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[brainscrems]

Jewish Theory and Antisemitism Education Resources Post

Okay. It’s no secret about how disappointed I’ve been about the unwillingness others seem to have to learn about jewish issues and fight for jewish liberation. So, I’m compiling a list of valuable resources on the topic. I won’t personally agree with everything every resource says, but I will be including various conflicting opinions which I think are valuable to hear from and learn. Things which can give better understanding to outsiders about what we face and can tell them how to better advocate on our behalf. As this grows I may add sections and categories for types resources but for now it’s just a list. Will edit to add more over time. Those interested can submit resources they feel will be helpful in my asks, and I’ll read and consider them when I get time. List under the cut.

(You can find my old pinned post about the antisemitism within the pro-palestine movement here, if anyone is looking for it.)

I used to have the second resource as the first one, because I think it is a vital introductory resource, but I’m now putting this one ahead of it. “The Epistemic Dimension of Antisemitism” by David Schraub. This paper discusses the devaluing of Jewish experience and perspective and examines why our voices are systemically discounted. It is dense, and it may refer to some aspects of antisemitism to which you are unfamiliar if this is your first time engaging with the subject. However, I still recommend reading it first because it gives you context and motivation to check your biases at the door when moving forward. If there are parts which do not make sense without context, read the next resource and come back to this one to revisit what you did not understand.

Next up is “The Past Didn’t Go Anywhere” by April Rosenblum. This pamphlet on antisemitism in leftist spaces goes over the bare minimum you need to know and do to be an effective ally to the jewish community and the jewish people in your lives. This is essential reading to begin to understand antisemitism and your role in fighting it as a goy (non-jew). Originally listed first to its exceptional usefulness as a introductory resource, I moved it one down the list in the hopes that the paper above will prime readers to be more receptive to Jewish thought on Jewish issues.

Now, I’d like to introduce people to “Skin the Game: How Antisemitism Animates White Nationalism” by Eric K. Ward. In this article Eric Ward discusses his experiences as a Black man who’s spent his life studying white nationalism and the lens this has given him on antisemitism as a load bearing element of the white nationalist ideological framework. It was written less than 6 months into the first trump presidency and so it is very much reflective of that time, but it contains invaluable insights. Last year (2024) he wrote a follow up to the original which reflects the many meaningful escalations which have occurred since the original. However, as they cover different content and experiences, I highly recommend reading both pieces.

Now, the article which inspired me to make this post. “White Jews: An Intersectional Approach” by David Schruab discusses how an intersectional approach between Whiteness and Jewishness is needed to properly understand the dynamics by which White Jews experience marginalization. It’s long, but well worth the read. For intracommunity reasons I recommend my fellow Jews give this a read too.

Additionally, in “The Baggage of Whiteness,” Schraub goes over how the strange intersection that White Jews experience affects the way Israel and Zionism are discussed. One of the most useful analyses I found from that article is a solid explanation for the interest white non-Jews have in clinging so fervently to their antisemitism on this subject. I group this together with the previous article as it provides important context for this one. While the second is comprehensible without the first, you will need at least a passable understanding of the weird ways in which White Jews experience race. If this is not a familiar subject for you then you probably won’t understand this piece, and I would recommend reading the other one first.

There will be others to add, but this is what I have for now. This post will be pinned for easy finding.

[sapphireh3art]

"how have you been lately??"

[Image ID: a screenshot of a phone battery at 0%. /.End ID]

[historicity-was-already-taken]

Let’s say that I’m a From the River to the Sea person. Let’s say that I think the only way to free Palestine is to erase Israel and send its populace back where they “came from.” Let’s say we reject genetic research about where the Jews “came from” and assume that Jewish history magically started in 1000 CE and now everyone has to “go home.” What would this require? At its most basic level?

-mass buy in from the SE Asian subcontinent to the British Isles. I’m talking government, populace, infrastructure, the whole nine yards. Every government from Bangladesh to Morocco to Scotland will have to issue immigration papers, determine sources of income, and set up social safety nets. Etc etc etc.

That in turn will require:

-populations the world over to commit themselves to never creating an environment so hostile to Jews that Jews come to feel that a nation state in the Southern Levant is the only option.

Now let’s go full idealistic. Let’s say that the world decides to free Palestine and send the Jews “home.” Let’s say all the people and governments are committed to making that happen humanely and equitably. What would that look like?

-trillions of dollars in reparations for murder, property theft, bank accounts, businesses, etc compounded over minimum 80 years

-full buy in from all levels of society to educating themselves about anti-Semitism, and eradicating it. I’m talking from executive branch to the working poor.

If you want Palestine to be free from the river to the sea, you really need to sit down and actually think about where you will send those Israeli Jews and descendants who only ended up there in the first place after they were violently expelled from somewhere else. I’m not talking about the Yishuv. I’m talking about the world after 1945. Are they supposed to go back to Poland? Or Yemen? Or France? Or Syria? What would that look like? Genuinely, how do we administrate and create the infrastructure for that?

