#jewishgay4il

[jewish-culture-is]

jewish culture is yerushalmi kugel as a midnight snack

.

[matan4il]

Can't stop thinking about that poor French girl. Most of my friends didn't even have their periods at 12. We have been screaming ourselves HOARSE for months that "globalize the intifada" is going to come back to bite us...and now it's beginning to. They didn't listen to us then and they won't now. Instead, they let a child pay the price for the crime of being Jewish.

I remember back in early April I walked by a protest and I told a cop there what the phrase meant. She didn't even deign to look at me, instead she told me where I could counter-protest. That is not what I was asking about. No one is protecting us, yet they wonder why we feel safer and have an attachment to our home.

I haven't been able to visit home since the war started, I'll be there Sunday finally. And I can guarantee that I will be moving comfortable there, despite my half baked plan and no official place to stay.

I just don't know what we are supposed to be doing anymore. עד מתי??????

I can't stop thinking about that girl either.

I can't stop thinking about what it means that she knew she wasn't safe telling her boyfriend at the time that she's Jewish. I can't stop thinking about the fact that she was right, as he proved. I can't stop thinking about the kind of environment she grew up in, where she had grown so accustomed to antisemitic attitudes being the rule, that she didn't see that guy's antisemitism for the red flag that it is, and didn't stay away from him.

And I wanna make it clear, it is ABHORRENT that Jews should have to stop and consider just how much they're going to lose out on socially because of antisemitism. But it IS hard to constantly lose and miss out and be depraved of social rewards that others get just because you're Jewish, especially when you're 12 years old. So this responsibility lies on the hellish environments that push Jews to have to decide between being included and being safe.

That the specific way that this girl's abusers were violent with her for her Jewishness was sexual, committed by at least one person she intimately trusted, done as a group, and (from what I've gathered) in public, just makes the whole thing even worse, and I cannot stop grieving what was taken away from her, and what she will have to deal with for the rest of her life.

And I've heard from multiple sources that the perpetrators' phones had anti-Israel material on them. It was easy to guess, but it's still chilling to have that confirmed.

I am SO sorry that you had that experience of a cop not giving a damn about our safety as Jews. But yes, we absolutely cannot rely on anyone else for our protection, it's a part of why we need Israel. And there's only one place in the world where we can be safely and effortlessly ourselves as Jews. I'm so glad for you that you're coming home, and I also hope that if fellow Israelis see this, that maybe they can reach out and help, too.

אם יש כאן במקרה ישראלים, השמיעו קול!

As for what we can do, we can continue to live even when they don't want us to, we can go on supporting each other, we can thrive even when they think they've taken that option from us, we absolutely should educate ourselves continuously when our haters are relying on people's ignorance, and we must speak up where and how we can. Even if our reach is small, it's better than being silent. Not to mention, sometimes one person listening to you, if they're the right one, can make a much bigger difference than we could imagine.

I'm sending you lots of hugs and love! xoxox

(for all of my updates and ask replies regarding Israel, click here)

[thatweirdtranny]

why do you believe veganism is a cult

/neutral, just interested in hearing opinions!

i don’t think all vegans subscribe to the cult nonsense of the main vegan movement, and honestly i wouldn’t be surprised if the culty vegans are just a loud minority, but the vegan movement as is it is right now just screams cult to me

and i’m not going to pretend to be an expert on cults, i can’t say factually whether it is one or not, but some of the reasons i think it smells culty are:

only members are good and righteous and all non-members or ex-members are treated like we’re scum

facts are unimportant to them — “what do you mean that eating meat can be good for the environment depending on how you source it? those are lies and i’m gonna doxx you for saying it”

brainwashing is a main MO — people will be vegan for years convinced they’re the healthiest they’ve ever been even though they’re tired and depressed all the time (it’s almost like we need a complete protein and easily digestible nutrients to be healthy, and nothing has better nutrient bioavailability than animal products), ntm the way they peddle cowspiracy as if that’s some kind of pinnacle of facts

all or nothing mentality — if you eat one animal product over the course of ten years and you don’t regret it you’re not “really vegan” whatever tf that means. worse, i’ve seen r/vegan get up in arms a hundred times over celebrities quitting veganism, saying ex-vegans were never True Vegans

etc etc etc (my brain can’t come up with anymore rn)

basically i don’t think every vegan is like this and i fully respect someone’s right to eat what they want, and i appreciate how so much of the vegan movement cares about the environment

but i personally will never go anywhere near veganism again. the greater vegan community is just too damn toxic for me to deal with and i think a majority of ex-vegans like myself would attest to that.

