Something that shocks me is realizing that people are extremely ignorant about the atrocities that have been committed since the Shoah.
Cambodia, Rwanda, The Balkans, Colombia, Guatemala, Korea, Vietnam, Mariupol, Mosul, Darfur, Nigeria...
Claiming that Judaism is just a religion is a form of Colonialism. It comes from a Eurocentric vision that completely separates spirituality and peoplehood. We are older than that notion, we don't need to describe ourselves based on the mentality of other civilizations.
This was a synagogue in Tunisia two months ago. This is the places they want us to "go back."
We are back home.
We are not leaving again.
Tal has done more for Palestinians than you ever will.
Cope.
Refusing to serve in a genocidal army but still occupying land … Nothing heroic about this. How about he packs his shit and goes back to his original country?
The El Ghriba synagogue in Djerba, Tunisia. This Synagogue is so old that some people claim that it has either a stone or a door from the second Temple.
Ben Silberstein, the IDF soldier that trained the dog that was killed yesterday, said some really strong things that many of us should read:
"An Israeli dog that is killed captures more media coverage than a 5-year-old Palestinian girl who was killed in Gaza."
@HilzFuld
"Use HILZFULD for a 15% discount on my yellow star Jude shirt"
Read that, and read it again. If you don't find it extremely bizarre and wrong, please DM me so I can share some Holocaust educational resources.
Guilty of living in Europe.
Guilty of living in Palestine.
Guilty of living in Canada.
Guilty for living.
Guilty.
They need someone guilty of their sins and who better than the rootless cosmopolitan.
But we refuse to be your scapegoats
and we will outlive them.
If you are Jewish and less than 30, you should be preparing yourself for a completely different and hostile environment. Reallity will be different for us.
The biggest attack against a Jewish community in the Diaspora since the Shoa was not perpetrated by the far right
The biggest massacre of Jews since the Shoa was not committed by the far right
The biggest displacement of Jews since the Shoa was done in the name of Anti Zionism
Actual antisemitism is overwhelmingly and historically a right-wing, Christian nationalist phenomenon.
Attacking Palestinian activists for imagined antisemitism brings you into common cause with the right-wing extremists who are actually a growing danger against Jews.
We will find a way to live and share with the Palestinians. There is no other way.
But we will never forget those who took our pain and made it a joke. They will be in the museums next to Hitler, The Tzars and Isabella I.
Im blocking every single red triangle account that likes or interacts with my posts.
Me being critical of Israel out of love and sense of belonging is not a green light for you antisemitic morons to instrumentalize that criticism.
Fuck off.
"We are the first Jews in 2000 years who refuse to die quietly"
has to be one of the most ignorant and offensive framing of the Jewish diasporas experiences, and it's shocking how many people actually believe it.
Better to stand alone than to live at the mercy of others.
We are the first Jews in 2000 years who refuse to die quietly. We will continue to stand, to prosper and thrive.
We have survived exile, the inquisition, crusades, programs and the Holocaust.
We will prevail.
Unfriendly remider: Holocaust denial and antisemitism are not bad because they can be used in "Zionist propaganda" in the exact same way children starving in Gaza are not bad because of "Pallywood".
on top of being weird and stupid, this doesn’t do anything for our liberation and plays into the hands of ziоnist propaganda. stop using our flag and struggle to push your antisеmitism
These are two lists of the members of a Jewish community on the Chinese city of Kaifeng during the 17th century, meaning that these lists are 400 years old. The names are in Hebrew and Chinese characters.
On the left we have the list of men and on the right of woman.
Our generation is going to fight a new wave of antisemitism that is more aggressive on every front. This progressive antisemitism used to be marginal, but now it's mainstream and even popular, and sadly I think we are just unprepared to face it.
Last night the Oakland City Council voted on a resolution to call for a ceasefire.
A city council member tried to insert language condemning Hamas.
This was the reaction…
This is a painting of the Jews crossing the Red Sea, in the Dura Europos synagogue in Syria. This painting is 1777 years old.
We were moving mountains long before we knew we could. Shabbat Shalom
In the Barcelona Haggadah (an illuminated Haggadah from the 14th Century) there's a little image of the Havdala ceremony, with the wine and the Havdalah candle.
a 700-year-old drawing of the same tradition we make every week. Shavua Tov!
