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Ashkenazi Jews

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Also known as Ashkenazic Jews, Ashkenazis, or Ashkenazim.

This is a form of distinct ethnic subdivision of the Jewish Diaspora. Emerging from the Jewish communities that consolidated during the 10th century in the Rhineland (Western Germany) & northern France. They migrated there from centers such as the Italian peninsula & the Southern Levant. This includes present-day Lebanon, Israel, Palestine, & Jordan.

After numerous massacres of Jews during the Crusades (11th-13th centuries), they began a gradual eastward migration due to mounting restrictions within the Holy Roman Empire & the favorable policies of Casimir the Great & others.

This diaspora ramped up after the persecution during the Black Death of the 14th century. The bulk of the Ashkenazi Jews had migrated to the Kingdom of Poland (which includes modern-day Poland, Lithuania, Belarus, Ukraine, & parts of Russia). This area became the main center of Ashkenazi Jewry until the Holocaust.

Ashkenazim adapted their traditions, rites, & customs to Europe. They traditionally followed the German rite synagogue ritual & until the Holocaust primarily spoke Yiddish, an offshoot of Middle High German written in a variety of the Hebrew script, with significant Hebrew, Aramaic, & Slavic influences.

The Yiddish language progressively declined in prestige, in favor of national languages & Hebrew, being stigmatized by assimilationists & later also Zionists. Though it was spoken by over 11 million people worldwide before the Holocaust. The Yiddishist movement, which sought to preserve & revive the language, faded through the 20th century. Including Duolingo adding Yiddish as a language.

As a proportion of the world Jewish population, Ashkenazim were estimated to be 3% in the 11th century, rising to 92% in 1930, near the population’s peak. The Ashkenazi population was significantly diminished by the Holocaust carried out by Nazi Germany during WWII, which killed around 6 million Jews. Before WWII, the estimated worldwide Jewish population was 15.3-16.7 million, with 92% being Ashkenazi. As of 2023, the population of Ashkenazim was estimated to be around 10-13 million out of 15.8 million total Jews.

The name Ashkenazi comes from the biblical figure of Ashkenaz. He’s the 1st son of Gomer, grandson of Japhet, great-grandson of Noah, & a Japhetic patriarch in the Table of Nations. The name for Gomer has often been linked to the Cimmerians.

The Biblical Ashkenazis are usually derived from Assyrian Askuza, a people who expelled the Cimmerians from the Armenian area of the Upper Euphrates. The name Askuza is identified with the Scythians.

In Jeremiah 51:27, Ashkenaz figures as 1 of 3 kingdoms in the far north, the others being Minni (or Mannaea), an ancient kingdom that flourished in northwestern Iran, & Arrat (corresponding to Urartu), called on by God to resist Babylon.

Ashkenaz is linked to Scandza/Scanzia (usually identified with Scandinavia), viewed as the cradle of Germanic tribes, in the 6th-century gloss to the Historia Ecclesiastica of Eusebius. In the 10th century, in the History of Armenia of Yovhannes Drasxanakertci, Ashkenaz was associated with Armenia.

As it was occasionally in Jewish usage, where its denotation extended at times to Adiabene, Khazaria, Chimea, & areas to the east. They’re also identified with the Slavim or Slavs. In keeping with the custom of designating areas of Jewish settlement with biblical names, Spain was called Sefarad (Obadiah 20), France was called Tsarefat (I Kings 17:9), & Bohemia was called the Land of Canaan.

Given the close links between the Jewish communities of France & Germany following the Carolingian unification, the term Ashkenazi came to refer to the Jews of both medieval Germany & France.

In later times, the word Ashkenaz is used to designate southern & western Germany, the ritual of which sections differs somewhat from that of eastern Germany & Poland. Thus, the prayer book of Isaiah Horowitz (a prominent rabbi & mystic), & many others, give the piyyutim (a Jewish liturgical poem), according to the Minhag of Ashkenaz & Poland. A Minhag is an accepted tradition or group of traditions in Judaism.

In a religious sense, an Ashkenazi Jew is any Jew whose family tradition & synagogue ritual follow Ashkenazi practices (German rite). Until the Ashkenazi community 1st began to develop in the Early Middle Ages, the centers of Jewish religious authority were in the Islamic world, at Baghdad & Islamic Spain. German Ashkenaz was so geographically distant that it developed a minhag of its own.

