Tag: antisemitism

starlightomatic:

starlightomatic:

Saturday morning, on the 26th of October, a Nazi walked into a Pittsburgh synagogue, shouting “All Jews must die!” and opened fire. He killed eleven Jewish people, including grandparents, husbands, wives, and a doctor remembered for his compassionate care of his patients during the AIDs crisis. Several of them were there celebrating a baby-welcoming ceremony for a gay couple’s newly adopted twins.

This was the deadliest antisemitic attack in all 364 years of American Jewish history. Jews all over the world are shaken, upset, and scared. We know that this could have been any of us, but beyond that, this attack struck at the heart of our people. We were attacked in a place of safety and sanctity. We were reminded that as Jews, we are not safe in America. And we lost eleven Jewish souls.

Some of us are grieving, some of us are angry, some of us are devastated, some of us are numb, some of us are crying, some of us are terrified, some of us are anxious, and some of us can barely walk up the stairs because this doesn’t make any sense and yet it makes so much sense because we all, on some level, imagined this was coming. Our history has taught us that our safety is never guaranteed, and over the past two years we have watched the sickening rise of Nazism and antisemitism all over the world, including in America, where, despite our history, many of us had been lulled into believing it could never happen here.

We lost a third of the world’s Jewish population within living memory. So many Jewish families, in every country, fled antisemitic violence within the past few generations. The tragedy we just experienced is visceral, it’s terrifying, it’s devastating.

So please, check in on your Jewish friends and ask how they are doing. Please, take a moment to understand and absorb this tragedy. Please, understand how this is not just yet another mass shooting (that while theoretically tragic, you don’t really have the space for another one, what with compassion fatigue), but rather an attack that pierced the heart of a group of people already carrying centuries of pain and trauma. Please, make space for this one. Please, when you talk about this, don’t use generalized language about hate and about how no one should be killed for their religion. Please speak the words: Jewish. Antisemitic. Say this was an antisemitic attack, on Jewish people. And please, keep us in your thoughts today.

Folks who aren’t Jewish, you can reblog this. In fact I’d be grateful if you did.

date-a-jew-suggestions:

I’m so fucking tired of goyim ignoring antisemitism. They ignore everything until something so extreme happens, like the recent shooting. How about you start caring about us BEFORE WE FUCKING DIE. Just fucking LISTEN for ONCE when we say we’re angry or scared or sad about the injustices we as a people have faced OVER AND OVER AGAIN. I don’t know one single Jewish person who hasnt been touched by antisemitism. I’ve been called a kike more times than I can count. I went to elementary school with a boy who told me he wished Hitler had won the war. I was shouted at and threatened by a stranger for wearing a Magen David. My grandpa has had to respond to bomb threats at our synagogue. My grandma had to switch roommates in college because her roommate was violently antisemitic. My fucking Jewish PRESCHOOL had to have ARMED GUARDS to keep people from fucking MURDERING PRESCHOOL AGED JEWISH CHILDREN. I thought all preschools had armed guards until I was like 12. Just fucking LISTEN when we say things. Here, I’ll give you a list of things you NEED to listen to us about.

• Holocaust deniers are violent antisemites, no exceptions. They are dangerous and do not deserve a platform to speak.
• Jewish people cannot be nazis, no matter how much you disagree with them. Ben Shapiro is a piece of transphobic racist shit, but he’s not and will never be a Nazi.
• Trump and many people in his cabinet have repeatedly used antisemitic dog whistles, most recently calling himself a nationalist.
• We. Are not. All. White. Stop being dicks to Jewish people of color.
• And we’re not all ashkenazi!!! Google is your friend if you don’t know what that means.
• Don’t do that “Nazi puncher” bullshit if you don’t actively uplift and defend Jewish people. Punching nazis is a great thing but you need to uplift and support jews at the same time.
• Stop pinning Israeli war crimes on random Jewish people. And stop demanding we tell you our opinions on Israel before you treat us with basic human decency.
• GOY IS NOT A SLUR
• Judaism is an ETHNORELIGION. I am both religiously AND ethnically Jewish. It’s not that hard to understand.
• Stop tone policing us
• Just fucking listen when we speak

pimpmizziriam:

hongkong-97:

lilsnoozyvert:

lilsnoozyvert:

lilsnoozyvert:

lilsnoozyvert:

big fucking surprise but trump is blaming the temple for not having been armed lmao

“if they had some kind of a protection inside the temple, maybe it could have been a very much different situation” —trump in response to a reporter’s question about gun control

what is it gonna take for you freaks to realize that antisemitism is still real and is deadly, right now, in 2018

you all need to fucking reblog this no offense. especially if you aren’t jewish

source, and another source in which the synagogue says they do in fact have guards, but only on major holidays.

how far do people have to go just to survive, and how long is this going to go on until the blame is finally focused on antisemitism itself?

if you need armed guards for religious services, something is very wrong. the only places i have heard having guards for religious gatherings was egypt during the civil war and a few countries where churches and mosques where being attacked by recognized terrorist organizations.

prismatic-bell:

You know, the news is really sheltering gentiles from the full horror of what happened this morning when they keep using the phrase “Brit Milah.” Yes, that’s what was happening in the synagogue this morning, but do you know what it is?

It’s a baby naming.

Every bit as important as a christening or first birthday.

That is what this shooter opened fire on. A baby naming with people praying for that baby’s health and happiness and future.

seph-cosmopolitan:

seph-cosmopolitan:

Goyim, please take antisemitism seriously and work to actively critique the antisemitism within and around yoi, whether it is implicit or explicit. So many of us are in mourning after Squirrel Hill bcz we’re terrified of stuff like this happening. We need you to be in solidarity, supporting us. There’s a better world out there, and we can build it, but one of the requirements for that is rooting out antisemitism. Z”L

If you’re a goy, please reblog this