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âAntizionism is not antisemitismâ may be absolutely true but the fact that many peoplesâ working definition of âantisemitismâ is roughly âsomething bad which might have happened to Jews but that certainly ended after the holocaust and the establishment of the state of Israel and which neither I nor anyone in my family or cultural group could ever doâ and Zionism is roughly âan ideology interchangeable with every other ideology I think is bad that is also something all the piggish money hungry world controllers I donât like got in onâ does not inspire terrible amounts of confidence
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As we see an increase in antisemitism I have reflected on my experiences how many years ago being the token Jew in my eighth grade English class and I have found some aspects about it which lead me to believe are the parts that Holocaust Education in the U.S. goes wrong
Being taught in English Classes
Often such as in my state, the Holocaust is taught as part of English curriculum. English teachers aren't history teachers and they may be lacking in the skills or knowledge required to teach in the necessary depth to discuss the Holocaust.
My mother used to teach English but she had a history degree as well. She would lecture in class about everything leading up to and during WWII. I remember reading handouts she had in her classroom while I was waiting after school about the history of antisemitism. I didn't have any of this in my English class unit, because to put it simply most English teachers aren't my mother who also has the prior knowledge of how to teach history.
Additionally, as it is part of English, there is often more focus on Holocaust literature rather than the topic itself
This is where I think it gets extremely flawed if a person's primary knowledge of a historical period is Anne Frank or the incredibly inaccurate boy in the striped pajamas. A single account or work of complete fiction shouldn't be your main lens to view any topic whether it's the Holocaust, Slavery, Civil Rights movement etc.
You're in short blurring fact and fiction when discussing these things in the context of literature.
Sense of Finality
I feel like in my classes at least there was this idea that was kind of implied that hatred of Jews began and ended with Hitler and the Holocaust. I think this leads to misconceptions about antisemitism.
I feel this is a problem as I remember mistakenly getting that takeaway in school regarding civil rights in America. It was taught that Slavery was a problem, emancipation proclamation, MLK said I have a dream, and the civil rights act was passed and bam no inequality or racism. Later on, I fortunately learned this was flawed for many reasons. But not everyone does.
Not teaching about how the Holocaust happened
If you aren't given the knowledge of how centuries of hatred lead up to the Holocaust, I feel the main takeaway becomes that it was almost a random occurrence.
Many learn the Holocaust is bad without learning the signs of thinking that can lead neighbors to kill neighbors.
So many people don't have the basic facts such as Hitler being elected rather than assuming power.
I think when you learn of an atrocity of such scale without learning the human beliefs that brought about it, you have learned nothing.
I had a girl in my college uni class who was shocked when I said that antisemitism didn't begin and end with Hitler. I can see where she would get this idea if I at ten figured that racism ended with MLK.
Using Simulation
Slavery and the Holocaust should probably not be taught using roleplay. It usually goes poorly and you can find dozens of examples of how this goes wrong.
Sanitizing History
Exactly what it sounds like. But it's a major problem in general with history education in the US. I think we downplay westward expansion, and slavery in the us. When we downplay those it's easy to see how some begin to downplay the Holocaust.
We had a kid faint on the trip to the Holocaust memorial at some of the images. I think it was because they were inadequately prepared to see the horrors in image, my teacher didn't show any pictures in class.
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I don't blame teachers. Teacher's jobs fucking suck from what I've seen and many don't have the skills or resources or experience. I guess for now I think it's good to recognize those holes in our education and fill them ourselves through self education and life long learning
With the current political atmosphere of education of the unpleasant or difficult to discuss parts of history, i can only see things getting worse if we don't change anything. But like I said in the absence of a solid education which discusses these topics, it's important to educate ourselves and confront our lack of knowledge.
#tw shoah#tw holocaust#jumblr#feel free to add on with your school experiences#especially if you're jewish
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Me, naively at 10: oh hey I just read a bunch of books about people surviving the holocaust. This antisemitism thing is pretty bad. But where could it be coming from? All the Nazis are gone and we hate them. Everything is fine now right?
Me, at 19: oh fuck- it is everywhere. It has weaseled its way into the core of every social movement, if it didnât start out like that in the first place. It is in every political talking point about how thereâs a âsecret entityâ ruling America. Itâs in calls for death or violence against âZionistsâ and their âorganizationsâ without the definition of what that means. Itâs in the acceptance of antisemitic people and movements as long as they have other desired components. It is everywhere and there is no inclination to stop it.
#tw antisemtism#antisemitism#tw holocaust#tw shoah#shoah mention#jumblr#jewish#jewish convert#jewblr#jewish tumblr#fromgoy2joy thoughts
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I understand and agree with pointing out that the Holocaust didnât just affect the Jews that lived in Europe, and shedding light on the stories of Jews in other territories under Axis control. Every life lost or uprooted in the Holocaust matters and deserves to be remembered, not just Ashkenazim.
