#jewish activism

[workersolidarity]

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JEWISH PEACE ACTIVIST: "THE GERMAN GOVERNMENT DOES EVERYTHING IT CAN TO SILENCE US."

📹 Jewish German peace activist, Udi Raz, based in Berlin, accuses the German government of suppressing peace protests against the Israeli occupation's genocide in Gaza.

According to Raz, the German authorities continue to suppress the Palestine solidarity movement, accusing the German authorities of doing all it can to silence protesters.

The activist slams the Israeli occupation, which publicly accuses the pro-Palestine peace movement of antisemitism, while at the same time, the Zionist occupation declares its ability to speak for all Jews around the world.

"Israel cannot speak in the name of Jews," Raz tells Anadolu News Agency. "Whoever claims otherwise, to my understanding, this is an antisemitic claim."

"Jews are diverse. Jews live in diverse and different geopolitical contexts and national contexts," the Jewish peace activist continues.

"We Jews who live here in Germany, of course, we care about other Jews who live elsewhere, but it does not mean that we are ambassadors of a racist state called the state of Israel," Raz added.

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@WorkerSolidarityNews

[rebel-girl-queen-of-my-world]

I did a thing!

Or more accurately, a whole bunch of cool-ass, courageous Jewish organizers did a thing and I helped take photos!

IfNotNow Boston shut down BU Bridge for 2 hours - because that’s what you do when your Senator won’t meet with you!

It was an incredibly powerful action. We sang, heard some moving speeches, blew the shofar, and said the Mourner’s Kaddish for the Israeli civilians killed and Palestinians murdered in the ongoing Nakba.

Btw calling anti-Zionist Jews “fake Jews” is fucking laughable. Like people are going to learn the Mourners Kaddish, cite Torah deep cuts and wear tefillin as an elaborate psy-op.

[aqlstar]

Another one of my sticker design found in the wild.

Plz people that can actually draw check out Hatikvah Sticker Collective so that we have more designs.

[lasttarrasque]

Jewish activists moved to Israel, now he documents settler violence

[handmedownpocketpussy]

As i light my menorah for channukah, 1,700 years after the events of a great army devastating our most holy sites and trying to genocide us, I am thinking about my Palestinian cousins. I am surrounded in my living room by my proudly displayed Palestinian flag, bedouin cloth, tiles, and keffiyeh. I didn't realise just how much Palestinian stuff was in my house until people started making a big deal about a Jew supporting Palestinian liberation in October... I hope that in 1,700 years from now the Palestinian people will be celebrating their own version of Channukah, celebrating surviving the devastation of an army wanting nothing more than to see them wiped out. I hope that in that time Palestinians like my friends, cousins, nephew, students, and son no longer have compounded PTSD from the act of *checks notes* being born in Palestine. I don't understand a single person that can be celebrating Channukah while looking at Palestine, and is able to tell themselves that the occupation and slaughters is justified.

Here's to a free Palestine, I hope to one day celebrate pesach in al Quds with my family but until the occupation stops that will not happen.

[buddhistmusings]

I'm feeling very alienated from people around me because of my refusal to participate in antisemitism, and I'm not even Jewish, so I can't IMAGINE how so many of you are feeling out there. I almost feel silly for feeling alienated about it. It's causing some real reflections when it comes to how I view myself politically. It's like here I am thinking, "No, we're against ALL oppression, right guys? .... right, guys?" 🦗🦗🦗 And it sucks knowing that a. the alienation I'm describing pales in comparison to what Jewish people might be feeling and b. that it probably isn't even that surprising to you all. Antisemitism is so perennial, cyclical, it insists on coming back again and again, rooting itself in places where people otherwise wouldn't expect it. It's Samsaric.

I almost feel like I'm being gaslight- "I'm not antisemitic, I'm just saying that Jews are harvesting the blood and organs of children!"

Like, bro, what else would that be? If blood libel isn't antisemitism, what counts as antisemitism?

This post is probably a bit jumbled, but I hope you're all doing well. ❤️

[hanmegumi]

LMAO

edit: turning off reblogs because some of the people that are reblogging are extremely fucking moronic. holy shit

[rebel-girl-queen-of-my-world]

Jewish Voice for Peace, IfNotNow, and the Boston Workers Circle teamed up for a beautiful Chanukah for Ceasefire action in Boston on Dec. 16:

We blocked off the intersection in downtown Boston in the heart of the financial district, w the intersection where the Boston Massacre occurred, to demand an end to a far, far worse example of colonial violence. Behind us in most of these pictures is the Old State House.

