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Jewish Theory and Antisemitism Education Resources Post
Okay. Itās no secret about how disappointed Iāve been about the unwillingness others seem to have to learn about jewish issues and fight for jewish liberation. So, Iām compiling a list of valuable resources on the topic. I wonāt 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 itās just a list. Will edit to add more over time. Those interested can submit resources they feel will be helpful in my asks, and Iāll 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 Iām now putting this one ahead of it. āThe Epistemic Dimension of Antisemitismā 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 āThe Past Didnāt Go Anywhereā 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, Iād like to introduce people to āSkin the Game: How Antisemitism Animates White Nationalismā by Eric K. Ward. In this article Eric Ward discusses his experiences as a Black man whoās 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. āWhite Jews: An Intersectional Approachā 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. Itās long, but well worth the read. For intracommunity reasons I recommend my fellow Jews give this a read too.
Additionally, in āThe Baggage of Whiteness,ā 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 wonāt 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.
I was once talking to my 75 year old Chinese dad in passing about a trans friend of mine not getting along with her family and he asked why and I said err, because she's trans, dad.
He asked: "Oh, was she the only son or something before *waves hand*?" and I was like, warily, no she has two brothers. And he responded with a great deal of confusion: "Then what's their problem?!?!"
Later on: "Anyway, even if she WAS the only son, that's not her problem, that's THEIR problem. They should have had more sons if they were going to be bothered about it."
Knowing what I know about chinese culture thereās something so beautifully simple about his logic of āno son to carry on family name/look after them in old age/all the other stuff? Skill issue! Shouldāve had more sons! Shouldāve kept the family unit strong yourself! Blaming your daughter for your own failure of family planning is W E A K!ā and then he learns there are more sons and it completely breaks his train of logic because if yes to more sons then why issue?? You have two others and youāre mad you donāt have three?? Whack. Greedy.
I can already envision him as an ancient lord of a powerful house looking down his nose at the latest messenger bringing gossip from the house of his offspringās friend and going ānow they have a daughter to marry into another family for powerful alliances and two sons to take over her former duties and somehow theyāre still complaining about their good fortune? They shall not survive the winter.ā and then sipping his tea with all the grim satisfaction of someone about to watch an unnecessary soap opera of drama unfold from a safe distance or something
That's a funny image for sure, though I think if there's a typology of Chinese philosophical mentality, there would likely be a spectrum from "Confucian patriarchal lord" to "Buddhist monk / Taoist hermit" and my dad renounced at 18, was a monk for a time, before coming back to work for his family since they were poor š¤· it was what 3 years after we gained independence from the British so the economy was probs a mess.
When he found and married my mom, he was nearly 45 and they had so much trouble conceiving that he went to a Guanyin temple supposedly "magical" for praying for children. When I was born (not a son, also an only child until now), my mom said, "when you prayed at the temple did you ask for a son?" He said, "Aiya, everyone is asking for sons, so I said any gender is okay. If I asked for a son, maybe we wouldn't have gotten a child because Guanyin's son quota is already used up. Do you want that to happen?" My mom laughed for days about "son quota" and continues to tell people about it today, but her honest answer was: "Any child is okay."
Jokes on them. They didn't specify a gender, so Guanyin Ma gave them a non-binary child!
More seriously: my dad doesn't care about sons. When I told my parents that I wouldn't marry or have children, I thought he might be disappointed, but he wasn't. Then again, maybe I should have expected that, given he tried to become a monk at 18 š¤Ŗ I think he said the thing about sons to poke fun at people who care too much about sons because he frankly thinks it's all a bit ridiculous. In his eyes, a child is a child, so what's the point in caring about gender? If the child "changes" gender, does it make a difference?
When I first spoke to my mom about trans issues, still closeted at the time, she said, "I don't understand why they feel the way they do, but they aren't hurting anyone so don't bother them. They are normal people just minding their own business." I said, "I agree, but on the topic of not understanding: Mom, do you think that when we reincarnate, we are always born into a body of the same gender?" In Buddhist stories, there was a lifetime in which Guanyin was reincarnated as a cow or ox, and in repayment for my birth, my dad does not eat beef till this day. Gender or species isn't constant in the cycle of rebirth. My mom said, "No, you're right. Whatever thing that carries on has no gender. I was probably male, human or animal, in one of my past lives." And she has supported trans rights even more ever since.
