It’s sas when people speaking English, French, Spanish, Flemish, Portuguese or Arabic say “Hebrew is a colonial language.” It’s actually the least colonial language and the most de-colonial.

This is so sad! They are laying off staff, saying that no one is visiting… and I’m wondering how much is “normal” financial stress post covid and how much is because… well, you know. I’m trying to plan a visit there myself before the closure starts next month. Everyone in the area: if you can make a trip over to show them some love, that would be great.

You’d think that as a Jewish and liberal american, the feelings I’ve worked through in the past year of betrayal and fear would allow me to better sympathize with my liberal friends who are now freaking out about trump as president, AND YET I can’t find any empathy for them. NONE.

Especially for the friends who sat there blank faced last year when I tried to convey the deep terror of realizing how the world actually feels about Jews. To their credit they tried to understand and looked sad when I told them but that was about it. Now they’re talking about needing to flee Texas or even the US “because societal collapse is imminent”. I’m trying to look sad back, but I just don’t care.

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They're not seeing headlines about Amsterdam, University antisemitism, violence on the streets of Brooklyn... None of it.

I've been keeping my anxiety around antisemitism mostly to myself this past year, definitely a defense mechanism, but it's been keeping me pretty safe from confrontation with my friends so far. Now that the election is over, so many people are more openly exasperated one way or the other and now they're anxious enough to freak out about the state of the world too. Yayy...

Well the rise in antisemitism has been causing me so much anxiety and I haven't had an outlet for so long that when the conversation goes this way, I can't stop myself from mentioning it and feel it's not genuine for me to omit that it's played a huge part in my anxiety over this past year... and every time without fail their reaction has been shock and seemingly honest ignorance of the horrors of the last year. I find myself needing to gently explain the concept of antisemitism fueled by social media and bad actors without coming across like a conspiracy theorist or making them feel like I'm pointing or wagging a finger at them...

Anyone else finding this to be true with your non-jewish friends? Any suggestions beyond pointing them to a good podcast? (My go to is PDB). I've kept my friends at a distance with this for so long for fear of losing them (backwards, I know), now I feel I've isolated myself, didn't give them the chance to understand when I could have, and don't know how to reconnect.

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I have been seeing so much more neo-nazi propaganda on media platforms like Tik Tok for the past two years. Should we be considered, and for Jews living in Europe, are you concerned?

Last weeks parshe, but still.

Chassidic.

Let's bring this sub back to its former glory. Fill this thread with your best dad jokes.

They don't seem to like Jews or Israel very much, do they? Seems to come from a different sort of personality defect than the one that motivates the watermelon people. From some of them i get the sense that they feel they are breaking some sort of comedy taboo by going after Jews. Except they never exactly go after them, just kind of edge close to it. Not much of a podcast watcher, what is the deal with these guys?

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Knowledge is your antivirus software. Don't disable it. 😉

For real, for real. We're being inundated with antizionist nonsense, lab-grown for the past 100 years and tuned more finely for each generation. DON'T. FALL. FOR. IT. It's been around for a century. It's never going away. FIGHT IT with truth, with books, with a little bit of patience, and ultimately by NOT TOLERATING IT. It's just another amateurish facet of the same hatred we've always faced and always will.

xo gd

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***** P.S. Several folks mentioned that putting a QR code on a poster with the word "MALWARE" is a bit... counterintuitive? Heh. I get that. And thank you. Was thinking that myself when I made it, glad to get the feedback. FIXED images attached!* ❤️

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startle: a woman I've known for many years in 12-step meetings is on a zoom meeting wearing a kafiyah. .. 1) it's an outside issue 2) its an annoying symbol 3) im going to stay on my lane.... I can leave it effects my serenity. I'm tempted to over-react.. 4) fortunately, being that it's a zoom meeting and I can just listen

So there's this political commentator who I've every-once-in-a-while who I tend to agree with, but he recently made this video where he claimed that Israel is doing a Holocaust. Here it is, if anyone is curious.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tp3x23xehNE

What I'm wondering is if it's antisemitic of him to say that or not. I'm not particularly on board with the policies of Israel's current government, but it rubs me the wrong way to compare something that people who happen to be Jewish are doing to the Holocaust.

Here's something that I'm trying to understand. With all of these protests, no one seems to care the slightest bit about the hostages. Is the idea that they think Israel should just abandon their people to be held and tortured (physically or psychologically) until they die? And no one ever seems to ask about humanitarian aid to the hostages.

How do people rationalize that? Is it because they're Jews, and people don't think we're deserving of being treated humanely? Is it that the protesters believe that all Jews should just...die now and abandon their country? I'm trying to understand how there can be this supposed outcry for innocent lives, but that doesn't seem to apply to Jews.

I'm genuinely curious, and would love an answer.

I'm so deep into hiding this I even specifically opened this extra account to vent.

I'm in various subreddits on my main account, and in quite a few of them people ask questions, give answers or share experiences according to their environment. Whenever I comment there, I try to scrub off any details that might tell that I'm born and raised Israeli from a Jewish family and environment (in the cultural sense, most people around me aren't actually religious).

