#LGBTQIA antisemitism

[amaditalks]

The organizers didn’t just try to blame Jews, they actually used the antisemitic slur “zio” on their social media. That’s not a common slur in the US, and was even less so at the time, and was mostly heard from people like David Duke or used on white supremacist Internet forums and sites like Stormfront. The excuses for why they used that word have never passed muster either.

why would you be unsafe at pride

I'm going to assume this question is asked in good faith and with a genuine interest in my safety. I'm also going to be very direct and blunt.

Jewish people are being targeted and attacked worldwide. Not just in right-wing spaces, but also leftist spaces. And yes that includes Pride and queer related events. If I want to attend pride wearing my kippah and my magen david, there is a good chance I will have some unpleasant words thrown at me, at the very least. There is a chance I will be physically attacked and/or kicked out of the march.

I would recommend spending more time listening to Jewish people on their struggle with antisemitism in the present. I don't mean that as a snarky comment, I just think listening to minorities about their struggles is a crucial part of activism. Hope this answered your question! If you'd like to ask more questions, feel free to reach out again, either in my ask box or my DMs

[brandyschillace]

I turned in the book manuscript for INTERMEDIARIES, the forgotten history of the first transgender clinic 1918-1933.

It follows the story of Dora Richter, the first transgender woman to undergo complete MTF surgery (not Lili Elbe; she was third!) It’s taken me two years of blood, sweat, and tears. A lot of tears, actually.

The Nazis raided the Institute for Sexual Science; they burned the library. They banned the books that remained. They attacked, arrested, and ultimately killed trans and homosexual people along with disabled people, minority groups like the Roma people, political opponents, and 6 million Jews. (One commenter suggested 11 million people over all, and really, that estimate may still be conservative).

The news today, 2023, reads a lot like news in 1923 with the rise of hatred against LGBTQ, attacks on reproductive rights, and increasing racism and antisemitism. The Nazis rose throughout the 1920s, coming into power 1930-1933.

The world said never again; we must now be the ones to stop a slide into hatred and violence. Before it’s too late.

Here is a preview of the book; it will be available for pre-order this winter (I hope), coming out in 2024.

[jewish-mccoy]

Given how unsafe queer spaces have become for Jews, I’d really love to hear how queer goyim plan to make these spaces welcome for us again.

Because you are the reason they’ve become hostile and unsafe. You haven’t stood up for us or said, “hey, this is wrong, we shouldn’t be pushing our own people out!”

What do you plan to do to make your spaces inclusive? Do you care that the queer Jews who have also been a huge part of the movement have fled your spaces?

[hussyknee]

I just want to make one thing very clear. Black and brown people, especially Muslims right now, don't owe white people for your allyship in racial justice. Not even those who are themselves systemically marginalized in some way. Not white Jews, not white queers, not white disabled, not white working class, not white poor.

Whiteness is the most lethal kind of oppression because it built the current colonial capitalist, imperialist world order. Every white person benefits from and is complicit in its systems in some way because white supremacy is global. Whatever marginalization has white people in it can be and is easily weaponized against the mellanated. When charged with your racist, exclusionary and oppressive behaviour you hold up Black and brown people of the same marginalizations as tokens. This is the only time they are ever visible; more often than not you profit off their labour, hoard their gains, throw them under the bus and make them part of your iconography for liberal progress points once they're dead and have no inconvenient opinions about your conduct.

This is why it's very hard for Black and brown people to take accusations of bigotry towards you in good faith. We also have a duty of care towards others but more often than not it feels like you want us to do what you want while holding a knife to our necks. Even when you don't do it directly, you issue demands like "if you don't do x and y you clearly don't care about my people and deserve the worst!!!" without considering for a moment that the full brunt of that policing will always fall on Black and brown people, because punitive justice exercises itself first and foremost on the vulnerable. If your demands for allyship carry disproportionate punishment for Black and brown people should we refuse, you're just on some power trip and never needed our help in the first place. This also obfuscates the needs and disenfranchisement of BIPOC Jewish, queer, poor, disabled and Global South people, because without racial justice, few of your gains will ever materialise in their lives. It's always trickle down liberation for the rest of us.

Your allyship is supposed to be the work of conscience, a recognition of injustice and a drive towards privilege equal to your own. For white people, it's an individual reparation on your part. It is not an act of kindness, or benevolence, or a transaction that must be repaid in kind. The worst of us deserve the same rights the worst of you already have. That's the meaning of equality. If you're willing to let us get fired, deported, or brutally murdered for bad behaviour, then not only were you never an ally, you were also just waiting for the opportunity to use that weapon you claim you never wanted. There is no justice in an asymmetry of power.

