#anti-Jewish Hate Crimes

[girlactionfigure]

Anti-Jewish incidents surged around the world this week, again.

The problem is not just that Jewish people are having our lives threatened, synagogues ambushed, and families pummelled.

It’s that no one wants to talk about it.

Hen Mazzig

[chanaleah]

Very recently, the FBI published hate crime statistics from 2023 in the US.

In the past year's data that has been reported (September 2023-January 2024), Jewish Americans faced the largest amount of hate crimes of all groups in the country, irregardless of category.

If you think antisemitism doesn't exist in the US today, you need to rethink your position.

Here is a link to the FBI's Crime Data Explorer if you wish to view the data yourself - note that you will need to filter by hate crimes.

disclaimer for anyone who tries to twist my words: this post is not meant to nor should be used to invalidate discrimination faced by any other group. all hate crimes are awful, no matter who is the target

clarification: largest amount of hate crimes in the fall of 2023. (Sep 2023-January 2024) So far, the FBI has not published statistics for hate crimes in 2024. If you’re looking at the statistics, filter by 1 year to see just hate crimes in that time period.

[thewoodbine]

Zionism doesn't mean what you think it means and you need to stop using it as a slur

I think this article excerpt I've included below sent by a friend does a great job of explaining why it is antisemitic, harmful, and misinformed to continue to use "Zionist" as an evil label.

If you're someone who values listening to minorities and educating yourself before you say something ignorant and hateful- this is an important thing to read and share in allyship with Jews everywhere.

If nothing else, at least consider that maybe learning what the word Zionist means from cultural Christians or people who generally have never engaged with Judaism isn't the best idea and try instead listening to Jews.

And before you start- this is in no way a comparison to Palestinian suffering or delegitimization of their need for respect and dignity. No need to comment "what about"ism It's just, believe it or not, possible to advocate for Palestinian's without hate criming local Jews to do so.

" The crux of the problem is whether Zionism must be treated as a dirty word. Because what most Jews mean by Zionism, and what anti-Zionists mean by Zionism, are not the same thing.

Most people are unaware, for example, that among the varieties of Zionism, one branch—the one advocated by people like Martin Buber, the famous philosopher, and Henrietta Szold, the founder of Hadassah—did not even believe there should be a Jewish state, but rather a binational state, founded on absolute equality between Jews and Palestinians.

Even the founder of the most right-wing branch of Zionism, Jabotinsky, believed that in the Jewish state, “in every cabinet where the prime minister is a Jew, the vice-premiership shall be offered to an Arab and vice versa.” In other words, the actual state of Israel is a very far cry from the vision of most of its founders.

But that kind of Zionism — the idea that a state where Jews would be safe and thrive could also be a state where Palestinians would be safe and thrive — is what liberal and progressive Jews, your friends and neighbors, are thinking about when they identify as Zionist.

People who see themselves as anti-Zionist are right to point out that from its very beginning, the nascent state of Israel engaged in ethnic cleansing, driving some Palestinian populations out of their homes during the 1948 war and not letting others return to their homes after the war, contrary to all of these aspirations. That's why cities like Khan Yunis are called refugee camps.

But Zionism, for people who identify with that word, is about the aspiration for safety and self-determination in the Holy Land, not an aspiration to oppress. "

(Citation can be provided upon request, I do not want to flood a poor local newspaper with random online hate mail)

[secular-jew]

I keep hearing that, as Muhammad's murderous jihadis crusaded their way across the Middle East, Africa, and Asia, the Islamic overlords "respected and even protected their subjects' right to practice their own religion, especially the Jews." If this is respect, I'd hate to see what the bad side of Islamic ethnic cleansing looks like: 622 - 627: Ethnic cleansing of Jews (who comprised roughly 50% of the population of Medina) carried out by Muhammad and his Jihadis. Over 800 Jewish men and boys (based on a pubic hair check), were killed by beheading. Women were forced into sexual slavery, and the children were given to Islamic Jihadis as slaves. Mohammad force-married Safiyyah, after murdering her husband and father.

629: 1st Alexandria Massacres of Jews, Egypt.

622 - 634: Exterminations of Arabian Jewish tribes.

1033: 1st massacre of Jews in Fez, Morocco.

1066: Granada Massacre of Jews, Muslim-occupied Spain.

1106: Ali Ibn Yousef Ibn Tashifin of Marrakesh decrees death penalty for any local Jew, including his Jewish Physician, and as well as his Jewish military general.

1148: Almohadin of Morocco gives Jews the choice of converting to Islam, or expulsion.

1165 - 1178: Jews of Yemen given the choice (under new constitution) to either convert to Islam or die.

1165: Chief Rabbi of the Maghreb was publicly burnt alive. The Rambam (Maimonides, Moses ben Maimon), forced to flee Spain to Egypt.

1220: Tens of thousands of Jews massacred by Muslims Turkey, Iraq, Syria, and Egypt, after being blamed for Mongol invasion.

1270: Sultan Baibars of Egypt resolved to burn all the Jews, a ditch having been dug for that purpose; but at the last moment he repented, and instead exacted a heavy tribute, during the collection of which many perished.

1276: 2nd Fez Pogrom (massacre) against Jews in Morocco

1385: Khorasan Massacres against Jews in Iran

1438: 1st Mellah Ghetto massacres against Jews in Morocco

1465: 3rd Fez Pogrom against Jews in Morocco, leaving only 11 Jews left alive

1517: 1st Safed Pogrom in Muslim Ottoman controlled Judea

1517: 1st Hebron Pogrom in Muslim-controlled Judea, by occupying Ottomans

1517: Marsa ibn Ghazi Massacre of Jews in Ottoman-controlled Libya

1577: Passover Massacre throughout the Ottoman Empire

1588 - 1629: Mahalay Pogroms of Jews in Iran

1630 - 1700: Yemenite Jews considered 2nd class citizens and subjugated under strict Shi'ite 'dhimmi' rules

1660: 2nd Judean Pogrom, in Safed Israel (Ottoman-controlled Palestine)

1670: Expulsion of Mawza Jews in Yemen

1679 - 1680: Massacres of Jews in Sanaa, Yemen

1747: Massacres of the Jews of Mashhad, Iran

1785: Pogrom of Libyan Jews in Ottoman-controlled Tripoli, Libya

1790 - 92: Tetuan Pogrom. Morocco (Jews of Tetuan stripped naked, and lined up for Muslim perverts)

1800: Decree passed in Yemen, criminalizing Jews from wearing clothing that is new or good, or from riding mules or donkeys. Jews were also rounded up for long marches naked through the Roob al Khali dessert

1805: 1st Algiers Massacre/Pogrom of Jews in Ottoman-controlled Algeria

1808: 2nd Ghetto Massacres in Mellah, Morocco

1815: 2nd Algiers massacres/pogroms of Jews in Ottoman-controlled Algeria

1820: Sahalu Lobiant Massacres of Jews in Ottoman-controlled Syria

1828: Baghdad massacres/pogroms of Jews in Ottoman-controlled Iraq

1830: 3rd massacre/pogrom of Jews in Ottoman-controlled Algiers, Algeria

1830: Ethnic cleansing of Jews in Tabriz, Iran

1834: 2nd massacre of Jews in Ottoman-controlled Hebron, Judea

1834: Massacre/pogrom of Safed Jews in Ottoman-controlled Palestine/Judea

1839: Massacre of the Mashadi Jews in Iran

1840: Damascus Affair following first of many blood libels against Jews in Ottoman-controlled Syria

1844: 1st Cairo Massacres of Jews in Ottoman-controlled Egypt.

