#Jews are not the problem. Never was.

[notetaeker]

I see people opposing palestine by saying that Jews in Isra*l have a right to exist. Yes. Of course they do have a right to exist. As if THATS the issue that this is about. The holy land is for everyone. Everyone has a right to exist there, regardless of faith, and that includes Palestinians.

Israel tho?? As a country that is destroying people’s houses while they are living in it, telling people they have an impossibly short amount of time to evacuate before they bomb the hell out of them so they can take all the land ???? That is not ‘right to exist’ that is manifest destiny my friends. fueled by a superiority complex.

Jews ALWAYS have a right to exist and they have always existed and lived in Palestine. You can’t want to rid a land of its inhabitants in cruel ways (like using white phosphorous, bulldozing homes) and then complain that people are mad that you’re there and be like ‘oh gee how could these people be so hateful toward Me??’ 💀💀 like do u have no shame

[uncanny-tranny]

Big reminder that your country is not immune to bigotry. I've seen so many people, for example, pretend like antisemitism doesn't exist in the USA because we were part of the allied forces in WWII (of course, they conveniently don't remember that we rejected jewish refugees when WWII broke out and we only really joined because Pearl Harbor was bombed, but I digress).

If you think your country is immune from antisemitism, racism (including anti-Indigenous racism), class issues, ableism, whatever else it may be, look deeper because you will find it.

[hilacopter]

Genuine question: if the phrase “never again” referred to genocide on the scale of the Holocaust, why WOULDN’T you apply it to everyone? How does restricting its application to the Jewish people not imply a willingness to allow other groups to be targeted for extermination?

That's not what the phrase means. The phrase doesn't mean "never again will we let a genocide happen", it means "never again will we (Jews) let ourselves be slaughtered". Goyische leftists decided it means the former because they're jealous that we "get to have" the Holocaust, which to them isn't a generational trauma but rather the most important sport in the oppression olympics, and they feel the need to A. center themselves in it and B. compare everything else to it for shock value. "Never again means never again for anyone" is appropriating and generalising Jewish culture and trauma, which the goyische left has done time and time again because it makes them feel special. Fucking stop.

[tanadrin]

i don't feel comfortable saying this on my own blog bc it makes me sound like a fucking idiot but people explaining why they're calling israel "colonialist" has made me finally realize why people talk about colonialism like it's bad in and of itself, like i mostly heard people talk about "colonialism" like it meant "migrating while privileged" but no the ethnic cleansing of the existing inhabitants is actually a crucial part, huh

I mean the crucial part of colonialism from a leftist perspective is the resource extraction to fuel capitalism, and the creation of captive markets. British colonialism in India for instance was never aimed at wiping out the Indians; they hoped to make money extracting value from them! And, importantly, it was the extraction of value for enriching private interests—colonialism is frequently very expensive for the colonizing state with little direct return. Sometimes colonialism involves genocide, but it’s not a definitional feature.

I think Israel is a bad example of colonialism in this sense. The British abandoned Mandatory Palestine as not worth the headache; it was never a major military or economic outpost for them. Zionism was overwhelmingly a non-state enterprise, and AFAICT only got as popular as it did bc Jews felt like they didn’t have anywhere else to go. The US didn’t really become a major ally of Israel until the 60s, and certainly wasn’t instrumental in its establishment. Israel may now be politically useful to the US, but I think it’s an awkward fit to call it a “colony.”

Now, Israel is a colony in the broader, older sense of “a place people have moved to from somewhere else,” and you could make a stronger argument it is colonizing (in the more narrow sense) the occupied territories. But not every bad thing is isomorphic to every other bad thing, and I think it’s important both to keep terminology straight and to be able to call out atrocities even when there’s not a preexisting ideological framework of Badness that easily applies. Like it’s just straight up bad to kill massive numbers of civilians; you don’t need an elaborate explanation of why!

[kelluinox]

Listening to westerners is becoming increasingly like listening to vatniks and it's frightening and depressing

[imunbreakabledude]

saw a post saying “the only reason Israel exists is because of western oil interests” - and my thoughts here aren’t specific to that one post but a similar Sentiment I feel like I’ve seen a bunch… it feels… off to me when I see ppl on the left express this notion that Israel is wrong and evil BUT NOT Jewish!!! They don’t want to be antisemitic and they know that Israel does not represent all Jews, and they also want to call out other factors that ARE very significant factors in the past & present of Israel’s militarized existence, but they go so hard in that direction that like… it gives me the Bad Vibes in a different way. Different example that gave me a similar feeling - couple weeks back I remember seeing several friends shared an insta post that was all about Christian Zionism with stats and graphs showing the numbers of Christian zionists, how way more zionists are Christians than Jews, like a 9:1 ratio, and it also said something like “ZIONISM IS ANTISEMITISM”. Which - I wanna be clear, I do think raising awareness of that info is helpful, and I do personally feel that Zionism is harmful to everyone including Jews (but I wouldn’t call it ‘antisemitic’ bc I feel that’s deliberately pushing the limits of words in a way that less clear and more inflammatory than it should be).

