#antisemitism is not allowed on this blog!

[southasianpercy]

Delete your blog, you antisemitic turd.

being against israel and being anti-zionist are not antisemitic. that mindset sets a harmful precedent for jewish people as a whole.

zionism is a nationalist movement that supports ethnic cleansing and genocide. israel is a colonial power that shouldn’t exist in the first place and has committed multiple war crimes against a country (palestine) that does not have a conventional military/army/airforce.

this is not a religious conflict. this is not a war. this is a genocide. fuck off, zionist scum.

[gingerswagfreckles]

How "leftists" react when they hear a 4 year old Jewish toddler and 9 month old Jewish baby were strangled to death by antisemitic terrorists.

[thedansemacabres]

for some reason this week, I’ve been seeing plenty of Lilith appropriation for some odd time—arguing with it a lot. My biggest question for anyone wanting to defend Lilith being open is this:

Why do you want to argue that she’s open?

I have never ever seen one good reason to it. Judaism has faced several genocides, expulsions, and unmeasurable suffering. Even if she was open, why cling to being from a people that have suffered so much? That fought so hard to keep themselves alive and going, to keep their sacred scrolls intact? You cannot prove spirituality exists, but what you know is that people exist. And Jewish people deserve to have their identity respected.

Especially when there are open beings like Babalon, Aphrodite, Bellona, Kotys, etc that all can embody dark femininity. Especially Bellona if you’re going for a violent femininity angle. Just. Why?

[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)

[sweetdreamspootypie]

Ah yes

Ye olde call out post for someone [checks notes] talking about antisemitism but not making any public posts discussing israel, zionism, or Palestine

How dare you not performatively beg to be seen as a 'good jew' and how dare you call yourself a Jew without amending a required 'antizionist' label to yourself every single time you refer to yourself

Especially in [checks notes] posts where you discuss the inherent issues or requiring Jews to label themselves as 'good' before being allowed the conditional acceptance of talking about their own experience on their own blog.

I am someone who is willing to talk about my my thoughts and feelings about the state of Israel. I've got a post in my drafts that is 10 paragraphs long that is just the contextual preamble trying to get to the point of talking about one thought I had while at a community event.

And I'm a blog with 3 active followers, and I'm at the beginning of my explorations of how all the concepts relate to me as an individual

Of course a Jewish blog with a large following might not make public posts about current events

On the other hand you could say oh but posting about it is the /least/ you could do

How do you know they aren't posting elsewhere? How do you know they aren't doing other actions?

Also

And I can't stress them enough

One of the screenshotted posts calling them out for being an eevil zionist

Was them talking about the antisemitism they experienced

While at a protest march for Palestine

Hear ye hear ye add the Jew to the block list for the crime of not calling themselves an antizionist while actively on the ground protesting for Palestine and realizing there were Nazis around them

[hilacopter]

god I really hope blocking someone blocks them from all your blogs

[answersfromzestual]

Do NOT speak about the conflict in the middle East, last time I'm saying it. I will instantly block you. If you have comments keep them to yourself. This is at the end of the day my blog, my hard work, it is a privilege to use my blog, not a right.

This blog is not political, I will not tolerate comments and reblogs that are inappropriate.

Keep political feelings off my posts and blog and everything will be fine.

[southasianpercy]

You responded to my anon showing a definetion that no where mentioned an ethnostate or elimination of Palestinians, I don't know how that supports your point. Also Jews are literally indigenous, most of our holidays talk about Israel. Supporting the existence of a state isn't the same as supporting it's actions? And Palestine wasn't a thing until Roman imperialism. I do not support the actions of Israel but as a Jewish person it is extremely hurtful that you would ignore our history and culture while saying "antisemetism isn't welcome here." Zionism has always existed, it just wasn't named until the 1800s. I agree that Palestinians should be given human rights and a say over the land, but that isn't an anti-Zionist idea

the definition i was showing was a definition of zionism to show why being a zionist is supporting israel when you were saying that you can be a zionist and not support israel’s actions. israel is a zionist state and zionism was coined to “enable the establishment of a homeland for the jewish people in palestine.” and israel was only established in 1948 by the british.

also, by definition, israel is an ethnostate and its existence inherently calls for the elimination of palestinians or any other group if they were to establish israel somewhere else.

i mentioned palestinians AND jews are indigenous to the land that is now called palestine. palestine may have not been a thing until roman imperialism but the palestinian people had always been there. supporting the existence of israel is supporting their actions because everything they’ve done in the past 75 years has been an attempt to ethnically cleanse palestine.

israel was established on other people’s land who are similarly indigenous to said land. the difference is that palestinians (jewish, christian, and muslim palestinians) never left. and palestinians never started this, they accepted the jewish immigrants with open arms. it was the establishment of the state of israel where land was violently taken from palestinian people that started this.

being jewish doesn’t mean you have to be a zionist. jewish and zionist are not synonymous with each other. i do not view every jewish person as a zionist and not every zionist is jewish.