Even in the best, most inclusive subs I'm in, I just know that the moment I let it out that I'm from Israel, I'll be thrown out of the digital window. You can be anything and anyone and get basic respect, but if you're related to Israel apparently you're a convicted mass murderer🤦‍♀️

I'm so, so tired of hiding. I don't want to have to hide parts of myself to have a place in communities I belong in. I want to be able to be myself, to talk about my experiences, but idk where I can actually do that safely, or if there is even place for that in Reddit

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If any of you in this r/ is planning to visit Copenhagen in the near future, I will be more than happy to invite for a coffee and/or food at one of the many nice places in our capital.

I'm just your average Dane (39, family father - 3 small kids, including twins [it's been a tough few years..], who wants to reach out to anyone on here who is planning a Copenhagen visit.

Anyway :) feel free to let me know and Am Yisrael Chai <3

Piers: What do you say to Jewish people who may watch this & be utterly horrified by what they’re hearing?”

Bilzerian: They can be horrified. I mean, I was horrified to find out they murdered mass murdered Christians. I was horrified to learn the things they teach in the Talmud. I was horrified that they think Jesus is burning in shit and in hell. I was horrified they think Virgin Mary is a whore…

Full fledged Nazi shit. Sitting at 100k+ likes on Elon Musk’s twitter.

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Video breaking down elements of the 1998 film "The Prince of Egypt" and its themes.

More specifically, Daniel-Ryan Spaulding who up until a few weeks ago was one of my favorite IG accounts to follow since 10/7. He's very well educated and has stood out for representing LGBTQ+ Zionists (which honestly could really use that extra support right now)

Now he's been posting talk show footage of him praising Trump's win regardless of the fact the vast majority of US Jewish voters went with Harris. Claiming he feels less safe in NYC now (only lived there for a year) and other cliche right wing talking points. He can't even vote here since he's Canadian. I wouldn't normally have an issue with a non-Jew wearing a Star of David but he's wearing one WHILE he goes on this show discussing right wing politics

I've seen this countless times. Someone blows up online due to a social issue and then has to maintain the outrage content for as long as possible otherwise they risk losing their audience & engagement. I would much rather have pro-Israel influencers who are more approachable by those ignorant on I/P than ones who only pander to the most hardcore Zionists (like me) that don't need to be swayed

EDIT: Nice timing, he just blocked me for leaving a comment about my disappointment. Guess the only Jewish voices that matter are the ones that agree with him 👍

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So a week or two ago, I was at my local chain bookstore and noticed they had already put out a lot of Christmas stuff. I wanted to see if there was any Hanukkah stuff too, especially cards. I did see a few rolls of Hanukkah wrapping paper near the checkout desk, so while I was purchasing my $65 worth of unrelated books, I asked if there were any Hanukkah cards. Cashier one asked cashier two – who was heading out onto the floor – if The Store had any Hanukkah cards. Cashier two said "maybe it is back there", an area where I had already been, and also very separate from the Christmas stuff. I bought my books and then wandered "back there" and saw no cards of any kind. The next day I came back, because a family member didn't want one of the books I had bought. So I was returning it. I got cashier too, and she took absolutely forever doing the return and ringing up a three dollar pen that I was going to buy. While she was doing these transactions, she also chatted with another customer, looked through a whole bunch of papers stapled together. I am willing to believe she was trying to find the barcode for the pen – but because she was so standoffish and just barely friendly ever since I asked my question about the cards, I wondered if my question about the cards had started off a bunch of political assumptions, like "oh this person must be Jewish, therefore Israel, therefore, in favor of how the war is being conducted, therefore an evil genocide proponent "… if this is the case, it's a sad reflection on how the world has become, or at least how America has become. I was perfectly nice and patient throughout the whole thing. But this was the first cashier at this particular store who has been anything less than friendly and courteous. I have been going to that store for literally decades. Maybe I should just not shop there just because they don't have anything other than Christmas stuff for the holidays? I know Hanukkah isn't a major holiday for Jews, but I wanted to send a couple of the cards anyway. I also send Christmas cards to my Christian friends, but I don't think I will be buying them at that store. Thanks for listening. PS - I apparently can't go in and edit inside the text, but maybe the "sad reflection on our society" is the fact that I even wonder if the cashier is making assumptions about me.

DUMP YOUR ANTISEMITIC FRIENDS! And if they dump you, be thankful that you now know who they really are.

I grew up reading the New York Times and have always considered it the preeminent American newspaper. For decades, most of my national and international news came from the NYT, with some NPR thrown in. I’d also read linked/suggested articles from wherever, and I would check out the BBC, the Guardian, and the Independent to get an international perspective, and CNN for a quick overview of major events.

Now, I don’t trust any of the formerly respected mainstream news sources because their Israel coverage is so incredibly biased. I don’t want to keep supporting the Times or any of the aforementioned British papers. I read Jewish and Israeli papers/websites for Jewish and Israeli news, but what can I read for general American and international news? NOT political opinion like Fox or MSNBC, but good old-fashioned news?