צדק, צדק תרדף

a greater woman stays cool, but I howl like a wolf at the moon Amira. she/her. 27.

[mizrahim]

shalom!

you can call me Amira. I'm 27 and use she/היא pronouns. I am autistic. I live in the US but plan on making aliyah within 2-3 years. I am learning modern Hebrew

I work as a supplemental math teacher for students age 6-18. during the school year, I teach grades 5-6 + biblical Hebrew at my synagogue's religious school on Sunday mornings

I spend a lot of time focused on antisemitism as it surrounds me in my daily life. I have a special interest in politics and history, particularly in relation to Judaism. I believe all people have the right to a healthy life in peace

I don't talk here much, generally. we'll see if that changes. I mainly reblog things related to my interests or things relevant to my life. expect posts about Judaism, ASOIAF, X-Men, Tolkien, Taylor Swift, and various procedural dramas

free West Asia from Iran. free Eastern Europe and Asia from Russia. zionism is a successful land back movement. Arabs outside Arabia are colonialists. free the Yezidis. free Kurdistan. fuck your Axis of Terror. fuck Islamists

I block liberally and often. cheers 🤟🏼

[xclowniex2]

I wake up. I check the news. I read an article about how antisemitism has increased yet again in a country. I clock into work. I go to lunch and wonder if my subway guy who is always excited to see me and writes my name with a little design every day would still treat me the same if he knew i was jewish. Clock out. I walk home through alley ways to avoid walking past people who have explicity called for the death of jews. I spend some times on my hobbies, maybe see a friend. Eat dinner. Check social media to see people local to me spread antisemitism, and maybe i even ruminate on the antisemitism i experienced irl that week. I go to sleep. I wake up, check the news and see an article about how another country also has had an increase in antisemitism. I clock into work....

[thestuffedalligator]

Collecting books is great until you have to move all of them at once and realize that every one of the little bastards weighs about as much as a brick and collectively have the mass of a neutron star

[chutzpahchesed]

Israel's Far Right Did Mamdani a Favor

The far-right ministers who crashed the parade handed Israel's critics a gift and its friends a reason to stop showing up.

[girlactionfigure]

This is inversion so callous it's hard to believe.

The Holocaust had a survival rate of about 30%. Millions of people disappeared from European cities and towns over several years. Everybody knew because it was happening all around them.

Gaza has a survival rate, despite the worst and most deadly and horrible periods of the war, of 97%.

All the dead Jews were noncombatants. A large percentage of the dead Gazans were combatants.

And the Jews of Europe, even as their millennia-old civilization was being systematically wiped out, wanted nothing from the societies that surrounded them except to be allowed to live in peace.

Gaza's leadership of religious fanatics, meanwhile, wants every last Israeli dead and gone, is willing to fight to the last Gazan to achieve that aim, has said so publicly and worked for decades to blow up every peace attempt -- and even now believes that Gaza's destruction would be a worthwhile sacrifice to lay on the altar of Israel's destruction, because their god told them so.

So Israelis can reasonably believe, given those features of the Gaza war that aren't true about any genocide ever, and were pretty much the opposite of what was happening in the Holocaust, that Gaza's suffering is a bad and painful war, but not remotely a genocide.

But the point of it all, of course, is not to analyze Gaza, but specifically to lump it together with the Holocaust -- to cast the Jews as the new Nazis.

The only reason this person would dare to make such an insanely ahistorical and immoral parallel is because this is the heart of the bigoted propaganda campaign in which he enthusiastically participates: The point of it all is to make the Jews into the Nazis.

A culture that obsessed about Jews being evil and was then shocked by the Holocaust into obsessing about dead Jews as the apotheosis of righteous victimhood is now obsessively engaged in knocking Jews off that moral pedestal they themselves put them on.

That's why they don't care one whit about Hamas massacres of Gazans, about genocidal wars in Syria or Yemen (even when they've funded and armed the sides), about flotilla activists currently held by the Libyans...literally nothing triggers a response except Jews.

They still, even after all these generations, no matter what else is happening in the world or in their own societies, can't stop thinking about Jews.

And as we Jews learned in the 1940s -- the actual, historical 1940s, not the weird fantasies conjured up by these bigots -- a whole society can be in the grip of a callous, destructive bigotry and still believe it is true and righteous.

@havivrettiggur

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Having electricity in my home is so great. Most of the humans that have ever lived didn't have this.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

I can be like "I want a cup of hot tea" and I can go and make one and I don't have to light a fire or anything.

