Non-Jewish Bernie Sanders supporters need to give serious thought to how Sanders being elected would affect global antisemitism and, particularly, how it would affect American diaspora Jews.
If you want a Jewish man in the White House, you need to start educating yourselves about antisemitism. You have got to start giving a damn about supporting those of us would face the backlash.
to put a finer point on one consequence of this: the myth is already that jews control the media, the government, global banks, etc. to have a jewish man actually put in a position of governmental power is going to make these myths worse, and it will be harder on those of us who bear the brunt of their consequences.
Just to put it in perspective, I was speaking to a Rabbi about Bernie and her response was that while she loved his politics, she feared what would happen to Jews not just in the U.S., but elsewhere if there was ever any anti-American backlash because of the rise of violent global antisemitism.
I don’t think that was the point I just think they want us to be ready to show up for the Jewish community because hate crimes are already on the rise the white supremacist are really gonna wild out
There were memes back in 2016 passed around MAGA circles of Bernie being put in an over.
One of Clinton’s campaign advisors wanted to “punch Bernie in his Jew Nose,” and her team thought about using his Jewish heritage against him in the campaign.
Politico photoshoped him in front of a money tree and insinuated he got his money by mysterious means. Not the Daily Stormer or 4chan, Politico.
Bernie even being a relevant politican already makes him open to these things, and 100% it will get worse if he’s elected, and it won’t come entirely from white supremacists either. It’ll be Liberals and Conservatives alike, especially because he’s the least pro-Israel major candidate out there right now and they can’t just shout “you just hate Jews” at him which means they’ll just use it against him or allow it to happen unchecked.
I keep thinking about this exact type of response (outraged ‘so we shouldn’t vote for him?’) to ‘be prepared to combat antisemitism because this will definitely lead to a spike’ and honestly it’s because the idea of actually combatting antisemitism—as opposed to reblogging vague positivity posts—is something that doesn’t even occur to people, because at the end of the day they don’t really recognize the suffering of Jews as something they should combat.
Also are you aware that you as an individual have only reblogged four posts containing the word ‘Jewish’ since 2018, one of which is this one?
good commentary. this person has NEVER reblogged a single post about antisemitism, not even when neo-Nazis shot up synagogues – they’re not going to change their behavior to combat antisemitism, they’re just really mad that anyone would suggest that maybe they should.
idk what shit-eating truscum needs to hear this, but your rhetoric directly harms people with culturally-specific genders. i’m native and two-spirit, that label describes my gender and my attraction. i use they/them pronouns and your “nonbinaries and cringey stargender trenders aren’t valid” bullshit is getting old. our languages were demonized and erased, our gender and attraction labels along with them. my experiences with dysphoria exist because of colonialist ideas of gender. we have been forced into arbitrary ‘male’ and ‘female’ categories by colonizers for centuries and truscum rhetoric perpetuates racist colonialist violence against natives.
your experiences are not universal, you’re not forwarding justice for trans people, and you’re definitely not an ally to natives or other people of color. you’re just a fucking colonizer.
@ non-jews who accuse jews of not having any culture or of being culture stealers:
jews, mizrahim and maghrebim, have been living in the middle east and north africa for centuries, but g-d forbid their culture resembles the dominant culture.
ashkenazim developed a culture that is well in touch with our middle eastern heritage while being isolated and ostracized from european society, but g-d forbid we reclaim it.
if you aren’t familiar with jewish cultures, your accusations against them are uninformed.
Prolife Christians: don't worry!! we, the majority, will cite religion to save all the unborn babies of you poor minorities
Muslims and Jewish ppl: but...our religions allow women to have abortions in certain cases. It's not fair to deny us reproductive healthcare that our religions give us based on your own religious views-
Prolife Christians: sorry, I can't hear you over the sound of all this religious freedom for everyone
remember when someone asked JK Rowling if there were any Jews at Hogwarts and she answered that there was one (1) Jewish kid and his name was like Shlomo Goldberg
Rowling also got nervous when people asked if Anthony Goldstein was related to the Goldstein sisters because they literally have the exact same surname, and at first she was super vague about it, but then backtracked and said “uh yeah sure they’re related!” And then she didn’t know how to reply when people asked if they kept kosher because there’s a scene in FBaWtFT where Tina eats a presumably treif hot dog she buys from a Muggle cart.
