#goyim do better

[fdelopera]

when you're a Jew online

and you're trying to have a conversation with a gentile

and then they start to goysplain the I/P conflict at you

and they quote someone who vocally supports JVP

and you know that that JVP is a DEEPLY antisemitic organization (they're a mixed group of Jews and goyim, but yes, Jews can be antisemtic too). JVP has amplified the voices of Neo-Nazis, they have REPEATEDLY targeted and harassed religious Jews (including queer religious Jews, and Jews attending synagogue), and they have been called out REPEATEDLY by the Anti-Defamation League for harassing Jews, invoking the antisemitic "blood libel" canard, and most recently supporting Hamas

(seriously, some of you goys will be bamboozled by anything)

(you should ASK A JEW before you start amplifying a group that claims to be "Jewish" but actually uses KKK slurs for Jews, supports Neo-Nazi sympathizers, and tries to uplift Hamas)

..... yeah ... when all that happens...

you know that this probably isn't someone you can deal with right now

because you know this person hasn't done ANYTHING to unpack their antisemtism

and you're too tired to unpack their antisemitism for them

and that's just part of what it means to be a Jew online

[lazykurocat]

Apparently I'm a Nazi genocide supporter because I *gasp* support both Israelis and Palestinians so long as they don't support Hamas/are Hamas! wow I must be a truly awful person! oh no! oh woe is me. how could I possibly think this is a war~~~~ it must be a genocide because Daddy Sinwar said so and we always believe him over ACTUAL PEOPLE LIVING IN GAZA... who were probably killed off very fast by their fucking terrorist government... I am so tired of illiterate people ranting nonsense at me, making me eepy...

[faggotry-enjoyer]

yknow what i think it's pretty fucked up that my instinctual reaction to hearing any mention of the holocaust is to brace myself for antisemitic talking points. in discussion about a jewish genocide.

holocaust inversion, universalization, minimalization, and denial are inexcusable in any context, and the fact that they've become this common is appalling on every level.

[lazykurocat]

I know most of this has been said far better by others but holy shit do I need to rant! I find it really sad yet funny how people will still try so hard to claim they aren't antisemitic and then be like"Israel shouldn't exist" that's one of the most bullshit things I've ever heard anyone say, then there's "I hate Zionist" when clearly you don't have the first clue about Zionism, it is simply put: Jewish people wanting a safe place to live, they've always been outcast everywhere so why is it so bad that they'd have their place? they've always been there and always will be in Israel. if you are anti-Zionist you are anti Jew. I've seen people try to claim that Israel started Hamas...?? like? what??no... sis you good?. most people, even now still don't know which river and which sea and it's embarrassing! I know I often come at this topic from a queer lens as I'm gay and trans and not Jewish personally, but honestly I'm scared both for Jewish people, and my fellow queers, Jewish folk I know personally have said to me they don't feel safe I don't feel safe around a lot of people anymore aswell for my queerness, because they claim to be allies... but how can you be my ally when you support Palestine? they fucking hate LGBT+ folk there, we are not welcome there, we would be killed there so to say "I'm an ally" feels so fake to me. to be part of the LGBT and still support that living hell of a place and act as though Israel started this and Palestine only wants peace and freedom? are you mad??! are you insane?? I only feel bad for people who want to be free from Hamas rule. and for the poor children who are raised into thinking Suicide bombing is a good thing and they should do it. not those who willingly support throwing my people off buildings and burn our flags. I will never fucking support Palestine as it is now EVER. if more people started saying free Palestine/Gaza from Hamas that would be a great fucking start. I am so fucking pissed off with some people my fucking lord. and another fucking thing! stop acting like Israel started October 7th! Israelis were murdered over nothing, I watched videos of Hamas shooting and killing people and even dogs. They are monsters they are rapists! you are supporting baby killers! you are supporting the real genocide! NEVER FORGET THE TRUTH OF OCTOBER 7th, because Hamas want to kill us all, Jewish, gay, trans, Queer, non Muslim! they are terrorists, they want to do October 7th over and over and over and over until there are no Jews left! FUCK HAMAS

