#jews in hiding

[a-very-tired-jew]

Sad Realization and Confirmation - we're in hiding

I was coming home from work last night and had the realization that I had not seen any of the Chabad students walking across campus as I normally do until that moment. The student was not even dressed in the regular attire of a Chabad member, but in "normal" clothing. Their yamulke had been replaced by a baseball hat and they were wearing a Hawaiian shirt and jeans. Gone was the white button down and black slacks, let alone the tallit being worn underneath. It then hit me that I hadn't seen any of them since about late October / early November and that they likely had all switched to wearing less obviously Jew identifying clothing. I am a secular Jew that grew up in the Reconstructionist movement. While I don't wear anything that makes me stand out as a Jew, nor do I have much of my identity wrapped around clothing associated with my ethnicity, I do get recognized as one for my phenotypic expression. For the Chabad students the clothing is part of who they are. They are hiding it now because it's simply not safe. The fact that this echoes what I have seen across the internet about Jews hiding to be safe hit me like a ton of bricks. This isn't something we should have to do in 2024, but here we are. I went to the FB page of our local group as well and noticed that the attire had even changed in the safety of their own facility. So yeah...that's what we've come to. Jewish students who can't be outwardly Jewish because anti-Zionism is just a dogwhistle to go after us. It does not matter if you are not going after Jews, there is such a significant amount of threatening rhetoric that we as a people are going back to our old survival methods.

[thosefaroffconstellations]

This is such a Syrian thing but I LOVE checking rice for Pesach , I look forward to it so much. It’s always been my job growing up and it’s become my favorite part of Pesach prep.

[the-garbanzo-annex-jr]

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[hindahoney]

Don't let threats against synagogues scare you out of going. The people making these threats want you to be scared. They want you to be so scared that you don't feel safe living your life as a proud and visible Jew, so scared that you take your menorah out of your window and remove your mezuzah from your doorpost. The more you concede, the more they feel like they're winning and the more emboldened they get.

Now, more than ever, we need Jews to be loud, proud and unapologetic. You should not be afraid to exist as a Jew. Wear your star of David. Wear your kippah. And take pride in who you are and where you come from.

[sefaradweb]

Retrato de Rachel Cohen tomado unos días antes de que partiera hacia Palestina con Youth Aliyah.

Ella sobrevivió a la guerra escondiéndose bajo el nombre de Elitsa Payia.

Derechos de autor: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Procedencia: Dora Levy Saltiel

[anghraine]

My other housemate has only watched a few episodes from the ST marathon and none of the movies (and has kind of magically escaped a lot of pop culture awareness), but that was enough for her (someone with her own deep investment in very different fandoms) to be O_O at the Kirk and Spock interactions.

We were talking about how shitty the parent corporations etc were towards many slash shippers of the 70s and 80s, and she was like, "I don't really get why anyone would be mad about people seeing their particular relationship as romantic, it's just... this isn't coming out of nowhere. There's a lot of intensity and they obviously care deeply."

me: Yeah, the series finale includes Kirk saying that Spock is closer to him than anyone else in the universe.

Ash: Wait, really? Like, literally?

me: Yes. That's just about the exact wording, actually.

Ash: Damn.

[maidservant-hecubus]

Some of you just love dead Jews and it shows.

[sweaterkittensahoy]

Cannot stress enough, if my options are "government so imperfect its own people protested the president for literal weeks and no one was murdered" and "terrorist organization that has propagandized people into thinking it's a real resistance network," I'm backing the country that doesn't murder protesters.

And, yes, this is 100% about backing the Israeli government in refusing to lay down and die because a bunch of antisemitic fucks have convinced people antisemitism is the new, cool activism.

Hamas is a terrorist organization, and Palestinians are fighting back against them, and yet in the tags on this website that claims to care about Palestinians, all the tags are filled with fucking scam posts.

Meanwhile, Israel's strike against Iran may actually kill the money going to Hamas, which could lead to actual peace and freedom for Palestinians and not just the fairytale the so-called Pro-Palestine fucks tell themselves as they smash their dollies together.

[shittygaypornmagazine]

jewish trans women you should sew your kippot into a bra.

[gingerswagfreckles]

Hm getting some antisemitic vibes from this, esp considering the historical context of the time and place this quote came from. I wonder what the notes say, maybe I'm misinterpreting-

Oh.

[girlactionfigure]

The October 7th Massacre is a national tragedy for all Israelis, irrespective of race, religion, or creed. 

In the coming post we will show how two Israelis, one a Jew, and the other, a Muslim-Arab from the Bedouin minority miraculously escaped a massive Hamas onslaught, by hiding in the freezer of the gas station they managed in southern Israel.

In this video, compiled from various angles of the gas station security cameras at the Magen intersection on the morning of the attack, we can see the moments that the two Israeli employees open the storefront, only to see the invading Hamas terrorist force. 

They immediately escape through the back of the store, as they are chased by Hamas terrorists who shoot their way in. Eventually, according to Israeli media, the two hid in a freezer for hours until help arrived.

When the terrorists can't find anyone to kill, they proceed to loot the store like common criminals.

They even make off with the gas station trash can...

[nappingpaperclip]

some pictures from the March on Washington

Freedom Plaza, Washington D.C.

January 13th, 2024

[labelma]

Hey, so kidnapping and murdering a Chabad Rabbi in Dubai won’t free Palestine, y’all know that right?

[panaeolus-fimicola]

ripping my hair out and skin off

[ineffablecrisp]

Do I or do I not want to make Tom Kazansky a Soviet immigrant

[jewishbarbies]

leftists acting like they didn't know far right american conservatives want israel to bomb all of gaza and then take it for themselves as a core part of conservative christian ideology as some kind of gotcha or proof of "the (((zionist))) agenda" is fucking hilarious. like, i'm sorry, what did you THINK far right american conservatives wanted? they want israel. they want all muslims dead and they want jews to control all of israel so that jesus can come back and punish all the evil dirty jews who wouldn't convert to christianity so that CHRISTIANS can have the land. how the fuck are you getting "this is what THE JEWS want!!" from a fucking kushner talking about what he thinks israel should do, as an AMERICAN far right conservative? you absolute donkey's ass