Rachel Aranoff

Mother, wife, Jewess, American, New Yorker. Love my family, my community, my heritage, my country and my homeland 💙🇺🇸🇮🇱 והעיקר לא לפחד כלל…

[Frum TikTok @FrumTikTok]

Chareidim and the IDF.

"When I see a soldier, wow, I need to have respect for him, humility before him. It has nothing to do with Zionism...this person is willing to give up his life to protect me."

This clip is making waves in the Frum world.

Credit: Rabbi @motafrank1 and @Chusidel.

[Jake Wallis Simons @JakeWSimons]

Sickening. Just sickening. Monstrous.

[Yehuda Teitelbaum @chalavyishmael]

The Yevsektsiya were Jews. They blamed Zionists and traditional Jews for alienating Soviet society. They believed that if Jews abandoned religion, nationalism, and every trait the regime found objectionable, Communism would reward them with acceptance.

They helped shut down synagogues, persecuted Hebrew teachers, and denounced fellow Jews as enemies of progress. When they were no longer useful, the Soviet state disbanded the Yevsektsiya. Many of its members were executed during Stalin's purges. Others disappeared into labor camps. Their loyalty bought them nothing.

The Antizionist League of Iraq was made up of Jews as well. Its members insisted that Zionism was the source of hostility toward Iraqi Jews. They argued that if Jews publicly rejected the idea of a Jewish state, suspicion and hatred would disappear. They were wrong. The League itself was dissolved and its leaders imprisoned. The Farhud left hundreds of Jews dead, Jewish homes and businesses were looted and destroyed, and over the following years an ancient community was driven into exile. Nobody stopped to ask whether their victims were Zionists before burning their homes or stabbing them in the streets.

A century ago, Baghdad had one of the largest Jewish communities in the world. Jews made up roughly a quarter of the city's population. Today there are fewer than ten Jews left in all of Iraq. Trying to prove that you are one of the "good Jews" has never altered the outcome.

German Jews were among the most assimilated Jews in the world. They were educated, patriotic, and deeply proud of being German. Many of them fought proudly in WWI. They often looked down on poorer Jews arriving from Eastern Europe. Some convinced themselves that antisemitism was directed only at those less refined than themselves. Even the Association of German National Jews sought accommodation with the Nazi movement and declared its opposition to Zionism. The Nazis outlawed the organization anyway. Its members were deported and murdered alongside the rest of European Jewry.

Today there are fewer Jews in all of Europe than there are Arab citizens of Israel. So much for Europe lecturing Israel about tolerance.

Once a society begins stigmatizing Jews, or even just one category of Jews, the writing is already on the wall. Assimilation has never provided lasting protection. Appeasement has never provided lasting protection. Explaining ourselves politely and hoping to be accepted as the "good ones" has never provided lasting protection.

We are living through a dangerous moment. The United States, and perhaps Argentina, remain among the few places where Jews are not broadly stigmatized. But even that cannot be taken for granted. A 2023 Harvard-Harris poll found that two thirds of Americans between the ages of 18 and 24 agreed that "Jews as a class are oppressors and should be treated as oppressors." Those young people will shape the future of public opinion.

We have no choice but to speak plainly about antizionism.

Because if antizionism were merely opposition to Netanyahu, it would not predate Netanyahu. If it were merely opposition to Israeli policy, it would not predate Israel. Long before 1948, Jews were being massacred for refusing to accept their place as a tolerated minority.

The uncomfortable truth is that antizionism did not emerge in response to Jewish power. It emerged in response to the idea that Jews should possess power at all.

Kind explanations did not save the Jews of Baghdad. Compliance did not save the Jews of Germany. Revolutionary zeal did not save the Jews of the Soviet Union.

Clarity matters. Memory matters. And the refusal to lie about what we are facing matters most of all.

[Rachel Aranoff @rac99234]

@joelpollak I think it’s a fair question Ahmari is asking. Who represents the Jewish community? The activist leftist Jews or the religious Jews? Also, while McCain’s post seems good intentioned, it is also patronizing. I am not freaked out or seeking sympathy.

[Rachel Aranoff @rac99234]

@MaudMaron @liel @NormalcyNow 💯 I will not vote for a Dem. The most powerful Dem, Schumer, is horrible. “The least bad Dem” undermines our efforts. It lowers the bar for what it means to be pro Israel and pro conservative values to eventually make those values meaningless.

[Rachel Aranoff @rac99234]

@gary_weiss @CGasparino They will continue to support Mamdani et al because they hate Republicans more than they are uncomfortable with the anti-Semitic Dems.

[Rachel Aranoff @rac99234]

@liel Democrats who are sad about the results and who are asking what happened to the Dem party still hate Republicans more than they hate their party. Jews don’t understand that means the Dem party hates you. We have brought this upon ourselves.

[Rachel Aranoff @rac99234]

@liel @RonColeman An Orthodox Jew and a Mamdani Jew walk into a bar. The bartender says to them, “Get out. I don’t serve Jews.”

[Rachel Aranoff @rac99234]

@JNS_org @sidrosenberg19 Sid threw the Republican candidate for mayor under the bus and supported a Democrat instead.

[Rachel Aranoff @rac99234]

@guypbenson @jakejakeny Eventually both will learn it’s not about Israel and that they are both hated by the Dems. Joke: Brad Lander and Dan Goldman walk into a bar in Brooklyn. The bartender says, “Get out. I don’t serve Jews.”

[Rachel Aranoff @rac99234]

@VickieforNYC Brad Lander and Dan Goldman walk into a bar in Brooklyn. The bartender says. “Get out. I don’t serve Jews.”

[Rachel Aranoff @rac99234]

@RJC An anti-Israel Jew and a Zionist walk into a bar. The bartender says. “Get out. I don’t serve Jews.”

[Rachel Aranoff @rac99234]

@jacobkornbluh An anti-Israel Jew and a Zionist walk into a bar. The bartender says. “Get out. I don’t serve Jews.”

[Rachel Aranoff @rac99234]

@speechboy71 Rebbe Nachman of Breslov, the famous teaching states: "The whole world is a very narrow bridge, and the main thing is not to be afraid at all".

[Rachel Aranoff @rac99234]

@StephenM Stephen Miller and Brad Lander walk into a bar. Bartender says, “Get out. I don’t serve Jews.”

[Rachel Aranoff @rac99234]

@thehoffather A Trump Jew and a Lib Jew walk into a bar. The bartender says, “Get out. I don’t serve Jews.”

[Rachel Aranoff @rac99234]

@karol @joelpollak A Trump Jew and a Jewish Lib walk into a bar. The bartender says, “Get out. I don’t serve Jews.”

[Rachel Aranoff @rac99234]

@karol A Trump Jew and a Mamdani Jew walk into a bar. Bartender says, “Get out. I don’t serve Jews.”

[Rachel Aranoff @rac99234]

@karol Brad Lander and Dan Goldman walk into a bar. Bartender says, “Get out. I don’t serve Jews.”

[Rachel Aranoff @rac99234]

@liel Brad Lander and Dan Goldman walk into a bar. Bartender says, “Get out. I don’t serve Jews.”