A social media post expressing concern for Jews targeted in a pogrom is enough to qualify one as “Zionist.”
““This list, coupled with the many ways in which our authors have been targeted — review bombing, Jewish book event cancellations, online abuse and harassment, censorship — is deeply troubling, and is a part of our concerns about wider scale antisemitism in the literary world, and more generally,” she said.” #Antisemitism#Jews#Jewish#Books
"Criticism of the state of Israel, the #Israeli government, policies of the Israeli government, or #Zionist ideology is not—in and of itself—antisemitic" says letter
An anti-Israel student group at #Columbia Law School sent a threatening email on Friday telling #Jewish students that they will be neither "safe" nor "free" until "everyone is safe" and "Palestine is free."
The National Lawyers Guild chapter that defended #Hamas#Oct7 attack, put out a statement condemning school for calling in #NYPD to clear out occupied building.
The statement told #Jews that they are not safe & accused Jewish students who oppose divestment of threatening everyone's safety.
"To the #Jewish students, faculty, & trustees blocking divestment and urging the violent crackdowns on campus: you threaten everyone's safety. Our safety cannot be predicated on the oppression of others, whether campus protestors or Palestinians," the statement added.
The warning to #Jews at #Columbia was attributed to "the Jewish members" of the National Lawyers Guild chapter.
While no students publicly signed their names on the letter, the group's organizing committee took credit.
"President Joe Biden on Tuesday issued a call to fight a 'ferocious surge' of antisemitism, saying such hate has no place in America as he connected the horrors of the Holocaust to Hamas’ attack on Israel."
CNN reports on Biden's speech at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum’s annual Days of Remembrance ceremony at the U.S. Capitol. "Biden’s staunch support for Israel’s war against Hamas, which has now led to the deaths of more than 34,000 Palestinians, has caused deep fractures in the coalition that sent him to the White House in 2020."
A cogent summation of what American Jews are feeling right now. Since it's from Xitter, I'm using the Thread Reader App to share it here so y'all can read without going to The Bad Place.
A #Jewish woman who called a Lyft saw the October 7 license plate.
She asked the company for a refund which was initially denied.
The DMV said they are looking into the plate.
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‘We are leaving Morocco for good after 600 years,’ David Corcos told his family as they made ‘aliya’ to Israel from Mogador (known today as Essaouira) in 1959. David’s ancestors...arrived in Morocco from Spain as ‘The King’s merchants’. They were part of a select group of Jews enjoying trading privileges in Morocco’s largest port, where half the residents were Jews. Today almost none are left.
Sydney Corcos is a researcher on the history of the Mogador community, which maintained close relations with Eretz Israel through the centuries... In 2020, Sydney closed a circle with Morocco, when he became involved with the establishment of Beit Dakira, a centre dedicated to the Jewish history of Mogador..."
I’m a Jewish linguist, and unlike some in Congress, I think ‘Ashkenormativity’ is a perfectly fine word.
Sarah Bunin Benor May 2, 2024
The term arose in Jewish discourse around 2014. It has since been used by North American Jews of Moroccan, Bukharian, Turkish, Ashkenazi, Ethiopian, Persian, Black, Japanese-American & other backgrounds to critique and debate the orientations of various educational, cultural & communal institutions & products...
The Sephardi/Mizrahi advocacy organization JIMENA...has created a toolkit to help day schools... “The schools were built and the curriculum was created at a time when Jewish life was ‘Ashkenormative’ — Ashkenazi Jews catering to Ashkenazi Jews,” JIMENA’s executive director explained. “And there’s a need for the schools to meet the current needs of their student populations.”
Jews discuss Ashkenormativity not to perpetuate the power imbalance, but to counter it..."
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"Huge crowd last night at the #LiberationShabbat service at the UW Madison tent encampment (liberated zone)! Organized by a group of #UWMadison#Jewish students. Very moving! And a quick transition afterwards in time for the Muslim call for prayer in the same space, beautiful!"