Then her sister Queenie magically brainwashes her boyfriend into wanting to marry her, and turns into this shrill, hysterical, nagging woman who won’t take no for an answer and being rejected makes her team up with Wizard Hitler version 1.0.
But hey, at least they’re not this race of greedy untrustworthy hooknosed creatures (who have a history of being oppressed by human wizards) who dominate the banking industry and work in a building where the floor is marked by a giant Star of David!
…This was the last day of the year for the class of 2018 at Glenelg High School. There was going to be an awards ceremony, a picnic, that end-of-a-journey feeling that always made [principal David Burton] so proud of his job. But as he was on his way to work at 6:25 a.m., the assistant principal had called, agitated and yelling about graffiti…
…Beneath his dress shoes, there were more swastikas. Spray painted around them were crude drawings of penises.
Then Burton saw the letters “KKK.” He saw the word “Fuck” again and again next to the words “Jews,” “Fags,” “Nigs” and “Burton.”
He kept walking, following the graffiti around the building’s perimeter. It was on the sidewalks, the trash cans, the loading dock, the stadium around back. There were more than 100 markings in total, though he didn’t bother to count.
He turned a corner and saw something written in large capital letters on the sidewalk: “BURTON IS A NIGGER.”
…A quarter of all hate crimes reported to the FBI, more than any other category, are similar to the attack discovered at Glenelg on May 24, 2018. Vandalism and destruction of property, a physical marking of an age-old threat: You don’t belong here.
…In one of those homes, 72-year-old Susan Sands-Joseph was watching. She knew Glenelg well. She was one of the first black students to attend the school after desegregation. Suddenly, all the memories that she tried not to dwell on were dredged up again: the words she was called, the tomatoes thrown at her head, the looks her parents gave her when she came home saying scalding hot soup had been pushed into her lap again. “It’s okay,” she had promised them. “I’m fine.”
…Panicked, [Seth Taylor, one of the vandals,] started Googling:
“How long do you go to jail for vandalism?”
And then: “Can you get a hate crime for painting swastikas?”
…He had already begun to separate what he’d done from who he believed himself to be. He hadn’t intended to hurt anyone, he said. He would always maintain he wasn’t an anti-Semite, a homophobe or a racist.
…At 11:35 p.m. on May 23, the students’ IDs began auto-connecting to the WiFi. It took only a few clicks to find out exactly who was beneath those T-shirt masks.
“You have the right to remain silent,” an officer said to Seth before long. “Anything you say or do . . . ”
They told him to remove his graduation cap and gown. They cuffed his arms behind his back.
Seth realized they were about to march him outside, past the windows of the cafeteria. By now it would be filled with students eating lunch.
“Can you cover my face so that the kids don’t videotape me?” he asked.
“No,” an officer replied. “You deserve this.”
…Most are unaware of the history that came before Columbia [a planned community founded on the principles of integration and inclusion in Howard County]. … An estimated 2,800 people were enslaved in the county at the beginning of the Civil War. A century later, when the Supreme Court ruled in Brown v. Board of Education in 1954 that schools must be desegregated, Howard County was so resistant that it took more than a decade for the black-only school, Harriet Tubman, to close its doors. The opposition to black students learning alongside white ones was so fierce, a cross was burned. It happened outside a school dance at Glenelg High School.
…Among black families like [Tyler Hebron’s], there were doubts that the white teens would face the kind of punishment black teens receive for similar crimes. Two years earlier, a group of students had painted swastikas on a historic black schoolhouse in Northern Virginia. A Loudoun County judge sentenced them not to jail time or community service, but to reading: along with visiting the Holocaust museum, each had to choose a single book about Nazi Germany or the Jim Crow era and write a report on it.
…Two of [the vandals] had tried to have the hate-crime charges dismissed. Their attorneys claimed that their First Amendment rights were being violated. They could be punished for the vandalism, the argument went, but not for what they wrote.
It didn’t work.
