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wistfully remembering how people (pretended they) cared about antisemitism when it was primarily coming from the right. like there are pre-2023 posts with tens of thousands of notes about antisemitism. now any mention of the existence of antisemitism (when its worse than it ever was) doesn’t breach containment outside of jewish circles. its almost funny how quickly people stopped caring when it was inconvenient.

#never trusting gentiles again! #antisemitism #jumblr #judaism #jewish

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General reminder to the pagans out there:

Making a supreme goddess figure part of your spirituality? Great! Worshiping a mother goddess? Wonderful! If that brings joy and meaning into your life, excellent!

"Once upon a time long ago, people all worshiped a great goddess until THE PATRIARCHY conspired to overthrow her and replace her with a CRUEL PATRIARCHAL GOD" - that's pseudohistory and conspiracism; there's literally no evidence for it whatsoever, and it can and does drag people down the new age to alt right pipeline.

#great goddess hypothesis #pagans #paganblr #paganism #judaism #jumblr #jewish #antisemitism #pseudohistory #references

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If you are a Christian that wants to host a Passover seder this year:

1) Don’t. It’s appropriative and gross.

2) Still don’t.

3) Jesus never participated in the type of seder that Jews have today. He lived (if he existed as described in your Christian holy books) during the Second Temple Era of Judaism, when worship was Temple-focused and ritual sacrifice was a key facet of the holiday. The modern seder takes most of its traditions from rabbinic Judaism, which was not the Judaism of Jesus.

4) Don’t do it. Don’t. No, there is no good reason for you to do it.

5) Given the Christian antisemitic violence traditionally inflicted on the Jews during this time of year (the lead up to Easter), it is EXTRA awful for Christians to try and appropriate our traditions related to Passover.

6) Don’t. Pesach is our holiday, and our religion is a semi-closed practice. Don’t appropriate our stuff. Don’t make our stuff about Jesus.

7) There are no exceptions to the rule that Christians should not host Passover seders.

Hope this helps.

#christianity #passover #pesach #christian #jumblr #judaism #jewish #seder

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Antisemitism Required Reading

I get a lot of ignorant comments & tags on my posts about antisemitism, and I’ve already spent way too much time & energy engaging with them. So to preserve my sanity, I’ve made the decision not to engage too deeply with any commenters who haven’t at least read all of these in their entirety:

“Jewish Space Lasers” by Mike Rothschild

“People Love Dead Jews” by Dana Horn

“Jews Don’t Count” by David Baddiel

"More Than a Century of Antisemitism", GEC Special Report

If you’re not Jewish, please read all of this literature before adding anything to my posts about antisemitism.

Jews, please add any books you think should be on the list!

#references #antisemitism #people love dead jews #reading list #required reading #jumblr #judaism #jewish #jew

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Another one for the blocklist.

Stay safe, y'all.

#judaism #jumblr #jewish #blocklist #antisemitism

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This references the Merneptah Stele Inscription, which was originally created in honor of Amenhotep III, but added onto by Merneptah around 1208 BCE. Here are the glyphs referencing Israel:

The passage as a whole reads:

It's a super cool piece of history that I know way too much about. Am Yisrael Chai. ✡︎

Edit: Tumblr on mobile fried the images, I apologize.

Potentially one of the earliest known references to the Jewish people outside the Torah is an Egyptian stele that brags about the Pharaoh’s military conquests, containing the line “Israel is laid waste, his seed is no more.”

The civilization this Pharaoh belonged to no longer exists, and yet we are still here, despite so many repeated attempts to wipe us out that followed.

Am Yisrael Chai. We will outlive them.

#am yisrael chai #we will outlive them #jewish #judaism #jumblr #references #epigraphy #hieroglyphics #glyphs #ancient language #ancient egypt #ancient linguistics #linguistics #archaeology

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I'm Back! (Blog update)

Hello everyone, I'm not sure how much attention my blog will still be getting after my absence, but I am slowly going to return to posting regularly. The antisemitism on this website has been very difficult to deal with. I have many topics I would like to write about, and I would love any suggestions you may have. I will attempt to sort through the asks I've gotten in the past few months as well. I am also working on a comprehensive blog on the Names of G-d in Judaism, so keep a look out for that!

Posted 13th of Adar II, 5784. B"H.

#judaism #jumblr #jewish #carverop

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וַיְהִ֨י אֹמֵ֜ן אֶת־הֲדַסָּ֗ה הִ֤יא אֶסְתֵּר֙ בַּת־דֹּד֔וֹ כִּ֛י אֵ֥ין לָ֖הּ אָ֣ב וָאֵ֑ם

"And he was mother to Hadassah, who is Esther, his cousin, for she did not have a father and a mother."

