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theres a concerning pattern that i am sure im not the only one who has noticed

the "punch a nazi" people are comparing the magen david to the swastika. does this not seem like blatant lead up to more violent antisemitic hate crimes?

like if literally any behavior is accepted towards the people they view as evil i wouldn't be surprised if we started seeing people straight up bragging about committing hate crimes

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I sat next to the protest today.

I wrote fan-fiction about two gay jewish dads raising children to the play list of the chant- "No peace on stolen land!" on an American college campus. It isn't a name brand one either, nor does it have any legitimate ties to Israel. The anger is just there- it has rotten these future doctors, nurses, teachers, and members of society.

I don't even know what to call their demonstration- it was a tizzy of a Jew hatred affair. At points, there were empathetic statements about Gazans and their suffering. Then outright support of Hamas and violent resistance against all colonizers. Then this bizarre fixation on antisemitism while explaining the globalists are behind everything.

"Antisemitism doesn't exist. Not in the modern day," A professor gloated over a microphone in front of the library. "It's a weaponized concept, that's prevents us from getting actual places- ignore anyone who tells you otherwise."

"How can we be antisemitic?" A pasty white girl wearing a red Jordanian keffiyeh gloats five minutes later. "Palestinians are the actual semites."

"there is only one solution!" The crowd of over 50 students and faculty cried, over and over.

"Been there, done that," I thought, then added a reference to a mezuza in the fourth paragraph.

Two other Jewish students passed where I was parked out, hunching and trying to be as innocuous as possible. We laughed together at my predicament, where I am willingly hearing this bullshit and feeling so amused by this.

"Am I crazy? For sitting here?" I asked them. My friends shook their heads.

"We did the same last week- it's an amazing experience, isn't it?”

We all cackled hysterically again. They left to study for finals. Two minutes later, I learned from the current speaker that “Zionism” is behind everything bad in this world.

Forty-five minutes in, a boy I recognized joined me on my lonely bench. He came from a very secular Jewish family and had joined Hillel recently to learn more about his culture. His first Seder was two nights ago.

He sat next to me, heavy like the weight of the world was on his shoulders. There was just this despondent look on his face. I couldn’t describe it anyone else, but just sheer hopelessness personified.

“They hate us. I can’t believe how much they hate us.” He said in greeting.

And for the first time all day, I had no snarky response or glib. All I could do was stare out into the crowd, and sigh.

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do antizionists think maybe the holiday where we read about people freed from slavery who return to the land of Israel Might have importance currently

do zionists think maybe the holiday where we read about freeing people from slavery Might have importance currently

#zionsim #jumblr #pesach #passover #am yisrael chai #israel #proud zionist #i wonder why OP reads about the hostages and his first instinct is to demand to know why we aren’t talking about Palestinians #apparently we aren’t allowed to mourn our own or talk about the sufferings we experience #antizionism is a minority view within the Jewish community for a reason OP—get with the program and practice ahavas Yisrael #Ahavas Yisrael includes the 7.2 million Israeli Jews and every last hostage. Or tokenize yourself that works too I guess

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On being Jewish, and traumatized (It’s been 5 months and I want to talk):

Judaism is a joyous religion. So much of our daily practice is to focus us on the things that are good. I know that there’s a joke that all our holidays can be summed up as “they tried to kill us. We survived – let’s eat!”, and you might think that holidays focused on attempts at killing us might be somber, but they’re really not. Most are celebrated in the sense of, “we’re still here, let’s have a party!” When I think about practicing Judaism, the things I think about make me happy.

But I think a lot of non-Jews don’t necessarily see Judaism the same way. I think in part it’s because we do like to kvetch, but I think a lot of it is because from the outside it’s harder to see the joy, and very easy to see the long history of suffering that has been enacted on the Jewish people. From the inside, it’s very much, “we’re still here, let’s party” and from the outside it’s, “how many times have they tried to kill you? Why are you celebrating? They tried to KILL YOU!”

And I want to start with that because a lot of the rest of this is going to be negative. And I don’t want people to read it and wonder why I still want to be Jewish. I want to be Jewish because it makes me happy. My problem isn’t with being Jewish, it’s with how Jews are treated.

What I really wanted to write about is being Jewish and the trauma that’s involved with that right now.

