I’ve noticed that I have a pretty mixed following of people who are here for Jewish stuff, people who are here for nonbinary stuff, and people who are here for both, so I want to help with some navigation. All my Jewish posts are tagged as Jewish stuff, and all my nonbinary posts are tagged as nonbinary stuff. Sometimes I’ll annoy everyone and post about my adhd, which will be under adhd stuff. I know tumblr’s filtration system can be kind of shit, but this is just a guideline for the people who are here for one kind of thing. When I get the energy, I’ll go back to my older posts and tag them accordingly, but right now I can’t be bothered
I’ve only ever wanted to be a successful artist, and I’ve been grappling with the fact that it just isn’t going to happen for (((me))). I still want to make art for me and for my people, but I can’t imagine painting an even bigger target on my back. I feel like I’m grieving a life I didn’t even get to live. It’s so unfair.
being a queer Jew is so fucking lonely. "Ooooh I want to enjoy this queer artist's body of work! Oh. Shit. They hate Jews? Never mind then." like fucking WHAT
to be clear, i'm saying this explicitly about queer artists in the 21st century — cough cough Chapel Roan amongst SO many others cough cough — not like. Colette. just in case anyone wanted to be like "antisemitic queers are a thing of the past." Nope! They're very much relevant and recent! Not at all a relic!
oh woohoo first brit I’ve ever been to and I literally fought through all of the dysphoria over formal wear to be here just to find out that it’s men and women separate so now I’m stuck outside. Yay.
Sometimes I remember that I used to not have a binder and I just think to myself wow how tf did I ever go outside no wonder I was having dysphoric breakdowns all the time lmao
shit. I can’t deal with it anymore. I can’t deal with listening to the things that people in school say and I can’t deal with just having to sit there and overhear and then go into a lesson with them and take it and I just can’t
For a long time, I felt compelled to bear witness to every act of antisemitism. To share it, to name it, to refuse to let it pass quietly into the background. Speaking out felt less like a choice and more like survival — like a small way of pushing back against a world that so easily looks away.
But there comes a point when the sheer volume crushes you. Antisemitism isn't a "moment" anymore. It's a constant drumbeat, a reality that never pauses. And to share it all is to live inside of it.
This week, a Jewish man in France was assaulted simply for being Jewish. That reality should stop the world in its tracks, but it won't. And part of me wants to make sure people know. But the other part of me knows the cost: the spiral of anger, the weight in my chest, the way it hijacks every corner of my mind.
I don't want to live in a state of perpetual fury. I don't want Jewish life to be flattened into nothing but trauma. But when I step back and try to catch my breath, the guilt sets in.
That's the sick genius of antisemitism, isn't it? That it hurts us twice. Once when it strikes, and again when we try to survive it.
The attacker shouted "Dirty Jew, we will kill you!” before searching his person in an attempt to “find money and the keys to the synagogue.”
A 67-year-old Jewish man was assaulted in the French town of Yerres (Essonne) on Saturday morning, local media reported on Sunday evening.
According to reports, Gilles Cohen, who was wearing a kippah, was on his way back from the mikveh when he was ambushed from behind and beaten.
The attacker shouted "Dirty Jew, we will kill you!” before searching Cohen in an attempt to “find money and the keys to the synagogue.”
The Évry prosecutor's office told TF1-LCI that a passerby intervened and rescued Cohen.
Antoine Léaument, LFI MP for the constituency, said, "The insults uttered during this attack leave no doubt about his antisemitic motive. The perpetrator of this heinous attack must be found and tried."
Yonathan Arfi, the President of CRIF, noted that the attack echoes many similar ones, including attacks on rabbis in Orléans, Deauville, Neuilly, and Levallois in recent months.
"No one will uproot the Jews from France," he said. "But it is high time to uproot the antisemitism that is festering in society, using a conflict 3,000 km away as a pretext."
The Évry public prosecutor confirmed to TF1-LCI that an investigation is underway for attempted violent theft resulting in more than eight days of total incapacity for work, committed on religious grounds, and for death threats made on religious grounds.
