are these kahanists in the room with us now?

I've never seen an orthodox character in a movie, or book, or tv show, outside of the very niche genre produced BY us, FOR us.

"But what about Unorthodox--" No. That's about someone who used to be frum. That's a completely separate thing.

Do you have any idea how much that would have meant to as me a kid? To see or read about even ONE character in mainstream media who was like me? To know that someone even knew people like me existed?? And accepted it??? It would have meant the world.

And so, to the authors and screenwriters and character designers and podcasters and animators and EVERYONE working in the entertainment industry, I say:

Give me Chaya's and Perel's and Basya's and Devorah's. Baruch's and Chaim's and Avi's and Tzvi's.

Give me girls wearing long-sleeved shirts and skirts that go past the knees.

Give me boys with yarmulkes and tzitzit.

Give me characters saying "Do you wanna come over for shabbos/yuntif?"

Or, "hang on, I need to go daven shachris."

Or, "Is it Kosher?"

Give me bubbes and shuls and cholent and tehillim.

Give me explicitly orthodox representation.

And if you won't do it for me, then do it for all the others who feel invisible.

We're in the theaters and the bookstores and spread across all the internet, and we see you.

I grew up Orthodox. I went to private religious schools. The people I knew personally almost all had Hebrew names, including me and both of my siblings.

But the characters I wrote didn't, because nobody did in any of the books I read or the TV shows I watched or the movies I saw, and little me wanted to write like a real writer. And that meant English names.

Coming to understand this as an adult was painful. It still is. I don't know if I'll ever be over it.

I also grew up Orthodox, going to all-girls Orthodox schools, in an entirely Orthodox community. Nearly everyone I interacted with on a day-to-day basis was an Orthodox Jew.

But I never, NEVER, wrote Orthodox characters, and I still haven't. I had that same mentality - I wanted to write something real. Writing an orthodox character like myself would have been weird and cringey, and I wanted to write something like the media I was consuming.

I never realized this was something I had to unlearn until this very moment. Even now, when I write Jewish characters, they're almost never orthodox, even though I myself am orthodox. I'll write secular jewish characters occasionally, because they just feel like they fit into the story better.

but that's probably only because I've never SEEN an orthodox character in a story like the ones I write. Of course it doesn't feel right. I have nothing to base it off of.

This is also probably why the book Spinning Silver felt like such a revelation, to the point where I'm still thinking about that story months later. It affected me so much because I had never read anything like that before. This mentality has been affecting me for my whole life, and I didn't even consciously realize it.

or hamin!!!!

or sephardic hebrew pronunciation.

mitpachat AND wigs.

give me bukharan jews even. so many orthodox, totally alternate minhag. or yemeni orthodox.

Not a westerner

Somewhat healthy relationships with family

Has irl friends (esp unrelated to organising)

Has not told someone to kill themselves online

Proletarian employment unrelated to minimum wage retail, preferably physical labour

Employment and hobbies unrelated to bourgeois/petit-bourgeois artistic and academic circles (graphic design, theatre, comics, hyper specific ideologically saturated humanities such as queer studies [lol I know], literature)

Can go outside and talk to others without feeling severe anxiety

Knows at least three Jews they have not vetted to make sure are ideologically appropriate tokens lmao

Can come across Jews irl without getting the ick

Does not self-segregate away from other ethnicities nor tries to spin racial separatism as desireable

Is normal about non-whites and does not subject them to purity tests

Feminist, not “feminist” (ie protecting fellow tankie sex pests)

Does not advocate for violence as the first mode of action

Active within their community instead of just bleating online

Does not celebrate the death of civilians

Indifferent to insane transfem vs transmasc nitpicking

Open to the concept of compromise with liberals and centrists, not right wingers

Has not engaged in an online harassment campaign

Does not substitute “activism” for solving any mental health issues (hi comrade Emma!)

some books were later translated into aramaic, which was a lingua franca, famous example is the dead sea scrolls (which still had a lot of hebrew), but originally…hebrew.

strawhatsufi/strawhatsoviet: white american racefaker (arab, Latino, Albanian? Who knows!) constantly e-begging supposedly to escape homeless refugee status, actually does it to fund their jobless begpacker lifestyle and travels

tamamita: Swedish former schoolteacher who built a brand around being a wholesome chungus anime-loving wifeguy, quit his job because he hated his students and pivoted to working as a distinctly unwholesome rape and bondage anime pornographer (which is a degenerate and bourgeois thing) who now never mentions his wife; hates whities but would never ever leave the comfort of Sweden

