אהובה החבובה

Ahuva Nurit / אהובה נורית she/her, Jewish, queer, 30s, American ברוך אתה ה' אלוהינו מלך העולם שעשני ישראל ✡️ 18 Iyar 5786 / 5 May 2026 ✡️

[hatikvah-shalom]

I feel like in the past ten years, boycotting has stopped being a tool for forcing action on specific policies and become a form of harassment and monastic self-denial. Less “I will not be giving my money to you until you improve these specific conditions” and more “don’t touch the contaminated thing, lest you also become contaminated.”

[iswearbyalltheflowers]

— From Sinai to Ethiopia: The Halachic and Conceptual World of Ethiopian Jewry

[thatoneautisticfnaffan]

Overlap between antiblackness and antisemitism in fandoms:

- Jewish-coding and Black-coding ignored and erased e.g., character’s experiences are intentional allegory for Jewishness or Blackness, but people insist it’s about queerness instead.

- The desire to see Black and Jewish characters humbled. This is usually in retaliation for some perceived wrong due to a white character. Gets worse if said characters are successful in their fields, then it’s portrayed as “punching up”.

- Ethnic features being erased (skin lightened, curly hair straightened, slimmer noses ect).

- Discussions about antiblack/antisemitic tropes in fandom spaces dismissed because “real bigotry is more important” (“real bigotry” is then never discussed).

- When the main characters are Black/Jewish and yet the fandom won’t stop talking about that fucking white guy.

- Black/Jewish characters made out to be mean, usually depicted as bullying the poor white character (bonus if the “agonisers” are men).

- Infantilisation specific to non-white characters.

[xclowniex2]

You'd think that having made almost zero progress on your goal of freeing Palestine and instead achieving new and still rising, highs of antisemitism across the globe would make the "I'm antizionist not antisemitic" crowd rethink their approach of activism for Palestine. But alas, that hasn't happened because not all, but a substantial amount of the aforementioned crowd of people actually have harming jews as their real goal.

[zaprowsdower27]

The purpose of a system is what it does.

Palestine is not in the least bit freed freed but Jews are living in fear and have been cast out of a huge number of social contexts and synagogues are spending more money than they can afford on increased security and Jewish restaurants are being forced out of business and seeing bricks thrown through windows.

The purpose of a system is what it does.

[mapsontheweb]

Jewish population in Europe, 1933 compared to 2015.

[the-library-alcove]

Went into the notes to harvest for my blocklist, found this Nazi. Note how his belief that Jews are racial infiltrators compares and contrasts with the “Jews are White” belief on the Left.

[frustratedasatruar]

Note that many Algerian Jews fled to France when Algeria decided to purge their Jewish populations. Note also that the population of the Earth was approximately 2.1B in 1933, as compared to 7.2B in 2015.

France looks like a single spot of growth on this map, but even when the global population has quadrupled in the interim, and with near a hundred thousand immigrants from north Africa to bolster their numbers, France’s Jewish population has barely doubled.

This map is even bleaker than it looks.

[h4ganah]

Gotta make sure to call out anyone saying Israel is commiting genocide in Gaza for their blatant and inexcusable wholocide denial from now on

[mossadspydolphin]

Even wholocide isn't enough to describe Israel's unprecedented crimes. We need a stronger term. Something like...superwholocide.

[mossadspydolphin]

A heartbreaking scene of wholicide

[gliklofhameln]

Beehives. Mount Tabor, Israel. 1981. Micha Bar Am/Magnum Photos.

[indecisiveavocado]

megillat eikhah after october 7

All her allies have betrayed her; / They have become her foes (1:2)

Her infants have gone into captivity / Before the enemy (1:5)

In her days of woe and sorrow, / When her people fell by enemy hands / With none to help her (1:7)

When enemies looked on and gloated / Over her downfall (1:7)

Jerusalem has become an outcast among them (1:17)

I cried out to my friends, / But they played me false (1:19)

The Sovereign has laid waste without pity / All the habitations of Jacob-- / Has razed in anger / Fair Judah's strongholds (2:2)

In blazing anger He has cut down / All the might of Israel-- / Withdrawing vital support / In the presence of the foe (2:3)

God has ended in Zion / Festival and sabbath (2:6)

All your enemies / Jeer at you; / They hiss and gnash their teeth / And cry: "We've ruined her! / Ah, this is the day we hoped for; / We have lived to see it!" (2:16)

All our enemies loudly / Rail against us (3:47)

The kings of the earth did not believe, / Nor any of the inhabitants of the world, / That foe or adversary could enter / The gates of Jerusalem (4:12)

Gone is the joy of our hearts; / Our dancing is turned into mourning (5:15)

[thisgingerisareallybadwriter]

Tbh I think a lot of the rank-and-file goyische anti-Zionists don’t really realize that a large majority of the Jewish community sees them as a new generation trying (and thankfully not succeeding—yet) to enact another full-scale genocide against us. They’re so insulated by their tokens—who have either been gaslighted into accepting abuse or are actively trying to avoid abuse by being Good Jews—that they honestly do not understand the Evil Jews they call Zionists (who may or may not actually be Zionists) are the majority of the Jewish community.