[legallyacceptibleurl]

how does a post like this get spread?

ID: screenshot of a post. the top bar reads “@prismatic-bell reblogged @kick-a-long”

@some-israeli-guy:

“Everyone needs to see this.

When Israel says hamas are using human shields, it is not an exaggeration, it is not a metaphor.”

(a video of an IDF soldier standing in front of a bombed out room)

(an image of the bombed out room)

“This is where the bodies of the 6 hostages were rescued from. Where they were murdered just days earlier. Underneath a child's bedroom.”

End ID.

@prismatic-bell reblogged from @kick-a-long, who reblogged it from the op @some-israeli-guy

these are @some-israeli-guy’s original tags

ID: the tags: “#israel #israblr #[hebrew text i can’t copy paste] #i/p #palestine #palestine is a death cult #fuck hamas #fuck palestine #hamas is isis #free palestine #from hamas” End ID.

now let’s have a look in the notes, at the reblogs

ID: two screenshots of the “other reblogs”

@one-little-goat reblogged from @illegitimatetenenbaum

@shadowhunterstar reblogged from @prismatic-bell

@whiterose-blackrose reblogged from @prismatic-bell

@prismatic-bell reblogged from @kick-a-long

@illegitimatetenenbaum reblogged from @kick-a-long

@marimoduck reblogged from @some-israeli-guy

@kamenhusband reblogged from @some-israeli-guy

@silicagelmuncher reblogged from @jewishgay4il

@spankedregularly reblogged from @if-i-am-not-for-me

@whiterose-blackrose reblogged from @if-i-am-not-for-me

@if-i-am-not-for-me reblogged from @jewishgay4il

@jewishgay4il reblogged from @some-israeli-guy

@this-is-where-i-write-stuff reblogged from @miss-sweetpotato

End ID

@kamenhusband, @marimoduck, @jewishgay4il, @kick-and-long, @ceatadeiarna, & @miss-sweetpotato saw those tags and thought “yea that’s a post i want to reblog”. literally best case scenario for these guys is they just saw his post in a tag and decided that his other tags were a-ok

because if any of these fuckers follow this guy?

this guy?

ID: a screenshot of the bottom part of a post. what’s visible is the lower part of a video, where you can see the legs of a man sitting on the ground, his foot is bleeding. a text box in the video says "You see what happens to stone throwers?"

underneath is a reblog by @some-israeli-guy that reads: “Beautiful! Kill them all and erase Palestine from history!” End ID.

this is why you aren’t taken seriously when you try to claim you aren’t being genocidal

not all the urls are in the screenshots. you can find the original post archived on @disgustingechoes, open the original post in a browser you are not logged into to view all the notes properly if you want to make it a blocklist

[edenfenixblogs]

You give off Iroh vibes: wise and kind, and patient enough to let people make their own mistakes so they can learn

also you probably like tea

Omg. This is like…the best compliment of all time.

And yeah I love tea. …like, probably more than is reasonable. 💜💜💜💜

[zatdummesmadchen]

"Funds money directly to hamas" good. hope they treat themselves with buying new missiles.

uh why the fuck would you say this

this post has 3000 notes and they get worse.

el-shab-hussein has already explained why he no longer shares how he vets individual fundraisers. scammers will use the information to be less obvious, making it more difficult to spot them.

and senatortedcruz's post has no actual proof of a widespread scam. that is a serious accusation to make, yet people are reblogging it and accepting it as true with no evidence. i won't deny that there are individual grifters on tumblr, but there are accounts like @/neechees, kyra45 and anonthescambuster that will help you avoid them. hussein even has a #scam alert tag for this purpose.

