#so don’t support Israel in the name is Judaism

[bex-xa-2026]

I know tumblr is not a place we go to get political, but this needs to be shared because it’s just being swept under the rug.

Aaron Bushnell, an active duty member of the US Air Force, set himself on fire in front of the Israel embassy in Washington DC as an act of extreme protest against Israel’s continued genocide on the people of Palestine. Aaron succumbed to this injuries, and he kept screaming “free Palestine” until he physically couldn’t anymore.

This is being shoved under the rug, and he is being painted as mentally ill. What coverage this is getting is still trying to steer it in a Zionist direction. We cannot let that happen.

I don’t have a lot of followers, and I don’t get a lot of interactions, but I don’t care. Even if two people see this and learn about it, it’s enough for me. We cannot let his sacrifice mean nothing, and we cannot let the pro-Israel media twist it.

This has been going on long enough, and something needs to change.

FREE PALESTINE

[arionawrites]

‘dont tag byler if its not byler’ ‘dont tag noah if its anti noah’ ‘if its not stranger things dont tag stranger things’ oh my god?? literally shut the fuck up.

i know that’s usually like a rule in fandom spaces, i’ve been in fandom spaces since i was 12, trust me i’m aware, but that shit applies to like. stupid ship discourse. “i don’t like this ship because it doesn’t fit with MY favorite ship so i’m going to complain about it in the tag for the ship i don’t like” <- that’s shitty

but this isn’t fucking fandom discourse. this is literally supporting the slaughter of an entire people. this is noah schnapp in a video with stickers saying zionism is sexy. this is shawn levy supporting israel and illegal occupation. this is SHOULD BE IN THE TAGS.

why? because these people should not be getting support! this show should not be getting support!

noah schnapp wants palestinians to die. let’s be very clear about that. let me say it again:

noah schnapp wants palestinians to die.

i hope st5 fails. i hope noah schnapp loses his job. i hope shawn levy never knows peace. i hope every single person on that show who supports israel never goes a day without being haunted by the thousands of dead kids they supported the slaughter of.

i hope the sets for stranger things burn down. i hope noah schnapp can never go a day without being called a piece of shit. a supporter of genocide. a racist.

because that is exactly what he is.

i hope these people’s names are forever tied to these beliefs. i hope stranger things goes down in history as that one show that those zionists were on. i hope noah schnapp can never google his name without being confronted with how much of a monster he is.

“but he’s young! he’s jewish! he’s scared!”

he’s NINETEEN with FULL ACCESS TO THE INTERNET and ACTIVELY ATTENDING COLLEGE.

he isn’t posting about JUDAISM he is LITERALLY PASSING OUT STICKERS SAYING ZIONISM IS SEXY

and he sure as FUCK does NOT seem scared in ANY of the posts he has made since sharing that shitty multi page statement on his instagram that HE DIDN’T EVEN WRITE!! HIS FUCKING FELLOW ZIONIST PIECE OF SHIT FRIEND WROTE IT AND HE POSTED IT!! if HE was scared maybe he’d use his own words to say so, but nope!! he’s just a massive fucking cunt scumbag just like every other zionist and every other person who is doing anything other than condemning the actions of israel and the people who support it

rot in hell, stranger things. and take noah with you.

[thecapricunt1616]

thank you for speaking on jon bernthal's blatant zionism, the fact that he has people defending him for that is so nasty. not to mention his support of domestic abusers it's really crazy the amount of support and defending he still gets on this app

Oh my god hi!!! Don’t think I am ignoring you holy heck!! I’m not sure where my brain was on Monday if I’m honest I have 3 whole asks just sitting!!!

I agree. And let me be clear here (since some sick people equate loving and supporting the Jewish Community with also supporting Zionism) That I LOVE and support every ethnicity and religion! I love Jewish People. If you are Jewish OR Palestinian - know you are SAFE, and LOVED, and SUPPORTED on this blog.

Separating ART and the MUSE is very important. We can appreciate Mikey Bear, we can appreciate how touching and sad and gut wrenching his story is -

We can ALSO recognize that Jon B-🤢🤮 sorry I can’t even say his name. That he supports HORRIFIC people. That he supports the literal blatant murder and torture of children and other innocent human beings, and animals! Let’s not forget that even when this ends - all of the bombings have destroyed ecosystems and natural land.

Palestine will take so long to recover when this finally stops. I don’t care if people unfollow. I really from the bottom of my heart will not miss you in the slightest if you support ‘Israel’ (the land of make believe!).

Judaism all though I am not Jewish is such a beautiful religion and to its fucking core it condemns the behavior the IDF it is imposing on the Palestinian people’s. I truly identify with the morals that Judaism holds. But just like Catholic or literally any other religion ever!! There are evil people who claim to be that religion but it’s a wolf in sheep’s clothing.

If you support Zionism God isn’t proud of you. If you hurt any of gods children, he isn’t proud. And it doesn’t matter I think this, because when it comes time for their judgment day - their god will shake their head and tell them just how horrid they were.

All this to say to my core fuck zionists, and abuse defenders like Jon ber-🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮

[gryficowa]

Boycott!

Yes, a rant on liberals (Another one), not only are they using a scare against Trump, but they will also use gashlighing (Or call you a queerphobe… Greetings to all aroace lol) because "You don't care about Palestine" (They tell you what they ignore is that Harris/Biden/Blue Party supplies weapons to Israel, so bravo, mirror propaganda, but looking If you are for Zionists, you know where you got this method from fucking Israel)

And it's funny that they have the audacity to call you a Russian troll, or even better a "Believer in Russian propaganda", when they themselves believe in American and Israeli propaganda… Well, sorry, I'm no longer afraid of Russia, I'm now terrified of fucking Israel and it poses the greatest threat , before we realized how terrifying Israel is, Russia acted as a real fear, but now he looks like a fly in the soup compared to a hippo in a fucking lake (Seriously, what Putin is doing is disgusting, not only is he a xenophobe, a colonizer and a queerphobe, but he is also brainwashing, which does not work as strongly as in the case of Israel , but still, you have to swim through this ocean of propaganda)

Israel is scary because it goes unpunished (And the USA supplies it with weapons…), when Russia attacked Ukraine, people were absolutely disgusted and terrified by it, but when Israel commits genocide, has a law allowing rape in prison, uses pinkwashing (Loved by liberals blue voters) and his behavior shows that he wants to start a third world war (It's not a joke), suddenly people are silent or pretend that nothing bad is happening and it's fucking fucked up