And we despise you. We’re disgusted by you. Some of us are downright terrified of you. We see you as no better ideologically than the genocidal maniacs who have spent the last 3000 years murdering us in increasingly horrific ways. And I cannot fathom how you can see yourself as a good person or ally to Jews when the majority of the Jewish community fears and hates you as much as we do the literal Nazis.

I know you won’t, because the truth is that you do hate Jews just as much as the Nazis and everyone who came before them did, even if you deny or justify it—but you should be ashamed.

[anshelsgendercrisis]

dunked.

[anshelsgendercrisis]

whether you like it or not, whether it makes you uncomfortable and forces you to change your worldview or not, the vast majority of jews globally are zionists in the broadest sense of the word - i.e. they believe that israel has a right to exist, or they believe that israel needs to exist in order to provide a safe place for jews to flee to, or they feel a connection to the land of israel as the homeland of the jewish people and feel that we should be able to live there if we want. the vast majority of zionists i know also care a lot about the safety of palestinians and want them to either have their own state or live safely and equitably in one state alongside jews.

there absolutely are plenty of antizionist jews, particularly in america. their views being a minority among the wider global jewish community doesn't mean they don't exist. but it is wildly disingenuous to insist that a minority of jews must in fact be the majority simply because they agree with you and hold the position you think is the only acceptable one, because you don't want to confront the implications of them being a minority and what that means for your feelings about the majority of jews across the globe.

bc honestly? i think the reason y'all are so insistent that most jews aren't zionists is that you know the way you talk abt "zionists" is disgustingly antisemitic, but because you've convinced yourself it's only a small minority, the "bad jews", that it couldn't really be harmful. a little bit of antisemitism never hurt anyone. in fact, it's liberatory if used correctly! or at least that's what you tell yourself so you don't have to face the consequences of your actions.

[inlowearthorbit]

I think one of the things a lot of fucking Tumblr people don't get is that, for Jews, Zionism isn't a thought exercise or a hypothetical or a side to pick for a team sport. This isn't just a topic for debate club for us, and it's not about our blog aesthetic or an excuse to pick fights at Thanksgiving.

This is real. I am a Zionist because I believe in self-determination for the Jewish people, yes -- just as I do for the Palestinian people, by the way -- but even more than that, at the core of my beliefs, when you drill right down to it? When you really get in there?

More than anything, I would like Israel to continue to exist because my friends fucking live there and I love them and want them to continue being alive. I want them to be safe. Most diaspora Jews have some connection to people in Israel, whether friends or in many cases family, and at the end of the day the safety of our friends and family is at the core of our positions with regards to Israel and Zionism.

If you don't understand this, if you refuse to understand this, then you have no business commenting on the subject. That's it.

[iswearbyalltheflowers]

I think the other thing tumblr users don’t get (frankly: don’t want to get) is that political anti-Zionism is also not a hypothetical thought exercise for jews, and also bears directly on our safety.

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[jewkbox]

[magnetothemagnificent]

The world diaspora was coined to describe the Jewish exile, but I think even "diaspora" isn't enough to conceptualize all the exiles and expulsions and genocides we've endured as a people.

We don't just have one diaspora.

It started with the first Beit HaMikdash being destroyed by the Babylonians. That was the first major diaspora.

Then the second Beit HaMikdash was destroyed by the Romans. That was the second major diaspora.

But that wasn't the end of the displacement of the Jewish people.

For every country that has expelled its Jews, that's another diaspora. Another traumatic event in our great cultural memory.

First there was England. Then all the other European countries followed suit. Germany, Spain, Portugal, Italy.....and the middle ages aren't even over yet.

Jews fled to other countries, who tolerated them at best for a few hundred years, and then those countries too expelled them.

Russia, Poland, Ukraine, Lithuania, centuries of Jewish culture wiped out in years of pogroms.

Tunisia, Libya, Iraq, Iran, Algeria, Yemen....once beacons of Jewish life now have barely any Jews left alive to their names.

Jews from around the world expelled and carted around like cattle, wandering from place to place because our homes are constantly taken.

The Wandering Jew doesn't wander because he has no choice, he wanders because nowhere is safe for him to stay.

