i really do wish gentiles understood how utterly decimated the jewish diaspora was by the end of the 20th century in the wake of the wave of pogroms in eastern europe, the shoah and its aftermath, and the expulsions across north africa and south west asia. in the early 1900’s, around 50% of the world’s jewish population lived outside of eretz yisrael or the us. today, that number is 13%. there are countries who had large jewish populations at the turn of the 20th century that now have no jewish presence. there has not been such a large wave of expulsions and fleeing since the spanish inquisition — which is another horrifically traumatizing series of events that gentiles don’t understand the enormity of.
during the spanish inquisition, almost half a million jews were forced on pain of death to convert or flee. thousands were killed, hundreds of thousands fled. until the shoah, it was the single most massive trauma in jewish history since the siege of jerusalem and expulsion from judea. jews made up nearly a quarter of spain’s population and had been there for centuries. some of our most important texts were written there. ladino developed there, sephardic music, culture, and identity. and then it was gone. everywhere the inquisition could reach, from spain to naples to sicily to malta to the americas, the jewish populations were brutalized, genocided, and expelled. it changed the course of jewish history forever.
in the 20th century, within the span of 50ish years, hundreds of thousands of jews were killed in or fled horrific pogroms in eastern europe, a third of the entire jewish population was systematically murdered within the span of a few years, centuries old jewish communities weren’t just expelled but almost entirely wiped out which led to the loss of centuries old diaspora languages and traditions, and nearly a million jews were expelled from places they’d lived for hundreds or even thousands of years.
like. do you understand? do you understand the kind of communal trauma that kind of massive global upheaval has on a people? the expulsion of 300,000+ jews from spanish territories was enough to leave a centuries old mark on the jewish community. do you understand the impact that the murder of over six million and violent displacement of over 2 million jews will have on the jewish psyche and on jewish history? do you have any idea how earth shattering the last century has been for the jewish people? do you have any idea what we’ve lost? what’s been violently stolen from us? can you try?
i posted this less than 20 minutes ago. this post did not mention the state of israel a single time. how rotten does your soul have to be to respond to a post like this with an anonymous message like this?
"factually undergoing a decline"
Israel: 1948
Holocaust: up till 1945 with continuing pogroms and issues through 1948 and beyond
how is that a decline
i think they’re talking abt the past year, which like?? is still not accurate?? antisemitism has been rising since at least 2016 in the us, and in many other countries it’s either not safe to be openly jewish and some you literally cannot go to if you’re jewish????? what fucking planet are these ppl on.
According to Reuters and CNN, antisemitic incidents are up FOUR HUNDRED PERCENT (400%) since October 7th, 2023.
The only people who think antisemitism is on a decline are the people who cannot conceive of antisemitism as a pervasive, consistent thing in the world- they think antisemitism is Nazis marching and saluting and declaring out loud in blunt terms "We hate Jews".