[ladyimaginarium]

leftist goyim when they realize that antiracism & decolonization & unlearning colonial ideas Also means deconstructing their antisemitism & allying & standing in solidarity with the jewish community & genuinely fighting for jewish liberation too:

[hilacopter]

look through the blog of a token jew and see how much they cared for the whole being jewish thing before october 7th

[kitkat-the-muffin]

Since Wiccan is in the MCU now I’d like to remind everyone that he’s gay and Jewish

I mean the gay stuff is obvious he’s in the gay witch show

But he’s also raised Jewish by his reincarnated parents which is neat. Assuming he was reincarnated in the MCU as well and not just adopted or something

The timeline’s kinda off but whatever

[daz4i]

justice is meaningless without care, if the thing that drives you to action is hate towards the oppressors rather than care for the oppressed you will not get very far

[fdelopera]

there's something comical about Heritageposts' "blocklist" of Jewish blogs (on which my blog is listed), which consists entirely of Jews, plus some people who have been vocal allies to the Jewish community on Tumblr. (i love you all!)

Heritageposts is a known antisemite (i blocked them months ago for their explicit Jew-hatred), and they have clearly been collecting the names of Jews who have been speaking up about the tidal wave of Jew-hatred that we've been receiving from antisemites.

any Jew, and any non-Jewish ally, who speaks out loudly enough about antisemitism, Heritageposts adds to their list.

and ... i think this little piss-ant actually believes that a blocklist is going to intimidate a group of Jews into silence!!

honey. please.

we have been dealing with Jew-hatred for over 2000 years. our relatives went through the Holocaust within living memory. we've been slaughtered by the millions and shoved into mass graves.

we have been murdered by Nazis, by Communists, and by everyone in between.

we have just been through another recent pogrom by a group of fucking terrorists (Hamas is not your blorbo, kids!), and we are more united than ever.

we've been through this before, and by much worse than you.

and we are still here. and we are still proudly Jewish. we love being Jews, and we love our Jewish community.

and long after you are gone, when no one even remembers that you existed at all, we will still be here.

we will outlive you.

[vamptastic]

Sick to death of goyim refusing to grapple with the fact that Israel both sucks and is generally a better and safer place for Jewish people to live than the rest of the world and has done extremely important work in preserving Jewish culture. Like you don't have to pretend as if Jews have never benefited from the existence of Israel to say that harm against Palestinians is bad or that right-wing ideology has too strong of a foothold in Israeli politics. Goyim just throw out their bad takes on intracommunity issues they know fuckall about like Ashkenormativity and provide braindead idiotic commentary on it constantly now. I'm tired. Like just shut the fuck up man I know you didn't know what Sephardic means yesterday. Half these people probably learned that Jews speak multiple languages and not just 'Jewish' last month and they wanna weigh in on language preservation, like just shut the fuck up. Especially when all you have to add is like, this is why we should destroy Israel and no I don't have any plans on how to preserve Jewish culture afterwards but isn't it soooo evil that they did an imperfect job at something I have literally no knowledge of and don't have any ideas to contribute on? I don't want the continued existence of my people to come at the cost of another's, fucking obviously, but pretending there's no benefit to me doesn't fucking help with that moral quandary, it's just a showcase of your idiocy and inability to grasp the reality of being part of a tiny, ancient minority group. G-d forbid something be more complicated than 'these evil people are being evil on purpose and we can kill all of them no harm no foul'. Everybody is so confident that just because they feel strongly about something they must automatically be educated and correct on it, and it's their sworn duty to Post, even when it's about something notoriously complicated, has zero impact on their actual lives, and which has the potential to cause real harm to other people if you're publically stupid about it.

[redcr9ssnine]

[beta-lactam-allergic]

I don't know if I'm allowed to use the jumblr tag. I'm a goy & whilst I sometimes read jumblr tagged content to understand Jewish perspectives, I have never used the tag before as I'm not Jewish in any way. But I felt I needed to share this.

