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hi! this is a sideblog. my main blog starts in "s" and ends in "3".

on this blog i talk about jewish things, being disabled, queerness, and sometimes politics or personal feelings on things.

my art blog: @z-makes-art

my science/nature blog: @argopecten-gibbus

#tags i use:#mine #jewish liberation #my uploads #hall of shame #queer #trans #jewish joy #judaism #indigenous

I haven’t seen the odyssey yet (important context I have read the odyssey and Nolan is probably my favorite director) but holy shit the antiblackness and misogynoir on full display from tumblr leftists…..

#mine

maimonideznuts

I've been thinking about the obsession with needing a "queer history of the holocaust".

I think it is genuinely an impulse towards a kind of stolen valour via holocaust minimisation and subversion, not because being slaughtered in our millions was in any way valorous, and I think there's assumed to be a level of sympathy that comes with recognition that we were subjects of genocide.

So by making an equivalency between the thousands of people who were interned in concentration camps to the millions of Jews and Romani who were murdered in the death camps, they elevate the travesty of anti-queer violence in Nazi controlled Europe from its own tragedy to being a part of the genocide widely known as the holocaust.

That "people like me suffered too, why don't we get a mention", goes from a conversation about having a memorial, to a demand to be on another community's memorial for their different suffering because it's bigger.

#I feel like this also goes with the way being Jewish isn’t considered ‘diverse’ enough #like characters who are canonically Jewish having their race changed in reboots to be more diverse #the erasure of Jewishness and antisemitism because we are ‘too white’#we are over-represented or something #am I explaining this well?#Shoah tw #Shoah appropriation

chutzpahchesed

Thomas said that October 7 marked a turning point, not immediately because of what she saw in the media, but because of what she did not see

The Nova Music Festival Exhibition, which recently opened in London, convinced a pro-Palestinian student to change her view of the October 7

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/05/27/received-death-threats-abandoning-pro-palestine-movement/

It wasn’t long after Hamas carried out its attack on Israel in Oct 7, 2023, that Taryn Thomas found herself swept up in the chorus of pro-Palestine activists mobilising against the Jewish state.

Even before Israel’s ground invasion of Gaza following the Oct 7 massacre,“I was scrolling through social media, and I only saw support for Palestine,” she recalls. “People I know, whether it was activists or people I look up to, were already posting their thoughts.”

Then aged 19 and studying biomedical science at the elite Stanford University in northern California, Thomas, an African American, was first introduced to the anti-Israel movement at Black Lives Matter protests in 2020, where Palestinian flags were flown by some activists. “I never really understood why, but we were told that in order for us to be free, Palestine has to be free,” she says.

She subsequently helped lead large protests against Israel and, within two weeks of Oct 7 2023, had joined an encampment of activists on campus protesting against Israel’s invasion of Gaza. Like many others, she donned a keffiyeh, the headscarf worn to demonstrate solidarity with Palestinians. “I really loved it because of the sense of belonging and the sense of purpose,” she says of the encampment. “It was like an instant community.”

Besides fellow students, Thomas was encouraged by “faculty members like history professors” who “validated the movement”. “It seemed like everyone was a lot more educated than me and very certain and sure of themselves that this is a genocide,” says Thomas, who is now 21. “The only safe position was the more radical one in the encampment.”

‘I was confused by what our mission was’

Thomas grew up in Riverside County, one of the few Republican counties in the otherwise “very liberal California”. That, together with racist abuse at school, influenced her political outlook. “I thought going further to the Left would be the solution to the extremism I was seeing from the Right,” she says.

Huge demonstrations took place at universities across the US in the months that followed Oct 7, with protesters confronting the educational institutions with their demands – including to divest from Israel and cut ties with counterpart Israeli institutions.

While the movement was largely peaceful, some demonstrations turned violent and led to clashes with police. “One of our protests got out of hand, and that kind of made me take a step back,” says Thomas.

