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reblog to give prev a sufganiya
Jews on tumblr — what’s your hair type? (reference below if you’re unfamiliar with this system)
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put in the tags what diaspora group your family is from!
Hey Jumblr,
Reblog this and tell me one thing you'd like for non-Jews to know about Jews and Judaism.
There are only 15.8 million of us in the entire world. We are in no way a “major world religion,” and the idea that we are is a misconception that stems from the fact that the two largest and most historically and geopolitically powerful religions in the world, Christianity and Islam, were founded on the appropriation of our sacred texts which were never intended to be used by anyone other than the Jewish people. If you think you know anything about Judaism because you’ve learned about “Abrahamic faiths,” you probably don’t know anywhere near as much about Judaism as you think you do.
We aren’t trying to convert you. We simply are not. If I’m trying to tell you something about Judaism I’m just trying to share information or offer an alternate perspective or clear up misinformation, but literally we are never trying to convert you.
I get that it’s a knee jerk reaction to shy away from these discussions because you feel like this all comes with a hook, because that’s what Christianity does, but that isolation leaves you susceptible to misinformation and echo chamber thinking about Jews
Judaism is an ancestral religion not just in that it can be passed down through family but in the sense that we place a lot of emphasis on our ancestors and our connection to them and their experiences. Our cultural memory stretches back thousands of years and it is continuous. There is no doubt to us that the Ancient Israelites are our ancestors, and later evidence only proved it.
There are 15.8 million of us and that means there are 15.8 million ways to practice Judaism. Do not assume that because on Jew does things a certain way every other Jew will too.
That our experience with oppression neither started nor ended in the holocaust and is more present and dangerous now than it has been in decades. That we are in desperate need of allyship. That you, yes you, are not immune to anti-jewish bias or antisemitism. That we need people to listen and amplify all of our voices because we are too small to do it on our own. Seek us out. All of us. Don’t tokenize by finding jews you agree with. Listen to us you disagree with too. Listen to what we face and experience. If one of us tells you they experience discrimination or oppression, believe them. You may disagree with some or many of us about the best courses of action to take. That’s fine and expected. But you need to trust our community and our individuals. When we tell you that we’re being threatened and harassed and oppressed, believe what we say. We’re telling the truth and we need help.
There were more Jews pre-holocaust (16.6m) than there are currently.
Jewish culture is joining Magneto and the brotherhood of evil jews
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It makes me so uncomfortable to see people post blatantly anti-Jewish content and then turn right around and stan Jewish historical figures. Like, do they hate us or love us?
They love erasing Jewish history and appropriating it for themselves.
See-
Chappell Roan attacks Zionism while quoting famed Jewish Zionist Emma Lazarus
Dua Lipa celebrates Hamas attacks while making a bijillion dollars of a song about Harry Houdini- literally the son of a rabbi (obviously Zionist) whose first language was Yiddish.
That weird film in which Leonard Bernstein (Jew and ardent Zionist) conducts a symphony by Mahler (another Jew) and no Jews or Jewish themes are involved in the film making.
And the worst part is that no one even mentions how weird it is. Like not a person called Dua Lipa out for making money of Houdini’s name.
Exactly this!!!
And it’s like- none of these people are at all subtle about their Jewish identity.
But sometimes goyim are so used to thinking of Jews as “other” that they don’t even stop to consider that something or someone they think of as “theirs” could possibly be Jewish.
It’s like we’re entirely invisible to most people.
I legit saw a user in the Dropout Discord whose handle was about Kafka loving Palestine in the ProPal channel. I initially thought it was about a good portion of the materials from that time period from Zionists and other Jews who were immigrating to the region referring to it as Palestine and about supporting them (the old watermelon pamphlet/poster (?) comes to mind). But that was quickly dispelled as I read what they wrote. They routinely engaged in antisemitic conspiracy and hate, would sealion and goalpost others, and were just overall insufferable to anyone who dared question their narrative.
Let's add Marilyn Monroe to the list of Jesus celebrities being beloved by antisemites worldwide.
I think 90% of conspiracy theorists would be a lot happier if they just bit the bullet and got into creative writing
it's so fun in here you can make up all the aliens and funky-shaped planets you want without also inventing new ways to be antisemitic about it
cant believe we just tried taking out the queen bee herself. rip hasan nasrallah??