1975: The studio required Paul Michael Glaser keep one foot on the floor during the entirety of this scene. This was a holdover from the pre-1967 Hayes Code era, where heterosexual couples were allowed to both sit on a bed but only if someone kept a foot on the floor at all times to convey 'no sexual funny business going on here'.
saw your tags @did-sm1-say-catfish and yes, that link is broken! I looked into it, and it's because there are now multiple maps, including a map of Indiaā
I remember that when everything was happening with Noah Schnapp, so many people were saying that āheās a white coloniser!ā āheās clearly European!ā and āhow are we supposed to think heās indigenous to the Middle East when he looks like that?!ā They were screaming so much about he couldnāt possibly be from the swana region due to being pale, despite the fact thatā¦ wait for itā¦
Noah Schnapp is a Moroccan Jew.
The exact the same thing happened with Jerry Seinfeld too, despite him being a Syrian Jew.
But what this tells me is that so many American and European leftists fundamentally do not understand what North Africans and Southwest Asians look like. They do not understand that many Middle Eastern groups are pale, many Middle Eastern groups share features with Europeansā I mean, the Middle East literally borders Europe, did you not expect us to have similarities? This stretches back to the ancient world too. We know that in Yehuda there were gingers, as shown by King David*. Iirc, studies on Rameses the secondās remains show that he most likely had an olive tanned complexion and reddish-blondish hair, similar to a European Mediterranean lookā which makes total sense seeing as Egypt is literally a Mediterranean country as well
Itās not just Jews. Persians, Kurds, Assyrians, Copts, Amazigh, Arabs from the Arabian Peninsula**, all of these ethnic groups are incredibly diverse in their features, even without any significant genetic influence from other areas. You cannot just project American and European black and white concepts of race onto the Middle East and act as if that is reality. The world is not split into pale people in the north, brown people in the middle, and black people in the south, and if you genuinely believe that then you really need to look at some pictures of the groups that youāre claiming to be the defender of. Please. Iām so tired of this bullshit lol
*I know that the historical evidence for David is shaky at best and weāre not sure if he was real or not (I personally believe itās a King Arthur sort of situation where there was a real person here that got turned into legend), what Iām trying to say is that if the Ivrim could have a figure like this who was ginger, then the Ivrim clearly had gingers. Nobody come for me please
**not adding other Arabs because there tends to be genetic mixes with other groups, and my point is about how even without distinct genetic markers from each other, middle easterners groups can turn out with a super intense variation in appearance, especially skin tone
The genetic mutations that cause paler skin, lighter eyes, and red hair literally all originate in West Asia.
Red hair occurs more frequently in Jews (and Kurds) than it does in ethnic Southern Europeans.
Also both Jerry Seinfeld and Noah Schnapp look quintessentially Jewish according to Western stereotypes, so itās really confusing to me what these people are even talking about.
the number of times ive seen someone claim that a very visibly middle eastern person is white just because they're pale is crazy. like yeah maybe they can be white passing, esp in winter when basically everyone lightens up a bit, but that is not a white european at all. some ppl need to learn that ethnicity goes far beyond skin color
I remember that when everything was happening with Noah Schnapp, so many people were saying that āheās a white coloniser!ā āheās clearly European!ā and āhow are we supposed to think heās indigenous to the Middle East when he looks like that?!ā They were screaming so much about he couldnāt possibly be from the swana region due to being pale, despite the fact thatā¦ wait for itā¦
Noah Schnapp is a Moroccan Jew.
The exact the same thing happened with Jerry Seinfeld too, despite him being a Syrian Jew.
But what this tells me is that so many American and European leftists fundamentally do not understand what North Africans and Southwest Asians look like. They do not understand that many Middle Eastern groups are pale, many Middle Eastern groups share features with Europeansā I mean, the Middle East literally borders Europe, did you not expect us to have similarities? This stretches back to the ancient world too. We know that in Yehuda there were gingers, as shown by King David*. Iirc, studies on Rameses the secondās remains show that he most likely had an olive tanned complexion and reddish-blondish hair, similar to a European Mediterranean lookā which makes total sense seeing as Egypt is literally a Mediterranean country as well
Itās not just Jews. Persians, Kurds, Assyrians, Copts, Amazigh, Arabs from the Arabian Peninsula**, all of these ethnic groups are incredibly diverse in their features, even without any significant genetic influence from other areas. You cannot just project American and European black and white concepts of race onto the Middle East and act as if that is reality. The world is not split into pale people in the north, brown people in the middle, and black people in the south, and if you genuinely believe that then you really need to look at some pictures of the groups that youāre claiming to be the defender of. Please. Iām so tired of this bullshit lol
*I know that the historical evidence for David is shaky at best and weāre not sure if he was real or not (I personally believe itās a King Arthur sort of situation where there was a real person here that got turned into legend), what Iām trying to say is that if the Ivrim could have a figure like this who was ginger, then the Ivrim clearly had gingers. Nobody come for me please
**not adding other Arabs because there tends to be genetic mixes with other groups, and my point is about how even without distinct genetic markers from each other, middle easterners groups can turn out with a super intense variation in appearance, especially skin tone
The genetic mutations that cause paler skin, lighter eyes, and red hair literally all originate in West Asia.
