#sorry for hijacking your post med i got on a soapbox on accident and just kept talking

[gorillawithautism]

though i feel ashamed to admit it, that was actually a viewpoint that i ascribed to when i was a stupid teenager on twitter. somehow i only thought that about christianity and not about islam though? idk the logic isn't anywhere near solid don't look into it too much. character development happened though so ofc i now understand why that's a really really weird and dumb way to interpret things but

genuinely i think it's a really easy way for a jew to view the world. especially as an american jew it's very easy to think christians have it out for us and it's really easy to feel afraid of the world in general.

i don't know about other jews but for me personally i remember being taught a lot about how we've been oppressed and hated throughout history. the holocaust, the spanish inquisition, contemporary conspiracy and naziism. my own great grandfather changing his last name because he couldn't get jobs as a jewish man in new york. i was taught about how we had to hide. i was taught about all the things we had to run from. but i wasn't taught about fighting back

i was taught about jewish rebellion as it exists in the torah like in the stories of moses or the maccabees but never about anything more modern. i was taught about the heroes of old, not about my options in the present. i was taught that antisemitism is everywhere and that i should be constantly wary, while simultaneously being taught that there is ultimately nothing i could do about it.

it's very easy to be afraid of the whole world. and watching american christians have their "easter seders" every year and watching them say the hamotzi over their communion and whatever the fuck messianic "judaism" is supposed to be... all that only makes it easier and easier to direct our fear at christianity as a whole. when you've never seen anything but american christianity it's very easy to believe that all christianity is like that. it's very easy to think that's all christianity has ever been and all it will ever be. it's very easy to think christianity is a religion made of hatred and appropriation. it's very easy to shut out anyone and anything that tries to convince us otherwise

we need to stop making it easy. we need to be teaching our communities that solidarity is vital to our survival. that sure we have been oppressed but if we let fear govern our lives we will become hateful ourselves. we can't keep teaching insularity. we can't keep teaching fear.

we need to teach our children the beauty of rebellion.

This sounds like a joke but I have seen zionists say Islam and Christianity are appropriations of Judiasm so I'm pretty sure he meant this fjskslfkkg