#antisemitsm

[decolonize-the-left]

Antizionist jew here, I so appreciate your post abt being specific abt our use of the term Nazi. When I see ppl using this kind of loaded terminology (I've seen several ppl comparing Israeli politicians to Hitler as well) it feels like they have very little regard for jewish trauma, or are doubting its legitimacy-- I feel like I'm supposed to prove that I'm a "good jew" by just putting up with it if i dont want to be seen as a zionist. Antizionist jews are in a really isolated position right now b/c we're caught between the zionism thats infected mainstream jewish institutions and both left and right wing antisemitism, so again I appreciate you 🤗

It is literally no problem don't mention it ❤️❤️

And 10000% I can see why you'd feel that way

A lot of people are in a similar position and it's a valid position to be in. You don't want to be on the wrong side of history and it's kinda scary to think you could be put there by your "allies" for calling out bigotry.

It's important to remember though that the pushback we get is exactly why we say these things. Showing people that bigotry isn't acceptable in human rights movements is never the wrong thing to do. Standing up for each community to make sure our rights aren't infringing on another's shouldn't be controversial at all.

Pushback is what happens when a boundary is being enforced and gatekeeping our movements from white supremacists is a good gate to keep, imo.

I'd deal with this everyday for u, anon.

Addressing white supremacy, antisemitsm, Zionism, and islamophoba can't be done in comfort.

That goes doubly for anyone calling themselves an ally to Muslim, Jewish, or indigenous ppl right now.

I'm glad my post made a positive impact on you rather than a negative one ❤️❤️

#asked #answered #its a thin line and someone must walk it and it should be allies and privileged ppl so non zionist Jewish folk aren't being put in harms way #antisemitsm #whiteness #white supremacy

[go-to-the-mirror]

Look upon my works all ye mighty and despair.

(The following is satire, I’m going to make a bloody artist’s statement about this.)

[ID: The Thomas Jefferson Miku Binder meme edited to be of Jonah Magnus. He’s white, with brown hair, grey eyes, a shirt that says “I met God. She’s” and then a drawing of an eye, he’s wearing a green and black bracelet, blue trousers, an eye earring, and a blue binder with a Hatsune Miku design. His info says his name is Jonah Magnus; he speaks English and French; he’s male and uses he/him pronouns; he is trans, aro, and gay; and he is over 200 years old. The additional info says: born and raised in Manchester; Jewish; dating Albrecht von Closen, Barnabus Bennet, Sampson Kempthorne, and Robert Smirke; broke up with Jonathan Fanshawe; has a crush on Jonathan Sims; used to be addicted to “drug smoothies” (cannabis, coca, mescal, morphine, heroin); flamboyant & camp. /End ID]

If you take anything at all away from this post, I want to to be that you should absolutely Not headcanon Jonah Magnus as Jewish, like ever, please for the love of god do not.

The folks on the seasons on the archives discord (esp. @jewishjon @spirallingintotheabyss and @pocketsizedquasar ) encouraged, aided, and hated with a burning passion this. Also inspired. Blame them and me. We did this as a community. They came up with drug smoothie.

Anyway, see Sahar (poketsizedquasar)’s post about Jonah Magnus and why hc-ing him as a minority is fucked up. Also, just, um, take a good long think about why headcanoning him as Jewish is the fucking worst, and you should not! Holy crap.

Finally, if Jonny Sims sees this, I am so, so sorry, but I will never tag anything so you can’t see it, because I live on the edge.

This a work of satire, inspired by a conversation, inspired by a fic that sucked. It is parodying the headcanons around Jonah Magnus — a canonical abusive, white supremacist, capitalist — by comparing him to Thomas Jefferson, who was a real life person, and was a thousand times more fucked up by virtue of being from real life, and causing harm to real people. It’s a joke, but a joke with meaning behind it, urging people to read into the themes of a show before making headcanons that are actually super bigoted.

#thomas jefferson miku binder #jonah magnus #jonah magnus fanart #jonelias #< there was a mention #tma #tma fanart #tma meta #jonah magnus art #tma art #drug use #landscaping your art #im not tagging this discourse bc from my jatp days #i was talking w/ a friend who was talking about another fandom and was like yeah no i hate it when people refer to actual racism and bigotry #in fandom as discourse #bc it’s not it’s literally just bigotry #and i’m like yeah good point #antisemitsm #anti semitism #rqdescribed

[al-kol-eleh]

Matthew Dimitri

The conservative numbers are: 2.6 million by bullets, 2.8 million by gas, 300K by Romanian allies, and an unknown hundreds of thousands who died of hunger, exposure, disease, etc. Since over half a million Polish Jews died between September 1939 and June 1941 in ghettos and labor camps when conditions where at their best, 6 million is probably an under estimate even factoring in a doubtless high number of shootings.

The claim that Jews were systemically turned into soap and lampshades have been clarified by scholars for years, and this information is widely available; there were individual Nazis who occasionally took a trophy and it was the Nazis who taunted Jews that they used soap made of their family members. While it wasn't true it was widely believed by many including Poles.