Red hair occurs more frequently in Jews (and Kurds) than it does in ethnic Southern Europeans.
Also both Jerry Seinfeld and Noah Schnapp look quintessentially Jewish according to Western stereotypes, so itās really confusing to me what these people are even talking about.
the number of times ive seen someone claim that a very visibly middle eastern person is white just because they're pale is crazy. like yeah maybe they can be white passing, esp in winter when basically everyone lightens up a bit, but that is not a white european at all. some ppl need to learn that ethnicity goes far beyond skin color
I remember that when everything was happening with Noah Schnapp, so many people were saying that āheās a white coloniser!ā āheās clearly European!ā and āhow are we supposed to think heās indigenous to the Middle East when he looks like that?!ā They were screaming so much about he couldnāt possibly be from the swana region due to being pale, despite the fact thatā¦ wait for itā¦
Noah Schnapp is a Moroccan Jew.
The exact the same thing happened with Jerry Seinfeld too, despite him being a Syrian Jew.
But what this tells me is that so many American and European leftists fundamentally do not understand what North Africans and Southwest Asians look like. They do not understand that many Middle Eastern groups are pale, many Middle Eastern groups share features with Europeansā I mean, the Middle East literally borders Europe, did you not expect us to have similarities? This stretches back to the ancient world too. We know that in Yehuda there were gingers, as shown by King David*. Iirc, studies on Rameses the secondās remains show that he most likely had an olive tanned complexion and reddish-blondish hair, similar to a European Mediterranean lookā which makes total sense seeing as Egypt is literally a Mediterranean country as well
Itās not just Jews. Persians, Kurds, Assyrians, Copts, Amazigh, Arabs from the Arabian Peninsula**, all of these ethnic groups are incredibly diverse in their features, even without any significant genetic influence from other areas. You cannot just project American and European black and white concepts of race onto the Middle East and act as if that is reality. The world is not split into pale people in the north, brown people in the middle, and black people in the south, and if you genuinely believe that then you really need to look at some pictures of the groups that youāre claiming to be the defender of. Please. Iām so tired of this bullshit lol
*I know that the historical evidence for David is shaky at best and weāre not sure if he was real or not (I personally believe itās a King Arthur sort of situation where there was a real person here that got turned into legend), what Iām trying to say is that if the Ivrim could have a figure like this who was ginger, then the Ivrim clearly had gingers. Nobody come for me please
**not adding other Arabs because there tends to be genetic mixes with other groups, and my point is about how even without distinct genetic markers from each other, middle easterners groups can turn out with a super intense variation in appearance, especially skin tone
The genetic mutations that cause paler skin, lighter eyes, and red hair literally all originate in West Asia.
Red hair occurs more frequently in Jews (and Kurds) than it does in ethnic Southern Europeans.
Also both Jerry Seinfeld and Noah Schnapp look quintessentially Jewish according to Western stereotypes, so itās really confusing to me what these people are even talking about.
the number of times ive seen someone claim that a very visibly middle eastern person is white just because they're pale is crazy. like yeah maybe they can be white passing, esp in winter when basically everyone lightens up a bit, but that is not a white european at all. some ppl need to learn that ethnicity goes far beyond skin color
I remember that when everything was happening with Noah Schnapp, so many people were saying that āheās a white coloniser!ā āheās clearly European!ā and āhow are we supposed to think heās indigenous to the Middle East when he looks like that?!ā They were screaming so much about he couldnāt possibly be from the swana region due to being pale, despite the fact thatā¦ wait for itā¦
Noah Schnapp is a Moroccan Jew.
The exact the same thing happened with Jerry Seinfeld too, despite him being a Syrian Jew.