The counterpart of Ashkenazi is Sephardic. Since most non-Ashkenazi Orthodox Jews follow Sephardic rabbinical authorities, whether or not they’re ethnically Sephardic. By tradition, a Sephardic or Mizrahi (a.k.a. Oriental Jews; Jews who lived in the Muslim world) who married into an Orthodox or Haredi (a.k.a. ultra-Orthodox) Ashkenazi Jewish family raises her kids to be Ashkenazi Jews.

On the other hand, an Ashkenazi woman who married a Sephardi or Mizrahi is expected to take on Sephardic practices & the kids will “inherit” a Sephardic identity. Though in practice, many families do compromise. A “convert” usually follows the practice of the rabbinical court (beth din) that converted them.

Culturally, an Ashkenazi Jew can be identified by the concept of Yiddishkeit, which means “Jewishness” in the Yiddish language. Before the Haskalah (a.k.a. the Jewish Enlightenment) & the emancipation of Jews in Europe, this meant the study of the Torah & the Talmud for men, & communal life governed by the observance of Jewish Law for men & women.

From the Rhineland to Riga (the largest city in Latvia) to Romania, most Jews prayed in liturgical Ashkenazi Hebrew, & spoke Yiddish in their secular (worldly) lives. But with modernization, Yiddishkeit now includes not just Orthodoxy & Hasidism, but a broader range of movements, ideologies, practices, & traditions in which Ashkenazi have participated & somehow kept a sense of Jewishness. Although pockets of Jews still speak Yiddish, Yiddishkeit can be identified in manners of speech, styles of humor, & in patterns of association.

As Ashkenazi Jews moved away from Europe, mostly in the form of aliyah to Israel. Or immigration to North America, South Africa, Europe (particularly France), & Latin America, the geographic isolation has given way to mixing with other cultures, & with non-Ashkenazi Jews who, similarly, are no longer isolated in distinct geographic locales.

Hebrew has replaced Yiddish as the primary Jewish language for many Ashkenazi Jews. Although many Hasidic & Hareidi groups still use Yiddish in daily life. Aliyah is the immigration of Jews from the diaspora to, historically, the geographic Land of Israel or the Palestine region, where the State of Israel was established.

France’s blended Jewish community is typical of the cultural recombination that’s going on among Jews throughout the world. Although France expelled its original Jewish population in the Middle Ages, by the time of the French Revolution, there were 2 distinct Jewish populations.

One consisted of Sephardic Jews, originally refugees from the Inquisition (which no one expects! Sorry, we’re Monty Python fans here.) & concentrated in the southwest. While the other community was Ashkenazi, concentrated in formerly German Alsace, & mainly speaking a German dialect similar to Yiddish.

The 3rd community of Provencal Jews living in Comtat Venaissin was technically outside France, & was later absorbed into the Sephardim. Comtat Venaissin (called Comtat, for short) was a part of the Papal States from 1274 to 1791.

But after emancipation, a sense of a unified French Jewry emerged, especially when France was wracked by the Dreyfus Affair in the 1890s. (We’ll be doing a post about the Dreyfus Affair.) In the 1920s & 30s, Ashkenazi Jews from Europe arrived in large numbers as refugees from antisemitism, the Russian Revolution, & the economic turmoil of the Great Depression.

By the 1930s, Paris had a vibrant Yiddish culture, & many Jews were involved in diverse political movements. After the Vichy years & the Holocaust, the French Jewish population was augmented once again, 1st by Ashkenazi refugees from Central Europe, & later by Sephardi immigrants & refugees from North Africa, many of them francophone. Francophone refers to people/organizations who use French (language) regularly.

Ashkenazi Jews didn’t transmit their traditions or achievements by text. Instead, these traditions were passed down orally from one generation to the next. The desire to maintain pre-Holocaust traditions relating to Ashkenazi culture has often been met with criticism by Jews in Eastern Europe.

In an ethnic sense, an Ashkenazi Jew is a descendant of the Jews who settled in the Central European region of “Ashkenaz.” For roughly 1,000 years, the Ashkenazim were a reproductively isolated population in Europe.

