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We Iranians are collectively going through a terribly painful and difficult time. I can't share all the videos here, they are so appalling and too horrific. My heart is forever broken, yet I refuse to not look staright into the eyes of pure evil incarnate.
We don't even know if our loved ones are still alive. I haven’t heard anything from my family. The last message I got from a dear friend on Monday was that her 20 year old cousin was shot. 💔
I have a small request: please don't believe and amplify the false narratives of the Islamic Regime such as "this is a movement orchestrated by Israel and all protesters are Mossad agents and terrorists etc" or
"they just want your oil." Don’t be a mouthpiece of the Ayatollah, most of these people are so intellectually lazy and have no idea about the Middle East.
Iranians are not dumb.
If you can't speak out, at least don't add to our pain.
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Naomi Salfati (Israeli, 1984), Travels through Jerusalem, 2023. Oil and Acrylic on canvas, 36 x 36 in.
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I know this rabbi who is genuinely delightful to have a conversation with because he just says the most unhinged things like they’re fact, and doesn’t explain himself.
Me- So… Rav David. What’s with gay people in Judaism?
Rav David (happily married to his wife with children) - I’m up for reinterpreting the Halacha to make same sex relationships the only acceptable ones
Me- Did you hear about the law Oklahoma just passed ?
Rav David- I don’t believe Oklahoma has the right to statehood. Neither does Rhode Island, but that’s a separate issue
Me- Jeez- the government wants to cancel Jewish American history month!?
Rav David- we should just abolish the concepts of months altogether- Jewish and secular. There’s no reason for them.
He would do numbers on Tumblr
Rav David is actually a recurring character on my page if you want to see more adventures- I interact with him then jot down things to post lol
I’ll tag them real quick but you can search him up with his name on my account .
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...halakha is absolutely into vegetables which is why I have a very long Talmud reference sheet dedicated to the halakha of gardening and veggies, actually.
Also one time a Rabbi summoned a bunch of cucumbers by magic. Which I feel should count for something.
Sort of unrelated but it is DEEPLY funny to see someone on r/religion try and claim Messianics as one of the three kinds of Judaism (along with rabbinical and karaite jusaism) and then in response literally every Jew on that sub comes out of the woodwork (Including me) to say that ACTUALLY, we all agree that Messianics are religiously practicing Christianity, which is NOT religiously observing judaism, the movement was formed by Christians, and also statistically the majority of them aren't even ethnically Jewish either! And if they ARE that just means they're Jews committing avodah zarah and observing the Christian religion.
It's like....the platonic opposite of dropping an apple of discord into a room. Instead of dropping something that gets us all to fight each other and vye for the apple, you have now dropped something that will immediately spark a rare universal opinion.
It's the pomegranate of Jewish harmony.
"Messianics are doing a Christianity, and Christianity is not part of the Jewish religion."
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I really wish people would understand that there is a vast gulf of cultural difference between “nomadic ethnic groups” and “ethnic groups which are not and have never been nomadic, but which were repeatedly violently expelled”
The Saami people are nomadic. The Buryats are nomadic. Uyghurs are not. Jews are not. Many Native American groups, including the Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, and Creek are not. This distinction may seem small and academic but it is absolutely vital to understanding modern day conflicts involving these groups.
Some cultures are itinerant, with physical movement from place to place as an inherent part of their identity. Some cultures were violently displaced, with a cultural identity that carries the scars of being forced to relocate, against their will. It is victim blaming of the highest order to treat the second type as though it is the first.
neither are the Palestinians, for the record. Also, there have definitely been groups that have been Jewish and have also been expelled from their lands. Note that the Zionists currently residing in Palestine share no DNA indicative of this fact.
also Judaism is a religion and although its traditions and beliefs are usually devoutly passed down through the women of the family, its entirely possible to convert to Judaism and since you can't change to an ethnicity Judaism is not an eth- oh, shit, you aren't ready for that conversation, sorry I forgot
Hey several things:
1) I have literally never in my fucking life heard anyone claiming that Palestinians were nomadic, even like, diehard anti-Palestinian genocidal lunatics who openly say that they want to turn Gaza into a parking lot. Either you hang out in much darker, wackier circles of the internet than I do, or else you are simply derailing the fuck out of a post that was primarily about academic racism against Native Americans
2) Seeing as you also went off on fucking “Zionist DNA”, a thing which has literally nothing to do with the racism inherent in categorizing groups like eg. the Cherokee as “nomadic” it’s actually pretty clearly it’s Option #2.
3) Also, given that, again, this post was mostly about Native Americans and only very briefly mentioned Judaism at all, I would tread especially fucking carefully about that crossed out bit at the end there, because that sure fucking sounds like you are trying to used Judaism in order to backdoor your way into supporting the blood quantuming of Native Americans on the basis of ethnicity being somehow genetic, which is some colonial bullshit, actually
and 4) …ok level with me here, are you actually a Khazar myth conspiracy theorist??? Because the whole “Zionists have no Jewish DNA” thing sure sounds like some Khazar myth conspiracy theory bs, and if I can be real with you, as batshit conspiracies go, the Khazar myth is like, somewhere between “Fomenko’s new chronology” and “hollow moon”. Like. Obviously there’s a lot that you just shat out here that is very racist, and there’s a lot that is especially racist to put on a post that was mostly racism against Native Americans merely because that post also briefly mentioned the existence of Jews. But like. Be so real with me right now, do you actually believe in the fucking Khazar myth conspiracy theory??? Like fr fr??? What are your thoughts on the moon landing, if you don’t mind me asking? Do you think that the Earth is flat? How about Qanon? Sorry if these questions seem intrusive but I’m just so fascinated to see one of these people who’s deep into a conspiracy this dumb in the wild lmao
Yeah bonus round of "ethnicity" fact checking lol: ethnicity actually isn't based on genetics or DNA to begin with. It entirely predates the term, and also the idea of blood quantum laws. The term derives from the Greek word ethnos, first found in the Septuagint (that is, a Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible) used to refer to nations of people. Jews included.
It literally comes from biblical uses that applied specifically to Jews as a tribe, as well as other groups of people.
Being ignorant about the definition of ethnicity is not actually an argument winning dunk.
From that article:
Hutchinson and Smith’s (1996:6–7) definition of an ethnic group, or ethnie, consists of six main features that include:
1. a common proper name, to identify and express the “essence” of the community;
2. a myth of common ancestry that includes the idea of common origin in time and place and that gives an ethnie a sense of fictive kinship; [Spoiler alert: converts to Judaism are adopted/naturalized into the kin group/tribe and are referred to as being children of Sarah and Abraham.]
3. shared historical memories, or better, shared memories of a common past or pasts, including heroes, events, and their commemoration;
4. one or more elements of common culture, which need not be specified but normally include religion, customs, and language;
5. a link with a homeland, not necessarily its physical occupation by the ethnie, only its symbolic attachment to the ancestral land, as with diaspora peoples; and
6. a sense of solidarity on the part of at least some sections of the ethnie’s population
Because ethnic groups are defined by the people in those groups, and Jews consider converts to be fully Jewish, yes, they are ethnically Jews. Also, again, the term ethnicity literally derives from a greek translation of a Hebrew word used to describe a concept of a tribe or nation of people in the Hebrew bible, thousands of years before anyone knew what DNA was.
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Update on the Beth Israel arson case
I'll be referring to the man who committed the crime as S.P to keep this simple.
S.P. has finally been charged with a hate crime as well. He's been appointed a public defender (lol, no one wants this case) and the Attorney General has instructed prosecutors to seek "severe penalties". The estimates for his sentencing were 5-20 years *before* it was officially called a hate crime. It looks like it will be nearly impossible for him to avoid prison time.
His next court appearance will be on the 20th, so we'll definitely have more information then. We'll continue to keep everyone updated until, who knows when. I guess we'll stop posting about it when it stops ruling our lives (and we still can't see the end of that yet).
And once again, the response in our local community and here on Tumblr is amazing. You are all very appreciated.
