#jewish solidarity

[jewish-vents]

I know Ashkenormativity is a thing but lately it feels like that is reversing because I’m seeing Ashkenazi Jews constantly demonized and their histories erased and especially the fact that being Ashkenazi is NOT code for “white European and oppressor.” like the hatred towards Ashkenazi Jews veiled as antiracism is actually still really vile antisemitism. people need to understand that those lenses can’t be applied to Jews in the American/Eurocentric way people are trying to define us. a Jew is a Jew and Jewish identity isn’t dictated by skin color or where we fled in the diaspora, and hating any group of us affects all of us for the worse.

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#jewish vents #antisemitism #ashkenazi jews #ashkenazi #jewish solidarity

[tikkunolamresistance]

One day, the Jewish community will have to grapple with the fact that a majority of our community backed and excused genocide. This is something that will forever leave a mark on us, if we do not accept what Israel and Zionism truly is. We must unite to build a future better for all, and for ourselves.

The truth is never far behind, and we must be prepared for it.

#anti zionism #anti zionist jews for palestine #jews for palestine #jewblr #jumblr #jewish solidarity #history

[bottlepiecemuses]

Easter Announcement!

Jesus is Jewish you anti-semitic pos who bash Jewish people and uses this good holiday to be bigots. That goes for both left and right wing people.

#easter #jesus #jesus is jewish #anti-semitic callout #pro-jewish #jewish lives matter #jewish #christians #jewish solidarity

[rebel-girl-queen-of-my-world]

Hi thank you for your pinned post. Do you have A masterlist for anti-zionist Jew or books from Jewish author who oppose Zionism? Thank you

Ooh… I don’t offhand, but here’s a list of excellent authors and publishers to look into:

Ilan Pappé

Norman Finkelstein

Noam Chomsky

Miko Peled

Gideon Levy

Avi Shlaim

Naomi Klein

Judith Butler

Leslie Feinberg

Lillian Rosengarten

Gabor Maté

Masha Gessen

Omer Bartov

Some others who may not call themselves explicitly antizionist but who are definitely pro-Palestinian liberation:

Michael Chabon

Ayelet Waldman

Tony Kushner

Abbi Jacobson

Tavi Gevinson

Many more who signed on to this letter opposing conflation of criticism of Israel with antisemitism:

Publishers like Verso, Better World Books, and Haymarket Books all have tons of antizionist works by Jews and Palestinians, including a collaborative effort published by JVP called “On Antisemitism: Solidarity and the Struggle for Justice” that’s definitely essential reading.

#palestine #human rights #free palestine #jewish antizionism #antizionist jews #judaism #jumblr #Jewish solidarity #Jewish activism #jewish authors

[newyorkthegoldenage]

Albert Einstein at the Chanukah Festival, December 23, 1933. Governor Herbert H. Lehman, right, introduces Professor Einstein to the guests gathered at Madison Square Garden to celebrate the Chanukah Festival. Professor Einstein said, "I earnestly hope the Maccabean Festival will be a beautiful demonstration of Jewish solidarity in these critical times."

Photo: New York Sun/Getty Images/Newslea

#New York #NYC #vintage New York #1930s #Chanukah #Hannukah #Albert Einstein #Herbert Lehman #Dec. 23 #Chanukah Festival #Madison Square Garden #Jewish solidarity #Festival of Lights #Hannukah Festival #December 23

[fdelopera]

may you and your mishpucha find peace in these terrible times. ✡️ 💟

Thank you, my friend. You have no idea how much I needed to hear that. And peace to you and yours, too. I think we are all remembering that we are mishpuchah now. ✡️ 💖

#titimylove #jewish positivity #jewish solidarity

[weshallflyaway]

This man is a hero and needs to be protected.

#free Palestine #Jewish solidarity

[vyorei]

Beautiful display of solidarity ongoing right now from the US calling for a ceasefire in Gaza

Source: @jvplive on Twitter

#free gaza #gaza strip #irish solidarity with palestine #free palestine #palestine #gaza #news on gaza #al jazeera #boycott israel #israel #Jewish Voice for Peace #USA #American Solidarity with Palestine #JVP

[damnesdelamer]

HAPPY INDIGENOUS PEOPLES' DAY TO THE RIGHTFUL CUSTODIANS OF TURTLE ISLAND AND THE RIGHTFUL CUSTODIANS OF OCCUPIED PALESTINE! SOLIDARITY WITH THE INDIGENOUS PEOPLES OF THE WORLD!