This was in June 2024, when several militant students broke into the office of Stanford’s president, causing hundreds of thousands of dollars of damage. “They spray-painted disgusting things, such as ‘Pigs taste best when dead’, ‘Death to America’, ‘Death to Israel’, and ‘Kill cops’,” Thomas recalls.

“I was confused by what our mission was. At what point did the pro-Palestine movement turn into this anti-Israel, anti-America movement? We completely lost sight of the victims we were claiming to be supporting and fighting for.”

Yet those behind the vandalism “doubled down”, she says, and justified their actions, “even though Jewish students said they felt unsafe”. She explains: “They felt like they couldn’t go to their classes, they were getting harassed and doxxed [having personal information published online] and things like that. Essentially, we completely lost our minds.”

A drastic change of heart

Then, in October 2024, Thomas was one of many students who received an open invitation to the Nova Music Festival Exhibition in Los Angeles. Recently opened in London, the exhibition aims to recreate the festival site where 413 people were murdered by Hamas, and many more were injured or taken hostage.

Nova exhibition

“Initially, I laughed, thinking, ‘What’s this propaganda?’” Something piqued her interest, however, so she decided to go. “I’d heard about the festival and was curious, but I’d only really heard the reasoning, ‘Well, why would you have a festival next to a contested border? Essentially, they were asking for it.’

“I was hoping it was going to reaffirm my position, that I would find Zionist lies and whatever. I went with a very closed mind.” Three hours later, Thomas emerged feeling “so lost”.

“I experienced a lot of cognitive dissonance – what I was seeing versus what I’d been told. It was like I arrived a year too late to a funeral. I had so many questions, but I really had no one I could talk to about this. All of my friends were from the encampment. I’d never met an Israeli or talked to them about their experiences – I was fluent in the state’s sins, but I was illiterate in its people.”

Seeing pictures and footage of the young festival-goers hit home for Thomas. “They were kids my age, just dancing, and then fleeing for their lives the next moment. I could see myself in them. I could have been sending a last ‘I love you’ message to my mum. I felt so much empathy and sadness.”

One element in particular changed everything – an audio clip of a jubilant Hamas fighter phoning his father to let him know he’d killed 10 Jews. “My heart sank because these [were meant to be] our martyrs. [This was] the resistance we were claiming we wanted. When we called for any means necessary, I didn’t realise that’s what it meant.”

Months later, Thomas was invited on a trip to Israel organised by a group combatting anti-Semitism on campus. “I knew if I was going to continue to speak on this, I needed to see it for myself,” she says.

During the 10-day trip last March, she met with Israelis, Ethiopian Jews, Palestinians, Druze and Bedouin. “I was shocked at how much diversity I saw – I didn’t even know Israel had black people,” she said.

On the fourth day, the group had to take cover during a missile attack. “Our guide told us to get on the ground, and I put my hands over my neck and prayed. “I thought about the irony of how I’d called for the divestment of the very system I was praying for,” she says. “It [the missile] didn’t care about my politics or what I posted or any of that. I was a target, a body on the ground, and I felt utterly useless.”

Fortunately the missile was intercepted and the trip continued, but the experience left Thomas shaken. She says it made her realise “how cushy and comfortable a life” she had in America, and that she’d not realised the “real consequences” of what she’d been calling for.

‘It felt like being stoned publicly’

Back home, she posted a picture of her trip online – a decision that cost her dearly. “My best friend of three years asked, ‘Is this in Israel?’ I said, ‘Yeah, do you want to talk about it?’ She immediately blocked me. I hadn’t even expressed anything. I literally said I went. Period.”

Her post opened the floodgates. “I lost every single friend”, while her classmates “posted really disgusting things”, including labelling her a “genocidal apologist”. Thomas says she was doxxed, and received death threats and racist abuse – and that her family was also targeted. “It was like a crusade and felt like being stoned publicly.”

She now takes a dim view of the encampment atmosphere. “It completely insulates you in this echo chamber and indoctrinates you. If you had any questions, you’d lose your social belonging – the last thing you wanted to be called was a Zionist.”