First, I want to talk about Israeli Jews. I can’t say much here because I’m not Israeli, nor do I have any close friends or family that are Israeli. But if I’m going to be talking about the trauma Jews are experiencing right now, I can’t not mention the fact that Israeli Jews (and Israelis that aren’t Jewish as well, but that’s not my focus here) are dealing with massive amounts of it right now. It’s a tiny country – virtually everyone has a friend or family member that was killed or kidnapped, or knows someone who does. Thousands of rockets have been fired at Israel in the last few months – think about the fact that the Iron Dome exists and why it needs to. Terror attacks are ongoing; I feel like there’s been at least one every week since October. Thousands of people are displaced from their homes, either because of the rocket fire, or because their homes and communities were physically destroyed in the largest pogrom in recent history – the deadliest single day for Jews since the Holocaust ended. If that’s not trauma inducing, I don’t know what is.

And there is, of course, the generational trauma. And I think Jewish generational trauma is interesting because it’s so layered. Because it’s not just the result of one trauma passed down through the generations. Every 50-100 years, antisemitism intensifies, and so very frequently the people experiencing a traumatic event were already suffering from the generational trauma that their grandparents or great grandparents lived through. And those elders were holding the generational trauma from the time before that. And so on.

And because it happens so regularly, there’s always someone in the community that remembers the last time. We are never allowed the luxury of imagining that we are safe. We know what happened before, and we know that it happened again and again and again. And so we know that it only makes sense to assume it will happen in the future. The trauma response is valid. I live in America because my great grandparents lived in Russia and they knew when it was time to get the hell out in the 1900s. And the reason they knew that is because their grandparents remembered the results of the blood libels in the 1850s. How can we heal when the scar tissue keeps us safe?

I look around now and wonder if we’ll need to run. We have a plan. I repeat, my family has a plan for what to do if we need to flee the country due to religious persecution. How can that possibly be normal? And yet, all the Jewish families I know have similar plans. It is normal if you’re Jewish. Every once in a while I see someone who isn’t Jewish talk about making plans to leave because they’re LGBTQ or some other minority and the question always seems to be, “should I make a plan?” It astounds me every time. The Jewish answer is that you need to have a plan and the only question is, “when should I act?” Sometimes our Jewish friends discuss it at play dates. Where will you go? What are the triggers to leave? No one wants to go any earlier then they have to. Everyone knows what the price of holding off too long might be.

I want to keep my children safe. When do I induct them into the club? When do I let my sweet, innocent kids know that some people will hate them for being Jewish? When do I teach them the skills my parents and grandparents taught me? How to pass as white, how to pass as Christian, knowing when to keep your mouth shut about what you believe. When do I tell them about the Holocaust and teach them the game “would this person hide me?” How hard do I have to work to remind them that while you want to believe that a person would hide you, statistically, most people you know would not have? Who is this more traumatic for? Them, to learn that there is hatred in the world and it is directed at them, or me, to have to drive some of the innocence out of my own children’s eyes in order to make sure they are prepared to meet the reality of the world?

And the reality of the world is that it is FULL of antisemitism. There’s a lot of…I guess I’d call it mild antisemitism that’s always present that you just kinda learn to ignore. It’s the sort of stuff that non-Jews might not even recognize as antisemitic until you explain it to them, just little micro-aggressions that you do your best to ignore because you know that the people doing it don’t necessarily mean it, it’s just the culture we live in. It can still hurt though. I like to compare it to a bruise: you can mostly ignore it, but every once in a while something (more blatant antisemitism) will put a bit to much pressure on it and you remember that you were already hurting this whole time.

On top of the background antisemitism, there’s more intense stuff. And usually the most intense, mask off antisemitism comes from the right. This makes sense, in that a lot of right politics are essentially about hating the “other” and what are Jews if not Western civilizations oldest type of “other”? On the one hand, I’ve always been fortunate enough to live in relatively liberal areas so this sort of antisemitism has felt far away and impersonal – they hate everybody, and I’m just part of everybody. On the other hand, until recently I’ve always considered this the most dangerous source of antisemitism. This is the antisemitism that leads to hate crimes, that leads to synagogue shootings. This is the reason why my synagogue is built so that there is a long driveway before you can even see the building, and that driveway is filled with police on the high holidays. This is the reason why my husband and I were scared to hang a mezuzah in our first apartment (and second, and third). For a long time, this was the antisemitism that made me afraid.