[gay-otlc]

A popular sex ed blog has decided trans men & mascs aren't allowed to use our own words to describe our own oppression, and seems to be deleting replies and asks that say otherwise, so I've decided to take my ramble over to main.

Regarding TMA/TME language, they've brought up a couple of times how "exempt" means "set apart" rather than "never experiences transmisogyny ever," and how words can have multiple definitions (this post). So it's best to hear people out before jumping to bad-faith interpretations of their words.

However, they also say, "misandry is a term for the 'oppression of men based on gender'" (this post) as a reason why "transmisandry" can never be used.

That is one definition of misandry, yes, but as they pointed out, words can have multiple definitions! Regarding the oppression against trans men & mascs, misandry is generally used to mean the literal "hatred of men," and people in these discussions don't believe that misandry is an axis of systemic oppression (which has been stated over and over).

Yes, it has negative connotations, which is why people more often use transandrophobia or anti-transmasculinity instead. (This poll shows more specifically which terms are most preferred.) But that doesn't mean people who use the term transmisandry are MRAs or believe in the MRA concept of misandry.

Transmisandry is not claiming a combination of systemic transphobia and "systemic misandry," but hatred against trans men & mascs for being trans men/masc. Again, many people prefer other terms that leave less room for that misinterpretation, but people who do use the term transmisandry aren't responsible for others repeatedly ignoring their actual explanations of the term.

In general, arguing over the words rather than the concepts is a very common way to silence people who are trying to talk about their oppression. Jews talking about antisemitism get dismissed because "You're not Semitic, you're from Poland." Aromantic and asexual people get dismissed because "Aphobia literally means 'fear of nothing,' that's a stupid term." And trans men & mascs get told "You can't use that word to talk about your oppression, it's problematic." (Time and time again, and every time we pick a new word, that one gets called problematic too; it's almost like the problem was never really the word?) The words get picked apart but people don't listen to what we're actually saying, the ways we're suffering.

In their own words, from this post: "Do you have to like the language? No. Do you have to respect the way and language oppressed people have chosen to speak about their oppression? Yes. Yes, you do."

Trans men & mascs shouldn't be an exception to your respect.

[a-very-tired-jew]

I know we’ve established that since last year many people have made this entire conflict their personality. They’ve made (((anti-Zionism))) into their everything, believe that they can’t enjoy anything at all, and pressure others to do so.

I just witnessed it in the wild on here because of the algorithm.

It decided to put a 20k post in my feed that had all the hallmarks of “Palestine is everything” activism. So I checked the blog out.

It’s a self described goth music blog.

So I scrolled. I counted the posts as I went and in scrolling back 4 days I counted 45 posts and reblogs.

None of them were about goth music.

36 out of the 45 were reblogging GoFundMe’s, 6 of them were antisemitic conspiracy or hate disguised as anti-Zionism, and the last few linked it all together with using red flag terminology like “amerikkka”.

Going into the archive showed that the theme of the blog hasn’t been a focus since pre-conflict and since then it’s been (((anti-Zionism))), anti-Western, pro-Hamas, and tankie rhetoric.

They linked their numerous other blogs as well, and it’s the same story.

I know I made this blog in response to the antisemitism that I was witnessing, but damn if I don’t talk about other things on here as well. Nor do I, or any other Jew that has experienced/witnessed antisemitic hate, tell others that they can’t enjoy life and their hobbies/interests and that they must entirely be focused on the conflict and the global rise in hate towards us.

And I think that’s telling.

This war and the global rise in antisemitism that were all witnessing and/or experiencing is concerning, but it’s not all consuming. We still have to live our lives and enjoy them. You can’t stay holed up in your room and just consume everything about this stuff else you become a bit of an unhinged radical that sounds like every conspiracy theorist ever.

But I think that’s a big difference in how a lot of people respond to this conflict and other events. It’s either all consuming and they’re offended when others are not as obsessed, or it’s of concern but does not drive every waking moment and action of the individual unless they are directly involved.

