jewish-mccoy

[jewish-mccoy]

hey, im a non-jewish person active in an lgbt group, and although my area has very very low religious diversity, ive never noticed any antisemitism in my group. what sort of patterns of antisemitism are good for us non-jewish people who want to make our spaces welcoming to jewish people to look out for and stamp out where we can?

The big one right now is if your group requires denouncing Zionism, Israel, and Jewish self determination to be involved in it. I’m not saying people can’t be antizionist and not antisemitic, but I have met exactly *zero* queer goyim who are antizionist and not antisemitic.

Groups that ask Jews to not talk about their religion because it can be triggering for people with religious trauma.

If your group is dismissive of Jews talking about antisemitism, that’s a red flag.

If your group has no Jews, red flag. And yes, I know you mentioned low religious diversity, but if you have Jews in your area and they don’t interact with the group, red flag.

Hope this is helpful, if anyone has other comments please feel free to add.

#antisemitism #jewish tag #queer community #jumblr

[jewish-mccoy]

I think something folks are missing is that a lot of, if not most of, people in the activist sphere are perfectly aware of the antisemitic undertones, messages, and individuals within their movements.

They just don't really care.

Antisemitism is seen by most left-ish goyim as a lesser prejudice, something that's not really an important issue. So when someone they're organizing with harasses, assaults or vandalizes random Jews, Jewish-owned businesses, JCCs, or shuln, they're perfectly happy to brush it off. It's a minor blemish on what they feel is a noble and righteous movement, not a big deal overall. You can point out the ways in which they are harming Jewish people and communities by spreading antisemitic talking points and obvious lies all you want, but they're still just going to reply with a non sequitur about Palestine.

The students at Columbia are perfectly aware of the naked hatred of Jews on display in the off-campus solidarity demonstration outside the gates. They are aware they are creating an environment in which the majority of Jewish students do not feel safe or comfortable being on campus.

They simply do not care.

#antisemitism #queued

[jewish-mccoy]

“In 2013, David Nirenberg published an astonishing book titled Anti-Judaism. Nirenberg’s argument, rigorously laid out in nearly 500 pages of dense scholarship and more than 100 pages of footnotes, is that Western cultures—including ancient civilizations, Christianity, Islam (which Nirenberg considers Western in its relationship with Judaism), and post-religious societies—have often defined themselves through their opposition to what they consider ‘Judaism.’ This has little to do with actual Judaism, and a lot to do with whatever evil these non-Jewish cultures aspire to overcome.

Nirenberg is a diligent historian who resists generalizations and avoids connecting the past to contemporary events. But when one reads through his carefully assembled record of 23 centuries’ worth of intellectual leaders articulating their societies’ ideals by loudly rejecting whatever they consider ‘Jewish,’ this deep neural groove in Western thought becomes difficult to dismiss, its patterns unmistakable. If piety was a given society’s ideal, Jews were impious blasphemers; if secularism was the ideal, Jews were backward pietists. If capitalism was evil, Jews were capitalists; if communism was evil, Jews were communists. If nationalism was glorified, Jews were rootless cosmopolitans; if nationalism was vilified, Jews were chauvinistic nationalists. ‘Anti-Judaism’ thus becomes a righteous fight to promote justice.”—Dara Horn, Why the Most Educated People in America Fall for Antisemitic Lies

That’s it. I don’t think anything else could so succinctly explain the world’s dedicated Jew hatred

#antisemitism #queued

[jewish-mccoy]

Every person is inherently bad because they [are tainted by Original Sin / have privilege and benefit from colonization]. Some people are good, however, because [they became Christian / are oppressed minorities], and these people cannot do any wrong. The problem is the remaining people, who are [minorities and Jews / oppressors and capitalists and Jews], who cause all the problems in the world. But the [Democrats and Zionists / Democrats and Zionists and Republicans] have a vested interest keeping them in power. We should ally with [Russia / Russia and Hamas and Hezbollah and Houthis] to take down the true enemy, [immigrants and Arabs and Jews / America and Jews]. Once we kill all the bad people, the [Rapture / Great Revolution] will come, and everything will be better.

#antisemitism #queued

[jewish-mccoy]

Given how unsafe queer spaces have become for Jews, I’d really love to hear how queer goyim plan to make these spaces welcome for us again.

Because you are the reason they’ve become hostile and unsafe. You haven’t stood up for us or said, “hey, this is wrong, we shouldn’t be pushing our own people out!”