But what this tells me is that so many American and European leftists fundamentally do not understand what North Africans and Southwest Asians look like. They do not understand that many Middle Eastern groups are pale, many Middle Eastern groups share features with Europeansā I mean, the Middle East literally borders Europe, did you not expect us to have similarities? This stretches back to the ancient world too. We know that in Yehuda there were gingers, as shown by King David*. Iirc, studies on Rameses the secondās remains show that he most likely had an olive tanned complexion and reddish-blondish hair, similar to a European Mediterranean lookā which makes total sense seeing as Egypt is literally a Mediterranean country as well
Itās not just Jews. Persians, Kurds, Assyrians, Copts, Amazigh, Arabs from the Arabian Peninsula**, all of these ethnic groups are incredibly diverse in their features, even without any significant genetic influence from other areas. You cannot just project American and European black and white concepts of race onto the Middle East and act as if that is reality. The world is not split into pale people in the north, brown people in the middle, and black people in the south, and if you genuinely believe that then you really need to look at some pictures of the groups that youāre claiming to be the defender of. Please. Iām so tired of this bullshit lol
*I know that the historical evidence for David is shaky at best and weāre not sure if he was real or not (I personally believe itās a King Arthur sort of situation where there was a real person here that got turned into legend), what Iām trying to say is that if the Ivrim could have a figure like this who was ginger, then the Ivrim clearly had gingers. Nobody come for me please
**not adding other Arabs because there tends to be genetic mixes with other groups, and my point is about how even without distinct genetic markers from each other, middle easterners groups can turn out with a super intense variation in appearance, especially skin tone
The genetic mutations that cause paler skin, lighter eyes, and red hair literally all originate in West Asia.
Red hair occurs more frequently in Jews (and Kurds) than it does in ethnic Southern Europeans.
Also both Jerry Seinfeld and Noah Schnapp look quintessentially Jewish according to Western stereotypes, so itās really confusing to me what these people are even talking about.
the number of times ive seen someone claim that a very visibly middle eastern person is white just because they're pale is crazy. like yeah maybe they can be white passing, esp in winter when basically everyone lightens up a bit, but that is not a white european at all. some ppl need to learn that ethnicity goes far beyond skin color
I remember that when everything was happening with Noah Schnapp, so many people were saying that āheās a white coloniser!ā āheās clearly European!ā and āhow are we supposed to think heās indigenous to the Middle East when he looks like that?!ā They were screaming so much about he couldnāt possibly be from the swana region due to being pale, despite the fact thatā¦ wait for itā¦
Noah Schnapp is a Moroccan Jew.
The exact the same thing happened with Jerry Seinfeld too, despite him being a Syrian Jew.
But what this tells me is that so many American and European leftists fundamentally do not understand what North Africans and Southwest Asians look like. They do not understand that many Middle Eastern groups are pale, many Middle Eastern groups share features with Europeansā I mean, the Middle East literally borders Europe, did you not expect us to have similarities? This stretches back to the ancient world too. We know that in Yehuda there were gingers, as shown by King David*. Iirc, studies on Rameses the secondās remains show that he most likely had an olive tanned complexion and reddish-blondish hair, similar to a European Mediterranean lookā which makes total sense seeing as Egypt is literally a Mediterranean country as well
Itās not just Jews. Persians, Kurds, Assyrians, Copts, Amazigh, Arabs from the Arabian Peninsula**, all of these ethnic groups are incredibly diverse in their features, even without any significant genetic influence from other areas. You cannot just project American and European black and white concepts of race onto the Middle East and act as if that is reality. The world is not split into pale people in the north, brown people in the middle, and black people in the south, and if you genuinely believe that then you really need to look at some pictures of the groups that youāre claiming to be the defender of. Please. Iām so tired of this bullshit lol
*I know that the historical evidence for David is shaky at best and weāre not sure if he was real or not (I personally believe itās a King Arthur sort of situation where there was a real person here that got turned into legend), what Iām trying to say is that if the Ivrim could have a figure like this who was ginger, then the Ivrim clearly had gingers. Nobody come for me please
**not adding other Arabs because there tends to be genetic mixes with other groups, and my point is about how even without distinct genetic markers from each other, middle easterners groups can turn out with a super intense variation in appearance, especially skin tone
The genetic mutations that cause paler skin, lighter eyes, and red hair literally all originate in West Asia.
Red hair occurs more frequently in Jews (and Kurds) than it does in ethnic Southern Europeans.
Also both Jerry Seinfeld and Noah Schnapp look quintessentially Jewish according to Western stereotypes, so itās really confusing to me what these people are even talking about.
the number of times ive seen someone claim that a very visibly middle eastern person is white just because they're pale is crazy. like yeah maybe they can be white passing, esp in winter when basically everyone lightens up a bit, but that is not a white european at all. some ppl need to learn that ethnicity goes far beyond skin color