So please, take a moment, and breathe. You are still allowed to enjoy your own life and interests. You need rest and to unwind from the constant consumption of tragedy.

[sweaterkittensahoy]

So, today I reblogged someone with "Jewish" as part of their user name, and I did not add anything to their post. This person was saying "You can be Pro-Israel AND Pro-Palestine because it's about human beings, not little dolls for you to play with." And, I thought this was a very succient way to explain the issue.

Literally not five minutes later, someone reblogged my reblog to argue that it isn't antisemitic to be against Israel because Israel is on land that should belong to Palestine.

Keep in mind: The person I reblogged from was NOT saying a fucking thing except that Israel and Palestine both have a right to exist. In fact, I have made at least a few posts from this here blog making the exact same point. That both countries have a right to exist.

But no one's ever tried to ride my ass on me saying that.

And yet, I reblog a person who clearly identifies as Jewish, and suddenly, oh, someone's got THOUGHTS. Antisemitic thoughts. Because the actual OP said Israel and Palestine have a right to exist, and this person turned it into "You're fine with Israel occupying territory that isn't theirs" which is literally NOT what was being said.

I blocked the person instantly because that's what I do when bigots show up in my feed. I wish I hadn't though. I wish I'd paused just long enough to reblog and point out how fucking antisemitic it is to see "Israel has a right to exist" and immediately turn it into how Israel as an idea and a country are untrustworthy and dangerous.

But I didn't. And OP turned off their reblogs, so I can't reblog the post and add this to it. But I'm adding it here. Because if you see someone say "Israel has a right to exist" and someone else immediately go into a whole little rant about how no, it doesn't, one of these people is a fucking bigot. And it's the fucker who said Israel shouldn't be allowed to exist.

[eretzyisrael]

With the news that the US has put USAID under the control of the State Department, it is worthwhile to look back on USAID support for Palestinians over the years.

USAID was ostensibly funding humanitarian and democracy-building programs for Palestinians in the territories. It took pains to ensure that any infrastructure projects it built in the territories were only for Arabs, not Jews. (In at least one case, a road that they built for Palestinians ended up also benefitting Jews, much to the consternation of Haaretz.) 

There have been many bumps along the way. For example, the head of a Palestinian "refugee" agency that USAID funded was a raging antisemite. But in general, USAID would attempt to ensure that the funding they gave did not go to terrorists, at least not directly.

In more recent years, however, USAID (like the EU) has been actively trying to give Area C land, under Israeli control, to Palestinians. The Biden administration supported USAID building an entire Palestinian university as well as other Palestinian projects on Area C lands.

There is another angle to this which is rarely reported. When USAID attaches strings to its programs to minimize the chances that they will be used for terror, Palestinian leaders fume.

As early as 2011, Palestinians warned about the evils of USAID requiring recipients to sign statements that they oppose terrorism. In 2012, Palestinian universities were urged not to accept USAID money because they would investigate whether professors were terrorists. 

In 2019. the PA itself told USAID to stop all activities out of fear of terror-related lawsuits. The Anti-Terrorism Clarification Act (ATCA), passed by Congress and signed into law by then-President Trump allows Americans to sue those receiving foreign aid from their country in US courts over complicity in "acts of war" and the PA did not want any money under those circumstances.

The major reason given for US foreign aid is to be "soft power" to promote pro-American and pro-democracy thinking among the people. However, Palestinians - and Arabs altogether - never got that memo. 

Millions of dollars were given in private, without publishing the recipients and with no transparency, apparently because of fear that there would be backlash from Palestinians for accepting money from the US. 

What kind of "soft power" is it when the US cannot even make the names of the recipients public because they hate the US so much?

USAID has clearly not come close to achieving its stated goals in the Palestinian territories. It has not advanced democracy, it has not dissuaded terrorism, it has not improved Palestinian governance or reduced corruption. The Palestinians want all of the funding but none of the responsibility. 

 An Egyptian cleric once said that he considered all US funding of Egypt to be a form of jizya tax - something the dhimmis owe their Muslim masters. This is exactly how the Palestinians have treated US funding from USAID - it is something they feel they are owed.

As with UNRWA, over the years USAID itself has internalized that thinking and throwing money away on Palestinians without expecting anything in return became the entrenched mentality of the agency.

That is all the evidence you need that hundreds of millions of dollars have been wasted over the years. 

