#antisemtism

Thousands of comments like “just use a hijab “ or “ Jews are tricking god “

Like it's so easy to write about, to have casual observances of Judaism and cultural practices be in the background of stories. I'll write of the few examples I can think of in my frame of reference as a college student-

there's a mezuza in the doorway of a college kid's apartment. Whenever his friends come over, it's a reach for some of them to touch it because both he and the rabbi who installed it are 6 foot three. The others feel like a middle school boy slapping the ceiling as they try and reach for the damn thing.

Characters rush on public transport to get to a rabbi's house on shabbat. The train is due. There's a flurry of regrouping, then trying to call a missing friend to get there, and then the process of methodically hiding Magen davids and jewish objects because getting to shabbat dinner without a situation was an order from college Hillel staff.

A character is half-drunk at 2 AM at the convenience store but has to scan the list of ingredients on their chemically disgusting snack for gelatin.

Said character is prevented by her friends from only sustaining herself on 7/11 slushees "even though it's all kosher!"

There are references to the Purim incident constantly- it is never clarified what happened on Purim.

the hypothetical gang of characters are in the middle of nowhere on a grand magical adventure. The main character notices a mezuza on a door of a cabin, knocks on it, and has an in-depth conversation with the resident. Then, he waves his friends over. "Hey, guys! We have a place to stay tonight!" Because through the magic of Jewish geography, it was discovered that the grumpy old Jewish man in the woods is the grand uncle of one of his Jewish Day school teachers

A character who eats cheesy bacon bagels regularly on passover has a deep respect for jewish ritual items. He kisses the siddurim as they're handed back into a pile, he always kisses his kippah that he wears for ritual purposes of shabbats and minions. He's very careful with these objects and keeps on claiming dropping something He is observant, and he cares so much, but not in the "typical" way. Just... please show the nuance in practice.

The big "going out night" for our fearless college student isn't Friday but saturday night because of shabbat.

The stain on the rabbi's couch is not to be mentioned

A character keeps on mentioning the stain anyway.

Jewish goodbyes after any event take a minimum of two hours and that's why the gang is delayed on their journey to save the world .

*it’s not fucking normal*

I've seen it twice.

I do not need to see it again.

Elon Musk isn't just a Nazi, he's a Nazi so brazen that he feels no need to hide it, and he's right, because he's gotten away with it with no consequences.

I feel sick.

Jewish Voice for Peace has published its Haggadah for Passover 5786/2026. 

It calls God a war criminal.

In the Hallel section, participants are invited to ask:

Can this be a holiday of liberation when the 'mighty hand and outstretched arm' that supposedly bring freedom are the same force that ten times over prevents peaceful escape from the narrow place, insisting on plague, environmental devastation, and massacre? Can this be a holiday of liberation when the triumph it introduces is first the slaughter of those who insist that democracy must be a part of liberation, and then the genocidal conquest of the land of Canaan — of Palestine — under the leadership of a hereditary priestly caste? ...These genocide warrants, these celebrations of genocide, these acts that enable more genocide, are the core of the story.

JVP is not criticizing Israeli policy. It is declaring that the God of Israel — the God whose "mighty hand and outstretched arm" are invoked in the Haggadah — is a perpetrator of genocide. To JVP, the Exodus is not a liberation story - it is a war crime. Passover is not a holiday - it is Tisha B'Av. 

Their hate for Jews and Judaism and God is so all-encompassing that they must reframe the Egyptians as peace-loving, democratic people who supported the liberation of the slaves if only those plagues would stop. If the Jews are the villains, the Egyptians (and Canaanites) must be the heroes of the story.

This is an attack on Judaism at its foundations — its sacred narrative, its central ritual, its God. If one believes this, then Jewish civilization is not merely flawed but irredeemably criminal from its inception. 

Which raises the obvious question: if the God Jews worship is genocidal, if the holiday Jews celebrate most is a ritual reenactment of ethnic cleansing, if Jewish communities and institutions are engines of colonial indoctrination — why does this organization insist on calling itself Jewish Voice for Peace? Who would want to be identified with a people who have been nothing but reprehensible from their very origins?

Because if they were "Non-Jewish Voice for Peace" they couldn't publish a Haggadah! Atheists don't hold seders.  Their claim to Jewishness is the precondition for the document's existence.

So JVP calls itself Jewish to weaponize the identity, while insisting that everything Jews have believed, celebrated, and transmitted across three thousand years is genocidal to its core. They are, by their own account, members of a people whose founding story is a war crime.

The hypocrisy is structural, not incidental. It is the whole point.

The antisemitism is obvious to anyone. But JVP needs to claim to be against antisemitism, so it created a framework carefully crafted to exclude their own hate from being called antisemitic. So by their definition, attacking and mocking Judaism is fine. They only oppose white nationalists and neo-Nazi versions of antisemitism, and they particularly emphasize the illegitimacy of conspiracy theories, saying "We have also seen the use of Jewish stereotypes and conspiracy theories as part of racist ideologies."

Now let's revisit the so-called Haggadah. In the section of the Simple Son, they say, "The Jewish state, Jewish communities, Jewish institutions, and Jewish family members — by our tax dollars and elected representatives — are in cahoots and complicit. In a STILL ongoing genocide."

This is, by any definition, a conspiracy theory, saying that Jewish communities, institutions and even ordinary Jews are "in cahoots" to promote genocide. 

 For JVP, every Jew participates in the worst possible crime. This is worse than the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, which claimed only a shadowy cabal of insiders. Not to invoke Godwin's Law, but the closest parallel to JVP's characterization of Jews is that of Adolf Hitler, who also claimed that Jews were responsible for instigating wars, mass murder, and destroying civilizations from within.