Despite living in many countries, with little inflow or outflow of countries from migration, conversion, or intermarriage with other groups, including other Jews. Since the mid-20th century, many Ashkenazi Jews have intermarried, both with members of other Jewish communities & non-Jews.

Religious persecution of the Jews in Western & Central Europe led to a significant migration of the Ashkenazi Jews into Eastern Europe. This resulted in a major cultural divide between Western/Central & Eastern Ashkenazi communities. In particular, this was reflected in the division of Yiddish into Western & Eastern Yiddish dialects. As well as in other cultural distinctions: traditions, food, dress, etc.

Initially, the Jews of Eastern Europe enjoyed relative freedom in terms of movement, being invited by the kings of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. Over time, the situation was reversed. By the 19th century, the Jews in the West had gradually been integrated into the general society.

While the Eastern Ashkenazi maintained their strict Jewish traditions & were mostly confined to ghettos, especially in the Pale of Settlement of the Russian Empire, which incorporated a considerable amount of land where the Eastern Ashkenazi lived: Poland & Lithuania.

Well-known differences in practices include:

• Observance of Passover (Pesach)
  • Ashkenazi Jews traditionally refrain from eating legumes, grain, millet, & rice. Quinoa has become accepted as a food grain in North American communities. Sephardi Jews typically don’t prohibit these foods.
• Notwithstanding stricter requirements for the ACTUAL slaughter, Sephardi Jews permit the rear portions of an animal after proper Halakhic removal of the sciatic nerve. While many Ashkenazi Jews don’t.
• Ashkenazi Jews often name newborns after deceased family members, not after living relatives. Sephardi Jews often name their kids after their grandparents, even if those grandparents are still living. An exception to this is among Dutch Jews, where Ashkenazi for centuries used naming conventions otherwise attributed exclusively to Sephardim, such as Chuts. Chuts is the name given to Jews who immigrated to London from the Netherlands in the 1850s-1860s.
• Ashkenazi tefillins are wound toward the body, not away from it. Ashkenazim put on the tefillin while standing up. Other Jews generally do so while sitting down. A tefillin(s) is/are sets of small black leather boxes with leather straps having scrolls of parchment written with verses of the Torah inside.
• The prayer shawl (tallit/tallis) is worn by all Ashkenazi men AFTER marriage. Except for Western European Ashkenazi men who wear it from the bar mitzvah. In Sephardi or Mizrahi Judaism, the prayer shawl is commonly worn from early childhood.

The term Ashkenazi also refers to the Nusach Ashkenaz, the liturgical tradition used by Ashkenazi Jews in their siddur (prayer book). A nusach is defined by a liturgical tradition’s choice of prayers, the text of prayers & melodies used in the singing of prayers. 2 other major forms of nusach among Ashkenazi Jews are Nusach Sefard (not to be confused with the Sephardic ritual), which is the general Polish Hasidic nusach, and Nusach Ari, used by those in Chabad.

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“Those tunnels were promised to them 3,000 years ago,” another user wrote, referencing the common online antisemitic phrase ridiculing the Jewish connection to #Israel.

Many of the comments also referenced the 2024 incident at the #Chabad-#Lubavitch movement’s world headquarters in #CrownHeights, #Brooklyn, in which a group from the movement attempted to dig an unauthorized tunnel beneath the building.

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@byteseu well at least it’s kosher. You have two #Chabad sect members, I presume, which already worship their very own idol. Why not worship two?

@byteseu well at least it’s kosher. You have two #Chabad sect members, I presume, which already worship their very own idol. Why not worship two?

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@efialto in ultra orthodox Ashkenazi communities …. If you include #chabad I doubt they can even be considered Jewish … they’re sects

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@efialto in ultra orthodox Ashkenazi communities …. If you include #chabad I doubt they can even be considered Jewish … they’re sects

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Mourning victims of terror does not imply support for the organisers of the event at which they died.
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I tend to think of #Chabad as living in a completely different universe from me.

Thanks to all #antisemitic pieces of crap for the reminder that we’re all in this together.