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Can my Indigenous ass say the progressive christian impulse to no-true-scotsman their entire religion, appealing to "what jesus actually taught", *specifically* in a way that points to "modern" christianity as deviating from this, implying it used to be better, is completely fucking bonkers. You can't RETVRN your way out of genocide. Christianity has been about pillaging for the last 2000 years & if you sincerely want to change this I can respect that but be so fucking fr when you talk about how "modern christianity" isn't what jesus taught. Neither was the roman empire innit
I've said this before but it's all so....... "this isn't what jesus taught" is like, step 1 of recognizing the hypocrisy. But then nobody wants to keep thinking about it past that point. It's been lies justifying unfathomable violence this whole time
& if you want to play that game the christian bible also says to convert the entire world so. It's not looking great. The pillaging is kind of a central pillar of the ideology. Or did you just think the problem with christianity was homophobia, or some nebulous concept of racism that's simply "hate" and doesn't include robbing people of their cultures
"Why are all these white christians racist all of a sudden? :(" I have terrible news about how the last 2000 years have been going
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Anonymous asked:
people complaining about Noah Wyle (from The Pitt) discussing Israeli hospital protocols for mass casualty attacks like....my guy I don't think "doctors are problematic for saving people instead of letting them die, what if they're bad people? what if the bad thing they did was have a bad ethnicity?" is the anti-genocide opinion you think it is
so I had to look this up, and unfortunately the first result was a terrible clickbait article, but I will show you the way they framed this:
Noah Wyle has faced accusations of pro-Zionism leanings in recent years in the wake of the escalating Israel-Gaza conflict, especially after he was named among the celebrities who signed the Pro-Israel Under Attack letter in 2023. While the actor hasn’t explicitly stated his stance on the conflict, his recent comments about The Pitt‘s mass casualty sequence have intensified criticism.
During his appearance on GQ, Wyle elaborated on the sequence that saw doctors dealing with the aftermath of a public shooting, revealing that it was modeled after a real-life response to a Las Vegas shooting. Moreover, the actor alleged that the protocols for approaching such a huge incident weren’t there until a doctor flew to Israel and apparently learned from their experiences when Israel was “on the receiving end of a terrorist attack”.
so him merely stating that medical professionals and ER doctors learn how to properly handle mass casualty events, and have consulted with Israeli physicians on how best to save lives because they have had to deal with the horrors of terrorist attacks, is enough to get him tarred and feathered by the internet? abhorrent.
here’s the interview, he starts talking about it at about 20:58
We modeled (the mass shooting) after the Las Vegas shooting. The hospital that handled the bulk of those trauma cases did an unbelievable job. Everybody that went into that hospital with a life threatening injury went upstairs to surgery alive. And they saved so many people because of the protocols that they put into place in the event of mass casualty.
What were those protocols? They didn’t exist in that hospital, until one of the doctors, who happened to be on shift that night, months earlier had decided they were ill—equipped to handle a mass casualty event. And so he himself went to Israel, and went to a hospital, and studied how they do it there when they are on the receiving end of a terrorist attack.
And he copied all the notebooks, and brought them all back, and stuck them on the shelf in the hospital. And they just happened to be there when that happened, and they pulled the binders off the shelves, and said, “This is what we’re doing.”
And because they did that, when they did that, they saved a lot of lives. So we wanted to replicate that, and to add to that in a way. And so, again, Dr. Joe Sachs came up with this really interesting protocol of using slap bands that are color coordinated to determine degree of severity of case. Up until that point, usually they do kind of tags, colored tags. This idea of slap bands was something Joe came up with, and is now being marketed and implemented in hospitals.
anyone who has a problem with this, who’s screeching that he mentioned learning medical protocols to save lives, has lost touch with their humanity and very seriously needs to interrogate the ideology they have been sucked into and the bigotry they have wholesale bought into believing and furthering.