She adds that the protesters’ “attention turned into this hatred” and there were constant calls for the “normalisation of violence”. Some activists, for example, celebrated the assassinations of Charlie Kirk, the Right-wing political activist, and Brian Thompson, the UnitedHealthcare chief executive, she says.

The mental toll had become so heavy on Thomas that she stepped away from her studies late last year. What helped get her through this tough period is the new friendships she has formed, including some with Jewish students.

“They knew I came from the encampments and they engaged with me, intellectually argued with me, disagreed with me, but we still broke bread on Shabbat,” she says. “I learned from my [now] best friend that she was doxxed because of people within our movement. I know I have to repair some of those damages.”

‘Open your heart and put down those megaphones’

Thomas says her family are not politically engaged in the issue of Israel and Gaza and she has faced questions from her mother about her involvement. “She was just like, ‘Why are you doing this? It isn’t your burden to shoulder.’ She just wants her family to be safe and protected.”

But Thomas hopes that by sharing her story it will encourage others to experience the Nova exhibition. “I hope the people who are protesting will come – I just want them to go inside,” she says. “None of this is political. Just look and learn the stories – you don’t have to agree. Come in with an open heart and an open mind and put down those megaphones.”

As for Thomas, she hopes to return to university in September, but in the meantime, she is determined to do what she can to increase cross-community understanding. “A lot of us on the pro-Palestine side were recruited through empathy, so I think we can be reached through it too. Because of this unique perspective I have of what changed my heart, I think I can hopefully change other people’s.

“I’m not Jewish. I’m an African American woman. But a lot of our struggles are parallel,” she says. “We’re seeing an increase in anti-Semitism, we’re seeing an increase in extremism and political violence. There’s just no way that I can now sit back, kick my feet up and call it a day.”

#you can always change your mind #black jewish solidarity

80splumpkin

✨️Shabbat Shalom✨️

#beautiful 💙💙💙#shabbat shalom #art

primrosemoon11

i love being jewish i love how loud family dinners get i love playing jewish geography i love feeling songs and prayers in my bones i love our resilience i love our food across all parts of the diaspora i love our inventions and contributions to the world and that we make up twenty-two percent of all nobel prize winners from 1901 to 2025 i love the love and comfort and safety i feel within the community i love learning a dance and singing "hava nagila" under my breath when a move is quite literally the hora i love sitting in the ocean and saying the Shema and feeling the world still just for a moment i love yiddish expressions and saying oy vey ist mir i love harmonizing with my family when we light the candles on shabbat and sitting in a field at camp with my leds to do a service away from home without proper candles i love us i love us i love us

#jewish joy #am yisrael chai

d1g1t4l-cr1ppl3

This disability pride month remember to include those of us who aren't ambulatory wheelchair users in your advocacy

afurioushawk

Wow, I can't believe the leftists who adopted David Duke's emotional support slur also hate Black people.

jewishbarbies

some people have fetishized catholic guilt to the point they believe that’s all there is to religion and can’t fathom anyone actually enjoying their faith/culture

sweepygorl

Jew haters really be like “Nobody actually hates Jews. you’re lying and exaggerating. Btw you’re to blame for every bad thing in this world. fuck you and die”

cottoncandytrafficcones

Sometimes I listen to Israeli/Jewish music and think it would go so hard in a Jewish movie. A Jewish superhero's ending credits with Ani Shayach Leam by Ishay Ribo? Noa Kirel for opening or fight scenes? Some Tel Aviv by Omer Adam at a wedding? Al Halashon by Shira Margalit would be great for coming of age. Cholam Al Naomi for queer love? Random Chevra or Yeshiva / Miami Boys' Choir songs? Maybe they're singing along and only know the Six13/Maccabeats version. Do you see my vision? *screams into the void*

Using tumblr is like

[post about why fiction has no bearing on reality]

[post about why you’re a bad person if you like a movie from several decades ago]

[post about the decline in critical thinking]