1847: Dayr al-Qamar massacre of Jews in Ottoman-controlled Lebanon

1847: Ethnic cleansing of the Jews in Jerusalem, Ottoman-controlled Palestine

1848: 1st Damascus massacre/pogrom, in Ottoman-controlled Syria

1850: 1st Aleppo massacre/pogrom of Jews in Ottoman-controlled Syria

1860: 2nd Damascus massacre of Jews in Ottoman-controlled Syria

1862: 1st Beirut massacre of Jews in Ottoman-controlled Lebanon

1866: Massacre of Jews by Ottomans Kuzguncuk, Turkey

1867: Massacre of Jews by Ottomans in Barfurush, Turkey

1868: Massacre of Jews by Ottomans in Eyub, Turkey

1869: Massacre of Jews in Ottoman-controlled Tunis, Tunisia

1869: Massacre of Jews in Ottoman-controlled Sfax, Tunisia

1864 - 1880: Massacres of Jews in Ottoman-controlled Marrakesh, Morocco

1870: 2nd Alexandria Massacres of Jews in Ottoman-controlled Egypt

1870: 1st Istanbul massacre of Jews in Ottoman Turkey

1871: 1st Damanhur Massacres of Jews in Ottoman-controlled Egypt

1872: Massacre of Jews by Ottomans in Edirne, Turkey

1872: 1st Massacre of Jews by Ottomans in Izmir, Turkey

1873: 2nd Damanhur Massacres of Jews in Ottoman-controlled Egypt

1874: 2nd Izmir massacre of Jews in Turkey

1874: 2nd massacre of Jews in Istanbul Turkey

1874: 2nd massacre of Jews in Ottoman-controlled Beirut, Lebanon

1875: 2nd massacre of Jews in Ottoman-controlled Aleppo, Syria

1875: Massacre of Jews in Djerba Island, Ottoman-controlled Tunisia

1877: 3rd massacre of Jews in Ottoman-controlled Damanhur, Egypt

1877: Massacres of Jews in Mansura, Ottoman-controlled Egypt

1882: Massacre of Jews in Ottoman-controlled Homs, Syria

1882: 3rd Massacre of Jews in Ottoman-controlled Alexandria, Egypt.

1890: 2nd massacre of Jews in Ottoman-controlled Cairo, Egypt.

1890: 3rd massacre of Jews in Ottoman-controlled Damascus, Syria.

1890: 2nd massacre of Jews in Ottoman-controlled Tunis, Tunisia

1891: 4th massacre of Jews in Ottoman-controlled Damanahur, Egypt.

1897: Targeted murder of Jews in Ottoman-controlled Tripolitania, Libya.

1903 &1907: Massacres of Hews in Ottoman-controlled Taza & Settat, Morocco.

1901 - 1902: 3rd set of massacres of Jews in Ottoman-controlled Cairo, Egypt.

1901 - 1907: 4th set of Massacres of Jews in Ottoman-controlled Alexandria, Egypt.

1903: 1st massacre of Jews in Ottoman-controlled Port Sa'id, Egypt.

1903 - 1940: Series of massacres in Taza and Settat, Morocco.

1907: Massacre of Jews in Ottoman-controlled Casablanca, Morocco.

1908: 2nd Massacre of Jews in Ottoman-controlled Port Said, Egypt.

1910: Blood libel against Jews in Shiraz, Iran.

1911: Massacre of Jews by Muslims in Shiraz, Iran.

1912: 4th massacre in Ottoman-controlled Fez, Morocco.

1917: Baghdad Iraq Jews murdered by Ottomans.

1918 - 1948: Yemen passes a law criminalizing the raising of a Jewish orphan in Yemen.

1920: Massacres of Jews in Irbid Jordan (British mandate Palestine).

1920 - 1930: Arab riots resulting in hundreds of Jewish deaths, British mandate Palestine.

1921: 1st Jaffa (Israel) riots, British mandate Palestine.

1922: Massacres of Jews in Djerba, Tunisia.

1928: Jewish orphans sold into slavery, and forced to nvert to Islam by Muslim Brotherhood, Yemen.

1929: 3rd Hebron (Israel) massacre of Jews by Arabs in British mandate Palestine.

1929 3rd massacre of Jews by Arabs in Safed (Israel), British mandate Palestine.

1933: 2nd Jaffa (Israel) riots, British mandate Palestine.

1934: Massacre of Jews in Thrace, Turkey.

1936: 3rd riots by Arabs against Jews in Jaffa (Israel), British mandate Palestine.

1941: Massacres of Jews in Farhud, Iraq.

1942: Muslim leader Grand Mufti collaboration with the Nazis, playing a major role in the final solution.

