may the flame that burns inside us burn everything around us

ezra, they/them or he/him | sff writer | anti-zionist jew | one thing about me is i will write in the tags | patreon.com/EzraL

[jewitch-hunter-warrior]

[cyberpunkpavlichenko]

“The Bundists got exterminated in the death camps” isn’t really a winning argument against their politics. You know why they were targeted? Because the Nazis, through their Judeo-Bolshevik conspiracies, saw socialist Jews as the biggest threat to the world economic and political order.

The Zionists on the other hand got the Transfer Agreement and who could forget the Stern Gang’s belief that Nazi Germany was a lesser evil than the British and they should align with them in exchange for statehood recognition of Israel?

I’d rather be a threat and if it kills me, so be it. At least I wouldn’t be a kapo collaborator like your ilk.

[doikayt]

lots to unpack here, plenty of chuckles that could be had. personally I giggled at "making assumptions."

(for context the hebrew is "the state of israel." predictably.)

but note the "constructing a false distinction between Jewish converts and 'ethnic' Jews" part.

this, it becomes very clear very quickly, is a classic tumblr zionist convert who's big mad that anti-zionist jews said fuck off we don't want you.

sorry but if you are... hold on lemme check my notes

ah yes.

if you are "converting to Judaism" then you are not Jewish. so, I suppose that train of thought ends here. this person can step off. everyone else, keep going with me.

If you have converted to Judaism then you are religiously Jewish. but if you are a white convert, it is only right and respectful to those whose communities you are joining that you understand the difference between your experience and the lifelong, generational experience of antisemitism that ethnic Jews (a real thing, sorry, I am one) have. Antisemitism is often racialized, and even nonreligious ethnic Jews experience it.

If you don't understand the difference in experience between a white convert and an ethnic Jewish person, and in fact call people "evil" for pointing out that you as a white convert don't have a claim to, say, Jewish generational trauma... then I'm sorry but you are a really bad person. Particularly if your whole motivation for ignoring the perspectives of (these particular) ethnic Jews is so that you can don the mantle of Zionism and use our history of oppression as a prop while you play settler and facilitate the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians.

Zionists are doing to Palestinians in the West Bank, Gaza, and all of Occupied Palestine what antisemitic mobs did to my ancestors in the Pale of Settlement. It is despicable enough to see Jewish people embrace Zionism. It is particularly vile to see people whose grandparents or great-grandparents were complicit or active participants in the mass murder of Jews decide to claim Jewishness for themselves just so they can gleefully participate in genocide in 2026 as well.

[minmos]

i hope tumblr users never stop talking about punk music i think we deserve this

[not100bees]

You know I've said it before but I'll say it again. A lot of people in America have a sort of Noble Savage view of anybody living below the Mason-Dixon when it's usually a lot closer to Regular Savage.

[despazito]

[despazito]

Awesome

[funstyle]

The part of tumblr thats just fandoms for the monkees and csny and M*A*S*H*.... it's like we have our own old folks home

[dailymanners]

I find it quite strange that even though Tumblr is known as The Neurodivergence Website, a lot of people on here seem to assume that they're the only neurodivergent person on here, and/or that they're the only person on here who understands The Neurodivergent Experience, so they're quite eager to assume that every post on here was written by someone who's neurotypical and needs to be lectured on The Neurodivergent Experience

[carouselcometh]

Devastating! Art museum gift shop doesn’t sell prints of specific and unpopular painting that struck a cord with you!

[commanderchrist-deactivated2017]

Fuck small talk.  Let’s talk about how your day was, the weather, or the big game last night.

[tsunglasses]

[importantcatpics]

[sobcat]

June will save us because we believe #ourdetermination

[angelbabymikaa]

you have to romanticize the mundane or you won’t survive it’s cruel out there so drink your coffee and spray a little extra perfume

[despazito]

I really really don't like this veneration of convents as "autism heaven"

[despazito]

💀

[star-mom-selkie]

happy pride month

[probablyasocialecologist]

“Discourse–even tropes shall we say–of the Judeo-Bolshevik aside, the proof is in the numbers: two-thirds of those questioned in the 1952 McCarthy hearings were Jewish, despite Jews accounting for under 2 percent of the American population. Congressman John Rankin delighted in “unmasking” the Jewish names of Hollywood actors and directors while under House Un-American Activities Committee investigation, and of course, the only two people ever executed on federal espionage charges during the Cold War, the Rosenbergs, were Jewish. My own grandparents, Jewish members of the Communist Party, referred to the Red Scare as an American pogrom. We should remember that during the second Red Scare, major liberal Jewish organizations such as the AJC and the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) were quick to distance themselves from Jews accused of being communists, often providing cover for the Eisenhower administration […] One can have an anticommunist purge sweep Jewish communists from Hollywood, while other Jews are also moving en masse to the suburbs.”

— Benjamin Balthaser, Jewish Currents Goes Back to Brunch: On Antisemitism and Left Strategy

[corrucyst]

dude, this is really scary, and liminal as well. It's like the bathrooms