It pisses me off when people are afraid of Russia and remain silent about Israel, which is a million times worse, because it goes unpunished and there is a big difference, the fact that people treat genocide as acceptable because it is carried out by a country from "Pseudo protection of Jews" (Tia. .. With a history of stealing Yemeni Jewish children and killing Palestinian… It's not without reason that I call Israel "A country for white colonizers who profess Judaism but have nothing in common with it"), then suddenly people decide that it's ok, and it shouldn't be ok

Yes, fuck the liberals and their scare against Trump because he is cynical about what is happening in Gaza

Now that I have your attention:

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I bought a new USB cable, so there is less chance of interruption with each pasted link

Seriously, looking for things not on the boycott list is a challenge (And you still catch something by accident and find out after you buy it… Yes, I'm talking about Lorenz chips, the logo was on the other side… Eh…)

The biggest problem is in small stores where most of the products are from Zionist companies, which sucks :/

Sometimes you can look through the packaging and only notice the logo after purchasing… That's what happens to me...

But okay, at least I'm trying… Unfortunately, my sister doesn't care, so well… Unfortunately, that's what it looks like

But here's a rant on chips: Why are most of them from Zionist companies? You have to look for it, but you won't find it anyway…

I know, it's trivial considering what's happening in Gaza, but as I mentioned, there are more Zionist companies in small shops (Fucking Nestle…) than those that didn't support Israel, so you're looking for a needle in a haystack

But yes, maybe this rant will help the collections reach more people, because the problem of reaching them is increasing :/

And the funny thing is (After this rant), my niece bought these cookies from PAW Patrol, right? Apparently there was a storm in the USA, although not as big as the one from MLP, in short, with this link to a certain website, for some reason in Poland these cakes are available for purchase and yes, I know that it is shocking for the USA, but rather children do not enter links from packaging, they just eat the cookies and then the packaging goes to the trash, so only adults enter this link because children don't care

So yes, I'm pissed about this fact, corn cookies (In the USA they caused a drama, but in Poland you can buy them in the KiK clothes store)

But seriously, you can buy them, WTF

But yes, you are relieved after the rant I gave earlier, you can just buy this cookie

(I can add additional tags to make the collections reach a larger group of people)

Remember about clicks

[moondirti]

Before I say anything, please read this with a friendly tone because I am absolutely not saying this in a nasty way.

I think it’s wonderful that you are spending time at your school’s encampment to protest the genocide in Gaza. Our voices are being heard, it’ll just take some time before we see results.

But, when you say Zionist, I have the weird feeling that you mean Jew. And the reason I say that, is because I have seen so many videos, tweets and interviews where the protestors are calling for violence against Jews. Not Zionists, Jews.

And please, please don’t try to say that’s a lie because I have seen way too much evidence that support what I’m saying.

No one in their right mind would ever support what’s going on in Gaza. The Israeli government MUST be held accountable for what they’re doing.

But when there are people calling for violence against Jews, people will react violently. This has happened before & it’s terrifying that even though I don’t support Israel and am disgusted by their actions, I am still a target for these people simply because I’m visibly Jewish.

I am proud of my heritage and being Jewish, I had family members who survived the concentration camps, which is a major part of why I would never support what Israel is doing to the innocent people in Gaza.

Maybe I’m being sensitive, but when you say things like this, I can’t help but feel that I would need to avoid you and your friends simply because I’m jewish & don’t want to get attacked for it.

Thank you for being friendly about this and explaining your feelings in a comprehensive way. I think it’s important to set any misunderstandings right, especially when liberation calls for unification and compassion.

When I say zionist, I do not mean Jewish. I won’t gaslight you into distrusting the evidence you’ve witnessed of others’ words, especially since I haven’t been given that evidence to watch for myself, but I need to make it clear that I am strictly referring to those who support the genocidal entity of Israel when I call out their brutality.

I understand why you might feel hesitant, as precaution is a given when you’ve been exposed to past discrimination. But please do not misrepresent my words. I am very against antisemitism. Within my school’s encampment, Jewish students have been one of the loudest voices calling for peace, and even if that weren’t the case, I am intelligent enough not to conflate them with a proper fascist doctrine. In fact, part of my advocacy against the state of Israel discusses the fact that their actions done ‘in the name of judaism’ are directly harming the Jewish community by associating them with this attack, and so it would be hypocritical of me to then believe such disinformation.

I don’t know how many other ways I can say it, but in the future, please don’t apply accusations onto someone who has never given you reason to do so. I am very careful upon choosing my words, and I have never pushed the narrative that the Jewish population is responsible for what’s happening in Gaza. They are not the ones who should face the consequences, and I’m sorry that you seem to have come across those who believe otherwise, but that is not me.

I also didn’t call for violence, if that’s what you’re concerned about. In my previous post, all I meant was that we should call out zionists for their brutal reactions to peaceful protests (look at what happened at UCLA for example). That is, to hold them accountable, since the state isn’t interested in doing so.

​(and if anyone is using Israel’s attack on Gaza as an excuse to express their rotten prejudices and antisemitism then block me. this is not a safe space for you)

[jewishbarbies]

https://www.tumblr.com/jewishbarbies/753199765532131328/laughing-through-the-stupid-of-just-how-nuanced?source=share

I 100% agree, as someone who considers myself pro Palestine (as in Palestinians no longer dying as well as Israelis no longer being kidnapped and having whatever done to them by Hamas, I just want all of this death and madness to stop for everyone, both Arabs and Jewish people), I’m so disgusted by the antisemitism I’m seeing towards Jewish people and Israelis and I’m disgusted with myself for not seeing it sooner. I’m seeing people engage in casual antisemitism in the name of “not conflating Israel with Judaism” and saying the most ridiculous things. I’m seeing people bring up ancestry tests to check if Israelis are “actually Jewish” or “actually from the land”, accusing Jewish Israelis of being European colonialists because on 23andme or on AncestryDNA, their results may show something like “Polish Jew” or “Ukrainian Jew” for example. True story, I’m seeing people accuse Benjamin Netanyahu of being a white European man larping as ethnic Jewish man and while I hate to defend politicians, I learnt from speaking to the jewish people that I know that many Ashkenazi hebracised their names similarly to how the Irish did after their independence- English names were changed to Gaelic forms. So I’m assuming that that’s what happened with him.

