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Now it's finally up and live!
Welcome to my Jewish Discord Server, Tikkun Olam! Me and a friend wanted to create a safe space for Jewish people after October 7th. After a while we finally were able to create it. Some things are still being worked on but feel free to join^^
#judaism#converting to judaism#reform judaism#orthodox judaism#conservative judaism#jewish discord server#jewish discord#queer jews#trans jews#ftm jewish#transguy#jewish#Tikkun Olam#safe space for jews#LGBTQ Jewish
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"We need more diverse queer representation!"
You cannot even handle queer jews.
#jewish politics#antisemitism tw#queer jews#queer antisemitism#i have realized the reason i'm posting way less on my queer blog is because of this#i'm posting on here WAY more because i (actually!) feel safe posting in a space where jews have followed me and i follow them#it's really disheartening but the stereotype that jews are super uniquely anti-queer isn't even across the board true like#i have felt safer around cishet jews than i do around cishet and even queer goyim#and clarification that i am still a work in progress but i don't think people care about that esp if they aren't invested in jewish spaces#i guess... happy pride?#just a quick vent i suppose based on the meme format that got popular here#(also the only reason i feel safe here is because i obsessively pre-emptively block antisemites and i have locked down my account before)#(i am Not afraid to turn anon off and i refuse to let strangers DM me haha)#(sad we have to do this but at the least i feel safe to post here! i refuse to not feel safe <3)
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by Seth Mandel
Additionally, the entire structure of the “safe space” generation of schooling was constructed in bad faith. Much like DEI and other race-essentialist competitions, no one was ever in danger from “Zionists” (read: Jews) on campus. The whole production had one specific goal, which anti-Zionist groups are finally elucidating in clear terms. Last week, an imam headlining a Zoom teach-in hosted by Columbia’s Students for Justice in Palestine said this about Jewish professor Shai Davidai, who has been hounded for his criticism of genocidal anti-Semitism:
“If there’s one professor, like that Shai Davidai guy, how do we get him in trouble? What are the ways in which his professorship is sort of tenuous, or maybe in jeopardy, or at what point will it be in jeopardy? How do we create a situation in which he’s in jeopardy? In a particular situation that might have more impact and it might silence—this is what the Zionists do—that might silence 100 other professors. If you’re able to take out somebody like that, and make an example of them, it might shut up 100 more…. What’s our biggest threat here? What’s our biggest opportunity? Which domino, if we knock it over, is going to knock 20 dominoes over?”
What too many administrators, journalists, and even groups like FIRE never understood (or never wanted to admit) was that if the anti-Israel movement on campus had one single ethos, it was: “How do we create a situation in which he’s in jeopardy?”
Free speech was always at the center of it, but just not the way it has been portrayed. The goal was to eliminate Jewish students’ freedom of speech (and, eventually, of association, and even of movement) on campus. The speech of Anti-Zionists was not in danger—though they were occasionally told not to take hostages in university buildings and not to set up Jew-free zones on campus. What they were protecting was their ability to silence others.
A school like Columbia, where a pro-Hamas student group holds events explicitly designed to extinguish basic civil rights on campus, is in more trouble than schools like Vanderbilt (and University of Chicago, Purdue, and others), because its students have no need to even hide the ball anymore. The institution has already been converted from a university into a theater of political warfare.
#anti-zionists#silencing jews#columbia unversity#shai davidai#fire#free speech#safe spaces#dei#zionists
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Fellow jews I would like a hug
#goyim dni and i mean it dont like dont reblog dont look at this post this is a jewish space rn#bc being jewish on the internet right now is fucking awful.#most jews - yes including average israeli citizens - having nothing to fucking do with the israeli government.#stop calling us kikes. stop saying smwe. stop saying gas us. stop stop stop stop stop.#jumblr#rbs off bc i dont wanna argue w nobody. i just want to feel safe being jewish.
