#jewish issues

[trying-to-jew]

I’m sorry but if you still feel the need to say “Antizionism isn’t Antisemitism” when talking about Palestine, you might need to reevaluate why.

#If you keep having to emphasize over and over that you aren’t antisemitic‚ then you might just be antisemitic #It just stinks of refusing to acknowledge the antisemitism in your movement whenever you’re confronted on it #Today’s kvetch was brought to you by one of my friends reblogging a post with that damn saying 🙃 #I don’t even know if it’s worth trying to talk to her about it man #Leftist Antisemitism #Jumblr #Jewish Issues #My Post

[magnetothemagnificent]

Very interesting article with a lot of discussion points and a lot to think about.

(If you're wondering about the context of gladiators- many Jewish men were enslaved as gladiators, and that's why the Rabbis discuss "witnessing the death", since in Judaism physical confirmation of death is important for mourning and for allowing a woman to not be considered still married.)

#jumblr #football #jewish history #superbowl #jewish issues #ethics

[whereserpentswalk]

If you see a post that says that Israel is getting away with genocide because it's Jewish, or because Jews are given some sort of special privilege in society due to the holocaust, or because of the position of "privilege" the west gives to Jews, or because our society is "too sensitive" to antisemitism: RUN! Those takes are not coming from a good place.

Zionism is supported by the west despite it being Jewish, not because of it. It's supported due to propping up foreign interests in the region and justifies American imperialism in West Asia. For some it's supported due to the desire to bring about Christian apocalypse.

If someone treats Zionism as being propped up because of some sort of Jewish power in the west they are promoting antisemitism, weather knowingly or unknowingly.

#196 #my thougts #jumblr #jewish #jewblr #antisemitism #antisemites #dog whistle #free palestine #leftism #leftist #social issues #social justice #social media

[anonymousdandelion]

So hey, in case anyone on Jumblr organizes “pluralistic” Jewish programming that is meant to be inclusive of Jews from any movements… please remember that being inclusive means making activities accessible to those who are halachically observant?

Because it is so frustrating and painful, as someone who believes in the value of pluralism and wants to connect with Jews both like and unlike me, to be repeatedly slapped in the face with the realization that 90% of the time I cannot participate in most non-Orthodox-specific Jewish communal opportunities because of my Judaism.

The food isn’t kosher, the bonfire is in the middle of Shabbat, the party conflicts with Megillah reading, Havdalah is hours before sunset…

And though I doubt it’s usually coming from a place of deliberate exclusion, the message it sends regardless of intent is You are not wanted.

#jumblr #frumblr #judaism #Jewish pluralism #dandelion says #Jewish dandelion #intracommunity issues #the everyday struggles of being observantly jewish #it was like this as a kid and it was like this in college and it’s like this as an adult #and it’s exhausting #and it makes it so tempting to just go ‘well they don’t want me? I don’t want them either’ #which defeats the purpose of pluralism

[genderkoolaid]

the more i think about it the more i feel transunity is vital. i dont mean this hatefully and theres no way to say this that wont be misconstrued by someone but. i feel like so much trans activism has been focused on aligning trans women with other women in feminism (itself not a bad goal) but that as the end all be all of trans activism intrinsically hurts other trans people. so much baeddel rhetoric relies on "there is no trans community/trans people it should only be about trans women" and i think its extremely extremely important to talk about transness as its own class, and fully embrace how trans liberationism must involve completely deconstructing cis-centric analysis of gender/the patriarchy to include the full extent of trans oppression. the idea that transphobia is fundamentally and exclusively based in misogyny & is ultimately a part of women's oppression is just fitting transness into the cis-centric binary system we've always had. transphobia has to be seen as its own thing and transness as its own class, for the better of all trans people and especially transmascs & transneutrals who are otherwise forced to choose between misgendering/detransition or being left out of class analysis/treated as oppressors even while being oppressed. transness is not just a subsect of womanhood it has to be seen as its own thing. transunity or death

#btw is there a word for being unfairly cast as an oppressor? bc there should be #not only for trans issues but for antisemitism #jewish people are FREQUENTLY treated as if they are privileged to cover up/ignore/gaslight them abt their oppression #another similarity btween transandrophobia & antisemitism #anyways i strongly believe that so much feminism is built off of cissexism & binarism #and it has to be radically reworked for trans liberation #transness should not be shaped to cis feminism we need to adapt feminism for the needs of trans people #ALL trans people. enough treating nonbinary people like we are a footnote we need radical changes to fully realize us in social theory #m. #transandrophobia #transunity #transunitism

[caitlinjohns77]

#antisemitism #israel #jewish #muslim #Judaism #arab superiority #arab supremacy #arab slave trade #arab israeli conflict #arab men #middle east #al jazeera #education #historical revisionism #history #jew in progress #propaganda #palestine #gaza #fuck sharia law #sharia #social issues #social justice #social commentary #free palestine #world news #war #news #politics #trends

[germiyahu]

If someone derails your conversation about Israel to be about Israel's treatment of this or that group, Mizrachim, Beta Israel, etc. you may just want to consider their motivations, and do a little digging into the kinds of subjects they normally talk about on their own blogs.