You know how of TikTok many people like to put their flags in their usernames? I’m seeing people who put the Israeli flag in their username (to showcase nationality) get massive death and… other (you can guess the other) threats for simply being from where they are from. Even if the person hasn’t even mentioned Israel!

I’m seeing people deny that the holocaust was “that bad” to Jewish people. That it was a long time ago and that they (“they” being the Jewish community) should move on. I’m not sure if pretending that the holocaust was not as bad as actually was counts as holocaust denial, but in my opinion it’s definitely teetering on the edge of it.

I’m seeing people say that the only real Jews are the Palestinian Jews because the others (others being the Israeli Jews) are European colonialists with “no ties to the land”. Also picking and choosing who is a “real Jew” based off of some ancestry tests (going back to what I said previously). I’m seeing people talk about Jewish people who support Palestinians as “the good ones” (as a black person, I know very well how disgusting it is to be referred to as one of the “good ones”). And while I do not agree with many of the sentiments pushed by a lot of pro Israel crowd (mainly the Islamophobic stuff and anti Arab sentiment that I see, people saying that Arabs cause trouble wherever they go, etc), I will never be able to understand denying someone of their heritage or religion or antagonising them more than criminals based off of their opinions.

Recently there was some hostages returned to Israel and I think one of them was a girl or a woman named Noa, I think (I’m going off of the top of my head, correct me if I’m wrong) and while I’m glad that she was returned to her family (on her father’s birthday right?), my joy was quickly soured by the wishes of death and rape, etc upon her by a lot of pro Palestinian extremists. What happened to wishing safety and peace upon both Palestinian citizens and Israeli citizens? I thought that’s what we all wanted? If I remember correctly, she as well as the other hostages were held in the home of an Al Jazeera journalist, the amount of DENIAL that I saw on social media???? Denying that she and those other victims were put through horrible circumstances, that the 07/10/23 incident even happened, etc. Denying that Hamas is a terrorist organisation or that they even EXIST, etc. I don’t even know what to say.

I’m also seeing people refuse to read different news sources and only read biased news. They’ll say something like “don’t watch American or British or Jewish news channels/sites, only watch Al Jazeera because Al Jazeera is unbiased”… Al Jazeera… unbiased???? Sure, jan. I prefer to read multiple, just to see different perspectives, but to be so biased as to only read Al Jazeera… I don’t even know anymore.

I live in an area in which a Jewish restaurant owner was recently attacked for supporting his family in Israel. “Funding Israel” as they call it now. I don’t care about his beliefs, that’s not my business, but he literally has an Israeli FAMILY. OF COURSE HE IS SUPPORTING HIS FAMILY.

I just wonder, why are people so comfortable calling Israelis demons and evil and everything under the sun? They’d never say that about Russians, despite what’s happening in Ukraine. Or about the Turkish and the Azerbaijanis despite Armenia. Why are we so comfortable demonising a whole nationality?

People say that they’ve read history and they know the full context of this situation when all they’ve done is hear it from TikTok. If people actually knew history, they’d stop questioning why American politicians are so hellbent on having Israel on their side. They’d know that Israel is a coveted ally to have (geopolitical influence, etc) and that if “Genocide Joe” was to stop aiding Israel, Israel would seek aid from somewhere else… like Russia. Or China. Or any other enemy countries of the US.

If people actually knew history, they’d know that complacency is what got Donald Trump elected in 2016. If people actually knew history, they’d know that Bush vs Gore shows us why we shouldn’t vote 3rd party in presidential elections.

If people studied politics, they’d know that Trump has made known his plans to annex the West Bank, flatten Gaza, and arrest every single pro Palestinian protester if he gets elected, referring to the Israel/Palestine region as “unfinished business”.

If people studies politics, they’d know that a major reason for why majority of European countries are becoming more and more far right and installing Nazi governments (e.g. Germans voting for the AfD and the French voting for far right as well) is due to LACK OF VOTER TURNOUT FROM LEFTISTS WHO YAP AND YAP AND COMPLAIN ON SOCIAL MEDIA BUT NO SHOW AT THE POLLS. Ironically, these are the same Europeans telling Americans to not vote.

IF PEOPLE STUDIED AND/OR PAID ATTENTION TO POLITICS, THEY’D BE TERRIFIED OF PROJECT 2025 AND WHAT IT MEANS FOR YOU, ME, US, AND DEMOCRACY AS A WHOLE. (Speaking of, please do spread awareness of P25, it’s very scary and I’d much rather have rights than live in a dictatorship, thank you).

I’m so sorry for rambling about this in your ask box. I know that you as a Jewish person are probably very sick of the rampant antisemitism and the dog whistles you obviously know more of and about that than I could ever possibly imagine as a non Jewish person or a goyim and I’m sorry for ranting about stuff you probably already know about. I’m 18 and most of the people that I know within my age group are choosing not to vote because of what’s happening. I suspect they weren’t going to vote anyway, but now they have an “excuse” for it. And that sickens me as well. That no one actually gives a fuck about Israel or Palestine. No one actually cares about those civilians. People are just using this whole thing as an excuse to be lazy, to not learn, and to spread more hate and tribalism.

I think maybe social media has desensitised people to the fact that this is REAL and not a GAME. When you’re wishing death and rape upon all Israelis, you’re wishing death upon REAL PEOPLE. When you call jewish people Nazis, do you guys ever stop and think about what you’ve just said? Calling JEWISH PEOPLE NAZIS!!! Why is it so normal to strip people of their humanity the second you disagree with their opinions? Sick. As much as I disagree with the Israeli government, I cannot imagine generalising a whole population based solely on their GOVERNMENT.

I have one Jewish friend that lives near me, his name is Eli. He’s Mizrahi and Sephardic Jewish. We graduated together last year from high school. We live in a very white suburb and the antisemitism is rising by the day where we stay. I don’t even know what to say to him and his family right now, considering that this is his lived experience. Having to be afraid. Living in fear. How do you even attempt to comfort someone when they’re dealing with this? I can’t say that it will get better, because we both know it won’t. At least not any time soon. How many times are they going to tell us “Never again”’before “never again” actually sticks?