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this is gonna have to go on the sideblog cuz it’ll make people mad but unpopular opinion:
we’d have a lot more jews in support of palestine if y’all didn’t demonize every single jew as evil zionists when we didn’t magically unlearn everything we’d been taught about israel in 24 hours.
american jews are essentially indoctrinated from childhood when it comes to israel. unlearning takes time. especially when it comes to supporting a cause that you’ve been taught wants you dead. y’all have empathy with every other minority except jewish people and it’s tiring.
#NOT A SAFE SPACE FOR ZIONISTS#do not derail my post#free palestine#saying all this as an antizionist jew btw#not to mention people who frame our people being killed as some justified act of resistance#because guess what? killing civillians is bad even when they’re living in israel.
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Takes that I would never say to my grandparents but Israel is actively making lives worse for Jews everywhere, including in Israel.
#like there will always be antisemitism#but the fact that it’s openly being displayed in liberal circles#and the fact that there is violence in spaces previously thought to be safe#is a direct result of Israel’s actions as a state#and their propaganda that everything they do is sanctioned by all Jews#I do give my grandparents a bit of a break because they lived through WWII#and at least my zeyde had an incredibly traumatizing childhood#so I understand the wish that there was somewhere that we could be safe and whole as a people#but. like. the fact that Jews are still one of the highest victims of hate crimes in the US#is completely overshadowed and ignored as a direct result of Israel’s actions.#it would still be bad#but it currently is worse
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not to be an angry punk on my love and light blog but FUCK MAN i really can NOT take non-jewish (or jewish adjacent like me) liberals seriously anymore with everything going on. you can tell them that news outlets have admitted to favoring palestine and that people in israel are also being killed and yanno suffering from their country being at war, and bring up hundreds of thousands of examples of antisemitism ALL OVER THE WORLD and how (for us americans) we DONT want to leave despite the election because while it's uncertain safety here we at least have our community and wouldn't be STARTING OVER IN A NEW COUNTRY WHERE ANTISEMITIC VIOLENCE IS WORSE THAN WHERE I'M AT and they'll sit there, with their "i'm a good ally" listening face to all of that just to turn around and say
"well yea but what about gaza? there's no excuse for that"
like there's a fucking excuse for all that israel and jewish people everywhere have been going through these past few years
#hearing coworkers takes on I&P and the election has me wanting to rip my hair out and cry#i want to believe they just don't know or understand but im still so hurt#ive been told more times than i can count this week to move to canada or the netherlands cause im trans#AS IF THOSE ARE SAFE SPACES FOR NORTH AMERCAN INDIGENOUS PEOPLE OR JEWS#i'm so tired#i have jewish music class and torah study and a meeting with my rabbi tomorrow which is MUCH needed#but still i'm fucking tired#jumblr#jewish conversion#tw antisemitism#jewish vents
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I absolutely adore how safe I feel in my offline (and, to an extent, online) jewish spaces. What I don't adore is why I only really feel safe in those spaces (jew hatred is so vapid)
#jewish politics#jumblr#jew by choice#jewish conversion#personal thoughts tag#antisemitism tw#and i only even feel safe here because: 1. i have blocked SO MANY BLOGS 2. i don't allow DMs for people i don't follow#and also i haven't shared a whole lot of super personal information#but i feel so so safe in my offlone space and it is so refreshing#i feel safer being openly trans and queer than i am being openly jewish and that's a weird feeling#it's especially weird when i remember the anti-queer hate crime that happened relatively nearby semi-recently#when i am at shul (barring a few incidents) i feel safe. i am with people who are like me and they won't put me in danger#it also helps that my shul has a huge THIS IS NOT A GUN-FREE ZONE sign on the front door
