its so funny to me when a blog that's over 50% posts like "this jew criticizing israel isn't a real jew!" "everyone who claims to be a jew criticizing israel is lying on the internet!!!" "all antizionism is antisemitism" interacts with my blog and likes or reblogs or comments with warmth and positive conversation on a post about my judaism and my practice. i don't tell people i'm antizionist in my bio or post about israel or politics generally (but quite frankly my URL and pfp indicate my political position, if you know what to look for) because that's mostly not what I'm here for. and by "it's so funny to me" i mean it's deeply fucking irritating when someone new interacts and I'm like oh! new person! with interesting things to say! in this tiny corner of the internet! who is this? and i click on their blog and it's like it's personally yelling at me YOU'RE A FAKE JEW!!! YOU'RE NOT JEWISH!!!!! YOU'RE NOT ONE OF US!!!! YOU WOULD HAVE BEEN LEFT IN MITZRAYIM!!!
i don't give a fuck what your politics are unless it's currently relevant to the conversation or situation. i don't care how many examples of people lying on the internet or whatever other shit you can tell me about. i DO give a fuck when people spend half (or sometimes almost all!) of their blog posting about how i and people like me aren't jewish.
and im not trying to fool anyone here or anything. im here to post. it wouldn't make sense to put my political position in my bio because people would think that's what this blog is about. but yeah, it's a little funny that these people, who if you told them about me and then asked them, would say i'm not jewish, are interested in MY BLOG. like wow gosh maybe arbitrating who's jewish based on your own political beliefs doesn't work. maybe no one should be trying to arbitrate who is jewish. maybe there are antizionist jews and maybe they even go to your shul. idk.
this post isn't really about zionism, it's about jewish identity. sometimes i fucking hate being in this space that can be interesting and awesome one moment and then incredibly hostile the next. i don't care who interacts with my blog, by all means if you politically disagree with me, you're welcome here in the sense that i don't really care about that shit because i'm talking about judaism and that's what i'm here for. if you're one of the people i'm talking about in this post then you can look at my blog too i don't care i'm not your mom or a cop. maybe reconsider what you post and try to be a nicer person