I’m just tired of this. I’m tired of the hatred. I’m tired of random Jewish people and random Arab people getting attacked. I’m tired of the Islamophobia and antisemitism. I’m tired of trying to push people to redirect their attention to the threat at hand which is Donald Trump. And if I’m tired of this, I cannot even fathom how tired the people affected are. Sorry for the long and annoying ask. Feel free to delete this, it’s a bunch of whining.

I don’t mind the rant/vent at all! the state of this world right now is just so disappointing it leaves you hollow. so much unnecessary hatred and death that could be avoided if people just made different choices. I’d say I’m embarrassed to be american but this is not anywhere near an american problem, it’s the entire world.

I just saw a tweet today about the hostage rescue saying the IDF (aka jews) are “demons” for allegedly going in disguised as an aid truck and then shooting people. like they went in disguised and just opened fire at random because they love to kill. so many people were shot as kidnappers. like, these people harbored kidnapping victims, tortured and enslaved them, and I would’ve preferred a life sentence but I’m not going to mourn their deaths.

now, idk how much of citizens helping hamas is from fear of ending up like the jews hamas brutalizes and how much is an actual desire to kill jews. there could very well be some of them who were hiding hostages to save their and their family’s lives. that being said, this has to stop, and we have to do better as a society when we respond to these events. because where we’re at right now and what we’re allowing ourselves to say/do is doing nothing but harming ALL of us.

these morons will say “never again means never again for anyone!” but it’s a phrase coined specifically by and for jews relating to the Holocaust and antisemitic violence. there is no “never again” if it’s still happening to jews. any goy using the phrase outside a context pertaining to jews is not to be trusted, and they’re a fucking idiot.

[p0ison-moon]

okay so here’s my salty bitchy problem with all the other Jews on here who get mad when they’re asked about Zionism. yeah I get that it’s annoying and offensive to have assumptions made about our stances on Israel just because we’re Jewish. However. H o w e v e r.

this kind of goes with the phrase “white silence is violence”. you know, by not speaking up we’re actually contributing to the damage? or, in this case, by “believing in Israel’s right to exist but not condoning anything it does, except we never talk about it ever” we’re actually normalizing ignoring everything that goes on in Israel and the occupied territories?*

furthermore, as a Jew I feel that it’s important to my identity and religion to care about Palestine. I could name the reasons straight out of pirkei avot if I felt like it. either way, I believe that social justice is almost the most crucial aspect to being Jewish. loyalty to a country that is actively oppressing and killing people on land it colonized is not important to my Jewish identity. In fact I’d probably feel like a bad Jew (something I get called a lot anyways) if I didn’t speak out about Palestine, because silence in the face of wrongdoing goes against everything I was ever taught about Judaism.

And that last bit is personal to me, but I would really really hope that our consciences would tell us that same thing anyways. at the very least I’d like to see less energy being put into thinking of more ways to say “asking Jews if they’re Zionist is bad” when that energy could be put towards helping Palestinians.

*and don’t even try to tell me that you as “liberal” Zionists on tumblr go out of your way to talk about and support Palestinians, because that’s hilariously false.

[robotslenderman]

I feel like I’m basically a guest everywhere I go.

Like. Gender for one thing, cis as fuck, but you know me - I’m surrounded by trans folk. The gender expat, I’m more at home with them even though I don’t belong. Aroace, but surrounded by allos.

I’m thinking of religion tonight because I was invited to a friend’s iftar. Afterwards we spontaneously went to the picket at Albanese’s office. It was really heartening to see people there, people beeping as they went past, people chanting and singing.

I follow a few religious blogs but I’m not actually religious. Me following Heresylog probably has a few people thinking I’m Catholic lol but I’m not. I’m fascinated by religion in general, I really enjoyed hearing about Islam from my friend who hosted the iftar, about Ramadan, and how it’s a time for reflection and connection among the community.

I thought about looking into converting to Judaism in the past.

But I say that I seem to be the eternal guest because I don’t think I could make myself at home in any religion. Being a part of any religion requires a certain adherence to rules I just can’t do. What appeals to me about any religion isn’t the religion itself, but the culture and rituals attached. It’s the same for Judaism for me. It wouldn’t feel right, I’d feel like a fraud, I don’t believe in any god and I can’t trick myself into doing so. And I don’t know if it’s okay for me to think or feel or say, or if it’s hurtful to Jewish folk, but I guess I’m also worried about running into Zionists as well if I ever pursued that. I don’t want to feel like a condition of my being a part of it is turning my back on my ethics.

But Judaism isn’t Israel. The other protestors were talking about how a woman showed up with a flag with a Star of David overlaid with a swastika, and they got the cops to kick her out. I saw a sign there that had been clearly laid by Jews - “not in our name,” it said, and I could feel the pain behind it. I don’t want to be disrespectful by implying that all Jewish people are Zionists. That’s not true. I know that despite what the Israeli government and the media would want people to believe there are a lot of Jewish people standing in support of Palestine. I’m just afraid of searching for a place and not knowing how to find them, because I’m an outsider.

But like. I enjoy being an eternal guest. I want to go to another iftar one day. I’d love to go to confirmations and other religious rituals that would ever have an outsider attend. I’ve heard that unitarian churches learn about multiple religions; if I ever get out of my parents house I’d like to look into finding one.

Religion has always been interesting to me, but I don’t think I could ever be a part of it.

[matan4il]

I also understand why Israel needs to exist. I do. I’ve read up on Israel’s history, I’ve been to Israel, I know the mindset of ”we would rather be alive and condemned than dead and pitied”. I see the irony when people say ”go back to Europe” but jews clearly aren’t safe there either. I try to explain this to people because a lot of people don’t understand. And I support Israel’s right to exist and defend it’s citizens. I call out those I encounter that argue that Israel are in the wrong for not agreeing to be attacked and have their people murdered.

