Why do Superman fans refuse to acknowledge that he’s coded as a Jewish immigrant? You can’t (correctly) point out the uncomfortable pro-assimilation undertones in Superman 2025 combined with the vilification of his biological parents and then not name the group of people he’s supposed to represent. You can’t do the anti-racism when you don’t take into account the obvious Jewish coding.
The term Nakba - which today refers almost exclusively to a narrative of Palestinian displacement and victimization, originally meant something else.
Constantin Zureiq, a Syrian intellectual and professor at the American University of Beirut, published a pamphlet titled Ma'na al-Nakba (The Meaning of the Disaster) in August 1948.
Zureiq wrote the book during a ceasefire, specifically to analyze why the combined forces of seven Arab nations had failed to prevent the establishment of the State of Israel.
He defined the Nakba as the civilizational and military defeat of the Arab world. He famously wrote:
The defeat of the Arabs in Palestine is no small downfall... It is a catastrophe (Nakba) in every sense of the word and the worst that has befallen the Arabs in their long history."
The shame was about how a the entire supposedly mighty Arab/Islamic world failed to destroy a state of Holocaust survivors, dhimmi, and refugees.
Academic sources confirm that Zureiq's focus was on internal Arab reform rather than external victimhood.
Zureiq argued that the defeat was caused by Arab "backwardness," lack of unity, and scientific inferiority compared to the "modern, disciplined" Zionist movement.
Zureiq figured this out almost immediately, historians since have agreed with him.
He used the term to shock the Arab public into modernization, industrialization, and secularization. To him, this Nakba was a symptom of a deeper cultural rot that needed to be fixed through a "total revolution" in Arab thought.
The original "Nakba" was about that failure, not the displacement narrative that would emerge decades later.
History is a lot more complicated than hashtags suggest.
My 15yo explaining Nakba Day to her brother:
Jewish narratives: "They tried to kill us, we survived, let's eat."
Palestinians narratives: "We tried to kill them, they survived, let's play the victim."
About 750,000 Arabs left the area. About 850,000 Jewish refugees were expelled from Islamic nations to Israel.
Today's framing of the Nakba is dishonest, ahistorical revisionism.
The term “Nakba,” originally coined to describe the magnitude of the self-inflicted Palestinian and Arab defeat in the 1948 war, has become
Bettmann/CorbisPalestinian refugees flee the 1948 Arab-Israeli war. A specter is haunting the prospective Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiat
The 1948 Arab defeat was a self inflicted disaster and the Nakba narrative spread by anti-Israel activists is a myth - here is the proof.
Like, hospitals lose their protected status if they interfere or participate directly *or indirectly* in military operations/armed conflict.
Like if they’re used to store weapons for one of the parties involved, or are used as a recon/intel gathering site, or are used to launch an attack. The other party should still be doing its utmost to protect and avoid harm to civilians and medical staff, but the otherwise protected status of the hospital is lost.
Also, civilian and medical/journalist personnel are not protected if they participate or interfere in military operations/armed combat, for similar reasons.
antizionists will try to reinvent blood quantum to interrogate whether the jew who said something they disagree with is too white for their opinion to matter.
but when i say that’s fucked up I’M the evil zionist babykiller genocide mongrel. ok
i don’t like this analogy anyway but whenever i hear someone try to explain why Jews aren’t indigenous to Israel via a metaphorical house i’m like dawg it’s so much worse than you could ever imagine??? “imagine someone showed up at your house and decided it belonged to them bc sky daddy said so” no actually imagine someone showed up at a house you occupied but did not claim to own until very recently and said “hi i built this house and was unlawfully evicted and i know you had no part in that but uh it’s still my house?? and also some of my extended family still live here from what i can tell but they aren’t allowed in any of the common areas so that’s. cool. and all our family heirlooms and portraits and sentimental items are still on display but it seems you are variously claiming they belong to you despite evidence to the contrary. look dude i don’t actually need you to move out i would just like to be able to live in my house and not worry about vandalism or unlawful eviction or anything again.” and then some fucko from another neighborhood pops out of the bushes and says “ummmmm actually i’ve never seen you before so you don’t own this house. that deed isn’t a legally binding contract because i said so. the current occupants are the only people who have ever lived here and actually they built this house and you should be shot for suggesting otherwise. no you cannot build a new house or live anywhere else.”
