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Missionaries are inherently xenophobic.

Missionaries to Jews are inherently antisemitic.

There is no debate here - the above statements are inescapable true. Intentions do not matter. It LITERALLY DOES NOT MATTER that Christian missionaries BELIEVE they are doing something good by saving other people from hell. IT. DOES. NOT. MATTER.

Because the people you’re missionizing ALSO have beliefs, that are part of their own religions and cultures and histories and ethnicities. And your assumption that only YOUR beliefs are correct and must be spread is the LITERAL definition of xenophobia.

Missionaries and bigotry are not seperable.

If you proselytize in your personal life (congratulations, you are also a model of xenophobia and bigotry), or if you support missionaries or missionary activity (ideologically or financially), you are now being instructed to unfollow me, because I don’t like you as a person, and I can’t respect you while you willfully disrespect others. In either case, you are also now being instructed to cut that shit the fuck out. No one wants to hear about the love of Jesus from you, and if they do, they will ask you DIRECTLY and EXPLICITLY. Literally no one else gives a fuck.

I will be accepting apologies in writing and reparations via venmo.

Jack Mandelbaum

One of the most psychologically-demanding things with antisemitism is that you’re constantly being gaslit about it.  Antisemitism is EVERYWHERE. It never stops, and it comes from all angles and all sides of the political spectrum. There are so many different ways to be antisemitic and only a handful are widely recognized, usually only the most egregious and obvious examples. Jewish issues are often left out of activism, intersectionality is ignored and acts of more casual antisemitism are not taken seriously or considered worth addressing. People still have this idea that Jewish activism is somehow in competition with other activism and must be pushed to the side, or put directly at odds with another group in order to paint Jewish people as the bad guys and avoid anything they might have to say.

As a result, Jewish people in activist spaces CONSTANTLY have to juggle their identity, deciding whether or not identifying as Jewish will help or hurt them in a situation, praying they’re heard and taken seriously, or if they will be subjected to a gauntlet of tests to decide if their voice is “valid” enough to be counted. Even (and especially) on Jewish issues. When casual antisemitism happens, Jewish people have nowhere to turn because the ones moderating the space or keeping order don’t see it or take it seriously, or are the ones perpetuating it themselves. Welcoming spaces become hostile overnight. It’s like getting hit with tons of teeny tiny pebbles every single day, and then occasionally you’re hit with a rock. You tell somebody about the rock, but they don’t see it because it wasn’t a boulder. You’re told you’re being oversensitive, that it didn’t happen, that you’re selfish for complaining about the rock. You know better than to even mention the onslaught of pebbles at this point because you’ll get laughed out of the room.

I think I’m going to take a break from the internet for a little while.