#jewish rhetorics

[snapbookreviews]

Summer 2024 Behind-the-Scenes Reading

This summer was the summer of thesis reading.

There’s a very academic bent to this write-up, because, as I mentioned in last quarter’s write up. This was the summer of thesis reading. The write up you see before you is in no small part an extension of my thesis journaling, which was the half of my summer that wasn’t reading, meaning that even the non academic books here have been read in an academic mindset with an academic…

[gingerswagfreckles]

Incredible. Every single one of these comments except one is virulently antisemitic.

[edenfenixblogs]

For the record, the man accused in the shooting of the three Palestinian men was NOT JEWISH.

Please do not allow this terrible event to contribute to antisemitism or retaliatory Islamophobic violence.

James J. Eaton, the accused, is a white Christian man whose mother thought he was decorating a Christmas tree she gave him at the time of the shooting.

Many of us—Jews/Muslims/Israelis/Palestinians/Arabs—have been BEGGING those who claim to be our allies to dispense with violence and violent rhetoric against all of our communities precisely because we all know that these kinds of things happen as a result.

When I say that the rhetoric and tone you use online and the dogwhistles you espouse thoughtlessly can get people killed, this is what I’m talking about.

We all know that you want to be on the “right” side of history. But you have to want peace for all MORE than you want the self righteously fulfilling feeling of being right. This is not a game. People in your country are dying because people who claim to want to help are hurting everyone instead.

The only sides in this conflict are peace vs war, love vs hate. We must all be united in our desire for peace, not by our (self-proclaimed)“righteous” fury.

If you are demonizing Israel and Israelis and Jews or Muslims and Arabs and Palestinians, you are not only on the wrong side. You are not even on a side that can possibly be right.

Your personal political identity is irrelevant. Being a leftist/liberal/progressive doesn’t mean you’re immune to being hateful and Islamophobic and antisemitic. Being right wing/conservative doesn’t meant you are, either.

So, once again, I’m BEGGING YOU ALL: please tone down your rhetoric. Learn what dog whistles affect all parties in this conflict and then stop using them. Elevate the voices of people working for peace, not victory. And spend more time learning from those more familiar with the conflict than you do from those speaking most loudly about it.

And for the love of G-d. Please learn to interrogate a source for credibility before sharing it.

[poppyseed-hamantaschen]

Musk supports israel lmao u zio freaks are just now realizing ur allies are nazis? Cant wait until ur fake colony is wiped off the map

hey anon! if you had properly read the post you are referencing for more than two seconds, you would have seen that i was saying that GOYIM, aka NONJEWS aka (probably) YOU are the ones who are "just now realizing" that musk is a nazi. us Jews have been saying it for YEARS AND YEARS now, and none of you are listening! which is why it's so hypocritical of goyim to be now saying "omg, musk is a bad person!!", which was EXACTLY what my meme said. i don't care if he supports Israel, by the way - he is still a bad person. it's also very very VERY interesting that you called me a "zio"....which is a term coined by neonazis. so who's the nazi now, anon? (spoiler alert: it's both of you xx)

also, while we're on the topic of Israel - you claimed that Israel is a "fake colony". well, sorry to burst your misinformed bubble, but Israel has been around for a VERY long time. the Torah (aka the Hebrew Bible) says that Hashem (G-d) created the nation of Israel during our exodus from Egypt, which was approximately between 1476 BCE and 1310 BCE. that's a lot of years ago! and from a secular standpoint, the oldest evidence of human life in Israel (found in a place called Ubediya), dates back to 1.5 MILLION years ago! so, Israel has existed for a very long time :P

i would like to take a second and reaffirm my stance, which is that Israel has the right to exist and defend itself, the hostages need to be brought home NOW, Hamas/Houthis/etc are horrible, innocent Palestinians deserve self-determination and rights, and a two-state solution is the best solution possible

it is VERY interesting that you, a (presumed) leftist hypocrite chose to come into my asks (as an anon, like a coward. if you're gonna be antisemitic, say it to my face) with antisemitic words as a reaction to a post i made about....leftist hypocrisy. don't you have better things to do? go outside. touch some grass. read a book. spend time with friends. bake a cake. seriously, anon, attacking a random Jewish kid on tumblr is not gonna Free Palestine.

anyways. have a lovely day. and remember:

Hindert hayzer zol er hobn, in yeder hoyz a hindert tsimern, in yeder tsimer tsvonsik betn un kadukhes zol im varfn fin eyn bet in der tsveyter.

and

לֹא יִשָּׂא גוֹי אֶל גוֹי חֶרֶב לֹא יִלְמְדוּ עוֹד מִלְחָמָה

[edwardallenpoe]

the conflation of Zionism, the state of Israel, and Judaism is the worst thing on the planet, actually. Saying that supporting Palestine is antisemitism not only makes the struggle against genocide worse but it also makes the struggle against antisemitism worse! The more we conflate antizionism with antisemitism the less we will be able to spot actual antisemitism and the more we will harm the Jewish community and it is the greatest betrayal to Jewish people of all. Zionists (and 'leftists' who's hate for antisemitism is stronger than their love for jewish people and therefore inact alienation and conflation themselves) are doing a huge disservice to Jewish people (especially Jewish people who support Palestine and are being attacked by zionists and face so much antisemitism from zionists) and it's sickening.

I'm saying this as a non-jewish black person. You can SEE how much ACTUAL antisemitism is affecting the Jewish community but zionists are trying to conflate that with pro-palestinian protests and it's so frustrating.

