#JEWISH

[miss-galaxy-turtle]

Jew here with a friendly reminder that:

Criticizing Isreal ≠ antisemetic

Supporting Palestine ≠ antisemitic

Believing in the Free Palestine cause ≠ antisemitic

BUT ALSO

A random ass Jew just living their life oceans away has nothing to do with the Isreal-Palestine conflict

Palestinian Jews exist

Jews that support Palestine exist (I am one of them)

Calling out ACTUAL antisemitism ≠ supporting Isreal

[thebrightestwitchofherage]

A bit late as it felt wrong to post on Yom Hashoah, but this is so important!

The nazis that you see in movies are as much a historical fantasy as vikings with horned helmets and samurai cutting people in half.

The nazis were not some vague evil that wanted to hurt people for the sake of hurting them. They had specific goals which furthered a far right agenda, and they wanted to do harm to very specific groups, (largely slavs, jews, Romani, queer people, communists/leftists, and disabled people.)

The nazis didn't use soldiers in creepy gas masks as their main imagery that they sold to the german people, they used blond haired blue eyed families. Nor did they stand up on podiums saying that would wage an endless and brutal war, they gave speeches about protecting white Christian society from degenerates just like how conservatives do today.

Nazis weren't atheists or pagans. They were deeply Christian and Christianity was part of their ideology just like it is for modern conservatives. They spoke at lengths about defending their Christian nation from godless leftism. The ones who hated the catholic church hated it for protestant reasons. Nazi occultism was fringe within the party and never expected to become mainstream, and those occultists were still Christian, none of them ever claimed to be Satanists or Asatru.

Nazis were also not queer or disabled. They killed those groups, before they had a chance to kill almost anyone else actually. Despite the amount of disabled nazis or queer/queer coded nazis you'll see in movies and on TV, in reality they were very cishet and very able bodied. There was one high ranking nazi early on who was gay and the other nazis killed him for that. Saying the nazis were gay or disabled makes about as much sense as saying they were Jewish.

The nazis weren't mentally ill. As previously mentioned they hated disabled people, and this unquestionably included anyone neurodivergent. When the surviving nazi war criminals were given psychological tests after the war, they were shown to be some of the most neurotypical people out there.

The nazis weren't socialists. Full stop. They hated socialists. They got elected on hating socialists. They killed socialists. Hating all forms of lefitsm was a big part of their ideology, and especially a big part of how they sold themselves.

The nazis were not the supervillians you see on screen, not because they didn't do horrible things in real life, they most certainly did, but because they weren't that vague apolitical evil that exists for white American action heros to fight. They did horrible things because they had a right wing authoritarian political ideology, an ideology that is fundamentally the same as what most of the modern right wing believes.

[hailruth]

a siddur belonging to marilyn monroe, complete with her annotations in pencil. many remember her as a sex symbol who lived a difficult life, but few know of her conversion & devotion to judaism. "everybody's always out to get them, no matter what they do," said monroe. "like me."

[jewishoftheday]

Jerusalem Synagogue, Prague

[eretzyisrael]

Shavua Tov! May the coming week bring us peace & good health.

May this week be a better week than last.

[jewish-vents]

I’m not going to pretend Israel doesn’t have swarms of batshit fascists, what country doesn’t? Difference is if I was doing a documentary about MAGA cultists in America I’d also interview the left who are fighting back against them. Louis Theroux’s documentary “The Settlers” paints Israel with the brush of racism, colonialism and brutality, ignoring the millions of Arabs and Jews who live together side by side.

He knows exactly what he’s doing when he interviews that crazy woman, it’s the equivalent of Michael Moor making a documentary about the Southport Race Riots and declaring the whole of Britain are racist psychopaths.

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[cartoonverisimilitude]

Just saw a FB post about someone selling plants. Harmless right? Except they were selling "Wandering Jew" plant (the silver inch) and were calling it the "Settled Palestinian" plant.

Like does the person selling not know the original name is antisemitic in nature? It's not a "Zionist" name - and the plant isn't even native to the Middle East.

[moroniccats]

Oh that’s a GOOD one

I remember reading somewhere about an old Yiddish curse that went, "May a child be named after you." For the unaware, Ashkenazi Jews name their children after dead people.

I love this curse so much. Every time I remember it, it fills me with wicked glee. "May a child be named after you." The subtlety! The viciousness! The fake well-wishing! What a delightful way to tell someone to go fuck themselves!

[jewish-joy]

I will never forget the car ride where my dad was trying to convert me back to Catholicism, after I'd told him that I was actively pursuing Judaism.

He was waving one hand, when he professed- "Joy! You have to look for the signs from G-d! From the universe! Everything pulling you back in- back home!"

Then, the car rattled, crapped out, and rolled to a stop on the curb. Literally right outside was a synagogue with a huge Magen David stain glass window.

We were stuck there for an awkward two hours

[no-passaran]

This week, over 350 rabbis from the USA, together with some American Jewish creatives and activists, took a full-page ad in the New York Times to oppose Trump's plan for the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians from Gaza.

Sources: website of this campaign (Jewish People Say No To Ethnic Cleansing), Jewish Voice For Peace, The Guardian.

[bobemajses]

Bukharan Jews, Uzbekistan, ca. early 20th century

[ink-the-artist]

on his way to speak to the CEO of antisemitism

Another animation test. I like how in some versions of the Golem story the first thing Rabbi Loew has the Golem do is run some errands lol. ive created you to defend the jewish ghetto against antisemitic violence, could you pick something up at the grocery store for me pls

[sophieakatz]

It’s here! I’m honored to have an essay in this brand new journal, The Jewish Asexuality Anthology. What a wonderful opportunity to explore some of my experiences with this particular overlap of identities - an overlap I share with ten other writers featured here. Get a copy of your own at the Linktree in my bio, and check out @jewishaceanthology for more information.

[garlic-and-cloves]

Sometimes I want to walk up to the "not in our name" protestors and say you're right, it isn't in your name.

[girlactionfigure]

muslim_zionist18

Calling a war you started a gen*cide doesn't make you a victim. Truth matters.