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photo from this recipe

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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.

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Shabbat in the Mississippi Delta, 2002, by Bill Aron; courtesy of the Museum of the Southern Jewish Experience

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Jewish cafe owner joined S.F. ICE protest. Later he found his cafe trashed and defaced

Among graffiti that read “Free Palestine” and “Kill Cops,�� there were other, more pointed words for Yekutiel, who is Jewish. The cafe owner, who hosts civic and political events at Manny’s, has been vocal about his “complicated” feelings about Israel and clear about his wish for a cease-fire in Gaza.

“F— Manny,” one of the tags read. Others said “Die Zio,” an apparent truncating of the word Zionist, and “The only good settler is a dead 1.”

He isn't even Israeli, though this kind of thing would not be justified if he were. He's an American Jew who was subject to vandalism and violence because he exists as a Jew. That's it.

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Was going to make a post talking about how it's wild how quickly the public went from viewing judaism as this quirky 'fight God in the parking lot of a dennys' leftist religion to viewing it as an anti immigrant, racist, queerphobic religion.

However, I then realized that it actually isn't that wild, the shift in public perception. Partly because the former perception wasn't accurate to begin with, but also mainly because it isn't some bug of goyiche society to have had this change. It's a feature.

One of the hallmarks of antisemitism is that it treats us like we are chameleons. If communism is bad then we're commies. If capitalism is bad then we're all filthy rich billionaires taxing the poor. We are both dirty, filthy sub human creatures yet also these all powerful beings who control humanity depending on who you ask.

It doesn't matter what we are actually like. We will always have what is the current big evil souring society projected onto us, simply because we are jewish.

And whilst obviously no group is a monolith, jews as a whole aren't this anti immigrant, racist, homophobic, anti feminist group. We have historically always voted majority left. We have historically supported anti racist movements. It is not uncommon for jewish groups to walk in pride parades or for shuls to have a rainbow group. And despite many, many attempts to erase jewish feminism, it has persisted.

And I don't want to try and shift back to the colour of 'fighting God in a Dennys parking lot professors religion'. All I want is for once, for fucking once, to have our true colors shine. For non jews to finally let us be. To see jews not only as a diverse set of human beings.

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anyways i am exhausted of the internet these days

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I wish Jewish Voice for Peace a very stop pretending to be Jewish or for Peace

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Shavuot (Pentecost). oil on canvas by Moritz Daniel Oppenheim, 1880. known by many as the "first Jewish painter," Oppenheim was the first Jewish painter to gain prominence in the non-Jewish art world while retaining his Jewish identity. much of his work emphasized the delight and beauty in Jewish life, including this colorful and reverent depiction of a Shavuot celebration.

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genuine question: at what point are there too many civilian deaths to justify military action? how many deaths would make israel's bombing of gaza unjustifiable? is the death of every single person in the gaza strip potentially acceptable for israel to achieve its war aims? if not, what is the cutoff?

There is no number of civilian deaths that should ever be treated as “acceptable”. Not in Gaza, not in Israel, not anywhere. Civilian life isn’t a currency to be calculated and balanced on a ledger. Every life lost, Palestinian or Israeli, is a tragedy. That’s not a controversial statement, unless you’ve already dehumanized one side entirely.

But I’d also urge you to examine the premise hidden in your question: that Israel’s only choices are either mass civilian death or surrendering to a genocidal terror organization that embeds itself inside civilian infrastructure. This is Hamas’s strategy by design - to collapse the moral calculus, to make Israel look monstrous no matter what, and to force us into these grotesque hypotheticals.

Demanding a “cutoff” number doesn’t advance justice - it turns it into a game of moral arithmetic. The real question is: how do we stop all civilians from dying? That means accountability for all actors who disregard life, including Hamas, who openly use their own people as shields while pursuing an unrelenting campaign of elimination.

If you want peace, then the answer can’t be one-sided purity tests. It has to start with recognizing the humanity - and moral agency - of both sides.

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ethnostates are bad

true

revise on the true meaning of “from the river to the sea” for a real ethnostate shocker

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someone: *says something racist or homophobic or islamaphobic*

someone else: imagine if u said that about jews everyone would be so mad at the antisemitism

uhhhhhh they already definitely say it about jews and approximately nobody seems to be mad about the antisemitism, brenda

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Central Synagogue of New York City.

Central Synagogue began as Congregation Ahawath Chesed, founded in 1846 by German-speaking Bohemian immigrants in the Lower East Side. By 1870, the membership of Ahawath Chesed had prospered and grown, and Henry Fernbach, New York’s first prominent Jewish architect, was commissioned to design a new synagogue further uptown. Fernbach created an elaborate and intricate interior with Moorish designs whose contours were stenciled onto the sanctuary walls and then hand painted; the exterior was an interpretation of the Tabac-Schul (Dohány Street) Synagogue in Budapest. In 1886, the building was damaged by a fire, during which most of the original decorative stencilings were lost. In 1898, Shaar Hashomayim merged into Ahawath Chesed and the combined congregations became known as Central Synagogue in 1915. In 1998, Central Synagogue was again damaged by a fire and nearly burned to the ground. The congregation committees were almost unanimous in electing to recover the original 1872 interior and exterior design.  Following a historical restoration, the building was reopened with great fanfare in 2001. It is the oldest synagogue building in New York still in use by the congregation which built it. (x)

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To all of the self-hating Jews in the diaspora who think they'll be safe because they hate Israel and constantly attack Zionists, I'd like to remind you of this quote from megillat Esther

וַיֹּ֥אמֶר מׇרְדֳּכַ֖י לְהָשִׁ֣יב אֶל־אֶסְתֵּ֑ר אַל־תְּדַמִּ֣י בְנַפְשֵׁ֔ךְ לְהִמָּלֵ֥ט בֵּית־הַמֶּ֖לֶךְ מִכׇּל־הַיְּהוּדִֽים׃ Mordecai had this message delivered to Esther: “Do not imagine that you, of all the Jews, will escape with your life by being in the king’s palace.

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Saying this anonymously to spare me the discourse headache cause I do not come on this site to fight people.

I do identify as a “Zionist” because it is a Jewish word coined by Jewish people for their right to safety, a homeland, and self determination, three nothing colonial about that. That said I am critical of the current Israeli government… it is the normalizing of the gut reaction from 2,000 years of antisemitism conspiracy theory that gets me, people will understand why talking over x minority or marginalized group is bad… unless it is the Jewish people. I am not even unpacking the dual means of “Zionist” but begging people on this site to reexamine their word view and biases and understand history and current events are interconnected and therefore nuanced and morally grey and scapegoating strangers on the internet is media illiterate behavior.

Dear anon,

You are not alone in fact most Zionists share your beliefs more or less

don’t lett them make it mean “Jew it’s ok to kill”

yours

Cecil

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https://www.tumblr.com/timothysnyder/778014968073404416/antisemitism-and-antisemitism

Look another antisemitic Yale professor.

“If the Jews keep mentioning that people in my political movement are antisemitic, I might stop believing that antisemitism exists at all.”

That’s a threat disguised as concern. Your response to being called out for antisemitism should not be to threaten the Jews, asshat.

Looks like SOMEONE is complying to the nazis in advance

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Sinagoga de Santa Maria la Blanca, Toledo, Spain. Pre-Inquisition, 1492.

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Muslims 🤝 Jews

Having very similar greetings for peace