Jimmy Kimmel’s response to the president saying there were “very fine people on both sides” at Charlottesville 

boy if you are saying “the magen david is a hate symbol” you are encouraging hate crimes. that is what you are doing

Spread this around; remind the world that for every Nazi, there’s an entire train full of sensible people capable of basic moral behaviour. 

Remember, hand sanitizer removes sharpie, and good hearted people remove hate

A NON-EXHAUSTIVE BUT NEVERTHELESS EXHAUSTING LIST OF NEO-NAZI AND WHITE SUPREMACIST DOGWHISTLES

since some of y'all apparently need a refresher course. as always, use your judement when deciding if it's a dogwhistle or just innocent usage of a number or symbol

i notice when y’all reblog my posts abt the grief and fear jews in the diaspora are experiencing right now, and then two minutes later reblog from people who have called jews “whiny entitled brooklynites who need a taste of their own medicine.” it’s been three weeks. i am no longer giving any of y’all the benefit of the doubt that you simply haven’t seen any of these posts from the people you follow. i don’t care if you’ve been following me for years or if we’re mutuals, if i see you reblogging from people who have been extremely vocally antisemitic these past few weeks, i am blocking you on sight.

something that's fucked me up over the last three weeks is the constant barrage of non palestinian goyim saying "why should we have to condemn hamas???????? why do we have to focus on jews or israelis when palestinians are dying??????????" and i know ppl who have already decided i'm guilty by virtue of being a jew won't give a shit, but i'm hoping people who still have a bit of humanity left in them will.

i've gotten so many anons chiding me and demanding to know why they should give a shit about the people killed by hamas (not all of whom were jewish or even israeli), and the answer i keep wanting to give is that. honestly you don't fucking have to. quite honestly, i wouldn't have cared if no one talked about it. i would be hurt to see people didn't see the loss of (assumed to be jewish) life as a tragedy, but i would have much preferred silence to the utterly horrific things i have had to see over the past three weeks.

bc that's the thing. we as jews are so fucking jaded when it comes to gentile reactions to violence against us. we're used to you saying it doesn't matter or even that we deserved it. gentile apathy has so thoroughly broken us that we consider it a win when y'all don't actively celebrate instances of antisemitism. and you had the opportunity to disrupt that pattern, to either take a single moment to offer condolences for the loss of so many lives (not all of whom were jewish or even israeli) or just simply back off and give us space to grieve.

but instead, i witnessed people, who just over a month ago had been wishing their jewish followers a happy rosh hashanah, post or repost some of the most appalling displays of antisemitism i have seen since may of 2021. i have watched you post about the "zionist media" ("jews control the media"), tell jewish israelis to just use their dual citizenship to go back to their third beach house on long island ("all jews are rich"), that jews israelis are bloodthirsty monsters who get pleasure from killing children (modern day blood libel), that jews are the "new nazis" (holocaust inversion), that jews in the diaspora are responsible for the actions of the israeli government (dual loyalty), and that every single israeli should die (literally genocide???????????)

i witnessed people who call themselves antizionist gleefully become tools of political zionism, bolstering the claims that the diaspora is not safe for us and therefore we must support israel when the countries we currently live in turn on us like they have without fail for the last 2000 years. and when i point this out, instead of taking this to heart, people double down. they insist if i'm pointing this out it must mean i believe it.

you all had the opportunity to do nothing, to prioritize the safety and liberation of palestinians over your own hatred of jews, and yet you still chose antisemitism. and i will never forgive you for it.

When someone is a Christian they are not constantly asked their position on the holocaust, the transatlantic slave trade, the extermination of Native Americans or any of the thousands of atrocities committed by Christians. So why do Muslims get asked about terrorism and Jews about Israel and are grouped in with specific bad people while Christians are not required to explain themselves.

Now, there’s a thought.

A non-exhaustive list of systemic and institutional white supremacist dog-whistle euphemisms for Jews and other phraseology that is antisemitic (99.9% of the time) in and of itself (there will be contexts in which some of the following would not be antisemitic, but in general, err on on the side of “That’s Jew hate!”):

In the interest of being completely honest, I always thought the Koch brothers were Jewish and never thought to confirm that. I think I,-a person who proudly and routinely screams “HEY YOU KNOW THEY’RE JEWISH!” about every single Jewish person on earth-in and of itself confirms @fromchaostocosmos’s point.

(@qtart this answers your reply to my OP too)

Jimmy Kimmel’s response to the president saying there were “very fine people on both sides” at Charlottesville 

German saying: If 9 people sit down with a nazi with no protest, there are 10 nazis sitting at that table.

what’s….infuriating/validating is that every time someone tries to go “you need to care MORE about OTHER genocides!!!!” and then lists the ones they mean, those are almost always studied, written about, and monitored by Jewish people. 

I know that the Armenian genocide was written about by Jewish people. I know someone who works on genocide and human rights monitoring - she’s Jewish. I know that when people tell me to go read King Leopold’s Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa to learn more about the genocide in the congo - that that author is Jewish. 

I know that the current president of Genocide Watch is an Associate Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Stockton University. Her dissertation was about Germany and Africa. Read her bio - I have no idea if she’s Jewish but I know she teaches about the Holocaust and that has yet to prevent her active work for Genocide Watch. I also know that the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum runs the Simon-Skjodt Center for the Prevention of Genocide and the Ferencz International Justice Initiative. 

I know that the term genocide was coined by a Jewish man. 

so like, trust me when I say, Jewish people are paying attention to genocides other than their own. All the time! You do not have to warn people off of studying the holocaust too much on Yom HaShoah, or imply it might be “eclipsing the importance of other genocides” or any of these other things, because not only is that not true when it comes to literally every Jewish person I know, but also I believe you are smarter than that, and can comprehend two things at once without having to directly compare them. 

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Antisemitism knows no political party. It finds a home among progressives, liberals, conservatives, and the hard-right. Fight it, not just when it’s from “the other side”, but when it’s coming from inside the house. Antisemitism isn’t someone else’s problem, it’s all of our problem.

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.