The Jewish cultural memory is marked by repeated traumatization. We don't even have time to recover before we're struck again and again.

No, we're not just one diaspora. Not just one exile. Not just one traumatic event.

Can you imagine what this kind of repeated trauma does to a person? To a people?

Gentiles like to treat us with suspicion because we're so wary, too slow to trust, but if they spent even a second in our shoes, they would know why we're so scared all the time. Because they made us scared. Our hesitancy is our survival.

[cursethedarkness]

[hero-israel]

In 1 CE the total Jewish population was 7-8 million. In 1800 CE it was under 2 million.

[a-witch-in-endor]

In 1939 the Jewish population was almost 17 million (our peak throughout history). In 2022 the Jewish population is around 15 million.

The world population has quadrupled in that time.

By numbers alone, there should be 68 million of us now.

[ramat-rafael]

i feel like i accidentally entered a parallel reality because why is barely anyone talking about the berlin terror attack??? most of this website is lgbtq... maybe im stupid or somthing idk

[tikkunolamresistance]

after almost 3 years, i’m finally getting videos on tiktok of people who identify with the free palestine movement noticing antisemitism and they are SO close to getting the point. So So So close. there are nazis sitting at your table because you SAT AT THE NAZI TABLE. i’m not even exaggerating, the connection between the free palestine movement and actual historic nazis and now the widely encompassed neo nazi movements as well as the KKK is not flimsy. yall SAT AT THE NAZI TABLE and are upset there are nazis there??????? u think ur gonna tell the nazis to give up the seats????? those are THEIR seats. THINK PEOPLE. THINK.

[chutzpahchesed]

politicaljew:

Tik Tok has never been a particularly well-regulated platform, and extreme content has never been adequately filtered. But recently, amid the World Cup, it has, in my view, taken a different turn.

The proliferation of outright conspiratorial content, especially consumed by young and underage users, should alarm us. Social media has become breeding ground for the next generation of extremism, with all it entails for democracy, for Jews and for minorities at large.

There are several major conspiracy theories that have spread, some of which have existed for months but experienced a resurgence recently.

The first was the major World Cup conspiracy. It started with an outwardly innocuous joke that FIFA was fixing the matches in favor of Argentina, but soon devolved into something far more nefarious: the claim that Israel was behind FIFA.

The turning point was Argentina's stoppage-time comeback over Egypt in the round of 16, a disallowed Egyptian goal and a VAR call fans disliked, rightly or not.

More broadly, FIFA's seeding decisions and refereeing assignments had already been generating conspiracy chatter for months before that match even happened/

Online figures began editing the French referee's Wikipedia page to claim he was Jewish, and a clip of Argentine President Javier Milei's visit to Israel started circulating. The same thread added a fabricated claim that Milei was Netanyahu's cousin, and a circulated, AI- generated image purporting to show Netanyahu at an Argentina match was confirmed fake by fact-checkers.

By the time it was done mutating, the explanation had moved from a disputed goal to a network supposedly encompassing FIFA, Zionism, Israel, the referee, Messi, Milei and Netanyahu; a hidden system built to keep Egypt out.

On Tik Tok specifically, one song became the defining feature of these conspiratorial videos: "The Sign" by Ace The Base, a song that came out in 1993. Countless videos featured several pictures, including pictures of Messi at the Western Wall a few years ago, of FIFA chief Gianni Infantino standing next to an Israeli flag, Al-generated images of Messi with a hooked nose and his face edited onto a body dressed in Orthodox Jewish attire...

The video in question received 1.4 million likes and 10.8 million views and was shared over 170,000 times.

Another video, with 413.4K likes and 2.8 million views, points to Messi's alleged financial support for Israel. One comment with nearly 1,000 likes reads: "England will knock this out." The video was shared 68,600 times.

Another video asks "ever wondered how argentina consistently win all the time?" and then features pictures of Messi in Israel, an Argentina vote with Israel at the UN and the #Israel. It has 48,000 likes, 10,200 shares and 606.3K views.

This is only a fraction of it.

Still with this sound, there are countless other conspiracy theory videos.

One video, filmed inside Milan's famous Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II, zooms in on motifs on the glass ceiling that resemble Stars of David. It has 385.3K likes, 31.4K shares and 2.2M views. Comments include:

"I'm just glad people are waking up" (3,155 likes)

“It is that deep btw” (64.4K likes) "Lord save us" (529 likes)

“It's unintentional' its absolutely NOT" (1,840 likes)

The video features the #saturn, which brings us to the next conspiracy: Saturn Theory 73.

