#secular-jew

[secular-jew]

Polish people told Jews to go back to Israel. Then they killed the 2.25 million of the 2.5 million Jewish population who couldn't return (the British blocked all Jewish immigration) or were physically unable.

#israel #secular-jew #jewish #judaism #israeli #jerusalem #diaspora #secular jew #secularjew #islam #Poland #polish antisemitism #Poland ethnic cleansing #antisemtism #European antisemitism #European ethnic cleansing #indigenous

[peasantexchangeprogram]

theres this specific brand of judaism thats """all-accepting""" (of women, lgbt ppl, mentaly ill/disabled ppl, etc) and 'fight with gd behind a dennys' and uwu cute and scrunkly and non-threatening that was bred in captivity by secular americans thats somehow treated as the "real", widespread version of judaism by people on social media and its so so funny and annoying at the same time. and often coexists in gentiles alongside antisemitic beliefs, talking points and ideas. anyways. it drives me insane.

#mine* #gentiles thread carefully #i love it when secular/reform americans go (well jews dont *things jews 100% do*)

[the-catboy-minyan]

due to a certain asshole spewing bullshit in spacelazarwolf's notes, I wanna emphasize something:

YOU DON'T HAVE TO KNOW HEBREW TO BE JEWISH

YOU DON'T HAVE TO LEARN HEBREW TO BE JEWISH

YOU DON'T HAVE TO WANT TO LEARN HEBREW TO BE JEWISH

the only thing you need to be Jewish is to be Jewish. a Jew is a Jew.

(this message does not include messianic jews)

#jumblr #judaism #jewish #jewish positivity #diaspora jews #jewish converts #patrilineal jews #reform judaism #conservative judaism #orthodox judaism #secular jews #all of them are fucking Jews regardless of what languages they speak #I can't believe I have to say this in 5784 #gatekeepers are not welcome on my blog ☺️

[slyandthefamilybook]

me when I'm the dumbest motherfucker alive

#atlas entry #well let's look at “our own book” and see what it says #“the entire land of Canaan and Transjordan belongs to the Jews”?? wuh-oh that's not a good foundation on which to build a secular state #idek where to start with this one man. the conflation of native and indigenous? not knowing what ethnogenesis is? #lying about Israel's policies wrt DNA tests? calling אברהם אבינו A prophet? #I think the best part about that is saying Jews can't be indigenous bc Avraham was “the first Jew” but the word Jew comes from Judea #which is not where he was from. there's a reason we call him Ivri. wow almost like Jews know more about our history than random goyim

[frida-kahl-of-the-rocky-horror]

It is a genocide.

#palestine #gaza strip #israel #from the river to the sea palestine will be free #gaza #gaza genocide #news on gaza #free gaza #gazaunderattack #save gaza #am yisrael chai #am israel hai #free israel #i stand with israel #israeli lives matter #jumblr #jews against genocide #jews of tumblr #secular jew #jews against israel #jewblr #jewish history #jewish #jerusalem #hamas is isis

[bijoumikhawal]

Hm. I have dealt with antisemitic star trek fans, but given the times we live in and the recency of this post, as well as me not hearing of any recent major events about antisemitism in Trek fandom, let me check OPs blog real quick

Ah.

Anyway- DS9 intentionally paralleled the Occupation of Bajor with both the Holocaust and the Nakba, among other things, and one of the cast members who remarked on the similarity of Bajorans to Palestinians was Armin Shimerman, who is himself Jewish.

