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[the-catboy-minyan]

basically dead political sideblog i use to dump posts I don't want on my main. I don't check notifications and I don't bother blocking people unless they harass my inbox.

"why do you support genocide?" - I don't! :)

if you see a kahanist or an antisemite in the notes of my post and I haven't deleted or reacted, chances are I either missed it or I already blocked them on my main so I can't see it.

in this house we believe in peace and if you think there can be no peace without violence against Israelis or Palestinians you can get the fuck out of my house, thanks :)

[anartificialsatellite]

I know I've said it before but it's insane how entitled people feel to the Holocaust and how smug they get when they condescend to people about it, as if the dastardly and selfish Jews are hogging their own genocide

[iswearbyalltheflowers]

[chutzpahchesed]

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Reading from a Hebrew prayer book and writing comments in its margins isn't the typical image one has of the actress.

The Jewish Marilyn Monroe – Gone but Not Forgotten

Learn a few of the lesser-known facts about one of Hollywood's icons, including her journey to Judaism.

Happy 100th Birthday to legend and icon Marilyn Monroe. much will be written about her today - about her beauty, her tragedy, her talent, her underrated intellect and that warring with her pinup sex appeal, her passion for acting, her pioneering vision when she founded her own production company, the questions that marred her relationships and her death, the sparkling legacy of her films.

I expect very little, if anything, will be said about her Judaism, but that, too, was a fundamental part of her humanity, her desire for stillness and comfort, her longing to find a home, her unseen depth. her Jewish identity was denied her even at her own funeral by those who circled her life yet never seemed to truly understand her, and I feel the least we can do to honor her, and to uplift her spirit and delicate heart, is to insist that this part of her is recognized.

may her memory be a blessing. 💖

[gahdamnpunk]

I’m just now finding out Anne Frank was bi??? OMG

[luanna801]

Yeah okay, those edits were made by her dad, a cishet person - and also her dad, a Holocaust survivor, who would have been brutally aware that when the diary was first published in freakin’ 1947, had he included anything which people could use to demonize his daughter or tar her as some kind of “pervert”, it would prevent the message he was trying to send about the horrors of the Holocaust and the heroism of his daughter from being properly understood and accepted the way he hoped.

That isn’t fair. It isn’t just. But it is reality. If Otto Frank had let this be included in the published version, there’s a large chance the homophobic backlash would have prevented the book from reaching the audience it did and spreading the message it needed to. It was NINETEEN. FORTY. SEVEN. The Holocaust had ended TWO YEARS AGO. The acceptance of LGBT identities was basically nonexistent. Otto Frank made a decision based on the time and place he was living in, about what the world at that time was and wasn’t ready to accept. 

Let me say this as bluntly as I can - I am a bisexual Jewish girl and I would have made the same decision Otto Frank did. Making sure Anne Frank was unambiguously seen as sympathic and heroic was more important. Making sure people weren’t sidetracked from the main issue of the Holocaust was more important. He shouldn’t have had to make that decision, without doubt. Anne Frank’s sexuality (however she would have identified in modern terms) shouldn’t be considered relevant to her status as a hero or a sympathetic victim. But in 1947, it undoubtedly would have been.

Otto Frank survived Auschwitz and lost his entire family (a wife and two teenage daughters) to the horrors of the Holocaust. He hoped that publishing his daughter’s diary would spread awareness and sympathy for the victims of the Holocaust. If he had to make sacrifices to do that - well frankly, so fucking be it. I don’t know who alive today has the right to judge him. 

[queenofthefaces]

Let’s also look at this thread from a queer Jewish person who brings up the fact that ANNE FRANK EDITED HER DIARY HERSELF

[rosebramblewolf]

i think its also important to note that like. hmm.

im bisexual and i had experiences like that, kissing other girls at sleepovers specifically, and it not only took me another half a decade to start identifying as bi, but all the girls i did that with grew up to be straight women.

having those kinds of feelings and experiences at that age may mean nothing about your sexual orientation.

[weemietime]

Im begging queer goyim to shut the fuck up about the holocaust lmao

[sirensoftherocks]

Do any other fellow Jews ever just get really deep into a fandom, thinking it’s a safe place to go to when you want to forget the bullshit of the world and then remember “oh wait no it’s not because society is antisemitic as fuck and that unfortunately bleeds into fandom.” And then think no one else in fandom is safe and just want to interact with other Jews in the fandom because it feels like they’re the only ones you can trust?

[freegazafromhamas]

Hearing people describe Ashkenazi Jews as "white" meanwhile I've literally had a black-skinned Hijabi acquaintance come right up to me in college and wish me Eid Mubarak.

