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@mousejewitz
YouTube is so exhausting these days. all my favorite video essayists drop "it was promised to them 3000 years ago" jokes at random. I watch videos about genuinely terrible people (rapists, pedophiles, murderers, etc.) and the creator is like and they support Israel which makes sense for such a deplorable person, obviously. shut up shut up shut up shut up!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I really hate the "Jerusalem is very important to three religions why would Judaism get full control of it" because its only important because thats where the JEWISH TEMPLE was and where the JUDEAN KINGS lived. just because people made religions out of fanficing Judaism means we have to give them equal slices of our own cultural history?
like idc anymore these insane nazis say and do anything to dehumanize us jews and demonize our one singular homeland and i cannot be bothered to waste my energy on it anymore. antisemitism is a cyclical phenomenon, we’ve been here before and we’ll be here again. it’s deadly, it’s dangerous, but it’s NOT what makes me and my family and my people who we are. i cannot let my neshamah be weighed down by it. idc idc idc don’t fuck with me because you will be sorely disappointed when i come out on the other side prouder and stronger as a jew!
yall when we say “the Bundists all got murdered” its not taunting Bundists for dying in a genocide. the Bundists thought being Bundists would protect them from Bolshevik & Nazi violence and notably it did not. “the Bundists all got murdered” is the evidence that Bundism failed, not an insult to their memory. Bundism is at its core the belief that assimilation will save you and there has never been a time in history where assimilation has saved anyone.
I'm sorry, WHAT?
Absolutely fucking disgusting.
She got detained for trying to breach a legal blockade, held for a day or two then sent back home. What a disgusting fucking insult to the memories of the people who were sent to the actual concentration camps. Fuck this woman.
Also fuck this lying idiot as well:
Lies through her teeth she got treated so bad in Israel she has to be put on a stretcher with a fucking neck brace, then a few hours later she's completely fucking fine. What a miracle 😑.
What's even more stupid is people are absolutely gonna believe this lying bitch and start crying about her "torture".
This shit is exactly why i refuse to believe anything out of these lying idiots mouths unless they provide evidence to back it up (like the very clear video of Ben gvir being his disgusting self, that happened I won't deny and he can go fuck himself).
What do they even achieve other than give these people attention and let them lie?
yeah, of course marjane satrapi supported israel and condemned antisemitism you fucking idiots.
you plainly don’t know and don’t care about policy or relations in the middle east, cause if you did, you would know that iranians are skeptical if not outright critical of the palestinian national movement. cause it’s fucking bankrolled by their tyrannical government who rapes and murders teenage girls for showing their hair. go to hell
"Criticizing Israel is not antisemitic"
That's funny, I don't see you criticizing Russia the same way. I don't see you criticizing China the same way. Afghanistan. Syria. Yemen. Iraq. Iran. Turkmenistan. North Korea. The list goes on
Wonder why that is. Could it be... antisemitism?
Sometimes I want to talk about the racism and discrimination I as a Jew of Jewish ancestry experience based on my physical appearance and my heritage without being told “but there’s no way to look Jewish!!!! But every Jew is an ethnic Jew!!!!!” That’s great doesn’t change the fact i am considered to have been born Wrong
a large part of the feelings I'm trying to express have to do with generational trauma and familial histories. and i really don't know how to put it better than "there are things that have happened in the past to my ancestors that are ingrained in who i am in every way possible". and wanting to be able to speak for my ancestors. it can feel really demeaning to have your voice taken away from you because you aren't an "interesting" enough Jew. because you are "just" Ashkenazi. because you are a bland "European" Jew who must experience so much white privilege. because you know so much less about Judaism than someone else. to be excluded from discussions of racism because I am not a "Jew of color". i am not diverse enough, i am not marginalized enough. my ancestors' food and language are one big, massive joke not only to the goyische world but to other Jews. we are considered genetically fucked up. they say were inbred. they say our genetic health problems are indicators that we should have gone extinct (rather than examining the impacts of prolonged stress not only on an individual but through generations.) they say we aren't real jews. we're khazars, white colonizers, were all converts, we don't belong. the true Jews are all people of color. so, i must not be a Jew. The fact that I am a Jew is an inherent part of my body in the same way I have eyes or legs or lungs. my Jewishness is such a central part of who I am as a person and how I am alive as a person.
i have no interesting story to tell to land myself on your DEI board. i have no universalizing statement of kindness. i have nothing to say about how a Jew is a Jew is a Jew. i have no explanation of the lessons i should have learned by the genocide my great grandparents avoided, only because they had to survive a different one. it's all been said before.