"His eye is very, very swollen," Mendel Gourevitch, director of the yeshiva in Brunoy, a commune near Yerres, told AFP.
Gourevitch claimed that Cohen still had the courage to come and attend the Sunday morning service.
sucks wanting to be androgynous for so many reasons but one of them is that WHERE ARE ALL THE ANDROGYNOUS PEOPLE?? Why can’t I find any genuinely (low contrast) androgynous references online— I mean I know why, it’s cause it’s a hard to achieve goal, but not so hard that there’s just NOTHING. Even forums specifically dedicated to androgyny have nothing genuinely in the middle, it’s usually just crossdressers, which is fine but it’s just not what androgyny is, or spam. It’s so isolating and confusing because you can feel deeply what you need but at the same time there’s not enough out there to properly shape the understanding of that instinct into a fully realised goal. Fml I swear
that one random nonbinary Israeli on Pinterest whose trans vents sometimes come up on my page I love you so much you make me feel less alone in this horrible ‘community’
(we keep having to deal with important points being made with poor phrasing, or worse, with more denial, as if meeting apathy with apathy isn’t furthering harm - so: the hostages are starving. there are Gazans who are too. one doesn’t negate the other. disparity in the coverage and the slanted one-sided blame, however, is driven by intent and often malice)
Hamas is not concerned about how terrible these images they’ve released are - in fact, they’re counting on the non-reaction.
the photo of Evyatar has now been approved for publication by his family.
he will not make front pages, celebrities’ instagram stories, activists’ feeds. they will not have rage and tears for him.
I know it sounds small, the number. I keep seeing it said. “only.” only 50, only 20 still alive, it’s not that many, it’s “insane to keep shouting about them.” I can’t process those dismissals, and the inability to understand that the hostages’ suffering and the humanitarian crisis in Gaza are fundamentally intertwined. they must both be resolved. the hostages must be freed. it is day 666.
this is part of the video of Eyvatar, his family has approved its release. they want it known what is happening to their son. Evyatar’s sister is pleading that we share what is being done to her brother.
I’m not sure why it won’t embed here, but tw for upsetting content if you click the links.
it should be noted: the hostages are not starving because of any situation with the aid. they are starving because Hamas is intentionally starving them, and has been doing so this entire time. aid flowing more freely into Gaza, which it must, will not change this. the hostages will never see the humanitarian aid, just like the Red Cross has never visited them. they are abandoned by this world.
say something. where is everyone, all the people who pretend to be righteous, claiming they care so much? where? why won’t they bear witness to this?
On October 7, Evyatar heroically helped others injured at the Nova Music Festival before he tried to flee. He texted his family saying, "they are bombarding the party." Various videos of Evyatar being kidnapped to Gaza soon surfaced - showing him in a headlock, hands bound, at gunpoint; in the back of a pickup truck being hit by armed terrorists; and handcuffed on the floor of a dark room with other hostages. Evyatar was seen for the first time since his kidnapping in a Hamas propaganda video a few months ago as he was forced to watch a group of hostages get released. Released hostages have said Evyatar is being starved and kept in chains with a bag over his head. He is in inhumane conditions, suffering physical and psychological torture daily. He is unable to see as he is without his glasses. He has spent 2 birthdays in captivity.
alanalindsay:
They made him dig his own grave and filmed it. Then they slapped their upside down red triangle death cult logo on it. The same triangle their Jew hating supporters love to put in their social media bios to spread hate in the name of "resistance." In one video the both inflict psychological trauma on his family and all Israelis as well as embolden their agents of chaos to fuel global Jew hatred. Just because I hold Netanyahu and his criminal coalition responsible doesn't mean I will stop reminding you that Hamas is evil and silence allows their evil to grow.
elicalebon:
Do you know why Hamas chose this timing to release footage of Evyatar David looking emaciated? To prove they own you. They're proving that while the world is screaming from rooftops about starvation, they can show you the cruelest form of international starvation in ruthless captivity and nobody will bat an eyelid. The NY Times won't post about it. Time Magazine won't do a feature on it. Washington Post won't dedicate its feed to it. The New Yorker won't release a polemic about it. Your NGO's won't declare war crimes over it. Your United Nations won’t issue arrests. Your students won't smash windows. Your activists won't pour into the streets. Your politicians won't mutter a word. Your intellects will call it resistance, and the bleeding hearts will mysteriously run dry.