[gay-jewish-bucky]

Happy Pride Month! If I see any of you goyishe fucks calling Anne Frank bi, or worse a 'bicon", I will egg your house.

She was a child who was murdered in the Holocaust before she could declare what her sexuality was. We don't know what she would have identified as.

Parts weren't edited out because her father Otto was being malicious, not only would parts that were left out only serve to distract from the message of her diary (as proven by y'all's obsession with these entries), queerness was also still very much illegal. He was protecting his daughter's memory and ensuring the diary focused on the story it desperately needed to tell at the time.

There are so many other historical figures who were openly queer that you can support instead of fuelling your weird obsession with dead Jews.

Let Anne Frank rest.

[xclowniex]

There is no issue with being queer and supporting a country's civilians and their safety despite their anti lgbt+ laws.

What is an issue is A) supporting the government of that country who are majorly homophobic and kill queer folk without pointing that out and wanting that to change and B) saying that the country they are at war with is "pink washing" everything.

Cause firstly, queers have been generally accepted by Judaism since Judaism as a religion existed. You are not only implying that queer rights of Israeli folk is propaganda, you are also erasing thousands of years of queer Jewish history.

That's not to say that you can't support queer folk in Palestine as you can and should. All this is about is that you shouldn't dislike and dimiss jews and Israelis having queer rights as well as actually care about queer Palestinians being safe after the war.

[theivorybilledwoodpecker]

Here's the problem with saying it's okay Target is removing Pride merchandise because of threats fron bigots: Would you say that if it involved any other marginalized group?

If Target received threats from antisemites about selling Passover- or Hanukkah-related merchandise, would you be okay if they stopped selling that merchandise?

If Proud Boys threatened Target about selling merchandise about Black History month or for having a section with merchandise made from buisnesses owned by Black people, would you be okay with Target caving to their demands?

If conservatives start saying female models are showing too much skin or that t-shirts with quotes about feminism are proabortion, and if Target gets threats, are you fine with Target caving to their demands?

And most importantly, if your answer to the bulleted questions is "No, I wouldn't be fine with that," but you think Target is justified in pulling Pride merchandise, what does that say about how you view LGBTQIA+ people?

[whereserpentswalk]

Friendly reminder that the idea of New York City being filled with trash is just a way for middle Americans to accuse queer people, Non-Christians, Jews, immigrants and poc of living in trash. It hasn't been true for decades. It keeps being used because it's more socially acceptable to say you hate a place where a lot of minorities live, then to just openly say you hate minorities.

Almost every single negative stereotype about New York City is a veiled way for conservatives to perpetuate negative stereotypes about marginalized groups who live here and/or are more tolerated here. Take it from a queer Jewish New Yorker; there are very specific reasons why fascists really hate New York.

If you reblog posts that wax poetic about Scotts Irish like they're a racialized minority, but then believe everything republicans believe about the parts of the country with the most marginalized people, then you might want to reconsider some things.

[little-witchys-garden]

Me: watching people try justifying JK Rowling denying the holocaust because they can't get the fuck over harry Potter



[sophus-wb]

Something Something Idk

I guess this is like a pinned post intro thing cause I see those around This is some alt account blog I use for reblogs mostly, sometimes ranting every once in a while. I'm a Slavic (Ukrainian, Russian, Polish) & Jewish (Ashkenazi) transmasc person living in America. Most my reblogs are about -Ukraine & Russian (Russia is a terrorist state) - Israel, Palestine & Hamas (Both Israelis & Palestinians deserve a state and Hamas is a terrorist org run by billionaire capitalists who want jews to burn) -Antisemitism (Antisemitism is rising) -LGBTQ+ Stuff, esp trans stuff (Our situation in America is yikes) -Jewish Stuff -Art here and there Antisemites, JVP people, TERFS, and Hamas Apologists fuck off. If you claim to be a "Anti-Zionist" or a "Zionist" and you aren't Jewish, I don't want to hear from you. Pro-Image-Stealers-and-Generators people (AI Images/"Art") also leave.

[charleezard]

This might be an unpopular opinion, or not, and it likely will get me hate but idk it's been on my mind.

The concept of "pinkwashing" makes no sense. In fact I'd even say it's built upon a foundation of antisemitism. It borders on conspiracy theory.