#Jews #Judaism

https://www.jta.org/2026/01/29/ny/man-arrested-after-ramming-car-into-770-eastern-parkway-chabads-brooklyn-headquarters

Police File #HateCrime Charges After #Chabad Ramming in Brooklyn

The police arrested the man, Dan Sohail, after a vehicle was rammed into the Brooklyn headquarters of the Hasidic #Jewish organization. The man’s father said in an interview that his son did not hate Jewish people.

#law #antisemitism #extremism #radicalization
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/29/nyregion/chabad-brooklyn-car-ramming.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

Police File #HateCrime Charges After #Chabad Ramming in Brooklyn

The police arrested the man, Dan Sohail, after a vehicle was rammed into the Brooklyn headquarters of the Hasidic #Jewish organization. The man’s father said in an interview that his son did not hate Jewish people.

#law #antisemitism #extremism #radicalization
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/29/nyregion/chabad-brooklyn-car-ramming.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

Meanwhile, closer to home:
https://www.reddit.com/r/JewsOfConscience/comments/1prhyfu/we_need_to_talk_about_eli_schlanger/
@[email protected] @[email protected]

#AusPol
#NSWpol
#Bondi
#Zionism
#Chabad

Meanwhile, closer to home:
https://www.reddit.com/r/JewsOfConscience/comments/1prhyfu/we_need_to_talk_about_eli_schlanger/
@[email protected] @[email protected]

#AusPol
#NSWpol
#Bondi
#Zionism
#Chabad

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@[email protected] @[email protected]

#AusPol
#NSWpol
#Bondi
#Zionism
#Chabad

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@[email protected] @[email protected]

#AusPol
#NSWpol
#Bondi
#Zionism
#Chabad

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@[email protected] @[email protected]

#AusPol
#NSWpol
#Bondi
#Zionism
#Chabad

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@[email protected] @[email protected]

#AusPol
#NSWpol
#Bondi
#Zionism
#Chabad

1/3
This has been posted several times on social media. I can't vouch for it, but other sources concur.
@[email protected]
@[email protected]

#AusPol
#NSWpol
#Bondi
#Zionism
#Chabad

1/3
This has been posted several times on social media. I can't vouch for it, but other sources concur.
@[email protected]
@[email protected]

#AusPol
#NSWpol
#Bondi
#Zionism
#Chabad

Weeks before #Israel recognized #Somaliland, two #Miami #Chabad followers slipped into the #HornOfAfrica to print the #Tanya—a centuries-old #Hasidic work rarely seen in such sensitive regions. Their journey blends faith, risk, and geopolitics in one remarkable mission.

https://saxafimedia.com/israel-recognition-chabad-emissaries-tanya/

Most secular Israelis who are Jews, as well as many religious Israelis, will tell you that #Chabad is an abusive, arrogant, and imposing organization with a missionary agenda that aims to kidnap Jewish identity. Chabad does not represent the Jewish people more than the state of Israel does, and car driving with a happy #Chanukah sign through the streets is not a Jewish tradition, it’s a Chabad missionary tradition. International outlets should really stop conflating Chabad and Judaism.

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/dec/25/car-with-happy-chanukah-sign-firebombed-in-suspected-antisemitic-attack-in-melbourne

Most secular Israelis who are Jews, as well as many religious Israelis, will tell you that #Chabad is an abusive, arrogant, and imposing organization with a missionary agenda that aims to kidnap Jewish identity. Chabad does not represent the Jewish people more than the state of Israel does, and car driving with a happy #Chanukah sign through the streets is not a Jewish tradition, it’s a Chabad missionary tradition. International outlets should really stop conflating Chabad and Judaism.

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/dec/25/car-with-happy-chanukah-sign-firebombed-in-suspected-antisemitic-attack-in-melbourne

#Chabad movement: Ashkenazi ultra-orthodox religious movement, founded in 1775 (1 year older than the USA). Visibly Jewish, open to nonobservant Jews across the world.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/14/world/australia/what-is-chabad-sydney-attacks.html

#Chabad movement: Ashkenazi ultra-orthodox religious movement, founded in 1775 (1 year older than the USA). Visibly Jewish, open to nonobservant Jews across the world.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/14/world/australia/what-is-chabad-sydney-attacks.html

#news #Church #Chabad #OrthodoxTsar #rf #RussianOrthodoxChurch #RussianOrthodoxChurchTsaristEmpire #man #law #thegospel #RussianFederation #orthodox #constitution #truth #antichrist #Putin #sealoftheantichrist