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goyim try to criticise israel w/o calling jews nazis challenge! (impossible) part 273620
#what’s worse here is they even used it in the same phrase-#it isn’t even just “israel r nazis” it’s “nazi white jews supremacy”#what is wrong with u people#it’s really not that hard to say israel is fucked w/o being antisemitic abt it#really it’s quite easy#also quite ironic that this same blog was rbing “ppl calling the free palestine movement antisemitic r like ppl who call feminism misandris#bcz blah blah oppression opressor”#and then immediately giving an example of antisemitism in pro-palestinian spaces#like look i’m not saying here the movement is itself antisemitic bcz it’s not#being anti-genocide isn’t antisemitic nd ppl who say it is r quite weird#but that doesnt mean u can say whatever u want nd it’s fine or that this space is safe for jews by any means#bcz some of u guys rlly do just wanna take any opportunity u can get to be weird abt us#and then get mad when we call u out#literal neo-nazi behaviour going on u guys rlly need to look up what dogwhistles are nd their intended purpose#free palestine end the genocide and for the love of god be normal abt jews while trying to achieve that#antisemtism#cw antisemitism#ryan shut the fuck up
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[long post of israeli bullshit propaganda]
oh i wonder if this person cares about "the joos"?? maybe their racist bullshit is at least backed up by a veneer of caring about antisemitism or something-
the FIRST post you see on this zionist shithead's blog:
if you dont know what this is, it's fascist "the west is collapsing because women get rights" crap. it's very very stock standard for nazis. you got it all here, you got ableist r-slur, you got "darkmaga" pepe frog, you got "rome fell because women!!!" and "abortion is evil and an afront to god" and "controlling the reproductive resources of the West is a necessity" crap.
but oh yeah go ahead and tell me that zionist freaks are very Jew-friendly and not right wing fuckheads, and that we should bother engaging with empty handwringing over false claims about "the left are the REAL antisemites" anymore.
it's a fucking joke.
#once again this shit is infuriating because it keeps taking up oxygen when really the thing that matters is Palestinian liberation#what MATTERS is Lebanon and Palestine being safe from bombardment and genocidal terror attacks.#i dont engage with these pro-israel fuckers because it's giving them my time and space. block and ignore. do not give them air.#another day another 10-30 accounts filed away in the blocklist because they just cant fucking help themselves#the israeli agitprop game on this site is terrible not only because they suck but they also suck at it and they're just spewing vapid shit#claims about rising antisemitism on the left have been red herrings the whole time btw. by rule of large numbers you WILL get fuckheads#but like be serious here. the least likely bunch of people to do that. like what on earth are people doing anymore falling for this nonsens#remember that the stats of rising antisemitism are not attributed to right wing attacks on Jews that actually really occur but are about-#pro-Palestinian actions and protests. like please stop feeding this narrative because look what you get. these MAGA shitheads peddling it#they are laundering antisemitism through pro-israeli bullshit machines and you have nazis out in the streets going unchallenged#except for by THE LEFT. the people out there marching and fighting fascism and imperialism.#every goddamn day i have to dodge a minefield of people cosplaying oppression. of people pretending to be Jews or actual Jews who are RW#that's a thing! apparently! RW nazi Jews??? on this goddamn platform. every fucking day. fuck all yall poisoning the community here#israeli bootlicker cunts leeching off the image of Judaism and riding the Holocaust all the way into covering for a live-streamed genocide.
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"We're very proud of our immigrant past, and our own family's immigrant heritage. At the same time, the U.S. is a nation of xenophobia and always has been."
