Want to know what pisses me off? When people say things like “support this Jewish person who had to deal with [insert antisemitic incident here]! She’s pro-palestinian!!”
Like… Jewish people’s opinion on the complicated subject of the state of Israel should not be the prerequisite to caring about whether we face discrimination and hate crimes.
If you need to know someone’s view of the Israel-Palestinian conflict before deciding whether or not they’re the “type” of Jew you support, then newsflash… you’re not really supporting Jews.
Don’t call the victims of the Pittsburgh shooting martyrs.
Don’t say they’re in heaven. Don’t force Christian terms and imagery on them. They were ALL Jewish. Don’t call them saints. They were Jewish people who didn’t ask to be murdered by a Nazi.
Even if they had been Christian, being randomly shot by some evil fucker doesn’t make you a saint or a martyr…
Don’t call the victims of the Pittsburgh shooting martyrs.
Don’t say they’re in heaven. Don’t force Christian terms and imagery on them. They were ALL Jewish. Don’t call them saints. They were Jewish people who didn’t ask to be murdered by a Nazi.
I know you white people don’t care but history is repeating itself
YIKES
This is even worse since it’s in NY, which has a huge Jewish population downstate—to the point where I was shocked to learn that Jews are a minority—and I’ve never witnessed anti semitism locally. It’s different in NYC and on Long Island compared to other parts of the country because we are raised in a very Jewish culture. Here, even Christian teenagers (who are almost always Catholic, again unlike much of the US) have gone to at least dozen Bar/Bat Mitzvahs each. Judaism is completely integral to our local culture.
So the fact that this happened here of all places should be taken as a warning. I know New York Times posted an article on this yesterday if anyone is interested. As a Long Islander and a Jew, it’s an … interesting read.
Jesus Christ, Im a New Yorker from a real Jewish Town, this is pissing me off.
This troubles me, but I want more context. Some groups practice civil disobedience, where they’re actually aiming to get arrested to make a point. (ADAPT is a disability rights group that often does this—that’s what they were doing when they got arrested for protesting the health care bills.)
If this was not a protest aimed at doing that, or if they expected to be able to do thing x and then were ordered not to, then yes, this is worrisome.
big fucking surprise but trump is blaming the temple for not having been armed lmao
“if they had some kind of a protection inside the temple, maybe it could have been a very much different situation” —trump in response to a reporter’s question about gun control
what is it gonna take for you freaks to realize that antisemitism is still real and is deadly, right now, in 2018
you all need to fucking reblog this no offense. especially if you aren’t jewish
source, and another source in which the synagogue says they do in fact have guards, but only on major holidays.
how far do people have to go just to survive, and how long is this going to go on until the blame is finally focused on antisemitism itself?
I have a hill to die on right here so im just gonna go off for a second. It wasnt until this year that i realized security is not a normal regular everyday thing for churchgoers. I never realized until this year that all the cameras and guards and cop cars and bag checks were for a reason. It was just how i grew up, thats just how it went. You checked in with the security desk, a guard would look in your purse or tallis bag and then youd be on your merry way. It never occurred to me that they were Actually Looking For Threats, its just always been a part of my religious experience.
We know people hate us. We know people want to kill us, that’s kind of our entire history.
Those people who were murdered didnt die because they were unprepared, they died because somebody wanted them dead.
אנחנו נתגבר ונשרוד גם את זה.
Also just for the record, the implication that being Not Christian means you should be prepared to die at any time is sickening. Fuck you.
I wish I could find one thing I read a while back, with someone talking about the actual history around the Civil War in the North Georgia mountains compared to the number of assholes currently flying the stars and bars under the carefully pushed impression that it really is their “heritage”.
Depressingly similar pattern in my part of Virginia, yeah. The bit that only didn’t get split off to make WV because it already had enough rail infrastructure that Virginia wanted to hold onto.
@illuminatiswag – Yeah, I’m in the UK now, and I thought I was going to have a stroke the first time I saw something like this:
Outside the soccer stadium, European extremist political groups have been known to fly the Confederate flag, too. European skinheads and neo-Nazis have sometimes adopted the Confederate flag, especially in Germany, where the swastika and other symbols of Nazi Germany are officially banned by law. Many Europeans see the flag as a de facto sign of far-right political leanings: A Confederate flag that was spotted in a photograph of a French police station last year caused a minor scandal.
