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@nova-alien's jewposting sideblog! 21+, queer, ukrainian israeli jew! :)

[nova-alien-jewposting]

welcome to my blog! 🌈🤎

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about me 🌈🤎

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🤍 hi there! i'm nova/ariel (נובה/אריאל), and welcome to my jewposting sideblog where i will be posting stuff having to do with judaism and israel! i am over 21, jewish, israeli, ukrainian, and american. i have deep ties to israel especially, with most of my family currently living or having lived there. i have also lived there myself and am an israeli citizen. i have family from iran as well.

🤍 i don't feel like i align neatly into any specific sect of judaism. in terms of practice i'd say i'm a mix of conservative and chabad, but i'm an avid tanach learner and enjoy examining orthodox and chasidic teachings.

🤍 i am a graduate of a major university in the united states under federal investigation for how severe its antisemitism has gotten. i will not be disclosing which university this is, but just know i have experienced firsthand what has been going on in terms of these issues.

🤍 i block freely, and i don't owe an explanation to anyone about who i block or why. i do so for my own comfort, and you're welcome to block me as well. i don't care.

🤍 i am auDHD, multiply disabled, and SEVERELY mentally ill. if i accidentally say something questionable, please TELL ME! i want to do better, so please don't pull that "you know what you did" shit. i promise you i don't. additionally, i have the "scary" disorders you've probably been told are evil and dangerous. if you say ableist shit to or around me, you're getting blocked on sight.

🤍 I AM NOT CHRONICALLY ONLINE. i am VERY busy balancing two jobs and full time graduate school, and as such i don't have much time to be on tumblr. i only get to see a very small sliver of what's happening in jumblr because of this. if i say or do something seemingly oblivious to what others have said about it, that's likely because i literally haven't seen it and don't know. please fill me in, KINDLY, if it happens!

🤍 want more info on me? see my carrd here!

🤍 the character you see on this profile is one of my own! i love him very much and i hope you do too. all things retro and nostalgic are huge sources of comfort for me. :3

art by nekonekodesu23 on toyhouse!

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🤍 i am not pro-israel, nor am i pro-hamas. i don't give a shit if you're pro-palestinian. i have a problem with the hamas supporters/antisemites. i've hated bibi (netanyahu for you non-israelis) long before this conflict broke out, as do many other israelis and jews alike. i don't agree with a lot of the shit he says or how he is handling the current situation. i hate both sides of this conflict. imo, a PERMANENT ceasefire should be honored (this does not mean hamas consistently violating the ceasefires set in place; october 7th WAS a ceasefire violation).

🤍 so many of my family members are currently in the IDF being forced to fight in a war they never had a say about, and i don't know who out of them is still alive. i don't think the IDF's intent is to completely annihilate gaza, because trust me, they could have turned the entire strip into a fucking parking lot MONTHS ago. that said, i don't like what bibi and his posse are making them do over there. they're mostly just scared college kids forced into combat.

🤍 if you believe that jews control the media, that jew = zionist and vice versa, that israeli = jew and vice versa, that kahanist = zionist/jew and vice versa, that jews are responsible for all the world's problems, that all jews and/or israelis are evil and want to murder palestinians, that antisemitism isn't real, that october 7th was justified/didn't happen, that hamas are "freedom fighters," or anything similar, get the fuck off my blog. i don't need antisemites here. similarly, if you cannot have a conversation with a jewish person without bringing up the i/p conflict, you are also not welcome here.

🤍 i don't consider myself to be a zionist, nor do i consider myself to be an anti-zionist. you can call me whatever helps you sleep better at night. but as an ashkenazi jewish israeli, i'm not cool with people trying to justify the largest massacre of jews since the HOLOCAUST, or calling for the destruction of the only country i've felt at home in. i don't give a shit if it's a one or two state solution or what, i just want peace. i don't want anyone else killed or maimed on either side. i have no issue with advocating for and supporting the palestinians OR criticizing israel as long as antisemitism isn't thrown in.

🤍 the second anyone as a non-jew starts saying what they think antisemitism is or isn't, they're getting blocked. if you wouldn't say something about any other marginalized group (POC, queer, disabled, neurodivergent, mentally ill, homeless, etc), don't say it about jews. and if you would, you're DEFINITELY not welcome here. you don't get to tell ME what MY lived experience is.

🤍 this is the ONLY blog i will be posting political things on. do not bring politics from this blog on to any of my other blogs, or you will be blocked. i keep my blogs separate for a reason.

🤍 I BLOCK LIBERALLY. if you say something which bothers me in any way, don't respect a response, you are getting blocked. attempting to evade my blocks will get you reported for harassment.

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[orion-the-warartist]

Pride Star of David necklaces- handmade and in all colors of the rainbow available here

Happy Pride loves!

[roycohn]

the most unserious part of the tourettes/bafta discourse might be the people saying "but how did he even KNOW that word???? why was it even in his vocabulary if he's not racist????" like girl i learned it from watching a civil rights documentary when i was 8, let's not be facile here. second most unserious are the ones saying shit like "well if EYE had tourettes my tic would be saying 'free palestine'"

[metamorphesque]

The relation between nature and human being: Agnieszka Lepka

[storm-of-feathers]

if your "queer safe space" bans the star of david then it is not a safe space.