Like to charge reblog to cast!!
i just heard my mom mention this offhandedly on the phone i was like
Someone on Reddit made the mistake of saying, "Teach me how this conflict came about" where I could see it.
Let me teach you too.
The common perception is that Jews came out of nowhere, stole Palestinian homes and kicked Palestinians out of them, and then bombed them for 75 years, until they finally rebelled in the form of Hamas invading Israel and massacring 22 towns in one day.
The historical reality is that Jews have lived there continuously for at least 3500 years.
There are areas, like Meggido iirc, with archeological evidence of continuous habitation for 7,000 years, but Jewish culture as we recognize it today didn't develop until probably halfway through that.
Ethnic Jews are the indigenous people of this area.
Indigeneity means a group was originally there, before any colonization happened, and that it has retained a cultural connection to the land. History plus culture.
That's what Jews have: even when the diaspora became larger than the number of Jews in Israel, the yearning to return to that homeland was a daily part of Jewish prayer and ritual.
The Jewish community in Israel was crushed pretty violently by the Roman Empire in 135 CE, but it was still substantial, sometimes even the majority population there, for almost a thousand years.
The 600s CE brought the advent of Islam and the Arab Empire, expanding out from Saudi Arabia into Israel and beyond. It was largely a region where Jews were second-class citizens. But it was still WAY better than the way Christian Europe treated Jews.
From the 700s-900s, the area saw repeated civil wars, plagues, and earthquakes.
Then the Crusades came, with waves of Christians making "pilgrimages to the Holy Land" and trying to conquer it from Muslims and Jews, who they slaughtered and enslaved.
Israel became pretty well depopulated after all that. It was a very rough time to live there. (And for the curious, I'm calling it Israel because that's what it had been for centuries, until the Romans erased the name and the country.)
By the 1800s, the TOTAL population of what's now Israel and Palestine had varied from 150,000 - 275,000 for centuries. It was very rural, very sparsely populated, on top of being mostly desert.
In the 1880s, Jews started buying land and moving back to their indigenous homeland. As tends to happen, immigration brought new projects and opportunities, which led to more immigration - not only from Jews, but from the Arab world as well.
Unfortunately, there was an antisemitic minority spearheaded by Amin al-Husseini. Who was very well-connected, rich, and from a politically powerful family.
Al-Husseini had enthusiastically participated in the Armenian Genocide under the Ottoman Empire. Then the Empire fell in World War One, and the League of Nations had to figure out what to do with its land.
Mostly, if an area was essentially operating as a country (e.g. Turkey), the League of Nations let it be one. In areas that weren't ready for self-rule, it appointed France or Britain to help them get there.
In recognition of the increased Jewish population in their traditional, indigenous homeland, it declared that that homeland would again become Israel.
As in, the region was casually called Palestine because that was the lay term for "the Holy Land." It had not been a country since Israel was stamped out; only a region of a series of different empires. And the Mandate For Palestine said it was establishing "a national home of the Jewish people" there, in recognition of "the historical connection of the Jewish people with Palestine and to the grounds for reconstituting their national home in that country."
Britain was appointed to help the Arab and Jewish communities there develop systems of self-government, and then to work together to govern the region overall.
At least, that was the plan.
Al-Husseini, who was deeply antisemitic, did not like this plan.
And, extra-unfortunately, the British response to al-Husseini inciting violent anti-Jewish riots was to put him in a leadership role over Arab Palestine.
They thought it would calm him down and perhaps satisfy him.
They were very wrong.
The second week of November 1942 has much to tell us about the region’s geopolitical centrality, its enduring political currents, and its ro
He went on to become a huge Hitler fanboy, and then a Nazi war criminal. He co-created the Muslim Brotherhood - which Hamas is part of - with fellow fascist fanboy Hassan al-Banna.
After years of causing disruption on the streets of Egypt, on 30 June 2012, the Muslim Brotherhood’s leader Mohammed Morsi was sworn i
He got Nazi Party funding for armed Muslim Brotherhood militias to attack Jews and the Brits in the late 30s, convincing Britain to agree to limit Jewish immigration at the time when it was most desperately needed.
