#Jewish neighbourhood

[eretzyisrael]

eurojewcong

The traditionally Jewish neighborhood of Leopoldstadt in Vienna was defaced with numerous "Death to Zionism" graffiti on May 1st. Several organizations marched through the district yesterday with anti-Israel slogans. The reaction of its residents is truly heartwarming ❤️

[sadisticnstoned]

[ratnurse]

Received what I'm pretty sure is christian evangelising aimed at orthodox Jews in my mailbox today :/

[quasi-normalcy]

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[girlfictions]

something i’ve been thinking about lately is like. growing up muslim right after 9/11 is something i’d never really reflected on much because it was all i’d ever known — at 5, my friend’s mum didn’t let her invite me to her birthday party because i was the only brown girl in our class, at 12, my classmates would joke about my family being part of isis, at 16, my dad was interrogated by american airport security for hours — and it always stung and it always hurt but it was just the way things were because the western world hated muslims. but i don’t think i’ve ever fully comprehended the extent to which we were hated until now.

palestine is being turned into a mass graveyard. every single day there are new photos of the atrocities being carried out against them and videos of them pleading for help and still those who can actually intervene turn a blind eye. israel is claiming to only be targeting hamas “terrorists” while bombing a refugee camp. israeli police raided and assaulted a non-zionist jewish neighbourhood. israeli soldiers are posting tiktoks of them torturing captured palestinians. this is not a complicated issue and it never has been. ethnic cleansing is being committed right in front of us. and yet the western world leaders refuse to call for a ceasefire.

and while zionist organisations accuse pro-palestine demonstrations of anti-semitism, while zionist celebrities insist that they’re afraid to leave their mansions in los angeles, a six year old muslim boy was stabbed to death and his mother wounded in the same attack in chicago. a muslim doctor was murdered while sitting outside her apartment complex in texas. hundreds of peaceful protesters have been arrested (many of whom have been jewish). despite what zionists want you to believe, this is not a jewish/muslim conflict. i have so much love and gratitude to my brave jewish brothers and sisters all over the world who are condemning israel for their actions.

ultimately, israel have been granted impunity by the west. they have slaughtered thousands upon thousands of innocent palestinians. they have bombed hospitals and schools indiscriminately. they have used white phosphorus, violating the geneva convention. they have completely eradicated nearly 900 bloodlines. how many more need to be wiped out? how many more children need to be buried underneath the rubble? how many more doctors need to be confronted with the bodies of their own family members? how many more journalists need to detail the horrific acts of violence they are witnessing? what more can be done to the palestinian people that has not been done already?

i truly believe that palestine will be free one day. i believe the palestinian people will receive the justice they finally deserve. but what breaks my heart is how much they have suffered and will continue to suffer before they are deemed worthy of help. and it would be to all of our detriment if we ignored how much of a factor palestine being a predominantly muslim state has played into the way the world has reacted to their genocide.

[ittibittium]

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[itwasmagic]

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[avi-on-jumblr]

awful tweet warning:

Before I describe everything that's wrong with this tweet, let me transcribe Stephen Fry's words:

I am Stephen Fry, and I am a Jew. The great Irish thinker and writer Conor Cruise O'Brien once said that antisemitism is a light sleeper. Well, it seems to have woken up of late. The horrendous events of October 7th, and the Israeli response, seem to have stirred up this ancient hatred. It's agonizing to see all violence and destruction that is unfolding, and the terrible loss of life on both sides brings me an overwhelming sadness and heartache. But whatever our opinions on what is happening, there can be no excuse for the behaviour of some of our citizens. Since October the 7th, there have been 50 separate reported incidents of antisemitism every single day in London alone, an increase of 1350%, according to the Metropolitan police. Shop windows smashed, stars of David and swastikas daubed on walls of Jewish properties, synagogues, and cemeteries. Jewish schools have been forced to close. There is real fear stalking the Jewish neighbourhoods of Britain. Jewish people here are becoming fearful of showing themselves, in Britain, in 2023.

(Then it cuts off.)