There is no coming back from this. These past months have been a breaking point from the Jewish communities world wide.
We will never be the same after Oct 7th, and after months of all this shit.
Jewish students get harassed trying to leave
@Columbia
’s campus tonight. You can hear someone yell “Yehudim Yehudim”- “Jews Jews.” They curse and yell “go back to Poland.” Antisemitism has become the new normal here.
A thread with some of my favorite old Rosh Hashanah cards:
From the US in 1900, showing Jewish immigrants escaping from the brutality of the Russian Empire.
Every day I enter this app and im reminded that pursuing an academic career is not that hard. I can make the most stupid statements and get to teach history at a university.
A reminder: Mount Sinai is located in Egypt and a Greek Orthodox monastery bearing my name is located at its foot.
Zionist attempts to turn multifaith, multiethnic, and historically layered spaces located in Palestine and Egypt into 'purely' Jewish loci is colonial erasure.
What happend in Meron is heart breaking, but watching the comments is leaving me speechless. How wicked can you go to make fun of the deaths of so many people just because they are Israelis?
Talk to Palestinians. Listen to their stories. You will understand that Palestinian suffering is real, and that denying the Nakba is wrong.
In order to achieve peace we need to know the other side of the story.
The Greek city of Salonika had a population of about 50,000 Sephardi Jews. After the Shoah, only 2000 Jews lived in Salonika. Most of them died in Auschwitz.
The Shoah was a tragedy for all Jews.
"The Jew is therefore once again crucified for the sins of others. Sacrificed in order to cleanse the West of its sins. Perhaps even of itself. As the eternal alter-ego of the West, Jews will always function as its scapegoats.
One day I will take my grandchildren to the shared capital of Jerusalem, to the museum of peace and the monument of coexistence. All the pain the Sinwars and the Ben Gvirs have imposed will be nothing compared to the greatness of what we have built.
אני מאמין
Archeologists: There's no evidence to prove the Khazar myth.
Historians: The timeline doesn't make any sense.
Genetic Scientists : There's little or no track of Khazar DNA among Ashkenazi Jews.
Antusemites: They are 100% Khazars and should go back to Khazaria.
The liberation of Auschwitz was not a heroic event, and if you are making today an exaltation day for the red army you understand nothing of what happened.
NYT publishing an article about people ensuring their bloodlines are pure, in explicit support for a state that in the name of their religion & ethnicity is overseeing a genocide of another ethnic group is beyond reprehensible, but still not surprising for the NYT.
So far "Jewish Voice For Peace" has:
- Renounced to any Jewish connection to the temple.
- Manipulated Jewish traditions to the point of proposing a "Tea Cup Mikveh".
- Participated in Holocaust Inversion.
- Blocked every Jewish Voice that calls them out.
Eilat Mazar died today. She was one of the main archeologists from the Hebrew University. Among her many discoveries we can find the "Palace of David", Nehemiah's wall, or most recently a gold medallion from the first temple era.
May her memory be a blessing.
Even Holocaust denial is a consequence of Zionism for some people.
There is a point where you just realize they already decided we are going to be their scapegoats, and nothing will ever change that.
Shavua tov!
If you are triggered by a coffee shop in Jerusalem, you don't want the best for the Palestinians, but the worst for the Jews. That's not solidarity, that's hate.
"Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them."
— Assata Shakur
Kahanists are also responsible for what happened on 7/10. Since the first moment they joined the coalition, they managed to harm the security structures deeply, and they continue to do so.
Kahanism is not only genocidal and racist, but extremely stupid and ineffective.
La Comunidad Judía en Chile me envía un tarrito de miel por el año nuevo judio, reafirmando su compromiso cn "una sociedad más inclusiva, solidaria y respetuosa". Agradezco el gesto pero podrían partir por pedirle a Israel que devuelva el territorio palestino ilegalmente ocupado.
No ambassador, what Emma Watson posted is not antisemitic under any definition. But your accusation hurts the real efforts of fighting antisemitism.
Stop. Weponizing. Antisemitism.