If someone who has staunchly antizionist views, like I'm talking thinly veiled genocidal fantasies about destroying Israel and reveling in the chaos that would bring, and having no concern for the future of 7 millions Jews, their concerns about Medinat Yisrael's treatment of minority groups are not valid.

This is Concern Trolling.

If someone is derailing you to accuse Israel, through accusing you, of sterilizing Ethiopian women, stealing Mizrachi babies and having them raised by "white" parents, trying to destroy Yiddish, all these alleged violent assimilationist policies that Israel employs against fellow Jews?

A non Jew barging into your space and bringing up intra-community issues and grievances is a red flag. Do not fall for the sealioning trap. Do not turn out your pockets. Do not fall for the concern trolling.

Because what is their solution to these problems? To eliminate Israel as a state? And what about these minority groups within Israeli society then? Their answer is the same as their answer for the Ashkenazim: who cares? They largely imagine all Israeli Jews can simply move to the United States or France or something. The fact that over 95% of Israelis cannot just go to the countries of their parents or grandparents is of no concern to them.

That's why it's concern trolling. They're trolling you by pretending to be concerned, and baiting you into discussing an intra-community issue because they think that'll be the argument that finally gets you to disavow Israel. Because now you'll have no choice but to agree Israel is irredeemably problematic, because now it affects other Jews. So they are exhibiting a kind of bitterly envious brand of antisemitism. They think that all Jews believe in Jewish supremacy. They're quite mad about it. This is an aspect of the Chosen People canard.

But the main reason concern trolling is bad is because they don't care about these groups they bring up. They're not defending them, they're not championing their rights. They're trying to distract you and make you look like a hypocrite. When they cheer for Hamas raping and pillaging and spraying bullets into Israelis, they don't care if it happens to Beta Israel women who've supposedly been mass sterilized against their will. They cheer all the same. So much for their legitimate concerns that Israel is antisemitic in of itself I guess?

If the solution to a problem faced by a minority group within a country is "destroy their country which they also believe has saved them from ethnic cleansing and mass death, and figure out the rest later," you're not an ally to that group; stop pretending you are!

This is tied into pinkwashing, but from a sort of opposite approach. If any societal progress that Israel makes for minority groups is a psyop and a marketing ploy to cover up Palestinian Genocide, the concern trolling is antizionists holding Israel hostage to any societal progress it has not made. But they never intend on letting Israel improve these relationships. Israel is too nice to gay Jews, and not nice enough to African Jews. The only course of action therefore, is to let Hamas butcher them alongside straight Jews and "European" Jews.

So if you see someone trying to engage in this game, ignore them! Your time is worth so much more, and the vulnerable minority groups of Jews (both in Israel and the Diaspora) are much safer with Jews who discriminate against them than goyim who tout social justice rhetoric but want to see them dead. Plus, so many Jews are already doing the work, learning and listening, and trying to improve. This enrages the concern trolls like nothing else.

Call out Israel's bigotries, but you know, maybe don't trust the people who aren't affected by those bigotries invading your space and demanding your allyship to groups of people they'd be content seeing die en masse. Like "Israel is actually antisemitic against this vulnerable group of Jews!" and "All Israelis are settlers, none are truly civilians, and any form of violence against settlers is justified" are two stances that do not mesh very well...

Because at the very least, they're separating good Jews from bad Jews again, just based on what they perceive intra-Jewish oppression to be like. And they expect these good Jews to cheer and happily live as dhimmis in the absolute chaos that is a 100% inevitable Hamas-Fatah civil war and total societal collapse... and spit on the graves of their kinsmen.

And at worst, the concern trolls won't bother distinguishing these vulnerable Jews from their alleged oppressors anyway, and happily watch as they all flee with the clothes on their backs or get gunned down or enslaved by Hamas "Resistance" Fighters.