For those who still don't know why this tweet was ignorant and inane, let me explain.

"To hear him conflate antiZionism with antisemitism has shocked me."

Guess how many times Stephen Fry mentions zionism? Zero! Guess how many times he mentions the country of Israel? Zero! (Unless you count "the Israeli response" which is unrelated to the existence of the country, or Zionism at all.) What this person is saying, is that they consider the smashing of shop windows, and the vandalism and marking of Jewish property, to be anti-Zionism. Considering they are an anti-Zionist, by following their logic, we can conclude that they not only believe this destruction and harassment is acceptable, but they believe it is ethical.

Further, they accuse him of showing no care for the Palestinians, even though he explicitly states that the loss of life on both sides brings him overwhelming sadness.

Finally, they accuse him of "[Centring] people in this country". It is disturbing that this person believes one cannot be concerned over two issues at a time. It perpetuates the idea that we can only talk about the "worst oppression" and talking about anything else means you are complicit in "silencing" someone else. If this were true, we would not be allowed to talk about Gaza either, or Ukraine, or police brutality, racism, islamophobia, homophobia, transphobia, and so on and so on, because clearly there are other issues with hundreds of thousands more deaths, and millions more displacements, so why bring attention to it ever?

Unfortunately, people are not talking about those countries, like Syria, Yemen, Ethiopia, Congo, and more, and anyone who does is spammed with "free Palestine" comments. In fact, the most I've heard people talking about Sudan is when these TikTok geopolitical experts attempt to spam the Palestinian flag and get it wrong.

This is not new. This is obviously not new. I have seen tweets like these every single day in the hundreds for the last 80 days. It is not surprising that people think smashing windows is "anti-zionism", nor that they think it good. It is not surprising that they hear a Jew speak, and experience shock and disgust, regardless of what we say.

I do wonder if they would regard anything short of a second Holocaust as antisemitism.

[magnetothemagnificent]

I gotta say, it is terrifying seeing antisemitic vandalism and imagery around the neighbourhood my family lives in, a liberal semi-suburban neighbourhood with "hate has no home here" signs and rainbow flags on pretty lawns. It's like the level of tolerance they've had for the increasing Jewish population in the area has reached a tipping point, and these liberal WASPs and WASP-adjacents have decided they can no longer tolerate having Jewish neighbours. A kosher restaurant was vandalized a couple weeks ago. A synagogue was vandalized twice within the span of a single week. My siblings have been yelled out on their way to and from synagogue on Shabbat.

I feel stupid to have ever thought we lived in a safe neighbourhood. I feel stupid to have ever thought we lived in a safe country.

[xclowniex]

Well what is being done about it? What is being done to assure jewish safety?

Like I get hiding being jewish and not being attacked is better than being openly jewish and being attacked but A) even if a jew doesn't wear judacia, most jews look visibly Jewish so the only actual current probable measure is for jews to not go to those neighborhoods.

But what is being done so jews don't have to avoid certain areas? What is being done to prevent jews from hiding their jewishness?

Is there going to be an temporary increase in police presence? Are there going to be efforts to deradicalize people who are antisemitic? What is going to be done?

Obligatory not all arabs are antisemitic and I am also an arab jew so I better not see any anti arab racism as A) its bad in general but also B) you're being racist to me too - you can critique antisemitism which is ingrained in certain arab and Islamic cultured without veering into Islamophobia or anti arab racism and critiquing antisemitism in certain arab and Islamic cultures isn't inherently Islamophobic or racist.

[opencommunion]

"The neo-Zionist view on the past is even more nationalist and romantic than the consensual Zionist view of it. Israel of the Second Temple era was the glorious past which must be reconstructed. ... As a result, neo-Zionists took seriously the idea of rebuilding a Third Temple to replace Haram al-Sharif and preparing cadres of priests to serve there when the time would come – although they differ on how to achieve this goal, whether by exploding the two mosques on the Temple Mount, or waiting for divine intervention to pave the way for their scheme.