However, Iâve been seeing a bit of an overcorrection to the point that this valid & important point get twisted by some into the idea that Ashkenazim werenât actually all that affected by the Holocaust at all and may have actually been safer than other Jews due to being White/European*, and I wanted to walk through exactly why that is so far from the reality and gets into really dangerous Holocaust Distortion.
The fact is that the vast majority of Holocaust victims were Ashkenazim. How do we know this? Well, first and most obvious without even getting into the numbers: the Nazis were most active in Eastern Europe, where most Jews were overwhelmingly Ashkenazi. Germany had colonies elsewhere and the affect the Holocaust had on Jews living in Africa and Asia is not any less important (and the fact remains that their stories are a genuine gap in Holocaust education that needs to be filled), but this doesnât change the fact that the center of Nazi activity was Europe, and thus that is where their impact on Jews was most intense. But itâs important to not just go off of what seems âobviousâ because whatâs obvious to any given person is subjective and subject to bias. So letâs look at the numbers:
Estimates prior to the Holocaust put Ashkenazim at 92% of the worldâs Jewish population (or roughly 14 million of the 15.3 million total Jewish population), meaning that it would be physically impossible for less than 4.7 million (or 78%) of the 6 million Jews murdered in the Holocaust to be Ashkenazim.
Even that number is only possible to reach by assuming that only Ashkenazism survived and literally every non-Ashkenazi Jew died in the Holocaust, which we categorically know is not the case due to the continued existence of Sephardim & Mizrahim, as well as other Jews. So the number has to be higher than 78%.
Additionally, the fact that the proportion of the worldâs Jewish population that was Ashkenazi fell so drastically during to the Holocaust and still hasnât recovered (from 92% in 1930, only recovering to close to 75% in the last couple decades) means that not only a higher overall number of deaths were Ashkenazim, but that a higher proportion of the total Ashkenazi population died than from other groups.
We also know that 85% of Jews killed in the Holocaust were Yiddish-speakers. The fact that Yiddish is endemic to Ashkenazi culture (and not all Ashkenazim would have even been Yiddish-speakers) due to assimilation means that at leastâand most likely more thanâ85% of Jews killed in the Holocaust were Ashkenazi.
So, no, Ashkenazim were not some privileged subcategory of Jews who avoided the worst of the Holocaust. They were the group most directly devastated by it.
That doesnât change the fact that the devastation the Nazis and their allies wreaked on other Jews is every bit as important to acknowledge and discuss, and must not fall by the wayside. The stories and experiences of all victims & survivors deserve to be heard, remembered, and honored, not just the most common or most statistically representative of the majority of victims. However, we can (and must) do that without allowing the facts of the Holocaust to be distorted or suggesting Ashkenazim were somehow less affected by the Holocaust or more privileged under the Nazis. The Nazis hated all Jews. Antisemitism affects all Jews. Period.
*without getting too deep into how categories like Ashkanzi/Sephardi/etc. donât map neatly onto race like so many people seem to want them to. thatâs a different post, but just pointing that out
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i have been trying to find the strength, the time, and the emotional energy to call my grandmother and tell her that i found her holocaust survivor registry card
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Today is Holocaust Remembrance Day. This whole week l have been thinking alot about the Holocaust. So last night I re-read maus. One panel really stuck out to me during this reading. For context this is in Maus 2 when Art is talking to his therapist, a Holocaust survivor, about how he feels he could never measure up to his father who survived Auschwitz. At this point in the story his father had already past. May his memory be a blessing.
The dialogue, âbut you werenât in Auschwitz. You were in Rego Park,â hit me like a punch to the chest. I have no better way to explain the paradoxical guilt I felt and continue to feel as the granddaughter of a Holocaust survivor. I did not live during the Holocaust. It had ended before my grandmother reached eighteen years old. And yet, the Shoah seems to loom over me. Forever a reminder, that I am alive by sheer luck. My great grandfatherâs parents as well as two of his brothers were murdered in Auschwitz. My great grandmotherâs twin sister was also murdered in the Holocaust. Despite hours of research, I still have no idea where exactly she died.
Using the term guilty for what I feel doesnât seem exactly right but there is no better word in the English language. Maybe if I was smarter or more articulate I could find better words.
A key theme of this chapter is intergenerational trauma. This is the same chapter that has this iconic image.
On this Holocaust Remembrance Day, I simply want to acknowledge the real and extremely painful intergenerational trauma and inherited survivors guilt felt by descendants of Jewish survivors. I know I struggled in the past with feeling like I even have any right to feel this way considering I am three generations removed from any of my family that were murdered in the Holocaust. If any other Jews struggle with thoughts like this, I want to assure you that your feelings are valid and real. Intergenerational trauma is complicated and the feelings that come with it donât simply disappear once a certain number of generations from the event pass.