--From Esther 2:7

There's a lot of discussion around the feminine language used to describe Mordechai. "אֹמֵ֜ן" has the root word of "mother", and some have interpreted it to mean that Mordechai nursed Esther, either metaphorically or literally.

As a trans man, I interpret Mordechai through a trans lens, as a man born with breasts who is able to nurse. However, this can be intereted through an intersex lens or a gay lens, and all are valid.

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#jumblr #jewish art #purim #queer jews #jewish #megillat esther

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reblog because I'm jewish so my followers are jewish and we all know the answer so I need non-jewish people to do the thing

#polls #demographics #judaism #jumblr #jewish

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Lailah, angel 🪽

#goyim can share but she is not for you #references #jewish #judaism #jumblr #angelology #jewish magic #angel #lailah

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What about the Norse tree of life? (asking as a different person then the before Tree of Life Anon) is that wrong, too? Those are different, aren't they?

Yes. Those are different.

#askcarver

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I said I'd never do jumblr content again and yet here I am because this keeps coming up and it's like the only thing I can think about. That said I will not hesitate to turn off reblogs if y'all are horrible in the notes again, and be warned that I will be blocking anybody who supports any of the theories I mention immediately

There is no such thing as a conspiracy theory that isn't antisemitic. There is no such animal

Antisemitic conspiracy theories go back thousands of years. The ones that still have the most hold on culture to this day are the blood libel, and the protocols of the elders of zion

The blood libel was an accusation that would be brought against Jewish populations in Europe often but especially around Passover claiming that we were killing Christian children for ritual purposes, usually to use their blood for baking matza or other nonsense (it is important to me that you know that this is nonsense. It is horrible and damaging but also to the core a ridiculous lie that never at any point made any sense. They just didn't care). Debatably this trope is present in the merchant of Venice. Undebatably Jews were killed because people did and still do sincerely believe this

The protocols of the elders of zion is a fictitious document published in Russia at the very beginning of the 20th century, supposedly detailing the meetings of the Jewish people who secretly run the world. The protocols were almost immediately proven to be a rip off of another document - ah, plagiarism - but that hasn't stopped antisemites from embracing it wholeheartedly (special thanks fuck you to Henry Ford for publishing them in his newspaper, spreading it across the USA). It built on previous antisemitic tropes, from the greedy banker trope (Jews were forced to be money lenders in medieval Europe as it was forbidden in Christianity and Jews weren't allowed to join any guilds, preventing them from making money in any other capacity - the reason why there are so many Jews in Hollywood is identical, but in the early 20th century) to the concept of dual loyalty (i.e. Jewish are loyal to ourselves above all else and cannot be trusted to be loyal to the country where we live, see: modern trope that every Jew is probably loyal to Israel and the subsequent idea that it's okay to ask every single diaspora Jew how they feel about Israel immediately upon meeting them). It's also worth noting that the word cabal, used to denote the shadowy organizations that supposedly control the world, comes from kabbala, which is Jewish mysticism

The idea of lizard people, created by a guy literally named Icke because he is a gross human being, was designed to repackage the antisemitic shadow cabal concept to be supposedly more palatable

Most qanon theories also build on all of this, such as world leaders preying on children (remember pizzagate?)

But more importantly conspiratorial thinking always positions you as the good guy standing against a mysterious "them", an other which is influencing things behind the scenes. The Jew is the ultimate other, and specifically an other that supposedly forms a shadowy world government, controlling everything and yet somehow not managing to get rid of antisemitism (see: protocols of Zion, lizard people, we control Hollywood and the government which is of course conspiring against you). There is no way to decouple the idea of an evil shadowy organization (usually also referred to as a cabal to really hammer it in) from antisemitism and antisemitic tropes

And this means that even supposedly "harmless" conspiracy theories attract antisemites and train people who aren't necessarily rabid antisemites to confirm those kinds of biases. Obviously Qanon and lizard people are antisemitic, but what does the moon landing have to do with Jews? Well, it was Hollywood and the government that faked it, obviously. Hell, even the conspiracy that Taylor Swift is secretly a lesbian and is either still secretly dating or is exes with Karlie Kloss is riddled with antisemitism -

Okay so I need to explain my position on this because I fucking hate this conspiracy theory, and the fact that most people simply won't acknowledge that that's what it is. Firstly, Taylor Swift has stated that she is not gay or considers herself an ally at least three times off the top of my head, and specifically denied that she was dating Karlie Kloss. Secondly, outing people is wrong. Thirdly, the conspiracy theory hinges on the idea that she would be risking her career by coming out, except that she's proven that basically no controversy can come in the way of her career, she's already "come out" as an ally, donated to glaad and the equality act, promoted queer musicians & artists & designers (there was a song in the reputation tour that was dedicated to a gay designer every single night of the tour). So what's stopping her from coming out at this point? Mysterious forces, clearly. The antisemitism in that I've already explained, but also the virulent antisemitism among Kaylor shippers aimed at her husband and at the fact that she converted to Judaism is fucking disgusting

