Justice, Justice You Shall Pursue

Just another Jewish side blog. Because sometimes it's not safe to post about Judaism or Israel in progressive or social justice oriented spaces. If you feel the need to know my main blog, ask and I just might tell you. No guarantees, though. Simcha, she/her, 30-something, Ashkenazi, progressive Judaism.

[tzedektzedek-tirdof]

Happy Hanukkah!

As you can tell, I haven’t been posting much recently. I just started a new job and honestly tumblr just isn’t a priority right now. I think it’s been a slow decline anyway.

I may become more active again at some point, but I don’t see it happening anytime soon.

[girlactionfigure]

CNN Article

“A quarter of Hungarians estimated that the world is more than 20% Jewish, and a fifth of British and Polish respondents said so.”

They were off by a factor of 100. About 0.2% of the world’s population is Jewish, according to the Pew Research Center’s Global Religious Landscape study.

[koshercosplay]

Want to know what pisses me off? When people say things like “support this Jewish person who had to deal with [insert antisemitic incident here]! She’s pro-palestinian!!”

Like… Jewish people’s opinion on the complicated subject of the state of Israel should not be the prerequisite to caring about whether we face discrimination and hate crimes.

If you need to know someone’s view of the Israel-Palestinian conflict before deciding whether or not they’re the “type” of Jew you support, then newsflash… you’re not really supporting Jews.

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I get the feeling we’re responding to the same post

Yes, I absolutely hate that.

[hazel2468]

Jews shouldn’t be subjected to a fucking litmus test before you support them. And it’s antisemitic as all fucking HELL that people do it all the time and see no problem with it. 

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Leftists confronted with antisemitism: “Obsession with ideological purity on a complicated subject I don’t understand getting in the way of MY actual activism on behalf of oppressed and targeted peoples? It’s more likely than you think”

[tikkunolamorgtfo]

I know exactly which post you’re referring to and that really bothered me to. It was like “please help this Jewish woman who was arrested standing up to Nazis and is also a pro-Palestinian activist.” Like, that’s all fine and good, but it’s so clear that it was included specifically to signify to gentiles that she was the “right kind of Jew.” I don’t know if the OP of that campaign was Jewish or not, but it was so blatantly playing into the whole “Is this a good Jew or a bad Jew?” thing, and it left a really bad taste in my mouth. 

[mediamattersforamerica]

Conservatives, especially on Fox News and other right-wing media outlets, have long framed George Soros as a “puppet master” and a “globalist” who controls the government with his “tentacles.” Sam Bee explains that type of language didn’t come out of nowhere. 

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Samantha Bee’s 1st segment last night hit home the truth about the prevalence of antisemitism in America. 

[liberalsarecool]

Trump speaks in dog whistles and anti-semitic coded language with the greatest of ease. It is second nature for him. He sells white victimhood just as easy.

[animatedamerican]

Israel Chief Rabbi Didn’t Dismiss Progressive Synagogues. Stop Twisting Words To Sow Division.

Criticize the Israeli rabbinate all you want — but this shouldn’t be why.

Hell, I’m angry.

Lau’s quote was grossly taken out of context — not a single news report actually quoted the full interview, in which the rabbi mourned the victims and emphasized that a conversation about denominational differences is irrelevant here.

[…] I replicate here the original words of Rabbi David Lau, when asked by a Makor Rishon reporter about his attitude to the Conservative affiliation of the shooting’s victims:  Lau was asked to comment on the ultra-Orthodox Israeli news outlets’ coverage of the massacre, which refused to call the Tree of Life Synagogue a “synagogue” but rather calling it a “Jewish center.”

Lau was evidently aghast. “How is that relevant? Don’t bring that up in [connection to] this topic. We are talking about Jews murdered because they are Jews. Why is this even a question?! I don’t hear or understand what kind of a discussion can be in regard to this question. They were murdered because they were Jews. Why does it matter in what synagogue or what liturgy they were praying?!”

Jumblr folks, if you saw and/or reblogged the post citing the Haaretz article claiming that Rabbi Lau refused to call Tree of Life a synagogue, please reblog this one too.

[tikkunolamorgtfo]

In all sincerity, fuck this. 