#indigenous peoples' day #free Palestine #land back #decolonize #decolonise #Jewish solidarity with Palestine #original #from the river to the sea

[intersectionalpraxis]

Shai Davidai needs to be FIRED and de-platformed. He's a danger to Palestinian/Arab/Muslim students and allies to Palestinian liberation. That has been proven time and again.

Here is another beautiful moment/act of solidarity I wanted to share that happened on the same campus:

#feminist #social justice #free palestine #palestine #free gaza #current events #current news #columbia university #jewish voice for peace #solidarity #columbia jewish students #columbia muslim students #gaza under siege #united states

[jewish-vents]

It's so frustrating to see gentiles pretending to be Jewish because I know the lashback is ultimately going to hurt Jews like me who didn't finish Hebrew school and can't cite the talmud or even all of the tanakh to "prove" I was raised Jewish and continue to practice Judaism.

this is so important, we can't let gentiles divide us and doubt members of our community. Judaism is both an ethnicity and a practice! there are atheist non-practicing Jews and there are Jewish converts who don't have Jewish ancestry, and none of them are any less Jewish for that.

#jewish vents #antisemitism #judaism #jewish solidarity

[mylight-png]

This is disgusting. It's 2024 and people are marching through the streets with Nazi flags.

#jumblr #jewish #judaism #jew #proud israeli #israel solidarity #antisemitism

[bottlepiecemuses]

You are just a piece of shit who seems to think Israel is innocent and the victim

Laughable - truly can't comprehend how you survived without getting decked once in your pathetic life. Living is a privilege you don't deserve.

Why are dna Tests in Israel court mandated?

Why were Ethiopian Jews sterilised?

Why were Yemeni Jewish babies stolen from their families and put into white European ones? Heard it still seems to be an issue today in Israhells society

Why have Muslims, Christians and Jews lived well in peace next to each other before the zionists came? Explain! Or are you just going to tell me to shut the fuck up? Tell me I’m a bigot and insult me some more without stating any facts?

You have been so brainwashed 😂

Disgusting uneducated moron

Can’t comprehend how you can look at yourself in the mirror without going crazy - don’t worry ugliness and arrogance are the only things you seem to have.

You lack a will to live and therefore have no inner peace

But thanks to you I could let out my anger for a bit

Also got anon because crazy bitches like you don’t stop at when they are blocked either

Go kill some more kids and drink tea and post some picture of yourself crying about how hard it is to live during war times💀 while you sit in you Cheeto dusted crusty dusty ass bed

I hope your soul never finds any rest and you will be hurt over and over again 🥰

I have never seen so much Pro-pallywood misinformation. First off Ethiopians were sterilized by a group who doesn't represent Israeli policy as a whole. Also DNA tests aren't mandated. Also learn something about Dhimmitude before you spout shit that they all lived in harmony because second class status was the norm for Jews and Christians. Anyone saying they lived in harmony could say the same thing about Jim Crow south which is everyone lived in harmony unless they knew their place but even that didn't prevent it because there were anti-Jewish riots before Israel was reformed. No you kool aid drinkers are far up the propaganda that you really hate anyone who doesn't see you bigotry as valid. Yemeni babies were not stolen by Israel and that plays ironically into old anti-semitic tropes. We don't get off on babies getting killed but you doofuses so ignore children on the Israel side dying by palestine's hand and want to still depict them as underdog victims.

#pro-israel #anti-zionism is anti-semitism #pro-jewish #israeli lives matter #jewish lives matter #israeli solidarity #jewish solidarity #i stand with israel #israel #israel is real #israel is good #israel is the jewish homeland #israel is not aparthied #israel is not nazi germany #israel is not evil #israel is a safe haven #israel is not a settler colony #israel is the land of Abraham #isaac #and jacob #zionism is jewish #anti-israel is anti-semitism #antisemetism #free palestine is lying about israel

[stephobrien]

Is your pro-Palestine activism hurting innocent people? Here's how to avoid that.

Note: If you prefer plain text, you can read the plain text version here.

Over the last few days, I’ve had conversations with several Jewish people who told me how hurt and scared they are right now.

To my great regret, some of that pain came from a poorly-thought-out post of mine, which – while not ill-intentioned – WAS hurtful.

