This is your daily reminder to learn your Jewish history with pride. We renounce Jewish hate in all its twisted forms.
yeah the claiming of Jewish figures and prophets as Muslims is a major supercessionist problem with Islam specifically that people don't actually talk about
That's a huge vein in the entire antizionist movement that goyim don't want to deal with.
“a satanic symbol” referring to the Magen David is a very old, very stale (very untrue) libel too.
There is something super weird about making jewish holidays which involve either returning to Israel or a longing to return to Israel about Palestine.
Because like, these holidays all predate modern day Israel, they're not referring to modern day Israel. They're about us returning or wanting to return from a land we are exiled from.
Not liking or supporting modern day Israel does not change the story behind the holiday.
Whilst I'm not antizionist so therefore do not have to do anything to honor that in my celebrations of holidays, surely there are ways to celebrate jewish holidays without making it about Palestine.
Like could you not focus on the Jewish history side of things instead of it in a modern context, because the holidays are holidays because of jewish history, not Palestinian history.
Because making it about palestinians does erase the jewish history aspect of the holidays.
You should not need to erase any jewishness from anything to uplift Palestine.
“it’s like if-” proceeds to compare Israel/Jews to Christianity, Islam, or Russia. No honey, it really really isn’t like that at all.
(this is about posts that are trying to call out double standards but in doing so exemplify the exact problem of how misunderstood this entire issue is)
“it’s like if Christians were told X because of X horrible thing that is a result of millenia of Christian imperialism and current western Christian hegemony built on the cultural and literal graves of Indigenous peoples and civilizations”
“it’s like if Muslims were told X because of X horrible thing that is a result of millenia of Islamic imperialism and current SWANA Islamic hegemony built on the cultural and literal graves of Indigenous peoples and civilizations”
no actually. it would be like if you decided to become fixated on a specific sovereign Indigenous nation and started developing an entire worldview dictating to them how they should exist in the world both on and off their ancestral sovereign lands, and criticized quite literally every single thing they do not just as a political entity but a cultural one. you pick apart their history and develop an unhealthy fixation on this group nowhere in proximity to you because you believe based on the words of OUTSIDERS that they are doing the worst possible evils in the world. you treat all members of that nation with mistrust and accuse them of being a new iteration of a group which slaughtered and decimated their people.
insert any group. Sioux, Maori, Amazigh, Yazidi, Saami, Aboriginal Australians-
that’s what it’s like.
in other words Jewish history is not like the history of imperializing nations. Jewish history is not like Christian history or Islamic history or any of these types of comparisons people make.
and I feel that a big reason people feel it’s okay to treat us this way is the longstanding sociological impacts of the belief in supercessionism and dhimmitude in the cultural development of the Christian and Islamic nations, respectively. we were, by their own political and religious standards and norms, meant to be subservient and lesser.
idk. just frustrated.
Would like to once again remind my fellow culturally Christian Westerners that the idea of religion and culture being distinct and separate is very much a Christian idea designed to help Christianity spread as much as possible.
The reason why many non-Christians react with hostility to the idea of religion not existing one day is because for many of us, our religions aren't separate from everything else, they're fundamental parts of our people's cultures and traditions and religion being "obsolete" would mean that our cultures and peoples are "obsolete" too.
the thing about antisemitism that offends me the most (outside of, you know, horrific violence) is the sense of *ownership* over judaism from non-jewish, especially (in my experience) christian, society. it’s the evangelicals holding seders and the atheists casually joking about “YHWH”. it’s the sense that to them, jews are nothing but a prequel. we are irrelevant, and therefore in the public domain. in more overt examples, it’s holocaust inversion and jokes about “the goyim”. they look at us and say, “all that was yours now belongs to me.” it’s the assumption that our life and culture is open to all, and that we are somehow greedy by not letting them have it.
when we do exist to christian society, it’s as a means to an end: “good thing the jews are still around, otherwise how would they all be gathered in zion?”, or its being treated as a relic, as living replicas of the Old Times: “those silly jews, they’re stuck living in the past!”
it’s dehumanizing, and frustrating, and i hate it.
we had avraham first. we had yaakov and sarai and it is. still. ours. you shouldn’t get to pretend like we don’t exist anymore. we aren’t extinct, no matter how hard some people wished we were, and that isn’t going to change.
