If you want to know how unsafe Jews feel in diaspora right now, here is an interesting fact:
There is a place in the world where 1400 Jews were mercilessly slaughtered just 3 weeks ago. And right now, most of the world's Jewish population is thinking about moving TO that place.
Not a good look as pro-Palestinian protestors target a cancer hospital on New York’s Upper East Side. The Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center also houses a paediatric day hospital…
“Make sure they hear you, they’re in the windows”.
If
@HillelNeuer
succeeds in burning
@UNRWA
to the ground this year, he should be handed a Nobel Peace Prize. It won't happen, but that has more to do with the Nobel's problems than Hillel. He deserves it.
@glowingforgods
@amir_zvi
Genovia? You mean the kingdom ruled by Maria from The Sound of Music? They saved the lives of thousands of Jewish children and provided immense financial and logistical support for the Kindertransport.
This video has EXPLODED. Why? Because a regular bloke treats a passing by traditional Orthodox Jew simply as a fellow human being. That's all. The low bar indicates how excluded and scared Jews are today. Include Jews & antisemitism in your DEI initiatives! It's crucial.
If you're going to take home a shit ton of money plus an award on the back of a movie about Rudolf Hoess and then use your platform to defame the Jewish State then yea, you'd damn well better refute your Judaism.
It's true. The visual contrast is striking. It's a clear reminder that the Jewish people have always been outmanned by our haters and outgunned by our enemies. But we have our values, we have ethics, and we have truth on our side. And we are not going anywhere.
If you call yourself a communist or have a ☭ in your bio, you may NOT discuss human rights, social justice, social values, or anything to do with making the world a better place.
You may ONLY talk about creative ways to make a full meal out of a single potato.
Can someone please explain to me what went wrong in American Jewish history that created so many self-hating Gen-X and millenial Jews? First generation American Jews want to know.
It is really dispiriting watching, in real time, the twitter accounts of Jewish kids cave under extraordinary pressure and go from "I don't know a ton about what's going on in I/P but it seems really complicated" to "OMG I'm so sorry I said a bad thing about Hamas." It's tragic.
The term "self-hating Jew" is a terrible misnomer. People like
@KenRoth
and
@PeterBeinart
and
@elivalley
do not hate themselves. They just hate Jews. They're Jew-hating Jews. And they love themselves for it.
How is this tweet, on its own, not sufficient evidence to keep this man away from poisoning the minds of young people ever again? Cornel West should not be allowed anywhere near a classroom.
Let us never forget the extraordinary courage and commitment of brother Aaron Bushnell who died for truth and justice! I pray for his precious loved ones! Let us rededicate ourselves to genuine solidarity with Palestinians undergoing genocidal attacks in real time!
Friendly reminder that Zionism is a successful, revolutionary, and radical movement for indigenous self-determination of a historically oppressed minority in their ancestral homeland. If you're not a Zionist, you aren't progressive.
After murdering two innocent Israeli civilians and injuring many more, a Palestinian terrorist was neutralized in Tel Aviv. You’re an abomination
@guardian
They should all be fired. Agree or disagree with their positions, when you serve at the pleasure of the President, you do not take to the streets to protest his decisions.
This is unprecedented as far as I know. It is, in fact, historic. Biden staffers organized a vigil outside the
#WhiteHouse
calling on their boss to call for a ceasefire.
Wow!
And to the staffers, thank you so much!
It's official. Rabbis and other leaders of campus Jewish life are telling their Jewish students to leave campus and go home. It's not hyperbole. American campuses are literally not safe for Jewish students anymore.
Shabbat shalom to everyone except those who just decided within the last 48 hours that they would not tolerate antisemitism, because it hurts the Palestinian cause.
Imagine the look on 6 million faces learning their ancestors are told by antisemites that they MUST return to Europe because their eyes, nose, skin color, etc makes them TOO European to live anywhere else.
Pesach is not a universal holiday. It doesn't celebrate the "idea" of liberation. Just as Ramadan doesn't celebrate the idea of enlightenment and Easter doesn't celebrate the idea of resurrection. Pesach is the liberation of the Jewish people and our return to our homeland.