Reached for comment, Carmella Charrington defended sharing antisemitic conspiracy theories and repeatedly told JI to ‘get your rabbi’
Posting the whole text of the article so people don't have to join a mailing list, and putting in bold the responses from Charrington and her DSA defenders that I thought were most absurd and hypocritical.
An activist that two politicians from the Democratic Socialists of America helped elevate to a leadership position in the Brooklyn Democratic Party on Tuesday posted a vitriolic antisemitic screed to her Instagram last year — declaring as “the truth” a notorious work beloved by Adolf Hitler that describes a Jewish world conspiracy.
Carmella Charrington was part of an army of left-wing insurgents who captured office on Tuesday: in her case, the role of district leader in the Brooklyn Democratic Party, an unpaid but important position that elects the party’s influential chairperson and plays a significant role in nominating judges and filling jobs at the city Board of Elections.
Although the DSA itself did not formally endorse Charrington for the post, two of its most important local figures campaigned with her and helped her make the ballot: state Sen. Jabari Brisport and state Assembly candidate Eon Huntley, who defeated an incumbent lawmaker in a closely watched race earlier this week.
Charrington’s candidacy was part of a broader campaign to depose the present centrist leadership of the official party organization. But in November 2025, Charrington shared a video to her Instagram account — which features various photos and videos of herself at Brisport and Huntley’s joint campaign headquarters — promoting the “hidden history” in industrialist Henry Ford’s notorious 1920s series of conspiracy pamphlets, The International Jew.
“This better be the topic at the table#dad #deedtheft #ceo #love #ericadams #brooklyn #lovers #lovers #corruption #diddy #nyc ##cardio#cardib #trump,” Charrington captioned the since-deleted post, adding in the comments: “The only way to change is understanding the truth!”
The video itself is a summary and update of Ford’s century-old conspiracy theories, presented by a wellness influencer.
“You find out who owns all the social media, and then who also owns the tobacco industry, the cotton industry, the banking industry, the theater, the newspaper, the radio, and then we can clearly see who owns the government as well,” the speaker in the video says. “This is why in school things like reading the Bible, praying, celebrating Christmas, got to get rid of all that. Then it gets deeper when you find out who brought in all the liquor and all the drugs, and also made people into drunks during the Great Depression, because the same people caused the Great Depression.”
The video further asserts that Jewish people created plastic surgery to “blend in,” “brought the slaves” to America, established the gay rights movement and plotted the infamous 1921 massacre of Black residents of Tulsa, Okla. It asserts Jewish people are “always changing their names” and variously call themselves Zionists, Communists and Bolsheviks.
It then pivots to the issue that propelled Tuesday’s socialist sweep: Israel.
“It gets deeper when you talk about Palestine and the takeover of that with the Rothschilds, same people, and the whole Palestine thing connects back to the Rothschilds, who are the bankers, who then control everything, including the schools,” the speaker continues. “All the media and the newspapers and the radios are owned by a small group of people who control everything.”
The video concludes with an image promoting the Swedish neo-Nazi film series “Europa: The Last Battle,” the conspiracy tome The Curse of Canaan: A Demonology of History, the Holocaust denial tracts of Fred Leuchter and the anti-Israel pamphlet Zionism: The Terrible Secret of the Cold War.
Reached by Jewish Insider, Charrington maintained that she was not prejudiced, but also insisted the video “was some facts.” She repeatedly told the reporter to “get your rabbi,” as she intended to hold a future “roundtable” on what she called a “bullying community.”
“There’s so much harm that your community has done to me,” she said. “It’s a problem in our community and it needs to be addressed.”
