#antisemitism t

[birdthany]

abc7 chicago go fuck yourself challenge

[stanstiktok]

[birdthany]

also during class the teacher classified Purim as an “israeli holiday” which , I don’t even know where to start

[vincentvangodot]

I actually don’t know if I have a rant about Judas this year. I think I’ve mostly gotten it out. I know how I feel about his role in salvation, you know how I feel about his role in salvation, I might not need to post any more about it. On the other hand, it’s only the start of Holy Week, so never say never!

What I do have opinions about right now is the unBiblical tendency for modern Christians - theologians, homilists, and laypeople - to take for granted that “the people who welcomed Him into Jerusalem with palms and praise were the same who called for Him to be crucified”. Like... why? Why make this leap? Jerusalem was small by modern standards but was certainly full of people, and you know what happened between Palm Sunday and Good Friday? Passover started. WAY more people were in Jerusalem by the end of the week than the start, and an awful lot of them would not have heard of Jesus. He got around, but He was on foot and Galilee was not small. It’s not hard to believe these people who had never heard of Him were outraged by His claims, without even being “stirred up”.

I think I understand the intention. I think it’s to emphasize that, as modern believers, we too are susceptible to turning away from Christ under the pressures of the outside world. (If it’s not that, I don’t in fact understand.) But that’s no excuse for what amounts to the grouping of the whole populace together with one mind and intention, which is frankly antisemitic. We can’t decry the notion that Jewish people are responsible for Jesus’ death AND say that those who called for His death were the same who welcomed Him, that’s incoherent! And I’ve heard priests who are otherwise good about this stuff preach this line like it’s (literally) Gospel, and it’s just not!

Today is Palm Sunday, the start of Holy Week and also the first full day of Passover, and what I hope most of all is that I and my fellow Christians can be more aware of things like this, unconscious biases within our upbringing and theology that we need to shed.

[honest-cat]

starr//toon: hides comments from people she disagrees with

also starr//toon: DOESN’T hide someone’s comment using an antisemitic slur

http://archive.is/Kjv4e

[namajague]

Oh, did you want a picture of Judas betraying Jesus wherein Judas is neither sallow, swarthy, hook-nosed, big-lipped, nor portrayed with a concave forehead? Buddy, you are Out Of Luck.

[thecaskofamontillado]

i dont want to add onto the post because i dont know enough about the exact topic the person is referring to specifically to comment but

the stereotypical “witch” is pretty much always antisemitic.

its’s... not that hard to see.

long, curly/“wild”, usually dark hair is very much associated with jewish women

large, hooked noses are often considered stereotypical jewish features

and maybe its just my personal experiences but associating jewish people with devil/demon/etc worship (especially in a witchcraft-like sense) isnt exactly uncommon (not to mention the whole thing of witches trying to snatch babies & how it could be easily enough tied to blood libel BS)

[namajague]

The problem is that there are no answers. There’s precious little in the Bible about Judas as an individual, and a fair amount about “The Jews” as an ill-defined enemy of the early (mostly also Jewish!!) followers of Jesus, because John the Evangelist was just... a verbose self-hating piece of shit, I guess.

There’s no way of knowing if the crowd at Pilate’s court really said “Let his blood be on us and on our children”, but a) I fucking doubt it and b) even if they had, that shouldn’t be held against the line any further than the children they’re referencing. Heck, even if you’re going by the verses saying that the sins of the father will be visited on the son (and ignoring the verses saying the opposite), that lasts, at most, four generations, and it’s not for humans to enforce anyway!

I’m arguing with history here, I know it, but that doesn’t make any of this less horrific and unjustified, and it’s terrible.