He started using the militias again in 1947, when the United Nations voted to divide the mandated land into a Jewish homeland and a Palestinian one.
Al-Husseini wouldn't stand for a two-state solution. He was determined to tolerate no more than the subdued, small Jewish minority of second-class citizens that he remembered from his childhood.
As armed militias increasingly ran riot, the Arab middle and upper classes increasingly left. About 100,000 left the country before May 1948, when Britain was to pull out, leaving Israel and Palestine to declare their independence.
The surrounding nations didn't want war. They largely accepted the two-state solution.
But al-Husseini lobbied HARD. And by mobilizing the Muslim Brotherhood to provide "destabilizing mass demonstrations and a murderous campaign of intimidation," he got the Arab League nations to agree to invade, en masse, as soon as Britain left.
This article deals with the after-effects of Nazi anti-Zionist propaganda in the Arab world and the antisemitic campaign of the Mufti of Jer
ACTS OF AGGRESSION PROVOKED, COMMITTED AND PREPARED BY ARAB STATES IN CONCERT WITH THE PALESTINE ARAB HIGHER COMMITTEE AGAINST T
About 600,000 Arabs fled to those countries during the ensuing war.
Jews couldn't seek refuge there; in fact, most of those countries either exiled their Jews directly, confiscating their property first, or else made Jewish life unlivable and exploited them for underpaid or slave labor for years first.
The expulsion of Jews from Arab countries, one of the biggest humanitarian crises of the 20th century, is all the more tragic for how little
By the time the smoke cleared and a peace treaty was signed, most of the Arab Palestinian community had fled; there was no Arab Palestinian leadership; many of the refugees' homes and businesses had left had been destroyed in the war; and Israel had been flooded with nearly a million refugees from the Arab League countries and the Holocaust - even more people than had fled the war.
That was the Nakba. The one that gets portrayed as "750,000 Palestinians fled or were expelled!" in the hope that you'll assume they were expelled en masse, their beautiful intact homes all stolen.
Egypt had taken what's now the Gaza Strip in that war, and Jordan took what's now the West Bank - expelling or killing all the Jews in it first.
(Ironically, Jordan was originally supposed to be part of Israel. Britain, inexplicably, cut off what would have been 75% of its land to create Jordan.
Even more inexplicably, nobody ever talks about it. I've never seen anyone complain that Jordan was stolen from Palestinians. Possibly because Jordan is also the only country that gave Palestinian refugees full citizenship, and it's about half Palestinian now.
Israel is nearly 25% Arab Palestinians with full citizenship and equal rights, so it's not all that different -- but the fundamental difference of living in a country where the majority is Jewish, not Muslim, probably runs pretty deep.)
Anyway: that's why Palestine is Gaza and the West Bank, rather than being some contiguous chunk of land. Or being the land set aside by the U.N. in 1947.
Because Arab countries took that land in 1948, and treated them as essentially separate for 20 years.
Israel got them back, along with the Golan Heights and the Sinai Peninsula, in the next war: 1967, when Egypt committed an act of war by taking control of the waterways and barring Israel from them. It gave the Sinai back to Egypt as part of the 1979 peace accords between Egypt and Israel.
Israel tried to give back the Gaza Strip at the same time. Egypt refused.
Palestine finally declared independence in 1988.
But Hamas formed at about the same time. Probably in response, in fact. Hamas is fundamentally opposed to peace negotiations with Israel.
Again: Hamas is part of a group founded by Nazis.
Hamas has its own charter. It explains that Jews are "the enemy," because they control the drug trade, have been behind every major war, control the media, control the United Nations, etc. Basic Nazi rhetoric.
It has gotten adept at masking that rhetoric for the West. But to friendlier audiences, its leaders have consistently said things like, "People of Jerusalem, we want you to cut off the heads of the Jews with knives. With your hand, cut their artery from here. A knife costs five shekels. Buy a knife, sharpen it, put it there, and just cut off [their heads]. It costs just five shekels."
Hamas Political Bureau Member and former Minister of the Interior Fathi Hammad urged the people of Jerusalem to "cut off...
(Palestinians were outraged by this speech. Palestinians, by and large, absolutely loathe Hamas.
I thought I'd left Gaza behind, yet all this time, Hamas was planning to expand its extremism and intimidation.