[dataandphilosophy]

“For example, if you’re trying to convince people to boycott a segregated store, your object is to convince them that boycotting the store will have a strategic effect, not that desegregation is morally important. For whatever reason, on a cognitive level human beings have a really hard time with this. Smucker cites an example of a Lefty roleplaying session where people were tasked with selling an action to people who agreed with them on principle but didn’t see the strategic merit of the action. Surprisingly, the sellers couldn’t make the conceptual switch to sell strategic merit: instead, they doubled down on THIS ISSUE IS IMPORTANT — even though it had been stressed to them that the people they were selling to bought into the importance of the issue. People react poorly to “this is important, so do WHATEVER I SAY”; they want to be convinced that what you’re proposing will work.”

Source.

[myfootyrthroat]

Also from above:

“Bob Wing, a grassroots organizer, explains this nicely: “If winning feels impossible, then righteousness can seem like the next best thing.” But righteousness is not conducive to getting normies to join your team if your team cannot demonstrate ability to, at least sometimes, win. Nor does righteousness help you make real inroads with regular people.”

[bbcwhereareyou]

Somewhat related, my favorite comic strip of all time:

[moroniccats]

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.

[zonatcannibalism]

The misconception that zionist ideas only existed and have been a part of judaism since the zionist political movement has formed is so fucking harmful actually

[pamfieldsphotoshoppedinjail]

I probably did see you at Sinai but I’m terrible with faces sorry

[asamatterofcourse]

i wish tumblr had community notes. id add one that said "this user is a turk pretending to be an antizionist jew."

[mossadspypigeon]

lololol our turkish emissary!!!

[necrosonatica]

I feel like a lot of people act as if the ancient Israelites are an extinct culture when we (Jews and Samaritans) are literally still here. Jews and Samaritans didn't "replace" the Israelites, but are a continuation of that culture.

And I think the idea that the ancient Israelites are an extinct culture feeds the supercessionist mindset of the general population with regards to claims on religious texts and practices, indigenaity of Jews and even Jewish identity itself.

[if-i-am-not-for-me]

The same people are like this about any indigenous culture. It's a pattern of cognitively disconnecting the interesting noble savages of old from the extant, living people that may be politically inconvenient.

[iswearbyalltheflowers]

— The Unconverted Self: Jews, Indians, and the Identity of Christian Europe

[meanjewish]

Just saw someone say that the entertainment industry seems to be a zionist project. I FUCKING WONDER WHY! I FUCKING WONDER WHY THERE'S SO MUCH JEWISH (NOT ZIONIST BUT JEWISH) INFLUENCE IN THE FUCKING INDUSTRY WE WERE PRACTICALLY FORCED INTO BECAUSE WE COULDN'T GET JOBS ELSEWHERE

[glasspalacesstoneshop]

Oh so they’re just straight up talking like Nazis now

[queer-scots-geordie-dyke]

There have been literal race riots going on in parts of the UK over the last few days - violent, angry bigots firebombing homes and cars belonging to immigrants, refugees, and literally anyone with dark skin, with families having to flee under police protection.

This vile behaviour is being goaded on by far right agitators and parties like Reform UK and the media pretending like these nasty thuggish arseholes have “legitimate” concerns rather than just being maladjusted, pathetic little cunts who can’t stand their own irrelevance.

I never want to see anyone pretend we don’t have a huge fucking racism problem ever again.

[queer-scots-geordie-dyke]

You know what I can’t stop thinking about? Refugees - people who have escaped some of the worst circumstances imaginable, hell on earth, some who have had to make extremely dangerous journeys to get here, believing that they would find safety, peace, a fresh start. Instead, this is what they find.

It makes me fucking sick.

[queer-scots-geordie-dyke]

And I'll see other posts on here about this and be nodding along, agreeing, until I get to the end and see unhingedly antisemitic sentences about "zionist baby killers" and I'm like, nope, you have lost me completely.

Trading one form of racism for another. Well done. Meanwhile, I'm here, in the middle, going "you're all fucking arseholes actually."

[redladypaige]

Wow what a coincidence that anti Zionist threads turn into anti semitism every time

There couldn't be a big overlap, no, it's just tons and tons of isolated incidents

[zephyr-violet]

pattern i've seen

random antisemite trying to get away with harassing people voice: asking this question in good faith 🥺 why do you drink blood? 😊❤️✨ why are you being mean?! 😭💔 i was asking in good faith 😢

[hailruth-deactivated20260123]

a siddur belonging to marilyn monroe, complete with her annotations in pencil. many remember her as a sex symbol who lived a difficult life, but few know of her conversion & devotion to judaism. "everybody's always out to get them, no matter what they do," said monroe. "like me."

[chavasjewishscrapbook]

There's little easily found about Marilyn's Judaism, but these pictures are sweet. She looks genuinely happy.

[hyperpotamianarch]

After some back and forth, and a couple of rephrasings, I decided I have one thing to add on the whole "the US is funding Israel's universal healthcare while it doesn't have it" thing.

It's a conspiracy theory, plain and simple, and rationalizing it to explain why you believe a conspiracy theory doesn't make it less unhinged, it just shows to what length you're willing to go to excuse antisemitic conspiracy theories.

So, I guess this explains why people hate the IHRA definition of antisemitism: it says that their rationalization of conspiracy theories on Israel is still antisemitic, even after they sanitized it to sound like it has nothing to do with Jews.