Charrington rose to prominence as part of a legal fight over possession of her family’s brownstone in the historically Black but fast-gentrifying Brooklyn neighborhood of Bedford-Stuyvesant. She alleged in numerous media appearances that she was the victim of deed theft, a form of fraud, but New York state Attorney General Letitia James’ office determined it was a complicated but legal inheritance dispute.
In one of several phone calls with JI, Charrington railed against Jewish investors she accused of gaining access to her home and a Jewish judge who sentenced her to six days on Rikers Island for contempt of court.
Helping to promote her cause has been another leading DSA official: New York City Councilman Chi Ossé, who was arrested demonstrating outside the home in April. The incident inspired New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani to create a new Office of Deed Theft Prevention.
Ossé, for his part, stressed in a phone conversation with JI that he had not endorsed Charrington for district leader and was unfamiliar with her posting history.
“We condemn this antisemitism and bigotry in the harshest possible terms,” Ossé said in a subsequent written statement to JI. “There is no room for this kind of hate in Brooklyn. I reject it completely.”
Brisport similarly said he was unaware of Charrington’s views but repeatedly refused to answer whether he would have supported her for party office had he seen the video she shared — or if he considered such beliefs disqualifying for a person to hold power in the Democratic Party. Huntley, the nominee for Assembly, did not respond to repeated calls or emails.
However, the two DSA leaders subsequently sent a joint statement denouncing the content of the video, and harping on the right-wing elements of its message.
“The antisemitic post that Carmella shared has no place in our movement. This incident illustrates exactly what antisemitism does — it misdirects the justified anger of working people and oppressed communities away from systems of power and onto Jews,” they wrote. “We are committed to working with all constituents and fellow electeds alike to unlearn and dismantle these deeply antisemitic, anti-LGBT, and anti-communist narratives which hurt and divide our communities.”
JI also contacted Mark Hanna, a Mamdani ally and Brooklyn district leader who served as election attorney for the insurgent slate on which Charrington ran. Hanna is also the treasurer of American Priorities PAC, a committee dedicated to combatting the influence of AIPAC and uplifting anti-Israel candidates.
“Any kind of antisemitism or Islamophobia or hatred I’m not going to be supportive of,” Hanna said in an initial phone conversation.
After JI sent him the video, he wrote back that he hoped the post “can be a teachable moment.”
“I will have to speak with her about it,” he wrote. “I want to work with Carmella on issues related to deed theft and the other concerns she has in her community, and I think calling her in to learn and ensure inclusivity, rather than calling out for a repost, will be more fruitful.”
Hitler reportedly kept German translations of The International Jew in his office, where he also displayed a portrait of Ford. He praised the American industrialist in Mein Kampf, and in 1938 awarded him the Grand Cross of the Order of the German Eagle, a medal the Nazi leader created to honor foreign allies of his genocidal regime.
“You find out who owns all the social media, and then who also owns the tobacco industry, the cotton industry, the banking industry, the theater, the newspaper, the radio, and then we can clearly see who owns the government as well,” the speaker in the video says. “This is why in school things like reading the Bible, praying, celebrating Christmas, got to get rid of all that. Then it gets deeper when you find out who brought in all the liquor and all the drugs, and also made people into drunks during the Great Depression, because the same people caused the Great Depression.”
The video further asserts that Jewish people created plastic surgery to “blend in,” “brought the slaves” to America, established the gay rights movement and plotted the infamous 1921 massacre of Black residents of Tulsa, Okla. It asserts Jewish people are “always changing their names” and variously call themselves Zionists, Communists and Bolsheviks."
The person who made the video, whom Charrington shared from, is Matt Roeske. He is a wellness influencer and grifter. He has no education whatsoever on food, medicine, biology, health, nutrition, etc, etc... He's a former "eSport" player according to his multitude of podcast appearances, and is entirely "self-taught".
Like any grifter who believes in the vast multitude of conspiracies about science, medicine, and food, he inevitably linked and blamed all of his unfounded and conspirational beliefs to Jews. This is a man who openly has stated he doesn't believe viruses exist and claims they don't either, thereby promoting harmful misinformation through his professional IG account for his company.