This is the antisemitic Double Standard Sharansky speaks of. Israel, and Israel alone, must cherry pick it's allies to be of pure heart & soul in order to be worthy of acceptance by the world. Sorry, Mehdi. Nations (including Israel) make alliances with diverse partners. Tough.
For years, supporters of Israel trumpeted the fact that Israel was a democracy surrounded by dictatorships. But as soon as those dictatorships got onboard with Israel and its occupation, suddenly it’s ‘wow’ look at our national anthem being played in the dictator’s palace.
Here's the thing Israel-hating antisemites will never understand. For us, Israel is not a joke or a game. It's not a pawn in a proxy war or media fodder. Israel is our very lives. That's why I won't stop fighting for Jewish kids or speaking up for our homeland. It's all we have.
Wait, I'm sorry, there was a country that gained independence from colonial rule in *checks notes* 1948? SEVENTY-FOUR years ago? And there are still people debating whether this country does/might/should exist??? No, that can't be right.
Dear politically conservative Jews, You will see great numbers of (predominantly young) very left wing Jews who may have even identified as antizionist suffer from the betrayal of those they believed to be friends. This is no time for sneering "I told you so's." We are am echad.
As a very proud Jew and a very proud Zionist, I condemn this from the bottom of my heart. There is zero tolerance for the desecration of sacred spaces. Whoever did this brings shame on those of us who care about Jewish safety in Israel.
People arrived for
#eid
prayers this morning at the Tayba Islamic Center on Coney Island Avenue in Brooklyn NY to the words “Death To Palestine” desecrating the Masjid’s entrance.
Tisha b'Av is about Israel. It is about the people of Israel and the incalculable pain of being torn away from the land of Israel. If you're trying to make it about something else, you are perverting this holy day.
"Next year in Jerusalem" is radical decolonization. Its the cry of a historically oppressed, enslaved, disbursed, and systematically murdered people to return to their ancestral homeland. Until you understand that, keep the name of our Holy City out of your mouth
Yea, Judaism is super weird. When you choose not to follow our traditional rituals, you can do so without punishment. But when you call for our mass murder, suddenly we get upset.
Any friend of the Jewish people will always be welcome at my seder table (or Shabbat table) irrespective of faith or creed, and I've hosted many non-Jews. But no, non-Jews cannot host their own seders. It's a Jewish ritual. That seems pretty self evident.
If you're still unclear on what intersectionality means (at its core), think of the amount of abuse Jewish women receive on this site. Then think of how much less they would get if they were either not women or not Jewish.
If Sally Rooney were a true figure of Irish literature, she would have understood the power of the Gaelic language and it's massive historic importance in the fight against British imperialism. And if she understood that, then yea, she would understand Hebrew's importance too.
Why are so many Jewish people afraid of Jewish power? We don't even have that much. Just enough to guarantee our security on a tiny sliver of basically worthless land. But even that absolutely petrifies so many Jews into extraordinary shame and acts of self destruction.
Fascinating to see the progressive Jewish celebrities come out against Kanye, because he happened to, by sheer accident, phrase his antisemitism in a way that triggered them. One word difference (Zionists, for example, or "Chassidic Jews") and they would have all remained silent.
PM Netanyahu is a controversial figure, and there is no doubt much to criticize, but what Senator Warren is doing right now in comparing him to Donald Trump is unwarranted. Bibi is not Trump. Nowhere near.
So, the
@Jerusalem_Post
caught
@IfNotNowOrg
saying kiddish (the Jewish prayer for the deceased) for literal undisputed terrorists and instead of doing the the decent thing (apologizing, being embarrassed, pledging to fire those responsible), they double down. INN is a hate group.
There is antisemitism on the far left and on the far right. There is antisemitism on the moderate left and the moderate right. There is antisemitism in the deep center. There is no political affiliation that dispositively immunizes someone from antisemitism.
Over 60 Jews showed up to our
#JewsAgainstAIPAC
organizing call last night 💪
As
@AIPAC
tries to punish reps who support Palestinian rights, it's urgent for Jews to show our support of human rights for all.
