When Antisemitism and Misogyny Combine

This is a blog primarily for Jewish women to talk about how they face both antisemitism and misogyny, sometimes mixed together. Some of these posts will be original posts, some will be reblogs, and others will be submissions.

[antisemisogyny321]

@thequeerlittletoaster i'm not 100% sure, i guess i could make someone a mod and then remove myself from the list of moda or something. As for running the blog, i just scroll through relevant seeming tags every so often and post anytjing that seems good Otherwise i may go with the option someone else suggested of putting some numbers behind the name and then deleting

[antisemisogyny321]

Hey everyone I’m trying to declutter my life, i feel like this blog rarely adds anything to the table, and it doesn’t bring me any joy. I’ve been thinking of deleting. Please lmk if anyone wants to adopt the blog instead of having the url rendered unusable.

[antisemisogyny321]

Last call

[antisemisogyny321]

Hey everyone I’m trying to declutter my life, i feel like this blog rarely adds anything to the table, and it doesn’t bring me any joy. I’ve been thinking of deleting. Please lmk if anyone wants to adopt the blog instead of having the url rendered unusable.

[yidquotes]

Selling Judaism, Religion Not Included

A new take on the culture is light on the Bible, heavy on the Bubbies. Think Goop, but Jewish.

Go read this. Holy hell.

[animatedamerican]

Iiiii am super uncomfortable with the conflation of interfaith families and the “Jew-curious”.  Like, how is it not obvious that those are not the same thing?

(I mean I am super uncomfortable with this entire thing but that struck me as a separate egregiousness.)

[antisemisogyny321]

Hey everyone I'm trying to declutter my life, i feel like this blog rarely adds anything to the table, and it doesn't bring me any joy. I've been thinking of deleting. Please lmk if anyone wants to adopt the blog instead of having the url rendered unusable.

[long-ago-1234567890]

hi!! i’m doing a school assignment where i have to write a memo to a CEO of a company about a social issue, and i’ve chosen to write to tumblr about what they can do to combat antisemitic hate speech.

if you would fill out this short survey to aid me in my research, that would be super awesome and helpful!! <3

[weavemama]

anyway while white feminists are caping for tomi lahren,, about 25 black girls are missing in D.C due to possible sex trafficking and there has yet to be a national outrage….. THIS NEEDS ATTENTION

[weavemama]

Latina girls are also turning up missing in the city and the police seem to be doing very less about the cases, or even nothing. ( https://www.google.com/amp/amp.usatoday.com/story/99573222/) I’m so sick of depending on social media to spread the word about these missing girls,, when the police are too busy cracking down on immigrants and weed users

[etrogim-deactivated20200109]

so the memorial site at aushwitz was shut down today after nude protesters slaughtered a sheep, lit a fire, chained themselves to the front gate, and draped white banner saying “love” over the “arbeit macht frei” (“work makes you free”) sign. their objective is unclear……..um?? what kind of insensitive and groteque white activism is this???

[tikkunolamorgtfo]

WHAT THE HELL

[closet-keys]

Sebastian Gorka- What we know at this point

He is currently a member of the national security advisory staff and serves as a deputy assistant to Trump

From 2014 to 2016, Gorka was an editor for National Security Affairs for the Breitbart News Network, where he worked for Bannon.

Three days after Trump won the presidency, he glorified the display of a photo of a dead body. NPR’s Welna recounted this event, stating:  "I’m gonna start with something a tad naughty,“ he told a giddy crowd of Trump supporters. “We are happy. But I am going to show a picture I’m not meant to show usually.“A grisly photo was then projected onto a large screen of the body of an insurgent lying face down, with an AK-47 at its side. "We can win now,” Gorka roared before the cheering crowd. “We can win!”

Gorka was photographed at an inaugural ball wearing a medal from the Hungarian Order of Heroes, Vitezi Rend, a group listed by the State Department as taking direction from Germany’s Nazi government during World War II.

The Anne Frank Center for Mutual Respect made a statement on March 17 calling for “Departments of Justice and Homeland Security to investigate whether Sebastian Gorka falsified his U.S. naturalization application by failing to disclose his membership in a Hungarian neo-Nazi organization.” 

Gorka’s mother worked with David Irving on a book on the Hungarian revolution called Uprising. Irving was later jailed for Holocaust denial. 

Gorka responded to accusations of his membership in Vitezi Rend by saying: “I am proud of what my father did. I am proud of his resistance to all forms of totalitarianism. By the bye laws I inherited the title of Vitez through the merits of my father, but I never swore allegiance formally”

[closet-keys]

[returnofthejudai]

One of the most important parts of Passover to me is the removal of wine from our glasses for each of the ten plagues because we are not supposed to take pleasure in the suffering of others, even those who oppressed us. It’s an important lesson we shouldn’t forget. Schadenfreude is poison for the soul.