Hi Nonnie, thank you so much for this ask, for speaking up and standing for what is right! It's really reassuring to know that people can and do get it. *hugs*

And IDK if you're the same person as the ask I got just before, I think you are, so I agree with most things, I just feel the need to add that... you mentioned ethnic countries as ones where people share "a language, history and origin." That's actually Jews exactly. We're not just a religion, we're a people, too. We have common ancestry, culture, language, history, customs, homeland, values... you name it. Our religion is one that binds our people as a part of this bundle that makes up our identity. And it's true, you can convert to Judaism, meaning you can embrace the religion. But when you convert, you also have to be accepted by the community, and you have to agree that you bind your fate to that of the Jewish people. You're not just changing a belief system, you're joining a nation. And up until recently, it was also pretty clear that, when you converted, you and your kids would marry Jews, and their kids would marry Jews, and so in that sense, you're even adopting the ancestry of the Jewish people and embed it into your own family for generations to come.

Thank you again for speaking up, even when I'm sure it's not easy, and I hope you are taking care of yourself! xoxox

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

[the-garbanzo-annex-jr]

by Seth Mandel

Once you see certain trends in journalism, it’s difficult not to see them everywhere. Take, for example, the seemingly unwritten rule that articles about Israel must include Jewish anti-Israel voices. Similarly, when writing about anti-Semitism, mainstream reporters tend to make sure to include Jews who insist everyone is overreacting.

The trend seems designed to leave the impression of the Jewish people as forever arguing amongst ourselves. And sometimes it gets applied in truly bizarre situations.

Like in this Guardian piece about dating against the backdrop of the Israel-Hamas war.

The article tells us that since Oct. 7, both Jews and Muslims have shown an increased interest in finding a partner who matches their religious profile. Muslim matchmakers told the paper that the events of the past year have made their Muslim clients—already inclined to seek partners who are also Muslim—put more emphasis on meeting Muslims from the same country of origin. Their particularism, in other words, is getting even more particular.

That makes sense. “I want the shared common language, I want the shared food that we cook in our home,” Muslim clients tell one matchmaker. The closeness of death and danger, the globalization of politics—all this makes people tend to want to deepen their bonds with their roots and their communities.

Regarding American Jews, however, the article leaves the impression that their religion is politics. We hear from “Ari” (many of the names in the article were changed), who is reluctant to match with someone with pro-Palestinian messaging in their profile not because Ari can’t be with such a person but because he assumes they won’t want to date him. Ari is a Zionist—like most Jews. But Ari “said he was not a fan of Zionists with pro-Israel messages in their profiles.” So, he doesn’t like pro-Israel or anti-Israel messaging in a potential mate’s profile. Sounds pretty unrepresentative of the wider Jewish world.

We also meet Anna, whose dating app profile includes a watermelon to show solidarity with Palestinians. It is, you’ll be shocked to hear, reducing the number of Jewish single men who want to match with her.

The Guardian helpfully explains that the war has divided Jewish singles, “some of whom believe their Judaism requires them to support Israel, and others who believe Jews have a responsibility to be more outspoken against Israeli violence.”

Judaism is apparently pretty ambivalent about the Jews. Who knew?

That’s not to say Muslim singles didn’t run into their own problems. Sometimes, they meet other Muslims who aren’t quite as passionate about the war as they are. One person in the article, named Sanya, has found a clever solution. She simply updated her profile with the sentence: “Let’s make sure we’re on the same page about Israel being a terrorist state.”

We don’t meet any Muslims who say their interpretation of their religion obliges them to stand against violence toward Israel. Such Muslims exist, of course. But you are unlikely to find them in mainstream stories about the war. Reporters don’t exactly go looking for “complexity” in faiths other than Judaism. But you can always be sure to find an interpretation of Judaism that deeply disapproves of whatever it is the Jews are doing at the moment.

Thus does an article ostensibly about Muslims and Jews looking to date within their communities end up being an article about Muslims who date Muslims and Jews who find it hard to date Jews because the online world is full of annoying Zionists.

Anti-Zionist Jews are, in fact, an extraordinarily small slice of the community. Jews who won’t even date a Zionist are fewer still. Yet it is difficult to find that reality reflected in the reporting on the Jewish community.

I imagine there is a fascinating article to be written about changes in the dating patterns of Jewish Americans in a way that is representative of the actual Jewish community being depicted. This is not that article, and thanks to the unwritten rules of mainstream political journalism, we’re unlikely to get it.

[eddieydewr]

I can’t take a lot of fandoms anger towards Noah seriously because a lot of it is performative from VERY young fans who don’t fully understand what they are even talking about, in a hyper tense environment where anything but saying “free Palestine” gets your friends calling you nasty names and possibly shunned entirely. Noah has been called a zionist for ages now simply for visiting the land he has cultural and religious ties to, and saying he enjoys the culture, scenery and people he’s met. That’s not remotely what zionist even is, it’s actually pretty antisemitic but I digress, and it’s ridiculous. Gen z is the king of not understanding the meanings of words and using them as weapons so they seem like social justice warriors/morally superior.

a lot of it is performative, i agree. i am pro palestine in the sense that they are not occupied by hamas or the IDF but i also don’t think israel should cease to exist. how can palestinians and israelis co-exist peacefully, i have no idea. i’m not exactly a geopolitical expert, lol. it’s very fraught and complex, and it probably needs to be done between both states without western interferences, if possible.

i don’t get zionist vibes from noah at all. he has been supportive towards arabic and muslim peoples, philanthropy wise (if that’s the right word!). although i’ve read that there are different types of zionism, meaning it isn’t inherently bad. and the term zionism is sometimes used to refer to jewish people because semitism can extend to christianity and islam, so there’s a need to differentiate anti-semitism (against all semites) from antisemitism/anti-zionism, aka jewish people/judaism. i’ve been reading up on stuff like this for a long time and i still get some things wrong (brain fog, easily distracted) so don’t take my word for it, lol.

[jelliclebellsthatjelliclesring]

You’d think that after 80 years most people would be done with needing to have a “revenge fantasy”

Especially a group of people belonging to Judaism, a religion with a high focus on forgiveness for even the worst shit possible

Don’t forget that this is the religion where one of the original 12 sons of Jacob (where the Israel name comes from) forgave his brothers for SELLING HIM INTO SLAVERY, throwing him down a well, and pretending he was dead to Jacob. Joseph had control over his “human impulses”, and that’s proven when Judah asks him to forgive Benjamin for a crime he didn’t commit and Joseph obliges

Biblically speaking this is all after around 50 years, 30 less than it apparently takes for the descendants of the original 12 to quit lashing out their anger that is still bubbling away around the Shoah (3-4 generations after the fact) against children in the Middle East (and admittedly, some Hamas who are actually genuinely hostile people, but mostly kids)

Joseph would be so ashamed right now , Genociding kids because of “generational trauma”

If that’s the genuine reason, and not just the Israeli government being genocidal lunatics themselves (which isn’t impossible but I wouldn’t put money on it considering how poorly the government actually treats Shoah survivors), then the government and citizens who still support the government (as well as any supporters overseas) should maybe evaluate if they’re really doing the right thing by the government doing what they’re doing and the supporters of the government supporting those actions

[ahamay79]

For those of you who don’t understand exactly what is happening in the Middle East and what’s taking place here on American soil, I’m going to break it down as simple as I possibly can.

God found favor with Abraham. God even called Abraham His friend. Abrahams wife was named Sarah and together they were leaders of a large tribe, community or encampment you could say.

God promised Abraham that his seed (offspring) would be numbered like the sands of the seas.

Sarah, being 99 years old (and folks lived long lives at this time in history), began to doubt Gods promise and suggested Abraham sleep with her very attractive and younger handmaiden, Hagar.

Abraham, being human and born of a sinful nature, agreed with Sarah (because he’s a dude) and slept with Hagar. Soon after it was realized that Hagar was pregnant with Abraham’s first born, Ishmael. True to God’s promise, thirteen years later, Sarah birthed Abraham’s second son, Isaac.

Since the original sin, (Adam & Eve) mankind has disappointed, failed and angered God. It was not Gods will that man fail, it’s has and is always been about choices and free will.

From Hagar came Ishmael. From Sarah came Issac.

True to Gods promise, Abrahams seed became and is as the sands of the seas. However, true to there being consequences for sin, God told Abraham that he must get the sin out of the camp.

Having to banish Hagar and Ishmael from the camp grieved Abraham a great deal. He loved both of his sons like any good father would.

When it comes right down to it, Ishmael was born against the will of God. From that beginning Ishmael descendants have waged war against Issacs descendants.

From Ishmael came the Arab Nations, the prophet Mohammed, who was a fierce warrior and writer or the Islamic Quran, which instructs followers of Muhammad that if Christians or any other faith won’t convert to Islam or the Muslim faith, they’re labeled as infidels and must be killed.

From Isaac came the Jewish nation and eventually Judaism, Christianity and finally Jesus as a blood sacrifice for sin to all nations. This is how the Middle East has been labeled ‘the cradle of civilization’.

Ishmaels decendants don’t believe that Jews and Christians have a right to live. That’s why leaders of Iran, who is the head of the octopus direct the tentacles like Hamas, Hezbola, ISIS and a host of other murderous Islamic terrorist organizations to attack and chant “death to Israel and death to America”

This war, jihad has been going on from the beginning and will be going on when Christ appears for His second coming to wage the final war against evil.

This country has been blessed because this country has been a defender of Israel and the Jews.

As you can see by the siding of the youth of this nation with supporting and protesting on the behalf of terrorists, that we’re only a generation away from turning our backs on Israel.

They’re so misguided, indoctrinated and naive that they don’t understand the weight of their actions.

God chose the Jews for Jesus to take on human flesh and walk among us for 33 years, ultimately becoming a blood sacrifice on the cross. This sacrifice was not just for Christians and Jews, it was for any human who would answer the call to become Christ like.

Remember folks, God said that Israel is the apple of His eye.

I will stand with Israel.🇮🇱

[cleoenfaserum]

VOICES THAT NEED TO BE HEARD

It is not the same me, a nobody, a christian atheist meaning raised a christian turned atheist, saying, than a jew saying it. It is not the same a jew who lived or his family lived through the nazis holocaust saying it than some couch potato schmuck gabbling on rabidly like a mad dog. It is not the same a jew living, for example, in the USA than in Israel. We all have different backgrounds, different stations in life. But if your head is in the right place and not between your legs, you would recognize what a GENOCIDE is. NOT ALL JEWS ARE ZIONIST, the fallacy in the statement is that all zionist are jews, at least in name. That is why we have to listen to the jews whose heart is in the right place which have nothing to do with the zionist (nazis) hiding behind judaism and worse of all behind the holocaust.

I have tried putting together a few jews whose heart is in the right place.

828-2 https://youtu.be/X_pcyqXziNs

828-3 https://youtu.be/dDc4O64C3b4

I’m personally a Holocaust survivor as an infant, I barely survived. My grandparents were killed in Aushwitz and most of my extended family were killed. I became a Zionist; this dream of the Jewish people resurrected in their historical homeland and the barbed wire of Aushwitz being replaced by the boundaries of a Jewish state with a powerful army…and then I found out that it wasn’t exactly like that, that in order to make this Jewish dream a reality we had to visit a nightmare on the local population. There’s no way you could have ever created a Jewish state without oppressing and expelling the local population. Jewish Israeli historians have shown without a doubt that the expulsion of Palestinians was persistent, pervasive, cruel, murderous and with deliberate intent - that’s what’s called the 'Nakba' in Arabic; the 'disaster' or the 'catastrophe'. There’s a law that you cannot deny the Holocaust, but in Israel you’re not allowed to mention the Nakba, even though it’s at the very basis of the foundation of Israel. I visited the Occupied Territories (West Bank) during the first intifada. I cried every day for two weeks at what I saw; the brutality of the occupation, the petty harassment, the murderousness of it, the cutting down of Palestinian olive groves, the denial of water rights, the humiliations...and this went on, and now it’s much worse than it was then. It’s the longest ethnic cleansing operation in the 20th and 21st century. I could land in Tel Aviv tomorrow and demand citizenship but my Palestinian friend in Vancouver, who was born in Jerusalem, can’t even visit! So then you have these miserable people packed into this, horrible…people call it an 'outdoor prison', which is what it is. You don’t have to support Hamas policies to stand up for Palestinian rights, that’s a complete falsity. You think the worse thing you can say about Hamas, multiply it by a thousand times, and it still will not meet the Israeli repression and killing and dispossession of Palestinians. And 'anybody who criticises Israel is an anti-Semite' is simply an egregious attempt to intimidate good non-Jews who are willing to stand up for what is true.

828-4 https://youtu.be/NnK3dbfHzMk

828-5 https://youtu.be/LnDzsbA5aOQ

[nevermindirah]

Yitzhak!

is a character! who Gregadiah What-Is-Math Rucka gave us almost no information about!

I've gone through Tales Through Time #6: The Bear and #1: My Mother's Axe with several magnifying glasses and done a lot of googling and taken my copy of the Tanakh off my shelf for the first time since (well, since the last time I needed to read Torah for TOG reasons, which I think was Booker Passover headcanons) and here's the best I can come up with.

In The Bear we meet someone who goes by the name Isaac Blue:

Read on for a lot of comic panel analysis and historical research and Jewish flailing!

So what do we know about this Isaac Blue person?

He's Lorge, he's got curly hair, he's basically a taller version of Joe as drawn by Leandro Fernández (ie an antisemitic stereotype why the fuck did they approve this character design?? and then why did they double down and copy-paste it to Yitzhak??):

He's got a mezuzah on the doorpost of his house in Alaska!

I screamed about the mezuzah way back in January in this post where I (very reasonably) assumed this character was Joe and spun myself a tale about how Booker is still Joe's brother so the mezuzah stays up even though Booker isn't welcome in that house for a century. Bottom line: the mezuzah is a tradition with origins in the commandment from Deuteronomy 6:9 to "write the words of G-d on the gates and doorposts of your house" and evolved over the course of the Rabbinic period into the modern mezuzah we see here.

I did unnecessary levels of google image search to glean absolutely no useful information about Yitzhak’s origins from this panel:

I've decided the variant cover of TTT 6 is Yitzhak because of a panel in My Mother’s Axe, shown here, and what's likely an unnecessarily deep reading of Exodus, discussed further down:

The person at the right of the bottom panel is wearing the same clothes as in the TTT 6 variant cover and has the same shoulder-length curly hair and hairy forearms.

Left to right, the people in this panel are Lykon (I'll never get used to him being white in the comics), Andy, Noriko (I think? why doesn't Andy mention her by name here?), and Yitzhak. Andy's robe has a stereotypically Greek design on the sleeve cuff, and I had to stop myself 10 minutes into a Wikipedia rabbit hole because Gregorforth doesn't think that deep about this shit. The solid clues as to timeline that we get in this panel are:

Andy's iron axe

the presence of Lykon, who Andy first met in 331 BCE

So all we know is that Yitzhak is an immortal, he was a contemporary of Lykon, and he's Jewish.

Isaac is the most common Anglicization of Yitzhak (which in turn is the most common Anglophone transliteration of יִצְחָק‎), and Greg always uses the (transliterated) Hebrew when he refers to this character. Yitzhak is the long-awaited child of Abraham and Sarah in Genesis, the child who G-d commanded Abraham to sacrifice but spared at the last minute. I see what you did there, Gregory.

Why Isaac Blue? This is where I pulled out my Tanakh. According to the New JPS translation, blue is the first of three colors of yarn listed in Exodus 35:6 among the gifts requested of the Israelites to construct the priestly garments for the Tabernacle and later the Temple. Then in Numbers 15:38 the Israelites are commanded to "make themselves fringes on the corners of their garments throughout the ages; let them attach a cord of blue to the fringe at each corner."

And now for sandbox timelines party! Gregadiah gave us ALMOST NOTHING to go on, so I'm gonna make my own fun.

I, like many modern Jews, think the stories in the Tanakh are foundational mythology that are valuable because of how they've shaped our people but that contain some fucked-up shit and either way aren't meant to be a record of historical facts. Modern scholarship generally agrees that the community we now call Jews emerged as a distinct group of Canaanites sometime in the late Bronze Age (cw this video's host says the Name of G-d aloud despite being a religious studies scholar who knows that is not a name anyone but the Temple priests are allowed to say). The first non-Biblical written record of the people Israel is from an Egyptian source c. 1200 BCE, and the Biblical kingdom of David and Solomon was probably an exaggeration of whatever really happened during the Bronze Age Collapse. We start getting into historical-fact territory a few centuries into the Iron Age:

588 BCE Solomon's Temple destroyed, Babylonian exile begins

538 BCE Cyrus of Persia allows Jews to return to Jerusalem

515 BCE Second Temple construction complete

332 BCE Alexander the Great At Something I Guess conquered Judea, beginning the Hellenistic period of Jewish history — 331 BCE Andy & Lykon find each other

167 BCE another jerkface Greek king desecrated the Temple and basically outlawed Judaism

164 BCE recapture of Jerusalem and Temple rededication during the Maccabean Revolt

70 CE destruction of the Second Temple by the Romans, beginning of the Rabbinic period of Jewish history that we're still in now

What if... and hear me out... what if immortals come in pairs, and the pairs are:

Andy & Quynh

Joe & Nicky

Booker & Nile

LYKON & YITZHAK

What if Yitzhak was a priest of the Second Temple? What if he and Lykon killed each other just like Joe and Nicky would in the same city around 1300 years later, but instead of enemies-to-lovers speedrun with an absurdly long happily-ever-after, when Lykon died permanently Yitzhak decided to separate from Andy and Noriko and become the hermit we later see in Alaska?

We don't know how old Yitzhak is compared to the others, only that he was a contemporary of Lykon at a time when Andy was using an Iron Age version of her mother's axe. Other plausible origins for him:

a Jew of the early Rabbinic period, maybe a child or grandchild of people who were still alive before the Second Temple was destroyed

a Judean of the Second Temple era under the Romans or Greeks or Persians, maybe a priest, maybe not

an exilee in Babylon, maybe of the generation who got to return, maybe of the generation who was exiled (he doesn't look like he was 50 at his first death but who knows, he could've been mortal for both)

an Israelite of the Kingdoms of Israel and Judah, maybe a priest of Solomon's Temple or again maybe not

an Israelite wandering in the desert with Moses

THEE Yitzhak, ben Avraham v'Sarah, our patriarch who was brought up for sacrifice and then spared, and then spared again, and then spared again, and again, and again...

or! he could also be a Canaanite or other Levantine who predates the people Israel, who at some point in his very long life chose to join our mixed multitude, who like Andromache before him (and like Avram and Sarai would in this case do after him) took a new name to reflect the magnitude of influence this people has had on him

Why do I keep saying Yitzhak might have been a priest? It's thanks to the one detail in the artwork I could plausibly connect to solid research without getting a PhD real quick. Take a look at the gorgeous detail on the opening of his robe in the TTT 6 cover. He's dressed in rags, holes and dirt everywhere, rough stitches probably from hasty repair work — except for the neck opening. Compare that to this description from Exodus 39:23 of the construction of the priestly garments for the Tabernacle: "The opening of the robe, in the middle of it, was like the opening of a coat of mail, with a binding around the opening, so that it would not tear."