So I saw a Prince of Egypt gifset the other day, and I was going to reblog it, because obviously. But then the comments and notes were just filled with Christians going, "This is so wonderful because it's actually a story prophesying Jesus, and how the blood of the lamb will protect you from death, and blah blah blah" and holy fuck will you just SHUT UP. This is a JEWISH story. Do you not have enough of your own stories, and so you need to steal ours? News flash: Not everything is about you! The holy stories of other religions don't need to be allegories about your religion! I understand that you cannot see the world from a non-Christian theological perspective, but good gravy, give it a rest!
you literally took a book our ancestors wrote about us for us and said that it was for you. ok.
and then got mad at us because we refused to "coexist" and live by your terms
ah yes, "coexistence," where they get to disrespect us and we don't get to say anything about it.
Ah yes, “coexist,” where they get to enslave us, hunt us for sport on their holidays, and murder us for not relinquishing our culture in order to take on theirs.
And then to make themselves appear inclusive they made up a term to make it seem like their religion is connected to ours in some way other than their appropriation of our holy writings and some of our language.
A proPal I follow on this site took a break in their anti-Zionist rhetoric to post about the Black Hills that Mount Rushmore was built into. And about how horrible and mocking it is that this landmark was built into a sacred site for the indigenous people here.
Oh dear, how horrible it must be to see something like, say, a giant golden Dome built on the most sacred place in your religion. And to know that your colonizers are able to step foot there, but it is literally illegal for you to ascend and pray on this holy site. (And to know that this is a self-imposed ban for the sake of peace, yet people STILL call you a bloodthirsty apartheid state.)
relevant (fwiw, this was written by a devout Christian):
My favorite thing about the Dome is that for like 1,200 years it was covered with lead, which is dull and poisonous. It only got the gold covering under Jordanian occupation in 1959, because they needed to try to make it - and themselves - look more important after Israel existed.
maybe this isn’t the most coexistence-pilled sentiment but i get so angry sometimes when i think about how people took our g-d and decided he was everyone’s g-d, took our holy texts and decided they were everyone’s holy texts, took our holy land and decided it was everyone’s holy land, and we’re expected to just accept that. goyim think they can tell us we’re worshipping our own g-d wrong because they decided he was their g-d too. they think they can criticize how we engage with our own torah because they stole it and changed it and added shit and rewrote it when it was ALWAYS OUR TORAH. they call yerushalayim “the holy land of three religions” because apparently if you colonize someone hard enough you get to claim their holy land as your holy land too and the entire world will just nod their heads right along because the entire foundation of their global society is based on the colonization of ours. and i know it’s antithetical to peace and so i push aside this feeling when i talk about actual solutions and real world actions and consequences but that deep angry part of me does think it’s complete fucking bullshit that christianity and islam get to plunder our entire culture for themselves in between mass murdering us and nobody calls them on it
it’s funny bc i’m pretty sure this rhetoric is exactly what this post is talking abt.
eretz yisrael is the homeland of the jewish people. it was colonized by the romans and the indigenous population, jews, was largely expelled.
the tanakh is the origin story of the jewish people. they are texts written by jews and for jews. christianity appropriated those texts, as in the textbook definition of cultural appropriation. islam as well.
it is not chauvinist to assert that jewish peoplehood and jewish culture belongs to jews. the overwhelming majority of y’all would not say this shit about other ethnic groups. but you’ve convinced yourselves that jews are “just a religion” and therefore not really real. jews are just people who follow judaism and judaism is just a theological belief. it’s voluntary. it’s hypothetical. but the jewish people are not hypothetical. we are an ethnic group, and trying to strip our history and our culture from us is bigoted and antisemitic.