[antisemisogyny321]

I literally can’t believe this nonsense about the ‘hitlerkin’ person is the current Big Discourse, but apparently ppl are actually defending this

Kintypes and IDs can be fun or even crucial for some but rule #1 of any coping mechanism is basically first do no harm. And in this case it obviously does harm. It’s not rocket science

[yidquotes]

One of the great principles of the Torah and of Jewish life generally is accountability – for behavior, speech, actions and even thoughts. The Talmud phrased it succinctly: “Human beings are always accountable and liable for their actions.” We have a concept in the Talmud that one can be found not to be liable for actions caused by human negligence or mistakes by an earthly court but still be liable in the heavenly court, which judges all of our behavior. As human beings we hold ourselves to a far less stringent standard of behavior and liability. But Heavenly judgment, which knows our true capabilities and potential, holds us to its lofty standard of accountability.

Rabbi Wein (via yidquotes)

[lezzginka]

UPDATE 1: Homeschooled Israeli-American Teen Arrested For JCC, Other Bomb Threats

Israeli police arrested a teen with dual American and Israeli nationality in Ashkelon for allegedly committing most of the JCC bomb threats.

i’m literally speechless

[schraubd]

#JewishPrivilege Comes to Chicago

The concept of “Jewish Privilege” is one of those concepts that flits between the far-right and far-left (Rania Khalek tried to promote it amongst leftists, but David Duke (link alert) beat her to the punch). It has a deep antisemitic pedigree, which makes it alarming to see it starting to creep into the discourse of liberal Jews who should know better (Peter Beinart and Mira Sucharov). Whatever we might think about the ways Jews are advantaged by certain Israeli policies, the term “Jewish Privilege” is inextricably bound up in a history of trying to get Jews killed. It should not be used. As if to illustrate the point, several flyers at the University of Illinois-Chicago make quite explicit the attempt to leverage the concept of “Jewish Privilege” as a means of fomenting a left-right alliance against the Jews. The theme of the flyers is that battling “white privilege” is really about battling “Jewish privilege”, where Jews are cast as the real beneficiaries of illicit social gains. The flyers contend that (a) Jews are the predominant members of the “1%”, (b) Jews are vastly and illegitimately overrepresented at elite universities, © Jewish donors are responsible for the “unhiring” of Steven Salaita at the University of Illinois, (d) one is allowed to “question” everything but the Holocaust, and (e) Auschwitz and Gaza are identical. They conclude by asserting that raising these points is not “antisemitic” or “insulting” or “defamatory”, but “social justice” or a “human right” – and conclude by adopting several putatively leftist hashtags (e.g., #BlackLivesMatter or #WeAreAllMuslim). My instinct is that these are far-right efforts to attract support from leftist groups to antisemitic causes (though honestly, these are the sorts of endeavors to which the Universal Extreme Left-Right Convergence Theory applies). I have seen condemnations (and disavowals of responsibility) of these flyers from various left-wing groups that are implicated by the hashtags (here’s BLM Chicago, and I saw a separate statement by various leftist UIC campus groups that was circulated by email but not posted online). But again, the ease in which this sort of rhetoric is appropriated to obviously antisemitic ends should rightfully give pause. The arguments made in these flyers are not, unfortunately, that far off from ones that one does see percolating in leftist spaces – from demands that we interrogate excessive Jewish power to vicious comparisons identifying Israel with Nazis. Efforts to craft collaborative left-right antisemitism don’t come from nowhere. They come because the antisemites know fertile ground when they see it. That doesn’t make the condemnations less welcome. But it does suggest that there is work that needs to be done beyond the issuance of a press release. via The Debate Link http://ift.tt/2ntx9YH

[tikkunolamorgtfo]

It’s also my inclination that these were false flags planted by right-wingers, because so much of the language patterns mimic Nazi rantings and other elements feel like a bad imitation of leftist discourse, but the fact that I can’t be 100% sure about this is…worrying.

[mideast-nrthafrica-cntrlasia-de]

Today marks the 178th anniversary of the Allahdad, a violent anti-semitic progrom & forced conversion of the Jewish community of Mashhad, Iran, in 1839. One of the darkest days in Iranian Jewish history.

Mashhadi Jews trace their roots to the 1740s when the ruler of Iran, Nader Shah, decided to relocate 40 Jewish merchant families from Qazvin to Mashhad which had been declared by Nader Shah as the new capital of Iran.

