#antijudaism

I think there’s a parallel to be made here about antizionism. To the antizionist, the philosophical framework is not a means to an end, but the end itself; it’s all that matters. The Jews squabbling about the petty facts of the situation are demonstrating that they haven’t transcended to the Realm of Forms. It doesn’t matter what Israel does, it matters what it represents; the actual acts of the IDF and the Knesset are shadows of the True Forms of Imperialism, Colonialism, Racism, Apartheid, and Genocide, on the cave wall.

🇧🇷🇵🇹 Durante três séculos, a Inquisição portuguesa teve uma presença marcante no Brasil, apesar de não ter um tribunal fixo no país. Os suspeitos de heresia, muitos deles cristãos-novos, eram presos por agentes do Tribunal do Santo Ofício e levados acorrentados a Portugal, onde eram julgados. Esses julgamentos muitas vezes resultavam em sentenças severas, como cárcere perpétuo, trabalho forçado nas galeras ou morte na fogueira. O arquivo da Inquisição permaneceu secreto até a década de 1960, e grande parte de sua documentação ainda precisa ser estudada. Entre as vítimas da Inquisição estão brasileiros ilustres, como o poeta Antônio José da Silva e o patriarca da independência, José Bonifácio de Andrada e Silva. Com a recente abertura dos arquivos, uma nova luz é lançada sobre essa parte ignorada da história do Brasil, revelando que muitos brasileiros, especialmente no Nordeste, têm origens judaicas, e alguns ainda mantêm tradições culturais judaicas.

🇺🇸 For three centuries, the Portuguese Inquisition had a significant presence in Brazil, despite not having a fixed tribunal in the country. Suspected heretics, many of them New Christians, were arrested by agents of the Holy Office Tribunal and taken in chains to Portugal, where they were judged. These trials often resulted in severe sentences, such as life imprisonment, forced labor on royal galleys, or execution by burning. The Inquisition's archive remained secret until the 1960s, and much of its documentation still needs to be studied. Among the Inquisition's victims were notable Brazilians, such as the poet Antônio José da Silva and José Bonifácio de Andrada e Silva, the patriarch of Brazil's independence. With the recent opening of the archives, new light is shed on this forgotten chapter of Brazil's history, revealing that many Brazilians, especially in the Northeast, have Jewish ancestry, with some still maintaining Jewish cultural traditions.

For one, he’s our ancestor, so that’s why we look up to him. It’s not because he’s perfect. Secondly, the whole point of Judaism is that people are capable of good and bad, that we are given free choice and that we can always change, and we can always continue to make mistakes, that to err is human.

Finally, what culture has perfect role models? Certainly not Christianity, whose hero canonically refuses to help a Canaanite woman at first, humiliating her for a long period before finally healing her. Certainly not the Greeks or the Romans, whose heroes routinely do immoral things above the ability and inclination of Yisroel. Who then?

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