Especially since Romans stole it and declared someone the Messiah just to try to get Jews to stop resisting them because their Messiah came and they killed him. Christianity is a Roman plot to bring us under the heel of their now dead empire.
WHAT
I am... in dire need of some sources on the above
Also, that extremely tracks with the behavior of the Roman Empire overall
Found where they might be coming from!
maybe this isn’t the most coexistence-pilled sentiment but i get so angry sometimes when i think about how people took our g-d and decided he was everyone’s g-d, took our holy texts and decided they were everyone’s holy texts, took our holy land and decided it was everyone’s holy land, and we’re expected to just accept that. goyim think they can tell us we’re worshipping our own g-d wrong because they decided he was their g-d too. they think they can criticize how we engage with our own torah because they stole it and changed it and added shit and rewrote it when it was ALWAYS OUR TORAH. they call yerushalayim “the holy land of three religions” because apparently if you colonize someone hard enough you get to claim their holy land as your holy land too and the entire world will just nod their heads right along because the entire foundation of their global society is based on the colonization of ours. and i know it’s antithetical to peace and so i push aside this feeling when i talk about actual solutions and real world actions and consequences but that deep angry part of me does think it’s complete fucking bullshit that christianity and islam get to plunder our entire culture for themselves in between mass murdering us and nobody calls them on it
Hot take- making space for healthy expressions of anger in Jewish spaces is good for everybody because it validates our feelings + reminds us we’re not alone.
Keeping stuff like this bottled up for the sake of promoting coexistence has the opposite of its intended effect- that is to say, if the only place it is socially acceptable to display anger like this is in Kahanist circles, we risk alienating other Jews and contributing to division and radicalization, which is exactly the opposite of coexistence.
Something I wish more gentiles understood, especially Christians, is that "supercessionism" is just a fancy academic term for "colonialism of the soul."
It's cultural appropriation. It's taking our sacred texts and saying "we know your history, your faith, and your G-d better than you do." It's twisting the deeply Jewish meanings of the Tanakh into somehow being about things that wouldn't happen for hundreds or thousands of years. It's taking the history of our people and egotistically making it all about you, somehow. It's trying to split the spiritual atom. It's trying to sever the self from the soul.
It's assuming you know anything about us because your holy texts talk about us, and because you read our stolen texts through a lens that flatters you. You take our practices and denigrate them, and you take our holy sites and bar us from them with violence. And when we protest this, or even simply try to practice our religion and culture in peace, you try to silence us and stop us. Why? Because you can't stand the sight of the people you hurt and stole from. And the longer the violence continues, the more our ongoing survival becomes loathsome to you. You can't face your people's history and you can't face what you took from us, so you would rather we were dead. But our living ghosts haunt your steps and your prayers. You see us everywhere in the things you took from us and your desperate efforts to write us out of our own story and it drives you insane.
But it didn't, and doesn't, have to be like this.
The way settlers trying to be allies talk about Native genocide like it worked always gets on my fucking nerves to be honest. We're still here. Just because YOU were never taught about what happened doesn't mean nobody else remembers it. Also stop acting like a victim of the american education system you can learn from places other than your sixth grade propaganda machine. Your understanding of history going from "we ate turkey together and then they just mysteriously vanished" to "white people came and killed literally everyone and they're all gone now" is Barely an improvement
It's just so........ we're still here. We're even human people in the 21st century who use the internet and everything. I'm on your websites making posts. Shocking I know. Try to avoid forgetting this
[ID: tags from @sepulchral-pulchritude that read, "#hope this is ok to rb #also this is so relatable to me Jewishly. esp as someone who loves museums and has travelled around europe... #since basically every country has expelled the jews at least once there's always shit in the history museum or at historical monuments #'this is where the jewish graveyard used to be. unfortunately after the expulsion in XXXX there were no more jews and we paved it over' #'now it's a historical church site of the famed infant jesus statuette' #'the jews once lived in this country. unfortunately they are all gone now. #like bitch!!! we are still here!! i know bc i went to friday night services!!! #also. always the passive voice. the jews left. the jews are no longer with us. the jewish population decreased in size. UGH. #i know it's not the same as how native people are treated in the usa. i just relate." /end ID]
Yeah no literally this is why I feel a lot of solidarity with jewish people. It's the same type of shit over and over from the same white christian bastards
May I say I find it interesting how many people aren't reblogging this version. And why is that. Passing the mic
Misidentifying us Israeli Jews as "Arab Jews" is an ongoing imperial & colonial means to erase the cultural identity & historical heritage of the last surviving Middle Eastern community of Jews.