How can zionists say that "from the river to the sea" is more colonialist than "we want '48"?

This post was inspired by an interview on MSNBC about the book "uncomfortable conversations with a jew" and seeing how they're also trying to frame antizionism and anti-Israel protests as equivalent to the civil rights protests and efforts towards freedom from the black community is sickening. This is an actual conversation to be had about antisemitism, antiblackness and intersectional activism and class solidarity between the Jewish community and the black community but the way they frame it in this lense is the biggest disservice, not just to the black and Jewish community but to every marginalized community. You CANNOT say that Israel's efforts to ethnically cleanse and genocide Palestine is the same as the African diaspora's (but specifically African American's) fight for rights and freedom, especially since the two biggest faces of the civil rights movement (Martin Luther King Jr. And Malcolm X, who was a pan African) were for the Jewish community AND for Palestine.

please. We can be pro-palestine and support Jewish people. That is something you can do. And I ENCOURAGE it.

Zionism ≠ judaism. Israel ≠ judaism. We understand this the same way we understand that nazi ≠ German citizens and that the state of russia ≠ russian citizens.

[poooooooooao3]

Some people think this was in response to the Palestinian Authority' TV call to kill Jews one by one back in August.

Here's that video:

My source:

One might say in defense of this that he clearly means ' Israeli Jews' but the above incident happened in a Jewish neighbourhood in Montreal, Canada. We also know the pogroms in Amsterdam were not because they were hunting Israeli's. They were hunting Jews. Any Jew.

Why? Maybe because earlier in the war, the PA Shari’ah Judge endorsed terror, saying that “everything done by our people is an acceptable response.”

Fine. Then everything Israel does to defend itself is also acceptable.

[alwaysbewoke]

You know you fucked up when you got a slimeball like this talking like this about you...

[brick-van-dyke]

TERFs 🤝 Zionists

Using the exact same talking points and rhetoric.

[locrianking]

hey im saying this with so much love. but y’all have got to stop saying “zio” as a shorthand for zionist/zionism. it’s not a funny quirky abbreviation it is a derogatory term/maybe slur that was popularized & brought to the mainstream by david duke. you know. the kkk grand wizard.

jewish people feel free to add/critique

[vamptastic]

tikkunolamresistance got deleted 🙏

[anonymousdandelion]

Imagine if all the energy spent on arguing about whether or not Terrible Thing can/should be compared to the Holocaust, was instead spent on actually trying to address Terrible Thing on its own merit.

[kingofmyborrowedheart]

I’m sorry but you can’t cry “human rights violation!!!!” when you are actively carrying out a campaign of genocide.

[biblicalhorror]

The most frustrating part of engaging in any of this discourse with pro-Israel people is that they claim there's just something ineffable about "seeing and understanding" how supporting Palestinian liberation is directly calling for the eradication of Jewish people (as if that type of rhetoric isn't exactly how actual antisemitism often manifests in online spaces but that's a topic for another day)

They get through people debunking the "the land belongs to the people of Israel anyway" argument and the "LGBTQ Palestinians are safe in Israel" argument and the "Genocide isn't what's happening here so you should educate yourself" argument and when all of those points are meticulously disproven over and over they still stand with "Well, myself and your Jewish friends see the hate you have in your heart for us" and it truly doesn't matter what you say at that point because even if you yourself are Jewish they will claim that refusing to support the state, government and military of Israel is inherently hateful and bigoted, as if a religious ethnostate is some inherent human right that is being taken away from them. I know many of them are blinded by the relentless propaganda that's been around their whole lives and how hard it is to break free from a belief system that is so tied to your core identity as a human being but it is so frustrating watching people being led straight to the point over and over again and just turning around and refusing to see it.

It's also so frustrating to see people using the momentum of this movement to casually tack on actual antisemitism to these discussions, as if having Jewish people in positions of power is why the US bends over backwards to excuse the actions of Israel and not, yknow, the fact that our government directly benefits from having a military stronghold in the middle east. I've talked to some well-meaning pro-Palestine friends irl who casually use antisemetic talking points because they've ALSO bought into the narrative that Israeli = Jewish and so they blame the actions of Israel and the IDF on Jewish people's "religious values" and ignore the fact that this conflict really has almost nothing to do with religion itself and everything to do with capitalism, imperialism and maintaining the US's status as a so-called "global power".

[shinekocreator]

Two blogs to block

Edit: I tagged with antizionism because anew-jackson also posts antizionism shit

Edit 2: please reblog, I could use some help in spreading awareness

[sundaysundya]

there's a post going around saying that jewish people would be considered settlers (perjorative) anywhere they went that's annoying me because it fundamentally misunderstands what settler colonialism is. Moving somewhere and joining an existing community isn't being destructive, and those who claim it is are xenophobes and racists, and historically have been being antisemitic when saying this to jewish peoples in various countries! On the other hand zionists creating settlements on the west bank and telling palestians who are Also indigenous to the land that they have to leave on pain of death (or just killing them up front) is a totally different situation. It's just not true that it's impossible to go anywhere without displacing people. I think that recognizing that jewish ppl have been and are frequently targeted by xenophobia can be really clearly separated from the criticisms being made of Israel and zionist ideology.

[makerscockandballs]

cis people stop buying into the "trans people are the real aggressors" rhetoric whenever we try to defend outselves or bring attention to something challenge (APPARENTLY IMPOSSIBLE)