May 2013
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Tokenisation
thearcanetheory:
yafilasteen:
Dear pro-Palestinians, please don’t tokenise anti-Zionist Jews like Norman Finkelstein, Noam Chomsky and Ilan Pappe, just to name a few.
There are plenty of anti-Zionist / pro-Palestinian Jews out there, but they’re not there for you to hide your antisemitism behind.
I mean if I was Jewish, I wouldn’t want to be your pretty little trophy just so you can show it...
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Thanks for the follow, queerlobster! I hope you enjoy the blog!
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batmansrobyn asked: @huginn It's being homesick for a place you've never seen, and feeling like family with people you've never met.
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hugintheraven asked: Yeah, I think me not getting the Diaspora is a big part of the conflict. America is really too young to have a serious ancestral connection to the land, plus we're all immigrants, and we're used to doing things like Little Italy instead. It's a perfect recipe for not worrying about location.
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hugintheraven asked: And how safe was the Middle East? At least in Europe, everyone was too tired to fight, and all refugees would be from countries that started a war and lost. Better than taking land from people who have done nothing wrong.
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hugintheraven asked: Post-WWII there were plenty of places that had been significantly depopulated, and countries that deserved to lose large amounts of land. True, none of them were Israel, but there's not a solution that would make everyone happy. ||| And of course, I'm not talking about anything modern, where there's too much fuckery from every direction for anything resembling a clean solution.
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hugintheraven asked: While I do think people can have historical connections and a cultural memory of the homeland, I'm not sure that's entirely relevant to deciding what lands go to whom. I agree that jewish people needed a home, I just don't think it had to be Israel. Jewish people definitely wanted it, but so did the Palestinians, and they were the ones living there.
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hugintheraven asked: The problem with any claim based on ownership more than a hundred years old is that no one involved is alive, all current owners likely bought the property legally from someone who bought it legally, so there's no way to get it back without taking something from someone who does have a legitimate claim, and the people pushed out are all dead, so it's hard to say anyone other than the...
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Thanks for the follow here too, an-animal-imagined-by-poe!
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Anonymous asked: The Jews were never enslaved by the Egyptians, ever. I believe the Babylonians did, but never the Egyptians.
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On Israel's new economic budget, and how it aims...
thearcanetheory:
saltyseababies:
“In the case of Arab women, this isn’t just wrong, it’s offensive. The government has invested in industrial parks for Jewish towns but for very few Arab ones. Public transportation to Arab communities is sparse. In Arab schools, classes are larger and schooldays are shorter. Far fewer Arab than Jewish two-year-olds are in preschools—which give children an...
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For fuck's sake, Tumblr: a brief introduction to...
ninininny:
Not all Jews are zionists.
A lot of zionists are not Jewish.
There are many forms of zionism.
Not all of those forms approve of Israel as it currently stands.
Unless you know which form of zionism a person subscribes to, it’s sort of stupid to judge them for being a zionist.
There are a shit ton of zionists who believe in Palestinian right of return or a two state solution.
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I Need to Clear Something Up
big-gadje-world:
I’m not getting involved in this whole mess & not commenting on who said what & things of that nature, nor am I taking sides, whatsoever.. I do, however, feel like something should be cleared up regarding who runs Holocaust memorials. Government programs that have resulted in Holocaust memorials or museums are run by the American government. The U.S. Holocaust Museum...
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timseriladashmimeni:
i kinda wish eretzyisrael would stop posting about every shit that Benyamin Netanyahu takes in the Jewish tags
these things are not inherently Jewish one way or another and they just get annoying after a while
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The Arcane Theory: queeniman: yanorayanora: i can... →
yafilasteen:
queeniman:
yanorayanora:
i can just imagine the anti-shia blogger in my head, all alone in a dark room editing some pic with their shitty photoshopping skills and then adding a dramatic caption like
“STOP LIVING IN LA LA LAND AND ASSUMING SHIA ARE ’ MUSLIMS’ OR OUR BROTHERS!!! WAKE…
Omg
yafilasteen:
Has anyone read the story behind Mohammad Assaf? Absolutely incredible.
He deserves all the success in the world.
His wikipedia page on its own made me tear up.
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Thanks for the follow here too, inflammatorystatements!
ce-minune:
zaatarwitholives:
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...
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...
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Muslims threatened to be 'slaughtered like... →
thearcanetheory:
The Muslim Association of Greece says they received a threatening note giving all Muslims one month to leave the country or be ‘slaughtered like chickens’. The letter, as it appeared on the association’s webpage, has the Golden Dawn emblem printed on it, but the party has firmly denied having anything to do with it
In which the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party targets Jews, Rromani,...
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A Degenerate Elite: Ashkenazi != white →
holzmantweed:
I’m Ashkenazi. I have a cousin who married a Mexican man and had children with him. They are identifiably Latino, have a Latino surname, are treated as Latino by society. They’re Ashkenazim, just like their mother. Simultaneously Latino and Ashkenazi.
I have two other cousins who met and married…
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““If the Palestinians had been expelled from their land, as they had maintained...”