#holocaust denial #this is all widely available #there's no secret #no cover up #antisemitsm

[now-that-i-saw-you]

Fucking insane seeing other Jews saying we should re-consider Hanukkah because maybe the Greeks weren't actually all that bad. Do you think your own people are liars?

#jumblr #antisemitsm

[sunbeamedskies]

Hello Twitter refugees!

Please don’t bring your weird two sentence hot takes with you here- I’ve found that in recent years people are more sane and more open to discussion on Tumblr than they used to be, and definitely more so than on Twitter

And definitely please don’t bring that particularly nutty brand of Twitter antisemitism. There are already a few like that here- we don’t need any more of them

#Twitter #welcome twitter refugees #welcome twitter users #welcome back #rip twitter #welcome #hello #new #antisemitsm #antisemitic #jew #jewish #jumblr #jews #judaism #social justice #justice #activist #activism #please #jewblr

[highlyillogicalandroid]

Someone just told me to "stop complaining and go back where [I] came from" RE: my decrying antisemitism. The catch 22 for Jews right now is so real. People want us to leave wherever we are (in my case, the US, which this person knows), but they also think we should get out of Israel. Where...are we meant to go?

Antisemitism is on the rise worldwide--across Europe, including in Berlin, in France, in the UK. It's on the rise in Canada, in the USA*...I could go on. Where are we safe? My hometown synagogue receives bomb threats weekly. I receive death and rape threats on a regular basis, simply for being a Jew on social media. I don't wear my Star of David in public anymore. People clock me as Jewish and harass me anyway.

*My opinions on the ADL are for a different post, but this is a worthwhile article, I think.

Jews are a people in diaspora. Whether or not you believe we have a claim to a homeland, be it Israel or elsewhere, we are in diaspora and in many cases cannot be otherwise. Our Jewish communities have, in a lot of instances, been completely wiped out. We cannot "go back to" where our grandparents, our great-grandparents, etc. came from. There is nothing for us there.

I walked past a pro-Palestinian rally on the way to work in NYC the other day. Amidst the "Free Palestine" signs (which I agree with!) was a large "Denounce Judaism" sign that broke my heart.

I've had people say to my face that murdered and kidnapped Israeli civilians deserved it. How can anyone deserve that? How can Palestinian civilians deserve the horrors Israel has visited on them in response? Why does it have to be one or the other?

Why is my religion, my culture being vilified? Why are people drawing these false equivalencies that being Jewish = being pro-Israel and/or anti-Palestine (neither necessarily follows), that Jews = Israelis (false) and Israelis = the Israeli government (also false; I have so many Israeli friends who voted against this government, who are organizing and rallying for peace)?

I don't know how to exist in the world right now. I don't know how to be proudly Jewish, how to fight for my rights, while being willfully mischaracterized by people all along the political spectrum of my home country (the USA) and by the larger world.

What are we as Jews supposed to do? Where are we supposed to go? When will we be enough?

I'm tired. I'm scared. I'm grieving murdered civilians on both sides. I'm praying for the safe return of Israeli hostages. I'm praying for a ceasefire. I'm advocating in all the ways I know how. I'm tired. I'm scared.

#tw antisemitism #tw death #tw rape #tw violence #antisemitsm #judaism #current events #long post

[ofekma]

I had a lot of fun making those

#ace attorney #israel #palestine #antisemitsm #i/p conflict #ישראל

[hufflpuffin]

Glad to know reporting is absolutely useless and a waste of time now on twitter and they're not even attempting to hide it anymore since Elon's gone full mask off racist.

#antisemitsm #racism #twitter #elon musk #anti elon musk #i made like 15 reports on this guy and twitter sent me back 2 responses saying none of those breaks tos #lol why are these people not getting banned but you do get banned if you tell a nazi to follow their leader??

[underestimated-heroine]

re-evaluated myself and agree with you in retrospect, i am sorry i was an asshole about it. thanks for catching me and standing your ground even though it was unpleasant and I was not receptive.

Hello again. Sorry for the delay in response...I was honestly deliberating how to answer/post your ask. Ultimately decided to handle it how I did your previous one--posting it but making it unrebloggable--because I felt that was most fair (hopefully? please lmk if not). Plus I took some time to articulate my response:

I truly appreciate you re-evaluating yourself and saying this, and accept your apology (insofar as I'm the one to do so). Like I said, I have not been perfect, either. Not too long after October 7th, a mutual of mine was kind enough to DM me & gently call me out on a very harmfully inaccurate post I had not only reblogged, but linked in my pinned post. Subsequently, I went through all the I/P stuff I'd reblogged/posted and realized I needed to do way better. Since then, that's what I've been fumbling to try and to do, though I am well aware I still have a long way to go.

Plenty don't want to hear it (and that's beyond fair imo, because whether or not this is our fault, it's our responsibility) but I think it's inaccurate to deny that avoiding antisemitism in fighting for Palestine has been genuinely difficult for a lot of gentiles throughout this conflict. When white supremacy isn't straight up hijacking the conversation (ex. *cough* J@ckson H*nkle* *cough*) and tricking leftists into amplifying it, it's permeating the groundwater, fundamentally warping the conversation.