it's racist to spread misinformation about a supposed large-scale deception posing as fundraisers, not to mention dangerous because this makes it less likely for gazans to get what they need to survive and escape relentless airstrikes. we've already seen the consequences of this bias. some of these people are all too happy to be cops and harass or report gazans thinking they're bots or 'spamming' inboxes.

almost nobody on that post is encouraging others to donate to organisations or other vetted lists like those by operation olive branch, which has a faq sheet that explains how they verify fundraisers. i suspect this is an attempt to discourage people from helping palestinians altogether.

gazans are making fundraisers because they have no other choice. many of them cannot work and earn money as their workplaces have been destroyed. some have been disabled by injuries thanks to the iof's targeting of civilians. the fault is on israel for besieging them and on the egyptian government for exploiting their need to evacuate.

they're doing this for the same reason they have been posting photographs and videos of genocide so that people will pay attention to their suffering, so the world will not forget. is it such a leap in logic to understand they will also use social media to start fundraisers? do you just expect them to sit there and die in silence? so you can ignore them and your countries can keep arming israel as it commits atrocities?

[un-ionizetheradlab]

just sending you some love, and salem:

So cute!! Thank you🩷

[snowviolettwhite]

Been learning more about my Jewish ancestry and this quote from really touched me. It is from Living Judaism: The Complete Guide to Jewish Belief, Tradition, and Practice by Rabbi Wayne Dosick which was recommend to me by @jewishgay4il. So far only up to page twenty-two and learning more.

"And the human soul is a tiny piece of God, a tiny fragment of God’s light, a spark of the Divine that burst forth from the heavenly vessels and showered the universe."

This is something I have felt and feel. That humans and the souls of humans are all God. That we are all God and have God inside us.

[liatkolink]

@jewishgay4il blocked me before I could reply to their question about Israel committing genocide, or at least I cannot reply to the original thread, but here it goes because I love them so much. <3

There are plenty of Arab Israelis/Palestinian Israelis here who are doing just fine

Starved of Justice: Palestinians Detained Without Trial by Israel by Amnesty International on the 5th of June, 2012.

Over 1,100 Palestinians said held by Israel without trial, highest figure since 2003 by Times of Israel on the 2nd of July, 2023.

Israel holds over 1,200 detainees without charge. That’s the most in 3 decades, a rights group says by Associated Press on the 1st of August, 2023.

Israel/OPT: Horrifying cases of torture and degrading treatment of Palestinian detainees amid spike in arbitrary arrests on the 8th of November, 2023.

Jailed without charge: How Israel holds thousands of Palestinian prisoners by AlJazeera on the 29th of November, 2023.

Thousands of Palestinians are held without charge under Israeli detention policy by NPR on the 1st of December, 2023.

How Israel jails hundreds of Palestinians without charge by BBC on the 15th of December, 2023.

Israeli forces detain record number of Palestinian children without charge by Defense for Children International on the 30th of April, 2024.

Administrative Detention by B'Tselem.

Source? And while we are at it; what is the definition of genocide.

The deliberate killing of a large number of people from a particular nation or ethnic group with the aim of destroying that nation or group. Also if you look at the list of genocides, the first one that appears is the genocide in Gaza due to it being the most recent. Now, Wikipedia is just a recollection of different sources, but here are more if you want.

The Genocide of the Palestinian People: An International Law and Human Rights Perspective by Center for Constitutional Rights on the 25th of August, 2016.

Is Israel on the Precipice of Genocide? by Political Violence at Glance on the 6th of March, 2023.

Is What’s Happening in Gaza a Genocide? Experts Weigh In by TIME on the 13th of November, 2023.

Gaza: UN experts call on international community to prevent genocide against the Palestinian people by the United Nations Human Rights Office of the High Commissioner on the 16th of November, 2023.

A top U.N. court says Gaza genocide is 'plausible' but does not order cease-fire by NPR on the 26th of January, 2024.

...to amsterdam, where they attack us, to the us where we've been murdered, to yemen where there are no jews left, yeah sure lets all move to countries where they hate us and have shown time and again that they will not keep us safe

Dude, if you go to Amsterdam and start pestering locals, refuse to pay respect to the victims of the floods in Valencia, and start chanting "Kill Arabs" and "Why there's no more school in Gaza. Because we killed the children.", then expect to have the shit kicked out of you. And honestly, if you do that, I hope that is the reaction you'll get everywhere else in the world.