It’s a hard, shitty question which flies in the face of blind optimism and overly simple narratives of the Israeli-Palestinian situation. But from where I’m sitting as a non-Zionist (I don’t do nationalism point blank this is not a value judgement or a smug assertion of diasporic Jewish moral superiority) Holocaust scholar, it seems like those Jews are supposed to disappear or like, painlessly immigrate somewhere?

This is another iteration of The Jewish Problem, and if we’re going to seriously say that Israel should cease to exist and be replaced by a Palestinian nation state, we have to answer these questions.

Because in the current global climate? The “solution” to the “Jewish Problem” in the Southern Levant looks like mass murder. And that’s half the Jews in the world right there.

That bothers me. Does it bother you? Or is it the price you’re willing to pay? You don’t have to answer that. Deep in your heart you already know exactly what your answer is.

[historicity-was-already-taken]

Let’s say that I’m a From the River to the Sea person. Let’s say that I think the only way to free Palestine is to erase Israel and send its populace back where they “came from.” Let’s say we reject genetic research about where the Jews “came from” and assume that Jewish history magically started in 1000 CE and now everyone has to “go home.” What would this require? At its most basic level?

-mass buy in from the SE Asian subcontinent to the British Isles. I’m talking government, populace, infrastructure, the whole nine yards. Every government from Bangladesh to Morocco to Scotland will have to issue immigration papers, determine sources of income, and set up social safety nets. Etc etc etc.

That in turn will require:

-populations the world over to commit themselves to never creating an environment so hostile to Jews that Jews come to feel that a nation state in the Southern Levant is the only option.

Now let’s go full idealistic. Let’s say that the world decides to free Palestine and send the Jews “home.” Let’s say all the people and governments are committed to making that happen humanely and equitably. What would that look like?

-trillions of dollars in reparations for murder, property theft, bank accounts, businesses, etc compounded over minimum 80 years

-full buy in from all levels of society to educating themselves about anti-Semitism, and eradicating it. I’m talking from executive branch to the working poor.

If you want Palestine to be free from the river to the sea, you really need to sit down and actually think about where you will send those Israeli Jews and descendants who only ended up there in the first place after they were violently expelled from somewhere else. I’m not talking about the Yishuv. I’m talking about the world after 1945. Are they supposed to go back to Poland? Or Yemen? Or France? Or Syria? What would that look like? Genuinely, how do we administrate and create the infrastructure for that?

It’s a hard, shitty question which flies in the face of blind optimism and overly simple narratives of the Israeli-Palestinian situation. But from where I’m sitting as a non-Zionist (I don’t do nationalism point blank this is not a value judgement or a smug assertion of diasporic Jewish moral superiority) Holocaust scholar, it seems like those Jews are supposed to disappear or like, painlessly immigrate somewhere?

This is another iteration of The Jewish Problem, and if we’re going to seriously say that Israel should cease to exist and be replaced by a Palestinian nation state, we have to answer these questions.

Because in the current global climate? The “solution” to the “Jewish Problem” in the Southern Levant looks like mass murder. And that’s half the Jews in the world right there.

That bothers me. Does it bother you? Or is it the price you’re willing to pay? You don’t have to answer that. Deep in your heart you know exactly what your answer is, and that’s something you’ll have to live with.

[teethwreath]

god this tickles me

(OP's tiktok here)

[sevenfromelevenisfour]

I made a little Jesus for Easter this year inspired by @gallusrostromegalus

He's a rustic Asiago loaf

Going in for the proof

He is Risen.

Looking a bit like Buff Santa. Trusting the process.

Trusting. The. Process.

Fresh from the oven

Ready to share!

This came out a lot better than it had any right to. He received rave reviews from family members of all ages.

Bonus:

I want that man's head on a platter!!!!

[fenrir-kin]

What-

It- it's bread?

I guess bread Jesus is too much of a slut??

[vaspider]

I think it thinks his arms and legs look like they might be peens

[jay-rayart]

Black Kids deserve to see themselves in every genre. Follow FLY on Kickstarter to help their stories take flight. Launching June 9th on Kickstarter

Coming soon: FLY : A Magical Black Boy Series - Pilot Animatic

A coming of age story about Black kids who finally have power to fight back against systems designed against them.

[dailycatsblog]

[theconcealedweapon]

[bruzum]

[lastvalyrian]

This is literally what people are talking about when they say AI will be used to mainstream widely held bigotry. LLMs are trained on frequency and probability -> straight relationships are more well represented in the dataset -> straight pronouns and terms become the "correct" normal.

This is a form of backdoor bigotry from both normative facts (there are more straight than gay relationships) and well represented bigoted beliefs (men are superior to women).

Combine this with the mass of people inclined to believe (and being encouraged to believe) that if AI says and does something it must be correct

[pigcatapult]

You’ve heard of competing access needs. Now consider:

Competing representation needs.