[wiisagi-maiingan]

There's apparently some claims coming out about Christopher Columbus supposedly being Jewish. Now, I'm no geneticist but everything I've seen has made it evry clear that if this isn't just an outright lie, the science and methods of the researchers are EXTREMELY dubious and the genetics community has, overall, made it very clear that they do not recognize these claims as legitimate because there is no actual evidence being offered and the researchers involved have not released any papers or been peer-reviewed before they made these claims public.

I firmly see these claims as a form of antisemitism and another part of a very, very long history of trying to make horrible historical figures out to be Jewish to allow white society to wipe their hands clean of responsibility. I wanted to talk about this real quick though because I've seen A LOT of antisemitism and antisemitic conspiracy theories in Native communities and I'm once again making it very clear that that shit will not be tolerated on this blog.

Christopher Columbus was not Jewish. Colonialism of the Americas cannot be blamed on "the evil Jews." We are being pitted against each other and we can't afford to fall for it.

[thefugitivesaint]

This blog is primarily dedicated to art and whatever I tend to find aesthetically fun or appealing to my weird sensibilities. Posts not related directly to some form of art are infrequent. This is one of those infrequent posts. A dear friend made the images here and I wanted to pass them along to give her effort a boost. I hope you'll take the time to peruse her work because she's good people y'all. Watching the deliberate cruelty of the Trump administration and its aspirations to authoritarianism while it also underwrites the active campaign of genocide by the Israeli government against Palestinians is taxing. The US has weaponized the charge of "antisemitism" as an excuse to attack and silence critics of Israeli policy (while pushing the agendas of Israel advocacy and Christian nationalist organizations). This is happening while Israel is blocking all aid into Gaza effectively starving the Palestinians there. Far-right Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich even admitted that starvation of the Palestinian population is the goal. Openly criticizing this policy is now subject to being labelled an "antisemitic" act. Most decent people: "Hey, bombing children and hospitals and agricultural centers and museums and colleges and [fill in non-military target here] is a war crime and morally reprehensible." " Israeli government: This is a perfect example of antisemitism!" It should be noted that Israel and Judaism are not synonymous. Criticizing the political policies of Israel is not a criticism of Judaism. The Israeli right-wing has tried to conflate the two in order to smear political critiques of Israeli policy as nothing more than babble from people who hate Jews (which also allows them to conveniently marginalize and to ignore the Jewish critics of Israeli policy, both international and domestic). Is antisemitism an ongoing concern worth addressing? Of course it is. A friend addressed this very fact from a Leftist perspective back in 2007 with a pamphlet she wrote called, 'The Past Didn't Go Anywhere: Making Resistance to Antisemitism Part of All of Our Movements' which I suggest you give a reading to. (As April put it, "The Past was an activist effort, not an academic work..)

Sure, you come here, dear reader, to see art. I want this humble little tumblr page to be a place you where you can see a wide collection of that glorious human endeavor in all its various forms. But, I'm a politically aware person who has been involved in activism since he was a teen back in the 80s. It's hard to compartmentalize my need to vocally contribute opposition to this shit and my desire to ponder aesthetics. Give me a moment to vent and point to some wonderful people who try to contribute positively to the world. Thanks for your attention and patience. Just make sure you vote. Take to the streets. Volunteer your time. Be a thorn in the side of fascists, wannabe authoritarians, and all assholes in general. Be decent. "Be excellent to each other."

[mossadspypigeon]

okay fuck it lmao. STA is dedicated to this bit and lives on my blog, so this is dedicated to you, stoptheantisemitism, you illiterate fuck:

awww how cute, coming from the race faker who loves sinwar. both yahya and his brother have ongoing rape scandals. muhammad has pedophilia allegations his brother refused to allow investigations into. but yes, talk about “pedo apologia” like you care, stoptheantisemitism.

nevermind that child marriage is legal in sharia courts in gaza and the west bank. hmmm or the percentage of child marriages. but i thought you condemned pedophilia!’

i condemned jerry seinfeld actually. i still do.

meanwhile:

just for funsies, here’s your hero:

this your guy? 🤣🤣

it’s sad enough that you have to fake being a jew and fake having israeli family to further your agenda and make the hateful, useless diarrhea you shit out onto the internet seem semi credible, but now you’re pulling out lust libel from the year 1290. lust libel used by the nazis.

if you want to argue otherwise, your cronies are sure spewing it in my inbox. and yes, your shit for brains ass is responsible. you love to claim we send you hate? 😂 and yet.

a step away from:

nice work, stoptheantisemitism. you’re a joke.