But the left has a problem with antisemitism too. And it has always been there. Where the right hates the “other”, the left hates the “privileged/elite/oppressors.” It’s the exact same thing, just dressed up with different words. They all mean “other” and “other” means “Jew.” It hurts more coming from the left though. A lot of Jewish philosophy leans left. A lot of Jews lean left. So when the left decides to hate us, it isn’t a random stranger, it’s a friend, and it feels like a betrayal.

One of the people I follow works for Yad Vashem, and a few weeks ago she mentioned a video they have with testimonies from people who came to Israel after Kristallnacht, with an unofficial title of “The blow came from within.” The idea is that to non-German Jews, the Holocaust was something done by strangers. It was still terrible, but it is easier to bear the hate of a stranger – it’s not personal. But to German Jews, the Holocaust was a betrayal. It wasn’t done by strangers, it was done by coworkers, and neighbors and people they thought were friends. It was done by people who knew them, and still looked at them and said, “less than human.” And because of this sense of betrayal, German survivors, or Germans who managed to get out before they got rounded up, had a very different experience than other Holocaust victims.

And I feel like a lot of left leaning Jews are having a similar experience now. People that we’ve marched with or organized with, or even just mutuals that we’ve thought of as friends are now going on about how Jews are evil. They repeat antisemitic talking points from the Nazis and from the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, and when we point out that those ideas have only led to Jewish death in the past they don’t care. And if someone you thought of as a friend thinks of you this way, what do you think a stranger might think? Might do?

The Jews are fucking terrified. I’ve seen a post going around that basically wonders if this was what it was like for our ancestors – when things got bad enough to see what was coming but before it was too late to run? And we can see what’s coming. History tells us that they way people are talking and acting only leads to one place. I’m a millennial – when I was a kid the grandparents at my synagogue made sure the kids knew – this is what it looked like before, this is what you need to watch out for, this is when you need to run. I wonder where to run to. It feels like nowhere is safe.

I feel like I’ve been lucky in all this. I don’t live in Israel. I have family and acquaintances who do, but no one I’m particularly close to. Everyone I know in real life has either been sane or at least silent about all of this (the internet has been significantly worse, but when it comes to hate, the internet is always worse). I live in a relatively liberal area – there’s always been antisemitism around anyway, but it’s mostly just been swastikas on flyers, or people advocating for BDS, not anything that’s made me actually worry for my safety. But in the last 5 months there have been bomb threats at my synagogue, and just last week a kid got beat up for being Jewish at our local high school. He doesn’t want to report it. He’s worried it will make it worse.

I bought a Magen David to wear in November. At the time it seemed like the best way to fight antisemitism was to be visibly Jewish, to show that we’re just normal people like everyone else. Plus, I figured that if me being Jewish was going to be a problem for someone, then I would make it a problem right away and not waste time. I’ve worn it almost constantly since, but the one time I took it off was when I burnt my finger in December and had to go to urgent care. I didn’t think about it too much when I did it, but I thought about it for a long time after – I didn’t feel good about having made that choice.

The conclusion I came to is that the training that my elders had been so careful to instill in me kicked in. I was hurt, and scared, and the voice inside my head that sounds like my grandmother said, “don’t give them a reason to be bad to you. Fight when you’re well, but for now – survive.” It still felt cowardly, but it was also a connection to my ancestors who heeded the same voice well enough to survive. And it enrages me that that voice has been necessary in the past. And it enrages me that things are bad enough now that my instinct is that I need to hide who I am to receive appropriate medical care.

I wish I had some sort of final thought to tie this all together other than, “this sucks and I hate it,” but I really don’t. I could call for people to examine their antisemitic biases, but I’m not foolish enough to think that this will reach the people who need to do so. I could wish for a future where everything I’ve talked about here exists only in history books, and the Jewish experience is no longer tied to feeling this pain, but that’s basically wishing for the moshiach, and I’m not going to hold my breath.

I guess I’ll end it with the thought that through all of this hate and pain and fear, we’re still here. And we’re still joyful as well. As much as so many people have tried over literally THOUSANDS of years to eradicate us, I’m still here, I’m still Jewish, and being Jewish still makes me happy.

Am Yisrael Chai.