I've been variably pinned as Turkish, Arab, Greek, and Lebanese. Or failing that, quizzical looks from people asking me "What ethnicity are you? You don't quite look white but I can't tell what."

I look like somebody whose ancestors are from the Levant. And that's because my ancestors are from the Levant. I have tanned skin, thick dark eyebrows, thick dark curly beard. People say I look like I come from some Mediterranean country because my ancestors do in fact come from some Mediterranean country.

[theblxefox]

Israel is mentioned way too many times in the world cup tags considering we didnt even fucking qualify

Yall are really fucking obsessed, get help you fucking weirdos and just enjoy the football

[sexton-crikey]

Wife just got called a "zio" at the grocery store by some pink-haired little shitass while wearing a magen necklace and earrings.

Leftism, clean up your fucking house.

[infiniteglitterfall]

No it's okaaaaaay, the shitass just hated her on sight and called her a slur popularized by the KKK because they assumed she was a Zionist!

It's Legitimate Criticism of Israel, not an obvious bias against Jews! Don't worrrrry about it! 🤗

[starsidesomething]

ANTISEMITISM IS BAD

JEWISH PEOPLE EXISTING DOESN’T HURT YOU

THE ONLY GOOD NAZI IS A DEAD NAZI

I SHOULDN’T HAVE TO GET DEATH THREATS TO MY FUCKING NEOPETS BLOG JUST BECAUSE I’M A JEW

[luxiomahariel]

i dont think the queer community fully understands how isolating it is to be a queer slav and seeing the fucking hammer and sickle fucking everywhere

not only did our families live through the horror that was the ussr but now we gotta be reminded of that shit constantly in the community that we're supposed to share as queer people

not to mention that the ussr wasnt even communist it was just fascist. why are u communists using the symbols of fascists. it just looks like ur idolizing a fascist state.

i just inherently do not trust anyone using the hammer and sickle nor the ussr flag as symbols of their communist ideologies

[painkiller-desire-deactivated20]

As a non-communist leftist who has a lot of communist friends, i did in fact not know there were such strong feelings towards that symbol! I aways thought it was the only communism symbol, and it's good to know that it has such negative connotations towards the Slavic community so I don't use it.

For future reference, may I know what other symbols can be used instead? :]

[luxiomahariel]

i was recently made aware of this flag that is used by the free territories in ukraine and it honestly looks so badass, would definitely recommend this one!

[limbobilbo]

as a 'left' person with an obsession with flags and symbols (including the UFT flag) theres certainly a lot of leftist symbols which either have much less charged history than the hammer and sickle or were used by leftist groups directly opposed to the ussr.

off the top of my head:

the rose (which is more a demsoc/socdem symbol but is a cool looking one)

the three arrows (a very standard 'anti authoritarian leftist' symbol which represents being against fascism monarchy and authoritarian 'communists')

the black cat (a symbol very often used by syndicalists)

the symbolless red and black flags (or any of the diagonal combo anarchist flags)

the raised fist (commonly associated with BLM nowadays but has historically been connected to left wing stuff in general)

or if youre a complete weirdo like me some people identify with the chaos star (most commonly seen in warhammer 40k but originally created by noted anarchist fantasy author michael moorcock)

skull and crossbones like on the UFT flag are also sometimes seen as a thing but thats usually because of that flag and the similar kronstadt one

[dogspouse]

hope it's okay to add on, but op's post made me think of something i read, articulating discomfort with the hammer and sickle from a jewish anarchist perspective

A Jewish-Anarchist Refutation of the Hammer and Sickle

Some Jews A Jewish-Anarchist Refutation of the Hammer and Sickle 2018 The list is endless and, therefore, this zine is not complete. The exa

[luxiomahariel]

im glad our voices of discomfort regarding the hammer & sickle fascist flag are finally being taken seriously, so here are more people from the notes talking about this:

[notteadrops]

I also want to point out that soviet flags and symbols are still used today by russia, including very much on occupied ukrainian territories, as a mean to prop up their regime and assert their ideology.

Hammer & sickle, red star and images of Lenin himself are not just historical signs of past atrocities, they are symbols of the russian regime today and that's the load you are invoking if you continue to just display those in public. Yoy might not intend it to be read that way, but context doesn't vanish if you are uninformed

[omletlove]

💯 co-signing on all of this. I am far and away not the first to say it- not even on this post, but to those of us from the FSU ourselves, whose family is from the FSU, or from any of the non-FSU countries who have had their own brutal Communist party history- the hammer and sickle and the red star represent death, pain, oppression, and generational trauma. As @notteadrops said, the context doesn’t vanish just because the user isn’t informed.