Again: even a supposedly harmless conspiracy theory leads to antisemitism and attracts antisemites

A few years ago I tried to rewatch white collar cause I remembered really enjoying that show as a preteen and after around a season I just couldn't stand it anymore, because all I wanted to do was jump into the universe and yell at Mozzie to shut the fuck up because these conspiracy theories were barely presented as a joke and never challenged even once by any of the characters. When I rewatched that 70s show it also fucking sucked, but at least it wasn't showing up in every single episode. The blacklist focuses entirely on a literal Cabal, that's what they're called

This stuff is so normalized and it's fucking everywhere and it's exhausting. Jews are to this day being murdered over this. I can't change the world by myself, unfortunately, but if you don't have a specific person to blame for your troubles, shut the fuck up. Just shut up. There is no conspiracy against you. Sometimes life just sucks. Or definitely does for the Jews who get shot at over this shit

Again, I'll be blocking anybody who parrots this bullshit in the comments but especially fucking gaylors y'all are one of the main reasons that being a fan of Taylor Swift's music is fucking unbearable. Just accept you can connect to music made by somebody different than yourself it's not that difficult of a concept

#references #antisemitism #jumblr #jewish #judaism #conspiracy

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When it comes to demons (not daemons, but the later on conceptions) they weren't even seen as all bad within Judaism, the root of the Abrahamic religions. In Judaism, lesser demons are explicitly like humans, neither inherently good nor bad. They live, fall in love, eat, have children, and die just like us. There's even a folk story of a lesser demon either converting to Judaism or just being taught under a rabbi (I need to find the exact tale). Ashmedai (Asmodeus) is even a very funny and almost pleasant character in some texts, and in others literally follows the laws of the Torah by quoting them and refraining from certain activities. One rabbi writes that there should always be an opening somewhere in the household so that demons are free to come and go as the everyday parts of life that they are. Demons have always been understood to be multifaceted beings.

I saw an anon somewhere on here say something along the lines that no one should work with demons, and that "people have always feared them for a reason". Others have said this anon is clearly apart of a larger harrrasment effort- but none the less, it made me realize that just because I feel the history of demons is common knowledge, it doesn't mean that there aren't people who are unaware of that history.

No. People weren't always afraid of "demons". Especially not in ancient Greece where 'daemons', or 'daimons' (the spelling varies), were considered "lesser beings". This wasn't to imply that they were 'evil' or 'lowly', but rather they were a less powerful spirit than that of a god. They were formidable entities who could either do great harm or help. In fact, some daemons could be a positive force; attached to an individual from birth they, ironically, could act as a kind of "guardian angel". Socrates at one point even suggested, with credit to the priestess Diotima, that love, Eros, might be a "a great daemon...for everything daemonic is between god and mortal".

So, no. People were not always afraid of d(a)emons.

#demonolatry #demonology #magic #folk magic #witchblr #spirituality #demonologywithcarver #references #demonolator #judaism #jumblr

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Ez a gép fasisztákat öl. Nem sok magyar zsidó maradt, de erősek vagyunk. Túl fogjuk élni őket. 🇭🇺

#hungarian #magyar #ez a gép fasisztákat öl #judaism #jewish #jumblr #antifa #anti facist

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is the tree of lide closed? i thought i saw somehwere it was, and my sister just got it tattooed on her, im a little worried but cant find anything

The Tree of Life, as in the Kabbalah, is extremely closed and extremely Jewish. It has been stolen and appropriated forever, as so much of Judaism has been. Those appropriated versions are, obviously, not valid and were mostly created just to eradicate Jews and were born of antisemitism. It is "closed" even within Judaism, as you have to be 40+ in age due to how complex it is and how much other studying is required before you can even touch upon it.

#askcarver #carverop #references #judaism #jewish #jumblr #antisemitism #appropriation

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Reading the Megillah (Scroll of Esther) in the lobby of a synagogue in Budapest, Hungary, 1981

#jewish #judaism #jumblr #hungary

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Every time I see an atheist talk about how religion should be eradicated, there are- rightfully- Jews (or other members of ethnoreligions) pointing out how this means they want there to be a cultural genocide of their people. And every time they get mad/defensive. "No, that's not what I meant!!". As if they didn't say "religion should be eradicated", as if "religion" isn't a word that includes ethnoreligions.

I can't wait for when atheists will realize that their belief that the entire world should adopt their beliefs and would become a utopia after doing so is so extremely Christian and colonialist of them.

Criticize atheists for their antisemitism and Islamophobia and suddenly your inbox will be full of them proving your post

#jumblr #judaism #jewish #religion #antisemitism #atheism #cultural christianity