... The neo-Zionist interpretation of the idea of Israel constituted the ideological infrastructure for the official educational system. The neo-Zionists produced several educational kits (textbooks, curricula, and so on) which would have the power to impact the next generation of Jews in Israel. These kits could produce only one type of graduate: racist, insular, and extremely ethnocentric. The message that came through clearly ... is to fear the Other inside and around you – the Other being the Arab world around Israel, the Palestinian neighbourhoods, the Palestinian citizens inside Israel, and non-Jewish immigrants.

... Another crucial element was the militarisation of the educational system. In 1998 the Ministry of Education announced a new master plan devoted to linking students more closely with the army. The basic idea was to follow children from kindergarten through high school graduation so as to ensure that they would be well prepared for ‘military environment and values’ and that they would ‘be able to cope with situations of pressure and developing leadership skills on a battlefield’. The level of physical fitness required by the army would be a precondition for matriculation and graduation, and an obligatory, integral part of the future educational system would be participation in army manoeuvres and military indoctrination. This was to be complemented by enriched lessons on Zionism and Eretz Israel studies. In the final three years of high school, the scheme aimed at ‘increasing the motivation and preparedness for the IDF’. During the initial year there would be a focus on ‘the individual’s commitment to his or her homeland’, and in the following two years, on ‘actual participation in military life’. In a way, this had always been done at schools, but always as a marginal part of school life; moreover, its features were formulated by more mainstream Zionists. Now the individual pupil would learn the history of the land according to the neo-Zionist interpretation – an education bound to shape his or her vision of the future."

Ilan Pappé, The Idea of Israel: A History of Power and Knowledge (2014)

[jewish-vents]

I need Israel because that is currently the only place I feel safe enough to speak Hebrew in public

I need Israel because it's the only place I feel comfortable walking around with my magen David necklace on show

I need Israel for the 'shabbat shaloms' that start Wednesday morning

I need Israel for the menorahs on show outside every house

I need Israel because that's the only place I feel safe around non-Jews

I need Israel for the neighbourhoods where we all see eachother as family, even if we come from opposite sides of the world

I need Israel to feel safe because the world is becoming Nazi Germany once again

I need Israel because I am Jewish

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[halalchampagnesocialist]

Historically, the violence of colonialism and imperialism has often been obscured behind the veneer of “decorum” and “politeness.” The same can be said for much of Zionism’s history. Another thing that permeates discourses around Israel/Palestine and Zionism is the politics of “moral respectability.” I would define this as morality politics seen as respectable or acceptable according to liberal, Western standards. We see this, for example, in the way that many liberal politicians talk about Israeli violence compared to Palestinian violence and so forth.

The politics of Zionism and moral respectability serve to act as double standards to absolve the Israeli state of its colonial violence. It is a politics that presents Israelis and Jews as deserving of sympathy, compassion, and solidarity, whilst Palestinians are merely a charity case at best, undeserving and facing an oppression of their own making, at worst.

A very recent example of this is the backlash to Mohammed El Kurd’s tweet about Jewish symbolism being appropriated by the state of Israel. For context, a Jewish man entered a Palestinian-owned coffee shop wearing a blue hat with a Star of David and was kicked out. This spawned outrage from many. Afterwards, Mohammed El Kurd tweeted the response below. This also drew outrage from some other Palestinians, Zionists, and everyone in between.

While I don’t necessarily agree with the equivocation of religious symbols with symbols like the Swastika, El Kurd is absolutely correct in his assertion that Zionism (and the state of Israel) have turned the Star of David into a racist symbol. We see the Star of David often graffitied onto Palestinian homes in the West Bank by settlers and now in Gaza by Israeli soldiers. There have been instances of the Star of David also being branded on Palestinian prisoners by Israelis. It is blatantly used as a symbol of violence and Jewish supremacy against Palestinians.

