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i listened to a podcast episode about the 2004 mass grave in norwich that was determined through dna testing and historical evidence to be from a 1190s antisemitic attack on jewish communities. something interesting the researchers were able to discover is that one of the victims was between the age 0-3 years and had red hair and blue eyes. three sisters aged somewhere between 5-19 were also murdered. 6 adults and 11 children. time is a circle.

am yisrael chai

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chag sameach!!!!!!!!!!

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i listened to a podcast episode about the 2004 mass grave in norwich that was determined through dna testing and historical evidence to be from a 1190s antisemitic attack on jewish communities. something interesting the researchers were able to discover is that one of the victims was between the age 0-3 years and had red hair and blue eyes. three sisters aged somewhere between 5-19 were also murdered. 6 adults and 11 children. time is a circle.

am yisrael chai

🧡

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Israeli chocolate company HaShahar (the dawn) has made a new knife for spreading a spread on a matzah

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really good opinion piece by hamza howidy, a gazan man who is living in exile in europe. he was tortured and imprisoned by hamas twice for protesting against them, and now is helping start a new organization called realign for palestine advocating for peace over violence and pragmatism over extremism in activism for palestinian liberation!

i'll also be posting some quotes from this article by themselves bc i've found that the short and punchy posts tend to get more eyes than the long ones

[...] For three consecutive days, thousands of Gazans risked their lives to raise their voices against Hamas, yet their efforts have been overlooked by the so-called pro-Palestine movement in the West and by most of the news media as well. As someone who once tried to protest Hamas and ended up in their jails and torture chambers, I understand what this neglect feels like. I know the deep sense of betrayal that has touched every protester, the painful realization that they have been abandoned, left alone with no one willing to hear them.  It's as if the world has resigned them to a fate of living under Hamas’ rule, as if their suffering is too inconvenient and does not fit into the Western narrative of Palestine, which is why they have forsaken the actual people of Gaza, like me. Last week's protests were a watershed moment for Gazans, when so many in Gaza finally understood the true meaning of fake solidarity ‒ that to the Western "pro-Palestine" movement, Palestinians are not seen as real people with real struggles but as tools to be used in their ideological battles. Not only were the protests ignored by "allies" in the West, but so were the lives of the protesters and all they represent. 

'Pro-Palestine' activists protest for Columbia student. Where are they for protester killed by Hamas?

Hamas wasted no time in going after the leaders of the protests, threatening, torturing and even killing them. The family of Oday Nasser Al Rabay, 22, says the protester was tortured to death by Hamas simply for demanding a free Gaza ‒ free from Hamas and free from war. Where was the outrage from the "pro-Palestine movement" activists? Where were the protests in Western capitals for Oday? Nowhere. Because he did not fit into their ideological framework because his killing was not useful and too inconvenient to their narrative. Meanwhile, when a protester with a distinctly different profile ‒ Mahmoud Khalil, a former Columbia University graduate student ‒ finds himself detained in the United States, the pro-Palestinian activists who claim to advocate for the oppressed wasted no time in flooding Western streets with protests calling for his release. His arrest became an emblem of resistance, sparking global campaigns to bring him home. But what about the young Palestinian from Gaza who, without the protection of international institutions, was tortured to death for his dissent? Oday was left to rot in obscurity, his brutal murder by Hamas nothing more than an inconvenient fact for the same movement that fervently defended Mahmoud. This stark contrast is not only a failure of solidarity ‒ it's also an indictment of the hollow, opportunistic nature of the so-called pro-Palestine movement. Mahmoud, a student in the West, was elevated to the status of martyr. Oday, a young man from Gaza, was left to die at the hands of the very regime that Western allies refuse to confront. The hypocrisy is staggering.  If the pro-Palestinian movement is unwilling to stand with the Palestinians in Gaza—those who are risking everything to break free from the shackles of Hamas—then what kind of movement is this?  If the pro-Palestine movement cannot recognize the bravery, the sacrifices and the legitimate demands of those fighting to end the reign of terror in Gaza, to end this war and to rebuild their city free of Iranian influence, then it exposes itself as nothing more than a vehicle for political expediency. It is a movement that uses Palestinian lives when convenient and discards them when they are inconvenient. If this is the solidarity these "allies" offer, then it is an insult to the struggle for justice, an empty gesture that does nothing to advance the cause of true liberation.

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Richard Rodgers didn’t bequeath a substantial collection of his works to the American Friends of Israel Museum for you to turn around and pretend he would have supported your weird anti-Israel movement.