This post is specifically about the Holocaust and jewish intergenerational trauma stemming from our persecution and genocide. If this post resonates with you as a non-Jew who has intergenerational trauma I am glad, but please do not derail this post.
#history#holocaust remembrance day#holocaust#shoah#intergenerational trauma#jumblr#jewish history#shoah mention#tw shoah#holocaust mention#tw holocaust#judaism#maus#antisemitism#jewish trauma#survivors guilt#mental health
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i am epilogue of a history no one bothered to give me a pen to write down
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Today I told my 4-year-old that we're gonna start playing the quiet game every day and try to go longer and longer without making any noise. She think it's just a game. Really, it's practice. Because I see the pre-Holocaust shit that's happening everywhere and I'm getting ready for the day we end up having to go completely into hiding in someone's basement or attic or something.
Then again, I've never met a single goy who'd actually hide Jews, so part of me wonders what the point even is.
This is heartbreaking. I have nothing to add, this vent speaks for itself.
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Iâm taking a Holocaust and Modern Genocides class and before we get into the the actual genocide my professor has been going into the history of Pre-Holocaust European antisemitism and Jewish life. This is because she said that she wants us to A)Understand the attitudes that built it up and B) So that the class would understand the casualties as real lives lost and not just numbers in a book.
Itâs so strange hearing my goyishe classmates like actually audibly have break throughs about the diversity and actual life that existed within the European Jewry. Like it is so clear that none of them have ever thought of us AS anything more than numbers and sad faces to exist in movies. Like some people were legitimately shocked to find out that there are different branches of Judaism or that Ashkenazim and Sephardim have different cultures and traditions.
To make a long story short the guy who sits close me in that class said he didnât know Jewish people had different political opinions or what Yiddish was but thatâs a different story and I feel entitled to compensation because of it
#personal#tw antisemitism#nazi tw#tw nazis#holocaust tw#tw Holocaust#shoah mention#tw shoah#shoah tw#shoah#Holocaust
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Tonight at sundown Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day, is commemorated around the world. Â
If you want to to honor the memory of one of the victims by lighting a candle, you can do that at the Illuminate website.
It will give you the name of one person for who you can viritually light a candle. If you want, you can also learn a bit about their life and share a small message.
Currently, there are over 800.000 candles lit. The goal is to reach 6 million to honor each and every vicitim.
#tw shoah#tw holocaust#there was another post with the link but i sadly lost it#mine every year is for Jozef Westfried
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I'm sorry but I kind of can't stand goyim who go "I would've hidden Jews from the Nazis!!!". When you think about the Holocaust the first thing you should be thinking about is the brutal suffering, the dehumanisation, the millions of innocent souls killed. You should mourn the Jews, not fantasize how you would've fit into the story as a hero.
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It makes me feral to see the rise of antisemitism being sighed at by hyper-vigilant activist types, who shake their heads and tell each other-
âSo sad the Jews now have to deal with this hate thing because of the Israeli government.â
That has never been how antisemitism functioned. Read about the Dreyfus Affair, Kristallnacht, anything- I beg of you. There has always been a convenient excuse, a clause for âhowever, this time, targeting them is okay.â
Instead of real solidarity, learning, or doing, you peddle meaningless words skillfully in a way only a person more concerned with words than action can.
âCollective liberation,â you say as you post an infographic about a worldwide intifada against âZionist entitiesâ, uncaring of what that entails.
âAnti- Racism!â you check your nails while someone explains the ��white supremacyâ and the supposedly polish indigenous roots of one of the most documented âforeignâ peoples on this planet.
âAnti-zionism, not antisemitism,â You yawn, as you nod along to a friend explaining who really is in charge of society.
If this describes you, you are promoting material leading to the next pogrom. And if- If- it does happen, I know you will do the same and shake your heads.
âI canât believe the Israeli government.â
#fromgoy2joy thoughts#jumblr#jewish#jewblr#antisemitism#tw antisemtism#tw holocaust#i/p#israel#jewish tumblr#jewish grief#tw shoah mention#activism#activist#current events
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Magneto and Holocaust Inversion (Many Such Cases)
Case #1: He who fights monsters ( UXM #150 I, Magneto - Chris Claremont)
So this was my first X-men comic I got at a con at a discount so THIS was my introduction to Magneto. I love this comic to bits. It's a great scene
While this sudden breakdown is quite good there's the pieta symbolism between two jews and there's the distinct implication of "I'm no better than the Nazis" in his breakdown (you are allowed to fight me on this as not counting as holocaust inversion)
to pivot Magneto this much Claremont pretty much had to do something akin to holocaust inversion because Lee and Kirby wrote him as a fascist coded character and Claremont couldn't not have Jewish (and Romani?*) holocaust survivor who was likely sonderkommando not realize the irony of his actions.
