sometimes when tons and tons of people keep staring the same misinfo it makes me curious where it came from. i keep seeing these:
- the idea that jews are not an ethnicity, we are just practitioners of a religion, and this is “proven” by jews living in different places and having different skin colors. sometimes people will say that the idea of jews being an ethnicity is zionist propaganda
- the idea that ashkenazi jews are slavs who converted to judaism and we are not descended from anyone who came from the middle east (this is different khazar theory and i see it WAY more often)
- they know better than us about ourselves, have the right to lecture us about it, and if we push back we must by lying in order to bolster territorial claims in israel/palestine
i’ve read that these claims were all part of propaganda that was pushed in the arab world in the 20th century (sorry i can’t be more specific than that because i don’t remember more details)
but yeah… do you hear this stuff often too? what other misinfo beliefs have you heard that seem to pop up grassroots style but all are suspiciously similar? have you ever believed any of these things, where did you hear them, and what caused you to unlearn them?
making a different reblog for this bc it’s a slightly different topic but something i worry about is that jews who aren’t raised in a solid grounding of jewish history (either bc they’re not in formal jewish education or their jewish education doesn’t focus on history — most hebrew schools don’t) will hear these things from the gentiles who believe them and they’ll believe them too. i’ve already seen some of this but i worry more for the next generation coming up