Quoting Historian Shai Hazkani and Tamir Sorek on how religious rights’ vision for Jewish supremacy and Palestinian elimination has gained mainstream acceptance in Israeli society:

Hazakani and Sorek analyzed Rabbi Yitzchak Ginzburg's sermon "Time to Crack the Nut," which outlined a plan to dismantle what he termed the four "shells" protecting Israeli democracy: media, legal system, government institutions, and the military's ethical constraints. Ginzburg, a #Chabad-trained rabbi who became influential among religious Zionist settlers, particularly the "hilltop youth" militia, advocated for the complete removal of Palestinians from historic Palestine.

Key survey findings from March 2025:

- 82% of Israeli Jews support forcibly expelling Gaza residents (up from 45% in 2003)

- 56% support forcibly expelling Palestinian citizens of Israel (up from 31% in 2003)

- 47% believe the Israeli military should kill all residents when conquering enemy cities, following the biblical precedent of Jericho

- 65% believe a contemporary Amalek exists, with 93% of those saying the biblical commandment to "blot out Amalek" applies today

There’s a particularly high support among younger Israelis, with 66% of those under 40 supporting expulsion of Palestinian citizens and 58% endorsing total elimination of enemy populations.

[…] Ginzburg's achievement is indeed the result of shattering the shells, even if the "crackers" weren't always his direct supporters. Hebrew media, the first shell, was always enlisted but maintained a veneer of professionalism. Recently, for the most part, it has abandoned even this pretense, and since the massacre in the Gaza envelope, many journalists have abandoned critical coverage, with some even joining the bellicose calls for revenge, expulsion, and extermination.

[…] The judiciary, which refused to openly declare Jewish supremacy in the Land of Israel and their right to expel, exterminate, or starve their enemies — while simultaneously playing a crucial role in preserving the occupation — was seen by Ginzburg as a stumbling block that "we must break... through mockery and 'contempt of court.'" It appears that the second shell has also undergone change, if it hasn't been completely removed already: about two months ago, Supreme Court Justice David Mintz rejected a petition by the organization "Gisha" to compel Israel to ensure humanitarian aid delivery to the Strip, ruling that this constitutes a "biblical commanded war," effectively authorizing the denial of food, water, and medicine to millions of Gazans. Mintz's ruling, a resident of the settlement Dolev, joined by Chief Justice Yitzhak Amit and Justice Noam Sohlberg from the settlement Alon Shvut, is already claiming lives.

[…] The education system, part of that same second shell, became a workplace where Jewish teachers promoting universal values risk dismissal (for Arab teachers, this danger was never foreign). Education researchers point to a sharp shift toward ethnocentric nationalism in curricula since the Second Intifada, and this process has led to high support for expulsion and extermination, particularly among those who completed their studies in the past 20 years. 66% of those 40 and under support expelling Arab citizens of Israel, and 58% want to see the IDF replicate Joshua's actions at Jericho. Generational gaps in political attitudes aren't unusual, but in Israel it has widened dramatically since the beginning of the 21st century.

[…] It seems there's little need to elaborate on the Knesset and government. Ginzburg himself demands that "the government — whether left or right — we must eliminate. We must bring it down, and when a new one arises, bring that down too, and so on — until establishing Torah rule in the land." The five election cycles held within three and a half years show that here too, Ginzburg can boast of considerable divine assistance.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

The two scholars argue that October 7th provided the opportunity Ginzburg had long awaited to implement his vision. They trace how his ideology has penetrated Israeli institutions - from media abandoning critical coverage to Supreme Court Justice David Mintz recently ruling that denying humanitarian aid to Gaza constitutes a "biblical commanded war."