#cipher talk #Star Trek has an ambivalent relationship to Judaism imo honestly #It is true that Nimoy put a lot of Judaism into Spock #But uh. The Ferengi. Who are not only coded in ways that relate to Jews but also Chinese people and Muslims #Even with the complexity added to the Ferengi- notably by Shimerman and other DS9 cast members- its still an ambivalent depiction #Like. A lot of the complexity was added by individual Ferengi being at odds with their culture and accepting Federation ideas #Which I think speaks to how a lot of the Jewish writers and actors on DS9 aren't religious and how secular American Jews #Often regard religious American Jews- especially Orthodox Jews. Which I've already said I feel impacted how Kai Winn was portrayed #(Specifically the choice to associate the word 'Orthodox' with terrorism and assassination) #and how an ambivalent view of religion- sometimes leaning negative- also furthers this view of Judaism

[grendelsmilf]

there’s something so fascinating to me about mormonism insofar as it’s less legitimate than christianity but more legitimate than scientology. like as far as cults go, there’s something to be said for how not everyone would immediately identify it as a cult. that’s pretty impressive pr considering how batshit insane their prophet is. and then there are people who act like mormonism is a cult but christianity obviously isn’t. even though mormonism also uses preexisting religious texts and interprets them in bizarre ways to invent a new prophet who is actually the specialest little guy. they were certainly not the first people to interpret the mark of cain shit in explicitly antiblack ways; to have really antisemitic views on the teleological, biological destiny of the jews; to use their religious doctrines to justify their colonialism and proselytizing. to a christian classic, a mormon is a frightening aberration, bastardizing the beliefs of their church. to a jew (or any non-christian, really, but especially to jews), a mormon is just the logical extension of the marriage between christian and american fundamentalist ideology. we’ve seen this shit all before. and in the immortal words of mark twain’s wife, that don’t impress me much.

#to be clear i am saying this as an extremely secular antizionist jew so im also not acting like all jewish culture #is free from cultlike mentalities #but also that jews have a very unique relationship to christianity and christian culture #for reasons that i probably don’t need to explain lmfao #o #but yeah mormons fascinate me #i love harper angels in america. etc.

[torahtot]

ok ive had enough of queering judaism. can we start judaizing queerness now. or something

#like. it feels like so much of this queering judaism shtus just layers an american/secular queer identity over judaism #which i guess is fine for certain communities. but it's only going to push you away from orthodoxy #and if as queer jews we already feel like our queerness makes us into secularized outsiders in our own communities #how does this help? is trying to get our communities to embrace an essentially secular american iteration of queer identity supposed to mak #us feel LESS like outsiders? it's not quite doing it for me #we need a queerness that comes from within judaism that is essentially jewish #ive seen a couple of articles recently from ppl talking abt how word/concept of butch doesnt exist in their language & culture #but they use it anyway #& like. i love being butch. it's important to me ill never give it up #& i am american too. but my whole identity as a butch he/him lesbian is exclusively secular american it came from the outsifr #which is definitely due in large part to the fact that my Gender Problems were really tied up w orthodox jewish gender roles #so naturally to get out of that i'd pull on something not jewish. but i wish there was another option? idk if that's possible #or how it would look #maybe that's why im obsessed w the idea of a butch w long curly payos.... 😦 #i forgot where i was going w this but yeah it's frustrating #this is a large part of why im wary of starting a queer Jewish club on campus bc the people who would wanna start it w mr #well no offense but they are insufferable about this #(incidentally they're also insufferable about chanukah. no surprises there) #nachi speaks #jew blogging #others have Actually written abt all this tho

[thepomegranatewitch]

blessing after meals

Image description. Screenshot of blessing after meals in English with a leaf green background. Text is lower in post. Bottom left has handle in black, bottom right has red chop, and right side has a budding almond branch.

this is in my tu bshvat haggadah post, but deserves to have its own separate post to shine. I wrote this today to focus on human connections and natural wonders as our blessing after the meal.

Blessed is all Being, for sustenance and nourishment, the vine and the tree and their fruits, the fruits of the field, the land we live on. May we remember and be remembered by Mercy, and guided by Justice to restore our love for each other. May Compassion rebuild our human family speedily and in our days, so we see each other as holy, and rejoice in each other. Let us eat together at one table of abundance, where we bless each other, all beings, and the earth, the waters, the sky. Let us always remember and give thanks for the wonders of the cosmos, for the stardust above and within our shared blood, the flowers before us and within us all. Let us be one interconnected family. May it be so.