i can tell you the story of how my great grandfather escaped the pogroms by hiding in a wagon. how he made it to America with nothing. I can tell you about the lack of documentation i have of my family's history. I can tell you about the crouton recipe passed down through my family through visual learning. i can tell you we found eight generations of my family history, all through the maternal line (you always know who the mother is). i can tell you they lived in Riga and had yiddish names. I can tell you I have a very American name. I know what my paternal great grandfather's surname was, but I cannot spell it. he changed it after immigration. his first name too. i can tell you my mother was asked if she had horns growing up. i can tell you people misspell her name, make fun of it (it is Hebrew.) I can tell you kids stared at me in middle school when the holocaust was mentioned. I can tell you about the times i experienced what is legally a hate crime in the places my family had to leave. I can tell you why I knock on wood, why I was named for my mother's late grandmother, why I haven't been to a funeral, why my grandma hates tattoos. I can tell you about my experience as a third generation American. I can tell you about my family about Jewish geography about summer camps and community centers and Jewish day school. I can tell you about the first time I was told I was going to hell. I can tell you how sad other kids were when I said I dont celebrate christmas, how they assumed it must be because my parents dont love me. I can tell you how adults act the same way now when given this information. I can tell you how I felt the day 1200 Jews were murdered in ways I knew in my bones. I can tell you that it felt like i was reliving a memory passed to me through the womb.
but look at me. I am just a Jew. I am just an Ashkenazi Jew. my voice is overrepresented already. i am too loud, too much. i take up too much space. and i am mean. i am a very mean jew.
“I think ashkenazim should get ten times meaner” I am nonbinaryjudean and I approve this message.
It was a long time coming: An incomprehensive list of similarities between antizionism and transphobia:
An obsession with deadnames: Transphobes tend to insist on calling trans people by the name they had before they transitioned. Antizionists tend to insist on calling Jewish people who Hebrewfied their name or just changed their name to a Hebrew one, by their old name.
"If you want your own representation so badly, why don't you make it yourself?" *representation exists* "omg why do you have to shove it into our faces all the time??"
"One of the good ones", tokenization on the greater scale of hate - Queerphobes will look for transphobic LGB people to use as tokens, and nothing more. Similarly, antisemites will look for antizionist Jews to use as tokens. And nothing more.
"Your existence doesn't add up with my beliefs, so clearly you just don't exist / you're not who you claim you are"
"Actually zionism is the real antisemitism slash the reason antisemitism exists" / "Actually trans people are the ones giving a bad name to queer people"
"They are coming for us": "Trans people want to turn other people" / "Zionists want to take over the world"
Pretending to care about academic sources but actually disregarding most studies made (studies showing Jewish indiginity over the levant / studies showing the results of transgender healthcare)
"Why would you need to be defended? You are already the most protected group on the planet!"
Obviously a lot of Nazi background for both rethorics.
Pretending to care about children, oh but not THOSE children: Transphobes basic off of "protect the children" because "trans people are trying to turn out children trans", ignoring how untreated dysphoria leads to higher suicide rates among trans youth, or how a trans kid is literally murdered for being trans; Antizionists claiming to care about kids dying but cheering on when Jewish kids are being fucking murdered.
Refusing to listen to the targetted group about their own fucking experience (because clearly they're lying to achieve some secret agenda).
This might be a small thing but demonization of a flag to extreme extents: "The star of david is problematic because it appears on Israel's flag" / being "suspicious" of anything that's colored using the same scheme as the trans flag (or any queer flag in this case)
Hating on an identity trait and/or claiming it's not actually an identity trait, thinking that claiming enough that people don't exist will make it true ("Israel doesn't exist" / "there are only two genders")
Treating an identity trait as an ideology (being Israeli equating to an "evil" ideology / being trans equating to an "evil" ideology)
This one is pretty universal but telling people to kill themselves
Telling people their very existence actively causes harm
Being nosy and not minding their own fucking buisness (antizionists actively looking for posts made by Jews/Israelis to send them hate, transphobes actively looking for posts made by trans people to send them hate).
"Why make it your entire personality???"
you lot are welcome to add more
edit א:
"i identify as a toaster" / "it was promised to them 3000 years ago"
edit ב:
"cis is a slur" / "goy is a slur"
edit ג:
making the targeted minority physically unsafe to the point they have to research how safe it is to travel internationally to almost anywhere (the answer is no)
"Everything they say is lies" / "Everything they say is just mental illness" to delegitimize any and all speech of targeted group.