[yidquotes]

A Jew is a Jew is a Jew. This is why we can’t piss and moan amongst ourselves about ‘valid’ conversions and other such nonsense. Gatekeeping in the Jewish community is a shitshow.

[libhobn]

It turns out his remarks were badly mistranslated and taken out of context:

I can’t link to the original post because I’m on mobile, sorry.

[tikkunolamorgtfo]

This makes me feel a little bit better.

[lesbeet]

Please don't take this the wrong way, but do you know if there is any information on whether the synagouge is Zionist? Or any of the people killed? I don't feel comfortable donating money or mourning for people who advocate genocide.

i can safely and confidently assure you that the jewish community doesn’t want your money or your sympathy, and also you’re a fucking sociopath

[terefah]

mindblowing that goyim don’t understand that refusing to unequivocally value jewish lives actually feeds zionism. your antizionism isn’t worth shit if you’re not working to make the diaspora a safe place for jews to live and thrive.

[lesbeet]

100% agree, though i would even go so far as to say that like honestly. it. doesn’t matter. it’s absolutely true and goyim should be aware of how antisemitism perpetuates zionism, but also it’s so fucking sad that we need to use that as a selling point for them not to be antisemitic, instead of them just….giving a fuck about jews regardless

[terefah]

😞😞😞

[tikkunolamorgtfo]

AYFKM

[tikkunolamorgtfo]

“I don’t feel comfortable donating money or mourning for people who advocate genocide.“

Amazing how you feel totally comfortable supporting Nazism and white supremacy, though. 

[tikkunolamorgtfo]

The targets of white supremacists deserve to be protected. Full stop. 

The victims of white supremacist violence deserve to be mourned. Full stop. 

I have seen this shit happen to multiple groups (Black people, Muslims, Jews, etc.) after multiple tragedies, so let me be clear: 

We do not ask if Muslim refugees are suitably feminist before advocating on their behalf. We advocate on their behalf because they are suffering and it’s the right thing to do. 

We do not ask what the congregation’s policy was on gay marriage after a racist shoots up a Black church and murders African-Americans joining in prayer. We mourn for the victims and speak out because it is the right thing to do. 

And we do not fucking ask if Jews murdered by a neo-Nazi in the sanctuary of their synagogue were Zionists or not before mourning them and offering the survivors our support because it is the right thing to do. 

If you withhold your support for victims of white supremacist violence until they have passed some sort of so-called progressive litmus test, then you are on the side of the white supremacists. I don’t fucking care how leftist you think you are, if you pull this shit, you’re an enabler of hate. 

You are either with the victims or the Nazis. Pick a side and SHUT THE FUCK UP. 

[xfilesposterproject]

I grew up in Pittsburgh and lived most of my adult life a few miles from where yesterday’s shooting happened. I know my hometown is strong but no community should have to bare this tragedy. I created this art to remember the victims and the lives of faith they lived.

[tikkunolamorgtfo]

In all sincerity, fuck this. 

[tikkunolamorgtfo]

Joyce Feinberg  Richard Gottfried  Rose Mallinger  Jerry Rabinowitz  Cecil Rosenthal  David Rosenthal  Bernice Simon  Sylvan Simon  Daniel Stein  Irving Younger Melvin Wax

HaShem yikom damam השם יקום דמם

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things are hard right now for Jewish people all over the world– if your synagogue has a donation page link it on this post and i’ll spread it around. 

to start: here is the official gofundme to help the Tree of Life synagogue pay for building damage and help the people effected.

[skittykittys]

my synagogue is doing some really great accessibility and inclusivity work right now and works with a lot of local charities–you can donate to them here

[mendedpixie]

Hey folks, my synagogue is the ONLY synagogue in my town, the same town that houses Liberty University, that evangelical Christian college that trump visited and who sent a busload of students to support kavanaugh, and who illegally smuggled jewish artifacts into their school biblical museum via hobby lobby

We are small, mostly older people, but liberal, welcoming, and LGBT friendly, do interfaith outreach, are currently sponsoring refugees, do food drives throughout the year, are part of a state wide jewish choir, and are the only synagogue in the whole town, that is pretty much owned by LU.

If you are able to donate to help us continue to survive and help the community, here is where you can do so, baruch hashem.

http://www.agudathsholomva.org/opportunities-for-giving/donate-online/

[tzedektzedek-tirdof]

Today, I had the pleasure of explaining to a friend of a friend that antisemitism is not exclusive to “Trumpists.”