Now, it was [Judge William V. Tucker’s] job to answer a question the community had been debating for nearly a year: What consequences did these young men, now 19, deserve?
…Seth said he just wanted all of them to understand: He is not a racist.
Later, he would explain himself this way: “I never really understood the symbol of the swastika. I knew it was wrong to plaster it somewhere. I didn’t learn exactly what [the Nazis] were doing to the Jews until I went to the Holocaust Museum. I never learned that they were mutilated. I knew that they were, like, burned. But I never learned that they had experiments done on them, were injected with diseases. The school didn’t include that. They just included the burning and the train cars.”
His understanding of the KKK was limited, too, he said. “Some people think it’s just a word, or a symbol or three letters put together. . . . But they were lynching people, hurting people for no good reason.”
…“I spray paint one racist thing and, suddenly, I become a racist? Just because I did it doesn’t mean I hate Jews, gay people or black people.”
He was standing before the judge, pleading guilty to a hate crime, but he would not admit that he harbored any hate.
…Behind her, Principal Burton was listening. He’d heard Joshua Shaffer’s attorney give a similar speech. When Matthew Lipp was sentenced, he would hear it then too. Tyler Curtiss had written it in a Facebook apology the day after the crime…
They all believed it was possible to do what they did without really meaning it.
Burton wanted to look them in the eye and say: “You did something very racist. How you don’t think you’re a racist, I don’t know.”
…He believed what possessed them to draw those words and symbols that night wasn’t a lack of knowledge, but something deeper, something ugly, something taught to them, consciously or unconsciously, along the way. If they couldn’t admit that now, maybe they never would. But it wasn’t his responsibility to educate them any more.
When it was Burton’s turn to speak at Seth’s sentencing, he didn’t say the word “racism.” He talked about all the people the crime had affected — the teachers crying in his office, the parents who pulled their kids out of his school, his daughter in tears, and for just a few moments, himself: “I know I give up my time, my effort, I give up my life for my students,” he said. “I think the only thing I am asking in return is just a little bit of respect.”
…[Burton] had to focus [this year] on his 1,200 current students: the LGBTQ kids who still felt isolated. The Jewish girl who told the local paper she still wishes she could transfer. Whoever was still scrawling swastikas on the bathroom stalls.
In the past year, he’d created a task force of diverse students to work on the school’s climate. Soon every freshman would go through an empathy workshop. And nearly 40 of his employees had spent the year meeting to discuss the book “Waking Up White,” a memoir of a white woman who comes to understand that racism is a system that she had been shaped by and contributed to her entire life without even realizing it. Maybe, he thought, that lesson would get passed on to Glenelg’s students…
[Read Jessica Contrera’s full piece at The Washington Post]
I don’t understand this. How can you create hateful vandalism, know that its wrong enough to cover your face and ask your arrest be hidden, and then claim to not be bigoted?
The cognitive dissonance required for this baffles me. As a HS senior, you’re old enough to vote, old enough to kill. Old enough to take responsibility for your actions as well.
There’s this weird idea that you can’t really be racist unless you are racist in your mind and/or heart. And no matter how many racist actions you take, as long as you believe you don’t hate Black people, Jewish people, gay people, Latinx people, etc. you aren’t really racist and hateful. I mean, how many times have you heard someone say some form of: “I can’t say they’re a racist because I don’t know what’s in their heart”? It’s such a Christian-centric view of ethics and morality to be more concerned about someone’s feelings and thoughts than on their actions. It’s like it matters more how you feel and what you believe than your actual actions, and you can only quantify someone’s actions and not the thoughts in their head.
And I have never ever been able to wrap my yiddische head around.
Don’t get me wrong; it still makes no sense to me either and pisses me right off. I’m with Principal Burton when he says: “You did something very racist. How you don’t think you’re a racist, I don’t know.”
@jewish-privilege this is very similar to the Southern christian attitude that you can sin sunup to sundown because as long as you believe in Jesus *in your heart* you’re still “saved”. you can do hateful things proscribed by whoever because if the other person is with jesus too, and you believe in jesus, then it’s not really bad. it’s… hard to explain, but that’s the mental gymnastics of it.