You're making an assumption that Israel celebrates LGBTQ+ pride, is queer friendly, promotes queer rights, only and/or primarily as a way to manipulate and distract innocent gullible people.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying that Israel and the Israeli government are perfect and can do no wrong, I also criticize them when necessary. But even when we're pointing out things we think they do wrong, can't we also admit that maybe, just maybe, they do some things right as well? Why are you viewing a country celebrating queer rights and being welcoming to queer people as a bad thing? Even in a country you don't like, a country you view as doing many things wrong, there are still queer people who deserve rights and acceptance and celebration, and I don't think that should EVER be viewed as a bad thing.

And to continue my first point. The fact you see everything done by Israel (which, even if you don't want to admit it, we know you view just as a stand in for Jewish people) as some sneaky, evil, manipulative thing, and never as maybe something done with genuine and good intentions tells us a lot about how you view Jewish people. It really does and you can cry and scream you're not antisemitic but you're not the one who gets to decide that. You most likely are and need to deconstruct a lot of that subconscious internal biases that society gave you. So maybe next time you see a Pride event in Israel and feel like screaming "Pinkwashing", stop a little, and think to yourself what you really mean by that

[gryficowa]

The strangest thought came to me, related to "Islamist Terrorist Attacks", without further words: Depression

You're probably wondering what's the connection between depression and terrorist attacks? Well, depression can have many faces, including one where someone can kill someone or take other lives with them, along with the WTC, Islamophobia intensified, which led to the frequency of terrorist attacks, those who have experienced discrimination know, that one of its effects is mental problems such as depression, so yes, society has led people to a tragic mental state and washed away the guilt, instead of taking it too, because it's better to put it on the victim (Who may have done something unforgivable, but still, they created I)

Society, through its discrimination, has caused a person to have a bad mental state (And although I don't like it when people defend the torturer for this reason, the fact that people blame the Islamists themselves and deepen this problem changes the perspective, because if there was a white boy instead of the Islamist, then people to feel sorry for him and yes, white privilege… And misogyny, because in the case of women there is not as much sympathy as towards men)

Unfortunately, a chain has been created that we continue with our Islamophobia, leading the discriminated person to a critical mental state, which leads him to commit unforgivable acts, which leads to us blaming the entire group, and so it becomes a circle that does not want to end

As long as Islamophobia does not end, there will be terrorist attacks, we as people fuel it ourselves and blame God on innocent people, instead of taking some of the blame on ourselves and thinking about what to change in society to prevent it from happening (No Islamophobia, because she is guilty of it)

Islamophobia is not just a problem for Muslims, it is a problem for all of us

We must end this chain before there are even more victims

Since the WTC, people have dehumanized Muslims, which unfortunately can be seen today in what is happening in Palestine and Burma (And on the Polish-Belarusian border, yes, I will not stop mentioning it because it is sick), has shown this problem more widely (Which is ignored by people, because they must have a chochoł, because they can't live without it)

This thought reached me especially in Europe, where this shit has reached, and with it terrorist attacks, Islamophobia is a beast that lurks and then I wash my hands when something bad happens, seeing Islamophobia in my country (And being terrified by it, because even though I am an agnostic raised in Christianity, such hatred towards people is terrifying for someone who knows the history of the Holocaust)

No one deserves such hatred, and the worst thing is when this hatred comes from a group that was the victim of the same thing, yes, I'm talking about Jews, specifically Zionists, there is nothing more disgusting than a victim of discrimination that discriminates against others (Like gays discriminating against trans people, like Asians discriminating against black people etc…) and spreads propaganda itself, which is not true about a specific group

What is happening today to Islamists is not much different from what was done to Jews and it should terrify us, not be a reason to be proud, it is sick that we strive to dehumanize people and we are proud of it, it should not happen

Unfortunately, we still have constant victims of discrimination that are not new… LGBT+ people, people use Nazi rhetoric (Yes, calling gays "Unnatural" is one of them) and I see it in Poland, which is horrifying because of the context of the Holocaust, and many Poles are denied other victims than Jews and Poles, which is terrifying

We let fascism come back and it's fucking terrifying

[pronounmelon]

how would Leasebound fans feel if they knew that the guy who made this shares their ideology

The political spectrum is a fucking metronome

[gaycrashbandicoot]

not enjoying the antisemitism of some trans people in regards to transphobic legalisation i understand it is scary but saying "this is a trans genocide but they cant kill all trans people like they tried to kill all jews bcs there will always be more of us" is an. interesting (very bad) take.

transphobes, t*rfs and z*onists dni

[xclowniex]

Pro Palestine folk when you tell them that you can criticize the Israeli government whilst also acknowledging and celebrating queer rights in Israel

[lilac-lamb]

If the death note is real I need to ask someone a CRAZY favor