[zmyaro]

I don't have to light a fire or anything.

Several rabbis have entered the chat.

[ponpurin]

I find it so interesting how some people accept and reaffirm the fact Israel has religious importance in both Islam and Christianity, and say that Jerusalem should “be for everyone”. Then they shit their pants when Jews say it’s also important for them.

So Muslims and Christians have a right to certain sites in Israel because they have deep religious significance, but Jews don’t? They have no right to their own damn indigenous land? To the birthplace of their entire culture, religion, language, and identity? The amount of mental gymnastics and Jew hatred required to make these statements is mind numbing.

And for anyone that’s curious, Muslims and Christians already can and have been to Jerusalem for decades. The whole “Jerusalem is for everyone” is so fucking stupid because literally anyone can visit already. And this argument is even more rich when considering the Temple Mount, the literal holiest site in Judaism, has highly restricted access to non-Muslims. Jews cannot visit their own holiest site without massive restrictions and they are not allowed to pray there. Only as recent as this year have SOME Jews been allowed to pray there (discreetly and out of sight). They’re facing these restrictions in their own indigenous land, no less! You would think since Israel is a “Jewish supremacist” country they’d get rid of these restrictions in their own fucking capital city.

Mind you Muslims and Christians are free to visit the western wall and pray there to their heart’s content. Though most Muslims wouldn’t since they can just go up to Temple Mount. The reason the western wall is holy to Jews is because it’s the closest they can get to the Temple Mount without facing restrictions. All of this to say Jews have no problem sharing their land making Jerusalem “for everyone”.

[ponpurin]

Leftists love to pull the “what you would be doing in nazi Germany is what you’re doing now” card in reference to different things across the world. Yet they fail to self reflect and realize that that statement applies wholly to them. If ya’ll were living in nazi Germany you’d be Hitler’s biggest fan! He’d go up on that podium and say he wants to “exterminate all the baby murdering zionists from the world!!” and ya’ll would be hollering and cheering.

Cant even say I’m wrong with how many nazis turn up to “pro-Palestine” protests and the shit ya’ll be chanting and doing.

[chrkrose]

Some thoughts I have about Jaime’s weirwood dream in ASOS:

It opens by naming his old identity out loud. He tells himself he’s safe as long as he has his hand, then safe as long as he has a sword. That’s the whole of who he was: the hand, the blade, the name. Tywin gives him the sword. Cersei is the only light in the world. The Lannister legacy, past and present, standing before him.

Brienne pops up when he’s still defined by all of that. She’s in chains. She asks him for a sword. He frees her, and she has a sword now, and he can see her in this light as almost a knight, almost a beauty, and then her flames take life, and the darkness retreat some more.

And then Cersei tells him “The flames will burn so long as you live. When they die, so must you”.

Then his family leaves. Tywin and Cersei turn and go, and they take every Lannister ghost in the cavern with them, leaving just Jaime and Brienne alone.

And Brienne, in this dream, she starts in chains, then he frees her, then he arms her, and then her blade takes flame until she’s a second source of light, equal to him, standing beside him. He notices her body again, sees that she has more of a woman’s shape. When she touches him, he shudders, because she’s warm.

Then the ghosts comes. But it isn’t the ghosts that hurt him. His flame only starts to flicker when he gives in to the guilt, and the more it swallows him the lower the flame burns, until it goes out. Jaime’s flame dies because he surrenders to despair.

And what is the rule the dream laid down? As long as the flames burns, he lives. When they die, so does he.

His flame dies. Brienne’s is still burning.

And now Brienne is the hand holding the sword and the only light in the world.

When he collapses under guilt, she still stands. She stands between him and his ghosts. She stands between him and the darkness. His flame went out yes, but her light still remains.

So I don’t know if the dream necessarily means Jaime dies before Brienne, but that his living or dying is tied to her. As long as the flames burn, he lives. Once they go out, he’s gone. Hers is still burning.

If she falters, if her light goes out, that’s where his death is.

[mslovelyrita]

Finding out that the author behind A Series of Unfortunate Events is a Jew makes the sheer absurdity of the incompetence of the adults in the Baudelaires’ lives make soooo much more sense when you start seeing Count Olaf as a metaphor for antisemitism. How they repeatedly tell whoever their current guardian is who and what is after them and they just patronizingly tell them that they don’t know what they’re talking about or choose not to see through the very obviously thin disguise (a metaphor for dog whistles). The gaslighting. The willful ignorance. It’s so painfully familiar.

