#(yisreal not being Israel but being the Jewish people)

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https://www.tumblr.com/our-blood-is-our-ink/730930961393549312/im-exhausted-of-living-through-historical-once-in?source=share

if it conforts you (probably won't) almost every generation lived through an historical moment... world wars, different pandemics, going all the way back to colonialism. Something important is always happening, and probably other people from the past thought they were the "unlucky" ones...

idk, i just always think of this when someone says stuff like that...

Hi I have zero idea how you meant this but I'm going to be real for a moment.

But before I do, I apologize, as I went on a flow of thought tangent. Primarily, my thoughts have been racing, and it seems to have spilled out to here.

First and foremost, please never come onto a Jewish person's blog, good intent or otherwise, and say something like this.

This is not me feeling unlucky. This is me recognizing the patterns of history repeating itself.

I used to fight with my Hebrew day school teachers when they would teach us about Jewish history, Historia. Because surely, they were wrong. Surely as a whole, people don't hate the Jewish people that much. That another Holocaust could even be a threat. That yet another country will kick my people out of their homes, penniless, for the crime of their culture and religion. That we won't be kicked out from our fucking homeland for the billionth time. (I acknowledge the right of everyone else who considers Israel to be their homeland, everyone deserves to be able to live where they originate from.)

But they were right. And I hate saying that. I hate finding myself agreeing with people who I fundamentally disagreed with the most, because I found as a child, as a student, that their empathy for others lacking.

I can now recognize, wrong as that lack of empathy may be, that it is a product of generations of hate and suffering being inflicted upon the Jewish nation.

It's a jadedness I'm well aware I'm now gaining. This inescapable knowledge that no where is safe. That my half-sister, not even two months, would gain no consideration for her life simply because she's Jewish. That my best friend's daughter, barely two weeks old won't get any consideration to her life, for the crime of her heritage.

I have to sit and live with the knowledge world wide people are openly supporting Hamas in the murder of innocent children. Toddlers. Babies. Infants.

That there are chants being raised of gas the Jews.

Do you know how terrifying that is? To be faced with undeniable proof that there are literally thousands, if not millions of people who want my family and friends -- want me -- dead?

Do you know how gut-wrenching it is that I have to face this realization of "oh, no wonder FDR was able to turn away boatfuls of refugees back to Germany to be slaughter -- Jewish lives don't matter as much to the world as other lived do", of "no wonder my people have faced violence and brutality (such as progoms) for centuries for the simple crime of living" because the truth is, when we need voices raised in support for us the most, there's only silence ringing that can be heard.

And don't think that the Jewish people haven't noticed that most of the more influential folks who don't have any potential political gain out of this war have been Jewish, or have strong Jewish connections. Don't think we aren't aware of how wildly alone we are in this.

And y'all want to know the worst part?

I'm starting to believe that the majority of the secular world would have been happier if Hitler had succeeded in his goals. And that's fucking crushing.

An important note: make no mistake. I don't support any war crimes or inhumane actions done by the Israeli government. I don't support the death and suffering of innocents. I acknowledge that there is much pain and horror and suffering on both sides of this war. I am simply relating my experiences and thoughts, as is anyone's right. I believe the Palestinians have just as much as a right to live peacefully in the land currently known as Israel as much as any Christian, Muslim, or Jew does. Period.

#sky's inbox #sky answers #sky replies #sky's anons #i understand I have said some things that are bound to be taken controversially #i ask that if you come into my inbox or add you own thoughts to the comments or reblogs that you do so kindly #עם ישראל חי #my people deserve to live #(yisreal not being Israel but being the Jewish people) #(yisrael was another name for the third forefather yaakov/Jacob) #(so the proper translation is: the nation of Yaakov lives)

[jewish-skitter]

Going to ask the Jewish servers I’m in about the theoretical theological implications of a portal being opened to a nigh identical world except you’re from a world with a ~lot~ of superheroes and they’re from a world with less. And then years down the line another portal is opened by some random twink (female) and this one is to a world with basically no people, but also it’s ~habitable~ to humans? Somehow, despite the ecological implications? Setting that aside, they ~keep~ opening portals as escape routes for the oncoming apocalypse. And Khepri happens and there’s almost a dozen Earths.

Which means there’s almost a dozen Eretz Yisraels (I’m romanizing that wrong, don’t @ me, I don’t speak Hebrew, basically means the physical land that’s the Jewish homeland) and at least one Medinat Yisreals (probably also spelling that wrong, means the modern nation state of Israel). Well, presumably two, one on Bet and one on Aleph, but the one on Bet would be uninhabitable post Zion. Does that land on Earths where humans never evolved somehow still count as “ours” under Jewish law? I know that at least some Jews would probably make a beeline for the rough geographical equivalent.

Something something two earth solution…

#please do not @ me about geopolitics this is purely about theology #that bit at the end is a joke