#judaism #jewish #jewish magic #jewitch #witchcraft #siddur #earth based judaism #queer jews #secular jew #blessing #blessing after meals #birkat hamazon

[koheletgirl]

ok so i don't personally believe in the 2 states solution (for a myriad of reasons i won't get into now), but why does it seem like everyone who supports it these days is labeled as a zionist? i know why i might think that, but i doubt it's for the same reasons so i'm genuinely asking here

#it's just that the two states solution is still seen as a leftist delusion in israel #which i think is laughable like i know why i hate it #but idt tumblr.com hates it for the same reasons? #again like maybe im reading this wrong but. to me it seems like a not insignificant amount of ppl here oppose any solution in which -> #<- jews would remain here? #or like i have seen ppl suggest that palestine should become a nation state in which jews can choose if they want to become citizens or go #and from a historical justice pov i completely understand that but u understand why that would be impossible to achieve realistically right #so actually what im saying is. are u really opposed to the 2 states solution for real reasons (valid) #or are you opposed to any solution that doesn't fit perfectly with your ideals and thus preventing any actual progress from happening #for the sake of us having this discussion in good faith. i personally believe in 1 secular state + right of return to palestinians #+ reparations + full equality under the law #which also doesn't sound very realistic in the current climate but yk #politics cw #did i make any sense at all with this

[secular-jew]

The greatest genocide ever perpetrated in human history:

Islam, the so-called religion of peace, killed as many as 400 million Indians.

#israel #secular-jew #jewish #judaism #israeli #jerusalem #diaspora #secular jew #secularjew #islam #Muslims #India #Indian genocide #genocide of India #Hamas

[rotzaprachim]

i think one of the lingering aspects of antisemitism in media is the whole idea of jewish culture as something not only so specific that goysiche audiences aren’t interested but outright lurkingly suspicious so that jewish culture can’t be shown. the range of possible cinematic jewishnesses is narrow - a menorah, maybe, or someone saying I’m jewish but maybe in response to a joke. no prayers in hebrew, no davening or brachot, no non-joke casual uses of yiddish or ladino or arabic or hebrew in spoken dialogue, nothing that uses yisrael or yerushalayim or tzion because What if the audience took thousand-year old concepts far older than modern nationalisms and punched it through that lens and it was Suspicous? no casual references to the ways in which jewish people and communities might organise their lives in ways that might be different. no mezuzot, havdallah, kiddush cups, jewish cultural and social and political organisations, kabbalat shabbat, scenes with tallises and kippot, nothing that might inconvenience the narrative, no passover cleaning or sitting shiva. just... a lot of the aspects of culture and communal organisation are to specific, too in-group, to lingeringly not normal to show. but too outright sus, y’know? 

#idk reflects the real life thing of like. a certain kind of person only being comfortable with u if you say you're completely secular or #something #which is a wildly oversimplisitc term to apply routeinely to jews #and because judaism is a collection of cultures and a civlisatoin i think a lot of this goywashing happens to secular jewish characters as #well #idk just thinking about marvel and dc and stuff but like... social views of jews as a whole #dara horn had some GREAT stuff on this actually. #anyway i'm in a mood because i've had a real reawakening about the popularitiy of antisemitic conspiracy theories among people #in my area

[unopenablebox]

also. what would authors even do if they couldn't have jewish characters alert other characters about how they don't eat pork