The problem is that for the victims of systemic abuse and oppression, the only indicator for trust and safety they have is peoples' actions - and I think you and I can agree that includes reblogging and posting even if some act like that's silly. It's not fair or right to ask people to assume the best intentions from us when we've made mistakes, especially when antisemitism's been a growing problem in our country for the past several years.

idk. I am not trying to lecture or something, just to present my thoughts a bit more clearly, maybe? I struggle with social cues and articulation at times, so I worried about how I came off especially in my first response to you. I am also truly sorry if I was condescending or it seemed like I was attacking you. Emotions have run high through all this, and it's been hard to keep a level head through all the horror, fear, and anger.

I just truly think one of the most impactful, meaningful things we can do in our day-to-day lives to help (yes, even & maybe especially Palestinians) is to make our Jewish neighbors--and Jewish people in general--more safe, which obviously and honestly needed to happen long before October 7th.

Anyways, thanks again for saying this. It gives me comfort and motivation to see another person whose perspective I relate to, admire, and understand making the effort to take accountability and accept nuance like I am. May we both find a way to navigate through this which our future selves can be proud of, and more importantly which does the most good possible for those who are suffering.

#asks #antisemitsm #antisemitism cw #i/p

[auressea]

so this is .. still happening.

"We've seen mounting antisemitism, racism and xenophobia globally and in our own backyard even," said Nina Krieger, executive director of the Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre. "The Holocaust speaks to, really, the possible consequences of hate left unchecked."

VideoInherited trauma: Growing up the child of a Holocaust survivor

In the spring of 2022, Jewish advocacy group B'nai Brith released its annual audit of antisemitic incidents. It found sharp increases in anti-Jewish hate crimes, including beatings, vandalism of synagogues and swastikas in schools across Canada.

Antisemitism in Canada at record levels in 2021 with surge in violence, audit finds

The audit said British Columbia experienced a 111 per cent increase in incidents from 2020 to 2021 — from 194 to 409, including 56 cases of vandalism and 296 incidents of online abuse and hatred."

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#current events #BC news #reporting #CKN Canada #antisemitsm #bigotry and hate #statistics #holocaust mention tw #xenophobia #sorry Canadians- we're not exceptional #Judaism

[trash-and-trash-accessories]

Finally someone is brave enough to cover this topic.

Basically as with most historical stuff, the answer is antisemitism.

#gnome #garden gnomes #fairies #this is transmasc culture #queer #gay #nonbinary #little guys #good folk #antisemitsm #medieval history #Youtube

[makiruz]

I'm sorry, I know Tatsuya Ishida is still being antisemitic in his comic by saying US support is the result of the Zionist conspiracy; but this comic is such a good representation of the Israeli logic, like, I'm sorry everyone

#rants #Sinfest #Israel #antisemitsm

[al-kol-eleh]

Shoshanna Keats Jaskoll

#hamas atrocities #antisemitsm #i am disgusted

[now-that-i-saw-you]

Today is Holocaust Rememberance Day y'all. don't forget that nazis are bad. sooo good antisemitsm no longer exist except in some very rare alt-right spaces. We leftists can't possibly be prejudiced against Jews! anyway, a day to commemorate 6 million Jews is the perfect time to remind y'all that if you don't think 41% of the Jewish population including 12,005 holocaust survivors deserve to die then you support genocide ❤️

#this is a joke #antisemitsm

[woman-respecter]

ok ive been keeping my mouth shut on the topic bc im a coward but it is seriously seriously concerning how many people feel comfortable gleefully being mask-off antisemites at the first possible opportunity, and even more concerning how many of said people are very popular tumblr users whose thousands and thousands of followers at best cannot recognize antisemitism and at worst condone or even encourage it. and yeah some of these people have had at least somewhat concerning politics for a while (not naming names but iykyk) but some of them have seemed mostly normal or even positioned themselves as allies to the jewish community. so uh please excuse me feeling very distrustful and scared rn

#BEFORE YOU KILL ME IM NOT SAYING REGULAR DEGULAR ANTIZIONISM IS ANTISEMITSM #its the dual loyalty and blood libel and rootless cosmopolitan tropes and light holocaust denial etc etc #jumblr #antisemitism

[hilaom]

kind of annoyed seeing other trans folk going “well I’m trans and I say the game is fine, so it’s okay!”

our opinions as trans folk do not matter as much here. yes it’s related to jkr, most famous terf on the planet, but this is not our game to “excuse” when the main problem the game has is the fact it’s basically Antisemitism Simulator with Magic

what we should be doing is lifting up the voices of those who are genuinely effected by this dog shit game rather than trying to excuse it when it is not our battle right now. giving the game a pass as a trans person is basically shitting all over jewish people who are trying to get people to understand how harmful and disgusting this game is

there is no excuse. don’t buy it, don’t pirate it, don’t play it, don’t watch it

#hogwarts legacy #harry potter tw #harry potter #cw harry potter #cw antisemitism #antisemitsm tw