The Pitt S1: entirely about how horrible it is when someone shoots many innocent teenagers at a music festival, and a Jewish doctor is having a bit of a nervous breakdown about it
Some people managing to watch it and somehow miss that entire thing is amazing
I haven’t seen the show, but didn’t this episode feature his character saying the shema amidst that breakdown and grief? really astounding how far people will go to purposefully Not Get It.
also:
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You see it's quite simple: if they call the earth Gaia, it's fantasy. If they call it Terra, that's sci-fi
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If there's one vampire, it's horror. If there's 100+ and they have politics, it's urban fantasy.
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It appears I will have quite a few visitors to my blog here. Hello folks. I have learned my lesson arguing with my general knowledge against strangers on the pedantry website. Wave at the fool.
That's the thing. You don't even have general knowledge. You have "rancid bigotry, raging prejudice, egotistical self-satisfaction, and unexamined assumptions from your upbringing" along with all of the blistering arrogance that you can dictate a minority's history based on your own biases and vibes. You are, fundamentally, no different than the Christian Evangelicals you claim to despise, and your effort to dismiss your disgusting Jew-hate as merely "arguing with general knowledge against pedants" is just as revolting.
You wanted to know here what you could do to convince me that you're not a sneering Jew-hating bigot?
Well, trying to paint yourself as being just a little misguided and lacking in specialist knowledge--when your entire stance was "I am smugly dictating to Jews about their own history, culture, beliefs, oppression, and politics and acting like I'm innocent when I get pushback for my arrogance"--is precisely the wrong way to go about it.
Bigot.
“What could I possibly say to you to overcome your prejudice of me?”
You could idk not say things that are blatantly untrue about Judaism and Jewish history, like it’s not that hard
I have made so many friends in the Jewish community and with Jewish allies alike in the past couple of years and not once have I been called a bigot or antisemitic. It really is not that fucking hard. You're either incompetent, to which I say fucking skill issue, or you're being an asshole on purpose.
The question to ask here should be "what could Jews possibly say so that you overcome your prejudice against them?"
But we all know the answer cause there is nothing they can say to change your mind. The bigotry is the point.
For context for those just joining, the thing that OP originally stepped in here was, he claimed that the Mormon cultural connection to stolen Native American land in the would-be nation of Deseret was equivalent to the Jewish cultural connection to historically Jewish cultural sites in Levant – and that as an Ex-Mormon who understood that Joseph Smith’s fake archeology was fake, he had unique and valuable insights into how all of the real archeology performed by real archaeologists in Levant was probably also fake, or at least didn’t matter. Part of his rhetorical argument was, I shit you not, “we both even call it Zion!”
OP then was surprised and offended that a whole bunch of non-Mormons – not all of whom were even Jews, btw! – took exception to the notion that there was literally no difference whatsoever between a) claiming that there was a solid archeological record of there being Jewish communities living in Levant continuously dating all the way back to at least the Edict of Cyrus, and b) claiming that a magic rock that you put in your hat told you that the Native Americans are all the distant descendants of the Israelites, that their skin color is the result of a fall from a higher civilization, and that their land is yours by divine right and their genocide is a moral obligation.
Like brother, I don’t know how to fucking tell you this, but however ex-Mo you think you are, you very clearly need to deconstruct a little further. Maybe like. Idk. Read the CES Letter, and then compare it to the entire field of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies, and see if you can’t spot a difference or five.
Joseph Smith may have made obvious, ridiculous, fraudulent claims about ancient Israelites, but that doesn’t mean that the history of Levant prior to the Arab Conquest of Syria is unknowable.
It is the height of arrogance to think that merely knowing that “the historical account in the Book of Nephi is a bunch of racist lies” – a thing that almost everyone except for Mormons already understands – qualifies you to speak on literally anything at all, but especially on something as nuanced and complex as eg. the relationship between modern day Middle Eastern politics and the millennia long path of bloody history in the region that lies between the Iron Age and today.
"arguing with my general knowledge." ....as someone who worked in an archaeology museum that was involved in excavations which helped shape the standards of modern archaeology (and which had an ancient Israel & Canaan collection!) — this isn't even having general knowledge.
This is basically zero knowledge of archaeology and history in general, with a bonus side of "now that comparison just doesn't make sense." I don't even need to be a pedant about that.