(but let me guess…you agree with that anon. hmm.)

keep sending yourself anons praising your efforts and condemning all of us “Evol Zionazis” though, while you use kkk slurs and well, show what a hypocrite you are.

👍

[boreal-sea]

okay sorry you don’t like the word Zionist I’ll come up with a new word and it’s weirdassbitch btw and guess whatZzz ummm yeah you fit the bill. I don’t know man 😭😭😭😭 the fact you’re only posting about gofundmes when it’s about Israeli hostages or only ever being like “okay yeah what’s happening to Palestinians is bad” in conjunction with “so about this anti semitism we’ve been having…” means you’re obviously biased you’re just biased and hey… hey holds your hand it’s okay ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ We can work through this… together *looks away shyly* also I’m like Jewish like by blood. I didn’t even have to convert sorry I’m laughing converts you’re valid but boreal I guess I’m just like…. Better than you at being Jewish? Idk btw and hey maybe the reason why antisemitism is rising is because you guys are all like yeah so we deserve Israel because we lived there 1000000 years ago and if you hate Israel you’re anti Jewish soooo yeah…. Yep maybe having being Jewish synonymous with a genocidal state isn’t smart idk just my thoughts. I think having Jews live all across the world is so beautiful it brings a tear to my eye… I think shoving us all in one place is gay as hell to be frank. Whwtagevrr. I was born in USA born and raised and my family came from Ukraine. I have zero claim to a plot of land 6000 miles away just because I wanna have a sick ass vacation home. maybe that’s why you converted I’m just joshing around it would be funny though if you went through all that just to build a cute little Resort on stolen land. I don’t know boreal. I think I’d just rather have my BLEGH :P, not a :•]

I have not posted a single gofundme for Israeli victims. I’m not sure why you’d make up that lie? Please feel free to look back in my blog as far as you’d like, you won’t find one. It’s even in my blog description that I do not reblog gofundme posts.

I do post links to organizations that directly help Palestinians in Gaza. I have done so fairly often. I don’t recall ever posting a link to aid organizations that only benefit Israelis.

Do I often talk about antisemitism and Gaza at the same time? Yes. These two things are inextricably linked. What is happening in Gaza right now wouldn’t be happening without antisemitism.

Am I biased? No more than the average human being on Earth. I personally consider the folks screaming “Death to Israel!” to be a lot more biased than myself, as I am simply calling for peace between Israel and Hamas. I wanted a peaceful solution from the beginning. You can even find posts on my blog right after Oct 7th where I compare Israel to the USA after 9/11 and state my fears that Israel will have a disproportionate reaction. I loathe the political posturing of both Netanyahu and Hamas and I hate that they both dragged this out so long. Netanyahu wanted this to look like Trump’s victory, which disgusts me. And Hamas allowed their people to suffer for over a year! They’re disgusting, too. Every leader involved in this conflict failed their people.

Our personal feelings about whether or not native people like the Jews “deserve” to live in their homeland is irrelevant — Israel as a country exists here and now. Though it does bring up the interesting question: do you think if the USA just waits long enough, native Americans will also lose their landback rights? How long will that take?

Jews don’t really live “all over the world”. Nearly half live in the USA, and the other half in Israel. This is because all the other countries were so violently antisemitic to the Jews living there the Jews had to flee. In fact, after Israel was founded, a lot of countries literally forced their Jews out under threat of death.

Jews still suffer from antisemitism all around the world, and did so even before Oct 7th. The increase in antisemitism since Oct 7th hasn’t exactly made diaspora Jews feel safe. “A country you’re not even a citizen of did a bad thing, so now I’m going to firebomb your elementary school” isn’t fertile ground for cooperation, is it?

I don’t agree with everything Israel has done. I don’t have to. I think it is a country in crisis that needs major reforms, much like the USA. But I don’t scream “death to America!” either. I live here. I want to make it a better place. I want them both to be better, to live up to the ideals they espouse. To be free, and safe, and prosperous.

I want Gazans to be able to go home. I want them free from the cruelty of Hamas, which has allowed its people to die and suffer since it took power in 2005 and refused to hold any more free elections. They are tyrants. I want Palestinians in the diaspora to come home, too. I want them to have a safe, prosperous country where their culture and children can flourish!

I want peace. If that makes me a “weirdassbitch”, then so be it. I’ve been weird my whole life, anon!