They conclude that without rejecting Jewish supremacy entirely and establishing genuine equality between the Jordan River and Mediterranean Sea, Israel will continue its trajectory toward what they describe as a "Spartan and ostracized society."​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Hebrew https://www.haaretz.co.il/magazine/2025-05-22/ty-article-magazine/.highlight/00000196-f3a3-d6d3-ab9e-f3bbf6070000 or https://archive.is/yI4Dy

Shai Hazkani, a Professor of History and Jewish Studies at the University of Maryland, and Tamir Sorek, a Professor in the History Department at Penn State University, are both academic historians specializing in Israeli/Palestinian history. They have written extensively on the subject. Hazkani’s book, “Dear Palestine: A Social History of the 1948 War” (2024), and Sorek’s book, “The Optimist: A Social Biography of Tawfiq Zayyad ” (2023), are notable works in this field.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

@histodons #histodons
@palestine
@israel
#GazaGenocide
#SettlerViolence #hilltopyouth #zionism
#OatmealQuotes #jewishsupremacy

* Edit: publications actuall titles in English

Quoting Historian Shai Hazkani and Tamir Sorek on how religious rights’ vision for Jewish supremacy and Palestinian elimination has gained mainstream acceptance in Israeli society:

Hazakani and Sorek analyzed Rabbi Yitzchak Ginzburg's sermon "Time to Crack the Nut," which outlined a plan to dismantle what he termed the four "shells" protecting Israeli democracy: media, legal system, government institutions, and the military's ethical constraints. Ginzburg, a #Chabad-trained rabbi who became influential among religious Zionist settlers, particularly the "hilltop youth" militia, advocated for the complete removal of Palestinians from historic Palestine.

Key survey findings from March 2025:

- 82% of Israeli Jews support forcibly expelling Gaza residents (up from 45% in 2003)

- 56% support forcibly expelling Palestinian citizens of Israel (up from 31% in 2003)

- 47% believe the Israeli military should kill all residents when conquering enemy cities, following the biblical precedent of Jericho

- 65% believe a contemporary Amalek exists, with 93% of those saying the biblical commandment to "blot out Amalek" applies today

There’s a particularly high support among younger Israelis, with 66% of those under 40 supporting expulsion of Palestinian citizens and 58% endorsing total elimination of enemy populations.

[…] Ginzburg's achievement is indeed the result of shattering the shells, even if the "crackers" weren't always his direct supporters. Hebrew media, the first shell, was always enlisted but maintained a veneer of professionalism. Recently, for the most part, it has abandoned even this pretense, and since the massacre in the Gaza envelope, many journalists have abandoned critical coverage, with some even joining the bellicose calls for revenge, expulsion, and extermination.

[…] The judiciary, which refused to openly declare Jewish supremacy in the Land of Israel and their right to expel, exterminate, or starve their enemies — while simultaneously playing a crucial role in preserving the occupation — was seen by Ginzburg as a stumbling block that "we must break... through mockery and 'contempt of court.'" It appears that the second shell has also undergone change, if it hasn't been completely removed already: about two months ago, Supreme Court Justice David Mintz rejected a petition by the organization "Gisha" to compel Israel to ensure humanitarian aid delivery to the Strip, ruling that this constitutes a "biblical commanded war," effectively authorizing the denial of food, water, and medicine to millions of Gazans. Mintz's ruling, a resident of the settlement Dolev, joined by Chief Justice Yitzhak Amit and Justice Noam Sohlberg from the settlement Alon Shvut, is already claiming lives.

[…] The education system, part of that same second shell, became a workplace where Jewish teachers promoting universal values risk dismissal (for Arab teachers, this danger was never foreign). Education researchers point to a sharp shift toward ethnocentric nationalism in curricula since the Second Intifada, and this process has led to high support for expulsion and extermination, particularly among those who completed their studies in the past 20 years. 66% of those 40 and under support expelling Arab citizens of Israel, and 58% want to see the IDF replicate Joshua's actions at Jericho. Generational gaps in political attitudes aren't unusual, but in Israel it has widened dramatically since the beginning of the 21st century.

[…] It seems there's little need to elaborate on the Knesset and government. Ginzburg himself demands that "the government — whether left or right — we must eliminate. We must bring it down, and when a new one arises, bring that down too, and so on — until establishing Torah rule in the land." The five election cycles held within three and a half years show that here too, Ginzburg can boast of considerable divine assistance.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

The two scholars argue that October 7th provided the opportunity Ginzburg had long awaited to implement his vision. They trace how his ideology has penetrated Israeli institutions - from media abandoning critical coverage to Supreme Court Justice David Mintz recently ruling that denying humanitarian aid to Gaza constitutes a "biblical commanded war."