And we’re just getting started. Get involved ⬇️
Imagine cancelling Bruce Lee movies, because he happens to share the same name as the Confederate general. That's roughly as absurd as connecting the MCU character Sabra to "Sabra and Shatila."
I walked nearly 2 miles to shul on Friday evening, none of it through Jewish neighborhoods. In that short time, 3 women stopped me to say that seeing me strolling down the street kippah-clad on a Friday eve made them want to light candles right away. Jewish Pride is so powerful.
I don't know how Jewish warrior queens like
@Eve_Barlow
and
@JordynTilchen
have the energy and the fearlessness to stand up against self-serving bigots day in and day out, but I thank Hashem for the strength they inspire in all of us.
We deleted a tweet that unintentionally amplified calls for violence against civilians. We shudder thinking of bombs falling on our loved ones in Tel Aviv.
To propagandists amplifying the error: stop your malicious attempts to distract from ongoing Israeli state violence.
Dear EVERYONE, There's a good chance your Jewish friends are not ok right now. We are terrified watching our neighbors turn on us. Check in on your Jewish friends right now and let them know you care. Because right now, it really feels like nobody does.
If you haven’t checked up on your Jewish friends in
#Montreal
,
#Toronto
,
#NYC
,
#London
,
#France
and pretty much anywhere in the world right now.
Stop reading this and do so.
We are under attack in Israel & in every major city of the world 🌎
עם ישראל חי 🇮🇱
#jtwitter
Oh no, Sarah, this is so gross. There are many good reasons not to attack Jews. "Do not attack us because we are not like those other Jews" is not among them.
Cassie created a safe space on her campus for survivors of sexual assault. After a deluge of death threats for being proudly Jewish, she was interviewed for a CNN special while wearing her name in Hebrew on a necklace. She is a symbol of Jewish strength.
#IStandWithCassie
Make no mistake - "washing" is one of the oldest antisemitic canards there is. If the Jew does something that appears good, it is necessarily a lie. LGBT rights (pinkwashing), environmental concerns (greenwashing), etc. all merely a feint to hide the Jew's true intentions.
In a stunning display of Islamophobia,
@benandjerrys
has decided to stop selling ice cream to Palestinian residents of Judea and Samaria. For some reason, the BDS movement will strangely claim this as a win. But make no mistake, this will not affect Jewish residents one bit.
Early this morning, the people of Georgia elected an African American and a Jewish American to serve as their senators. This afternoon, confederate flags fly from The Capitol. We must never stop fighting for America's soul, because it is far more fragile than any of us realized.
Let me get this straight,
@ejdickson
. You lied to your bf about a movie, he moved to Israel & found a Way better life far away from you. So now you attack Jewish children in the pages of
@RollingStone
for loving their ancestral homeland & keeping their traditions? About right?
@marclamonthill
Quite enough has been written about her and her foiled attempt to blow up a movie theater, may her name be blotted out of the history books, and her legacy be forgotten.
I am going to avoid tagging anyone for the sake of their safety, but queer Jews are such icons of
#JewishPride
, and I am so proud to be led by so many brave, queer Zionists. You all are the absolute best.
#loveislove
The establishment of the State of Israel is nothing short of a modern day miracle. It was not a peaceful process and many people of all nationalities lost homes, property, and lives. But I will never call the events of 1948 "The Great Catastrophe." In any language.
So AOC was going to vote "no" on iron dome funding. Then she realized such a vote would threaten her safety so she withdrew her "no" vote. Guys, I think AOC may have just closed on a house in Sderot.
Imagine for a moment what would have happened had Hamas successfully jammed the iron dome radar systems. Imagine 4,000 rockets from Gaza hitting their civilian targets in Israel & imagine the scale of the assault on Gaza with which Israel would have HAD TO respond to stop them.
One of the most dangerous phrases thrown around on here is: "silence is complicity." That's a lie. When it comes to complicated conflicts far away or esoteric policies, you don't always have to take sides. Take the opportunity to read and educate yourself quietly. That's ok.
A quick guide to identifying an antisemite.