[pigcatapult]

But no, seriously. This is one of the biggest things that pits people against each other in fandom spaces.

You’ve got people who need stories where men get to have completely platonic deep friendships with other men, need stories where men can be affectionate and support each other emotionally without it having to be romance. You’ve also got people who need stories about men being romantic with men. Both of these are valid. Whether either is canon doesn’t really matter because transformative works are allowed to be transformative and transformative works are works in their own right. It’s right there in the name.

But because there can only be One True Fanon, instead of acknowledging that different people have different needs and taking a live-and-let-live approach, you usually end up with both groups fighting to throw the other one under the bus first for trying to “steal” their representation.

Please no Oppression Olympics clowning on this post. Everyone needs stories. It’s an immutable part of the human condition.

[alexseanchai]

the only thing I disagree with in this post is “you’ve heard of competing access needs”, because in my experience, approximately nobody has, and most of the people who have are themselves disabled

(so nobody leaves this post without knowing what competing access needs are: the thing where movie subtitles are important for people with hearing loss or auditory processing issues, useless to people with vision loss, and can easily distract other people from the action. the thing where movie descriptive audio is important for people with vision loss, useless to people with hearing loss or auditory processing issues, and can easily distract other people from the action. et cetera and so forth.)

the other thing that worries me about both groups you describe is, zero of these people seem able to enjoy stories that aren’t entirely for them, which is sad, and zero of these people seem to know where to find the back button should they happen upon a fic that turns out to be really not for them, which is aggravating to everyone else and can’t be much fun for them either

and the crowd that first goes “if you want stories with [thing they don’t like], write your own”, then turns up when their addressees do in fact write their own just to say “ew, why is this so [thing they don’t like]”, can fuck altogether the fuck off

[pigcatapult]

akfah;gadj;lkfd you got me there

[farkenshnoffingottom]

Competing access needs are also why it’s important to have a bunch of different kinds of things. Like, a building that only has stairs is going to be inaccessible to a lot of people. But if it has stairs, a ramp, escalators, and an elevator (depending on the size of the building), so many more people will have access. I’ve always had a major fear of elevators, and I often find myself using the stairs even when my body can’t take it, so an escalator would give me better access. However, someone in a wheelchair would likely take the elevator instead of the escalator because it fits their chair better. The more options there are available, the more people are going to be able to access something: our competing needs shouldn’t mean that only one of us gets to exist. It should mean we expand the possibilities so we all get to be in the building, even if we take different paths to move through it.

Why shouldn’t we expect that in media? The answer to “we need representation” shouldn’t be “only perfect representation [which is very subjective, with everyone having a different definition of what that would even be] is allowed. Everything else is offensive.” It should instead be “more representation means more aspects of our experiences are shown.”

The “oh no I definitely can’t be gay, it’s time for some self-loathing” story is real for a lot of people, and can be very important to see represented. But I don’t want it to be all the stories I see. The “I’ve always known I was gay and I’ve never had a problem with it” story is real for a lot of people, and can be very important to see represented. But I don’t want it to be all the stories I see.

The more kinds of stories we let people tell, the more we will be able to find ourselves represented

[thethirdromana]

Putting the term "Catholic guilt" on a high shelf where fandom can't reach it until everyone learns how to identify characters who are very very clearly coded as Protestant.

[spicychickenfingerings-deactiva]

With he’s friends

[official-michigan-posts]

i'm definitely not qualified to answer this chat what do you think

[official-michigan-posts]

YOU HEARD IT HERE FIRST!!!!

THE WRECK OF THE EDMUND FITZGERALD IS!!

YURI!!!!!!!

[kindlysirwolf]

opens my jaw real wide and does this to u

[b0nkcreat]

eyes emoji was the perfect invention for nosy people. like 👀 whats going on over here 👀👀 i just wanna know #LetMeKnow 👀👀👀

[soberscientistlife]

Winning the internet

[telomeke]

[ID text–

Image of fabulous comedian Wanda Sykes and one of her lines from her new Netflix special Wanda Sykes: I’m An Entertainer:

"Until a drag queen walks into a school and beats eight kids to death with a copy of 'To Kill A Mockingbird,' I think you're focusing on the wrong shit."

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Article on Wanda by The Daily Beast, including information on her support for marginalized groups and taking on Dave Chappelle for his hurtful jokes regarding the trans community, linked here:

Wanda Sykes Takes on Dave Chappelle’s ‘Hurtful’ Jokes

The comedian deliberately used her new Netflix special to counter some of her old friend Dave Chappelle’s most “damaging” material.

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Wanda's interview with Variety linked here:

Wanda Sykes on Her New Netflix Special, Dave Chappelle and Being a ‘Woke Comic’: ‘They Say That Like It’s an Insult’

Though Wanda Sykes began working on “I’m an Entertainer,” her latest Netflix stand-up special, in 2019, hardly any of the material she wrote

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And here's a link to the trailer for her special (just this sneak peek is already hilarious 😂):

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