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beliefs aside…how can you even get to that point? To believe that antisemitism ISNT abt the pain of the Jewish people? Did you receive no holocaust education in school? Have you NEVER heard of (at the least) Anne frank? Do you know that words have meaning? The conversation around Israel, Jews, and antisemitism just gets worse by the day, but I truly cannot fathom how we got to this point where antisemitism is starting to be perceived as not being abt Jews and Judaism.

Perhaps that’s me being naive (especially bc I’m not jewish), but god. It’s horrible. I’ve long since given up with it online (it felt like i never made a difference, and i lost 8 friends which I’m still dealing with to this day) but i still try to be there for the people i know in real life, and support Jewish and Israeli people/businesses. I don’t know if that’s enough. It never feels like it.

sorry for the long vent. I hope you (and anyone reading this) has a good day ❤️

Oh yikes, that is horrific. There are few things more oppressive than actively decentering a marginalised group from the words for their own persecution.

Truly, to get to that point, I think takes incredible historical ignorance, the arrogance of refusing to listen to the voices of the people that are directly affected, propaganda, and just plain old hatred.

As a fellow non Jew, honestly the best thing we can do is be willing to listen, to learn, and to stand up and speak out against antisemitism whenever we see it. It's not easy - like you, I've lost friends, I've had hideous amounts of abuse and threats, I've become disillusioned with people and organisations I used to have a lot respect and admiration for, but it is the right thing to do. Jewish people make up such a vanishingly tiny percentage of the world population and they shouldn't have to fight this alone. Historically, they have been at the forefront of movements fighting for the rights of other minority groups and now, when they need people to fight for them, again, they're mostly standing alone.

It's because I speak french.

When Robespierre demanded French Jews be protected whilst in foreign countries he referred to them as Israélites. Books that document Jewish history and culture in france and francophone areas refer to them as Israélites. When Napoleon removed French Jews' rights, he referred to them as Israélites. Old bible story cartoons I watched referred to Jews as Israélites.

In the dictionary, "Israélites" is literally a synonym of Jew.

In french, Israélite referrs to all ethnic Jews (of Israël, Ashkenazi, from Maghreb, etc) regardless of religion. The word "Juif/Juive" (= Jew/Jewish) specifically referred to people who practice Judaism, regardless of ethnicity (so converts were more often referred to as Juif, rather than Israélite, if they were not ethnically Jewish). "Israéliens" was used to refer to people of Israeli nationality, regardless of ethnicity or religion.

Over time the usage of "Israélite" kinda got replaced with Juif/Juive, as languages change, but it's still not entirely uncommon in literature and research papers.

I have an older coworker who's parents immigrated to NZ from Sri Lanka, back when it was still called Ceylon. Her parents were considered to be Ceylonese. Then Sri Lanka changed its name. And now they're considered Sri Lankan. Their ethnicity didn't change, the word for it did despite them not living in Sri Lanka when the name changed.

Yisrael has been the hebrew name for jews for centuries. Jew is a name put onto us by others. Now there is a country, Israel, which houses half of the world's jews. Yet diaspora jews aren't considered Israeli, we're still called jews.

And no shit he does. Because he’s one of them. He “speaks the language” of authoritarian dictators with no regard for human rights because he’s a mobbed-up authoritarian wannabe dictator with no regard for human rights.

And what you need to understand is that this also goes the other way: they speak his language. They can get him to fold as long as they give him big flashy airplanes, and stroke his ego and pad his wallet enough.

He talks rough, and he’ll bulldoze anyone who gets in the way of what he wants, not because he’s actually strong, but because he’s an infantile spoiled brat who demands his way. This is exactly the same reason he also rolls over and barks like a dog the second he’s promised a treat.

What he wants is not what you want, no matter how much he tries to sell you that line. He is out for himself, the rest of us be damned.

“Plaintiff may have already survived an assassination attempt by Jewish agents. Through a series of unlikely events, seemingly contrived by apparently conspiring Jews, Plaintiff was enticed by an attractive, busty Jewess and wet his mouth with a drink of partially unknown provenance. Hours later, Plaintiff experienced overwhelming fatigue and ‘twilight consciousness’ for hours – an event never experienced by Plaintiff prior or since. Plaintiff suspects he was poisoned by Jews,” he wrote. None of this convinced McAuliffe or the other judges.

Sorry team, I know i let everyone down. My busty self didn't use enough poison /j

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