This Is Not Jewish

ce-minune:

this-is-not-jewish:

ce-minune:

I know we were taught to love and respect everyone regardless of their beliefs, who they are, where they’re from, etc. 

But I draw the line at zionist. You’ve been stripped of all your humanity, in my eyes, if you’re a zionist. 

You can be a cuddly old grandpa with a cute lil bowtie selling children cute lil balloon animals and I will still hate you. 

Gee, a Gentile who wants to strip Jews of their humanity for not sharing her beliefs? How terribly original.

All those who have just been stripped of humanity for daring to believe in ourselves as a distinct people, please join me in saluting our new overlord, ce-minune.

OHOHOHOHO

Notice how I said ZIONIST, not Jew. Big difference, you idiot. 

Daring to believe in yourselves as a distinct people? What? You mean as supporters of a genocide? I’m sorry but anyone who believes that it’s okay to murder thousands of innocent people and then justifies it as establishing “democracy” has absolutely no right to call themselves any form of humane whatsoever. 

YOU are the one stripping away the humanity of every single Palestinian citizen. By supporting a nation whose foundation is the blood of innocent men, women, and children. No one in their right mind can do that to another human being without being absolutely desensitized to their cries, to their pain. By making them less than human, by treating them like animals, taking away what was NEVER YOURS TO TAKE AWAY IN THE FIRST PLACE. 

You’ve locked them out of their homes, torn apart their families, destroyed their livelihoods. And you dare call me out for telling you that I cannot view you as a fellow human being? 

Give me a break. 

Once you have to spend your life walking through checkpoint after checkpoint to get to your own house, once your children are spat on by adults on their way to school, once you watch as the home you grew up in is demolished along with the rest of your neighborhood, ONCE YOU HAVE TO ATTEND THE FUNERAL OF YOUR FRIENDS, then we can sit down and have this conversation. 

Nice try though.

“You can give a goyeh a link that will enable her to stop showing her ass, but you can’t make her click it.” ~~Zionist Proverb

Read this, read this…and go ahead and read this as well, just so you stop with the laughable “OMG YOU CALL YOURSELF ZIONIST SO YOU MUST SUPPORT THE ETHNIC CLEANSING OF THE PALESTINIANS” nonsense. Then we can talk.

In the meantime, you may want to re-evaluate your criteria for “having this discussion,” because I highly doubt that you, as a white-passing American convert to Islam (why yes, I did scope your blog), have ever gone through any of that either. Oops.

shorooqn:

this-is-not-jewish:

thearcanetheory:

mildrose:

simpliss:

i-said-adventure:

as-adorable-derps-do:

j-wolf-harding:

demons:

The immediate reaction of German POWs upon watching uncensored footage of the concentration camps shot by the US Signal Corps.

People often forget that most of the German troops had no idea about what was going on, they weren’t all fanatic Nazis bent on genocide, they were just regular soldiers who answered the call when their country went to war.

I can imagine Israeli soldiers looking like that in a couple of years after returning our Palestinian land.

Plot twist: a thread of Jews calling out Gentiles’ antisemitic revisionist histories of the Shoah, an antisemitic genocide, doesn’t get derailed by other Gentiles ranting about a country that didn’t exist at the time.

Stay classy, antisemites.

thehummusdance:

Palestine has always been the framed picture in the living room. The song and dance. The magnificent rosary decorating the hallway wall. My parents, along with numerous family members, only heard about Palestine. I did, too. I knew from a very young age that Palestine was the cause that I was to live for, and if necessary die for. I was lectured that it is beautiful enough to deserve so.

Like the 7 million Palestinian refugees around the world I only dreamt I can one day visit and go to where all of my childhood fables took place. And when I felt I was old enough to bear seeing my imagination come to life, I asked to be allowed a visit. I felt I was now capable of holding the responsibility to fulfil everyone’s dream.

When I expressed my desire to go, I was faced with either great aunts falling back and gasping or grandmothers patting my shoulder in pride. I really didn’t know what to make of it. On one side, my family was all of a sudden worried for my safety and visiting the homeland has magically turned from being a dream into some irrational anxiety. On the other hand, however, others told me I was crazy but went on saying “I can give you the address of our old building that we owned in Jerusalem. Check it- if it’s still there, will you?”

None of this really jolted my desire to go. I knew all that I should expect: hours of waiting in grey halls, hours of investigations, more draining hours at unnecessary checkpoints; I knew my suitcase was to be open wide and that all of my belongings would be on the filthy floor and that the sun would melt any sanity I had left. I knew I should expect hardship. Yet, I also knew the way there by heart. Literally. There was no turning back now. I had obtained my degree and I had no other plans.