Holding the intersection through rush hour - there was lots of honking, because Boston - but marshals handed out leaflets to every driver apologizing for inconvenience and explaining the reasons for the action, and if they wanted an end to such disruptions they could call our electeds and ask them to call for a ceasefire.

We heard from multiple faith leaders and publicly called out our supposedly progressive elected officials, lit the Chanukah candles for the final night, offered up prayers and love for Gaza and all Palestine.

I am pleased to report that after months of protests and calls, Senator Warren finally spoke out in favor of a ceasefire.

[yossibutnossi]

When people in Queers for Palestine say things like "I know I wouldn't have rights in Palestine but my activism is not transactional" I lose it because nobody is bringing up the fact gay men get thrown of roofs because of "transactionality", we are saying it because you are actively harming the LGBT community. You actively go against your gay brothers and sisters in the Middle East when you cheer on Hamas or want to see the only gay-friendly country there abolished. You are hurting your own community because you love your community less than you hate (((Israel))). Get your head out of your asses and realize people telling you about the LGBT killings in Palestine is so you can stop hurting the Palestinians you "care so much about".

[shalom-iamcominghome]

If even acknowledging antisemitism within your community spaces is going to "distract from the cause," maybe that's because the foundation of your beliefs comes down to antisemitism. What you're doing is telling on yourself.

[handmedownpocketpussy]

Some positivity in the Palestine tag! The Ecuadorian interfaith pilgrimage for ceasefire in palestine gets over 100 participants, and media coverage! Palestina, escucha: tu lucha es nuestra lucha! translation of article: We do not want to be unphased in the face of this global situation that affects us all, including our country, said Monsignor Victor Corral before beginning the walk that called for peace for the Palestinian people.

The journey, in which people of various beliefs participated, started from the Lutheran Church in Quito, passed by the Israeli embassy and ended after 10.25 kilometers in Carolina park.

In front of the diplomatic headquarters in Tel Aviv, religious leaders lamented the pain of Palestinian fathers and mothers who lost their children, the destruction of the entire infrastructure of Gazan families, forced to migrate towards an uncertain future.

“Ecuador with Palestine” and “The children of Gaza are not a threat” were repeated over and over again by Muslims, Catholics, Protestants and representatives of social organizations who with flags and banners rejected the Zionist genocide. [translator's note: there were Jews as well there, but it is not mentioned in the article, though one is shown in photos]

The population of the Gaza Strip is exposed to horrendous and inhuman crimes caused by Israeli aggression, which caused the death of thousands of innocent people, denounced Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.

According to official data, since the start of the war, in October 2023, more than 32 thousand people have died in the besieged coastal enclave and almost 75 thousand have been injured.

Social and political organizations in Ecuador have expressed their rejection of the support of President Daniel Noboa's government for Israel in the midst of the genocide against the people of Palestine and accuse the president and the chancellor, Gabriela Sommerfeld, of being "complicit in the genocide."

[aqlstar]

Shavua Tov jumblr

Starting out this week with some kvetching about stuff that doesn’t matter

Does it bother anyone else that some American public schools insist on using “winter break” instead of “Christmas break?” It’s a break that consistently lines up with Christmas and New Years- just own it. No one’s mad schools give off for Christmas; just don’t pretend you’re giving time off for a multicultural celebration of all winter holidays when you aren’t.

Also- “Happy Holidays” when used in a virtue-signally way (as opposed to meaning Happy New Year and Christmas). Because half the time Hanukkah and Dwali have like already passed or aren’t coming up for another entire month.

Similarly, what’s up with BCE/CE? BC/AD was honest and open about being a Christian system of dating. BCE/CE is still just as Christian, but it pretends to be universal. “Common Era” my ass.

Did anyone ask for these changes to be made? Or are culturally Christian Americans trying to fool themselves into thinking that American society is more secular than it is? … So they can gaslight us about it later

Feeling extra suspicious lately 🤨

[rebel-girl-queen-of-my-world]

I think it depends on your community. My experience might be less common, but I haven’t experienced any repercussions for being an antizionist Jew so far (beyond Instagram censorship, getting listed on Canary Mission, and arguing with relatives I don’t see much anyhow). I was raised reform and passively Zionist, in that my Hebrew school didn’t have IDF come talk to us but we certainly learned a VERY whitewashed version of “Israeli history”.

My family is pretty secular, but my mom’s time on a kibbutz in the 70s meant a lot to her. She was Zionist but she has too much idealism and empathy to not see that what gave her joy and belonging was built on the misery of others. It’s fortunate that she was already very aware of the dispossession and genocide of the peoples of Turtle Island. The more I taught her about Palestine, the more she saw the parallels. I don’t think she’d call herself antizionist now, and she’s too non-confrontational to become an activist, but she and my dad donated to the Middle East Childrens Alliance. It’s huge progress for a couple of boomers!