[post spouting fear-mongering disinformation]

[post that says introverts should kill themselves]

[post that sounds like it came from your conspiracy theorist maga uncle but it came from a leftist college student from Portland]

[scam under the guise of social justice]

[post that says all dogs are morally wrong]

[ad]

[screenshot of ad]

[screenshot of post from before with nothingburger commentary]

[post that starts with a single statement and then elaboration in a reblog all in a pretentious tone that makes your skin crawl]

[medical misinformation]

[fake story that sounds exactly like the old fake stories everyone clapping and all]

[cat video]

#mine

themodernmaccabee

I am so fucking tired of walking on egg shells when the other side steamrolls through discussion and argument.

"Well yes Hamas uses human shields. We can see here in this source provided by-"

"EVERY ISRAELI GETS PAID 90 SHEKELS A MONTH TO MASSACRE PALESTINIAN VILLAGES. MY SOURCE IS THE 'JEWS PLEASE DIE' REGIMENT"

ketubahring

In Jewish astrology, the month of Av and the sign of Leo are all about the fiery depths of transformation. ❤️‍🔥

Jewish mysticism views this powerful symbol as representing the relationship between supreme strength and the tender vulnerability required for true rebuilding. It’s a spiritual paradox showing that our moments of greatest brokenness hold the exact blueprint for our ultimate elevation.

This specific cosmic timing is all about containment and deep listening. In our ancient mystical text Sefer Yetzirah, it’s taught that this period was created with the spiritual faculty of hearing. It’s a time designed for tuning out the external noise to hear the quiet promise of inner renewal. The energy of Leo is a fixed fire sign, which brings immense passion, warmth, and the power of heart-centered leadership.

Kabbalists actually view fire as a tool of purification, meaning that how we channel our intensity during this time has the power to burn away old limitations and spark entirely new beginnings.

We don’t have to choose between protecting ourselves with a fierce exterior and staying completely soft at our core. The goal of this month is to hold both states at the same time, channeling our inner lion to rebuild our lives from a place of pure, open-hearted love.

Shabbat Shalom 🦁🧡

#ketubah ring #art #mysticism #astrology

jadejedi

Truly impressive how you spread so many lies and soviet propaganda about jews , truly an astonishing display of jew hate, while pretending to maintain that youre not an antisemite.

you should be studied

Hi! I'm very sorry you feel this way. I truly, deeply wish no ill will toward any Jewish person. I wish that everyone, across the world, could exist in a peaceful state of co-existence. I believe that my beliefs align with that wish, which is why I stand so firmly behind them. I can only hope you share my wish, and hope that in your mind, your beliefs align with that wish for peace and co-existence. Have a nice rest of your day!

jewishgay4il

"Hi I know I'm a bigot and it's so sad you feel offended by the bullshit colonizer rhetoric I'm spewing but my grand plans for arabs to murder Jews are obviously an indication of my belief in peaceful coexistence!"

you genuinely want us to believe that 67% of the casualty in aza are kids?? even wikipedia fucking disagrees

You don't have to crack a single history book to understand that the killing and injuring of more than 50,000 children in the Gaza Strip is wrong

You want us to believe that 75,000 people dead (regardless of military or civilian) over the course of two and a half year war period is genocide.

(a third of that number were killed in a less than one week period in Dresden)

2. -

You don't have to take a class to understand that genocide, which is what even the UN has said that Israel is doing in Gaza

no they fucking didn't, and yes, you do need to understand what genocide means before you go around declaring every war a genocide.

Hint: Changing the definition and taking out context of what happened in order to fit something into a box it clearly doesn't belong is not very intellectually honest

Now, they (the Palestinians) didn't start it

this is a stupid argument because we aren't toddlers but you are so woefully ignorant of history. do you think the 3,000 terrorists AND CIVILIANS who walked into israel with guns and murdered people in their beds after raping and dismembering them didn't "start" it??

bigotry of low expectations much? they're proud of it. let them have it.

