a quote from people love dead jews on the topic of jews as docile and polite victims who remain kind after atrocities galore:
“Here’s how much some people dislike living Jews: they murdered 6 million of them. This fact bears repeating, as it does not come up at all in Anne Frank’s writings. Readers of her diary are aware that the author was murdered in a genocide, but this does not mean that her diary is a work about genocide. If it were, it is unlikely that it would have been anywhere near as universally embraced.
“We know this, because there is no shortage of writings from victims and survivors who chronicled this fact in vivid detail, and none of those documents have achieved anything like Frank’s diary’s fame. Those that have come close have only done so by observing those same rules of hiding, the ones that insist on polite victims who don’t insult their persecutors.”
the words of dead (murdered) jews exist in the worlds eye to prove a point about us. the words of living (survivors of atrocity) jews are only useful if they confirm the words of jews before the atrocity. we are a political token either way. to be a jew and to be angry threatens the paradigm they have built on the words of jews they killed. that we sat down and took it. the angry jew is a jew with agency. the angry jew forces them to reckon with what the world has done and continues to do. the angry jew speaks for themself and that is too loud. to control our own narrative is to ask for too much.
People do not know how to deal with Jews who are done being understanding and polite and patient and have stopped even being nice.
Jews are supposed to be weak and gentle and understanding and consumable and objects.
I think a bunch of this in progressive spaces is that Jews have been rendered into things, alongside the Shoah being a consumable lesson that the Jews (and no one else) needs to draw the appropriate conclusions from.
Everyone else gets to use the Shoah and Jews as a tool for defining other things.
That there are enough tokens to carry this view of Jews as a whole through is part of the problem.
These tokens are Good Jews. They are Exotic but not too Exotic and Nice and Quirky and Fight G-D Behind A Dennys and Show Up For Progressive Causes and are Fuckable and agree with the Story. They say the Right Things and are Useful and so are worthy of Conditional Humanity.
The thing is if they decide to stop being useful or the Story and Right Words push too far, or if those causes are suddenly more unsafe for them, it is of course on them and they have revealed themselves to be a Bad Evil Jew and that humanity is stripped away and the star shit and struggle sessions begin.
There have been endless "I don't have to hold space for you, how dare you insist I should be nice/contort myself etc" about any minority experience and the same people who say that and analyze that and break that down refuse to apply it to Jews because hating us and blaming us and at best using us as tools for other, worthier causes, while wearing us as an accessory, is more important to them than seeing us as fellow humans regardless.
It's ultimately a mixture of consumerist, authoritarian crunchy-crystal orientalist bullshit and it's toxic to the people doing it in the long run, but it's toxic to us first.
In a testament to the adage that “everything and its opposite is a reason for antisemitism” Jews are being criticized because they are insufficiently Christ-like.
leftists be like: heyyyyy you have to tolerate the whole world wanting you dead. including people actively trying. in fact you have to be endlessly empathetic to the people actively trying to kill you cuz if you arent you deserve to die even more. the fact that you are being protected from them trying to kill you is evil. maybe even help them kill you!! what do you mean im being bigoted? youre the one being bigoted!
When politics is just two camps fighting for red vs blue, obviously you can talk about the bundists as opposed to zionists while curling your hair. Because it just doesn't matter, it's all just for likes, views, shares, virality, and not very real decisions that people made, and are still making, at the cost of lives, livelihoods, and future generations
Minor quibble with the video: a lot of Jews tried desperately to leave Europe, but couldn’t because they had nowhere to go including Mandatory Palestine.
In April 1948, weeks before Israel's independence, 22-year-old Robert F. Kennedy traveled through Mandatory Palestine & saw Jews fighting for their right to live and have a state & Arabs calling for jihad against the Jews and to prevent a Jewish state.
This day, his dispatch was published in the Boston Post:
The Arabs declared openly:
“We shall bring Moslem brigades from Pakistan, we shall lead a religious crusade for all loyal followers of Mohammed … Whether it takes three months, three years, or 30, we will carry on the fight. Palestine will be Arab. We shall accept no compromise.”
