are these kahanists in the room with us now?

when it comes to archaeological evidence connecting jews/israel/and a distinct jewish society though, the dating starts roughly around the 10th century CE with the steles like merneptah and tel dan, the mount ebal curse tablet, highland pottery sherds, khirbet qeiyafa ostracon, ketef hinnom silver scrolls, ophel pithos in jerusalem, solomon’s moat, etc.

when it comes to archaeological evidence connecting jews/israel/and a distinct jewish society though, the dating starts roughly around the 10th century CE with the steles like merneptah and tel dan, the mount ebal curse tablet, highland pottery sherds, khirbet qeiyafa ostracon, ketef hinnom silver scrolls, ophel pithos in jerusalem, solomon’s moat, etc.

when it comes to archaeological evidence connecting jews/israel/and a distinct jewish society though, the dating starts roughly around the 10th century CE with the steles like merneptah and tel dan, the mount ebal curse tablet, highland pottery sherds, khirbet qeiyafa ostracon, ketef hinnom silver scrolls, ophel pithos in jerusalem, solomon’s moat, etc.

when it comes to archaeological evidence connecting jews/israel/and a distinct jewish society though, the dating starts roughly around the 10th century CE with the steles like merneptah and tel dan, the mount ebal curse tablet, highland pottery sherds, khirbet qeiyafa ostracon, ketef hinnom silver scrolls, ophel pithos in jerusalem, solomon’s moat, etc.

when it comes to archaeological evidence connecting jews/israel/and a distinct jewish society though, the dating starts roughly around the 10th century BCE with the steles like merneptah and tel dan, the mount ebal curse tablet, highland pottery sherds, khirbet qeiyafa ostracon, ketef hinnom silver scrolls, ophel pithos in jerusalem, solomon’s moat, etc.

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.

You're telling me you don't want to destroy Israel? Because if you do, that's called genocide. And if you don't, then you might not want to support a movement to destroy Israel. That's the top priority of palestinianism, according to its own leaders and people. من المية للمية فلسطين عربية, right?

Why are they being bombed? Does it have anything to do with Gaza's government firing rockets at civilians from inside their homes? Israel has never initiated a conflict, only responded to arab aggression. Bombing is exclusively to destroy military targets. Why did Gaza's government build military infrastructure into civilian homes and hospitals?

Why are there checkpoints? Does that have anything to do with the decades of islamist terror attacks on civilians? Israel didn't impose checkpoints before the intifadas.

Why is there a siege? Could it be because Gaza's government is still promising to destroy Israel if they're not defeated in this war Gaza started?

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.

You're telling me you don't want to destroy Israel? Because if you do, that's called genocide. And if you don't, then you might not want to support a movement to destroy Israel. That's the top priority of palestinianism, according to its own leaders and people. من المية للمية فلسطين عربية, right?

Why are they being bombed? Does it have anything to do with Gaza's government firing rockets at civilians from inside their homes? Israel has never initiated a conflict, only responded to arab aggression. Bombing is exclusively to destroy military targets. Why did Gaza's government build military infrastructure into civilian homes and hospitals?

Why are there checkpoints? Does that have anything to do with the decades of islamist terror attacks on civilians? Israel didn't impose checkpoints before the intifadas.

Why is there a siege? Could it be because Gaza's government is still promising to destroy Israel if they're not defeated in this war Gaza started?

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.

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.