#i'm sorry it's FINE it's fine it's allowed it's just that ive never kept kosher and i don't think i even knew anyone who did growing up #at least not sufficiently that i like. knew that they did?? so no one i knew well enough to eat a meal with. #we didn't use much pork or anything but we were certainly a bacon and shellfish-loving household and this was. extremely normal #like you didn't bring pork/shellfish foods to temple events but that was literally the only concession and u would joke about it w ppl. #again i don't actually know enough jewish history to know at what points in history secular city jews weren't keeping kosher #maybe this is exclusively modern. i mean no fucking way it is but yk. maybe. #but it also smacks of like. people are soooo glad they have this special Thing to use to Show Not Tell the jewishness #and it's fine! it's literally fine. but it's so funny to me having the special mark of my people in [~socially-just genre lit] books #be a sentence im never going to say in my whole life #box opener #sorry lmao. found something to post about it appears #bookbox

[purpl3qu33n]

The amount of anti Jewish people on Hetalia is unreal, especially the ones who want the country of Israel to stop existing…

Y’all are in a fandom where every fucking country is problematic. And some STILL ARE.

Also, to say Israel needs to die and be destroyed is fucking Nazi behavior and very fucked up. And if you’re a Hetalia fan and you are antisemitic and against Israel, stay the fuck away from me. Because the people of Israel deserve to live and exist. I’m so sick and tired of y’all’s lies and nonsense. Y’all keep getting misled to misinformation and I ain’t about dealing with some new age Nazis.

#a secular jewish american turd that’s me #anti propaganda #jumblr #jewish tumblr #Hetalia #I’m not a fucking fascist you guys who hate Israel are #pro israel #israel #I’ll block you automatically if you’re against Jews

[chicago-geniza]

I know they're serious but sometimes the antisemitic press attacks on Stefania were very funny. One called her "Stefania" Zahorska. Like they put her first name in scare quotes, as though that were the one she changed. Stefania is literally her middle name Assigned At Birth, which she'd been going by from a very young age. Meanwhile the Kraków Zionist press is always calling her "Pani Zahorska--to jest, Leser," which is MORE antisemitic

#Advisor was fascinated when I brought up the antisemitism of the Zionist press #That they strategically deployed to accuse Polonized Jews of antisemitism for assimilating #They were sometimes more vulgar than the Endecja press it was insane #stefania tag #Yes the demographics of Ernestyna in 1880s + 90s skewed heavily Jewish and it was often #A ciphered secular name for Estera which is why I use Anna Clarke's #granddaughter of Queen Esther quote as one of my epigraphs #but would YOU want to be named Ernestine or Stephanie? Exactly #being pretty familiar with her aesthetic preferences my sense is she simply did not like the name Ernestyna lol #she was going by Stefanja on record as early as 1910 and probably even in high school #Like Joni Mitchell going by Joni/Joan instead of Roberta

[worstloki]

Zionists will go “even Saudi Arabia and the UAE don’t support Hamas!” As if that is not telling on yourself. You are admitting you know nothing about the entire region. Your racist generalisations are not your downfall, the lies you are trying to support with no understanding of the genocide are.

#clownery #incredibly disappointing #it’s not even GOOD lies it’s EASILY VERIFIED lies #you can’t claim there are no Palestinian Jews or that a free Palestine would include no Jews and expect me not to believe you are racist #there is no way you can think yourself educated on the topic and say things like that #it’s wilful ignorance and lies #Palestine #‘these Muslim countries say Islam doesn’t allow support of Hamas!’ and then it’s. all the friends of the US. like ...WOW. stunning. #‘these Islamic societies condemn Hamas!’ and how many Jewish societies support Israel? you are not making any point here. #there’s no way people are falling for this #it’s like saying Hamas is the real threat to Palestinians while Israel actively tries to kill/expel all of them via excessive carpetbombing #why do Zionists tell others to read up when they clearly haven’t themselves #it’s like proving your concern isn’t the civilian populations anyway and you care more about active colonisers than those being colonized #you can’t be pro secularism and then believe a genocidal ethnostate has the ‘right to exist’ #or that countries represent their religions flawlessly. and for the sake of making a point with no evidence from the actual religion ???