My passport and other documents have been scanned around 30 times. Pictures of me not smiling were scattered across a number of desks. Mother’s name written the other way around and every information I thought irrelevant were all noted. I was supposed to leave the Palestinian Embassy and “pray” as I was advised. I did.

“Now it’s up to them”

“I hope they like my face”

“Well”

“They thought I was from Haifa because of Mum’s name anyway”

“Is that good or bad?”

I waited to know. For months, January through April. And after a while it didn’t matter whether or not I was to be graced with the Israeli approval of my application for a Permit. Because for a while I felt really, really stupid. I didn’t want to have to apply for a permit. Still, my desire was greater than my pride. For once I let it win. So I prayed my application accidentally slips from between the hundreds of applications into the pile of those permitted. I prayed my application falls into the hands of someone newly employed. I prayed my application would be previewed at ten in the morning; not that early nor too late in the day.

But I guess it’s always too late in Palestine and everyone is too old with emotions. Everything is rigid. The land doesn’t change, does it? I am not permitted a visit to Palestine. No note left in the explanation section.

This current state of turbulence is not because my application for a permit was declined. Nor is it all of these kids boasting about getting their Birthright Application through who must be packing by now. It is the the fact that while I know street names in Palestine, most of those who are granted a free trip to the land are not the least acknowledged on the languages, the geography or the history no matter how controversial. Nothing. Yet, I would either be fortunate to go through hell or don’t get to go at all. Simply because, unlike those teens, I am anything but Jewish. These kids do not know my story even exists. They are told that while Palestinians are not real, their newly found ties to the land, however, absolutely are.

For them it’s “Israel this summer!”, for me it’s “sometime, hopefully”. But perhaps next year in Jerusalem. Perhaps not. It’s a game now and I will try again.

Reblogging here because this should not be ignored. Of course Diaspora Jews should be able to visit our homeland, but when that same right is denied to others with more recent or direct ties to the land, that’s fucked up. This is privilege and racism at work, and it’s high time we stood up and called it out for what it is.

antihasbara:

Ooh, I can help you out! A Jewish and democratic state is a democratic republic with Judaism as the state religion. In fact, there is one such country in the world today: Israel. So next time you’re asked this question, don’t get confused—say yes! (Unless you don’t believe Israel exists? But no…that would be bizarre. I’m sure you of all people believe in facts.)

You know something else? Israel is actually one of at least ten religious democracies in the world today! Bangladesh and Malaysia are Islamic and democratic states, Bhutan is a Buddhist and democratic state, and Argentina, Bolivia, Denmark, Greece, Norway, and the United Kingdom are all Christian and democratic states. Isn’t that cool? Come to think of it, though, I’ve never had anyone ask me if I believe in any of those countries. Strange, right? Gee, I wonder why that is…

Update on this post.

Antihasbara edited the original post to replace “the Protocols of the Elders of Zion” with “the First Zionist Congress” , and gave the following lovely non-apology:

It seems sort of pathetic that there is a screenshot going around, but I did want to apologize for this. Sometimes when I get worked up I use fragrant sarcasm and I forget that not only is it often lost in text, but many who did not understand its meaning would take it as fact.

Translation: “I’m sorry if you got offended because you were too stupid to understand me. I don’t believe the Protocols were real, just that it’s totally okay to call groups of actual Jews by that term in order to discredit them.”

“Fragrant” indeed.

hasbaragang:

not even getting into the rest of it, do they seriously think the protocol of the elders of zion is a real thing???

Anti-Zionist logic:

Hundreds of texts+thousands of archaeological findings=fairytales

The Protocols of the Elders of Zion=HISTORICAL FACT

Stick a fork in me; I’m done.

EDIT: The original ask is here. (This-Is-Not-Jewish accepts no liability for any headdesking injuries due to reading the blog description at that link.)

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-Ella Habiba Shohat, Reflections By An Arab Jew

Now that the three cultural topographies that compose my ruptured and dislocated history—Iraq, Israel and the U.S.—have been involved in a war, it is crucial to say that we exist. Some of us refuse to dissolve so as to facilitate “neat” national and ethnic divisions. My anxiety and pain during the Scud attacks on Israel, where some of my family lives, did not cancel out my fear and anguish for the victims of the bombardment of Iraq, where I also have relatives.