Oscar Hammerstein proudly donated to Jewish Zionist organizations throughout his life.

These are the men that composed the Sound of Music.

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I think the thing that most Christian atheists who are rebelling against authoritarian Christian backgrounds don't get is why Jews remain Jewish.

Like, I get it, you engaged in your practices because you were told that God would punish you if you didn't, because you're told you're supposed to fear God.

(Incidentally, we don't even use the same language about this. The term that gets translated in most English bibles as "fear" is, like many classical Hebrew words, a lot more multivalent than the English term, and has more of a connotation of "awe." (See, for example, the Gilgamesh dream sequence: "Why am I trembling? No god passed this way." A god is something in whose wake one trembles.) It's what one feels when one is faced with something bigger than oneself, something overwhelming. For some people that may be fear of being harmed. For others it may be wonder or even ecstasy, standing outside oneself.)

But in 2023, Jews have the option (and, indeed, still the cultural pressure) to completely abandon Judaism. Very easily. We can, in fact, do it quite passively. If we're not actively trying to engage with it, it will very much drift away from us.

And it's not fear of divine punishment keeping most of us engaged.

The thing is, if you proved to me tomorrow that God doesn't exist, I'm not sure anything about my life or my practice would change. (I'm already agnostic, so *shrug*. I don't believe in a God-person. Sometimes I believe in a unity to reality, a life and a direction to it. Sometimes I don't. I just don't have the arrogance to think I understand definitively the way the universe does or doesn't work.) I still would celebrate Shabbat, I still wouldn't eat pork, I still would have a mezuzah on my doorway.

I do all that stuff because I'm Jewish, not because I think God will get mad if I don't. I do all that stuff because it's part of a cultural system that I see as wise and life-giving and therapeutic and worth maintaining.

And the thing is, the cultural system that Christian antitheists want us to assimilate into, under the guise of "getting rid of religion", is very much a white Protestant culture. It's not culturally neutral. It has practices, and it has a particular worldview, and it has cultural norms that are just as irrational as any other culture's.

It's also very telling that Christian antitheists purport to be harmed by Jews continuing to be Jewish. Why? We don't impose our norms on anyone else, and we overwhelmingly vote (and organize, and engage in activism) against the imposition of Christian "religious" norms, such as the curtailing of reproductive freedom, blue laws, etc.

So you're only "harmed" by our continued existence in the same way Christians purport to be harmed by it: by claiming that the very existence of a group that doesn't share your worldview and practices is somehow an act of oppression against you.

Which is, you know, white supremacist logic.

You're still upholding the logic of Jesus's genocidal, colonial Great Commission even though you supposedly don't believe in the god that ordered it anymore.

That's gotta be one of the saddest things I encounter among my fellow humans.

You took down all the crosses in the church of your mind and chucked them out the window, but you still refuse to step foot outside the church building, contenting yourself with claiming it's not a church, and firing out the windows at the synagogue and mosque down the road, the same way you used to.

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On Twitter there are currently a lot of Christians and Muslims getting really angry about ways that Jews work around restrictions on work during Shabbat, and, like, honestly I do not understand why they care? Just a lot of non-Jews telling nice Orthodox Jews that they’re doing their religion wrong for no reason.

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Do goyim not know that when someone converts, their biological family is no longer considered their family??? They become ben/bat Avraham v'Sarah, they no longer "have a connection" to their family who raised them, they are so wholly adopted into Judaism.

Like.

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The yellow star didn’t start with the Nazis.

For over 1,000 years, it was used to mark, isolate, and dehumanize Jews.

What began as a medieval symbol of exclusion became one of history’s most chilling tools of hate.

Never again means knowing the full history.

Unpacked Media's Post

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I want to address a couple of things here - first, there’s nothing wrong with supporting Palestinians, and that in and of itself is not what Rachel is being criticized for. she tied her views directly to promotion of this film, and that is the issue - she caused immediate backlash and harm to her costar, further fueled antisemitism and xenophobia, and did this entirely for her own selfish purposes to court favor and publicity. she knew full well that she had to distance herself from looking like she “approves” of Gal, as the mob had already been coming for her and Rachel wasn’t going to let herself be canceled by daring to appear accepting of Gal’s existence.

second, she can hold whatever views she wants, but free speech isn’t some limitless thing without parameters, and there are often professional and contractual aspects to it, which came into play here.

Gal has advocated for the hostages, spoken against antisemitism, and raised awareness about 10/7 (none of which is inherent approval of any government action and certainly isn’t supporting violence), but she hasn’t done any of that on Disney’s dime nor has she entangled it with her work, even going so far as to not wear the hostage ribbon to awards events in an effort to separate her advocacy and her job.

tying these together wasn’t an innocent mistake, it was intentional and it caused negative repercussions.

Marc Platt discussing this with Rachel directly isn’t “bullying her” nor is it creepy or abusive. actions like this have consequences. for all intents and purposes, he is her boss, and he was speaking to her as an employee who jeopardized the project and other employees depending on it.

the leftist antisemites screaming about and harassing and threatening Gal (and Israelis and Jews whenever they encounter them), and review bombing as “antizionism,” are no different from the right wing extremists hurling racism at Rachel - making it even more frustrating that she exacerbated this, when she herself has faced unfair cruelty and prejudice.

I’ve shared this before, but it’s so important that I’m bringing it back. this is Marc Platt explaining how to discuss these issues on a compassionate and direct human level:

this is not a zero sum game, and it should not be impossible to hold sympathy for affected people. if the stances someone is taking are causing direct damage and bigotry towards others, then something is wrong with that approach and it should be assessed.

Elica wrote this as a response to the vitriol Gal received last year and it is worth reading again as this continues to happen:

you’re not progressive for threatening and hating someone based on their ethnicity, religion, or nationality. you’re just a bigot.

when did choosing to practice care and humanity become a controversial choice?

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i’ve said this before but all judaism is “observant judaism.” if you mean orthodox, say orthodox. orthodox judaism does not have the final say on interpretations of halacha. it is not More Correct than other interpretations. it does not have more authority. it is just more orthodox. and that is fine. but i’m getting really sick of seeing ppl talk abt “observant judaism” when what they mean is ashkenazi orthodox judaism.

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arabs_askجزء من السردية التي رويت لنا هو أنه لم يتم إستهداف المسلمين في 7 أكتوبر. ومن خلال حديثنا مع ابن عم عائشة وبلال الزيادنة، علمنا أن ال��مر لم يكن كذلك، حيث تم اختطاف المراهقين المسلمين وشقيقهم وأبيهم إلى غزة. وبينما تم إطلاق سراح عائشة وبلال بعد 55 يومًا، لا يزال شقيقهما ووالدهما رهينتين. وعلى الرغم من أن حماس تدعي أنهما اختطفتا عن طريق الخطأ، إلا أنه من غير الممكن أن تكون عائشة فتاة يهودية، لأنها فتاة مسلمة محجبة. هذه ليست حرب تشنها حماس ضد اليهود فقط؛ إنها حرب ضد كل من لا يتفق مع أجندتهم.

‏Part of the narrative we have been told is that Muslims were not targeted on October 7. In speaking with the cousin of Aisha and Bilal Elziadne, we learn that this was not the case, as both Muslim teenagers and their brother and father were abducted to Gaza. While Aisha and Bilal were released after 55 days, their brother and father remain hostages. ‏Although Hamas claims that they were abducted by mistake, there is no way that Aisha could have been mistaken for a Jewish girl, as she is a veiled Muslim lady. ‏This is not a war Hamas is waging against Jews only; it is a war against anyone who does not agree with their agenda

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Jewish Hamsa Amulet, Morocco

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you cannot claim to support jews and think that every israeli should die btw

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Idk if you reblog only gaza scams, "all israelis should die" posts and like the occasional judaica I'm going to assume you aren't actually Jewish lmao

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About 10 years ago I visited a bilingual school in Israel. The students there are Jewish and Muslim children who are taught each others languages & are fluent in both Hebrew and Arabic.

During the recess, when they all played together, it was impossible to tell who is Muslim and who is Jewish.

The number of schools like this is growing in Israel. Arab students are free to choose the language they will learn in - they can go to an Arab school or a Hebrew school.

When I see someone say that Israel is an aPaRtHeiD or the people of Israel are wHiTe CoLoNiZeRs, all it tells me is this person doesn't have a clue about Israel and its people.

I'm a Christian, a tiny minority of 1.9% in Israel. Christian population has shrunk substantially in all neighboring countries, but in Israel - the Christian population is growing.

Because in the only Jewish country minorities aren't oppressed, they are free to live their lives & flourish.

26% of Israeli citizens are not Jewish, we all have the same rights as the Jews. We all live together & work together. Hilarious how someone who never set foot here can arrogantly claim to speak for us while telling easily disproved lies.