Danielle Kaminsky (age 33, born October 1990) is a Queens high school teacher who previously taught social studies at Origins High School. Due to online
Jewish American historian Norman Finkelstein breaks down misconceptions of Israeli society as it is understood in the West:
"Netanyahu is a reflection... of Israeli society. He's an obnoxious, narcissistic Jewish supremacist who thinks that only Jews count in God's Grand Design.
"It's a lunatic state & a lunatic society. We should be as free about saying that as we would say about Nazi Germany beginning in around 1943."
My solidarity goes to those #Jewish / #Israeli students who genuinely feel unsafe, threatened or subject to prejudice. Nobody deserves it.
But I couldn't care less about those who just feel uncomfortable because the protests are about something bad that their country is doing.
When Putin started his unforgivable war in Ukraine, and protests sprawled around the world, there wasn't much talk about shutting down the protests because they would make Russians abroad feel uncomfortable. So why do we have to treat Israelis and Jewish as exceptional snowflakes? Just because they keep stubbornly playing the antisemitism card whenever you criticize them?
#Safety and #comfort aren't the same thing. People have an inalienable right to feel safe and not subject to prejudice. But their ideas and dogmas don't have the same rights. They aren't people. I shouldn't refrain from protesting against ideas and acts that I perceive as wrong just because my protest may make somebody else feel uncomfortable. Pulling people out of their comfort zone and creating awareness is the whole point of a protest, after all.
And universities are exactly meant to be those factories of ideas where different sensibilities meet and come up with a better view of the world, without fear of retaliation.
If you don't feel comfortable about it, if you feel like criticism against your ideology is criticism against you as a person, then probably you just don't belong to a university in the first place.
And if you keep calling out as an antisemitic anyone who criticizes the acts of #Netanyahu's government, thus advancing the fascist theory that the ideology of a government is part of the identity of the nation, and thus political criticism is personal criticism against all of its the citizens, then you're just an idiot, or someone who benefits from this simplification.
Absolutely appalling scenes from #Harvard. #Jewish students being harassed. While protesting against the slaughter of civilians by #Israel in #palestine is justified. The usual crap of threats against those who do not agree and calling for harm to the #USA is not acceptable. Also any support for #hamas should result in those doing so being taken away. Hamas have killed many of their own people, and knew exactly what they were doing when they killed so many innocent #Israelis.
Daily reminder that The Most Moral Army of the so-called #Jewish (#Ashkenazi#whitesupremacist#settlercolonial) State tied up #patients (men, women, and children) and medical staff at #Nasser Hospital in #Gaza and executed them in cold blood before dumping their bodies in a mass grave.
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I'm seeing so much #antisemitism right now. Let me share with you my traditional response to it: my SFF #novels. The ones with #Jewish main characters are The Time of the Ghosts, The Wizardry of Jewish Women, and The Green Children Help Out. https://gillianpolack.com/my-books/ The Green Children Help Out is published by a Jewish press.
I would be very happy if people shared their favourite SFF novels by current Jewish writers. So many Jewish cultures to read about! So much potential for good fiction.
"Accuracy is so important to me,” Goyhood #author Reuven Fenton told The Algemeiner. “People assume that the ultra-Orthodox #Jewish community is the Jewish version of the Taliban and that’s not true at all.”
“Whenever you see anything media-oriented that has to do with Orthodox #Jews, if you’re part of that world in any way, you look at it and roll your eyes because they never get it right. It’s full of flaws, exaggerations, and misinformation,” added the first-time author, who is also the only Orthodox Jewish reporter on staff for the New York Post. “I felt it was my obligation, [and] that the least I could do in writing this #novel was to get everything on the money.”
Who is Danielle Kaminsky? Jewish Teacher Sues DOE for Antisemitism at NYC High School (urmi.org)
Danielle Kaminsky (age 33, born October 1990) is a Queens high school teacher who previously taught social studies at Origins High School. Due to online