It's just that it's not the same to say that to locals, as it is to say it where major global powers who oppose this crap can hear you.)
Hamas has stated from the beginning that its mission is to violently destroy Israel and take over the land.
It has received $100M in military funding annually, from Iran, for several years. Because Iran has been building a network of fascist, antisemitic groups across the Middle East, in a blatant attempt to control more and more of it: Hezbollah in Lebanon. The Houthis in Yemen.
Iran has been run by a very far-right, deeply antisemitic dictatorship for decades now, which pretty openly wants to take down both Israel and the U.S.
Last year, Iran increased Hamas's funding to $350M.
The "proof of concept" invasion of Israel that Hamas pulled off on October 7th more than justifies a much bigger investment.
Hamas has publicly stated its intention to attack "again and again and again," until Israel has been violently destroyed.
That is how this conflict came about.
A Nazi group seized power in Gaza in 2007 by violently kicking the Palestinian government out, and began running it as a dictatorship, using it to build money and power in preparations for exactly this.
And people find it shockingly easy to believe its own hype about being "the Palestinian resistance."
As well as its propaganda that Israel is not actually targeting Hamas: it's just using a literal Nazi invasion and massacre as an excuse to randomly commit genocide of the fraction of Palestine it physically left 20 years ago.
Despite the fact that Palestinians in Gaza have been protesting HAMAS throughout the war.
This is such a good summary! I didn't know why it was called British Mandate Palestine (I just thought the British had mandated it, not that it was supposed to be returned).
Thank you for this!
@the-nerdy-autist reblogged to add,
"It’s not a good summary.
It blatantly denies Palestinian indignity to the land, denies and distorts the Nakba, and denies and distorts the colonialism of Zionism."
(but blocked me, so I'm doing this by hand for anyone else who wants to know)
Blatantly denies Palestinian indigeneity to the land:
Palestinians are not indigenous to the land.
Palestinians are Arabs, and are indigenous to the Saudi Arabian peninsula southeast of Israel.
You don't need to be indigenous to have human rights.
I encourage people to think about why they think Palestinians are indigenous to the land. I.e., does this come from your knowledge of Palestinian history? Is this the Palestinians-are-the-original-Canaanites myth that arose in the 1960s? Is it because they're called Palestinians?
If anyone finds themselves recoiling from this statement because they've been going on the premise that Oct 7 was indigenous resistance against colonialism -- that being indigenous justifies the horrors perpetrated on civilians that day -- and they think I'm therefore saying Israel can do whatever violence it wants, then... I encourage you to not.
As indigenous people who reclaimed our ancestral homeland, we must be sensitive to others undergoing that same process.
If we're going with the "indigeneity has a time limit, if you've been there for a thousand years you're indigenous now" argument that's used only for Israel/Palestine, then it also has to apply to the Jews who were still there through those thousand years.
(Also, I don't think Westerners should be making that argument in the first place. Because it lays the groundwork for white people to just drag out the battle over indigenous land rights for a few hundred years until it becomes commonly accepted that oops, now white people are indigenous to the Americas too?)
If we're going with the additional "people who immigrated back from your diaspora can't be indigenous" argument, then we need to look at the fact that the population increase consisted of massive amount of Arab immigration alongside Jewish immigration.
During the mandate period, Arabs from many lands flowed freely into Palestine while Jewish immigration was severely limited. The truth remai
In deep antiquity, particularly in Egypt, the early civilization where the arts were most strongly developed, the visualization was aspectiv
Denies and distorts the colonialism of Zionism:
I've seen dozens of people claim that Zionism-is-a-settler-colonialist-movement, especially over the past ten months.
The basic argument is that (1) early Zionist writers used the word colonialism, and (2) Britain was a colonial power and was in charge of the Mandate.
The first part is a common but very bad-faith argument. We're talking about writings from 100-150 years ago, decades before it became common to think of the words "colony" and "colonialism" -- and "settlement" and "settlers" -- as meaning, "tools for subjugating indigenous people and stealing their land and resources."
This 1828 dictionary, for example, is just like, "A colony is when a bunch of people live in one country, but are citizens of a different one." That usage still lives on on the concept of art/artist colonies. Because they became A Thing in 1860-1900, when the word "colony" was still being used to mean "a bunch of ex-pats."