A belief that the only good thing the targeted group can do is not exist (and equating that to kindness when confronted)
"Converts can't be ethnically Jewish" "if you can just decide to be Jewish then Jews aren't an indigenous group" / "you can't just call yourself a woman" "you're not a real man because biology"
edit ד:
celebrating cancer as "proving" their cause: transphobes celebrating trans women/men for getting breast/testicular cancer, "proving" they’re women/men (even tho the rate isn't really higher than cis people / antizionists celebrating "white" Israelis for getting skin cancer, "proving" they’re not indigenous to the levant (even though the rate isn't really higher than in other populations)
edit ה:
making up people/claim to get mad at: "there are Zionists saying 'how dare black people exist'" / "there are men claiming they are trans women just to creep in women's bathrooms"
justification of sexual assault against the "right victim" (i don't even need to elaborate on that one)
edit ו:
Hating for "passing privilege": The idea that Jews benefit 100% from white privilege / the idea that trans men benefit 100% from male privilege
edit ז:
"my grandparents are older than Israel" / "being trans wasn't a thing up until recently"
edit ח:
"white americans convert to judaism just to be able to live in israel (read: colonize palestine)!" / "men transition into women in order to prey on girls/dominate womens sports/etc."
treating white-passing jews like just cool white people and not acknowledging they have actual history and culture beyond just lighting a hanukia on Christmas / treating non binary people as just cool girls with colorful hair without acknowledging their actual gender identity
"you can tell them (Zionists/trans people) apart by their prominent facial features. but just to be sure i'll need to check your genitals for mutilation"
edit ט:
Using the targetted group as a scapegoat (by a major side of politics)
edit י:
"victim card declined"
I wish all the “religion is inherently bad” people who go on to describe issues exclusive to Christianity would understand that their idea of Christianity being analogous to all religion is a very glaring sign that they are still steeped in the Christian hegemony they seem to reject so vehemently
If you ever find yourself unironically saying “the Jews are weaponizing the holocaust” I think you have some self reflection to do. To put it mildly.
Jewish folks do not owe you, an internet stranger, a discussion of their political beliefs nor their feelings on Zionism.
Let's say it louder for the folks in the back:
Jews DO NOT owe you an explanation of their views on their religious homeland or the complex geopolitics of a place they've continued to be tied to for more than 3000 years by culture, religion, and ethnicity.
We are in fact allowed to hold a variety of views. And can hold multiple truths to be true all at once.
Thanks for coming to my TEDtalk.
when antisemites are like "Jews drink the blood of Christian babies" I get kind of confused.
like, Jews are supposedly demons or the spawn of Satan, neither of which can be in contact with holy water.
the only thing that differentiates a Christian baby from any other one is that it's been baptized and dunked in holy water.
you think the spawns of Satan want to drink spicy baby blood? have you ever met an Ashkenazi Jew? we famously have very weak spice tolerance.
Debate fatigue when arguing the Jewish connection to Israel.
As someone who has dedicated their life to history and is actively pursuing becoming a professional historian, the way I have approached fighting antisemitism has always naturally taken a historical focus. Here is what I can tell you from my debate experiences:
No matter how much history and historical proof I shared, if an individual just hated Jews, there was no reasoning with them; nothing will change their mind. We could build a time machine and bring them back to the 11th century BCE to the Kingdom of Israel or the 6th century BCE to the building of the Second Temple, and they still will never admit to Jewish indigeneity and connection to the land. You can show them all the demographic information of the population of modern Israel, and they will still say everyone is a "European Settler". I can have a fruitful converstations and debates with people who recognizes our connection to the land, its history, and its importance to us, but who are opposed to the modern state. But someone who simply hates Jews or hates being Jewish (Because this is also unfortunately common), I have had to learn the hard way that I can not let it get to me when I can not reason with them. This is not to say we should stop trying, challenging these thoughts still has value if it exposes others listening or reading to knowledge. But I have had to remind myself that it is not that I am not doing enough, it's that hatred truly blinds people.
Taking the approach that I am debating this person, not with the sole goal of changing their mind, but to provide knowledge to the open-minded person who might read it or is listening, has significantly helped me with the fatigue and anger I have been experiencing. Even if this debate doesn't change this person, and even though I will still have bad days, at least it may bring some light to someone else.
If you tell Jewish people that "they don't look Jewish" I can't stand you
