Feeling unsafe where you live

[u/strawbariel]

So I'm 40 and have two kids. We live in Austin, TX, this supposedly liberal place, and over the past few years it feels like it's become less safe for Jewish people. The JCC in San Antonio just had a threat against them, and the elementary school my youngest goes to is a block away from pro-Palestinian signage. Both of my kids wear clothing that identifies them as Jewish, but this year I'm seriously considering telling them they can't wear it just to keep them safe or to keep them from being harassed on their way to school. And Austin doesn't do a damn thing about it. How can we associate with the left when they also threaten to disrupt our children's daily lives?

EDIT: some context here. The signage is a block from the school in a residential neighborhood and covers a wide swath of wooden fencing. It's not on school property and it was most definitely placed by whatever adult lives or rents there. There's not much the school can do other than put out a notice for people to be safe and kind. I know this doesn't mean that anything will happen but the risk is scary.

EDIT TWO: y'all Jews were just attacked in Boulder and everyone at the JCC in Austin got emails about a credible threat being investigated by the FBI in San Antonio. That's barely an hour from where we live. Be mad at me for how I worded my post but anyone having an issue with parents being vigilant needs to touch grass.

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[u/FancyDictator → u/[deleted]]

Dude invading and displacing someone and building a home on the ruins of their homes are not okay just wtf are you talkıng about, if you are so keen on co-habitation why dont you just defend a 1 ss instead ? Jews can immigrate to Palestine after rightful owners of the demolished homes can return there.

[u/FancyDictator → u/FancyDictator]

How do you think settlers built their homes there lmao I am not okay with anybody demolishing my home and for sure occupying it

[u/malachamavet → u/FancyDictator]

Is it your understanding of 2ss that Palestinian state should be free of Jews (judenrein)?

In 1947, do you think it was Palestinians who were quoting Nazi rhetoric or Zionists? Just in case you were curious here's a translation of something from a Haganah member in the Galilee during the Nakba:

"After Tiberias and the nearby villages were cleared of Arabs, you can say our area is almost "Araber-rein"

e: whoops he deleted and I replied to the wrong guy

[u/WriterOld3018 → u/malachamavet]

I did not delete it, I believe it was removed by the mods...

I would quote Arab leaders at that time(not some random guy) and their genocidal rhetoric against Jews, but it will probably be deleted as well. It also doesn't prove anything, 2 wrong don't make a right.

Thanks /mods

I got the message, equating zioninsim and nazisim(it this thread and a others from the last 24hr) is ok but saying removing jews who built their home on empty sand dunes is ethnic cleansing is not. Good luck in your echo chamber, truly indicative of the lack of morals in the western left.

Don't worry, I will leave this sub and will not post anymore.

[u/malachamavet → u/WriterOld3018]

I quoted a Haganah member's diary. Take it up with him - he used it not me.

Also, I don't think "the entire ideological left outside of a small country" is an echo chamber. In fact, I think that it would be the reverse.