Israeli hooligans provoke clashes in Amsterdam after chanting anti-Palestinian slogans by Middle East Eye.

[baroque-hashem]

Zionism Poll: The Sequel (it's still just for Jews though)

Zionism defined: Zionism is the belief in the right of Jews to self determination and self governance. The political Zionist movement in the 20th century accomplished its goal by establishing the modern state of Israel in the Jewish homeland of the Levant.

This poll is for Jews! Goyim, please do not vote as it would skew the results :) (love ya! I just wanna poll my fellow Jews only on this one)

I have tried to provide a nice variety of answers :)

My goals here are information related. I just wanna see how my fellow Jews feel about this idea.

Also, thanks to @jewishgay4il for providing suggestions for this poll!

[matan4il]

אני לא יכולה יותר

זה לא נגמר

מתי זה יגמר? איפה כל העולם?!? למה לא אכפת להם

לא אכפת להם כי הם צריכים שעיר לעזאזל, ואנחנו נוחים יותר מקבוצות גדולות וחזקות יותר. הם מתעללים בנו מאותה סיבה שרוב המתעללים עושים זאת... כי הם יכולים. אני מחבקת אותך המון ומקוה שאת בטוב! שנה טובה וגמר חתימה טובה! xoxox

They don't care because they need a scapegoat, and we're a more comfortable target than bigger and stronger groups. They abuse us for the same reason most abusers do it... because they can. I'm hugging you tons and hope you're doing well! Shana tova and g'mar chatima tova, to you and to all my Jewish friends on here! xoxox

[thatweirdtranny]

(optional) surprise ask meme! List 5 songs you like to listen to, then publish this and send this ask to the last 5 people in your notifs 🎶

oh i love these, thanks for sending me this!

in no particular order:

“to each his own” by talos

“earth” by sleeping at last

“pink pony club” by chappell roan

“wellerman” the version by nathan evans

“somewhere in neverland” by all time low

tagging: @canadasilverdragon @gay-jewish-bucky @goatfactsofficial @jewish-mccoy @smegorl

[unsolicited-opinions]

I love this, @jewishgay4il, because some words can be all three!

Take "Chutzpah," for an example of a word which is Hebrew, Yiddish, AND English.

It's a word from Mishnaic Hebrew which is written the same way in Yiddish: חוצפה

The word has enjoyed such utility in the Anglophonic world that is has absolutely become an English Language cognate, appearing in all major English language dictionaries, including the OED.

Here are some broad strokes for those interested (I'd welcome additions/corrections if I get anything wrong here!)

Yiddish is mostly High German, with a lot of vocabulary borrowed from Hebrew and Aramaic, some Slavic influence, and a smattering of Romance languages, but spoken Yiddish can be mostly comprehensible to a native speaker of modern German. However, because Yiddish is written using Hebrew characters, written Yiddish is unreadable to native readers of German.

I remember being in Hebrew school, coming across a book written in Yiddish, and trying to sound out the words as I would with Hebrew. This baffled me until I realized it was using Hebrew characters to represent the phonemes for pronouncing Germanic sounds/words.

Okay, just a little trivia about a distant relative who was, it seems, beloved in US Yiddish culture: Zvee Scooler.

If you've seen the movie version of Fiddler on the Roof, you've seen Zvee. In this scene, Zvee plays the Rabbi of Anatevka, and offers a blessing for the Czar:

Zvee acted in both Yiddish and English theater, television, and film, but my grandmother told me she was especially fond of hearing her cousin Zvee on WEVD Yiddish radio as he presented, every Sunday from the 1930s until at least the 70s, a 10-minute Yiddish-language segment made up of news and commentary in rhyming Yiddish verse, called "Der Grammeister" ("The Rhyme Master") on the radio show, Forward Hour.

The Forward Hour was produced by The Jewish Daily Forward, a daily, socialist, Yiddish-language newspaper founded in 1897. In the 1920s the circulation of The Forward was greater than that of The New York Times.

The English version of the Forward started in 1990. Since 2019, The Forward publishes only online, in both English and Yiddish.