– http://www.councilforthenationalinterest.org/israelpalestineconflict/missingheadlines/item/2767-catastrophic-thinking-did-ben-gurion-try-to-rewrite-history (via the-anti-authoritarian)
This post would’ve been fine had you not tagged it “#jewish bullshit.” Not all Zionists are Jews. Not everyone who...
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“In 2008, a fascinating, little-known study asked 500 Israeli Jews about Israel’s...”
– The Palestinian Nakba: Are Israelis starting to get it? | 972 Magazine (via unitedpigeonsoflowermanhattan)
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l'égoïste romantique: On the matter of... →
zaataronpita:
coffeejewess:
I’ve been meaning to write about this since last night, but my mom is relapsing as far as her wounds go… so frankly, that takes priority. But to get right to the point here:
If you’re a Jewish person, I highly suggest you unfollow @casual-isms. If you’re not, but support the Jewish people, I would again suggest the same measure. The blog is good in theory — the key...
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The Shiksa debate & conversion
goynif:
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I’ve contributed to this conversation before, so I hope it’s okay that I chime in again.
In my community, shiksa is definitely used as a misogynistic slur. It doesn’t just mean a non-Jewish woman - it means a sexualized bimbo, stupid and silly and bouncy and submissive and blonde and perfect for Jewish men to experiment with. It stands in contrast to the...
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yafilasteen:
articles like these make me sad http://www.abc.net.au/religion/articles/2013/05/17/3761661.htm
A very powerful article. And yes, sad and shameful.
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blog-anglophonic asked: Just want to say that I truly enjoy your blog, and while I do not always agree with some of the people who comment on your posts I've decided to put it in the "news" folder in my bookmarks. You really hit the hammer on many topics which I often feel I am the only person concerned about. For example, subjects like the ever cynical "Christian Zionism" (which drives me...
batmansrobyn:
zaatarwitholives:
judeo-christiantalk:
“Then the LORD God made a woman from the rib he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man. The man said, ‘This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called “woman,” for she was taken out of man.’ For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one...
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Thanks for the follow, 2goldensnitches! I hope you enjoy the blog!
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rknjl:
thearcanetheory:
People just love to tokenize Jews.
They tokenize the Neturei Karta when they want to prove their anti-Zionism is never anti-Semitic, or that they’re just not anti-Semitic.
They tokenize their one Jewish friend for the same reason. Bonus points if they are white-passing and/or Ashkenazi if they’re out to prove they “don’t hate white Jews” or something.
They tokenize...
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judeo-christiantalk:
“Then the LORD God made a woman from the rib he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man. The man said, ‘This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called “woman,” for she was taken out of man.’ For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh.” -Genesis 2:22-24
“He who...
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Thanks for the follow, ourtimetolead! I hope you enjoy the blog! So your blog is the official J Street one?
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“Shavuot, the spiritual marriage of the Jewish people with its Maker, and the...”
– Mordechai Leib Rothenberg (via beismordechai)
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Thanks for the follow here, Saira!
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'Hiding the Body Respects the Soul': Prominent... →
dvar22:
Attention, three-year-old mini ladies out there: unsure how to tell whether you’re sluttishly attracting men with your rolled-up sleeves, problematic buttons, and “unkempt” hairdos? Do not fear! A high profile Rabbi has devised a new dress code just for you.
Yes this Rav is going out of control, and im glad some other frum yidn called him out on it. and… the way this article is written...
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Sometimes Davey Wins: Cultural Appropriation,... →
goynif:
(“[Jews] changed their names, and gave their children English names, in order to assimilate, partly for class mobility, partly just for survival. It worked for some of them, in some ways. It did not prevent them from experiencing antisemitism. Probably it mitigated the severity. Probably it continues to do that for me.
In my generation, I know lots of young adult Jews who have obviously...
veliseraptor:
I do not understand though what is so difficult about understanding that anger directed at white people/heterosexual people/cissexist people/women etc. is not equivalent to institutionalized racism/sexism/etc. because they are just…not the same, not equivalent, and it’s not about “”solutions”” or “”productivity”” it’s about expressing anger about systematic oppression and that is...
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Thanks for the follow, thetidez! I hope you enjoy the blog!
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How Not To Whitewash the Bible →
this-is-not-jewish:
I made this little infograph or whatever tumblr calls them DX IDK but I saw these circulating and I wanted to do one on Bible characters and how not to whitewash and I thought you (or you guys, however many ppl are running this blog) might want to see it :3 This is the first thing I’ve ever done like it I’m so excited OwO
This-Is-Not-Jewish: Holy shit, this is FABULOUS....
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Dispatches from the Elders
schraubd:
The Church of Scotland takes on Jewish claims to the land of Israel. It’s strategy for doing so is to put forward an extreme irrendetist and biblical-literalist position, characterize this as “the position of Zionism,” and then proceed to reject it outright. One might immediately raise an eyebrow at the phrase “the position of Zionism,” since “Zionism” is not a monolith and lacks a...
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To Know is not To Understand
thearcanetheory:
schraubd:
Reprinting a status update from David Hirsh, whose Engage organization is simply an indispensable resource for those concerned with anti-Semitism and are looking for an unabashedly progressive and unapologetic approach to combating it:
There is a huge reluctance amongst many antiracist Jews to see antisemitism; to understand it; to oppose it, to defend their fellow...