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This is, 100%, my greatest fear. Seriously, if the left lets its antisemitism override everything to the point of allowing an actual fascist, a man who has organized an attempted autocoup to prevent the constitutionally mandated peaceful transfer of power—a man who openly stands opposed to literally everything a progressive should—return to power, then they’ll have entirely abdicated literally any drop of moral authority they could ever have possessed. Some would argue they already have, but if they let it get so bad as to literally destroy a 2 century old democracy, and throw the only superpower left into uncertainty, illiberal autocracy, and god knows what else…

Like, that’s the point at which I’m making Aliyah. Seriously. I don’t even want to know what’s next after that if we’re stuck with not one, but two antidemocratic, antisemitic mainstream political movements and the first American dictator in US history. All I know is, it won’t be good for Jews. Not one of us.

does the far left even know that they have effectively alienated massive numbers of regular folks who’ve seen protesters chanting “burn tel aviv to the ground” and “globalize the intifada” or watched jewish people all over the world be subjected to harassment from antizionists

personally, speaking as a long-time leftist, i have lost all trust in leftists as a whole

#leftist antisemitism #us politics #trump #biden #vote blue #antisemitism #america #american politics #elections #united states #usa #geopolitics

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by Christine Rosen

It’s not as if their readers and viewers are unaware of the problem. According to Pew Research, the percentage of Americans who say Jews face discrimination has doubled from 20 percent in 2021 to 40 percent in 2024. And yet, for some reason, mainstream-media outlets seem to be the only ones who haven’t drilled down on the issue.

In fact, the decision to downplay the anti-Semitic threat from the left is deliberate. Left-leaning media do not like to cover the behavior of their own, as the inconsistent coverage of the Jew-baiting members of the Democratic Party’s “Squad” during the past several years attests. Mainstream reporters at outlets like the New York Times take great pains to provide context and explanations for Representative Ilhan Omar’s blatant anti-Semitism, for example. A 2019 piece gave Omar and her defenders ample space to claim she was being unfairly targeted for criticism because she was a progressive Muslim woman while glossing over the fact that she had repeatedly accused Jews of having dual loyalties.

Amid the current conflict, it’s evident there is tacit agreement among most in the mainstream media that because Israel is defending itself by trying to root out Hamas in Gaza, the behavior of protesters is somehow justifiable and acceptable—but only because it involves Israel and the Jews.

This goes well beyond the deliberately misleading stories and factual errors about the war that have appeared in outlets such as the Washington Post. As Zach Kessel and Ari Blaff outlined in National Review, in a deep dive of the Post’s coverage of the Israel–Hamas war, the newspaper “has been a case study in moral confusion and anti-Israel bias” and has “violated traditional journalistic principles that have shaped coverage of foreign conflicts by American newsrooms for decades.”

Similarly, a recent story in the Free Press by Uri Berliner, a long-time editor and reporter at National Public Radio, described how NPR “approached the Israel-Hamas war and its spillover onto streets and campuses through the ‘intersectional’ lens that has jumped from the faculty lounge to newsrooms,” which meant “highlighting the suffering of Palestinians at almost every turn while downplaying the atrocities of October 7, overlooking how Hamas intentionally puts Palestinian civilians in peril, and giving little weight to the explosion of antisemitic hate around the world.”

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Antisemitism on college campuses

You know what's not going to free Palestine?

-Barricading Jewish students from entering certain buildings, ordering them to stay indoors during one of our biggest holidays. -chanting antisemitic slogans and slurs. -Harassing and physically attacking Jews. It's literally Nazi behaviour.

The last few days have been terrifying for Jews across the world, and these instances shouldn't be ignored.Imagine any other minority group being treated like this.

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Don't you just love it when someone who isn't Jewish explains "Jewish History " to you 🤔

Tells you what Genocide is while having no idea themselves what that word even means 🤔

Tells you why the Jewish state shouldn't exist 🤔

These people have absolutely know idea what they are talking about .

💯 Brain Worms 💯Brain washed

💯 Anti semitic 💯 delusional

Mind your own business and leave Jewish affairs to the Jewish people.

Thank You 💙

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Very sensible policy.

You're gonna get a lot of people on your side by telling them they're racist and completely responsible for oppression if they aren't going all the way with you. Yup. Definitely not purity politics that will see the movement out-radicalize itself, rip itself to pieces and become way, way too extreme for the average person to want to touch it. No, no, you're about to free Palestine guys, don't worry. Just one more meaningless boycott--one more French Jew kidnapped and raped in the name of Palestine--one more Jewish-owned business attacked, that'll get the masses on your side in no time. Just trust me bro, just one more radicalized schmuck setting themselves on fire.

