#jewish survival

[edenfenixblogs]

I’m at the bat mitzvah waiting for it to start!

How amazing is it that, on Holocaust Remembrance Day, that the descendants of our survivor grandmother are here? But ALSO, that her non-Jewish sister is here FROM GERMANY TO CELEBRATE WITH US????

Also our friends from Holland who are also not Jewish. I’m actually verklempt!!!

What a blessing!!! I’m so full of joy!

#Holocaust Remembrance Day #Jewish joy #Jewish survival

[the-garbanzo-annex-jr]

Yes, I know we are between Passovers, but I just found this, and if I wait, I will forget to post it.

#jewish survival #somewhere over the rainbow #judith light #ben platt #jews #pogroms #Youtube

[jewishspite]

Being Jewish is just like: yeah they hate us again, yeah they spread misinformation on us again, yeah this has been happening for generations, yeah we're not surprised anymore, yeah we're gonna survive this, yeah it's gonna happen again.

#And yeah we're gonna survive it next time too #Antisemitism #jewish #judaism #ישראבלר

[nonromanceable-npc]

Anyway, this a daily reminder that your local Jews don't owe you shit and they especially don't need to justify their existence, history, or culture to you for you to feel a microscopic piece of empathy for them

#jumblr #jewish #actually jewish #jewblr #your local jewish community is just trying to survive in a world that wants nothing more than for them to die

[thatjewishzionistscout]

If Israel wasn’t necessary to Jewish survival there would still be Jews in Arab countries.

#israel #israel palestine conflict #palestine #jewblr #free palestine #jewish #antisemitism #hamas #i stand with israel #Israel is necessary to Jewish survival #am yisrael chai

[aiiaiiiyo]

#These 3 Jewish men arrived in Auschwitz on the same day #& were tattooed 10 numbers apart. 73 years later #@sandibachom photographed them meeting for the first time for the Last Eyewitness Project #as free men who survived to build families and prosperous lives. #ThereofSnooker #oldschool

[secular-jew]

#secular-jew #israel #jewish #judaism #israeli #jerusalem #diaspora #secular jew #secularjew #islam #antisemitism #antisemitic #antisemites #hamas is isis #indigenous #indigeneity #survival #10 7 23 #no ceasefire

[rotzaprachim]

i don’t want to be overly essentialist or talk outside my cultural lane but... there is something so intensely not anglo-’murican about the way the way andor treats death and it’s so fascinating and refreshing. like on one level this is a show profoundly about death from the very structure of its narrative, but it’s about how you live knowing you will die rather than the glorious death-from-martyrdom-death-as-redemption narrative, and therefor, inversely, about the profound interconnections between the dead and the living and those on the liminal in-between. now we have maarva’s death, and the very introduction of her death comes through the assembled chorus of communal voices who have come to clean her house and take her to rest. (i also love the fact that maarva died, explicitly, of old age and so many of the other related issues. i don’t think you can make the case that the empire *wasn’t* involved because she’s someone so utterly and clearly destroyed by its actions, but i do like that this was a so-called “ordinary” death, because of the thematic purpose that even “ordinary” deaths are heartbreaking and awful and worth remembering.)

andor makes it canon that there are communal aid organizations- i immediately think chevra kadishas! though many cultures have their own organisations and social structures for how to support the grieving and honour the dead- which is just one of the ways it highlights community and the complexity of interpersonal relationships. the daughters of ferrix are introduced an episode earlier, and i realised on a rewatch with my family that the daughter of ferrix - keezy maybe?- introduced at the beginning of the episode is also mentioned by bee in the first episode as being someone who helps maarva with her dinner and medication. we don’t see maarva’s body go alone, we see her transported through the streets by the women of ferrix. andor makes the case of elder care as communal connection and antifascist work, AND that it is done by the same people as those that bury the dead. and the way that andor is building up t having the season finale be the funeral, the thing that drags cassian home and into the line of fire being his mother’s funeral, the storytelling possible about funerary customs and memorialisation as acts of cultural resistance and aggressive rehumanisation... i’m too verklempt to say much more but i think the way this thematic arc is so intertwined with cassian’s time in narkina 5 and the scene with him and melshi at the end of the episode like! no one is lovingly honouring every one of those men with two-day funeral ceremonies through the streets. NO ONE remembers but cassian and melshi. two episodes earlier ulaf died, but the closest thing he had to the daughters of ferrix was the doctor, the fellow prisoner, who refused to learn his name and quietly euthanised him in the hallway. until we know more there were nearly five thousand other deaths. and the episode ends with melshi saying, it’s our duty as survivors to carry the weight of memory so that other people will know and remember this. they are also carrying the weight of mourning those whose time it was not to die. fuck. this show guys. it has me 

#andor #andor spoilers #andor meta #my experience of funerary stuff is very much in the pinoy/irish/jewish nexus so i'd love to hear other thoughts #but damn this hit deep cored me the Ethnic ness of it all really #maarva andor #melshi's speech as very similar to many jewish rememberences of the shoah too like fuck. we REMEMBER #we force you to remember we are always remembering we are always surviving #cassian andor #ruescott melshi #not being latine i don't want to say something *broad* about entire diverse cultures' conceptions of death but i WAs reading #octavio paz's essay on day of the dead and death and yeah.yeah. many many manyyyy thoughts

[woman-respecter]

also like i think calling the nypd on the columbia protesters was absolutely the wrong call for a multitude of reasons and i’m sure some of the protesters there are reasonable but you can’t deny that the ones chanting “go back to poland” may have made some jews feel unsafe.

#i don’t know how jewish college kids are surviving rn i would either kill myself or transfer to brandeis

[edenfenixblogs]

I just saw a post from someone saying Jews hate Palestinians because Jews have no culture.

First of all, Jews don’t hate Palestinians.

Second of all, the dumbest fucking thing someone could ever say about Jews is that we don’t have culture??????

Anyways, don’t buy into bullshit that tries to divide us. Palestinians and Jews and Israelis all have very rich and distinct cultures. But being that we share a homeland, there is of course some overlap. And we should celebrate it and rejoice in the things we have in common. More unites us than divides us.

First, read more about Jewish culture, Israeli culture, and Palestinian culture.

When you’re done, try one of these wonderful organizations that seeks to find peace for all Israelis and Palestinians:

Or any of the other wonderful organizations you can find at the Alliance for Middle East Peace.

There are over 100 organizations there run by actual Palestinians and Israelis and Muslims and Jews working together for peace.

You can even sort by organizations working in each of the following sectors or even a combination of any of these. There is definitely something where your skills can be put to use:

Be a part of the solution. Don’t depend the divide.

#Israel #Palestine #resources #jewish muslim solidarity #israeli palestinian solidarity #antisemitism #islamophobia #peace over conflict #the only way we all survive is by living together in peace #mena #Jewish culture #Palestinian culture #Israeli culture

[thedreadvampy]

legitimately insane how to some people, "we should wipe out this ethnic group that we've violently constrained to a ghetto because they're just genetically more violent and dangerous" is a reasonable and justifiable statement but it's Nazi Rhetoric to say something like, "it's bad that Israeli civilians are being killed but acknowledging that as tragic includes acknowledging that the almost daily state-sanctioned murder of civilians by the Israeli government is also tragic and unacceptable"

btw guys speaking of Nazi shit - can we check in, alongside what's been done to Palestinians in the last 75 years, what's the Israeli government's take on the Azerbaijani government's newest round of ethnic cleansing of Armenians? oh are the Israeli government's actions maybe not determined by Jewish identity, but by a commitment to colonial supremacy which puts them on the same page as other violently genocidal states like Azerbaijan, the US, and the UK? god can you Even Imagine?

(framing speaking against Israeli war crimes as inherently antisemitic requires understanding the Israeli state as representing all Jewish people, when it doesn't even represent all Israelis.

framing Israeli war crimes as synonymous with Jewish identity is pretty fucked up if we're being honest. I don't think that controlling water and power and movement for a captive population and shooting children dead for throwing stones is an inherent value of Judaism, any more than I think the torture carried out at Guantanamo Bay is an inherent value of Christianity - in both cases they're atrocities carried out by a far right genocidal government using religious identity as a shield.

Calling statements like "Israel is committing genocide against the people it's displaced" inherently antisemitic is doing more to further the idea that all Jewish people are associated with Israel than saying "the Israeli government is doing war crimes," which is a statement of fact about a country that exists and does war crimes. Is criticism of Israel as a nation often used as cover for antisemitism? Absolutely. Does that mean the Israeli government isn't doing literal war crimes repeatedly, on record, while talking publicly about scrubbing an ethnic group off the map? Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh well in the last 48 hours they've definitely cut off water and power to almost 600,000 civilians and allegedly used white phosphorus against civilians so in an extremely factual and unambiguous way yeah man those are Literal War Crimes whoever does them.)

#red said #sorry man saying 'it's bad to do genocide and war crimes' doesn't actually mean 'I'm happy when Jewish people die' #it means 'there is a context to Palestinian militants attacking Israelis which involves Palestinians being killed wounded or imprisoned #very nearly every day by the Israeli state and settlers. so no you can't treat a Palestinian attack on Israel as an unprecedented tragedy #without also recognising that Israeli forces have repeatedly visited attacks of similar magnitude on Palestine which is ALSO tragic #as well as the regular state-sanctioned murder of over 200 Palestinians in the 9 months BEFORE the Palestinian attack on Saturday #It means 'Palestinian lives don't matter less than Israeli lives' not 'Israeli lives don't matter' #this week is literally the FIRST TIME SINCE RECORDS BEGAN that more Israeli lives have been lost than Palestinian #bc for every year since 2000 orders of magnitude more palestinians than Israelis have been killed in this war #you don't get to say 'it's only bad when X ethnic group is killed it's GOOD to kill Y ethnic group' then accuse OTHERS of genocide apologis #it is legitimately a tragedy for Israeli civilians to be killed and wounded en masse. the people are not the nation. #but it's not less of a tragedy for Palestinians to have been killed and wounded en masse week after week for decades. #and when peaceful protest gets you shot and bombed and acting against the military gets you shot and bombed #and just existing doing nothing at all gets you shot and bombed. living near someone accused of terrorism. looking for your fucking cat. #when you're getting shot and bombed daily whatever you do. it's not surprising that sometimes people move to violence against civilians. #because as people from Gaza have said. better to die fighting for survival than die on your knees waiting. #which like. I'm not making a moral judgement one way or the other bc i am intrinsically disgusted by mass killing. as we all should be. #and this might be the movement which liberates Palestine and it might be the excuse which allows Israel to finish Palestine #and either way hundreds of people are dead on both sides and however you slice it that's a fucking tragedy #but we cannot. treat it as if Hamas' strike began the violence. and ignore the 200+ Palestinians killed by the IDF this year beforehand #Palestinian lives matter as much as Israeli lives. 700 Israeli citizens dead is a tragedy. 600 Palestinians dead is a tragedy. #and if you lay out the numbers from this weekend alone you can pretend that Israelis are getting decimated by Palestine. #but to do that you have to ignore the facts that for every 1 Israeli killed in the past decade 3 Palestinians die. #and that Israeli deaths happen in occasional outbursts of violence while Palestinian deaths happen every week #whether or not Hamas or any other Palestinian faction initiates violence

[cooltastrophe]

i see your "antizionism is antisemitism" vs "antizionism is not antisemitism" and debate and offer you: zionism is antisemitism

#Made by Asher #i'm right about this #fuck zionism and fuck the idea that the survival of jewish people and culture is dependent on an imperial project #i didn't always understand this and tbh i'm embarrassed of zionist ideas i held in the past #and i'm grateful to the palestinian and jewish friends who have been part of my journey

[fleshadept]

while the criticism of glass onion being a bourgeois art piece hegemonically negotiating hatred of the 1% into standard discourse is understandable, i think it's important to remember that rian johnson and daniel craig and whoever you want to criticise for making "performative" art about the systemic ways in which the ultrawealthy maintain power and specifically marginalize women of color are far closer in wealth to the average american than they ever will be to elon musk or any billionaire. daniel craig's net worth is $8 million dollars. his WHOLE net worth. you have to multiply that by 19,500 to get anywhere near elon musk's net worth of $156,000,000,000. and that's after he's lost $100bn this YEAR.