For those unfamiliar with El Kurd, he is a Palestinian New York-based writer, hailing from Sheikh Jarrah in occupied Jerusalem. Sheikh Jarrah, arguably, is one of the main sites of the ongoing Judaisation of Jerusalem. Palestinians in the neighbourhood are battling forced evictions and displacement against settlement organisations who plan to take their houses, remove their Palestinian inhabitants and give them to Jewish settlers to live in. El Kurd and his family are one of those families and he has been documenting this struggle with his sister Muna since he was a child. It is fair to say that El Kurd is not merely posturing about Zionism for ideological reasons, but like many Palestinians, he is a victim of Zionism in practice.

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wrote about zionism and morality politics for my substack. this is just a small excerpt, continue reading in the link.

[simplysiriuslyjoking]

My house was attacked by Hamas supporters

Yesterday, as I was making my way home after a 12 hour shift, I got several phone calls from my family.

"WHERE ARE YOU?!?

"I just got on the bus. What's up? Why the panic?"

"Our building got hit by 5-6 molotov cocktails! Fire and police arrived!! Don't walk home. Wait until we get permission from police to come into our neighbourhood!"

I live in Jerusalem, an arab and Jewish area mixed together. My house was attacked because my family is Jewish. Thank God no one got hurt, and the damage wasn't severe. It was a proper miracle. Each molotov cocktail missed the cars and people outside.

It's not the first time that has happened. Since 2000, every few years, my building has suffered molotov cocktails by my arab neighbours, especially by the children who learn to hate and murder Jews by the UN textbooks.

So tell me, is it normal to make an actual fire bomb and throw it at innocent people, or because we are Jews it's ok?

[radfem-polls]

This one is a bit different, so I'll start with a background!

In 2019 a Belgian model called Marisa Papen walked through an Orthodox Jewish neighborhood completely naked/wearing only a trenchcoat, and with a magen David on her body.

Marisa is a longtime campaigner against religious 'modest' rulings of women's clothing. She previously protested at Hagia Sophia, at Vatican City, and in religious sites in Egypt, where she was even arrested. In all of those she walks around of stands with her completely naked body as her statement. She also has environmental protests. She is also a model, working in a lot of pornographic and misogynist publications, including Playboy.

The neighbourhood she walked through was one of the neighbourhoods in New York where ultra-orthodox Jewish communities live. They're known for their very conservative modesty laws, which include for women: thick stockings, no pants and skirts and dresses must cover the knees, no showing the midriff even to other women, long sleeves (covering at least the elbows), covering the neckbones, no wearing red and overall only modest colors like blacks, greys and navies, as well as covering your hair with scarves or wigs for married women. Different sects have more rules, but these are the basic ones. As well, as you can imagine, they have further rulings for women which are very misogynistic and patriarchal.

In this particular protest, she walked around for a while naked, and then in an open trenchcoat when it started to rain. She says the reactions are mixed, some men only looking away, while other shouted at her and scorned her, and eventually chasing her and her male cameraman out of the neighbourhood. She doesn't comment on women's reactions.

Personally, what do you think/how do you feel about this protest?

I have some overaching options for the replies, but mods, feel free to add/change them, and I'd LOVE! to see extended opinions on it. But I would rather this not be made as a opinion of reblog/tags poll, if that's okay :-) (altho u can make a separate one for that, if u wish)

It is a protest based on shock value, and doesn't add much to a debate or a confrontation

It's a brave protest, and effective in its message

It replicates misogynistic patterns of women being expected to display their bodies to men, and that's anti feminist

Both porn modeling and religious modesty laws are bad, and pitting them against each other does not benefit women

It would be better if someone else did it, but the idea is good

Nuance???

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[thebrightestwitchofherage]

Responding to yet more unhinged Anti zionists arguments

Because I am not going to waste my precious time and energy on replying to each ignorant person who believes Hamas are a "brave resistance group"

For the millionth time: I do not support the genocide of Palestinians when I say Israelis shouldn't die. I am not deflecting or denying anything, I am making posts about how I and other Israelis have been impacted by October 7th and the war ever since. I am allowed to mourn my people.