There is no way to make the Gaza Strip and the West Bank Israeli territory without state violence

interestingly, no one is doing this. you'll note that 1) those two territories became distinct after jordan and egypt occupied them and 2) jews literally left gaza, just for it to become this cesspool of anti-jew hate where they value murdering jews over their own lives

just as Israel's current territory was only obtained through state violence.

yeah, the 5 arab states of egypt, jordan, iraq, syria and lebanon attacked the jews lmaoooooo

you GENUINELY would benefit from reading. like. any history book instead of watching tiktoks paid for by qatar sghisdajglkdsjglksadgo

for converting "Palestine" from an Arab country into a country with a Jewish majority.

wow super cool so it's okay when arabs discriminate and ethnically cleanse/genocide jews! classic.

("palestine" was never an arab country - it wsa jewish, then colonized by romans, turks etc....) you seem to have truly eaten the colonizer propaganda

please, show us the palestinian country. name a president/leader. name historical dates. literally anything.

Jews. Are. From. Israel. Jews. Have. ALWAYS. Lived. In. Israel.

It is not colonizing to establish a state from a place you fucking live in and are from.

If Israel tomorrow said "Alright, Palestinians (including those in Gaza and the West Bank*) can be equal citizens. They can vote, run for office, own property, and receive governmental protections and benefits in the same way a Jewish citizen of Israel does

LSJGOISDHGOISGOITHWRIOTGWOEIRJHTOIWEJT BRO PICK UP A BOOK!! THEY FUCKING DO!!!!

they literally have been in government since day one here.

This is such darvo its fucking disgusting. You know who can't own land in arab lands? That's right. Jews. People get killed for selling land to Jews.

Arab Israelis literally get their own holidays off (as do christians and other minorities)

it is so so so easy not to lie!! but alas, you can't get over your big yearning jew hate that you need to make up lies in order to be sad about a devastating war Israelis did not ask for.

Arabs represent one-fifth of Israel’s population. Systemic discrimination, outbreaks of communal violence, and the broader Israeli-Palestini

*we fucking offered them citizenship but they declined. and the few who did take it up were abused by their families but OKAY!!

tumblr idiot user jadejedi said it isn't so!

We are never going to get to a state of co-existence when fucking idiots like you go around spreading muslim propaganda. It is that fucking simple. You want to be "pro-jew?" Fucking listen to us.

jewish-sideblog

I understand requiring people to spell things out so you don’t get a bunch of ambiguous or frivolous reports. But I think there should maybe be a “Look at it” button when reporting posts that say Total Kike Death specifically

azuleopal

Zionism is the aknowledgement that Jews are indigenous to Judea (otherwise known as Tzion/Zion), and thus have the inalienable right to safety, sovereignty, and self-determination in our ancestral homeland. It is literally Landback for Jews. It is the core of Judaism: without Jews witnessing the first moonrise of the month *in Eretz Israel*, time literally stops. Jews cannot be Jews without Jews living in Judea.

Opposing this, aka antizionism, is direct support for the politically poisoned dick-measuring contest known as arab colonialism. Opposition to Jewish landback, to Jewish safety, to Jewish practice, and to Jewish life. We know what happened for most of history when Jews did not have an independent country, with our own defense force, our own laws, and our own independence.

Pure and simple. It is not Jewish supremacy. It is not informative or indicative of support (or lack thereof) for any given statement or action of the Israeli government. That is a seperate idea entirely. It is not inherently violent. It is not racism, or bigotry. It is not opposition to anyone else's existence, because it predates everyone else. It is not even a negotiable political debate. It is a Jewish philosophy, the foundation of our whole existence in practice. And it does not involve anyone but Jews, just like the rest of Judaism.

Opposition to these things makes you everything you accuse Zionists of being, and makes you the true worthy receiver of the kind of messages you send us. You wouldn't take the KKK's definition of BLM. Don't take the Soviet, Nazi, or Islamist definition of Zionism. While you're at it, you should stop using the KKK's slur for Jews (zio) too.

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