And a lot of it came from cruelty they’d experienced at the hands of people who claim to be advocating for Palestine, but are using the very real plight of innocent Palestinians to harm equally innocent Jewish people.

Y’all, we need to do better. (Yes, “we” definitely includes me; this is in no small part a “learn from my fail” post, and also a “making amends” post. Some of these are mistakes I’ve made in the past.)

So if you’re an advocate for Palestine who wants to make sure that your defense of one group of vulnerable people doesn’t harm another, here are some important things to do or keep in mind:

Ask yourself if you’re applying a standard to one group that you aren’t applying to another.

Would you want all white Americans or Canadians to be expelled from America or Canada?

Do you want all Jewish people to be expelled from Israel, as opposed to finding a way to live alongside Palestinian Arabs in peace?

If the answer to those two questions is different, ask yourself WHY.

Do you want to be held responsible for the actions of your nation’s army or government? No? Then don’t hold innocent Jewish people, or Israelis in general (whether Jewish or otherwise), responsible for the actions of the Israeli army and government.

On that subject, be wary of condemning all Israeli people for the actions of the IDF. Large-scale tactical decisions are made by the top brass. Service is compulsory, and very few can reasonably get out of service.

Blaming all Israelis for the military’s actions is like blaming all Vietnam vets for the horrors in Vietnam. They’re not calling the shots. They aren’t Nazis running concentration camps. They are carrying out military operations that SHOULD be criticized.

And do not compare them or ANY JEWISH PERSON to Nazis in general. It is Jewish cultural trauma and not outsiders’ to use against them.

Don’t infuse legitimate criticism with antisemitism.

By all means, spread the word about the crimes committed by the Israeli army and government, and the complicity of their allies. Criticize the people responsible for committing and enabling atrocities.

But if you imply that they’re committing those crimes because they’re Jewish, or because Jewish people have special privileges, then you’re straying into antisemitic territory.

Criticize the crime, not the group. If you believe that collective punishment is wrong, don’t do it yourself.

And do your best to use words that apply directly to the situation, rather than the historical terms for situations with similar features. For example, use “segregation,” “oppression,” or “subjugation,” not “Holocaust” or “Jim Crow.” These other historical events are not the cultural property of Jews OR Palestinians, but also have their own nuances and struggles and historical contexts.

Also, blaming other world events on Jewish people or making Jewish people associated with them (for instance, some people falsely blame Jewish people for the African slave trade) is a key feature of how antisemitism functions.

Please, by all means, be specific and detailed in your critiques. But keep them focused on the current political actors – not other peoples’ or nations’ political or cultural histories and traumas.

Be prepared to accept criticism.

You probably already know that society is infused with a wide array of bigotries, and that people growing up in that environment tend to absorb those beliefs without even realizing it. Antisemitism is no exception.

What that means is, there’s a very real chance that you will screw up, and get called out on it, as I so recently did.

If that happens, please be willing to learn and adapt. If you can educate yourself about the suffering and needs of Palestinians, you can do the same for Jewish people.

Understand that the people you hurt aren’t obligated to baby you. Give them room to be angry.

After I made a post that inadvertently hurt people, some were nice about it, and others weren’t. Some outright insulted my morals and intelligence.

And I had to accept that I’d earned that from them.

I’d hurt them, and they weren’t obligated to be more careful with my feelings than I had been with theirs.

They weren’t obligated to forgive me, trust me, or stop being mad at me right away.

I’ll admit, there were moments when I got defensive. I shouldn’t have. And I encourage you to try not to, if you screw up and hurt people.

I know that’s hard, but it’s important. Getting defensive only tells people you care more about doubling down on your mistake than you do about healing the hurt it caused.

Instead, acknowledge that they have a right to be angry, apologize for the way you hurt them, and try to make amends, while understanding that they don’t owe you trust or forgiveness.

Be aware that some antisemites are using legitimate complaints to “Trojan horse” antisemitism into leftist spaces.

This is a really easy stumbling block to trip over, because most people probably don’t look at every post a creator makes before sharing the one they’re looking at right now.

I recently shared a video that called out some of the Likud and IDF’s atrocities and hypocrisy, and that also noted that many Jewish people are wonderful members of their communities.

I was later informed that, while that video in particular seemed reasonable, the creator behind it is frequently antisemitic.

