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(What we have in mind for now are black swords with low density silver glitter, silver enamel, so that the pride flag pops)

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Honestly, sometimes I argue with left wing antisemites on the internet, and it's like

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Double standards, and Hypocrisy.

"Two million people have been killed in the Sudan Civil War, I haven't seen a protest at NYU for that. Assad killed 500,000 Arabs I didn't see colleges burn down. Saddam Hussein killed over a million Muslims in wars, I didn't see a protest there, yet your school is shut down right now because Israel is responding to the worst attack against Jews since the Holocaust"

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Ashkenormativity

Ashkenormativity is the assumption that the default Jew is the Ashkenazi one. It is a term coined by Sephardi and Mizrahi Jews to explain our alienation from the rest of the Jewish community, from my lived experience specifically from the Diaspora Jewish community.

I'm half-Ashkenazi, but that half is pretty secular. When it comes to major Jewish holidays, I've always done them with my maternal grandparents, who, despite being secularized, still respect their cantor roots to the point of not wanting to skip on a holiday or even shorten the Seder(until one hilariously bad one). So the only minhag I've known was the Sephardi one.

In Israel, this was a non-issue.

The most I heard about differences is how Sephardim and Mizrahim emphasize table manners because unlike Ashkenazim, they actually eat on the table.

When I left Israel and moved to a place hundreds of kilometers away from the nearest Jewish community, I finally realized how much I need our community. So like everyone on lockdown, I sought it online, where Jewish cultures is bagels and casual use of Yiddish, two things completely foreign to me. I mean we have bagels in Israel, but they're not the meme they are among US Jews. They're nowhere near as popular as a pita. So when I had to look up what "davening", "shul" and "shanda" meant, I first got the sense I don't actually belong.

But the people using those terms as a day to day weren't the ones who actively made me feel unwelcome. In fact, those were more likely to acknowledge my confusion and explain. The ones who alienated me are the antizionist Jews from the Anglosphere, who ignore and revise non-Ashkenazi history and even history of Ashkenazim outside the Global North, who blame modern Hebrew for the decline of Yiddish which they frame as the traditional Jewish language, ignoring how that pushes down communities that traditionally spoke Ladino, Juddeo-Arabic, Amharic and more, and overall infantilize and dismiss families like mine who built a good life for ourselves in Israel and rose to the position to actively combat Ashkenazi hegemony, and remove the agency of my former classmates who take a stand against it, all in favor of superimposing the race politics of the Anglosphere onto Israel.

So the Columbia university definition of singling out "white Jews" is quite inaccurate. Under ashkenormativity, an Ashkenazi JoC would find themselves better represented than the white-presenting members of my Sephardi(or raised according to that half) family. It's another reductivist attempt to superimpose European guilt onto Jews by erasing half of us. Specifically, the half that lives in Israel.

Goyim, ashkenormativity doesn't belong to you. Stop using it as a shield to be antisemitic. Stop using it as anything regarding inter-community issues, it's our term to use within our community.

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Every Jew I know, and a lot of Jews I don't know, have repeatedly said that JVP represents Jews about as much as Autism Speaks represents autistic people, so you'd think there wouldn't be as many gentiles saying "look, this demonstration where people chanted explicitly Jew-hating slogans can't possibly be antisemitic! JVP was there!" and yet

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i thought JVP couldn't beat the backwards hebrew from yesterday but now they've posted in support of a pro-encampment demonstrations in houthi-controlled yemen, which included signs showing the houthi slogan.

“God is the greatest; death to America; death to Israel; curse the Jews; victory to Islam.

Yes "Jewish" Voice For Peace unironically and positively posted an image which contains the phrase "curse the Jews"

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It’s maddening to find out that the scholar who first developed the idea that “Zionism is Settler Colonialism”, Fayez Sayegh, was a member of the Syrian Nazi Party during and immediately after the Holocaust, was an active participant in the Red Scare, using it to demonize Israel as a manifestation of a Global Communist Threat™️ through the height of the Cold War (true to his Nazi roots, accusing Israel of Judeo-Bolshevism) before switching to a Colonialism narrative when Post-Colonialism came in vogue in the 60s. And yet, the people I hear parroting the talking points of this anti-Communist, Ultranationalist Fascist-turned-scholar are the people who are constantly talking about how Liberal Progressives aren’t Communist enough and actually enemies because “Liberals will always side with Fascists”. Maddening.

If you’ve ever noticed how the “Zionism = Settler Colonialism” narrative eerily shares the core components of the far right’s Replacement Theory (that there are 1. Jews 2. conspiring to invade a given place and 3. replace the population with Jews), this is why; it’s because the idea that Zionism is Settler Colonialism came from a literal Nazi.

It is very literally Nazi propaganda.

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To me, this image encompasses everything ironic and hilarious about the insane antisemitic student protests in Merica: a westoid brat in RevolutionaryTM cosplay, $100k in debt at an elitist uni, most likely studying for a useless degree because how else would one have the time to sit outside midday to play the guitar in front of the flag belonging to a vile, batshit insane religious terror group thatd hang him for the crime of merely looking like the common fag? I mean its written right there on the flag - "the party of Allah + a quote from the Quran about muh path to victory thru the party of Allah (how original) + the Islamic resistance in Lebanon" (does he know what or who they are resisting in Lebanon?). The people beside him are too, just chilling outside, very serious students studying for Very Serious Degree in the art of Eternal 9-5 Retail, with their cute little makeshift kindergarten classroom drums. I once again have to ask: how is this not just incredibly embarrassing for them? Wakanda moments are for little kids and teenagers, not grownass adults who either sank themselves into crippling debt for an education, or borrowed mommy and daddys money in the case of most of these nepobabies in denial.

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people stop being antisemitic for one fucking second challenge (impossible)

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Tumblr Top Ships Bracket - Round 2 Side 1

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The Avatar Crew!

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Zuko takes Sokka and baby Druk to see the masters’ rainbow dragon fire. It’s breathtaking for all involved, even though someone isn’t looking at the fire…

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My comic to @recovery-zine <3 ❤

I drew it two years ago and my style has changed a little but I'm still really proud of this piece, I'm happy I can finally show it ❤!

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The comics are not perfect, but scenes like this are.....🥹❤

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A tale of Ba Sing Se.