The next verses describe the intricate designs for the hem of the priestly garment. Yitzhak's ragged garment looks like the hem was torn off entirely.

Am I overthinking this? Yes I am! You're welcome!

My friend and historical research hero @lady-writes​ is in a Discord server with Gregadiah and asked the man himself some questions about all this. He clearly thinks he's being sneaky?? No shit Yitzhak is Jewish, dude, I want DETAILS!

I will not be giving up my Jewish Booker headcanon, I've put too much thought into it by now, the internalized shame of antisemitism explains Booker's depression too well for me, and it just adds so much richness to Booker/Nile both being children of forced diasporas. Fortunately (for him, not me, bc I'd do it anyway!) Gregothy supports fan headcanons even when they're not in line with his own:

One last thing before I close like 100 research tabs and go back to writing historical fantasy and/or porn! I love that, despite that atrocious caricature of a face design, our canon Jew and our fanon Jew are both Lorge and Soft and Kind, flying the face of the antisemitic stereotype of Ashkenazi Jewish men as small and weak, but also not falling into the New Jew / Muscle Jew stereotype that Zionism created. (I am trying SO HARD not to talk about Israel/Palestine for once ughhhhhhhhhh) Anyway here's a (US-centric but very good) primer on both these stereotypes of Jewish masculinity. Is this why I'm forever projecting my transmasc diasporist feels onto Jewish Booker the service sub? 🤷🏻‍♂️

I’ll reblog a second version of this with full image descriptions so that there’s a version accessible for folks who need IDs as well as a version accessible for folks who get overwhelmed by walls of text.

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I’m not Jewish so I don’t know if any part of this is problematic. Image description under the break.

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The three Israels

Am Yisrael

The Nation of Israel

In the Torah we read the story of Jacob, who wrestles an Angel and is re-named Israel, which means “One who wrestles with G-d”. (Side note, this refers to the deity. It is censored because it’s taboo to use his name in vain).

The Jewish people are known as The Nation of Israel, the people who wrestle with G-d.

This is an ancestral and historical name for Jews, far pre-dating 1948

Jews often use the phrase, “Am Yisrael Chai” to refer to the resilience and survival of the Jewish people.

This use of Israel appears within the Torah as well as many sacred and non-sacred Jewish texts.

Eretz Yisrael

The physical land

This refers specifically to the physical land referenced in physical texts. Certain Jewish holidays and traditions are Intrinsically tied to the land and its natural cycles [Tu B’Shevat, etc].

These beliefs are historic and ancient but are still distinct from the modern political state.

Conflating the ancient understanding of the land with the modern ethnostate is a fallacy.

Medinat Israel

The modern political state

This specifically refers to the modern political entity established in 1948.

This modern political state is what people think of when they hear the term Israel, despite the modern state being the youngest of the three.

The political state does not and has never represented all Jews.

The conflation of these three concepts is intentional as it serves a variety of political interests.

Is The Distinction Important?

Yes

It is unequivocally important to not conflate Jews with the modern political state of Israel, despite the pressure from both antisemites and certain Jews to do so.

Biblical texts do not refer to Medinat Israel within them, but the conflation allows people to use the biblical texts to their advantage.

Take for example, Evangelical Christian Zionist Preachers who use the line from Numbers 24:9 and Genesis 12:3

“Blessed is everyone who blesses you, O Israel, and cursed is everyone who curses you.”

“I will bless those who bless you. And curse the one who curses you. And all the families of the earth shall bless themselves by you.”

These do not refer to the modern state. But these same pastors unabashedly promote antisemitism in the same breath; using their support for Medinat Israel as cover because genuinely caring for Jews is antithetical to their beliefs.

(Trigger warning: Antisemitism)

Antisemite John Haggie, who founded Christians United For Israel (the largest Zionist organization in the USA), posted

“As Christmas approaches, think about what (G-d) has given us through the Jews—Jesus, the prophets, Scripture. Think about what Israel has given the world— cellphone, technology, computer software, medical aid. Think about what you can give to bless the Jewish people. Wheather it’s donating to CUFI, signing the Israel Pledge, or just sharing this status, we owe it to the Jews to share material blessings.”

The conflation here of Jews (Am Yisrael) and the state of Israel (Medinet Israel) is clear. Support Israel, no matter the cost, no matter how much you hate and revile living Jews.

Hagee also preached that Hitler was a ‘hunter’ sent to gather the Jews in Israel.

John Hagee was recently invited to speak at a pro-Israel rally

Examples of the Harms of conflation

Antisemites use the “Israel loophole” as a means of continuing their antisemitism and wrecking havoc on Diaspora Jews… “I can’t be antisemitic! I support Israel!”

The “Israel loophole” is how antisemitic legislation is passed by the same people choosing to send billions of dollars in aid to Israel.

The conflation also causes misinformation and misunderstandings to spread about Judaism and the Jewish people.

Conflating all Jews with Israel allows people (Jewish and non-Jewish) to attempt to revoke Jews of their Jewish Identity when their politics do not “fall in line”.

“While Churches, miniseries and para-church organizations like CUFI can provide these ‘blessings’, for the vast majority of Christian Zionist, the easiest way to ‘bless’ Israel is through financial gifts they give to the larger organizations, or by simply receiving an email from groups like the ‘Daughters of Zion Prayer Network’ that reminds them to pray for Israel during times of internal or external crises.

Christian Zionists are not only donating millions to causes in Israel through CUFI, they are also lobbying the US Government to maintain its annual aid of over $3 billion to Israel, despite a depressed economy and constant calls to rein in Government spending.” End ID]

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The first version of this was posted in 2020, back in the very start of our page. It was an important primer then and it is again now.

In any good English 101 course, you are taught to define terms before writing the rest of your paper. Understanding how misinformation is spread through conflation, confusion, and intentional ambiguity is vital and necessary.

As we have, in the last months, been exploring Christian Zionism on our page, we've seen the comments run into issues of confusion on this very topic.