More importantly: You cannot DIY settler-colonialism.
In settler-colonialism, a country sends settlers "to completely destroy and replace indigenous people and their cultures in order to establish themselves as the rightful inhabitants. Therefore, settlers do not only exploit indigenous people’s lands and resources, but they displace them, modify the names of the cities and places they colonize in order to completely erase the indigenous’ tracks."
A lot of you have probably seen memes like this one, that aim to show exactly that. The original Palestinian names of Palestinian cities, before Israel colonized them.
Let's just fact-check these real quick, because it's a really good illustration of what's going on here.
The first two, Jerusalem/Al-Quds and Israel/Palestine, really say it all. The rest, you can skip unless you really want to know.
Jerusalem Al-Quds Jerusalem: 4,000 years it's been Jerusalem. "The modern Arabic name of Jerusalem is اَلْـقُـدْس al-Quds, and its first recorded use can be traced to the 9th century CE, two hundred years after the Muslim conquest of the city."
Israel Palestine Israel: The first written reference to "Israel" appears on the 3,300-year-old Memphis Stele. Israel and Judea were either adjoining Jewish kingdoms, or two parts of the United Kingdom of Israel, depending on which historian you ask. Judea is where the term "Jew" originated, but Israel is the umbrella term for the Jewish people. (Which is why you might hear people saying "am Yisrael chai," "the people of Israel live." It means all Jews, not the country.)
The region was renamed Palestine by the Romans about 1,900 years ago, after the SECOND Jewish Revolt against colonialist Roman occupation. This time, they revolted because Emperor Hadrian banned circumcision and "decided to build a Roman colony, Aelia Capitolina, on the site of Jerusalem."
(Fun fact: During the revolt they minted their own coins, many of which said, "For the freedom of Jerusalem" in paleo-Hebrew. This paralleled coins from the first revolt, which said, "For the freedom/redemption of Zion.")
The Romans brutally crushed the revolt, destroying almost 1,000 Jewish villages and killing more than half a million Jews over the course of a few years.
THEN they exiled all remaining Jews around Jerusalem, and banned any Jews from visiting it.
And THEN they downgraded Judea from basically a state to just a district, and renamed it "Syria Palaestina," after the now-gone Philistines, to really rub it in that Jews had no self-determination.
That's why it's named Palestine today. That's where the name came from. The region has been named Palestine for almost two thousand years because of Roman colonialism.
The Arab-Islamic Empire that conquered so many of the Holy Roman Empire's lands, and the Crusaders who conquered the area for a while in the middle of that, just had no reason to change the name again.
This post is way too long. Continuing in a reblog!
Acre Akko Akka: Acre is jut the English name for it. The Crusaders named it St. Jean d'Acre a thousand years ago, when they were invading and ethnically cleansing the Holy Land by murdering and enslaving the Jews and Muslims. This city has been called Akka for 5,000 years, all the way back to when it was Phoenician. Akko is just Arabic for Akka.
Kiryat Shmona Al-Khalisa Al-Khalisa: This one is tough because it doesn't look like there's been any archaeology done there yet. There were lots of Jewish towns in that region 3,000 years ago, but I don't know if one became itty-bitty Al-Khalisa 1,500 years later, or what. The oldest historical record I have is that it was a Bedouin village starting in the 1500s. Bedouins are indigenous to the Negev Desert (#NotAllBedouins, but I'm assuming these Bedouins) and still live there today, so, like, ok, I guess?
Netanya/Umm Khalid: These aren't the same town. Netanya was founded in 1928. Umm Khalid was one of four villages founded in the 18th century, during the Ottoman Empire.
Ahilud Al-Birwa Beri and then Ahilud: The Arabic name Al-Birwa was first recorded in 1047, in the book Sifr Nameh by the famous Persian author Naser Khasro. It may be the later Arabic version of Beri, which was burnt to the ground during the Roman occupation.
Tel Aviv Yaffa Tel Aviv-Yafo: That's the city's official name. Yafo is the original Hebrew name going way the hell back. Yafa is just the Arabic for Yafo. (It's Jaffa or Joppa in English.) Tel Aviv was founded in 1909 by 60 Jewish families who raised the money for the land so they could get out of crowded Jaffa. It got big and the cities merged together.