Jews were the pillars of societies across the Middle-East way before Arab/Muslim imperialism had its fabulously bloody run. About 99% of their daily cultural life is based on appropriating our Jewish historical legacy, heritage, and culture.
But we're not your fucking dhimmis anymore. Neither is our legacy, heritage, and generations of ancestors oppressed by Islamic colonization. They deserve acknowledgment and respect. ALL of the indigenous people who were eradicated by Arab imperialism across the Middle East deserve acknowledge and respect.
So, "Arab Jews," you say..? I'll give you this much: It's not us for people to label as "Arab-Jews." But, if anything, it's for them to be labeled as "Jewish-Arabs."
Zionism this, Ashkenazi normativity that.
When are goyim going to actually learn the true definition of Jewish words and respect the origins?
Ashkenazi normativity is not a word for goyim to use. It's part of a inter-community discussion amongst jews.
Zionism doesn't mean genocidal, it is a terms which simply means wanting Israel as a modern day state to exist. A peaceful two state solution is zionism.
The fact that yall can't leave jewish terms with their jewish definitions and intended uses is antisemitism. You are taking jewish words and giving them western definitions and acting like those new western definitions have either been the definitions all along or succeed the original jewish definitions.
If you are not wanting to use the jewish definition of jewish words, simply don't use them. Come up with your own words or use words which already fit the definition you are looking for.
Otherwise you are participating in erasure of jewish culture.
They've stolen another one
this is a horrific mix of hebrew and arabic, I hate it
And this is what is called cultural appropriation. It's Am Yisrael Chai-meaning the people of Israel live. It's Jewish people saying they're still here despite many in the world trying to kill them through history up to today.
No one gets to use that other than Jewish people because it's solely about Jewish people.
Obviously, as someone that tries to be an ally, correct me if I am wrong (Jewish people ONLY) on this. But man, this feels...colonial as fuck too. They couldn't have used Arabic to say something specific for Palestine (other than the usage of the Arabic word for Palestine, everything else is Hebrew), they really had to use Hebrew?
please say this is a parody please please please
It is Holocaust remembrance day. Let us all remember those who survived the Shoah and those who did not. Let us also remember the many survivors who are no longer with us today.
May their memory be a blessing.
Never again is now.
Sigh. Stop. Just stop. Don't hijack this post about Jews to make about something else. Stop co-opting Never Again.
What is wrong with you? Today is Yom Hashoah. How dare you! Make your own damn post. Leave us alone. Let us grieve. Fuck off.
the level at which people are misusing the term "Never Again" in the far left absolutely infuriates me.
"Never Again" doesn't refer to the idea of no more genocides -- unfortunately people are evil and corrupt and seek scapegoats and destruction, there were genocides in the years following the Holocaust, there were genocides 10 years ago, there are multiple genocides going on as we speak
"Never Again" means we as Jews will pay attention to the warning signs, will not mindlessly allow antisemitism to fester and take over our communities, we will fight back. it means we will be proud. it means we will not let you hate us without a word of refusal.
"Never Again" is a warning for us, it is a reminder that what happened then can happen now -- is happening now. The Far Left doesn't get to use it against us. You don't get to turn our tragedies into hate-speech and antisemitic rhetoric.
Am Yisrael Chai
