A while back I saw someone refer to Jews as the “main characters of history” but I think it’s more accurate to describe us as the “wildly-misrepresented-by-the-fandom babygirls of history that everyone either really loves or hates but very few people have an accurate understanding or analysis of because they’re too busy (doing the religious equivalent of) either twinkifying them and imagining them in a maid dress or angrily foaming at the mouth about how their inclusion completely ruined the whole story in some cesspool forum thread” of history. The “characters whose fans are downright infuriating and write the worst possible fanfiction and it’s made people hate the characters with zero regard to whatever the characters are actually like or what they do” of history.
Fellow alt-fashion or just craft-loving Jews
Perler bead starter sets often tend to come with this these lil boards shaped like this
Which are great for doing this
Do with this information what you will
I wish the small handful of gentiles I’ve seen jump into threads discussing antisemitism with a “Oh yeah man deep down I really want to stand up for Jews against all the bad stuff I’ve seen people say to/at them but antisemites are too scawwy uwu so I keep quiet” a very please shut up and just keep that to yourselves
I don’t think I can even remember seeing one singular post about antisemitism since 10/7 (and I’ve seen a lot) that wasn’t met with outright doubt (“has this actually happened to anyone?”), suspicion (“weird that OP hasn’t said anything about X in this post that isn’t about X, must secretly mean something about what they think that they’re not telling us, and it must be bad” or attempts at moral slander to delegitimize whatever incident the person was talking about (…as if OP being a shitbag in whatever way suits your fancy would make the antisemitism okay? …Do you scream racial slurs at transphobes and the like too? Do you think bigotry stops being bigotry or becomes okay if a person “deserves” it? Do you think bigotry can be earned?)
And if the thing being talked about is something like… a worldwide problem tons of Jews all over have been dealing with and talking to each other about, there’s always someone who asks the OP for the burden of proof, when it’s either an easily google-able thing, (from synagogue shootings, to magen davids being banned at pride events and general feelings of being unwelcome from queer Jews, to the hate-crime rape of a 12 year old, to harassment of Jews from college protestors) or in the most annoying cases, said proof/example is sometimes even just sitting in the comments of the same damn post for any old idiot to see with their eyes.
…Do other minority groups normally get this level of straight up disbelief over our experiences from the very people who claim to stand against the kinds of things we’ve experienced and are experiencing, or do people just make a special exception for us?
Y’know before things went to shit a popular topic amongst jewish users on this site was about cultural Christianity, and a large part of that discussion was pointing out that certain ways of talking/acting/thinking were rooted in Christian culture, and were not culturally neutral, and the expectation of Jews (and people from non-culturally-Christian backgrounds in general) to conform to them was an expectation to assimilate and abandon our own cultural ways of talking/acting/thinking.
And this collective conversation has largely been abandoned as Jews on this platform now have much more loud and blatant forms of antisemitism to worry about
But I can’t really stop thinking about how ostracization, public shaming, guilt, conversational shut-downs, harassment, and throwing ad hominem buzzwords at various people to not have to engage directly with opposing ideas enough to form an actual counterargument have all been a serious issue with how people operate in left-leaning online spaces for a long time now, and how those things are also very common methods of group control in a lot of the more… well, controlling and loudly bigoted sects of American Christianity, with roots in American Puritanism.
And I think a lot of people who want to think of themselves as leftists or even activists should really take a step back and more deeply analyze their methods/praxis of realizing their ideals and how they interact with other people, whether or not they’re actually willing to be constructive about things, etc.
Like is burning bridges, shutting down conversations, refusing to engage intellectually with things you don’t like, callouts, etc… actually helpful and useful? Why is this the method so many default to, and where does it come from?
*Jewishifies all your alt fashion styles*
I always get very disappointed when I’m trying to find any kind of alternative fashion thing to wear, and have to wade through a sea of Xtian imagery and crosses. (Especially in looking for anything remotely goth.) It’s kinda made me think a lot about what it would look like for people to make alt fashion in various styles inspired by other cultures/religions that aren’t really represented. So here’s a Jewish lolita.
In Jewish culture, pomegranates traditionally symbolize fertility and love, and are often said to have 613 seeds, one for each mitzvah. They are a common theme in Jewish art and are often mentioned in Jewish texts.
The hamsa is a symbol of luck and protection shared by many cultures with middle eastern roots. It has been interpreted as a Jewish, Christian, Islamic, and Pagan symbol. In Judaism in particular, it is sometimes referred to as the hand of Miriam, and has been very popular with Sephardic Jews.