Beer-Sheba/Beer-Sabe: This is just the Arabic name for a 4,000-year-old city that at one point marked the southern boundary of Israel.
Lod/Al-Lydd: Lod was the center of Jewish scholarship and trade 2,500 years ago, although it's much older than that. Al-Lydd is just Lod in Arabic.
Ashkelon/Ashkalan, Zekharia/Zakaria, Ashdod/Isdud: these are so fucking obviously the same name in two different languages I'm not even doing them
Hebron al-Khalīl Hebron: Archaeologists have found a 2,700-year-old Jewish home in Hebron, and seals that say "LeMelech Hebron" ("the king of Hebron") in paleo-Hebrew. The name was changed under Arab colonization: "The Arabic name for Hebron, al-Khalīl, emerged as the city's actual name in the 13th century. Earlier Muslim sources refer to the city as Ḥabra or Ḥabrūn."
The entire thing is just pure DARVO.
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When someone tells you they’ve been harmed by a group, you believe them. Jews aren’t exempt from causing harm, as we’ve seen in Palestine. Is it really so difficult to believe they’d cause harm in other countries too? Or can you not accept that Jews aren’t uwu little innocent beans who could never hurt a fly?
this is in response to a polish gentile claiming that big corporations run by jews are stealing money and land from gentiles in poland btw.
when i was in poland i had the privilege of talking to the (polish) head of a jewish cultural centre. i decided to ask him about antisemitism. he described to me that one of the most pervasive antisemitic sentiments in poland has to do with the fear that jews will return and demand property and money.
as a polish jew, i know why they'd worry about that :/
my cousin has a story of her grandmother (the one im not related to) and her family being deported to the ghetto. before they were even gone their gentile neighbours offered to "look after" their stuff. her grandmother threw a fit, because she saw it for what it was.
i think about my great grandfather's shtetl and how there is not a single jewish family left there. all those people's land, their homes, their furniture, everything they couldn't take with them. who has them now?
even the belongings plundered from auschwitz victims by the nazis, the ones that were left behind, are owned by the polish state. and they maintain them and preserve them and show them and whatever, but it still stings.
yeah. we remember.
Wait, wasn't there someone else whose family had a business or something there in Poland and when they went to try and see about getting it back since it was stolen from them, the gov't basically said they could try but they wouldn't protect them?
I swear I read that on here.
You did.
After all, many Jewish people have *tried* saying “this house belonged to my parents and you stole it when the Nazis took them to a camp. Pl
You know, there's a certain audacity to accusing Jewish people of stealing land/homes/etc in Poland, when it was the other way around and that it's very fucking difficult for Jews to get back what was stolen from them.
Would you keep me in your closet?
When they tell you that we're the murderers of Christ, blasphemous heretics, who poison the wells and eat christian babies, would you still keep me in your closet?
When they tell you we're of an infirior race, that our presence destroys culture, that we backstabbed your country, that having kids with us will leave them with the same flaws, that we are inherently and unchanginly evil, and that killing us is a mercy, would you still keep me in your closet?
When they tell you we're overlords of a secret society, secret cosmopolitiains of the deep state, controlling the media and the economy for our benefit, leaching on the work of good, hard working people, would you still keep me in your closet?
When they tell you we're white supremacists, fanatic nationals, colonizers, explotators, slave owners, oppressors, occupiers, starving, ethnically cleansing, genociding, harvesting organs off of Arab children...
Today, when they knock on your door and ask politely if you happen to hide me in your house or basement, whatever they may call me, whatever excuse they came with
Would you keep me safe in your closet?
no hiding in notes
This is important what is your country's Wyoming, Beilefeld, or Jharkand
a.k.a what place in your country is said to not actually exist
This is going to be a hell of a werid question buuut I'd like some jewish hindsight in this!
If I wanted to create a jewish furry/anthro character, is there an animal in specific that would be problematic to use for that?
Yes!
Rats and Pigs are pretty problematic because that's what we are constantly compared to them!
Maybe don't do Vampire Bats either because of the blood libel implications...
-Cecil
followers are adding animals to the "unfortunate implications list"
Lizards and/or snakes too maybe
Yeah all reptiles because of reptile people!
