I just read about a group of Jewish teenagers chased with knives after a soccer match in Berlin.

This shit is an emergency. Start acting like it.

i can convince myself anyone deserves to be mistreated. i am also unshakable in my belief that i'm pure of heart and objectively a good person <- how you guys sound to me

@spot-the-antisemitism dual loyalty / jews are rich trope etc

People probably didn't notice cuz being able to watch streams on twitch are 1) the least of Israeli worries, and 2) something most big streamers compensate by streaming to other platforms too, like YouTube.

Why would Israelis make a big deal out of this when there are ways around it (like a VPN) and they have significantly worse things to worry about (like, idk, being attacked cuz people decided terrorists were more trustworthy than Jews?).

Hey, just so you know, if you’ve been antisemitic in the past for political purposes and realize you’re surrounded by violent people, bigoted people, crazy people, people who don’t have the best interests of humanity or peace in their activism… you can change your mind and leave the echo chamber. Full stop.

I believe antisemitism is in part a mental health problem. It’s a conspiracy theory and it’s easy to fall into because there are more people and evil actors across the globe who use it to gain power, money, and ego then there are Jews alive today. It’s not so easy to accept that you got mixed up in something cultish and cruel and bigoted, but it’s easy if you’re not looking out for it.

If you want peace, put peace first. Don’t look the other way when you’ve fallen in with terrorist supporters and Neo Nazis. They make everyone on the planets life far worse. They got trump elected. Punish them, not Palestinians, Israelis, Iranian people, Jews or anyone else who has been fucked over by the different flavors of terrorism and conspiracy and conservative rhetoric and violence cults. You can walk away from it. I wish I could avoid it too.

x

it’s the way he can’t even look directly at her - you’d be inclined to think it was shame, but it wasn’t. it was hatred.

more of her story:

The 101 worst things about Trump’s shambolic presidency

Some people seem to have forgotten how bad a president Trump was, so I made a list of the worst things about the Trump presidency, in no particular order. Please share and add anything I missed.

[NOTE: I tried to post the whole list, but it exceeded Tumblr's character limit! See this linked source post for all 101.]

There's so much more, from exchanging “love letters” with North Korea’s brutal dictator to late-night tweet binges.

I can understand why a lot of people want to block all this out of their memories. But we cannot afford to forget just how terrible Trump’s time in the White House was for this nation.

And remember this, too: Trump would have done far worse but for people around him who refused to follow his orders. If he gets another shot at the White House, he’ll make sure he’s surrounded by lapdogs who will do whatever he wants.

We sure as hell can’t afford to put him back there.

— Robert Reich via Substack

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After the election I saw a lot of people reblogging a Sound of Music gif set. You know the one, where he tears the Nazi flag in half? And I thought, that's nice, except.

Except.

Except.

We've been telling you this was coming. We've been telling you for years. If only you hated Nazis more than you hate Jews.

They only hate Nazis when they're white and hypothetical

Apparently when they're brown and standing right next to you they're fine

gen z making antisemitism cool again but being lauded as the most progressive generation ever sure is wild

ok everyone’s giving their two cents about crash course judaism so, having watched the video, I’d like to add mine. I’ll keep it simple.

the video was not catastrophic like I had feared, but it’s quite awkward in several places. Some of that can be attributed to it being short-format and therefore oversimplifying a lot, but also some choices are really weird. In no particular order, here were my gripes:

so yeah, in general too much talking about what it means to be Jewish today (mostly in America), and very little about our history as a people.

And I would add

8. Too much focus on our won'ts and don'ts. There's so many morals and teachings and Jewish thoughts and beliefs that didn't get a mention. Shut up about the elevator!

I gave it an 82. It was honestly better than what I perceived from how most of jumblr was reacting but not A+

The Or Torah Synagogue in Akko, Israel is Tunisian, and decorated floor to wall to ceiling with beautiful tiles from Italy. Gorgeous.

crazy how 2,000 years of being fed "jews are untrustworthy two faced liars" will make people instinctively think jews are liars and have their gut reaction to jews talking about judaism be "assume they're lying." or maybe these are two unrelated phenomena that have no impact on each other and the gentile instinct to distrust the jew has nothing to do with thousands of years of antisemitism they've internalized.

in my head i am gesturing wildly at the mob violence in amsterdam as a reason why a jewish state is currently necessary for the safety of jews everywhere, and why you cannot "dismantle" israel without having a viable alternative for who is going to protect jews throughout the diaspora, provide us with a guaranteed place to flee to, maintain and protect important jewish cultural/historical/religious sites and provide funding on a massive scale to unearth, maintain, and protect similar such sites around the world. but i just know these clowns would go "well if there was no israel then this violence wouldn't have happened!" and it's literally impossible to reason with them LMFAO in y'all's eyes there will always be a reason why the jew deserves to be oppressed, threatened, and slaughtered

Progressives when every other marginalized group gets lynched in the streets: that's horrible! We have to stop this madness and hold these bigots accountable!

Progressives when Jews(and Romani) get lynched in the streets: Oh wow, that's a lot of anger. I wonder what these people did to deserve this?

The fact that there are now dozens of videos of mobs chasing people through the streets screaming "Jew! Jew!," beating the shit out of random people as the victims scream "I'm not Jewish!" in an attempt to save their lives from being beaten to death or run over by cars...and if you go into the antisemitism tag you'll see dozens of people justifying this shit and saying "don't let the Zionist media spin this as antisemitism because that's not what's going on here" LOL Nazism is alive and well!!!