Seriously, thank HaShem that the enemies of the Jewish people this time around seem to have no idea how to run a political movement. Shit, I could design a better pro-Palestinian movement with thirty seconds, a napkin and a pen. It's almost like they're trying to make Palestine a byword for antisemite. Guess what, man? The average voter who considers politics to be a toxic game not worth playing isn't gonna change their mind if you act like this. They're not gonna start boycotting, shouting 'From the river to the sea' or 'confronting Zionism in healthcare' or whatever you demand if you act like what they're doing right now is evil and they should be ashamed for it. That's just not how you get anyone on your side.

You're setting progressive politics back fifty years and giving the conservatives you despise a hand-wrapped gift--plausibly being able to paint a vast swath of the left as extremists who support terrorism. And shit--they're actually not wrong. Believe it or not, most voters don't like people who support terrorists.

You guys have killed your own movement, and it's kind of pathetic. Shit, I used to be a part of it, and so did a lot of Jews. Your antisemitism isn't just hurting us--in six months, you've undone decades of your own work. It's astonishing how stupid, myopic, and immature you've revealed yourselves to be.

Anyway, good luck getting people to join your antizionist crusade when you attack even basic neutrality as 'being an accomplice.' Let's see how that strategy works out for you, shall we?

If you are neutral on Palestine you are racist zionist. Neutrality allows an oppressor to carry on their oppression making you a silent accomplice. Although you aren't actively participating, you are allowing the oppressor to continue. if you aren't boycotting (and are in a place of financial stability) you are completely responsible.

#israel #antisemitism #left wing antisemitism #i/p conflict #jumblr #israel palestine conflict #jewish

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Do the people who think that Jews are not an oppressed group know that the word “ghetto” was created specifically for us?

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I know it's not Shabbat anymore, but I gotta reblog this. You're living the future I wanna have, my guy--shaa shohm.

Tiny Human was fussing today, until I asked "do you know what day it is?"

"Yah?"

"It's shabbat!"

"Shaaaa!"

So I lit the candles, and as usual I sang Shabbat Shalom while bouncing TH. When the song was over, TH tried to get me to continue. "Shaaaa shohmm! Shaaa shohmm!"

So, from my family to yours, shaa shohm.

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I don’t know how this isn’t common sense, but:

If your movement has managed to put an already oppressed minority group in danger to the point where they don’t even feel safe to leave their home to go to school, your movement is heavily flawed.

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It’s genuinely annoying how many people want Jews to think about Palestinians during our Saders.

Well, my family, and I will not.

It’s terribly sad what’s happening in Gaza, but don’t expect Jews on a holiday where we celebrate our liberation and remember our suffering to turn it into another group’s tragedy.

No, that’s not how it works.

Sorry, not sorry.

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I have some family friends. They have two children in their late teens/early twenties. One of them is in Israel right now, taking a gap year and volunteering. The other one is at a university in the US that has been a hotspot of anti-zionism/antisemitism as of late.

They feel more worried about their child in the US than they do about their child in Israel. Even though their child in Israel regularly has to hide from rockets in shelters. They think they are the safer one.

This is the reality of young jews in the US. It is even worse for Jews in the UK, Sweden, and other countries.

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Not surprised "by any means" now includes rape. After all, pro-Palestinians have no problem with the mass rapes and sexual assaults that took place on 10-07 and that the hostages are still undergoing.

The Left has reached the point where it is absolutely fine with any crime or violence - as long as the correct people are the victims.

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Chag Pesach sameach to every Jewish person. No matter your observance practices, whether you’re at a Seder with family, working or anything else. Every Jewish person deserves to feel safe, no matter their politics or visibility. Because right now? It’s beyond left/right. It’s simply being Jewish. So celebrate (or not) with lightness, love and above all, safety. Take care, be proud, chag Pesach sameach!

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It is actually mindblowing how all these Western "leftists" support the regimes of Russia, Iran, the Taliban in Afghanistan, etc., to the point of telling the very people suffering from those regimes that it is very progressive actually for them to keep suffering.

You have your human rights and freedoms, but have the nerve to tell, say, women in Iran that they should not have the same freedoms that you enjoy.

You claim to support queer rights and then go and say how other countries must accept russian occupation/influence, knowing full well that the queer people there will be prosecuted.

Human beings deserve to have human rights, you know. And there is nothing progressive about denying those rights to other people just for the sake of the edgelord fiction that works as your worldview.

Either you support people fighting for their rights, or you are on the side of fascism.