Maybe we could suggest some good options? I think lions are pretty good— they have positive associations and have been used as a symbol for Jews before. I think griffins and peacocks are good too.
We have on the other post where anon suggest chinchillas and capybaras and I said that was fine
Griffins should be good too
I think lions work because of Yehudah being compared to a lion if I remember correctly in the bracha Yakkov gives him.
Deer could work.
I'm trying to remember which other ones got animals comparisons in their bracha from Yakkov because maybe some of those could work?
Doves also could work do to them having a lot symbolism within Judaism.
Bees also I think could work.
Cheetahs too due their anxiety give me personally a very Jewish vibes.
Yehuda is a lion cub in Yaakov's bracha, Dan is compared to a lion by Moshe at the end of the Torah. Naftali is traditionally associated with deer (I think also from Yaakov) and Binyamin with wolves.
I think an ibex would also be good, as the ibex is native to the Levant and it's traditionally seen as a very hardy animal, living on the rocky cliffs around Ein Gedi in the area surrounding the Dead Sea.
Gotta offer a wolf, it's a deeply misunderstood animal that is seen as savage and a loner by outsiders but they just care about their own pack community where they don't have the weirdo dynamics assigned to them. I think it could be sweet
Jewish Wolves huh?
I would be wary if a gentile wrote this because foxes and wolves were used in nazi propaganda but if YOU want to write it, go for it
Man is good to see THIS post again
Seconding Ibex on this. They have cultural connections because they are one of the animals whose horns we use to make shofarim, they live in herds and they also have cool beards.
Antisemitism stats
Argentina: In January 2024, there more than 100 reported antisemitic incidents, representing a 600% increase compared to January 2023.
Australia: According to the Executive Council of Australian Jewry, as of 12/15 there has been a 738% increase in antisemitic incidents.
Austria: From October 7 to December 31, antisemitic incidents were up 500%, compared to the same period in 2022. For all of 2023, the increase in antisemitic incidents was 60%, compared to 2022.
Brazil: According to the CONIB, which tracks antisemitism in Brazil, there was a 961% increase during the month of October in comparison to the previous year.
Denmark: In 2023, there were 121 antisemitic incidents, an increase of 1244%.
France: According to the Minister of Interior, there were 1,242 antisemitic incidents from October 1 to December 31, 2023, a 1000% increase compared to prior months.
Germany: In 2023, police registered 5,154 antisemitic incidents, an increase of 95%.
Italy: According to Interior Minister Matteo Piantedosi, authorities registered 135 incidents of antisemitism between October 7 and December 31.
Netherlands: In 2023, there were 379 antisemitic incidents, an increase of 245%
New Zealand: In a survey of Jewish parents of children aged 9-18, as of 12/14, 50% of those who completed the survey said their children were subjected to antisemitism in schools.
Poland: In 2023, there were 894 antisemitic incidents 894, an increase of 91%.
South Africa: According to the South African Jewish Board of Deputies, there were 41 antisemitic incidents in the month of October, a significant increase compared to prior years.
Switzerland: Antisemitic incidents increased by 68 percent in French-speaking Switzerland last year, with almost half of all incidents occurring post-10/7.
UK: In 2023 CST recorded 4,103 anti-Jewish hate incidents across the UK, by far the largest-ever total recorded in this country.
link: https://www.adl.org/resources/blog/global-antisemitic-incidents-wake-hamas-war-israel
In Montreal, Canada, between October 7 2023 and November 7 2023, there has been as many antisemitic hate crimes reported than there were total hate crimes reported in 2022.
I would like to add some stats on Australia.
According to the Executive council of Australian Jewry, in 2023 alone, antisemitic assaults rose 120%, verbal abuse 36%, and antisemitic graffiti rose 100%. This is in 2023 alone in my country, and I can definitely tell you that those numbers have risen much higher since October.
Would a vampire be repeled by a Magen David? (Jews only please)
yes, any religious symbol would work
yes, but only if the wielder believes in it
yes, but only if the vampire was Jewish/believes in it
yes, but only if both wielder and vampire believe in it
no (please put in tags why not!)
Something else/bald/vanilla extract
Not Jewish
At least I'm my family we eat enough garlic that it's a moot point but I'm curious what jumblr thinks!