Nader Shah was relatively liberal towards minorities & entrusted the Jewish families to protect the treasures he had plundered from his invasion of India. He also expected their roles as merchants & their international connections would bring economic prosperity to his new capital.

The city of Mashhad in north-east Iran is one of the holiest & most pious in the country. It houses the shrine of Imam Reza, the 8th Shia Imam. The city itself grew around the shrine after the shrine was built. The city is often called “Iran’s spiritual capital”.

While the relocation of the Jewish families did contribute to Mashhad’s economic prosperity, local Muslims were less than enthusiastic about the Jewish presence in their holy city.

The tensions & anti-Jewish sentiments culminated in 1839 during the holy month of Muharram when a violent mob attacked the Jewish quarter, destroying synagogues & homes, burning torah scrolls, abducting young girls, & killing between 36-40 Jews. A large number fled to the nearby city of Herat in what is now Afghanistan. Most Afghan Jews today are descended from the Mashhadi refugees.

Those who remained in Mashhad after the pogrom were compelled to convert to Islam under the threat of death. Local Muslims called the event “allahdad” - god’s justice. However the Mashhadi Jews survive to this day because while they publicly embraced Islam they secretly retained their Jewish faith. They took Islamic names but at home used their original Hebrew names. They observed shabbat in secret. They publicly bought halal slaughtered meat but fed it to the poor & secretly carried out shechita (kosher slaughtering). Arranged marriages while young were common, this way if any Muslims proposed marriage they could say they’re already betrothed.

This continued for almost a century until 1925 when Reza Shah came to power & secularised the country. The Mashhadi Jews were then able to publicly return to Judaism. However a second pogrom in 1946 caused the entire community to relocate to Tehran, Israel, & New York. 

Today there is no Jewish community in Mashhad, neither open nor secret. After spending nearly 90 years living double lives to preserve their faith they have a very unique identity among Iranians Jews. Even diaspora communities in Israel & New York have remained insular. Marriages between Mashhadis & non-Mashhadis tend to be rare.

Sources 1,2,3,4,5

Today also marks the 5th anniversary of the Toulouse shooting, when a French-Algerian man walked into a Jewish school & shot dead 3 Jewish children & one teacher. With anti-semitism on the rise globally it’s important to reflect on the anti-semitism of the past but also on that of today, how it affects Jews today, & what we as individuals & communities can do to protect the Jews in our midst from it. And coming from a middle eastern perspective it’s important to reflect on the rampant anti-semitism in our societies & why most MENA countries have lost the vast majority (or in the case of Libya & Algeria the entirety) of their Jewish communities.

[friendlyangryfeminist]

In the early days of the war most Jews believed that the Germans were “civilized” and would not harm women and children. Because they assumed that only men were in “real danger,” the Jews responded with gender-specific plans to protect and save their men. Thus in formulating their plans for hiding and escape they typically gave priority to the men. Similarly, they gave men priority for exit visas. One vivid example of the extent to which families believed it was only the men who were in danger—and therefore marshaled their resources to save them—is provided by the arrest statistics from Paris on “Black Thursday,” July 16, 1942. Before the massive roundups in Paris, many Jews had been warned of the impending arrests by the hundreds of policemen, bureaucrats and office workers who were organizing the schedules days in advance. Only a lucky minority of Jews knew the precise details, but many heard general rumors. Because they believed that only men were about to be arrested, most Jewish families tried to save and protect the men by making arrangements for them to sleep at neighbors’ homes or by trying to find someone to hide them, or by obtaining false identity documents, or by arranging their escape to the free zone in the south of France. Because it was assumed that women and children were safe, they remained at home and thus turned out to be the disproportionate victims of the sweeping arrests. On that day 5,802 women and 4,051 children were arrested (compared with 3,031 men) and they were also disproportionately represented in the subsequent deportations to Auschwitz.

Women in the Holocaust by Dalia Ofer and Lenore Weitzman (via friendlyangryfeminist)

[jewishomgcp]

i want to talk about the word “jew” for a hot second, because i don’t think gentiles understand why some jewish people don’t like being called that. this year, cnn had a banner that said “Alt-right founder questions if Jews are people.” now, they’ve gotten a lot of backlash for it, and apologized, but here’s the point: the sentence “Are Jews People?” is very different from “Are Jewish people people?” See, in the second sentence, the absolute ridiculousness of the question is even more clear, because of course a jewish person is a person, it’s right in the name. But by calling jewish people “jews,” it allows certain groups to dehumanize us, remove our personhood. I’m not suggesting we get rid of the term “jew” entirely, but the full word is something to keep in mind when using it.