They conclude that without rejecting Jewish supremacy entirely and establishing genuine equality between the Jordan River and Mediterranean Sea, Israel will continue its trajectory toward what they describe as a "Spartan and ostracized society."​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Hebrew https://www.haaretz.co.il/magazine/2025-05-22/ty-article-magazine/.highlight/00000196-f3a3-d6d3-ab9e-f3bbf6070000 or https://archive.is/yI4Dy

Shai Hazkani, a Professor of History and Jewish Studies at the University of Maryland, and Tamir Sorek, a Professor in the History Department at Penn State University, are both academic historians specializing in Israeli/Palestinian history. They have written extensively on the subject. Hazkani’s book, “Dear Palestine: A Social History of the 1948 War” (2024), and Sorek’s book, “The Optimist: A Social Biography of Tawfiq Zayyad ” (2023), are notable works in this field.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

@histodons #histodons
@palestine
@israel
#GazaGenocide
#SettlerViolence #hilltopyouth #zionism
#OatmealQuotes #jewishsupremacy

* Edit: publications actuall titles in English

#US / Harvard Divinity School administrators resign citing university's tolerance of anti-muslim bias and attacks on pro-Palestinian voices

Two administrators at Harvard Divinity School's Religion and Public Life program have resigned, citing the university's failure to address a hostile environment towards Muslims and those critical of Israel.

Hussein Rashid, the assistant dean, explicitly accused Harvard of tolerating racist and defamatory statements against the program, particularly from Jewish groups like Hillel and #Chabad.

[…] He cited as an example an Instagram post by Harvard Chabad, led by Rabbi Hirschy Zarchi, that said: “There are numerous Harvard academic centers that essentially function as Hamas or Palestinian embassies,” citing the Religion in Public Life center “in its entirety,” and concluding, “it’s stunning that there’s no call for some of these centers to be shut down or rebuilt in its entirety.”

https://religionnews.com/2025/02/06/administrators-at-harvard-divinity-school-quit-say-school-condoned-hate/

@israel
@palestine
@academicchatter
#IsraelOccupation
#IsraelWarCrimes
#Islamophobia
#AcademicFreedom

#US / Harvard Divinity School administrators resign citing university's tolerance of anti-muslim bias and attacks on pro-Palestinian voices

Two administrators at Harvard Divinity School's Religion and Public Life program have resigned, citing the university's failure to address a hostile environment towards Muslims and those critical of Israel.

Hussein Rashid, the assistant dean, explicitly accused Harvard of tolerating racist and defamatory statements against the program, particularly from Jewish groups like Hillel and #Chabad.

[…] He cited as an example an Instagram post by Harvard Chabad, led by Rabbi Hirschy Zarchi, that said: “There are numerous Harvard academic centers that essentially function as Hamas or Palestinian embassies,” citing the Religion in Public Life center “in its entirety,” and concluding, “it’s stunning that there’s no call for some of these centers to be shut down or rebuilt in its entirety.”

https://religionnews.com/2025/02/06/administrators-at-harvard-divinity-school-quit-say-school-condoned-hate/

@israel
@palestine
@academicchatter
#IsraelOccupation
#IsraelWarCrimes
#Islamophobia
#AcademicFreedom

#UK / Chabad charity warned for funding foreign military

The Charity Commission in England and Wales issued an Official Warning to #Chabad Lubavitch Centres North East London and Essex Limited after it was discovered that the charity raised funds to support a soldier in the Israeli military, which is outside its stated charitable purposes.

The commission found this to be misconduct and a breach of trust following over 180 complaints. While charities can support the #UK armed forces, providing aid to foreign militaries is unlawful. The charity has been instructed to rectify the situation and could face further action.

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/charity-issued-with-official-warning-over-support-for-foreign-military

The Chabad-Lubavitcher is a Hasidic Orthodox Jewish cult some claim is heretical.

[…] Today Chabad represents the cutting edge of Zionist Jewish life in America — a movement that draws disillusioned Jews from progressive and liberal corners of Judaism and funnels them to the Zionist right. And my sense is that the movement is only gonna exert more and more power as the liberal Zionist consensus collapses here in America.

https://yasha.substack.com/p/the-weird-world-of-chabad-an-influential-a54

@israel
@palestine
#IsraelOccupation
#IsraelWarCrimes
#GazaGenocide

#UK / Chabad charity warned for funding foreign military

The Charity Commission in England and Wales issued an Official Warning to #Chabad Lubavitch Centres North East London and Essex Limited after it was discovered that the charity raised funds to support a soldier in the Israeli military, which is outside its stated charitable purposes.