I am ashamed of my fellow goyim. How can they look at photos of kids who are being held hostage in horrible conditions & mock them so badly? The longer this goes on, the lower these antisemites sink, the more I despair for the future.

If I was Jewish, these past few months would have made me deeply distrustful & disdainful of the average goy. As a goy, I can't blame any Jewish person who feels that way. To many of us are wilfully ignorant bigots who will believe any lie about Jews no matter how easily disproven.

Below is a long rant, feel free to ignore it & stop here. It goes off on tangents.

I wish "lizardmancer" was an isolated case, but this is part of an obvious pattern of virulent modern societal antisemitism that I admit I only noticed since October 7th. Before than I admit I thought it was just Neo-Nazis & some Arab Muslims that still held antisemitic views.

I guess goyische privilege allowed me the ability to not notice until October 7th & the reactions to it in the months since shoved it down our throats. I'm not used to being from the privileged group. I'm a transwoman in a queerphobic area, I'm autistic/ADHD in neurotypical society, I have enough Australian Aboriginal ancestry for bigots to hate me, even if I'm white-passing & am open about that ancestry (also most of my cousins aren't white-passing, acknowledging relation to them implies Aboriginality even if I didn't spell it out like I do).

But I admit, I am privileged compared to Diasporic Jews. I know that even if life became intolerable where I live, I don't have to move far to be safe. I have friends & cousins in safer suburbs. The bigots I deal with don't have the numbers to storm safer communities & society at large would stamp them out if they tried. Even if Queensland fell under the control of transphobic bigots (possible in October 2024), I can move to NSW as we have contacts there. The L/NP won't be able to win the other states again unless they drop the transphobia as transphobia is not popular with the general Australian electorate, even if it does work in some parts of Queensland.

In comparison what can a Diasporic Jew do. Bigots have stormed their communities in the past (see any pogrom in history), so moving to tolerant communities isn't enough. Protesters in recent months regularly target synagogues & Jewish communities. They have made it clear they can walk into communities or isolate them by cutting off routes between them. Wider society hasn't done much to stamp this out. I'm no longer sure that they would even if it escalates to pogrom level violence, which is something I used to be certain was only in the past.

Individual assaults & attacks on Jewish people seem to be ignored by non-Jewish media. I found out about some by Tumblr, & than found the source articles that way as it didn't pop up on my usual news sites.

This reminds of the way non-LGBT media use to ignore murders of transpeople (Brianna Ghey's murder last year would not have even made it to English news as recently as 2010, let alone international) & still does for POC transpeople.

I see all the misinformation, all the libel spread about Jews, many repeating tropes over a millennia old. I use to think we were better than this. Race-based tropes about people of African & East Asian descent are rarer than they once were & basically confined to fringes. We aren't there yet for Australian Aboriginal people, but it seems to be heading in the right direction albeit slower than I would like. But tropes about ethnic Jews are alive & well, & if anything are stronger amongst 20-somethings than the over-50s.

I thought society was in general getting better, & it has for some groups, but clearly not for Jews. I hope that this downturn is temporary & the world wakes up to its horrid treatment of Jews the way the West woke up to its horrid treatment of LGBT people & is waking up to for Neurodivergent people & many non-Jewish ethnic minorities.

I want to believe we goyim can do better. That antisemitism can go back to the fringes like homophobia has & maybe cease to exist altogether like stigma against left-handed people did. But I'm not holding my breath, I've seen too much vile garbage these part four months from my fellow goyim.

Too many of us suck. To every Jewish person who reads this, keep living, don't let these bigots get the best of you. This goy hopes for the best. I hope the surviving hostages are able to return to their families. I hope those who mock them now regret it in the future. I hope that Hamas get grounded into ash & dust, to be replaced by a faction that will be serious about a two-state solution. I hope that the Diaspora can one day live without fear or discrimination.

Am Yisrael Chai, I Stand With Israel.

do y’all understand how cartoonishly bigoted u sound.

[fdelopera]

If you are going to try to tell me that "goy" is a "slur" -- which it's not, it's just the Hebrew/Yiddish word for "someone who isn't Jewish"...

