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W Uganda 🇺🇬🤝🇮🇱

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"Them Goyim Are Being Normal"

case nr. (wallahi what are we even doing anymore, what the fuck do you say to people like this)

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I work at a state museum, and one of my Turkish co workers wrote a whole exhibit about how Palestinians were the first to discover the Atlantic Ocean. And I had to fight the higher ups to take down the exhibit. And they were reluctant to do so until we proved that the grant money for the exhibit was from a turkeye state sponsored pan Arab misinformation org. They didn't seem to care that insinuating Palestinians discovered an ocean that Palestine isn't even close to is stupidly misinformed. And this is a museum!!! That the public is supposed to trust for info!!! Anyway I think it's hilarious when ppl think the sea in river to the sea is the Atlantic ocean

..... a museum 💀💀 it's so over, that's fucking terrifying. So great and important that you protested it though, and that they were dumb enough to take grants from idiot panarabists

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If tattoos were permissable by halakha, I would tattoo this on my forehead

Happy purim

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Just want to add and I dont want to leave this in the comments yet a bit more of a tangent from that ask (and it turned out longer than I thought): I think there needs to be recognition by the various Churches on the harm inflicted on Jewish communities

Like, seriously, before I hoped on Jumblr, I knew almost nothing of our Churches' complicity against Jews. I didn't know we had Jewish Deicide as our official theology until the Catholic Church and other sects renounced it in 1960s. Tho even today, it's more taught that the "hypocritical Pharisees and stiff-necked scholars conspired with the Jews to have Jesus killed". Which is still problematic especially rn with the entire "bad Jews good Jews" discourse that can risk leading to a slippery slope to vilify all Jews.

There's always a line by my Church that Christians have always been good to Jews. Unfortunately that's not even true given (gestures at the pogroms and Martin Luther rancid opinions once he realized the Jews won't support and convert to his brand of reformed Christianity). Even I've also looked up recently on the various churches' complicity with the Nazi regime (and that stupid poem by Niemoller), and/or how the Catholic Church baptised Jewish babies without authorisation and raised them Catholic.

Anyway, also I write all these because we are approaching Easter and Passover, and both are quite related because, symbolically in Christian theology, Jesus is the sacrificial "lamb" who died on Passover. And I'm aware of plenty of supercessionist takes like also trying to appropriate Prince of Egypt as a Christian story, and Christians also trying to do their own Seders (although we already have our own Holy Communion which is, well, adapted from it).

Yeah, yeah, Christianity really appropriated a lot from Judaism. But also personally I don't think there are simple ways to disentangle the importance of the Hebrew Bible from the existence of Christianity (and also Islam and other more syncretic religions like the Druze and Bahá’í faiths) that wouldn’t require fundamentally altering and/or destroying central pillars of their existence, which a) is not realistically possible, b) would not be good. Even denying and removing those roots is antisemitic tbh.

Ultimately I just think Christians should:

Stop pretending we have always been great to Jews, because we simply aren't. Both past and now

Just leave the Jews alone and not attacking their beliefs as backwards and obsolete (my pastors always like doing that, especially criticising the Jewish observance of the Shabbat as "legalistic" and I'm like: noooo?)

Sorry if I ramble a bit, but I'm just trying to ruminate on the largely horrible relationship between Christianity and Judaism. But my take overall is: Christianity has its roots in Judaism and adopted some practices from it, even taking the Tanakh as part of its holy texts. But also we need to acknowledge it is still a different thing from Judaism, and that it's fine for Jews not to convert to it.

Also, I admit I initially "support Israel" because of how Christianity taught about Jews being God's "chosen people" and about fulfilling some Bilblical prophecy about the third temple. But now, after interacting with many Jews, I think the former should take precedence and there shouldn't be a need for any political and religious reason for supporting Israel (on a tangent, even as a Christian I never understood about the "rapture". The book of Revelation of the end of days is just very complicated and the rapture thing is one common interpretation to understand Revelation.). Unfortunately, to care about Jews seems to be an unpopular take on this site, especially regarding the fate of Israel and what it would mean if it were "destroyed"

Firstly don't apologise for rambling, for one thing that's all I ever do, and secondly the rambling is good!

Imo, encountering judaism or israel from an antisemitic or flawed perspective - antisemitism is baked into western culture in so many ways it'd be hard not to. If it makes you feel any better, my very catholic dad still can't concede that the literal Spanish inquisition and the fucking crusades were deeply connected to the catholic church. (What I'm trying to say is that you're doing great lmao. Simply taking judaism seriously puts you in the green in my book)

That experience of the christian understanding of its own history of antisemitism is the furthest from unique - it's an indemic and general problem. All I was ever taught growing up is that catholics are nice to jews, who are a backwards and misguided historical relic (unless you asked the Polish catholics 💀 my experiences have taught me to never ever ask a polish catholic what they think of jews), and also the pharisees were very evil but the catholic church is kind and holy so they've forgiven the jews for killing the messiah 🥰

I'm being a tiny bit hyperbolic, but that was the picture I was fed growing up. No matter how many antisemitic moments I bring up when talking to my dad, for example, he just refuses to admit how antisemitism has been baked into the catholic church through history - no amount of contemporary "kindness" will change that. Pointing at Martin Luther's "On the Jews and Their Lies" doesn't make the catholic church better lol.

My impression is that Christians sometimes get pretty defensive about antisemitism, to put it mildly. Either from a "white american relationship to slavery" type of sentiment, or that they think it's unfair for jews to mention it since Muslims are more antisemitic in the current historical moment. The problem in every case is a lack of respect for judaism and the jewish people. And the most frustrating part is how deeply unnecessary it is. Tons of christians have a great relationship to judaism and beit yisrael - and lots of muslims look to the parts of the Quran that valorise the jews. It never has to be bad.

Also, hope you have a nice Easter chaver, bless you

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omgomgomg i just saw an article in jerusalem post that iranian regime propaganda is now talking about zionist sorcery being behind israel's war success and i am SO MAD that this isn't a real thing.

They're on to us.... the Mossad kabbalah-sorcery program is compromised, gonna have to report this to my superiors :(

I mean I would struggle to come up with an explanation for some of the shit the Mossad continually pulls, so who can blame them really?

Like when Ahmadinejad went out and confirmed that when the Iranian Secret Service established a unit to target Mossad agents in Iran, and the head of the unit turned out to be a Mossad agent himself, along with 20 other Mossad agents in the unit?

Like you can't make this shit up. I would be terrified of zionist sorcery too if I was the IRGC.

❗️Fun fact, if you search for "sorcery" gifs on this G-d-forsaken app the israeli flag is one of the first results lmaoooo 🥳 A menorah is also a top result.

The goyim are not ok.

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kill yourself cracker