And, like all pseudoscience grifters trying to sell you their product he has this on his site -
"This content is not intended to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Always seek the advice of your physician or other qualified health provider with any questions you may have regarding a medical condition.
This statement has not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease."
Whether or not he actually believes the claims about his product are irrelevant. He's trying to sell you bullshit. I've been around long enough and actively combatted pseudoscience grifters like this that they always fall back on "ole reliable" and that's to blame Jews for every illness, sickness, and malfeasance that happens to them, their customers, and their audience.
The fact that Charrington shared this video also means she is within the purview of the Wellness Industry and likely consumes their misinformation and pseudoscience videos. That is not someone taking a grounded and evidence based approach, that is someone who actively pursues vibes based and conspiracy based reasoning because it fits their view. Whether or not she was frog boiled into this or Avocado-Wolfed (as we refer to it in the science community) is of little merit now. She's openly an antisemite who has shared from conspiracy pseudoscience Wellness grifters.
That's not someone you want influencing political leaders or communities.
I am also bothered by the liberal use of the Eyn Sof in Fantasy media, especially animation. Full Metal Alchemist, The Owl House, Black Clover... I've even seen it used on the packaging for a vibrator/dildo.
It's not just Jewish, it's Kabbalah, a restricted practice even within Judaism and it has a cameo in an Owl House magic school classroom and on the package of a vibrator?
Its always been truly strange to me that the only two instances I can remember of Actual Golems in popular media, with Jewish characters involved in the plot and and a some what legitimate explanation of what Golems actually are and that they're Jewish in Origin was......
I'm not familiar, but the synopsis on Wikipedia looks interesting.
In the present the reader is introduced to Alice Cohen as she receives her inheritance from her recently deceased grandmother. This inheritance consists of a lone house in an area of Brooklyn where all the other buildings have been torn down. One of the first things that Alice discovers is a walled off section in the basement from which a voice calls to her to read stories. Alice's first choice for this is her grandmother's diary.
I would like to continue to propose Lārem. In Latin, a Lār is a protective spirit of a place. So it’s got historical/linguistic roots and isn’t made-up wholecloth. It ties a thing to a space and has the exact same number of syllables, and at worst most folks will go “oh you’re just being unique and calling it something Fancy for your setting, just like how every fantasy story competes to come up with wild spellings for Mahgick.”
It just fucking fits. It’s so easy. I’m not remotely Jewish by any definition of the word, so I cannot speak for anybody, but instead I offer you this very practical taken on “golem.”
Let’s say you hear conflicting takes by Jewish folk on whether or not you can use “golem.” Some say you can, some say you can’t.
Rather than making it a moral matter — consider, some folks asked you not to and said it sucks, and you know they’ve got a fair argument even if you don’t agree with it. Since it’s so easy to not do, why not just, not be a dick?
If you want to look at it not as a moral matter, but look in purely practical terms, by refusing the request to call it anything else, it’s bein’ a bit of a dick.
So use mine. Call them Stone Lārems and everyone will understand immediately.
You know what? No. Just this once, I'm not going to be respectful of other people's beliefs.
Not because I have anything against Judaism in particular.
Not because I'm particularly attached to "golem" as a term.
No, it's because this is a stupid hill to die on.
Fantasy steals. It appropriates. It uses familiar terms so that people don't have to check a glossary to keep track of a bunch of terms that they won't remember because every piece of media out there is suddenly making up their own words for shit. And you know what? Fantasy steals from everyone, without prejudice. The only qualifier is that the word be well enough known that people will know what you're talking about.
So, if anything, having your word used as a general fantasy term means that your myth was considered recognizable enough to be used for clarity.
If you still want to be offended? Go ahead. Be offended. That's your right. But you'll be neither the first nor the last to find a fantasy work sacrilegious. You aren't special. Get in the fucking melting pot.
"Cultural appropriation in the genre is fine because the genre often has cultural appropriation in it" is not the winning argument you think it is
And if you see someone from a minority group that has experienced literal millennia of attempts at forced assimilation criticise an example of cultural appropriation, and respond with "get in the fucking melting pot"... well, forgive me if I'm skeptical of your claim to not have "anything against Judaism in particular"
Yeah nah, you're being silly. The shoah did not happen because gentiles wanted to use the word golem, and you just sound demanding and hyper-sensitive.