Ratliker17: white argentinian who crashed out over being called anti black over little things like earnestly calling to bomb the United States and trying to frame da pee oh see victims as acceptable collateral

Misstrogen/issuggestforcefem: white French who is viciously anti black and anti Native American, loudly and repeatedly supports paedophiles, groomed a teenager through tumblr and discord, followers successfully suibated two people at her urging

Storyweavingspider: literal fed working for the us department of defence (as a dei hire to boot loool) and sex pest/rapist banned from several Washington DC clubs for sexual harassment, abused multiple partners

Comradeemma: resentful American middle class neet who hates their white adoptive parents and seethes over not being given a sizeable inheritance, uses internet activism as a coping crutch; exposed on twitter for being a pedo on discord

Hagiomoto: lesbian Malaysian communist who hates the west and religion and homophobia, curiously never ever has anything negative—and hardly anything at all—to say about Malaysia at all. Pro-illiteracy librarian

Plaidos: white Englishwoman moving to da USA, still hates da west; viciously racist, look up “homestuck racism workshop”

These kids have grown up under military occupation, checkpoints, bombings, home demolitions, and laws that erase their families’ rights. They’ve seen their land taken, their loved ones killed, their futures stolen. And then you act shocked when their anger shows ?

The narcissism is honestly staggering. you push a people to the breaking point, then point at their reaction as proof you were right all along. That’s not concern for children, that’s using their trauma as propaganda.

If you really cared about Palestinian kids, you’d ask why they live under siege, not why they’re angry about it.

he forgot to say “zionists.”

“BUT THE JOURNALISTSSS”

Telegraph isn't embedding properly so this is all going to be a clickable link, wish I'd seen this when it was new,

In response to the revelations, the BBC said at the time that it was “not aware” of Mr Elzaenen’s social media activity prior to him appearing on air, adding: “We are absolutely clear that there is no place for anti-Semitism on our services.”

Since when?

Guy is trying to talk his way around this whole thing too, which the only people he's fooling are the fools who want to believe him.

Also there's a paywall so gonna put the text of the article under the cut here.

These kids have grown up under military occupation, checkpoints, bombings, home demolitions, and laws that erase their families’ rights. They’ve seen their land taken, their loved ones killed, their futures stolen. And then you act shocked when their anger shows ?

The narcissism is honestly staggering. you push a people to the breaking point, then point at their reaction as proof you were right all along. That’s not concern for children, that’s using their trauma as propaganda.

If you really cared about Palestinian kids, you’d ask why they live under siege, not why they’re angry about it.

pro pallies whenever there’s an opportunity to defend jew hate:

palestinian arabs have not been evicted. they are not the indigenous population. in fact, they built towns ON OUR FUCKING CEMETERIES AFTER CONQUERING THE REGION IN 634 CE. most are descended from either arabs who conquered the region forcibly or arabized egyptians who came to the area under the mandate to WORK. they admit this in their media.

they also say they only want the land because of a waqf.

they took and renamed OUR cities. they destroyed OUR heritage sites. they taught their children to hate us not because we did anything, but because antisemitism is baked into islamism. it always was, from the actual caliphate being pissed we wouldnt convert all the way to panarabism to the black hand movement to the grand mufti to the arab league and their armies to the muslim brotherhood to hamas and the pflp/plo/pa.

this is why hamas states “our struggle against the jews is very great” in their charter. and why they invoke the massacre of jews in saudi arabia muhammad ordered in “khaybar khaybar ya yahud,” their favorite chant. why all of their rhetoric is just poor echos of ancient jew hatred that people like fuck ass @that-palestinianthezionistshate fall for pathetically quickly.

These kids have grown up under military occupation, checkpoints, bombings, home demolitions, and laws that erase their families’ rights. They’ve seen their land taken, their loved ones killed, their futures stolen. And then you act shocked when their anger shows ?

The narcissism is honestly staggering. you push a people to the breaking point, then point at their reaction as proof you were right all along. That’s not concern for children, that’s using their trauma as propaganda.

If you really cared about Palestinian kids, you’d ask why they live under siege, not why they’re angry about it.

pro pallies whenever there’s an opportunity to defend jew hate: