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an incomplete list of hate crimes in the past fourteen (14) days against jews not in Israel, in no particular order

A shul was defaced with swastikas (Minneapolis, US)

A shul was firebombed (Montreal, Canada)

An ATM dispensed antisemitic banknotes, complete with 'Fuck Jews' (Sydney, Australia)

Swastikas at public high schools (Virginia, US)

Antisemitic stickers at the Boston University Campus ("spreading" from Harvard)

More antisemitic grafitti (Indiana, US)

(or maybe 12) 5 antisemitic attacks in Zurich (Zurich, Switzerland)

(or 13) Swastika grafitti in Pittsburgh, where I live (Pittsburgh, US)

(or 14) A car burned and grafitti sprayed in another antisemitic attack in Australia (Australia)

(or 15) That Melbourne arson attack (Melbourne, Australia)

(or 16) Jordan Acker's home was vandalized (Michigan)

(or 17) The San Francisco Hillel was vandalized with antisemitic grafitti (San Francisco, US)

(or 18) An Israeli in California was wounded after someone DROVE A FREAKING CAR INTO THEM (California, US)

(or 19) Someone intentionally cut off the peyot of a Jewish boy in New Jersey, akin to ripping the hijab off a Muslim woman, only it takes a while for her to get another hijab (New Jersey, US)

Mind you, as far as I know, this was a relatively typical two weeks. Goodness knows there were many more that went unreported. And many of these were basically unreported in the non-Jewish news, because no one really pays attention unless it's something big, like arson. Imagine if some tailor destroyed the hijab of a Muslim girl after saying not to, as her mother begged for him to stop. National news, right? But if it's a Jew - no one cares.

But tell me more about how antisemitism isn't a big problem and I shouldn't worry again.

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When Mindy Saved Hanukkah- by Eric A. Kimmel, pictures by Barbara McClintock.

Part 1 [you are here!] Part 2 [click here]  Glossary of Jewish Words [here]

This was one of my favorite books from when I was young so I thought I would upload it

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I just saw one of the most antisemitic caricatures on a video attached to a Gaza fundraiser. I won’t be linking the post here, because I have no intention of spreading it, but here are two screenshots I took of what’s supposed to be an IDF soldier flying a jet and drinking Coca Cola before dropping a bomb Gaza:

The big nose.

The big lips.

The ugly face.

This is just Nazi Germany-level Jewish caricatures.

The creator(s) of this animation didn’t need to do this. They made this choice deliberately. And yet, most non-Jewish people won’t recognize this for the antisemitisml that it is.

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"you should be at the club" I should be working on my fanfic

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I am afflicted by Nuance. I fear it may be terminal. well okay, not necessarily "terminal" per se, but

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satisfying

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*listening to music* hey that was a fic title

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'Tis the season to unpack some stuff about Christmas from a minority perspective:

Christmas is a Christian holiday. The fact that many celebrate it in an irreligious way (which is valid!) does not change its origins, connotations, symbolism, nor what it has historically meant for religious minorities.

The idea that Christmas is "secular" (read: neutral) is a product of Christian hegemony and the blindness of many in Christian countries to the permeation of Christianity as "default" culture.

When someone says they don't celebrate Christmas since it's a Christian holiday, it is not actually reassuring or helpful to say something along the lines of "oh well it's just a secular day of family & presents for everyone! So you can celebrate it too!"

Though the above statement is usually well-intentioned, it is often distressing to hear because it is untrue and is erasing our lived experiences. The reflexive effort to make Christmas universal is a cultural reverberation of the millennia-old evangelizing effort to make Christianity universal, and as such, can be very uncomfortable for religious minorities.

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Referred to as “the Dusseldorf patient” to protect his privacy, researchers said he is the fifth confirmed case of an HIV cure. Although the details of his successful treatment were first announced at a conference in 2019, researchers could not confirm he had been officially cured at that time.

Today, researchers announced the Dusseldorf patient still has no detectable virus in his body, even after stopping his HIV medication four years ago.

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the autism thing of having to learn to preface every question you ask with Holy Shit I'm Just Curious Please Dont Yell At Me because it turns out a lot of questions seem to Mean Something and people will get mad if you ask them

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idgaf anymore i’ll say it.

if you are converting and this is the shit you post publicly and believe:

just know lmao you’re not welcome. you have never been welcome at a single point in jewish history. you get jews killed.

this isn’t about differences of opinion. this is about believing:

1. half the jews in the world are oppressors

2. revisionist history

3. blood libel

4. holocaust inversion

5. absolute fucking lies. like blatant, easily disproven lies.

6. the demonization of OUR rights, OUR landback, OUR decolonization.

7. that we deserve to be oppressed.

there is a difference between disagreeing and perpetuating lies about and harm toward your people, or the people you are joining. i disagree with fellow jews every day. however, we all have common decency.

believing this shit means you support erasing our history, destroying our culture, shitting on our religion, and you are not a jew, nor will you ever be one. you are a fucking interloper. a cossack pretending.

there is nothing jewish about this.

(and yes, a prominent “prospective convert” posted this so kiss my ass.)

don’t try celebrating hanukkah either lmao. the maccabees would have ripped you a new asshole.

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reminder to all 14-19 year olds girls. that grown man does not like you. you are a victim

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lol i hate today’s era of absolutely zero nuance takes. a friend didn’t behave exactly as you’d wanted them to? cut them off. a guy didn’t text you back instantly bc he has his own life? he’s just giving you breadcrumbs. doing something makes you uncomfortable? don’t do it anymore. someone isn’t instantly available for you? disinterest. just absolutist statements that often don’t apply to the multilayer situations of everyday life. like. stop. literally just stop it

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it’s not that they don’t notice, it’s that they don’t care. it’s that they agree.

i’m tired of rampant antisemitism being acceptable and unchecked in public, in the classroom setting, in media, etc. i’m tired of no one but jewish people being the ones to say something and to check it. it’s a major and dangerous form of discrimination and nobody seems to notice and / or care.

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women are really hot. did you guys know this