--Michele Waslin, from the article
#thoughts#statistics#us politics#i am so disappointed#by the majority of my country#I am a jew and grew up firmly believing in another jew's words written on the statue of liberty#give us your hungry your tired your poor#we should be a safe space for everyone regardless of identity#but we are not
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”this is a safe space for jews/antisemitism isn’t allowed” is probably the most frequent blatant lie i see on the left-leaning internet
#when you use nazi tropes and language then you ain’t building a safe space for jews#whatever happened to that “if there’s ten people at a table and one’s a nazi there’s ten nazis at a table” thing?#oh right it only applies to republicans. silly me#txt#lacevent
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I have so many posts in drafts about Palestine and I still just don't even know what to say or where to start
#how do i talk about my extremely zionist early education#how do i talk about my birthright trip at age 13 and the impact it had on me as a jew and as a human on this planet#how do i talk about my childhood rabbi reaching out the kids i grew up with offering support for those mourning the loss of history#and also those mourning the lives of colonizers (who ultimately are jews seeking a safe space after hardship at the great expense of others#my fucking guts have been clenched for days i feel like a shell#my mom is more worried about sending my transfem sister to college on her own in the inner city now not bc she's trans but bc she's jewish.#not to mention i always say im 'raised jewish' not actually jewish bc im not! im not jewish ive bever had a conversion.#what fucking right do i have#all i know is my upbringing and my ability as an adult to unpack it.#and how many things that i was taught are WRONG#i didnt get a christian brainwashing a got a zionist brainwashing#anyways all this to say theres always a lot of regard for Palestinian suffering on here as there should be in these situations#but young jews have a fucking weight on them right now like you just would not believe#not that its equal to or greater than the trauma of being palestinian. but just that its not mentioned right now#thats all ive got to say. idk yall are welcome to ask me more about this i just had to spew some of it#might delete#cam talks#if it isnt clear im fully pro palestine and my goal isnt to be any sort of devils advocate here. im just in a very complicated sort of pain#if i posted that email from my middle school rabbi here he would be doxxed and hate crimed.#and you know. i dont like the guy. but the fact that i know thats what would happen tells you a lot.
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(Vague post)
Popular analog horror has gone down the antisemetism rabbit hole so I no longer feel bad about using a vaguely similar idea. I think we need a Jewish analog horror ARG in fact
#Nah they’re not just supporting Palestine if they talk about Israel spreading propaganda and ‘getting what they deserve’#And ‘facing consequences by powers less cowardly ‘#Oh yeah I’m sure you’re not antisemetic when you’re threatening that more powerful countries will nuke Israel off the planet uh huh mhm#Anyways if anyone wants to join me in creating a completely jewish analog horror arg hit me up it’s our time#mango rambles#personal fruits#jumblr#ישראבלר#Not naming names but the fact is you can probably think of like. Five examples#Cool cool this doesn’t make me scared about content in the future at all.#I sound joking and all but I’m actually legit terrified#No space is safe for me#Not the magical girl fandom. Not the animation fandom. Not music or art. And now not even online horror#I legit have no place left. The only ones accepting me are either run by Jews or VERY small communities that don’t care about politics#When we say we are alienated now- think of what I just said#Every group has run me out of it. I can’t talk about anything I like without fearing for my online safety.#And people think this is an appropriate price for me to pay despite being a disabled queer mentally ill person. Someone who they’re suppose#To protect. WHO they still claim to protect. But when you add Jew#Or heaven forbid Israeli#To the mix. Suddenly you don’t get inclusivity anymore#WHO CARES if your hopes for the future rest on you creating art because you’re never gonna be able to support your family or get a real job#Should’ve thought about that before you parents were born in Israel if you wanted to be treated as a human being#Fuck everyone. My hopes for the future are legitimately so gone I’m always looking forward to dying so these people can be happy.#All I want is for everyone to be happy even at my expense. Sure my family will grieve#But millions of people will cheer for my death. That outweighs it. It’ll bring so much more happiness if I die.#This is my state now#I hope all you fucking Americans are happy. The country is going through a mental health crisis caused by you and you’re laughing#And tearing down posters of our cousins and siblings and friends. Laughing about it#And then go on to pretend to punch fictional nazis when in fact you are supporting real ones right now#I’m so done with everyone. Sorry about how series these tags are
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i think the thing that's hardest for jewish people who are trying to leave old ideas behind and become anti-zionist is that non-jewish ideas of anti-zionism generally range anywhere from enacting a ceasefire + putting a leftwing government in control of israel, to ending the occupation, to establishing an arab state with a jewish minority, to kicking out / killing / celebrating the deaths of israelis in order to dissolve the state "by any means necessary" (even if those jews were forced out of their previous homes in europe + the swana region and can't return easily nor want to).