I deleted the post, and blocked the creator. I encourage you to do the same if it’s brought to your attention that you’ve been ‘Trojan horse’d.

EDIT: Important note about antisemitism in leftist spaces:

While it's true that some blatant antisemites are using seemingly reasonable posts to get their foot in the door of leftist spaces, it's also true that a lot of antisemitism already exists inside those spaces.

This antisemitism is often dressed up in progressive-sounding language, but nonetheless singles Jewish people and places out in ways that aren't applied equally to other groups, or that label Jewish people in ways that portray them as acceptable targets.

If you want to see some specific examples, so you can have a better idea of what to keep an eye out for, I suggest reading this excellent reblog of this post.

Fact-check your doubts about antisemitism.

Depending on which parts of the internet you look at, you’ve probably seen people accused of antisemitism because they complained about the Likud and/or IDF’s actions. So you might be primed to be wary, or feel unsure of how to tell what counts as real antisemitism.

But that doesn’t mean antisemitism isn’t a very real, widespread, and harmful problem. And it doesn’t mean many or even most Jewish people are lying to you or being overly sensitive.

So if someone says something is antisemitic, and you aren’t sure, I encourage you to:

A. Look up the action or thing in question, including its history. Is there an antisemitic history or connotation you aren’t aware of? For best results, include “antisemitic” in your search query, in quotes.

B. Understand that some things, while not inherently antisemitic, have been used by antisemites often enough that Jewish people are understandably wary of them. Schrodinger’s antisemitism, if you will.

C. Ask Jewish people WHO HAVE OFFERED TO HELP EDUCATE YOU. Emphasis on WHO HAVE OFFERED. Random Jewish people aren’t obligated to give you their time and emotional energy, or to educate you – especially on subjects that are scary or painful for them.

@edenfenixblogs has kindly offered her inbox to those who are genuinely trying to learn and do better, and I’ve found her to be very kind, patient, reasonable, and fair-minded.

Understand that this is URGENTLY NEEDED.

In one of my conversations with a Jewish person who’d called me out, they said this was the most productive conversation they’d had with a person with a Palestinian flag in their profile.

THIS IS NOT OKAY.

I didn’t do anything special. All I did was listen, apologize for my mistakes, and learn.

Yes, it feels good to be acknowledged. But I feel like I’ve been praised for peeing IN the toilet, instead of beside it.

Apologizing, learning, and making amends after you hurt people shouldn’t be “the most reasonable thing I’ve heard from a person with a Palestinian flag pfp.”

It should be BASIC DECENCY.

And the fact that it’s apparently so uncommon should tell you how much unnecessary stress and fear Jewish people have been living with because of people who consider themselves defenders of human rights.

By all means, be angry at the Likud, the IDF, and the politicians, reporters, and specific media outlets who choose to enable and cover up for them.

But direct that anger toward the people who deserve it and are in a position to do something about it, not random people who simply happen to be Jewish, or who don’t want millions of people to be turned into refugees when less violent methods of achieving freedom and rights for Palestinians are available.

Stop peeing beside the toilet, people.

#I/P #I/P conflict #I/P war #Israel #Palestine #Gaza #free Palestine #Israel Palestine conflict #Israel Palestine war #Jewish goyim solidarity #choose peace

[kropotkindersurprise]

December 13, 2023 - A major highway in Los Angeles, USA, was blocked for 2.5 hours during rush hour by Jewish activists and allies with the organisation If Not Now.

The protesters were demanding an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, and an end to US funding for Israel's war crimes against the Palestinian people. The protesters, wearing T-shirts saying "Not in our name", formed a human chain across the highway and erected a 7-foot tall menorah in the road. According to police 75 activists were arrested. [video]

#palestine #free palestine #solidarity #la #los angeles #usa #jewish #jews #blockade #menorah #anti-zionism #gif #2023 #acab #police #ifnotnow #gaza #ceasefire #occupation #apartheid #israel #genocide #not in our name #genocide joe #biden #war crimes #hanukkah #chanukah

[unbidden-yidden]

In light of that ask, to my fellow jumblr folks: reblog if you are Jewish and stand in solidarity with Muslims against Islamophobia and believe that it is ethically, morally, and religiously important to do so. Reblog if you, too, view this as part of the commandment to love your neighbor as yourself. ♡

#jumblr #interfaith #Jewish-Muslim solidarity #this goes double for shutting down Islamophobia within our own community btw