mention that we rely on church and temple records for our archives? the temples have to not be closed and burned and flooded for us to access these records.

you are the only one who remembers the census.

yes the nazis did murder hundreds of people in this town. yes we have a detailed description of exactly how they did it. yes we are still finding bones sticking out of the mass graves and everything. no we don't have records of these people. no we don't have a database for that research. yes we know that other towns do. no we're not planning on making one. we do have a plaque with three whole words on it!

you are the only one who remembers your family.

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i made a discord server by and for AAC users to discuss AAC

anyone can join. communication is a human right and this server accepts anyone who is willing to help other people communicate

the rules are to be nice and patient with everyone. open discussion is allowed but you are not allowed to question other user's requests or beliefs. this is a space for everyone

if you are interested please join & reblog or share with anyone you think may benefit from a place to discuss all things AAC

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I am getting so frustrated with how people are talking about the Druze. Do I trust Netanyahu to help in the most effective way, no, do I think the response is more about the opportunity to make a buffer state then help the Druze, yes. Do I think the other option no one should do anything is good, hell no. I’m sorry there is literally no one else giving a fuck about this.

I keep hearing worries how Israel strike is destabilizing the country and not worries about the Druze. A lot of suggestions I’m seeing from other people is the only reason this is happening is because Al-Sharaa is too weak to control the country and this makes it worse. We just need to wait for it to stabilize and then everything will be solved. And I’m sorry what you think no one should intervene in the massacres and it’s just going to work out.

No one gives a fuck about ethnic and religious minorities in the Middle East do they. I think they just want no one to ever get involved and for them to “work out” on their own so they never have to think of them.

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Tunisian Jewish woman in wedding garb.

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in an alternate timeline ireland could've joined israel and india in the "we recently gained independence from the british let's be besties" club but noooo somehow their hatred of jews is stronger than their hatred of britain

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If you're against Antisemitism but leave out Israeli Jews and just focus on Diaspora Jews, you aren't against Antisemitism, you're just looking for acceptable Jews to target.

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Barn Owl (Tyto alba), fledgling chick hauling ass across a lawn, as it was learning to fly, family Tytonidae, order Strigiformes, Netherlands

photograph by Hannie Heere

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“A Blessing on Your Head” by Ruth Schreiber.

This work consists of 20,000 pairs of paper hands embossed with the priestly blessing (closeup in photo below), a reference to hundreds of generations of parental blessings and prayer throughout Jewish history.

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whenever I see archeological remains of a human who suffered from a terrible disease that couldn’t be treated in their lifetime but could be fixed now, this wave of sorrow and mourning washes over me. a woman in the 14th century who spent her 35 years of life bent at the waist because of congenital scoliosis. a man from the 18th century who died because of a non cancerous mass on his jaw that made eating progressively more difficult. remains of a woman from the Neolithic who died in childbirth having evidence of peri-mortem trepanation on her skull.

and yet she survived to 35. and yet the physicians in his time tried to strengthen his jaw. and yet someone 4,000 years ago tried to save someone they loved from dying of preeclampsia/increased cranial pressure. we tried. we tried and we tried and we tried. we failed and we learned but we tried. that’s what makes humans so beautiful.

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If it’s meant to be I’ll see you later

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“latest flex of the jewish establishment” is an 8.5 on the himmler scale, props

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"I'm not antisemitic, I just think jews are committing genocide."

This. This is what we're hearing a mere 80 years after the Holocaust, after the biggest attack on jews since the Holocaust. If anything proves that the goyim never gave a shit about the Holocaust - it's this. It's this sadistic, psychopathic, evil tactic of using our greatest trauma against us. Ripping open our wounds. Using the memory of our murdered families for their own disgusting agenda. There are simply not enough words to describe the full scope of how utterly monstrous this lie is. How it's designed to cause us as much pain as possible. Those who came up with it knew exactly what they were doing. Those brainless, soulless followers of the cult on the streets of western countries echoing this lie cannot comprehend the horror of what they're saying. They know nothing of what we went through. They know nothing about the Shoah. They don't care to know. They're eager to use it against us. They resented being forced to acknowledge it in the first place.

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A group of young Yemenite Jewish girls, Al Ajar, Haïdan, Saada district, 1986.

Myrian Tangi's photo series in 1980s Yemen documented a vanishing world. After two thousand years the ancient and diverse Jewish community of Yemen is no more.

Of tens of thousands of Jews who once called Yemen their home, all but one have fled. Levi Marhabi, held in captivity by the Houthis since 2016 for supposedly aiding fleeing Jews in transporting a holy Torah scroll out of the country is the last known remnant of a Jewish presence older than Islam.

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Matzah Cover, Skyros (Greece), late 18th-early 19th century