And THEN you're going to tell me that "gentile" is the "proper" term to use...

EVEN THOUGH GENTILE HAS BEEN USED BY GENTILES TO SEGREGATE JEWISH PEOPLE...

You had BETTER come to me with more than a couple of Tweets where some Christian said being called a "goy" made her feel uncomfortable!

Well, motherfucker, guess how saying "gentile" makes me feel, knowing that it's the word that gentiles used to segregate Jewish people?

If seeing Yiddish words makes you feel uncomfortable, you probably have a problem with Jewish people. And you probably have some Jew-hatred that you need to unpack.

Fuck off, and stop trying to shame Jews for using words that belong to us.

[fdelopera]

i'm saying this now, and i will say it again: any goy who decides to wish me a "Happy Hanukkah" this December is required to tell me something that you know and appreciate about any other Jewish holiday.

bonus points if the other holiday you choose isn't Pesach (which you probably know about because of the Last Supper, or maybe a Jew has invited you to a Passover Seder before).

i swear, the only reason many of you know anything about Hanukkah at all is because it happens during the "Christmas season".

it's not enough to wish a Jew "Happy Hanukkah" once a year. it's not enough to tell your Jewish friends that you "punch Nazis lol".

now is the time to show us that you celebrate the Jews in your life.

now is the time to demonstrate that you respect us and our traditions.

this is my challenge to you:

do better.

[aguineapigcouldntdothis]

rating different ways that characters are generally revealed to be jewish in tv and movies made by (mostly) goyim:

B'nei mitzvah mention: 3/10, points taken off for laziness. kept some because it's an important event so I get why it's used

B'nei mitzvah scene: 8/10, can either be really good or really bad depending how accurate. honestly ranges from a 5/10-11/10

Chanukkah mention: 0/10, im so tired of this one its so overdone and it's always in the christmas specials. it can be done right but like that's only if jews are writing the scene

Pesach mention: 4/10, definitely a better holiday to use than chanukah because it's not done to death and it isn't automatically paired with christmas. points removed for the inevitable inaccuracies

Rosh Hashanah mention: 7.5/10 just for using a holiday that most people wouldn't think of or may not even know of

Literally any other jewish holiday: 9/10 how do you know about this who told you

Any jewish holiday scene: 7.5/10, which actually means it can range from 5-10 depending on how ridiculous and wrong the scene is making my rating perfectly average.

shabbat mention: 8/10, kinda love it. it's also really good for casual conversations because its a weekly occurrence so there's plenty of ways for it to feel natural when bringing it up in a script

shabbat dinner scene: 15/10 absolutely love it especially bc it shows character dynamics in a casual setting. if there's anything incorrect it doesn't bother me much because the ways people observe shabbat vary a lot

"im jewish": 10/10 straight to the point no notes love it

literally any mention of money/greed/power: -10/10 shut up shut up shut up why is your only jewish character rich and greedy and why is that their defining trait

antisemitic comments: -15/10 why can't you think of anything nice to say.

nose comments: -100/10 needs to be in a separate category because I hate it so much. somehow even worse when its a goyische actor wearing a prosthesis and caked on "jewish" makeup bc like how are you being fake racist rn

not even saying anything and just making it painfully obvious: 8/10, yeah that character's last name is goldberg so it's pretty clear and I like that. I do wish it was mentioned upfront though

brit milah mention: 5/10, its usually played for laughs which feels a bit weird but not weird enough for me to care. this is a true neutral

having them wear a kippah/magen david/anything visibly jewish from the second theyre introduced: 100/10 my favorite by far because it's made clear from the start and there's no question about it

[fdelopera]

Me: Posts about some of the existential fears about being Jewish right now, and about wanting the Jewish people to survive, and to live.

Some dumb goy reblogging my post: You want to live?? Does that mean that you're going to kill all the non-Jewish people???

Me:

Me: ........ aaaaand block.

Like, I literally can't make this shit up!

Jew-hatred makes you stupid!