it's true that people shouldn't count watching movies as activism and definitely shouldn't see media produced by huge corporations as praxis, but that doesn't mean what political standpoints they do contain lack value or are disingenuous. the human mind is literally incapable of conceptualizing numbers after a certain point, so it's easy to think of hollywood rich and billionaire rich as similar, because both kinds of people live lives that most of us could barely dream of with privileges and access to resources that we will never have. but the difference between a millionaire and a billionaire is the difference between being able to make a movie starring daniel craig and being able to bankroll dozens of politicians and buy one of the largest social media websites used by millions of people daily on a whim

as "rich people bad" movies go, glass onion deals with it REALLY well. the scene at the end when helen destroys miles's house demonstrates a very nuanced understanding of how billionaires maintain power; blanc recognizes and tells helen that even though they found the truth, they can't do anything legally because miles burned their only physical evidence and the courts will unequivocally side with the billionaire. again. so in lieu of any justice system that will work, helen starts breaking shit. but miles doesn't even care that much, because what's a dozen million dollar glass art pieces to a man who accrues that in interest every minute? even when everyone else joins in, he doesn't care. it's annoying, but it doesn't mean anything. so the other "disruptors" stop after they've gotten their minimal catharsis, having done no real damage to his reputation or, frankly, their reliance on him.

helen burning the mona lisa to take him down, and that being presented as the best option, is really significant. as movies go, taking the stance of "destroying priceless art and private property is not only justified and moral but effective in the face of a system that gives you no other option for justice" is pretty damn rare.

it's true that if glass onion or other high budget films actually tangibly threatened the system in any way they would never get funded or see the light of day. but the cool thing about stories, and about art, is that you can't predict the effects they have on people. anti-billionaire bourgeois art isn't direct action, it isn't activism, and it isn't even important politically, but that doesn't mean it has no effect on the discourse whatsoever and can't be important to how people see the 1%

#glass onion #AGAIN. movies are NOT praxis. they are not activism. but i feel like when people bring up the frankfurt school/gramsci arguments #of hegemonic negotiation via movies presenting political viewpoints #WHICH IS VERY IMPORTANT AND A VERY REAL PROCESS #people also tend to use those arguments to discount the value art can have in general #there's this one quote from a jewish partisan who survived the first wave of nazis invading lithuania and organized sabotage #and subversive groups against the invaders that was like. 'had the invasion not occurred i would have been a poet' #which is such a succinct way of saying that art is useful broadly up to a point but after that point you have to pick up a gun #anyway i'm rambling. cricket enters the chat to discuss hegemonic negotiation #cricket chirps #glass onion spoilers

[arunswild]

This war has been flipping my schedule upside down, so I completely forgot about my late grandfather's birthday, which was last week, but -

He was born in 1924, and lived in Poland with his family till the war broke out. He lost his parents and got separated from his little brother. He was in Auschwitz, and he survived the death marches. He immigrated to Israel, determined to put as much distance as possible between himself and the memory of the war. He owned a farm near the coast for one short year, and then war broke out again. He fought in it. He spent a year as a POW near Cairo. He came back to his wife. He lost a baby. Then another war broke out. He fought in that one too.

it's absolutely wild to me that this shit, like, never ends. We never get to catch our breaths. Like. What.

#jewish #jews #israel #am israel hai #war #ישראבלר #jumblr #ישראל #jewish history #survival story #family #it's nuts #it's just crazy #that we as a people can't catch a break #like whyyy

[rudegoose]

currently googling “how to survive thanksgiving dinner with my dad’s polish-jewish family and my mom’s italian (sicilian)-catholic family”

#thanksgiving #italy #italia #italiano #italian #polish #poland #catholic #catholiscism #polska #sicily #sicilian #jew #jewish #judaism #reform judaism #y’all help #there’s no way i’m surviving this #let the drama begin #i’m just here to kvetch with my oldest cousin #roman catholic

[emuanon34]

#Revolutionary Girl Utena #Shoujo Kakumei Utena #RGU #SKU #Anthy #Anthy Himemyia #I actually had ideas on writing an essay on why Jesus Christ wouldn’t survive any of the witch hunts. #It started as an essay on why Jewish folk not believing him to be the messiah is not that big deal #I then somehow spiraled down to defending paganism witches and witchcraft. #Christianity TW