#like an oppressed person will always prefer a familiar master to a foreign liberator #I'm always so surprised how non intuitive this is for so many people #antisemitism #leftist antisemitism #intra community issues #intra Jewish issues #ironic that I'm commenting on them at my early stage lol #israel #concern trolling #pinkwashing

[gay-jewish-bucky]

Hot take that some born Jews need to hear:

You don't have to entirely discount conceiving of Ruth as a convert, and further deny the difficulty of converting to Judaism at that time-especially for Moabites when Moabite men weren't even allowed to convert, to support a queer reading of her speech to Naomi.

#jumblr #jewish #judaism #jewish conversion #jewish convert #intracommunity issues #jewish and queer #queer and jewish

[dykefaggotry]

I'm ngl I get raising awareness but seeing ppl draw like. cutesy fanart of their faves waving palestinian flags feels so dystopian & a little disrespectful/tone deaf. or posting about how "fave character from x show would support palestine" like. there's no problem imo w still participating in fandom while bad things happen in the world but it just gets very odd and tone deaf when we start crossing them over. like there's people dying, I really don't know that it's appropriate to bring up how glup shitto would oppose that. maybe you as your own person can do that on your own perhaps? without making it about fandom? like idk! it's just odd behavior To Me.

#like you don't need to make it about fandom...... it's just :/ #like it's different when you had smth like captain america during ww2 created by a jewish man #precisely for the purpose of representing what was going on #and taking an issue and fandomizing it #like if a palestinian made a palestinian superhero and drew comics of them fighting the idf like #that's one thing #or all the incredible art that's come out to raise awareness in general #BUT WHY DO YOU NEED IDK STEVE FROM STRANGER THINGS TO WAVE A PALESTINIAN FLAG.... ITS JUST NOT..... #it feels so insensitive to me #ofc if actual palestinians come in and tell me I'm wrong here and they love those posts #I'll glady be wrong #but it just feels so disrespectful

[unforth]

Hey if you're a white person (as I am too!) and reading the stuff about End OTW Racism (@end-otw-racism) is making you uncomfortable CONGRATULATIONS THATS THE POINT bipoc have been uncomfortable in fandom for decades and some of yall can't face being uncomfortable for five seconds and still have the gall to have shit like BLM in your descriptions.

Put your money where your mouth is. Be uncomfortable. Actually read what they're talking about and what changes they're proposing instead of jumping right to BuT wHaT aBoUt My DaRk FiC (they want to protect your dark fic and help ensure you're safer from harassment over it!)and ThEy'Re PrO-cEnSoRsHiP (they are explicitly not).

I'm so fucking tired of having my posts and those I reblog on this topic largely ignored on my personal account, but ESPECIALLY I'm furious about how ignored posts on racism in fandom are when I put them on the danmei art sideblogs.

I see racism every single fucking DAY as part of running those accounts. This isn't some nebulous thing happening elsewhere, this is us!

If you don't care, I really need you to take a long hard look in the mirror and ask yourself WHY DONT I CARE?

Because YOU SHOULD FUCKING CARE.

#unforth rambles #end racism in the otw #end otw racism #i was already at my breaking point on this issue a month ago when i started talking more about microaggressions in the mdzs tag #now seeing how impossible it is to get people to give a shit ive moved to fucking FURIOUS #WHY ARENT MORE PEOPLE ANGRY I DONT UNDERSTAND #(i do understand #its racism taking rhe form of complacency and disinterest #from people who have the privilege to ignore it because it makes them uncomfortable and doesnt harm them directly #im honestly gettibg so disgusted #do better white fandom) #im a jewish white woman with biracial kids #it horrifies me to realize that im genuinely not sure if the circles im in would be safe for my half black kids to join #im genuinely not sure i can let my kids join fandom when they get old enough #for fear of what they'll be exposed to here #do yall even realize what a fucking indictment that is? #note this is mostly not aimed at my mutuals #yall are awesome and ilu #but i only have about 75 mutuals #what about the rest of my 1900 followers like wtf guys

[trying-to-jew]

If I’m being honest, one of the biggest reasons I’m not talking about my conversion on my main blog is that I’m scared I’ll be forced to face friends and mutuals turning on me. I’ve already lost one friend because I tried to tell her that some of the pro-Palestine posts she’d reblogged had dogwhistles, and I’m pretty sure that one blog that very briefly followed me back unfollowed because of a post I reblogged about Jews being frustrated that the left isn’t believing us about the rise of antisemitic violence.

Like- I’ve seen this happen to other Jewish users, and I’m so scared that people who I consider friends and moots will turn on me.