Jewish culture is...infodumping about Jewish culture...?

not knowing if some words you say are hebrew, english, or in yiddish

.

[legallyacceptibleurl]

i see @some-israeli-guy around a lot in the liberal zionist circles, is this your guy? hate speech under the cut

ID: screenshot of a post. the top bar says @jewishgay4il reblogged @sole-e-acqua

@some-israeli-guy: “Israel agreed to daily pauses in the war to allow vaccinating the population against polio.

Wooptie fucking doo. Do any of the hostages get a vaccine, or for that matter any medical attention at all in the last 10 months?

Why are we supposed to bend over backwards while our people get nothing?

As long as the hostages don't get medical treatment, no one in Gaza should.”

End ID.

is this your guy

ID: a screenshot of the bottom part of a post. what’s visible is the lower part of a video, where you can see the legs of a man sitting on the ground, his foot is bleeding. a text box in the video says "You see what happens to stone throwers?"

underneath is a reblog by @some-israeli-guy that reads: “Beautiful! Kill them all and erase Palestine from history!” End ID.

ID: a screenshot of a post by @some-israeli-guy that reads:

“No one in Gaza is innocent. On October 7th Gazan citizens, people who didn't have any connection to hamas before, became murderers, rapists, and slavers. They cut off a man's head and put it up for auction. They held hostages in their homes and used them as slaves.

Now is when the pro pali fuckers say "not all Gazans". Bullshit. How many Palestinians protested any of this? O. They celebrated.

They deserve misery. They deserve to live in tents with open sewer flowing in the streets. They deserve to die.”

End ID.

[edenfenixblogs]

List 5 things that make you happy, then put this in the ask box for the last 10 people who liked or reblogged something from you. 💖

Ok!

1. Dogs

2. Friends

3. Family

4. Books.

5. Cultural exchange

[tungledotedu]

jewishgay4il: if you really had sympathy for the civilians in gaza you'd donate to legitimate organisations

also jewishgay4il: these palestinian vetters are part of hamas!!1!

also jewishgay4il: i think the lebanon pager attacks are peak comedy

(post in question, warning for dehumanising rhetoric against palestinians and lebanese people)

the point of my other post was 'there's no actual proof of a widespread scam. these are serious accusations that need strong evidence.' but this pathetic racist refuses to read and regurgitates the same claim, thinking it will convince anyone but other racists. it only works because you people already subconsciously believe that palestinians are dangerous and untrustworthy.

it's obvious that you don't actually care about gazans in danger, or you wouldn't be trying to discredit the people who are helping them. nobody brought up hamas in the original post, yet here you are attempting to derail and discourage people from donating.

and you can say it's unfortunate and awful all you want, it doesn't change the fact that you were caught laughing about lebanese civilians being maimed and killed in the pager explosions. not only that, you tried to justify this act of terrorism. you don't even have the decency to apologise for trivialising their deaths.

Piss on the poor webbed site, I said it was funny that these pagers were going off and hitting people's groins. You know who had those pagers (and now radios?) Hezbollah members. You know what HezzyB wants? No Jews. You know what HB does? Attacks Jews and Israelis. You know what they are? An internationally recognized terrorist group. You know what else? By being among the civilian population they put them at risk. Just say you don't want Jews defending themselves, because you're crying over one of the most precision attacks of this war yet, that ONLY targeted, and with not that much force, terrorists.

'one of the most precise attacks'? how does blowing up a device that is also used by healthcare workers count as self-defence? are explosions in the supermarket 'precise' now? what other lies and propaganda have you accepted?

but it's all proportionate 'self-defence', 'with not that much force', sure.

(source of graph)

Ah yes, because my pinned post, which is as updated as the current ICJ case is, says this isnt a genocide, that means I'm automatically wrong. lol. okay. Go learn history and proper current events bro, and not just from tiktok.

if the icj actually said there is no genocide, why did it allow south africa to continue its case against israel? why did it order the occupation to 'take all measures within its power to prevent and punish the direct and public incitement to commit genocide' if it had no intent or means to commit one? i think i'll trust the word of more than 800 scholars over that of a picrew ethnonationalist. take your own advice and get out of your echo chamber.