Rebecca

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[Hen Mazzig @HenMazzig]

Over 700 rabbis from all over the United States have signed an open letter to Zohran Mamdani to apologize for his rhetoric.

The New York City mayor had recently referred to AIPAC as "monsters" and "dark money", familiar rhetoric that endangers Jews.

Politicians are using AIPAC as a focal point for their campaigns, hoping to earn easy votes at the cost of Jewish safety, the very people they may represent.

[Eli Lebowicz @EliLebowicz]

“When people criticize Zionists, they mean Jews. You’re talking anti-Semitism.”

-Martin Luther King Jr., 1967

[Hen Mazzig @HenMazzig]

Anne Frank wasn’t an analogy. She was a Jewish child hunted and murdered.

The Holocaust wasn’t a lesson in empathy. It was the extermination of a people overlooked by the world.

Stop recycling our dead as your protest signs.

[Hen Mazzig @HenMazzig]

My wedding made me think about everyone we thought were our friends, until the last two years showed us who they really are.

People don’t see how heavy this is. Being Jewish, being Israeli, being visible, right now feels like carrying the weight of the whole world’s anger on your shoulders.

It’s even harder watching my partner lose friends, be shunned by his own community, just because of who I am. My race, my ethnicity, and my nationality.

I know so many of you feel this is wrong. I know some of you care deeply, but you stay silent out of fear. You hide your friendship with us. And I don’t blame you. I’m not angry.

Because I know what it’s like to stand against a mob. To be hated for who you are. I’ve lived it— as a gay man, as a Middle Eastern and North African, as a Jew, as an Israeli.

So this is for you, the ones who feel shame. I forgive you. Truly. I hope one day you find the courage to stand with us. To stand against all racism and hate, even when the mob screams at you not to. Even when they threaten you with exile if you don't say what they want you to say.

Because that day will come, and when it does, we will be waiting with open arms.

[✶ @uxcel]

why is the pressure to "be the bigger person" always placed on the person who was wronged?

[ShipofTheseus @JewishSpaceLazr]

Losers tonight:
• The working class of NYC
• The Jews of NYC
• The NYPD
• The future of NYC
• The traditional Democratic Party
• America

Never tell me again how the socialist/Hamasnik wing of the Democratic Party is an unimportant fringe.

[Bethany S. Mandel @bethanyshondark]

I hope this puts to rest the notion that Jews control politics. We couldn’t even elect a non-antisemite in the most Jewish city in America.

[Moshe Hill @HillWithView]

Zohran Mamdani will absolutely move to shut down every single synagogue and Jewish non-for-profit in New York City.

I know this because in the Assembly he sponsored a bill that would do that in New York State.

[Hen Mazzig @HenMazzig]

Yesterday, the “Free Palestine” crowd decided it was acceptable to storm a synagogue in Poland and disrupt a Jewish event.

Who was the event for? Holocaust survivors.

What kind of moral collapse leads someone to believe that yelling at Holocaust survivors in a synagogue is a just cause?

And let’s be clear: Protesting inside a synagogue has nothing to do with Israel and everything to do with hating Jews.

@ShirionOrg

[Saul Sadka @Saul_Sadka]

What did y’all think "globalize the intifada" meant? Vibes? Papers? Essays? 🧵

It meant this sweet young couple, Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim, gunned down at an American Jewish Committee event at the Jewish Museum by radicalized monster Elias Rodriguez, chanting “Free, free Palestine.” (1/20)

[Dov Forman @DovForman]

Today, an antisemite walked up to a Jewish home in one of London’s most Jewish areas, pulled out a knife, and tore the mezuzah off the door.

Still think this is “just about Israel”?

Once again in Europe, Jews are being attacked at our homes and pushed to the margins of society.

[SK Tedeschi @skedeschi]

To the Jews... 🧵

Here's a thought for the day. I'm an historian. And a humanitarian. And a Jew. I was also quite naive in the sense that I genuinely believed *most* people would not stand by in silence, or worse, participate in acts of Jew hatred on the streets of Britain.

/1

[Eliana Goldin @Eliana_Goldin]

Now that I’ve graduated Columbia University, it’s time to talk about the worst antisemitic attack I faced personally on campus.

I was fired from the Columbia Daily Spectator for being an Orthodox Jew. It had nothing to do with my opinions on Israel. Here’s the story🧵:

[Rebecca @Imarocker24]

I told someone I work with today “I won’t get flustered. I am a robot.” And that is extremely accurate 😂

[Stephen Nedoroscik @GymnastSteve]

Elmo, the great thing about specializing in something is you get to decide. I think you’ll be a great specialist in anything you end up choosing!

[Rebecca @Imarocker24]

I made something!

[‘SMOKE AND DRIVE’ 💨🚘OUT NOW! @BobbyMahoney]

🖼️: @Imarocker24
📸: @ZackMorrison18

[Rebecca @Imarocker24]

The music business can be such a mixed bag, but it made me so happy tonight 😍

[Will Chamberlain @willchamberlain]

Hamas: "This ceasefire is boring, we're going to cross the border in force, raping, murdering, and kidnapping your civilians."

