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Jewish fairy who spreads joy

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i do want to note that jasbir puar is a notoriously difficult person to read. she has a habit of not defining the terms she uses, expecting everyone to have read basically all of queer theory leading up to her work. (this is an observation passed on to me by someone with a phd in queer theory and who has published many books on the topic. i will absolutely admit that this really helped with my imposter syndrome.) if you look up "homonationalism" you can find some good explainers that are much more colloquial and accessible

white gays need to read up on pinkwashing and homonationalism before ever even thinking about opening their mouths talking about homophobia/transphobia in the global south

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Because I saw a poll that asked a very good question, but did not have *nearly* enough options:

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solidarity lament with my fellow latino ashkenazim. they want us to drop chametz AND corn AND rice AND beans???? what am i supposed to put all my salsa on

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solidarity lament with my fellow latino ashkenazim. they want us to drop chametz AND corn AND rice AND beans???? what am i supposed to put all my salsa on

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girl on my yontiff???

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thinking about all the seders with empty seats this pesach. may our loved ones be returned home soon, and may the gd who released am yisrael from egypt with a strong hand and an outstretched arm do the same for all those who are being held captive and prisoner

rachel goldberg, mother of hersch goldberg-polin—who we hope is still alive and is being held captive—proposes a fifth question for our seders: why are we not all here?

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thank you haldeman for making girls swear 🙏🙏🙏

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If you are a proponent of the land back movement, but you are opposed to any and all solutions to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that involve Jewish people living in the Levant (even 100% peacefully alongside other indigenous peoples), then you are an antisemite.

Why? Because you’re either denying Jewish indigeneity or you’re making an exception to your beliefs in order to deprive Jews of a right you willingly grant to others.

If you’re opposed to the land back movement at large, but have made an exception specifically for Jews returning to the Levant, then you presumably only support our right to return as a means to some other end, not on principle. If that other end is removing us from your country or using us as pawns to fulfill some kind of messianic prophecy, then you’re an antisemite.

Advocating for the creation of a Palestinian state does not require you to be antisemitic. Wanting Palestinian civilians to be safe does not require you to be antisemitic. You are choosing to be antisemitic when you could, instead, simply choose not to be.

I don’t know how to make this any simpler.

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​en mi experiencia pueden usar la ubicación de tu celu si quieren encontrar quién fue a la marcha. recomiendo que lo dejes en modo avion (antes de que salgas para la marcha) y quedes con personas que conozcas

escribes el numero de alguien que no irá a la marcha en tu brazo y tambien el grupo sanguíneo. no llevas marcador, pueden usarlo en tu contra (tengo amigo que le añadieron la carga de incitar a un motín porque llevaba un sharpie)

cuidate mucho y buena suerte

Tips para la marcha del 23A para les que vamos a nuestra primera marcha ever?

No tengo cerebro para esto ahora pero !!!

Ayuden!

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enough about taylor swift already. reblog and tag the smallest, least known artist you listen to

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my counter is awful so i'm cleaning everything up and putting tinfoil over it and begging my goyische roomie (who i love) not to set anything down on the counter for the next eight days. i also asked them to tell me the chametz and kitniyos they want to use in the week so we can kinda put it to the side away from the other food. and my service dog is gonna have a lot of sweet potatoes and other stuff lmao. i'm gonna do a lot of kashering tomorrow and hope i don't send myself into a pots episode

sending my goyische roommates texts telling them that I will be kicking them out of the kitchen tonight while I cook for pesach while trying to not sound insane is so hard. like yeah you've gotta stay out of the kitchen so you don't get a couple crumbs in here which will mess up my food and also don't put a cup on the counter I just heated it up a lot and your cup hasn't been heated so it'll mess up my counter. yes this is a completely normal thing for jewish people to do don't worry about it

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...[a]s I read the endless wall texts describing the specific quantities of poison used to murder 90 percent of Europe's Jewish children, something else occurred to me. Perhaps presenting all these facts has the opposite effect from what we think. Perhaps we are giving people ideas.