Also we get more Magneto backstory and depth in ONE PAGE than any comic before and most comics since
Case #2: No equals (Magneto Rex episode 3- Joe Pruitt)
Listen the Genosha metaphor was clumsy when Claremont wrote it but the hands of Joe Pruitt, it sounds like a Soviet psyop about the evil colonizer Jews who like apartheid.
While Pietro is one of the few people who get to say the "you're making us look bad" line and it landing in and out of universe the way it's presented is the most simplistic argument possible
The implication of "he's gone full circle and become the oppressor" is clear and this time painfully intentional. The fact that these people are imprisoned for having legacy virus- the x-men equivalent of aids just makes it all worse
Case #3: A mad old terrorist twat (New X-men: Planet X -Grant Morrison)
^ tw for misgendering Grant Morrison who used he/him at the time of publication but use they/them now.
Many people have pointed out that part of what stings when Morrison separates McKellen from the "schizoid-conflicted" Hitler reborn terrorist twat Magneto is the former is a gentile and therefore more deserving of their respect. The implications that Magneto is like that because his ideas are dumb and out-dated mirrors the way antisemites claim that Jews are gentiles over "their made up fairy tales".
I don't think Morrison is so much an antisemite as the kind of fanenby hypocritical chud who loves the silver age (bad era to fandomize and idolize, Grant) exactly as it was. They love when THEY get to make Beast or Ice man gay but hate when a Jewish writer makes a wannabe dictator a Jewish holocaust survivor. We get it Grant, rules for thee but not for Jews. No, no they'll rewrite the character as literally Hitler to show that only Morrison gets to re-write X-men comics, antisemitic implications be damned.
Well you made one thing clear, Grant sweaty, you hate retcons and the art of Jewish writers whose politics and visions you dislike.
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Case #4: when your boyfriend invokes Godwin's law (House of M: Civil war #3)
I feel like Charles only gets away with this because they're such close friends (who canonically share a room) and he's been through a lot in this issue.
To be fair "you twisting semantics won't save people from fanatics who want genocide" is the BEST comeback to holocaust inversion I've seen in an X-men comic
the framing here is both of them are wrong and Magnus (that's one of Magneto's human names) is clearly in the right about this. The humans may think he's Mutant Hitler but that's because they're projecting
(sorry for making you read sideways and making you read something I took a picture of IRL)
Case #5: The oppressed becomes the oppressor (X-men 97 episode 2)
Magneto's speech in X-97 has been said as a watered down version of his speech in Uncanny X-Men 200
What is pointed out many times is the line where he claims "his own people joined the nazis to betray him". Never expanded upon, never brought up again. There are no other Jewish character in 97, no foils. It feels almost gross and tokenistic, like Marvel wanted Magneto be the good token self-hating Jews. Since at that was the only acceptable type of Jew in early 2024.
I do hope to see a course correction seasons 2 and 3 as something as simple as showing a flashback of his past or just showing a character like Kitty would go a long way to dispel the accidental implication that Magneto thinks all other Jews are evil
*While Magneto's children Wanda and Pietro are explicitly Jewish-Romani everywhere BUT the MCU in some universes like House of M, so is he. These intermarriages happened in Weimar Germany all the time so these universes are quite plausible
#antisemitism#media antisemtism#holocaust inversion#tokenism#tokenization#tw holocaust#tw shoah#weekly essay
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Joe Kessler: âBefore they start rounding us up into camps.â
Barbara Findley to HL: âThey were just following ordersâ
Me: Kripke? Hey Kripke? đ° Are⌠are we supposed to view the actions that Homelander is probably about to take to create a âsupe armyâ as some kind of Magneto style disgust with humanity and supe-remacy where he goes way way too far (if the plan is really going to be to round up normal people into âcampsâ) but at the core itâs a defensible struggle to fight back against restrictions against supesâ careers and lives that Bob Singerâs proposed legislation is paving the way for? âŚ. Because Iâd find that way more interesting than a January 6th analogy. Because Iâd find the whole thing way more interesting if itâs wrapped in âI want to give Ryan a world where he wonât be restricted by lowly humans.â After growing up egregiously restricted and, ahem, persecuted for his strength.
(I have mixed feelings about Holocaust references dropped a bit haphazardly, and it was probably just haphazard rather than the idea I outline above, but one can dream I guess)
#you really going to draw a parallel between HLâs past and concentration camps Kripke?#ok Iâm game I guess go on then#thatâs kind of good if you go there#Iâm way overthinking this and donât actually think this is where theyâre going but⌠why the ref#tw holocaust#this post was indirectly triggered by another post#homelander#magneto#the boys season 4#the boys#the boys tv
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