#ask nitz

HOLY MOTHER OF EMOTIONAL BLACKMAIL

if i can get a little personal, my mom always did tell me wikipedia was not the free speech and though or it presented itself to be, but i was an idiot and didn't listen. i saw the editings in wikipedia pages and how jewish information was distorted but it wasn't until i read leonard berstein's page that i rlly grasped it. there's no mention of him being jewish. NONE. same with mahler. im a huge classical music fan and to see this represented and distorted like this is disgusting.

even in india the rise in antisemitism is so fucking disgusting and this is a country where there was very little antisemitism as recent as 2022. unfortunately, completely unrelated events are hijacked and made all about how israel is the one responsible for everything bad in the world which is another level of deranged idiocy, but even the barest mention of how some of the most reputed celebrities here are slipping into very casual and very mask off antisemitism here invites absolutely deranged hate.

hoping for the best for you all, and hope all of this ends soon.

You think this began or ended with the Holocaust? MENA Jews were violently expelled from all across the Middle East since 1929, though it really took off in the 1950s. My own extended family was tortured by the Junta in the 70s. Iranian Jews fled by the skin of their teeth in the 80s. French Jews have been living under constant threat of bombing, stabbing, and especially as of late, "retributive" rapes since 2014, to the degree many fled the country.

And how dare you call an industrialized effort to exterminate an ethnic group, based on their ancestry, regardless of religious affiliation, "religious persecution"? You not only minimize the Holocaust, but also the Romani Holocaust, and the Sami and Armenian genocides who were blueprints for Hitler's theory and practice respectively. Funny how you call it "religious persecution" and term us "racial supremacists" at the same breath.

'Here is where I stand. There is a Jew who lives–by force—in half of my home in Jerusalem, and he does so by “divine decree.” Many others reside—by force—in Palestinian houses, while their owners linger in refugee camps. It isn’t my fault that they are Jewish. I have zero interest in memorizing or apologizing for centuries-old tropes created by Europeans, or in giving semantics more heft than they warrant, chiefly when millions of us confront real, tangible oppression, living behind cement walls, or under siege, or in exile, and living with woes too expansive to summarize. I’m tired of the impulse to preemptively distance myself from something of which I am not guilty, and particularly tired of the assumption that I’m inherently bigoted. I’m tired of the pearl-clutching pretense that should such animosity exist, its existence would be inexplicable and rootless. Most of all, I’m tired of the false equivalence between semantic violence and systemic violence.'

"Centuries-old tropes created by Europeans" and "real, tangible oppression". I mean...for fuck's sake. Zero acknowledgement of the fact that the Palestinians were active participants in the oppression of Jews alongside those Europeans. Nor that the only reason he thinks of Jews being oppressed as not a "real, tangible" thing, is because they were forced to militarize to fight off those who would attempt to repeat that oppression.

1. I'm not Hindutva which is why I don't think it's OK to define their own movement for them. Especially when those people are among the few who amplified our voices when the rest of the world drowned us out.

2. None of the blogs I'm moots with advocate for that