#I already have one RWBY moot who I’m pretty sure would see me as a possible villain #I just. I have so many rejection and abandonment issues already I don’t know if I can handle more #I’m scared that some friends will either pity me thinking I’ve “fallen for Zionist propaganda”- #or resent me as a crypto Zionist who infiltrated their spaces and deceived them #Vent #OK to reblog #Jumblr #Jewish Convert #Jewish Issues

[itsheckinwes]

I've got a question I need a Jewish perspective on. Is the biblical story about Jesus cursing the fig tree antisemitic? I've seen some people claim that it's against israel and not necessarily Jewish people specifically but I haven't come across any Jewish sources.

Shout out to the post I saw somewhere in response to wizard blood libel game being antisemitic teaching me the connection between figs and Judaism. Never would have thought there was any meaning to the cursing of the fig tree otherwise.

Also is the bit about Jesus "cleansing the temple" of merchants playing into antisemitic stereotypes too?

Non Jewish people reblog please!

#tw antisemitism #tw religion #tw christianity #tw Jesus #tw Bible #Judaism #social issues #social justice #Jewish Education

[whereserpentswalk]

There is no good version of Christianity.

Christianity as a concept is based on their religion being superior.

Heven and Hell (and good and evil) are inherently toxic concepts. Its preaching is abuse.

Christianity is inherently antisemitic as a concept.

There is nothing Jewish about Christianity. It is a religion that was codified by Roman elites, culturally appropriating elements of Judaism they didn't care to understand.

Christianity is inherently queerphobic. And will always be a threat to the queer community on an institutional level.

Attempts by Christian organizations to work with the queer community will always be a series of actions that are negative for queer rights. At best creating a small group of "good gays" who justify the oppression of "degenerate queers".

This is not a post about individual Christians. This is about Christianity as an institution (which btw, is an institution you cannot opt out of in many places). We shouldn't treat it like it's just another religion in the west, it's a force as powerful as capitalism in western imperialism, that's behind a lot of terrible things and toxic ideas. If you take any of this as a means to be a dick to individual Christians, you are being terrible for the same reason most of Christianity is terrible.

#196 #my thougts #anti christianity #christianity #queer christian #queer #queer rights #lgbt #jewish #jumblr #jewblr #pagan #paganism #paganblr #leftist #leftism #social issues #social justice #trans rights

[afrenomes]

“It’s the Jews Zionists that control the media!”

Yeah, that’s still blatantly antisemitic. Also, those famously antisemitic radio talk show hosts are also saying literally the same “Zionists control the media” schtick, so instead of parroting them maybe you need to rethink what you’re saying and where your values lie 🤷‍♀️

#also when a majority of jews identify as zionists in at least the loosest definition of the term #maybe you also need to rethink your own approach to zionism and antisemitism regarding zionism #and i’m saying this as someone who doesn’t identify as either zionist or antizionist before anyone accuses me of such #antisemitism #the jewish experience tag #also I can’t talk for the other actors who’ve been punished for what they’ve said on social media bc i really don’t know the context #but at least for susan sarandon the issue isn’t that she’s pro palestine #the issue is that she’s blatantly antisemitic #hope that helps

[arson-anarchy-death]

a pattern i've noticed:

tumblr user who is probably an antisemite: we need to call out liberal zionism!! we need to humiliate the liberal zionists who dare to share the same spaces as us!!!

people in the notes: so far the liberal zionists we have found are several jewish bloggers who have stated that they are against zionism several times, but they've talked a lot about left-wing antisemitism so they're clearly zionists!!

#look i'm not jewish so i'm not going to have the best or most informative method of approaching this issue #so go see what actual jewish people who are educating people for free are saying about this #but like. CHECK YOUR FUCKING BIASES. PLEASE #some of the so called “zionists” are just jewish people who asked you to think about what you're saying #and some of you guys took that as an attack instead of a learning opportunity #anyways. listen to jewish people #antisemitism #anti zionisim #politics

[whitesunlars]

truly believe the greatest strengths of the Jewish people are our ability to question everything and our ability to laugh at everything

#Jewish #jumblr #literally everyone just laughing at the blocklist #like yeah I’m a Zionist I have it in my bio #but I don’t post about I/p I post fandom shit and antisemitism #if you think posting about antisemitism is an issue #one of here is a bigot and it ain’t my ass that just believes Jews need self determination for safety #in fact the more you hate Jews the more Zionist I am #since you’re proving my belief that we need self determination for safety #how embarrassing for you and how hilarious for me #¯\_(ツ)_/¯