I am lending flightyquinn my hereditary Jew card to block your extremely irresponsible accusation of anti-semitism.
Golems are cool, especially because of their heritage which comes with thematically powerful stories. They aren't just a robot, or just another Frankenstein, but the idea of unleashing a force that does exactly what you ask of it but too much. Jewish mythology has wrestled with "do these things have a soul" in a way much more interesting and complex than "of course not" and "of course it does." They're a unique idea and calling them equivalent to "elemental construct" (what an awkward phrase) is the actual simplification of a real minority culture.
So don't reference them stupidly, but if you're knowledgable about them and using their real themes, you don't need to be able to trace your maternal ancestral line.
I have no idea why this ended up on my dash. Find better things to be aggrieved about.
To grandprev: no, the Shoah didn't happen because people wanted to use Golem, but that's the worst possible strawman you can make up. Literally nobody said they did. What they said, at worst, is that the Shoah and the appropriation of Glamim come from the same essential root of antisemitism. But I suppose sign versus cause isn't a division people are aware of, if you excuse my cynicism.
I can probably think of more things to say about Glamim and their traditional role of protecting Jews from blood libel, but it's also a long story that involves a Talmudic story and a legend distorted by an early 20th century author, plus I suppose the responsa regarding whether a Golem could join a Minyan - like, technically this is the only Halachic discussion of Glamim ever, and it kind of puts to rest the question of whether they have a soul. But that's not something people want to hear, I suppose.
We really gotta start spelling out the full name of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance when discussing the IHRA definition of antisemitism to make it clear who and what is being targeted
the biggest insult about antizionists claiming that zionism is anti-arab is just how explicitly the founders and champions of the movement (namely herzl and ben gurion) state explicitly that the future jewish state would inherently include arabs among its population.
like not only is it a lie, it’s straight up slander and libel
You hear the quote "they move millions in dark money to preserve their power and turn us against each other" and think it's from Nazi Germany or the KKK, but no! It's mayor of the most Jewish city in the diaspora Zohran Mamdani!
the user i reblogged this from thinks that anti-nazi ads are secret Israeli propaganda, so take this post as you would any other random morality test — with a grain of salt.
Today I saw a "anti jewish hate" add on youtube and it made me genuinely mad, i'm Jewish and I can say for a fact, we are not the group that needs anti hate ads. Especially While black and queer people are being shot!? And it's so clearly not a anti jewish hate ad, it's a don't hate israel ad parading around as one, and it's the most shitty advertising propaganda I've ever seen, people aren't anti jewish they're anti genocide!
I'm now more aware that jewish hate does exist, so I'm going to clarify that I'm not saying don't support jewish people, this ad was one in a series that Is clearly Israeli government propaganda to gain support against Gaza, NOT to fight antisemitism
I am trying to understand the thought process you are employing. What part of these ads made you think they were about israel? So far all you said was that there were swastikas and the words "NO JEWS," neither of which point to israel or zionism. I do genuinely want to understand your thoughts here.
She kills babies like it's her job, if that's a girl boss?
"I'm a witch and my patron is Lilith"
That seems like a bad idea, her whole thing is promising irresistible deals with inevitable pitfalls that will destroy your life and relationships... Maybe don't do that.
"But the rape/SIDS demon is ~misunderstood~ JuSt LiKe Meeeeee"
She's a rape/SIDS demon. You actually do not, under any circumstances, "gotta hand it to her."
Like, bluntly, it's not just that Lilith isn't a misunderstood girlboss goddess who was tarred with an association with rape and SIDS. It's that it's literally the opposite of that. Lilith was the mythological embodiment of rape and SIDS, and her association with feminism is entirely due to a misogynist in the Middle Ages claiming that feminism was bad and should therefore be associated with the rape and SIDS demon.