They're boasting that what's beneath the hypocrisy is their ideological domination. The objective of distorting our worldviews in their favor, as well as thoroughly and completely dehumanizing Jews and Israelis has been achieved. This image was Hamas's message to the western world: We haven't just taken Israelis captive, we've taken your minds hostage, too. Your people are now our people. We own you. We've won.
something else hardly anyone cares about: Hamas chose to do this on Tisha B'Av. they’re tactically brilliant. there is no other way to describe it, or to explain the precisely calculated way they have won the ideological and psychological war since Simchat Torah 2023.
they understood the additional toll it took, massacring Jews in their homes on a joyous holiday.
they understand the additional toll it takes, releasing photos of Jewish hostages starving to death and sadistically being forced to dig their own graves, deliberately evoking the generational trauma and pain of the Holocaust, on a day of mourning and sorrow.
the hostage release ceremonies earlier this year were intentional injury too, gruesome and degrading for no reason other than to harm an entire people, and they knew they would get away with that, and they did.
eli_sharabi7:
I also experienced severe hunger! Rom, Evyatar and all the other abducted lives are in a bad and critical condition, everything must be done to save them!!
Bring them all home now. 🎗️
those details of torment aren’t being waged for the notice of the world, they’re a specific hurt done to the Jewish community. Hamas is regaling themselves with this, and they’re satisfied because they know the world is complicit on their behalf.
the brits are blaming us for the new online censorship security ban thing lol I’m dead. I’m fucking dead. I can’t take any of you any more you’re all evil
Seeking to avoid Israel-related protest scuffle outside nightclub, youths say they tried to leave the area, but were pursued on motorcycles
A group of Israeli teenagers was attacked early Wednesday by a gang of anti-Israel assailants while vacationing on the Greek island of Rhodes, the teens and their families said.
The teens told Hebrew media they were at the island’s Hakuna Matata club, frequented by Israeli tourists, around 3 a.m., when anti-Israel demonstrators started rallying outside, sparking a confrontation, with the two sides shouting and cursing at each other.
“There was commotion and shouting, and we said we didn’t want to get involved and we should go back to the apartment we’d rented,” one of the teens, Shachar Gutman, recalled to the Ynet news site.
The teen said that as he and his friends were leaving the club, they happened upon some more of the pro-Palestinian demonstrators, “and one of them came up to us and asked if we were Israeli.”
“He called out to all his friends — some 30 to 40 people — and they started to chase us. We also started to run, and we didn’t think it was anything serious,” he recalled.
“At one point there was a curve in the road and we didn’t see them for a second — but then we heard motorcycles coming fast in our direction, and we realized there was nowhere to run.”
Friedman told Ynet the assailants were armed with knives, and added: “I jumped up over a wall that I saw and hid there, and another friend saw steps and hid there. Another one hid behind a bush and another one behind a van. They came and kicked the one who was behind the van, and he begged for his life, that they wouldn’t do anything to him. They photographed him and let him go.”
“I’ve never been so afraid in my life. We just wanted to go to a club to have fun, and suddenly people with knives were chasing us. We were afraid it would end in a really bad way,” he said.
Correspondence between Friedman and his parents in Israel, published by the news site, showed texts reading: “Urgent; answer; urgent; they’re coming for us.” The teen hid, and spoke briefly with his parents, who phoned the Foreign Ministry.
According to Channel 12, one of the teens caught in the assault was let go by the assailants after speaking some Dutch and convincing them he wasn’t Israeli.
The 3 a.m. incident in Rhodes came less than a day after an Israeli-owned cruise ship was prevented from docking at the Greek island of Syros on Tuesday and was instead rerouted to Cyprus due to a large anti-Israel and pro-Palestinian protest taking place at the port.