The Jews, RFK wrote, were “fighting for their very lives … with their backs to the sea” and “101 percent morale.”
Most importantly, he captured the irreconcilable core of the conflict:
“The Jews want a homeland of their own. That to them is the sole issue.
The Arabs in command believe that eventually victory must be theirs. It is against all law and nature that this Jewish state should exist.”
This was written before modern Israel existed in any borders.
The conflict was never primarily about borders, refugees, or “the occupation.”
It was about one side demanding a sovereign Jewish state — and the other side’s fundamental, non-negotiable principle being that no such state could ever be allowed to exist.
A 22-year-old Bobby Kennedy saw the truth with brutal clarity in real time.
his death is still fresh but losing my grandfather has made me realize that we are losing generation(s) of witnesses of a period in jewish history that we desperately need to preserve. and i know we say that about shoah survivors but the generation(s) of jews that were quickly and violently ethnically cleansed from SWANA are unfortunately leaving this world too, and so are their stories. but their experiences? they have looked islamism right in the face — and they can recognize as we experience it today; it’s repeating itself and spreading beyond the region because we are not in their countries to be their scapegoats this time.
my grandfather, after 10/7/2023, would watch the news and lament, “we’re cousins, our people are cousins” at the unfolding violence. and he would also shake his head at the ceasefires, negotiations, and diplomacy, and he would throw his hands up at the accusations of genocide, ethnic cleansng, starvation, intentional targeting etc because he knew, he KNEW, he experienced firsthand, exactly what israel and other minorities in the region are dealing with — including persians — to this day. it hasn’t truly changed at its root, at all.
we are losing that testimony, that valuable and irreplaceable knowledge, too. it’s not just my grandfather, unfortunately, and i’m desperate to find more ways to preserve it while we can.
I just can't get over the part about how REAL Judaism "died" in the mid-20th century. Antizionists really do wish the Nazis had succeeded, don't they?
@thisgingerisareallybadwriter Yes. The only decent Jews are the dead Jews they can mourn in performative rituals that showcase what good, sensitive people they are.
Not just that, but that the combined armies of five Arab states turned out to have been beaten by JEWS. It was a humiliation on a civilizational level, when they beaten by dhimmis, people who are by their society's definitions, "lesser beings".
Moreover, to quote Zureik (ignore the antisemitism):
[T]he causes of this calamity are not all attributable to the Arabs themselves. This implies that most of them are, or at least most of his readers would view it at such.
Zureik is happily willing to sacrifice others' wellbeing for his Omnicause:
Incidentally, Zureik accidentally winds up linking Zionism and Land Back:
(Of course, the Arabs and Italians came as conquerors, so can be discounted as poor examples here, leaving only Native Americans in his example. Oops.)
Zureik heavily implying antisemitism is our fault -- lovely man:
First of all, it hasn't, and second of all, the Kielce pogrom, and third of all, have you fucking looked at European history?
Again, this is what coined the term Nakba. This is the origins of the word.
Transcripts:
First image:
Seven Arab states declare war on Zionism in Palestine, stop impotent before it, and then turn on their heels. The representatives of the Arabs deliver fiery speeches in the highest international forums, warning what the Arab states and peoples will do if this or that decision be enacted. Declarations fall like bombs from the mouths of officials at the meetings of the Arab League, but when action becomes necessary, the fire is still and quiet, the steel and iron are rusted and twisted, quick to bend and disintegrate. The bombs are hollow and empty. They cause no damage and kill no one.
Seven states seek the abolition of partition and the subduing of Zionism, but they leave the battle having lost a not inconsiderable portion of the soil of Palestine, even of the part “given” to the Arabs in the partition. They are forced to accept a truce in which there is neither advantage nor gain for them.
Second image:
However, in all justice we must hasten to say that the causes of this calamity are not all attributable to the Arabs themselves. The enemy confronting them is determined, has plentiful resources, and great influence. Years, even generations, passed during which he prepared for this struggle. He extended his influence and his power to the ends of the earth. He got control over many of the sources of power within the great nations so that they were either forced into partiality toward him or submitted to him.