That Jewish person who sent me the ask, questioning their identity had me thinking a lot: are anti-Zionist Jews that scarce? Is Zionism really all that entrenched in various communities, institutions and congregations? Is it such a normalized political idea that being anti-Zionist is considered a contradiction of your Jewish identity?

[sunbeamedskies]

Hating nazis does not mean you’re not prejudiced against Jews. Posting about how you’d love to punch a nazi is not your get-out-of-accusations-of-antisemitism free card

[tiredandsleepyaf]

Ok, so let me explain why rebloging posts like these do little to nothing to assure Jews that they’ll be safe around you.

Goyim reblogging this stuff don’t typically listen to Jews (which is apparent because we’ve said stuff like this doesn’t actually do anything to help us many times) about their experiences with antisemitism or listen when Jews try to educate them on things like antisemitic dog whistles or blood libel. Most of them are way more enthusiastic about punching Nazis than they are about showing any compassion to Jews. I’d venture to guess the majority of Jewish people know that often the goyim who reblog this stuff are just out for blood and don’t give a damn about us, because we’ve seen this many times. Not to mention that the desire for a violent revolution that some leftists seem to have has led to Jewish people facing a lot of antisemitism (at their hands). I would bet that some of the people reblogging this act similar to Nazis themselves. I know at the very least the goyim rebloging this don’t listen to Jews because we’ve said many times that this sort of thing doesn’t really do anything to help us, and we’d much rather goyim call out and learn about antisemitism. Overall, it’s just very performative activism, and it’s pretty obvious that the goyim reblogging this are just doing it to try and make themselves look better, and not for the sake of Jews.

[creekfiend]

I've had something in the back of my brain percolating the concept of Jewish Materialist Anti-Zionism for a while now.

It is our task to oppose Zionism without denying the material conditions under which Jews live, and have lived, globally. Zionism is a response to the material conditions of Jews in the global diaspora. It is a response influenced heavily by 19th and 20th century European nationalist movements, and it is a response that has resulted in an absolutely unacceptable level of violence and oppression of Palestinians.

That does not mean that the material conditions under which diaspora Jews live are not of concern or meriting response. The state of Israel has addressed a non-zero number of problems for Jews globally.  It has addressed them at a cost that I do not find acceptable.

The right of return policy has indeed resulted in many many Jews who would have otherwise been killed having somewhere safe to go with no questions asked. It has *unquestionably* resulted in many many fewer deaths of Jews globally than there would have been if it did not exist.

Some of those Jews are my family.

And, the cost in order to found and maintain the nation-state of Israel to justify the policy is an unacceptable cost. Jews should not hold our lives more dear than the lives of anyone else. The right of return policy of the modern state of Israel is not an acceptable solution to me. The violence innate to the founding and maintenance of Israel as a nation state is unacceptable as a price for Palestinians to pay. I do not and will not ever accept it. I understand that the policy, and Zionism, are responses to a problem that is real. I demand a different response.

If you want to understand the current Israeli government as a western antizionist, and you should, I think it is important to understand that it is a far right fascist movement that arose (somewhat inevitably) from the violence (and nationalist mythologies that arose to justify it) innate to the founding and continued maintenance of the state of Israel. In this respect it is almost indistinguishable from the far right fascist movements in the United States that arose (somewhat inevitably) from the violence (and nationalist mythologies that arose to justify it) innate to the founding and continued maintenance of THIS country.

The thing is, when far right fascists in the United States say "white people are oppressed globally!" they're lying. But when far right fascists in Israel say "Jews are oppressed globally!" THAT'S TRUE.

The response is different. The response is "yes, and that does not justify this."

The only way to defeat Zionism is to come up with a better response to antisemitism than Zionism is. I honestly do not think that this should be very difficult considering that many Jews have had deeply Anti-Zionist philosophy is for as long as Zionism has been around so there are a lot of alternative ideas out there. I think there are a lot of arguments to be made that Zionism has not done a whole lot to address the issue of global antisemitism! It is not a difficult argument to make that it is a failed project.

Making people complacent about fascist rhetoric is so much easier if you can make them afraid. Jews have a lot to be afraid of and that includes Jews in Israel. The point is not that the fears are not valid, the point is that the fears do not justify the violence.

I'm going to turn reblogs on for this post (provisionally) later when I can keep an eye on it.