Israel: "Uh, yeah, this means war."

*war begins*

Hamas: "Whoa whoa whoa, this sucks. Can we have a ceasefire?"

Israel: "Sure, give the hostages back and surrender."

Hamas: "Ehh, we don't really feel like surrendering or giving back the hostages that we've been raping."

Israel: "Uh...ok, we'll pause the fighting temporarily AND release some of your convicted murderer friends if you release some of our hostages."

Hamas: "Deal."

*deal expires, war restarts*

Hamas: "Whoa whoa whoa, this sucks. Can we have a ceasefire?"

Israel: "Sure, give the remaining hostages back and surrender."

Hamas: "Ehh, we still don't really feel like surrendering or giving back the hostages that we've been raping."

Israel: "Ok, we're still willing to do a temporary pause and release even more prisoners if you're willing to release some hostages."

Hamas: "Uhh...but that temporary pause thing doesn't really work for us, because you'll restart the war again, and the war really hasn't gone well for us."

Israel: "That's why you shouldn't have invaded our country and raped, kidnapped, and murdered our civilians. You won't get another chance to do that. The war won't end until you surrender. Now, will you give up some hostages for a pause?"

Hamas: "We're happy to announce that we've agreed with some other people to surrender the hostages in exchange for an end to the war."

Israel: "Good luck with that."

[Rebecca @Imarocker24]

THIS ⬇️

[AG @AGHamilton29]

I know most of the people responsible or who are covering for it don't care, but let me explain how American Jews are feeling right now:

The overwhelming majority of Jews only live in a few countries in the world. Our families were driven out of much of Europe by pogroms and The Holocaust, and then we were ethnically cleansed from most of the Middle East.. something that rarely gets discussed.

As a result of that history, there is only a feeling of safety in societies that protect pluralism and in the world's only Jewish country. The existence of Jews in Israel is central to the Jewish religion, no matter how much some people would like to pretend otherwise.

The point is that for most Jews, Zionism is part of their identity. It's not about support for the Israeli government or any particular policy, but simply the right for the existence of the Jewish state.

Now we get to America and these protests. American Jews are Americans. We support the right of a Jewish state to exist, but that doesn't mean we want to be Israelis. Just like a French American can support the existence of France, or an Iranian American can support the existence of Iran (and can care about what happens there..). Yet I want people to understand how concerning it is to see what we are seeing now, especially given the history of the Jewish people. More upsetting is that much of this is just being ignored or downplayed by those in a position to speak up.

We are seeing videos of Jewish kids being restricted from entering school libraries. Jewish kids are being assaulted. Jewish kids face mobs attacking and harassing them simply for maintaining a belief that is central to their identity. And they are told that it's not an issue because all they have to do is denounce that part of their identity and then they can be counted as good Jews and accepted.

Then we are also seeing these mobs now openly chant for violence against "zionists," demand that "zionists" be banned from public spaces, chant for "Zionists" not to be allowed on the streets. Chant for violence against an overwhelming majority of Jews. And often also the ethnic cleansing of our relatives in Israel.

When most Jews hear that, it means us and our families. No amount of spin will change that. The goal is to try to make us feel unwelcome in these spaces and it is explicit.

You have no idea the feelings that video of a group of idiots at UCLA not letting a Jewish kid go to the library because he was a "zionist" brought out for Jewish Americans...

And before people start to argue about what things like "there is only one solution, intifada revolution" and "From the River to the Sea, Palestine will be Arab", we know what they mean. More importantly, we've made it clear how we perceive these things and that has made the mobs want to chant them even louder because they view it as effective intimidation. Not one of these chants has ever helped a Palestinian. Not one of them has ever changed a single Israeli policy. They are specifically aimed at intimidating people in America.

But it has gotten worse...

Businesses owned by Jews in Los Angeles are getting threatening calls telling them they either need to openly oppose Israel or they risk harassment/attacks. Jewish Synagogues facing bomb threats. Jewish-owned property is being vandalized. Jewish organizations are being explicitly targeted. Jews who support Israel are being actively targeted. And the demand is that we just accept it.

And again, the sickest part of it is not only the relative silence, but those who are supposed to inform the public on what is happening are pretending like it isn't happening because it would undermine a "mostly peaceful" narrative they prefer.

They are actively covering for the mobs doing these very things. And by the time this escalates, it will be too late. We can see where this is headed. And not just for Jews, because while we may be at the top of the target list, the people behind this also hate so many other aspects of American society and are open about saying so. They think they are revolutionaries and the society that Americans sacrificed so much to help build is their ultimate target.

The education system is failing as an institution to teach these wannabe Red Guards why this behavior is wrong. The media is failing as an institution to tell people the truth about what is happening. The government, mostly in deep blue areas, is failing as an institution to live up to its part of the social contract in protecting people from these criminal mobs. That's a lot of failures that are driving us into dangerous territory. American Jews aren't going to accept this path and being bullied out of public spaces without fighting back. I hope non-Jewish Americans wake up to it and also stand up against it because the more these mobs get away with, the further they will go. It may start with Jews (or "zionists"), but it won't end there.