#like look i have unfollowed a few jewish folk for being pro-israel. but most of them are just fucking scared???

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dude, no it isn't. the way that some people use "free palestine" to mean "stop being openly jewish" has WARRANTED that reading. you don't see BLM posters going onto white people's generic white people posts and spamming the absolute hell out of the comments with blm. nobody's spamming the girl who selfied with a pumpkin spice latte or asking her what she, PERSONALLY, thinks about the police brutality in her city and what she's gonna do about it. you DO see people coming onto jewish posts - hannakuh, talking about being jewish, just posting a picture of yourself wearing a star of david - and spamming the comments with Free Palestine. as though being jewish somehow challenged that. as though they can't be jewish right now without making absolutely CERTAIN to shout Free Palestine at the top of their lungs and put down ALL daily life or happiness until it's over. i am absolutely not saying that reading is always valid. i AM saying, if you don't want them to see it that way, call it out when people use your movement as an excuse to be antisemitic. this is not like ALM, this is more like how some black people feel immediately threatened when a white guy likes country music. it's not right to read every country fan as a threat, but it is very fucking understandable why he might feel that way.

this is not just jews being bad faith readers. it is jews being a marginalized community and recognizing when a good thing is being used as an excuse to hurt them. you wouldn't accuse a muslim of being misogynist because somebody started talking up how much they despise Shariya Law, you would, HOPEFULLY, recognize that islamophobes often use that as a jumping off point to make their views seem more reasonable.

because Saudi Arabia does not speak for all muslims, and Israel does not speak for all jews.