Released female Israeli hostages aren't "weaponizing Feminism". Just because some were "only" sexually assaulted and threatened with rape, doesn't mean others aren't raped. Israeli women were targeted on October 7th. Their assault, mutilation, and violent rape were all planned. Hamas terrorists who were caught and interrogated have said so themselves in published recorded interrogations. *** Regarding Mia Shem- I've said before: mocking her appearance isn't making you the great humane person you think you are. I've had some nutjob tell me "Oh well in an interview she said she was only groped and others were raped. She's using feminism and things people care about in order to gain sympathy." She was: -Kidnapped from a party and shot. -Operated on by a veterinarian while in captivity for over 50 days. -Starved ,beaten, mocked , groped and sexually assulted while constantly threatened with being raped. And you're mocking her. Wow that is a new low. Believe Jewish women.

You are constantly backing up your "facts" and statistics with un-credible sources. Let me make this clear one final time: Al Jazeera = racist and antisemitic supports terrorism There isn't a Gaza Ministry of Health- it's Hamas.

Palestinians and Hamas specifically are very racist towards Afro-Palestinian / black people. A quick Google search will lead you to this:

Anti-Black racism in Palestine

The State of Palestine has a community of Afro-Palestinians, many of whom are descendants of the victims of the historical Slavery in Palestine, which ended in the 20th-century.[43]

Racism against African Americans in Palestinian media (Wikipedia)

Former U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, has been the subject of some viciously racial personal attacks, alongside vociferous criticism of her policies.[44] These included an anti-black racist cartoon in Palestinian Authority's controlled Press Al Quds. The New York Times reported in 2006:

Her comment that the Israel-Lebanon war represented the "birth pangs of a new Middle East"— coming at a time when television stations were showing images of dead Lebanese children — sparked ridicule and even racist cartoons. A Palestinian newspaper, Al Quds," which "depicted Ms. Rice as pregnant with an armed monkey, and a caption that read, "Rice speaks about the birth of a new Middle East.[45]

The Palestinian media has used racist terms including "black spinster" and "colored dark skin lady."[46][47]

.... The African Palestinians who now live in the two compounds near al-Aqsa mosque have called the area home since 1930.[12] They have experienced prejudice, with some Palestinian Arabs[21] referring to them as "slaves" (abeed) and to their neighbourhood as the "slaves' prison" (habs al-abeed), and their colour has led to objections against them marrying Palestinians with lighter skin.[9][3] According to Mousa Qous, director of the African Community Society and a former member of the PFLP, "Sometimes when a black Palestinian wants to marry a white Palestinian woman, some members of her family might object." Interracial marriage with Afro-Palestinians has become more common in recent years.[8] In colloquial Palestinian Arabic, standard usage prefers the word sumr (dark colour) over sawd, which has an uncouth connotation.[22]

-For further reading I found this research paper to be very detailed: https://d-nb.info/1204258597/34

*** I have to mention this as well since some anti-Zionist brought up MLK as an example for their argument against Israel: you clearly have no idea what you're talking about... he was a Zionist!

Jews and African Americans have historically been allies in their struggles for equality. He literally wrote an open letter titled "Letter to an Anti-Zionist friend", explaining why he supports Zionism. Do your research.

5. Gaza hasn't been under Israel's control since 2006, it is controlled by Hamas! Before that, it was governed by Fatah, Another terrorist organization (Hamas killed all of the Fatah members when they came to power). Hamas = terror organization leaching off the Palestinian people. They want to kill all Jews and are against everything that represents the West. UWNRA - Is filled with Hamas terrorists. UN & ICRC - Both have a long history of being biased against Jews and have failed the Jewish people once again.

6. Israelis don't deserve to die just because they are Israeli. They are not privileged to have a government that (relative to Hamas) cares about their civilians.

7. "From the river to the sea" Is a genocidal chant calling for the death of all Jews / Israelis. The final solution / one solution = killing all Jews, holocaust. Intifadas aren't peaceful or inspiring resistance. It's Terror attacks targeting civilians: Shootings, stabbings, lynchings, school buses exploding, etc.

I have an entire post explaining this, you're welcome to read it but the main takeaway should be: You don't get to decide what's anti-Semitic, Jews do. If Jews tell you this chant threatens them and is antisemitic- it is.