1938 - 1945: Full alliance and collaboration by Arabs with the Nazis in attacking and murdering Jews in the Middle East and Africa.

1945: 4th massacre of Jews by Muslims in Cairo, Egypt.

1945: Massacre of Jews in Tripolitania, Libya.

1947: Massacre of Jews by Muslims in Aden, Yemen.

2023: Massacre, rape, torture and kidnapping of ~1,500 Israelis (mostly Jews) by Muslims in numerous towns throughout southern Israel.

[shalom-iamcominghome]

I absolutely adore how safe I feel in my offline (and, to an extent, online) jewish spaces. What I don't adore is why I only really feel safe in those spaces (jew hatred is so vapid)

[badolmen]

Hey I saw some people sharing an infographic with this logo on it and, uh, I’m assuming you don’t know much about this group?

Stop Zionist Hate is a neo-nazi organization and platform. If you see the SZH logo do not spread their posts. They’re using your sympathy for Palestine to lead you into agreeing with their white supremacy. Don’t fall for it. Fuck Zionists. Fuck Nazis.

[gryficowa]

Although Poland had many colonizations, it was the colonization by the Nazis that did the most to destroy the country

Oh, you can see that the Zionists used Nazi rhetoric and did laundry for the Jews, interesting…

Yes, it's from your English-language Wikipedia, but you prefer to believe the Zionists, right?

Funny how familiar it all looks and sounds…

Lying that Poles collaborated with the Nazis is disgusting on many levels

If you still believe in Poland's involvement in the Holocaust, you fucking believe Zionists

(As you may have guessed, I get an error message when I paste the Wikipedia link)

So it pisses me off when people from other countries believe Israel's propaganda about Poland, it's disgusting

I'm just fed up with these lies about Poland, everything the Zionists have told you is a lie, the very fact that not even making the effort to look for information about Poland is disgusting (And then you attack Poles on the Internet, telling them that they are bigots because they are fed up with your lies)

You erase Poles who died in concentration camps to lie that they collaborated with the Nazis! You disgusting liars!

No, I don't hate Jews, I hate Zionists and how they lied to Jews about Poland's history, it's disgusting

A few rotten Poles do not represent all of Poland (Many Poles died in concentration camps along with Jews, trans and gays)

Do you seriously see nothing? Zionists divide us! They divide us to commit genocide against the Palestinians! They divide, accusing the victim of allegedly collaborating with the Nazis to separate all the victims! Do you seriously not see any of this?

The Nazis divided Poles and the consequences appeared in post-war Poland! They divided us like the Zionists divided the Jews and the Muslims!

Would I have saved anyone back then? Well, considering that I'm a disabled person, I'd rather be dead…

Because the Nazis killed not only Jews, but also Poles and Roma

Today, their rhetoric affects trans and gay people, but many people don't see it, because if you pay attention, they will laugh at you

Today, fascism targets Muslims, Zionism is Nazis targeting Muslims

If you erase people other than Jews who were murdered, you are a bigot yourself

I'm fed up with Zionists lying about history and manipulating Jews for their own benefit, I hate that they accuse other victims of "Misappropriating the Holocaust" and that "These victims collaborated with the Nazis", Zionism divides us all, divides all victims, saying that other victims did not exist, this is not a country that cares about Jews, If he cared, he wouldn't use anti-Semitism as a way to manipulate defenseless people

Jews should not be associated with Zionists who commit genocide, you Zionist pigs, leave the Jews! Jews are beautiful people, with beautiful souls and hearts! You are contaminated with hatred and you want to destroy this good heart!

You Zionists attack these beautiful Jews who have pure hearts because they do not support what you are doing to the Palestinians! Do you think I haven't seen your comments under your shorts, where you attack a Jew for supposedly "He's not real"? Do you think that I didn't see what you wrote about them in the comments? About how you attack Muslims who are not Palestinians, recognizing them as Hamas and telling them to apologize for October 7? Do you seriously think I didn't see that? You are the bigots, you are the problem

If you attack Jews supporting Palestine and random Muslims (who are not Palestinians) then you seriously have something wrong with your head

Many of you probably won't even read to the end to write a comment confirming that you are bigots

You'll use my ethnicity as an attack, won't you? Because you can't stand the truth that Poland didn't cooperate with the Nazis? Or maybe you'll call me a bigot again because I don't look at it from the perspective of the trauma that even people of my ethnicity have, because they were also murdered?