OP the problem wasn't using "general knowledge on the pedantry" website. The problem was saying something regarding a subject you clearly don't understand even a little bit on a website where there are people who do know a lot of things about that subject! Or even anything at all!
"they both called the land Zion!" Mormon supersessionism isn't evidence which disproves Jewish archaeological history. What a weird argument. Like okay? And Philadelphia was also a city in what is now Turkey. So obviously we should transpose the history of Philadelphia, USA onto Philadelphia of the Kingdom of Pergamon! Brilliant! What does that have to do with anything?
The reach to try and make a metaphor based on your deconstruction of a religion which is also openly supersessionist towards Judaism as if that is proof of anything — is nonsensical. It's goofy. "My former religion has a colonialist history which includes using names from a small ethnoreligion's history. Ergo if we stole it, then they must have stolen it too!" Or....?
Why can't y'all just object to ethnostates the normal way.
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I'm going to start listing my jewelry in my etsy judaica shop instead of my bigcartel, which means more fees for me but I think in the long run it'll be nice to just have a space that attracts other customers outside my queer art, too.. and just have more people know I exist in a marketplace outside of tumblr followers.. So yeah, if you've wanted some of my jewelry I'm starting to put it up here! I'm adding up ש pendants, evil eyes, magens tonight.
They're all up now :) I've worked really hard on them!! They're bronze but- I am going to start pewter work soon for those with metal allergies. I'm going to start working on more pomegranates too.
Also had some Indian people in that thread claimed it was eurocentrism to expect Indians to have learned about WWII or the Nazi swastika and I had to be like "......look obviously the local religious uses of the swastika which IS different from Nazi Germany is what everyone in India thinks of first. And that's fine and no one expects otherwise.
But you mean to tell me y'all don't learn about a war that 2.5 million Indians volunteered to fight in as part of the allied forces?"
That's not eurocentrism to assume you might know about WORLD WAR TWO because it was...global?? Or like anything about a country (Germany) that your then colonial government declared war on?? Like not even as "here are some of the factors that led to British power in India being weakened as a result of WWII and how we gained independence"??
With "allies" like these, who needs antisemites?
Context: "it" = swastikas. (Specifically we're talking about when people do a craft/art project and the pattern creates an accidental swastika pattern/motif and the person who made the thing IS NOT Hindu/Jain/Buddhist. I must be clear NO ONE is objecting to those religions using their DIFFERENT swastika.)
And then I asked if they were Hindu/Jain/Buddhist OR Jewish since they said:
It really is time that the negative connotations were replaced with the historical, and still culturally relevant, meaning of the symbol.
And I had also said, again, the Nazi swastika is different, I'm not talking about the Hindu/Jain/Buddhist use of a swastika, and no the Nazi swastika's negative connotations don't need to be replaced.
Anyways they pointedly side step and said they're part of an interfaith council and went to a public menorah lighting. "So no, then. You aren't any of those things."
I suggest maybe if they're part of a big ol interfaith council PERHAPS they could listen to some Jews. And then they hit me with this:
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https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/24/opinion/sudan-genocide.html
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...But the one unfolding right now in Sudan, already the world’s worst humanitarian crisis, is especially sickening. A militia long accused of genocide has seized the major city of El Fasher and is thought to have slaughtered tens of thousands of people there in recent weeks. The atrocities were widely predicted and are the culmination of years of unremitting savagery. They were enabled by an American partner, the United Arab Emirates. Yet under both Joe Biden and Donald Trump, the United States has (along with other nations) refused to take serious steps to stop the mass killing and mass rape. Here’s what happened. A Sudanese militia, the Rapid Support Forces, which is backed by the Emirates, seized El Fasher on Oct. 26, after more than two years of warnings that it would. Satellite imagery shows mass graves and burn piles indicating systematic slaughter, according to the Yale Humanitarian Research Lab, which analyzed the satellite photos. Nathaniel Raymond, a public health scholar and the executive director of the lab, estimates that between 30,000 and 100,000 people may have been killed in six weeks, with 60,000 as a plausible midpoint. That pace of killing would be unrivaled since the Rwanda genocide of 1994, he told me, adding that the death toll in El Fasher in less than two months may be comparable to that in Gaza over two years. El Fasher, which had around a quarter-million inhabitants shortly before it was overrun by the militia, remains sealed off, so it is impossible to confirm the scale of killings. But it is widely recognized that something terrible has unfolded there in recent weeks.
