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The thing with Ta-Nehisi Coates saying he wouldn't have been able to stop himself from participating in 10/7 if he had lived in Gaza and Darializa Avila Chevalier attending a celebratory rally right after 10/7 is I think it's a good idea to believe people when they say they want to do violence against Jews. These are not statements and actions that are up for interpretation or debate. They are positioning the slaughter of Jews as justifiable and even morally good.

One of these people is a prominent public intellectual whose work appears in major publications. The other is running for Congress and is endorsed by the mayor of New York.

I don't know what will come of giving these people huge platforms. As a Jew, I don't think it's good. It's as bad for the general population as it is for Jews, but the fact that it's bad for Jews should be enough for morally upstanding people to resist their presence in public life.

Yet here we are.

#jumblr #jewish things #antisemitism for ts #you see me dropping 'as a Jew' there yes I can do it too #had a very upsetting back and forth with a friend who is voting for avila chevalier #that the march was regrettable but her opponent takes AIPAC money and doesn't do enough against ICE #respectfully if you want to unseat him FIND A VIABLE CANDIDATE #if you want him to take a firmer stance against ICE CALL HIS OFFICE OR SHOW UP AND DEMAND IT #'she's learned nuance' she doesn't think Israelis are human #I'm so exhausted

Dear God, did you have to send me news like that, today of all days? I know, I know we are The Chosen People, but once in awhile, can't you choose someone else?

I think a lot of Americans have a hard time grasping the idea of Jewish indigeneity because they dont know where their own ancestors came from. Maybe they'll have vague ideas like German, Italian, or Irish, but what they know has very little bearing on their day-to-day lives. They don't dress any different, they don't speak the language their great grandparents spoke, they don't hold regular ceremonies and rituals that harken back to the old days.

The idea of an ethnic group maintaining a constant identity over thousands of years is patently absurd to them. "You're telling me you're still mourning something the ancient Romans did? That's ridiculous! Clearly you've fallen for modern Israeli propaganda, otherwise you're deliberately arguing in bad faith in order to justify land theft and genocide!"

It's very frustrating, because when I say these things I do not say them in bad faith. My friend once said "it's a very American thing not to understand large timescales", and I think she was right on the money. The process of American assimilation has cut peoples ties to their ancestors to such a degree that they can no longer comprehend a continuous identity spanning millennia.

So I'm going to say this in the clearest language I can:

There is a genuine, historically provable, continuous connection from ancient Israelites to modern Jews. By the laws and customs of those ancient Israelites I am one of them. Let me reiterate. I am an Israelite, a Hebrew, like from the Bible, and the fact that my identity has been so mythologized and talked about as if it's a thing of the past will never change that.

#fuzzytheduck #jumblr #jewish #judaism #frumblr #antisemitism #jewblr #jewish stuff #jewish history #israel #jewish identity #jew tag #jew stuff #jewish things #jewish indigeneity

As a Jew, I have huge admiration for anyone trying to restore their own ancestral ethnic religion that was suppressed by Christianity or Islam.

Like, yes greek girl, build that shrine to Hestia above your hearth!! I miss our iron-age peers.

#I know the hellenists in particular were not kind to us back in the day #but damn it's lonely in the 21st century for an un-syncretized ethnic religion in western eurasia or places colonized by western eurasia #jewish history #jumblr #jewish things #judaism #classical antiquity #neo paganism #hellenic polytheism

This past year and three months have been such an awakening for Jewish people, but one with a certain flair of absurdity. It feels like un-reality, like a wicked nightmare you can't wake up from. It's like the entire world has lost its mind and when you try to tell them this isn't normal, that what they're doing is wrong, they twist reality itself to say that no it is actually normal, it is you who is wrong. They dehumanize you, treat you as a symbol of evil and disgust. It's like we all woke up a year ago no longer humans, something else, something vile, like a bug, like a... oh. oh.

#i very much already know what the story is about #but i was thinking of how much i would like to put into writing the experience of the past year #and the horror of the world we live in and how un-human we suddenly are to so many people #(or more accurately how openly they finally are about what they've been thinking all along)#and then i realized that well the story has already been written #it's always the same #an endless cycle we can't break out of #jewish things #jumblr #antisemitism #kafka #the metamorphosis

If your response to someone stating they don’t celebrate your holiday or care to is to be offended… maybe you should consider why you feel entitled to pressuring others to celebrate solely your culture.

#jumblr #jewblr #jewish things #this is in fact about christmas

The Jewish American experience of asking your parent(s) why we do something and said parent breaking out into Fiddler on the Roof as their answer

#or is that just my dad #jumblr #fiddler on the roof #jewish things #100

"did you know that when the ten plagues are described, the word used for 'frog' is singular, not plural, and therefore it's entirely possible that the plague was not many frogs, but one single enormous frog, or perhaps one normal sized frog causing all this trouble on its own?"

is my version of

"did you know that viggo mortensen broke his toes when he kicked the helmet?"

#hannah unlocks the word hoard #jewish things #jumblr #tolkien