When Palestinian leadership oppressed Palestinian rights activists and you find a way to blame the Jews, you just might be a Jew hater.
Shame on the Palestinian Authority.
Suppressing dissent and criminalizing protest only deepens the violence of Israel’s apartheid system.
We stand with Palestinians against the violence of the Palestinian Authority’s authoritarianism. Freedom for political prisoners now.
The number one critique I used to give my young students when they were just learning how to put together essays was, "Do not use words you do not understand." Same goes for you, bucko. I know you are desperately trying to look intelligent. It isn't working.
It actually prevents the ability for us to understand & critique so as to resist & dismantle antisemitism by mystifying what it is, a technology of power & racial rule of european colonial modernity.
I wonder how many supporters of "If Not Now" know how the quotation begins, who said it, and, in the context of Jewish history, what a deeply Zionist sentiment the full quotation is. That would require fundamental Jewish literacy most of them do not possess.
Yup. That makes sense.
@bariweiss
starts her own news org and delivers insightful analysis from Pulitzer winners and cutting edge reporting from on-the-ground observers.
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tries to copy her and ends up scraping the bottom of the barrel for the likes of
@CynthiaNixon
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A tip of the hat to
@bariweiss
for eliciting this kind of powerful emotion for a man who is not only accustomed to the camera but also totally comfortable putting on an entertaining show. It takes a great deal of skill to shatter his defenses and get him to feel on screen.
Hey Jewish leaders:
This is no time to take breaks, or to go on vacation.
You should be working 18 hour days to figure out how to fix what's going wrong.
When the going gets tough, true leaders step up.
The world is testing our mettle. Let's show em what we're made of.
Praying today for the family of Ephraim Gold, zichrono livracha, may his memory be a blessing, and may his mourners be comforted among the mourners of Zion and Jerusalem. Murdered for being a Jew, right here in our very own United States.
Just to be clear, when you say "preying on vulnerable refugees,b you mean offering them shelter, warmth, food, and comfort. It just so happens that they're doing this on land you believe should be judenfrei. Did I get that right?
Israel’s settlers are preying on vulnerable refugees from Ukraine, offering help and homes in West Bank settlements. Beneath the smiles, there’s a toxic message: Flee occupation, become occupiers
@ArkadyMazin
Opinion
I stand in solidarity with
@AlinejadMasih
, who, as an Iranian American journalist, became the target of a kidnapping plot for speaking out against human rights abuses in Tehran. A free press must be protected here at home and abroad.
There's a lot wrong with this. I know that. I get it. But I just can't get past the phrase "ass-splitting truth" and I'm now committed to casually slipping that into a conversation some day.
Just got a call from my 7th grade teacher who said, "I know you're super into antisemitism advocacy. I just read an amazing article. Its about two kids
@blakeflayton
and
@juliajassey
. You need to read this." And I said, "I know them and I'm going to work for them some day." BH
There are many religious traditions that don't center Israel (most, in fact). Judaism just doesn't happen to be one. If you're looking for spiritual fulfillment disconnected from Israel, we beg you to look elsewhere.
There was a time not too long ago when people (left, right, and center) generally cheered for a group of good guys who put themselves in danger to kill a group of bad guys before the bad guys could kill a whole bunch of civilians.
There are some people whose hatred of Israel rises to the mania of antisemitism. This is terrible, but it is not Rashida Tlaib. Rashida simply hates Jews, whether in America, Israel, or anywhere in the world. She hates Jews, and it is not more complicated than that.
This is not a "pro-Palestinian" rally. These are brownshirts in keffiyehs marching in diaspora's most Jewish city. I have been watching this video over and over for the last 36 hours and I still don't know what to say.
🇺🇸 — WATCH: Several hundred participated in a pro-palestinian demonstration in Brooklyn on Saturday, chanting ‘We don’t want no two states, we want all of it,’ and ‘There is only one solution, intifada revolution.’
I still can't quite shake the fact that an organization that calls itself both Jewish & a Voice for Peace (it is neither, but that's beside the point) literally tweeted the words, "Zionism is antisemitic." Never let them off the hook for that.