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If you ever feel bad about yourself, remember there's girls out there who had to get a 9-5 because no one wanted to see their OF content.

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My dad's bookshop got bombed today. Apparently when the genocide is aimed at Jews, it's deserved, judging by the response I got to this. Unfriendly reminder we are literally indigenous. My bloodline specifically was traced back to Judea 2000 years ago, long before Arabs colonized that land and claimed to have been there first (which is quickly disproven by the construction dates of our oldest monuments vs theirs). And Jews at large, too. That is unconditionally our rightful, proven, indigenous homeland. Whatever our government does, does not negate that.

Also art by me

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I know we talk about the oxen a lot, but there's some wild fun stuff in the Talmud too. An incomplete list:

rabbi dick measuring contest

a king's 1am influencer bro routine

"King David had 400 sons and they were all hot"

an argument about the legality of literally fucking yourself

HOA rules for where windows on your house can go

"as we all know, werewolves have tails in human form"

two guys who got off on charges for homosexuality by telling the witness that it was two witnesses against one

judge using fruit to prove eye witness testimony is unreliable

"quarrels are like peeing"

a bunch of rabbis defining different types of bed and one of the definitions they use is a bed specifically for throwing your clothes on

someone insisting that the law saying "you need a jury of x amount of people" means that x should be half the jury + 1 resulting in the suggestion that you need a jury of 45 people for a murder trial

your mom jokes

"why does it say Solomon had 4000 horses AND that he had 40,000 horses?" "he had 160 million horses"

science more questionable than Pliny

the demand that a captive bear who killed someone be present at the trial

diagram of punishments for illegal haircuts

"in order for a town to be big enough to have a court it needs to have 10 idlers of the synagogue"

a rabbi claiming that you can only be a judge on the national court if you're a hot wizard

In conclusion: the Sages would do numbers on tumblr.

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Today marks one year anniversary of 2022 Iranian uprising against the oppressive Islamic Republic regime. An uprising that started with the brutal murder of a young kurd woman, Mahsa Jina Amini, for "inappropriate hijab".

For the past couple of weeks, the regime has prepared their forces to beat down any new movement immediately. The streets of Tehran and many other cities are lined with anti riot forces and police cars. In Saqez, the home city of Amini family, they've stationed the army around the city to massacre people in case they try to start another wave of protest. Mahsa's father has been arrested alongside some family members of other last year uprising martyrs.

There has been small protesting gatherings in Iran in the last two days, there has already been some arrests and violent crackdowns on protesters. I hear people chanting from my neighborhood homes. The government would commit as many bloodbaths as it takes to secure their position, but you can't beat people into obedience when they hate you from the bottom of their hearts.

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“The whole world is cheering and wants you dead” yeah we know. It has never not been like that. Over 40% of the population openly call themselves antisemites, and the rest got their fingers on the keyboard, spewing anonymous hate on tumblr while swearing up and down they’re just antizionists. None of this is new. It’s not fresh. It’s not even clever. It’s tired, and it's been going on forever. You’re not making some bold statement. You’re just recycling the same old nonsense. You’re not sleek. You’re not new…. You’re just predictable.

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Maybe OP's lolgic is "well, you wouldn't support us anyway, so why shouldn't we riot?"

Answer: Because there are OTHER people who might've supported you, except for the rioting.

Heck, rioting is pretty dangerous for the actual rioters.

Do these people forget what happened in the Summer of Love?

BLM's approval went down, and police approval went up, even among many black people.

Also, there's left-wing people who say the LA riots are wrong, but somehow I doubt that penetrated into the memer's bubble.

He did actually explain. It was racism and police brutality. And he said he had no pride as an American.

His supporters ignored (or never learned) the second part.

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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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it rly is weird how theres this culture in progressive spaces where like you can be as mean, as CRUEL even, as you want as long as youre not being explicitly bigoted towards any marginalized group of people and still be seen as a really good person with good morals who nobody is allowed to have beef with bc theyve never done anything racist or homophobic

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“intifada just means uprising! Endorsing an intifada doesn’t mean I endorse violent terrorism!”

Look dude there’s a reason why people today will look at you funny if you use the word “ holocaust” to mean a burnt offering or a big fire

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I don’t know how you can pretend to be a student of revolution without acknowledging that there is no scenario for the sudden collapse of the United States without mass ethnic violence

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If the IDF didn’t carpet bomb Gaza how come they have so many carpets on sale at the shuk

theyre Persian carpets :^)

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I don't understand how Usamericans are all like "Land back!!!" until we actually did land back. Like, Israel is literally the OG land back movement. So then they contort themselves to support land back while criticizing jews for it.