I don't mean giving people ideas about how to murder Jews. There is no shortage of ideas like that, going back to Pharaoh's decree in the Book of Exodus about drowning Hebrew baby boys in the Nile. I mean, rather, that perhaps we are giving people ideas about our standards. Yes, everyone must learn about the Holocaust so as not to repeat it. But this has come to mean that anything short of the Holocaust is, well, not the Holocaust. The bar is rather high.

Shooting people in a synagogue in San Diego or Pittsburgh isn't "systemic"; it's an act of a "lone wolf." And it's not the Holocaust. The same is true for arson attacks against two different Boston-area synagogues, followed by similar simultaneous attacks on Jewish institutions in Chicago a few days later, along with physical assaults on religious Jews on the streets of New York—all of which happened within a week of my visit to the Auschwitz show.

Lobbing missiles at sleeping children in Israel's Kiryat Gat, where my husband's cousins spent the week of my museum visit dragging their kids to bomb shelters, isn't an attempt to bring "Death to the Jews," no matter how frequently the people lobbing the missiles broadcast those very words; the wily Jews there figured out how to prevent their children from dying in large piles, so it is clearly no big deal.

Doxxing Jewish journalists is definitely not the Holocaust. Harassing Jewish college students is also not the Holocaust. Trolling Jews on social media is not the Holocaust either, even when it involves photoshopping them into gas chambers.(Give the trolls credit: They have definitely heard of Auschwitz. Even hounding ancient Jewish communities out of entire countries and seizing all their assets—which happened in a dozen Muslim nations whose Jewish communities predated the Islamic conquest, countries that are now all almost entirely Judenrein—is emphatically not the Holocaust. It is quite amazing how many things are not the Holocaust.

The day of my visit to the museum, the rabbi of my synagogue attended a meeting arranged by police for local clergy, including him and seven Christian ministers and priests. The topic of the meeting was security. Even before the Pittsburgh massacre, membership dues at my synagogue included security fees. But apparently these local churches do not charge their congregants security fees, or avail themselves of government funds for this purpose. The rabbi later told me how he sat in stunned silence as church officials discussed whether to put a lock on a church door. "A lock on the door," the rabbi said to me afterward, stupefied.

He didn't have to say what I already knew from the emails the synagogue routinely sends: that they've increased the rent-a-cops' hours, that they've done active-shooter training with the nursery school staff, that further initiatives are in place that "cannot be made public." "A lock on the door," he repeated, astounded. "They just have no idea."

He is young, this rabbi-younger than me. He was realizing the same thing I realized at the Auschwitz exhibition, about the specificity of our experience. I feel the need to apologize here, to acknowledge that yes, this rabbi and I both know that many non-Jewish houses of worship in other places also require rent-a-cops, to announce that yes, we both know that other groups have been persecuted too—and this degrading need to recite these middle-school-obvious facts is itself an illustration of the problem, which is that dead Jews are only worth discussing if they are part of something bigger, something more. Some other people might go to Holocaust museums to feel sad, and then to feel proud of themselves for feeling sad. They will have learned something officially important, discovered a fancy metaphor for the limits of Western civilization. The problem is that for us, dead Jews aren't a metaphor, but rather actual people that we do not want our children to become.

people love dead jews, dara horn. pages 187–189. bold and colors mine

genuinely fuck all of you for diluting the meaning of “nazi” down to “person i don’t think is radical enough” and the absolute devastation of the holocaust to “jews whining about a couple of them being killed.” fuck you. i hope you all spend the rest of your lives embarrassed and ashamed at the bold faced antisemitism you took part in.

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Bullet Train (2022)

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The further I progress on this rewatch of White Collar the more aware I am that Peter is an adrenaline junkie who loves the rush of the con as much or more than Neal.

Peter will be like "I'm a by-the-book guy who plays by the rules"

and Neal goes "But what if we broke the rules. I promise I have a good reason"

but Peter is already in a cat burglar outfit like "stop selling you beautiful bastard I'm in"

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dw guys they're totally saying this in good faith they're not antisemitic at all

On Twitter there are currently a lot of Christians and Muslims getting really angry about ways that Jews work around restrictions on work during Shabbat, and, like, honestly I do not understand why they care? Just a lot of non-Jews telling nice Orthodox Jews that they’re doing their religion wrong for no reason.