it's like... what does anti-zionist even mean when you're look at the future? can we be anti-zionist and want to preserve israeli lives? im asking this genuinely and in 100% good faith. i really do want to hear your opinion.
ur right. ur 100% right, so many times leftist will be so antisemetic but "progressive" so they can't even see they are calling for jewish death. lots of jews in isreal had no homes to return to after ww2. factories, houses, farms, etc were occupied (stolen) or reduced to ash. having a safe space for jews is very important to me, especially considering how few there are of us compared to say muslims or christians. we deserve a safe and free space but israel is not providing that. in my dream world israel still exists, thought much smaller and it is a legitimate safe heaven for jews of all races. it is pushed back to its original boarders, or smaller, as designated by the UN and previous land that had been conquered is given back with monetary reparations given to the people of palestien, not only by israel but by the western countries that allowed this to happen. in my dream world it is a leftwing government that doesn't require military training for all adult civilians. in my dream world isreali people, regardless of if they are jewish or not, can feel safe and can activly cross boarders with their neighbors in a mostly friendly way. no country is ever going to best friends with all its neighbors, but i wish desperately for israel to demilitarize itself and help it's neighbor palestien flourish. there is money in our blood and each war time strife brings in major that most israeli's and no palestienans will ever see. it might be too idealistic but my anti-zionism is shrinking israel, funding palestien, and creating two nation states with friendly relations who can support themselves primarily. and for the record i don't support celebrating israeli civilian deaths, especially those who haven't even done heir military training. active soldiers I will celebrate accordingly to how they behaved (some missing / dead soldiers have posted and supported actual genocide so idgaf). but most soldiers I mainly will just ignore. there is no honor in dying like this, there is no honor in dying in war. this is my short answer (my long answer would require me exaplaining how western countries have helped spark this conflict even more so and how I think a lot of them namely the english and USAmerica owe palestien way more than the israeli government does.)
#ask tag#wow does this make sense or do i sound deranged?#i know i sound like a lofty gen z idiot but in my heart this is what i think even if it cant be achived#also im ngl random tumblr anon im mourning a family friend who died in gaza this past week so if israel imploded today i wouldnt gaf#but eventually i would get over my self and mourn the loss for a lot of jews because we are always the 2nd most hated group in the world#yeah israel shouldnt exist but it holds too much jewish life to remove it atp especially given how ppl think israel = jew#we need to first remove the idea that israel = all jews and that its the only way we can be safe. we can be safe elsewhere i know it#we always find a way we will always survive#somedays i wish we just found an island for ww2 victims and prosecuted jews to live on instead of the english stealing land “for us”#i firmly beleive it wouldnt matter if we were on the holy land or not#a lot of them just want a safe space but that doesnt give them a right to steal from our brothers
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My controversial hot take of the day is that people who don't belong to a community cannot provide "a safe space" for that community.
Because only members of that community have a right to speak of their experience, gatekeep their spaces as they deem necessary and draw lines about what is and isn't acceptable within that community.
The prevalent urge to paint yourself as progressive and "one of the good ones" inevitably ends up with you trying to put yourself in a position of authority above people with marginalized identities you don't share. After all, what does "maintaining safe space" mean, if not setting yourself up as judge and arbiter of what is considered acceptable and necessary in that safe space?
So no. My blog is not a safe space for Jews or ace folk or black people, because I am not Jewish or ace or black.
I am a firm supporter of them, and willing and open to be criticized for whatever part I play in furthering the systems that benefit me at their expense, and I will certainly platform their voices as much as I can.
But I don't belong to those communities, and as someone who knows how fucking frustrating it is to have people invite themselves onto the table when it's not their place to say shit, I think it's important for everyone even "the good ones" to learn when to shut the fuck up.
#shut up rie#post brought to you by someone unironically saying#my blog is a safe space for jews bankers and other semites#man just shut up#shut the fuck up#not everyone has something relevant to say#not everything is about you my god
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