Greece is a popular tourist destination for Israelis, and an estimated 621,000 visited the Hellenic Republic in 2024.
The country has seen a rise in antisemitic and anti-Israel incidents since the October 7, 2023, Hamas-led onslaught in southern Israel that started the war in Gaza.
Athens in particular has seen several attacks on Israeli tourists.
The Israeli National Security Council’s current guidelines for travel to Greece put the country’s threat level at two of a possible four, meaning Israelis and Jews are advised to take “increased precautionary measures” there.
1,600 passengers aboard the 'Crown Iris' spend several hours waiting in vain to disembark in Syros as 300 protesters gather in and around th
An Israeli-owned cruise ship was prevented from docking at the Greek island of Syros on Tuesday and was instead rerouted to Cyprus due to a large anti-Israel and pro-Palestinian protest taking place at the port.
The “Crown Iris” cruise ship, operated by Israeli shipping giant Mano Maritime, was carrying roughly 1,600 passengers when it arrived at Ermoupoli, in Syros, at around midday for a six-hour visit.
Initially, Mano Shipping said that there would be a “slight delay” in disembarking the ship, as it estimated that the demonstration would disperse “within half an hour.”
But as 3 p.m. came and went and the delay stretched on, Mano Shipping decided to skip Syros entirely and reroute the ship to Limassol in Cyprus instead.
Passenger Dror Marshalkowitz told Channel 12 that it took the police two hours to arrive at the scene and that “whoever took the decision” to reroute to Cyprus “apparently did the right thing,” given that there were 300-400 children on board and it was best not to put them in danger.
During the extended delay at the port, passengers told Channel 12 news that they had been told by onboard security to remain indoors, rather than to go out onto the deck.
One Israeli passenger told the Kan public broadcaster, however, that when one of the passengers saw the protest, “we raised Israeli flags and some of us started singing.”
“We felt safe inside the ship, but the children are a little stressed,” the passenger said.
The protest was organized by a group of the island’s residents who said on social media that the purpose of the demonstration was to “raise their fists in solidarity with the Palestinians in Gaza.”
“It is unacceptable that tourists from Israel continue to be welcomed here while the Palestinians are suffering in the Strip,” the protesters said.
Greek reports estimated that around 300 people attended the protest in Ermoupoli, which has a population of roughly 11,000.
Local outlet Syros Press reported that flyers demanding to “Stop the Genocide” had been scattered on the ground along the entire route leading to the dock, and videos showed a group of protesters carrying a large Palestinian flag as they made their way through the streets. Chants of “Free, Free Palestine!” could be heard in the background.
Other videos showed protesters waving Palestinian flags on the edge of the dock, chanting slogans in Greek.
According to the news outlet, the Syros Port Authority and the Hellenic Police were on standby throughout the protest. Another local outlet, Syros Today, reported that a large parking lot near the dock had been shuttered until the evening due to “increased security measures.”
Before it was decided that the ship would reroute to Cyprus, Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar said he had spoken with his Greek counterpart, Giorgos Gerapetritis, to request “intervention in an effort to resolve the docking of the ship in Greece.”
The Foreign Ministry was closely monitoring the events via its embassy in Greece, he said.
The Israeli embassy was in contact with senior officials in Greece throughout the incident, Ynet reported, and emphasized to them that it could end up harming Israeli tourism to the country.
According to the report, the decision to prevent the passengers from disembarking did not come from Greek authorities, but from the Israeli crew aboard the ship, who feared that the protest would turn violent and endanger the passengers if they came ashore.
[…] Last July, Greek police arrested seven people accused of planning to attack a synagogue and an Israeli-owned hotel in central Athens. The year before, Greece detained two people thought to have been sent by Iran to attack a kosher restaurant in the city.
More recently, a new Israeli-owned restaurant in Athens was vandalized earlier this month in what its owners said was an antisemitic attack, and which Greek authorities were treating as a likely hate crime.