This theory alleges that Saturn's hexagon and the number 73 are secret signals pointing to something about Jewish people or Israel. People started claiming they saw the number 73 everywhere — in clocks, addresses, random situations — and treated that as a “hidden sign."

This theory is viral on Tik Tok, still using that song. The #73 has 325.2K videos.

These include: a video with 142.9K likes and 21.2 K shares that features a picture of Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein with a Star of David; an OpenAI logo with a Star of David in its core; a video with 109.7K likes and 20.4 K shares that places a Star of David in the middle of the logo of the Supreme Court; a video with 281.8K likes and 31K shares that replaces the Star of David in Israel's flag with an Star of David-shaped Illuminati

It is crucial to re-emphasize that the previous story are mere examples.

More broadly, antisemitic conspiracy theories surged 218% on social media after the start of the Iran war, according to FOA.

The "Zionist Occupied Government" which falsely claims a secret Jewish/Israeli cabal controls global institutions and governments, increased more than threefold during the war, turbocharged by reckless politicians carelessly using conspiratorial language regarding AIPAC and other such groups.

An ISD study using test accounts found radicalization paths are fast: a 15-year- old test profile interested in male lifestyle influencers was served antisemitic conspiracy theories after only an hour on Tik Tok and Tik Tok's stickers, sounds and comment sections acted as bridges from benign videos into more overt antisemitic content.

Other conspiracy theories have proliferated: a Wikipedia-documented theory alleging that deaths or disappearances of several people described online as scientists tied to classified or sensitive research were connected to secret knowledge about UFOs; weather-related conspiracies; theories related to Jeffrey Epstein...

really cool seeing people on social media in 2026 reinventing medieval blood libel, the Protocols, Mein Kampf, Soviet propaganda, qanon into a congealed morass of hatred.

I think we’ve all seen this and countless other variations of it (accusations of The Jews™️ murdering famous people, (((Zionists))) starting natural disasters, antisemitic hate crimes dismissed as Mossad false flags, the list goes on ad nauseam).

while these conspiracies may seem absurd, they’re far from harmless. such paranoid, bigoted rhetoric has led to the expulsions, destruction, and deaths of Jews en masse for centuries. perpetuating it online simply allows it to spread faster and to ingrain itself in a wider range of people’s minds simultaneously. the consequences of this are often violent.

[h4ganah]

The ICC actually doing something good for once was definitely not something I was expecting - but they finally voted to remove Karm Khan (the chief prosecutor for the International Criminal Court). A.k.a. the guy who issued the arrest warrants for Netanyahu and others in the Israeli government after October 7.

I mean, of course they didn't do it because of that: they did it because he's a sexual predator, who also got disbarred by the Bar Standards Board (the British bar association). But a W is still a W 🎉

It should btw of course not surprise anyone at all that his victim is being accused of being an "Israeli agent", just because Khan decided to assault her around the time of the issuing of the arrest warrants. This is all because Israel controls everything, because of course it is. I guess Israel was the ones who actually assaulted the victim too, or something, and I'm sure the British Bar Standards Board is being puppeteered by Bibi himself 🫡

כל כלב בא יומו 🥂

[unsolicited-opinions]

Danny Danon, Israel's ambassador to the United Nations, stated that Khan "believed that by launching a political witch hunt against Israel and issuing a politically motivated arrest warrant against Prime Minister Netanyahu, the world would ignore the grave sexual misconduct allegations against him. He was wrong." He added that Khan "sought to scapegoat Isra el in an attempt to divert attention from his own misconduct. The international community rejected that cynical attempt today."

Source

[songwithnosoul]

He also (allegedly) used this case to try and shame his victim into silence, too, by telling her that pressing charges would hurt Palestinians:

As the abuse allegations were swirling among ICC staff and others, Khan allegedly tried to get his accuser to disavow them by telling her the charges would hurt the Palestinian investigation, according to her testimony.  The casualties of the allegations would include “the justice of the victims that are on the cusp of progress,” he said to her, according to a record of a call that is now part of an independent U.N. investigation into her allegations. “Think about the Palestinian arrest warrants,” she said he told her on another occasion, according to the testimony. 

And also both of their families:

On a phone call in October, Khan warned her of the repercussions of pursuing an investigation. “The casualties will unfortunately be three: You and your family, me and my family and the justice of the victims,” Khan told the woman, according to a record of the call.

And it almost worked, too:

By around August, the female staffer was becoming increasingly distressed by the constant pressure to say that nothing happened, ICC officials said. She reached out to members of the governing board of the ICC to discuss her allegations.  “I held on for as long as I could because I didn’t want to f— up the Palestinian arrest warrants,” according to her testimony.

Despicable.

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[mariacallous]

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