…

The same historical process that dispossessed Palestinians of their property, lands and national-political rights, was linked to the dispossession of Middle Eastern and North African Jews of their property, lands, and rootedness in Muslim countries. As refugees, or mass immigrants (depending on one’s political perspective), we were forced to leave everything behind and give up our Iraqi passports. The same process also affected our uprootedness or ambiguous positioning within Israel itself, where we have been systematically discriminated against by institutions that deployed their energies and material to the consistent advantage of European Jews and to the consistent disadvantage of Oriental Jews. Even our physiognomies betray us, leading to internalized colonialism or physical misperception. Sephardic Oriental women often dye their dark hair blond, while the men have more than once been arrested or beaten when mistaken for Palestinians. What for Ashkenazi immigrants from Russian and Poland was a social aliya (literally “ascent”) was for Oriental Sephardic Jews a yerida (“descent”).

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bellabracha:

rebloggable by request

i’m 100000% done

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Found this on Facebook and looked it up. Yes, it’s a real thing.

If you want to join me in giving these antisemitic, appropriative assholes a piece of our mind, please have at it. I am 10,000% done with this shit.

alphaeve:

this-is-not-jewish:

alphaeve:

alphaeve:

saltyseababies:

alphaeve:

saltyseababies:

alphaeve:

saltyseababies:

Yeah, let’s hack Israel on Holocaust Memorial Day.

But what the fuck am I supposed to expect from someone who clearly glorifies the USSR and posts Latuff comics.

Let’s also…

I think saying to remember the victims of the Holocaust is worth “derailing” a picture on the internet.

This is the first time in my life I’ve been scolded for actually saying to remember the victims of the Holocaust.

Actually, you’re being scolded because this thread has gone like this:

OP: Someone plans to “hack” Israel on Israel’s holiday commemorating Jewish victims of the Holocaust. That’s some antisemitic bullshit right there.

You: OMG WHAT ABOUT THE GENTILES?! YOU HAVE TO REMEMBER THE GENTILES! GENTILES GENTILES GENTILES!

You took a complaint about antisemitism and made it about YOU and your people. And for that, yes, you are being scolded.

You took a mention of the Holocaust as a chance to self-righteously and condescendingly lecture Jews about basic Holocaust history (newsflash: we already fucking know). And for that, yes, you are being scolded.

You insisted that a minority group that lost 40% of their entire world population in a genocide are somehow wrong to commemorate that genocide as a distinct tragedy within their own fucking community. And for that, yes, you are being scolded (because what the fuck, lady, you’ve got some fucking nerve).

You complained, when you were called out, that our objections to your behavior weren’t about what we specifically told you they were about, but rather because we Jews just don’t want to acknowledge that other people died in the Holocaust. And for that, yes, you are being scolded.

You insisted, when you were called out, that your derailment was okay because your point was much more important than OP’s statement about presently occurring antisemitism, because that’s just “a picture.” And for that, yes, you are being scolded.

You are being scolded because you’ve missed the point by about two fucking galaxies, but continue to present yourself as an irrationally targeted victim. Stop typing and LISTEN, damn it.

Holy shit you’re still talking.

Obviously you HAVEN’T listened to what I said

because all I said

was

remember that not all the victims of the Holocaust were jewish.

That’s it.

Did I say forget the Jewish people? lolno.

Are you saying I hate Jewish people by including other people in the list of “Holocaust victims”? yep.

Just. Stop.

There are dozens of commemorative days that include non-Jewish victims of the Holocaust. There is one that doesn’t. And it shouldn’t. What you are doing is akin to walking into the funeral of one mass-murder victim and “reminding” the family that they need to mourn the other victims too. It’s dismissive, condescending, and inappropriate. Taking one fucking day to mourn OUR dead is not an insult to everyone else, nor does it mean we’re ignoring them. You aren’t teaching or reminding us shit, so get the fuck out of our funeral.

As for whether you hate Jews, if that herring were any redder it would rival a damned tomato. Antisemitism isn’t just Nazis and skinheads, kid—it also includes casual erasure, dismissal, fetishization, stereotyping, or mockery. Talking over Jews on Jewish issues isn’t necessarily Jew-hate, but it IS antisemitic. Jumping into a conversation about antisemitism to make it about Gentiles isn’t necessarily Jew-hate, but it IS antisemitic. Plain and simple.

And no, “LOL I dunno what Jews are” isn’t a defense, it’s an aggravating factor. You jumped into a discussion you knew nothing about on the casual, Gentile-privileged confidence that your input had value, and when you were told your input was valueless, you flew into a childish, self-centered rage. You’ve been told very specifically why your behavior was problematic, you just don’t want to accept responsibility. So go on and cry—all the strawmen in the world aren’t going to change the fact that your privilege is showing.

Anonymous setting its “Hack Israel” day on Yom Hashoah (especially when Israel’s Independence Day is just one week away) is fucked up. Even if Yom Hashoah had shit to do with Gentiles, it would still be fucked up. Period.

Shabbatai fucking Tzvi, I just can’t with these people sometimes…

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