It makes “sense” when you remember that Christianity is a religion based in orthodoxy (focuses on the correct belief as opposed to orthopraxy which focuses on the correct action or practice) and that shapes the entirety of ones worldview. If you’re ethics are such that belief is paramount, then wouldn’t it follow that actions wouldn’t be as important as the belief that the actor holds. (This isn’t to say that all Christians act like this.)
I get it intellectually? But it makes no sense because I’m Jewish and Judaism and Jewish ethics are fundamentally orthopraxic.
You didn’t just draw penises and swear words, you did something racist, you’re a racist.
You didn’t just “commit a sin”, you did something anti-Christian. You’re not a Christian.
If you advocate for the wall, if you defend the concentration camps, if you advocate for the murdering of LGBT+ people, if you advocate for the murder of people of color, you’re going against the teachings of Christ, and therefore are not a Christian.
So my partner and I went to synagogue tonight. We are both from Jewish families, both of us were raised knowing we were Jewish, the difference is they actually received religious instruction while my parents were super assimilated and went to the big church in the town I grew up in because that's what the rich people in town did. My partner and I are also both Hispanic, I'm part black, and my partner is Chamorro and Japanese. The big difference is I pass for white, while my partner is very clearly Asian. When the time came for kiddush, the person who was leading the lay service (rabbi is on vacation) handed me a cup and then walked past my partner. I had to reach out and grab them a cup, while the lay leader gave me an odd look. Last week, I took our roommate (jokingly referred to as "the house goy") to synagogue and the same lay leader insisted he had kiddush even though he's not Jewish. He is, however, white.
There are no obvious JOCs at this synagogue. At another synagogue we were thinking about going to in the next big city, their website is filled with pics of JOC.
JEWS OF COLOR EXIST AND ARE STILL JEWS.
They deserve kiddush. They should be welcome at synagogue. They deserve the right of return.
i’m a zionist!!
i’m not anti-palestine.
i don’t condone the actions of the israeli government.
i don’t support violence between israel and palestine.
i believe that jews have the right to a homeland where they won’t be persecuted. zionism doesn’t inherently mean that i support the government or military’s maltreatment of palestinians. the zionist movement calls for a jewish homeland, not violence.
Miley Cyrus is literally pansexual and I believe genderfluid as well? She is literally queer and identifies as queer. You are literally being queerphobic.
So she married a guy, big fuckin whoop. It may appear to be a hetero relationship but when one or more person in that relationship is queer it isn’t fuckin hetero anymore. I am bisexual and my bf is bisexual, there is nothing heterosexual about our relationship whatsoever.
She LITERALLY says “queer person like myself” and ya’ll just flat out IGNORE that and call her straight because that’s how much you hate people that don’t fit into your narrow idea of what gay/queer looks like.
Ya’ll are being queerphobic and because what? You hate her or something? I’m not even a fan of hers at all but at least I don’t deny people their identities bc I don’t like them. Pathetic.
The whole interview this quote came from was her saying that gender (her own or other people’s) doesn’t really matter to her, and she believes that it’s the same for a lot of people her age - that a lot of people fall in love and get married with gender having zero impact on their relationship.
Which is, you know, a pretty genderfluid, pansexual kind of perspective on things, wouldn’t you say?
Miley Cyrus: it’s good for queer people to remain visible even if their relationship might look straight to people who aren’t thinking
this site: she’s not actually queer
"There are many Jewish radfems" shut the fuck up I don't care. Y'all need to decolonize your fucking praxis and learn to love yourselves. Radfem ideology harms everyone, though it focuses on trans women and sex workers. TERF ideals of what a woman should be maim Jewish, Latine, and nonwhite women, because their entire fucking ideal of what a woman should be is a FUCKING WHITE WOMAN.
There is not room for a TERF or any other radfem in Judaism. Not now and not ever. Not when we have historically recognized intersex individuals as not being coerced into male or female. Not when we have recognized genders outside of male and female. Not when we uphold human dignity. Either grow some g-ddamn sense, or be exiled.
If you try to defend your shitty ideology that's soaked in the blood of my sisters to me I'm just going to block you and delete it. This is not up for debate. Keep your lying tongues to yourselves before I bite them off.