[moshesbiggestfan]

first time jewposting but idgaf what the pope or really any christian has to say about the "first testament" (torah) bc its not their book. idrc if this is controversial but im really really tired of the CATHOLIC CHURCH pretending to be the authority on a book they stole and appropriated from us ESPECIALLY considering their history with massacring us and otherwise making it impossible for us to live our lives.

[moshesbiggestfan]

first time jewposting but idgaf what the pope or really any christian has to say about the "first testament" (torah) bc its not their book. idrc if this is controversial but im really really tired of the CATHOLIC CHURCH pretending to be the authority on a book they stole and appropriated from us ESPECIALLY considering their history with massacring us and otherwise making it impossible for us to live our lives.

[thatproudjew4027]

oh you’re so real for this

[moshesbiggestfan]

this post was in reference to someone asking a jew if theyre "seriously correcting the pope on the bible" when the jew in question was talking about the ten commandments.... like the texts that MOSHE RABBEINU brought down.... i get madder everytime i remember it

i need christians OUT of our business

[tributary]

buddy i think you may be very stupid

[tributary]

1. “semitic” is a language category

2. wilhelm marr popularized the term “antisemitism” as a more scientific-sounding alternative to judenhass (literally “jew hatred”) in the late 1800s, so for those of us with a sense of historical time that’s before the nazis. the term has only been used to mean jew-hatred.

3. are butterflies flies made of butter, or is that etymological fallacy?

4. okay enough time spent on this nonsense, i am going to eat frozen fruit

[jewish-vents]

whenever I see the genocide charge, which is, you know, every day, I keep remembering that people were calling the war a genocide when Israel's ground invasion had barely begun. there wasn't anything to prove it was a genocide except, of course, the fact that Israel retaliated at all. The only way to avoid a genocide, by that logic, would be if Israel didn't bother fighting back and left itself open to 10/7 copycats in perpetuity.

If I were Israeli, and my government and army existed to protect me, I'd have something to say about that.

The turn-out-your pockets answer to the genocide question is pretty simple: there's not enough evidence. A lot of what happened in the war you can explain by it being difficult urban terrain against an enemy who doesn't care if their own civilians live or die and will happily steal humanitarian aid and either hoard it or repurpose it as weaponry. And, of course, the fact that Israel didn't march into Gaza for a trumped up reason like Putin marched into Ukraine: 10/7 started the war. Genocide it specifically about intent. There's not enough evidence Israel wants to destroy Palestinians and their civilization and not just Hamas, in part because of how deeply embedded Hamas is in the strip. If evidence becomes available that contradicts that, I'll reconsider. And I think we can remember events in this war can be horrific criminal acts without being a part of a genocide.

But it has to be a genocide specifically, doesn't it.

That's the much darker reality: people use "genocide" for this conflict and not say, Russia/Ukraine, where genocidal intent has more evidence, because the Jews are involved. It's about the Holocaust. It's about taking it away from us and appropriating it for themselves because we don't "deserve" it, we're not perfect victims, as if the Holocaust was a gift and not an immense trauma that's still in living memory. How lucky for the goyim that they can play make believe with the Holocaust instead of grappling with the ways it is still hurting Jewish families and communities. Honestly, if they want the Holocaust, they can fucking take it. Give me my six million back. Give me my family back.

Or shut the hell up about the Holocaust.

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[imyourbadjew]

Jews did not need a state because it was “promised” to us. We needed a state because all your grandparents were happily killing us.

Our ethnic ties to the land influenced the location of our state. But they were not actually the reason that we decided to build one.

[forrest-sterling]

So is it a racially diverse state where everyone is accepted or is it a Jewish ethnostate? If it protects Jews then why is it constantly provoking retaliation from its neighbors? If it was bad when Jews were rounded up and murdered why is it acceptable when Israeli Jews do it to Gazans?

[imyourbadjew]

Thanks for asking! Israel is in fact an incredibly diverse country where Jews only make up around 70% of the population and the rest enjoy full rights as Israeli citizens. Arabs, both Muslim and Christian, make up around 20% of the population, which I bet is more than whatever pasty country you’re from. Arab Muslims hold seats in the parliament, there are Arab judges in the highest courts, and the Arab population is disproportionately represented in healthcare (about a quarter of doctors in Israel are Arabs).

The rest of your questions are answered by the fact that our kindly neighbors keep trying to murder us with bombs knives and missiles.

Have a great day!

[jewish-vents]

I don't how to move on. I feel like my nervous system is stuck on oct 8th.

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