The attackers posted videos of themselves executing people, and the governor of the Darfur region surrounding El Fasher, Minni Minnawi, who opposes the Rapid Support Forces, estimated that 27,000 people were killed in just the first few days. The United Nations humanitarian chief, Tom Fletcher, has described El Fasher as “basically a crime scene.” A senior U.N. official warned that the “mass killing,” “sexual violence on a massive scale,” “torture” and other abuses in the region indicate possible genocide. The International Rescue Committee cited estimates of 60,000 killed in El Fasher and noted that there are risks that the massacres will be repeated in another region of Sudan, Kordofan. All this has attracted little attention and no serious response. Some people have managed to flee El Fasher, and they describe killings and other atrocities. The Norwegian Refugee Council reported that some 400 children without parents arrived exhausted in the nearby town of Tawila, in many cases after days of walking across the desert. “Many witnessed extreme violence before escaping and are showing signs of acute trauma,” said Nidaa, a teacher affiliated with the Norwegian Refugee Council. “Some of the children could not speak at all when they arrived.” The new satellite imagery shows 150 clusters of human remains in El Fasher, along with five burn pits used to incinerate bodies, Raymond said. Even from space, blood stains are visible on the ground. Something just as ominous emerges in the satellite photos: an absence of people. Markets are empty and overgrown, donkey carts have mostly vanished and gathering points where people normally collect water are now deserted. A major city appears from space to be a ghost town. “If you were going to see the murder of a city, this is what it looks like,” Raymond said. The killings in El Fasher took place in the context of a civil war in Sudan that may have taken 400,000 lives since the Sudanese Armed Forces and the Rapid Support Forces began fighting each other in 2023. But three elements stand out to me as particularly horrific about El Fasher.
First, the United States grew even closer to the United Arab Emirates as the Emirates armed and equipped the Rapid Support Forces. (The Emirates deny backing the militia, but virtually no one takes that seriously.) Second, the militia has directed its mass murder and mass rape at members of several Black African tribes. “We don’t want to see any Black people,” a militia leader said as he rounded up all males over the age of 10 in one village and executed them, a female survivor told me last year. The Biden and Trump administrations both described what has happened in Sudan as genocide, but neither was willing to publicly call out the Emirates and apply pressure. Trump has recently expressed interest — with the encouragement of Saudi Arabia — in trying to bring peace to Sudan. That’s welcome. But his family has started immense new business ventures with the Emirates, and I fear that these may have bought his complicity. Bravo at least to members of Congress like Senator Chris Van Hollen who are pushing to halt arms transfers to the Emirates as long as it enables atrocities. Third, in a broader sense, the killings in El Fasher represent a collapse of the entire international system created to respond to genocide and mass atrocities. For several decades, officials have somberly said “never again” and have created principles about the “responsibility to protect” and mechanisms like “atrocity prevention boards” — yet these look to me like window dressing. The massacres in El Fasher are among the most predicted slaughters in the history of atrocities. Yet no one, from world leaders to the United Nations secretary general, António Guterres, has made it a sufficient focus. We may never know the exact death toll in El Fasher, but we should recognize it as a collective failure of civilization. If you’d like to do your part, one of the three nonprofits in my 2025 holiday giving guide helps people suffering in Sudan. It’s the Mutual Aid Sudan Coalition, which supports “emergency response rooms” such as volunteer-run community kitchens. Some 26,000 Sudanese volunteers risk their lives to distribute this aid and stave off even worse catastrophe. My giving guide has raised $34 million in just a few weeks, and your contributions will be matched by Bloomberg Philanthropies. You can join us at KristofImpact.org.