former-leftist-jew

[former-leftist-jew]

I just noticed you're a self-identified communist.

You are aware of various communist regimes' antisemtism, right?

If you're going to kiss the ground that mass-murdering dictators like Stalin and Mao spat on, then you'd better confront the Jewish blood soaked in that ground.

I need Western leftist to realise that secular Jews were slaughtered during the Shoah.

I need Western leftists to realise that Jews who converted to Christianity were slaughtered during the Shoah.

I need Western leftists to realise that there were Jews who assisted the Nazis, thinking that this way they'll keep themselves safe.

I need Western leftists to realise that the Shoah wasn't about religion at all.

[former-leftist-jew]

Yeah, I'm fed up with non-Jewish Leftists telling Jews the kind of bigotry we do and don't experience.

"If you're white, you don't get to determine what is and isn't racist because you're not black/asian/poc/etc."

"If you're a man, don't tell a woman what is and isn't sexist because you haven't walked a mile in her shoes."

"If you're straight, you don't get to determine what is and isn't transphbic, biphobic, etc..."

But when it comes to Jews, all of a sudden those endless rules fly out the window.

I need Western leftist to realise that secular Jews were slaughtered during the Shoah.

I need Western leftists to realise that Jews who converted to Christianity were slaughtered during the Shoah.

I need Western leftists to realise that there were Jews who assisted the Nazis, thinking that this way they'll keep themselves safe.

I need Western leftists to realise that the Shoah wasn't about religion at all.

[former-leftist-jew]

There's a story I like about a Jewish servicemember who wanted to wear a kippah in uniform. He goes to his rabbi, who happens to be a chaplain, and tells him "rabbi, I want to wear a kippah, but I'm worried my chain of command won't let me."

Rabbi asks "what kind of kippah do you want to wear?"

"Just a little black one that fits under my cover"

"Excellent, here's what you do. Get a Bukharan kippah, the more colorful the better, and wear it tomorrow."

"But rabbi, I don't want to wear a Bukharan kippah, and I don't want to wear a colorful kippah."

"Trust me."

So the servicemember wears the brightly colored Bukharan kippah.

Later that day, an officer comes to see the rabbi.

"Rabbi, you have to help me. There's a servicemember at my command who started wearing a kippah, and it's so big and brightly colored. Please, rabbi, you've got to talk him down."

"Ill handle it."

And the servicemember switched to the little black kippah he'd wanted all along, and everyone thought they'd come out ahead.

I mention this, because we've got a design at work that's failing some tests, but the customer won't let us make very reasonable updates. My job is to come up with a proposal that they'll really hate, to make the updates we want look much more palatable.

[former-leftist-jew]

I need Western leftist to realise that secular Jews were slaughtered during the Shoah.

I need Western leftists to realise that Jews who converted to Christianity were slaughtered during the Shoah.

I need Western leftists to realise that there were Jews who assisted the Nazis, thinking that this way they'll keep themselves safe.

I need Western leftists to realise that the Shoah wasn't about religion at all.

[former-leftist-jew]

i finally read this word salad and i have nothing to say but:

imagine going this hard for someone who tortured and murdered his own people, planned the worst massacre of jews since the holocaust, and then crawled out of a bunker to throw a stick at a drone, after he hid in tunnels for a year.

amazing.

[former-leftist-jew]

[former-leftist-jew]

Aaaand the photoset. Done for now.

[former-leftist-jew]

So on your other acc it says youre a zionist, does that nean you support isreal ? Im genuinely ask not to be disrespected

To me being a Zionist means that I support Israel’s existence as a Jewish state in our indigenous homeland, but not necessarily the actions of the government. I don’t like Israel’s current govt, but I do think the state of Israel has a right to defend itself.

Being a Zionist also doesn’t exclude supporting self determination of Palestinians or any other group.

[former-leftist-jew]

[former-leftist-jew]

the “a specific group of Israelis said something bad so we have the right to hunt down every jew in our country and hurt/kill them as punishment” rationale is really stone ages for a modern society but here we are. again.

[former-leftist-jew]

Sometimes I just think about how lucky I am to be Jewish. I could’ve been born anybody or anything, but I had the luck to be born into such a resilient, amazing people with a rich history. And I had the luck to be born into a time when Jews around the world can be so connected.

So much love for our diverse, beautiful community. 💙

[former-leftist-jew]

I love judaism I love judaism I love judaism

my beit din should be very soon, I’ve been studying with a rabbi for four years now and I’m so excited

does anyone have any mikvah experience to share? I’m a little scared about that part 😭

[former-leftist-jew]

Jewish culture is getting to gush about your religion for 3 years because you're doing theology at university, then being taken aside at graduation by your favourite lecturer and being offered a FULLY FUNDED PHD PLACEMENT RESEARCHING JUDAISM!!!! Doctor who? More like Doctor Jew!! (Was that poor taste? Probably! Was it funny? Definitely)

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[former-leftist-jew]

“yeah idk Old Testament God is so angry and vengeful. the New Testament God is just so much kinder and more loving" hey so are we just gonna wallpaper over that bit about the wicked suffering an eternal damnation in a realm of unrelenting torture? 

[former-leftist-jew]

Whatever happened to not talking over minorities about their own lived experiences?

I need Western leftist to realise that secular Jews were slaughtered during the Shoah.

I need Western leftists to realise that Jews who converted to Christianity were slaughtered during the Shoah.

I need Western leftists to realise that there were Jews who assisted the Nazis, thinking that this way they'll keep themselves safe.

I need Western leftists to realise that the Shoah wasn't about religion at all.

[former-leftist-jew]

I’m rewatching The Nanny and it occurred to me how cool it is to watch a Jewish woman actually be wanted and desired…..I can’t think of many (any?) examples of media where an actual Jewish woman who looks and acts unapologetically Jewish is considered sexy and desirable. And it’s not humorless, either: there are plenty of jokes about Fran and her Jewishness, but it never feels mean-spirited and she’s never the only butt of the joke. Yes, the humor plays a lot on Jewish stereotypes, but Fran can take a joke just as well as she can dish it out.

It’s really refreshing and actually touching to watch. I don’t think I realized how much I’ve internalized the lesson taught to me by popular media that Jewish women are ugly and undesirable (and yes, Jewish men have played a part in perpetuating this idea). I almost get emotional watching Fran Drescher in this role because it feels viscerally different from everything else I’ve seen. It hits me in a really personal way.

[former-leftist-jew]

ive been trying to make this post

i'm still thinking about the kid whose peyoth were cut off.

this angers me. i'm secular and it angers me.

ive never been to the west. i dont know how it's usually there. ive heard a couple times that these times feel like pre-holocaust Germany. its not that i didnt believe it, i very much did. it just... didnt sink in as much untill now.

where is the outrage?? a child of a marginized group was forcefully stripped off of a traditional element of said group, where. is. the. outrage??? why havent i heard about it from outside of jewish spaces? why are we the only ones who care about ourselves? what's next?

"this is why we don't trust Goy hairdressers" i hear our own people say. this is reddiculous. i simply cannot grasp the existence in the diaspora at this point. it doesnt feel real. it didnt before and it doesnt now.

but it is real. i dont know what this world is turning into, but it certainly isnt something that i had known before.

to our siblings in the diaspora - please stay safe. i may be secular, but right now, if there's one thing i could pray for, it would be our people's safety.

שנדע ימים שקטים

may we know quiet days.