I broke the chain, you are too much of a coward to do that, so in times of desperation you use attacks that don't work on someone who has seen a lot of shit in his country, how people after the trauma of Nazis became their own enemies, how they took nationalism as a reason to be proud and forgot what their country was before what the Nazis, the USSR and Austria did, I've seen so much shit that your bullets don't work because I'm stubborn, I'm Kashubian and autistic, so you won't break me

I live in a country where there has been a campaign against minorities for many years, I live in a country that did not respect me, but I will not be broken, because my value is fighting for the weaker, and Zionists are not them

No one stood up for me, so I stand up for others

And if you are a discriminating piece of shit who lies about history to your advantage, then fuck you, because the truth comes out and everyone is shocked that it is different, even though there were a lot of people who said that what others hear is a lie

Yes, no one will break someone who lives in a difficult situation

And that's it, everyone probably knows that Zionists can't read posts to the end

[breawycker]

I support civilians and hospitals in Palestine not being indiscriminately bombed by Israel of course people on this site have accused me of supporting Jewish genocide, despite the fact I'm Jewish.

[rinielelrandir]

Coworkers & clients keep asking me if I've heard about the various student protests for Palestine taking place in the US and the fact that many protestors keep harassing random Jews. And like a) yeah, I'm aware and b) you aren't asking any of my other coworkers about this, I know you're only asking cause you know I'm Jewish, it's weird.

[theliterarywolf]

Guys, pray for me.

My mother is entertaining company and things have quickly devolved into 'Hotep Conspiracy Hour'.

[official-oshun]

Reminder that some freak broke into a Jewish household just to spew insane antisemetic shit like??? How is this freeing Palestine be real and focus this + smashin in jew-owned Business windows? California get it together

[elliots-hyperfixation-station]

Like. Okay I know most of the arguments over the Harry Potter game rn are over trans rights and how JKR is a terf. Very valid and perfectly reasonable arguments.

But let's not forget it's incredibly antisemitic too

As a disclaimer, I'm not Jewish. I don't claim to hold any knowledge on this topic at all, just whatever one has from being terminally online as escapism. I am a queer, white, ex-christian

However, if hearing all this outcry that you shouldn't buy this game just because she's a terf doesn't dissuade you. If trying to rationalize she had no part in this game is what you're arguing against people wronged and hated by her. If literally seeing that the people who made this game with her NOT involved still upheld her antisemitic views doesn't change your mind? I'm honestly not sure what will

I'm mainly tired of seeing the same arguments. JKR is a terf, her works have always painted the queer community badly, and she is a raging antisemitic. If you interact with her works, she's said you agree with her views

And if you interact with her work actively, please don't interact with me

Also, Greg Ellis, ya know, the guy who literally went off the deep end after he was booted from the dragon age 4 game? Yeah they interact on Twitter. They agree with each other. And I know a lot of y'all hated what he did. So let that sink in

[lesbiandarvey]

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[roseband]

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[theelf-online]

Was checking the ADL to grab some sources on explaining the antisemitism in Minecraft for some YouTube comments (because that’s all I do these days /lh this time it was in the TRO vid on Notch pointing out how he’s been bigoted since the beginning) but anyways I got this lovely pop up.

The Jews (me) are tired. I’m more scared of getting hate crime-d for being Jewish every time I leave the house than I am for being openly trans.

[kcyars99]

Imagine being responsible for ruining this rite of passage because of you following those entitled arss privileged kids who spout hatred for a movement that’s turned its attention towards themselves instead of the hostages who are still held in captivity and freedom for Palestine people

As a high school graduate back in 2017, It’s infuriating.

You’re ruining your own future by spreading hatred and at the same time you are ruining the hard work your fellow classmates by denying them that walk to get their diploma which means their families will not get to see their children become graduates

You should be ashamed of yourself!