What do you plan to do to make your spaces inclusive? Do you care that the queer Jews who have also been a huge part of the movement have fled your spaces?

#queer community #jewish #october 7 #antisemitism #leftist antisemitism #lgbtqia #lgbtq community

[jewish-mccoy]

I’d sooner chew my own arms off than “go back to Poland” and I’m not even fucking joking

#antisemitism #jewish tag #poland

[jewish-mccoy]

I can’t get over how the students at Columbia screamed “Go back to Poland” to American Jews. Not even Israelis (though that wouldn’t be okay either). American fucking Jews.

Way to tell me that you don’t want me in your country and think my family and I would be better off dead. You’re such an activist, gleefully screaming for the ethnic cleansing of your country’s own populations.

Get absolutely fucked, you monsters.

#antisemitism #fuck Poland specifically

[jewish-mccoy]

Due to a protest at my college, Hillel had to move tonight’s Seder to a secret location and have barred last-minute registrations.

I signed up in time to go, but I’m disappointed that some people who want to go may not be able to. I really wish this was an event that could be more open to students who may have been on the fence about going.

The fact that Hillel has to hide the location of a Passover Seder is horrifying to me.

#passover #antisemitism #jewish tag

[jewish-mccoy]

I’ve seen a lot of posts from fellow Jews about how hard it feels to observe Pesach this year, how it even feels wrong while there are Jews being held in captivity right now.

I would argue that’s the very point of Pesach, and observing it has never been more appropriate than it is now.

The first Seder was not a celebration of a victory already won. The first Seder was held by the Jews while we were still in Egypt, while we were all still enslaved, huddled inside with lambs blood on our doorposts. We were anticipating imminent departure from Egypt, but it hadn’t happened yet and we had no way of knowing if it would.

Pesach is not an after-the-fact celebration of finally being out of danger. The origin of the Seder is a deliberately premature celebration, a demonstration that we have so much faith in G-d saving us that we act as if it’s already happened.

We don’t have the Seder because we are finally free. We have the Seder as a show of faith that we will be, no matter how unlikely it seems.

חג קשר ושמח

#passover #jewish tag #queued

[jewish-mccoy]

Maids, cleaners, janitors, and sanitation workers are all the most important people of civilization by far. Even 12 hours without them is VERY noticable and they simply need to be highly compensated for it

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[jewish-mccoy]

Psych 3x10

#tv: psych #queued

[jewish-mccoy]

I'm a bit late, but anyways.

#Passover #jewish tag #queued

[jewish-mccoy]

Calling Jews Nazis is disgusting and wrong. I do not give a shit what cause you’re defending by doing so. Shut the fuck up. God damn.

#antisemitism #jewish tag

[jewish-mccoy]

LARPING is the perfect way to describe these spoiled kids who are more concerned with making campuses unsafe for Jews than the Palestinian people they claim to care about.

I’m so sick of seeing videos and posts of a bunch of privileged college students who decided to make a geopolitical conflict their whole personality and who view college as a LARPing opportunity instead of fucking school. You just know they wouldn’t be screaming about this if they had any actual hobbies or any ideology besides what’s popular online and what pisses off their parents. It’s all about a radikewl aesthetic while affecting absolutely nothing in the real world. And now with Columbia University’s rabbi urging Jewish students to stay away from campus because it’s unsafe, what the fuck have these LARPers done other than harass Jews off campus instead of going to class in their “Gaza solidarity encampment” (AKA their excuse to skip class and not do assignments)? People in Gaza are still hungry and displaced, Hamas still has hostages, but don’t worry, guys! Students at Columbia are being antisemitic by praising 10/7 and cosplaying anarchy instead of going to class “for Palestine”!

They’re just insufferable, and their First Amendment rights don’t exempt them from the rest of us judging them for their actions

#antisemitism #and yeah I do think they’re fucking spoiled privileged people who are using Palestinians as their latest pet cause #it’s a fucking game for them

[jewish-mccoy]

Caves are weirder and more varied than you think

#caves #nature tag #queued

[jewish-mccoy]

the cat has a fixation with a certain breed of dog on tv and I feel like we’re just adding to the lore of “what was your life before we adopted you at age 4?” he’s an odd duck

#he likes Belgian dogs I do not know why #the theory I have is he was raised with them and it explains his complete lack of fear around big dogs #cat tag

[jewish-mccoy]

𝗁𝗈𝗋𝗌𝖾𝗌 𝗂𝗇 𝗍𝗁𝖾 𝗆𝗂𝗌𝗍

#dream life #queued