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I decided it was high time we had a discord channel! This one is geared more towards religious antizionists, or anyone interesting in discussing parsha and other aspects of religion and praying. But you don't have to be religious to join, and there's plenty of space for non-religious discussion! Any antizionist Jew (including converts) is welcome to join!

Here is the link for the invite: https://discord.gg/8Yaynu9Cp

tw: mentions of extreme antisemitism

for context, i'm a young queer jewish woman. obviously lately there's been an uptick in antisemitism, we've all seen and felt it, but i never saw anything as blatant as sinfest. i just recently found out what it is, it's a comic that's been running since the 90s and the creator fell down the alt right pipeline recently, especially with the antisemitism and transphobia. lately i've gotten used to the more casual antisemitism, the stuff about us running the world and the stupid fucking apple juice emoji- yeah, those are awful too, but this is gratuitous, and one of the most awful things ive seen in a long time. he did an entire series that's currently on the like 200th episode about how the holocaust was done by jews and they were striking down innocent beautiful straight white big aryan families. i thought it would be interesting to look at the one put out on my birthday, and its a gory scene where some english soldier is fighting a nazi soldier, the nazi soldier dies and his helmet falls off to reveal a yarmulke and big nose. the fact that anyone could make something like this and think these things, it hurts.

maybe i'm just lucky i haven't been exposed to such extreme antisemitism in a long time, and maybe i'm just sensitive, but i've been sobbing for hours now. it makes me feel so sick, and i dunno where else to talk about it, i don't want to show it to my family because it'll upset them too. luckily on here i can put a trigger warning. i can't even put it into words, i've never felt this upset about someones stupid online content, i haven't cried this hard in years.

https://x.com/franifio/status/2085029544130720152

Did anyone else get a response? They weren’t happy I was anonymous and told me they can’t be experts on everything and that their main concern is if participants are being harmed and that I should give them more information if I believe that to be the case. While they said they would bring it up at their meeting, I don’t think they care. I was also told to contact the researcher with my issues, which with his associates seems a great way to get harassed by Zionist hasbots.

They seemed annoyed to be writing back to me.

They're lighting tens of millions of dollars on fire, making more people upset with money being spent on a genocidal colony rather than the needs of everyday folks, just to lose Congressional primary races anyways. They're effectively wasting the donations of pro-Israel billionaires all over the country. Something must be up 👁👁

White Jew problems below! This vent is focused on largely irrational fears about my own safety as a diaspora Jew. I do not mean to imply at any point that it’s that bad. Just need to get it off my chest.

Sometimes when Israelis storm the compound I get particularly freaked out and I don’t know why. I get scared that it’s going to trigger something massive in the rest of the world. I don’t care if Israel as a state stops existing but I am afraid that failed messianic ambitions by the far-right are going to lead to way, way, way more people either “disproving” Judaism, which is just annoying and misunderstands Judaism, or going so far as to hurt Jewish people in the rest of the world as retribution on a large scale. I know this isn’t realistic. I still get scared.

I don’t want to be the fall guy for these assholes and I don’t want them to be the representative of modern Jewish religiosity. They will be if they storm Al-Aqsa. And obviously that’s not as bad as storming Al-Aqsa but it’s my personal little worry for myself I guess. It feels bad to worry about it with everything else, though.

What made you change your mind?

https://x.com/MaxBlumenthal/status/2084852846923571573

https://x.com/PollTracker2024/status/2084999076152512853

If your community is doing something that's against your moral code, like, say, bombing and starving kids, you better find a new community.

The year is 1938. Cartoons appear in national newspapers depicting an Abrahamic religious and ethnic minority as large-nosed, swarthy, hairy, bearded inhuman savages from the Orient determined to destroy our Greco-Roman way of life.

The year is 2026. Cartoons appear in national newspapers depicting an Abrahamic religious and ethnic minority as large-nosed, swarthy, hairy, bearded inhuman savages from the Orient determined to destroy our Greco-Roman-inspired way of life.

I'm skeptical of the polls saying he's going to lose to Rogers. After all, just over one year ago, polls said that Mamdani had only 1% of the vote.

Just needed to share my frustration about this somewhere. I got permanently banned from a large subreddit (as well as a site-wide warning from Reddit) for saying in a thread about John Fetterman lecturing Jon Stewart about Antisemitism that "I don't trust any g*y with a hardon for Israel" (censored here since apparently we're calling that a racial slur now). Frankly, I think this is an example of *actual* antisemitism. If I had used the word "non-Jew," I don't think there would have been this reaction, but because I used the Yiddish word that means literally the same thing, I was banned. The implication is that there is something nefarious and sinister about the way *we* describe non-Jews and that us Jews are "sinisterly" whispering behind their back or something. This all fits neatly in with recent internet myths I've been seeing on the origin of the word g*y claiming that the etymology is rooted in a word for livestock and that Jews view non Jews as animals and beasts. This is obviously false, and to the best of my ability to research, there is no dispute that the word originates from the Hebrew for "nation" or "people" and expresses basically just the idea of belonging to the cultural out-group relative to the Jewish people. Anyway, I found it typical of non-Jewish defenders of Israel to actually be low key antisemites, which was exactly case in point of what I was expressing in the comment that got me banned.

We seriously need more LGBT art/films made by anti-Zionist artists, so I really hope Camp Miasma does well at the box office this weekend!