And I was asked for examples. Because google is hard. Thankfully, another person stepped in and did that work for me, because I’m fucking exhausted today.

[tzedektzedek-tirdof]

Oh yeah. And the friend jumped in after I commented, clearly in response to that specific claim, saying that her post was really about gun control, so why was I bringing up leftist antisemitism. She backed off when I reiterated that I was responding to the Trump comment, but come on. This is not solely about gun control and you know it.

[rosietwiggs]

“I’m anti-Israel, but mass shootings are always wrong!”

“I’m against circumcision, but it’s really awful that this happened.”

wait, let me… let me just translate that for everyone for a second, so people understand what you’re saying:

“I know they’re JEWS guys, but it’s still not ok to kill them.”

[tikkunolamorgtfo]

[tzedektzedek-tirdof]

Today, I had the pleasure of explaining to a friend of a friend that antisemitism is not exclusive to “Trumpists.”

And I was asked for examples. Because google is hard. Thankfully, another person stepped in and did that work for me, because I’m fucking exhausted today.

[jewish-privilege]

The ad, titled “Owns,” attempts to tie Dan Feehan, an Iraq War veteran running to represent Minnesota’s 1st Congressional District, to Soros, who is depicted behind stacks of cash.

The ad is paid for by the National Republican Campaign Committee (NRCC) on behalf of Republican candidate Jim Hagedorn.

The ad also shows former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick as the ad laments “prima donna athletes protesting our anthem,” even though Kaepernick was actually protesting racial injustice. The ad depicts Democrats as “left-wing mobs paid to riot in the streets” and shows tattooed gang members to warn of “amnesty.”

“Just remember, the left owns Feehan,” the narrator says as the video shows Soros above Feehan, Kaepernick, an Antifa member and piles of cash. “He’ll never be for you,” the narrator ads.

The ad claims Feehan worked for a “Soros-funded liberal outfit in D.C.” That appears to be a reference to the Center for a New American Security, which is run by a former aide to the late Republican Sen. John McCain and whose board director was the frontrunner to be deputy defense secretary under President Trump. Feehan is a combat veteran who earned a Bronze Star while in Iraq and later served as a senior Pentagon official in the Obama administration.

…The NRCC was immediately accused of anti-Semitism. Democratic organizer Max Berger wrote that the ad “touts one of the most disgusting anti-Semitic libels: Jews are the puppet-masters that convince people of color to rise up against their white superiors.”

The GOP has repeatedly invoked Soros in recent weeks. On Wednesday, Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., suggested that Soros was funding migrants in Central America so they would “storm the border” at “election time.”

Trump himself repeated Gaetz’s baseless claim at a rally in Montana Thursday, declaring that migrants headed for the U.S.-Mexico border were given money to arrive “by election day.”

Trump also claimed that people in the anti-Trump resistance are “paid by Soros” or “somebody,” adding that their protest signs seem too perfect, “right from the finest printer in Washington,” not from “the basement.”

The Soros-owns-Democrats trope is nothing new. “Soros has been targeted by right-wing groups in different countries over the past years, with many of the campaigns against him having a clear anti-semitic tone, in which the Jewish billionaire is presented as a ‘master puppeteer’ who controls politicians and activists,” Amir Tibon wrote in the Israeli newspaper Haaretz.

Just last year, Republicans accused Soros, a Holocaust survivor who funds various gun control groups, of funding protests led by children who survived the Parkland school shooting. “The well ORGANIZED effort by Florida school students demanding gun control has GEORGE SOROS’ FINGERPRINTS all over it,” wrote former Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke, who was on the shortlist for a job in the Trump administration before joining a pro-Trump PAC.

“We should all understand that the targeting of George Soros is an anti-Semitic act at this point,” Eric Ward, the head of the social justice nonprofit Western States Center, told Salon’s Amanda Marcotte earlier this year, explaining that many on the right blame a “global conspiracy by Jews” as their default response to divisive issues…

[Read Igor Derysh full piece in Salon.]

[tzedektzedek-tirdof]

I love how Republicans act like Soros donating to Democratic candidates is manipulative and evil, but all the money they've taken from Sheldon Adelson is no big deal.

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