Third image:
This is our duty at the present time, and we must set ourselves to this kind of mobilization. If it forces us to halt projects for reform and for building up our countries internally, and even if we have to divert to the war effort appropriations for public works, education, and agriculture, in fact all the income of the Arab states -- above the minimum necessary for living -- so be it! Roads, buildings, schools, UNESCO, parties and banquets will be of no value if the Zionists win a clear-cut victory in this battle, establish their state, and sink their fangs into the body of the Arab nation.
Fourth image:
Even if we grant the Jews an historical right in the past, what right does that confer on them in the present? If historical relationship is a valid basis for claiming title to a country, the Arabs would today have the right to claim Spain, the Italians would have the right to claim England, all the population of the United States would have to leave it and return it to the American Indians.
Fifth image:
If we assume for the sake of argument that the Jews had no hand in bringing about the persecution which has befallen them, that they in no way contributed to it, and that it was all the fault of other peoples, who then is res-
Sixth image:
persons falls on the shoulders of those peoples who persecuted them. And since Nazism has disappeared from Europe, what prevents their return to their homelands and the facilitation of their means of livelihood therein?
Seventh image:
power or visualize the aweful [sic] danger of it. Many American industries and financial institutions are in the hands of Jews, not to mention the press, radio, cinema, and other media of propaganda, or Jewish voters in the states of New
Today is the 35th anniversary of Operation Solomon, when Israel secretly airlifted the entire remaining Ethiopian Jewish community to Israel. 36 hours. 14,325 people.
The community had been trying to get here for centuries. This is their story.
One thing I always find fascinating about Shavuos is that the entire holiday is built around Jews claiming that thousands of years ago an entire nation stood at Mount Sinai and accepted the Torah as divine truth. It's a unique claim, because it wasn't one man claiming he had a private revelation somewhere in the desert and convincing people afterward. The claim is that an entire people experienced it together and then built their civilization around that moment.
And honestly, whether people fully believe it or not, it is still one of the boldest claims in human history.
Because if Sinai is true, then it completely destroys the modern idea that truth is something human beings invent as they go along. It means morality is not whatever society votes for this decade. It means desire itself is not sacred just because it feels authentic. It means there are things above politics, trends, influencers, universities, podcasts, and public opinion.
That is why the Torah still makes modern society uncomfortable, even when people pretend they are completely “fine with religion.” Most people are perfectly happy with religion when it operates like a lifestyle accessory. Some spirituality, family traditions, nice values, maybe a motivational quote or a mental back pat.
The discomfort happens when religion stops feeling decorative and starts acting authoritative.
And honestly, maybe that resistance would make more sense if the modern world had actually built something healthier in its place.
But look around for five minutes and ask yourself honestly how the “replacement project” is going.
The twentieth century alone gave us regimes and movements that promised to replace religion, tradition, and old moral systems with a more “enlightened” human-centered future. The Soviet Union promised the “new man.” Mao promised a purified revolutionary society. Modern Western culture promised liberation through radical individualism and the removal of any restraints. Yet somehow, after all the revolutions, all the progress, all the therapy language, and all the self-help culture, we ended up with one of the loneliest and most anxious societies ever recorded. Depression, anxiety, suicide, addiction, and isolation continue climbing across the developed world while people spend hours every day online publicly pretending they are fulfilled.
People like to say they escaped religion, but human beings never stop worshipping things. If it is not God, it becomes politics, celebrities, ideology, status, lust, money, or public approval. Every generation thinks it freed itself from Sinai, and then immediately chains itself to something far smaller.
Tomorrow night Jews all over the world are going to stay up learning a Torah that empires tried to erase, intellectuals tried to mock, reformers tried to modernize, and enemies tried to destroy for thousands of years. Ancient Egypt looked eternal. Greece looked intellectually unbeatable. The Soviet Union was convinced religion would disappear completely within a generation.
Yet Jews are still sitting around tables learning the same Torah while most of those “inevitable futures” are now museum exhibits and history lectures.
For a book that was supposed to disappear a long time ago, it is still running the conversation.
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