[buronny]

dude. tell me you know nothing about the holocaust without mentioning the word holocaust. please for the love of god learn. about anything regarding antisemitism. please. please stop assuming every jew talking about antisemitism is a zionist. you are an uneducated, ill mannered fucktwit

[starlight-shadowbanned]

“when jews talk about their oppression it’s jewish exceptionalism”

“weaponizing antisemitism”

“weaponizing the holocaust”

“essentializing antisemitism”

“eternal victims”

“victim card declined”

^^some of the most insidious antisemitic concepts i encounter because their goal is to kneecap our ability to even talk about the bigotry we face. i’ve included both nominally left-wing and right-wing versions.

[starlight-shadowbanned]

it’s also particularly gross that a few of these are used by some leftist jews

[brainscrems]

Note: none of those other groups are racialized and, relatedly, those groups do not have intergenerational trauma and identity being passed by those groups the way there is for Jews, Roma, and Sinti. So, yes, people who fall into those categories have more to say about nazis and the holocaust than you, random racist dickhead

[failure-artist]

nazi isn't a generic term for genocider, it's a specific political ideology based on antisemitism.

[shofarsogood]

Why did Nazis kill communists and socialists? Because they believed Jews created communism and socialism to destroy German industry.

Why did Nazis kill gays? Because they believed queer people were a Jewish plot to destroy the German nuclear family.

Why did Nazis kill Soviets? Well, that's actually because Hitler thought Stalin was too much of a threat and attacked the USSR, violating the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact, but Nazis were also happy to kill Jews who fled to the USSR to escape Nazis.

Every murder the Nazis did was because they hated Jews and Roma. That's it.

You can't discuss Nazis without Jews. You just can't.

[cantotallyeven]

>You don't see any of these groups trying to leverage their minority status in order to bulldoze over conversation on who they decide to be a Nazi.

You absolutely do see that. In fact, I'm seeing it in that very post.

[afurioushawk]

Can Mamdani's wife explain why the Palestinians killed Jesus?

[post-it-free]

[edithsweetithh]

🫩

[fleysh]

Racism, misogyny and antisemitism really are the trifecta that bring the political extremes together like nothing else.

You have a Democrat who is buddies with David Duke. You have another who is a rapist with a Nazi tattoo. You have a leftist contingent that refuses to believe and advocate for women who are politically inconvenient to them or whom they have judged as undeserving of basic humanity. How unsurprising that a fascist bleeds whenever you scratch at these people.

[ohevoyev]

edinburgh, 2019

[boywizard-moved]

[Image ID: a yellow sticker that reads “You cannot be anti-fascitst if you are anti-semitic” in bold black text. It is wet with beads of water on it. /End ID]

[sweepygorl]

Jew haters really be like “Nobody actually hates Jews. you’re lying and exaggerating. Btw you’re to blame for every bad thing in this world. fuck you and die”

[ginstermotte]

Antisemitic conspiracy theorist for your blocklist:

[penguinsdemise]

For context, global yearly CO2 emissions are around 38 billion tons. If we assume none of the above is captured in Israel's emissions data and add it in, we get a yearly per capita CO2 emission of about 4.6 tons per person, putting it around 60th on the list, right near Greece and Bulgaria.

(In contrast, Qatar is at 45 tons per person, Australia and the US are at 14 tons per person, and China is at 9 tons per person.)

In short, blaming Israel for the heatwave in Europe is antisemitic because Israel's contribution to global CO2 emissions is comparatively miniscule.

My numbers are from https://www.worldometers.info/co2-emissions/co2-emissions-by-country/ and are from 2024.

[squeeful]

Russia’s war on Ukraine released emissions were, as of February 2025, 230 million tonnes

[the-library-alcove]

Yeah, but those don't count according to these Tankies, for... Reasons.

[rjc1993]

In 2023 China emitted about 12.3 BILLION tonnes of CO2-equivalent, about 35% of the world total for that year. Anyone who wants to talks about climate change and the current heat dome in Europe better be placing the blame first and foremost on China and the USA since together they’re the source of nearly half of global emissions. If you decide to blame Israel instead then you’re an antisemitic shitstain who deserves to be completely ostracized from society.

[ginstermotte]

REBLOG THIS VERSION FOR THE NUMBERS PLEASE.

[spot-the-antisemitism]

called it

“Blame the joos on your sins” canard