Bizarrely, American Civil War reenactions have become popular in Germany, with significant numbers of Germans preferring to fight on the Confederate side. “I think some of the Confederate reenactors in Germany are acting out Nazi fantasies of racial superiority,” Wolfgang Hochbruck, a professor of American Studies at the University of Freiburg, once told American journalist Tony Horwitz. “They are obsessed with your war because they cannot celebrate their own vanquished racists.”
It’s disconcerting enough elsewhere in the US. Where it’s a lot harder to claim ignorance of some of these connotations, even with some of the rest of the weird resurgence that apparently started in the ‘40s. It’s a mess.
[Image: Two screencaps of a Facebook post that together read:
“Goy friend: You okay?
Me: No. I am not. Eleven of my tribesman are dead, having been murdered while praying to our God. Not just praying to our God, but killed in front of the Torah which we believe to the literal word of God. We treat the scrolls as if they were kings. We adorn them with crowns and breastplates. A bris was reportedly in progress when the shooting occurred. Eight days birth we conducted a bris. That’s this how we welcome a baby into the community and how we mark him with the sign of the covenant, a ritual that goes back roughly 3,000 years. It was such a Jewish place and time and it was desecrated with hate and violence.
Tonight, I am keenly aware that there are roughly 3 times as many people in the the US’s far right than there are Jewish Americans. The ADL said today was the worst act of violence against Jews in our country’s history. A Jewish friend of mine reminds me that this was not just antisemitism, but this was an anti-American attack. We were the first country to be founded with a specific belief in a secular democracy free of organized religion’s influence with a guarantee of religious freedom for all of its citizens. Not long after the ratification of our Constitution, President Washington sent a now famous letter of good will to the Jews of Providence, RI. (The irony of course being that Jews at the time did not have equal rights under state laws).
Two years after POTUS called Nazis “very fine people,” eleven Jews are dead. Many of friends are shocked, I am not. My grandpa taught me to always expect Jews to be at the receiving end of hate, anger, xenophobia and violence. This is our lot in life. This is why Jews to be at the receiving end of hate, anger, xenophobia and violence. This is our lot in life. This is why Jews must always stand up and speak up. Jews can not afford to forget that we will always be viewed as outsiders by nationalists and nativists.
Today was the natural and logical conclusion of Trump’s embrace of the deplorable. I listened to the President blame the victims saying we should have been armed. Tomorrow, I am going to hear another NRA idiot talk about how if Jews of Europe had been armed my kinsmen would have survived the Shoah. POTUS and later his son called for capital punishment despite that being against the tenets of the victims’ faith.
At nearly the same time I saw members of Britain’s House of Lords blame Benjamin Netanyahu, Likud, and Israel for the violence in Pittsburgh and rise in antisemitism. The left wing of Twitter has had so many horrendous takes that I can’t even talk about it. My leftist friends think today is a good day to debate Israel, it’s not.
Meanwhile CNN is saying nothing of value and Fox News is being particularly vile tonight. I am tired of being used as someone else’s political prop.
I was just on the streets of Philadelphia, people are celebrating Halloween as if nothing happened. Outside of my little bubble the world is still spinning. I am choking back tears. I am reading prayers, psalms and listening to music. I am trying to find comfort and solace. I am embracing my community via the internet. Meanwhile I can hear from my windows the drunken laughter and merriment of Philadelphia’s youth having a good time.
No. I am not okay. My community was attacked. My friends are angry, sad, and afraid. As for me, I am heartbroken. I am trying an failing to reconcile my faith in humanity, the absurdity of this world, and my sorrow regarding today’s events.
Also, idk where this came from. I never fancied myself much of a writer and I certainly didn’t meant to write this much. That is a lot of words.“]
A reminder, the president did not merely call himself a nationalist. He posited himself a nationalist as opposed to a globalist, which is a well worn antisemitic canard. In context, nationalism here is not a love for country, it is a statement of white ethnonationalism.
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