Claiming that Lilith is your feminist girlboss patron is like claiming that your biggest personal inspiration for the fight for trans rights was the totally 100% true story of the "down with cis" bus, which btw wasn't actually about people committing violence, it was instead the heartwarming story of how people wearing "down with cis" t-shirts drove a bus to Washington and convinced Congress to give trans people equal rights. Like 1) that's absolutely nothing to do with what the "down with cis bus" story was about, and 2) the "down with cis bus" story was an obvious lie which was created by someone who was trying to discredit the movement you claim to support.
It's not actually particularly feminist to claim that the an anti-feminist screed is true and real and important (they just got some little details wrong).
If you want to be feminist about Lilith, maybe start from "the forced and invented association of feminism with the Jewish rape and SIDS demon is some misogynistic bullshit," because it is.
Radical thought: make-believe figures are make-believe, and their meaning and significance can change with time and audience (hell, not even just mythological figures; witness Guy Fawkes).
If the make-believe figure of Lilith works for you as a subversion of Judeochristian patriarchal mythology and its ongoing impact on the world, you rock that girl!
What is the actual story of Lilith? I was told she was Adam's first wife who didn't obey him and wanted to be on top during sex. Where the fuck did that come from?
There's no singular story of Lilith, she doesn't really have any origin story that I know. She's a Shaeda of infant and childbirth death, and other disasters, one of many perils in the world. Subtle like a venomous spider that makes a web in your shoe, and interacting with her is like picking up a venomous snake by its middle.
I don't really wanna bypass the other problem with what @chaosevilspacewitch said, which is "Judeochristian." Lilith is not a part of Christianity, and never has been.
Like it's really really important to recognize that!
She was not subsumed into/incorporated into Christianity at all, and so she cannot be a subversion of "Judeochristian patriarchal mythology."
Judeochristian is a highly problematic term for a VARIETY of reasons, and people shouldn't use it (outside of, perhaps, the first three centuries CE, where Christianity was still defining itself as a unique religion) because they will inevitably say/imply some shit that just isn't true! Like suggesting that Lilith is a part of Christian mythology in any way. She isn't.
Like @penrosesun mentioned, the idea that she was Adam's first wife is from a deeply misogynistic text. She's not really a girl boss there. She actually leaves and is told if she doesn't return 100 of her demon children will die every day. And she agrees to that and declares she was basically made to bring pain and death and likes this. So. Not exactly a good thing.
Things associated with Lilith in various jewish texts:
Tragic death of infants / committing infanticide (particularly of disabled, unhealthy, or "strange" children)
Birthing demon babies that will die in the hundreds (possibly even killing her own children)
Miscarriage (especially with genetic defects)
Giving children epileptic fits
Causing death in childbirth
Having hundreds of agents of like...evil and badness
Being the partner/consort of a demon prince/king (Samael/asmodeus)
Nocturnal seminal emissions
Adultery
Possibly the first mention of Lilit is just referring to a screech owl/night bird. She does show up in the talmud (predating the alphabet of Ben Sira, aforementioned misogyny text) but all of those earlier mentions seem to be limited to her being a horrifying demon.
Ex: shabbat 151b:
Rabbi Ḥanina said: It is prohibited to sleep alone in a house, and anyone who sleeps alone in a house will be seized by the evil spirit Lilith
Niddah 24b discusses miscarried fetuses that resemble the form of "a Lilith", who appears as a woman who has wings. But this suggests it's a category of creature, not a singular woman.
[[ I've seen one really good tackling of a more feminist (less misogynistic than Ben Sira) reading of Lilith that I greatly enjoyed but CRUCIALLY, it didn't erase her connection to infant mortality or to Judaism. It's the middle grade graphic novel, The Unfinished Corner.]]
I really would love to pawn Lilith off on people who want to steal our shit for their own religious practice, but as annoying as they are... it seems morally questionable not to warn them away in the strongest possible terms, from worshipping or making deals with the demon who murders people during childbirth or robs them or their companions of their children afterwards.
not posting the manifesto i just got from someone that was clearly reading the conflict’s wikipedia page for the first time but i genuinely laughed at this part