The commission found this to be misconduct and a breach of trust following over 180 complaints. While charities can support the #UK armed forces, providing aid to foreign militaries is unlawful. The charity has been instructed to rectify the situation and could face further action.

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/charity-issued-with-official-warning-over-support-for-foreign-military

The Chabad-Lubavitcher is a Hasidic Orthodox Jewish cult some claim is heretical.

[…] Today Chabad represents the cutting edge of Zionist Jewish life in America — a movement that draws disillusioned Jews from progressive and liberal corners of Judaism and funnels them to the Zionist right. And my sense is that the movement is only gonna exert more and more power as the liberal Zionist consensus collapses here in America.

https://yasha.substack.com/p/the-weird-world-of-chabad-an-influential-a54

@israel
@palestine
#IsraelOccupation
#IsraelWarCrimes
#GazaGenocide

#Israel / #ICC Wanted Gallant claims divine backing for Gaza genocide 🙄 … a master class in denial and megalomania

Speaking at #Chabad (a heretical Jewish sect whose members follow a Messianic tradition centered around their late leader, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson) headquarters in Brooklyn, Gallant, once viewed as the secular, pragmatic voice in Israel's war cabinet attributed military "achievements" in #Gaza to both #IDF soldiers and "God's miracle."

[…] "This could not have happened without the faith of the Jewish people, without the support of millions of Jews around the world, without the prayers and thanks to the tremendous actions and great sacrifice of IDF soldiers. Our soldiers deserve every compliment. I too, who led this campaign, knew that I was doing this in the name of the State of Israel and also as a messenger of God, the Lord of Hosts. We are Jews, we have a land, we have a people."

In response to October 7th, the U.S. has funneled an historic $22.76 billion into #Israel's military campaign - more than any previous year since aid began in 1959 - effectively underwriting a humanitarian catastrophe while the true total of American financial backing remains deliberately obscured. https://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/papers/2024/USspendingIsrael

For a secular official who oversaw the October 7th unprecedented failure to now cast himself as "God's messenger" while celebrating the systematic destruction of Gaza and the killing of tens of thousands of civilians, transforms what was already a humanitarian catastrophe into something far more disturbing.

See also: The new IDF: When military discipline meets messianic vision https://kolektiva.social/@oatmeal/113522527429861161

# Edit: corrected typo

@israel
@palestine
#IsraelWarCrimes
#GazaGenocide

#Israel / #ICC Wanted Gallant claims divine backing for Gaza genocide 🙄 … a master class in denial and megalomania

Speaking at #Chabad (a heretical Jewish sect whose members follow a Messianic tradition centered around their late leader, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson) headquarters in Brooklyn, Gallant, once viewed as the secular, pragmatic voice in Israel's war cabinet attributed military "achievements" in #Gaza to both #IDF soldiers and "God's miracle."

[…] "This could not have happened without the faith of the Jewish people, without the support of millions of Jews around the world, without the prayers and thanks to the tremendous actions and great sacrifice of IDF soldiers. Our soldiers deserve every compliment. I too, who led this campaign, knew that I was doing this in the name of the State of Israel and also as a messenger of God, the Lord of Hosts. We are Jews, we have a land, we have a people."

In response to October 7th, the U.S. has funneled an historic $22.76 billion into #Israel's military campaign - more than any previous year since aid began in 1959 - effectively underwriting a humanitarian catastrophe while the true total of American financial backing remains deliberately obscured. https://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/papers/2024/USspendingIsrael

For a secular official who oversaw the October 7th unprecedented failure to now cast himself as "God's messenger" while celebrating the systematic destruction of Gaza and the killing of tens of thousands of civilians, transforms what was already a humanitarian catastrophe into something far more disturbing.

See also: The new IDF: When military discipline meets messianic vision https://kolektiva.social/@oatmeal/113522527429861161

# Edit: corrected typo

@israel
@palestine
#IsraelWarCrimes
#GazaGenocide