But anyway both of these examples feel that common thread to me of like - calling out REAL factors that are at play in Israel’s creation, continued existence, relationship with US (and other) imperialism, but also… like… trying so hard to say “it’s not about Jews, it’s not about Jews at alllllllll!” When like. IT IS A LITTLE ABOUT JEWS, PAL? and it’s okay to acknowledge that?? And honestly I think trying that hard to ignore or talk around the notion of Israel as a Jewish homeland EVEN IF YOU DO NOT PERSONALLY AGREE WITH THAT NOTION OR THE WAY ZIONISM HAS USED VIOLENCE AND COLONIALISM TO MAKE IT HAPPEN, just makes it harder to contend w the reality of the situation. let alone communicate w people who aren’t already on the same exact page about this issue as you are. Like this attempt to try to critique Israel while so desperately talking around the Jewish part is well-meaning, I know, and probably in part a practical defense/response against those who continue to lob accusations of antisemitism against any critique of Israel, but at some point you sound ridiculous

[infiniteglitterfall]

jewish shower thoughts

A Reddit comment I can't stop thinking about: "If you think whiteness is bad, Jews are white to you. If you think whiteness is good, Jews aren't white to you."

[yiddishlore]

While growing up in Pittsburgh in the 50s, my grandmother would walk to school with her two sisters. When they passed the Catholic school that stood between their Jewish neighborhood and the public elementary school, the Catholic kids would shout slurs and throw rocks at them. Every. Single. Day.

I remember her telling me this, and shrugging like it was just a fact of life. Not a big deal. What you expect when you’re a Jew.

I don’t want my kids to grow up thinking antisemitism is expected.

[torahtot]

ok ive had enough of queering judaism. can we start judaizing queerness now. or something

[critterchitters-closedcaptions]

trying to decipher if the overwhelming dread & Thoughts are cause of the state of the world or cause i need a shower.

vent post in the tags. idk. do whatever 👍

[nonokoko13]

Friendly reminder that being queer/LGBT ally/jewish/pro-semitism isn't, can't and shouldn't be used to justify and support ethnic cleansing, colonization and genocide. If you do think so then I don't want you to talk to me ever again 👉🚪

[twipsai]

thinking more,,

[benevolentbirdgal]

honestly, the most obnoxious response to people finding out I'm vegetarian and kosher-style (or just in response to like, the general principle of kosher or whatever) is the "oh that's so hard I can't imagine not eating normal foods." like bruh. normal foods are relative. There's not One True Food Lifestyle from which all others deviate - there are cultures where it's normal to consume insects and there are cultures where it's not, there are people for whom dairy is a nonstarter and others where it's needed to start a proper meals, there are places alcohol isn't okay and there are places it's more than alright.

"But don't you miss bacon?"

"You've never had bacon? OMG that's so sad."

No, I haven't, and I don't miss it. Do you miss fermented shark? Bugs? Larval cheese? Century eggs? Marmite? Fish eyeballs? Blood pudding? Rocky mountain oysters? The infinity of jello stuff from the 1950s? Maybe there's something I've listed that's a normative part of your diet, but it's unlikely that all of them are. All of these are edible, but what is culturally acceptable and gastronomically desired vary from decade to decade and place to place.

like, no, being vegan/vegetarian/plant-based/whatever is DEFINITELY not for everyone. but there's not some universal neutral diet that the rest of us are veering from.

[theghostiedyke]

not me seeing the same discourse the land back movement got being repeated for Palestine. 🤨 y'all aren't even trying to think critically.

[thefaestolemyname]

Internet Archive just sent me an email reminding me they have tons of free audiobooks and uh I figured I should pass the message along.

The Internet Archive has tons of free audiobooks

Universal Access to All Knowledge for the win!

[solitarelee]

Liberals will deadass be like "ah yes the three great evils: the British Empire, America, and Jews" and then wonder why Jews don't feel safe lol