#jews — Public Fediverse posts

"...it is actually a very big deal when the richest person on Earth, who also owns one of the most influential communications platforms on Earth, starts publicly dabbling in ideas about #Jews, bloodlines, DNA, appearance, and racial authenticity. (You remember the people who did that back in the 1930s and 1940s, right?)."

https://zeteo.com/p/will-republicans-be-asked-to-disavow-musk-antisemitism

#ElonMusk #antisemitism

"...it is actually a very big deal when the richest person on Earth, who also owns one of the most influential communications platforms on Earth, starts publicly dabbling in ideas about #Jews, bloodlines, DNA, appearance, and racial authenticity. (You remember the people who did that back in the 1930s and 1940s, right?)."

https://zeteo.com/p/will-republicans-be-asked-to-disavow-musk-antisemitism

#ElonMusk #antisemitism

"...it is actually a very big deal when the richest person on Earth, who also owns one of the most influential communications platforms on Earth, starts publicly dabbling in ideas about #Jews, bloodlines, DNA, appearance, and racial authenticity. (You remember the people who did that back in the 1930s and 1940s, right?)."

https://zeteo.com/p/will-republicans-be-asked-to-disavow-musk-antisemitism

#ElonMusk #antisemitism

"...it is actually a very big deal when the richest person on Earth, who also owns one of the most influential communications platforms on Earth, starts publicly dabbling in ideas about #Jews, bloodlines, DNA, appearance, and racial authenticity. (You remember the people who did that back in the 1930s and 1940s, right?)."

https://zeteo.com/p/will-republicans-be-asked-to-disavow-musk-antisemitism

#ElonMusk #antisemitism

[T]he first data from #Jewish respondents is “particularly alarming,” and suggested the numbers could be higher as many Jewish #civilservants are afraid to publicly identify as Jewish at the workplace.

“The data that we are seeing today points to really high levels of #discrimination amongst those Jewish employees that feel comfortable in self-identifying. A lot of folks still hide their identity because they’re afraid,” Wilczynski explained.

Since the #Oct7, 2023 #Hamas attacks, #antisemitism in #Canada has reached levels without precedent in the available data. #StatisticsCanada’s police-reported #hatecrime figures, released in July, show that #hatecrimes targeting #Jews jumped 82 percent in 2023, to 959 from 527 the year before. The count has since eased slightly—943 in 2024 and 788 in 2025—but Jews, who make up roughly 1 percent of the population, were the target of 70.7 percent of all religion-motivated hate crimes and 16.7 percent of the 4,708 hate crimes..."

https://thehub.ca/2026/09/01/harassment-and-discrimination-of-jewish-government-employees-twice-as-high-as-civil-servant-average/

[T]he first data from #Jewish respondents is “particularly alarming,” and suggested the numbers could be higher as many Jewish #civilservants are afraid to publicly identify as Jewish at the workplace.

“The data that we are seeing today points to really high levels of #discrimination amongst those Jewish employees that feel comfortable in self-identifying. A lot of folks still hide their identity because they’re afraid,” Wilczynski explained.

Since the #Oct7, 2023 #Hamas attacks, #antisemitism in #Canada has reached levels without precedent in the available data. #StatisticsCanada’s police-reported #hatecrime figures, released in July, show that #hatecrimes targeting #Jews jumped 82 percent in 2023, to 959 from 527 the year before. The count has since eased slightly—943 in 2024 and 788 in 2025—but Jews, who make up roughly 1 percent of the population, were the target of 70.7 percent of all religion-motivated hate crimes and 16.7 percent of the 4,708 hate crimes..."

https://thehub.ca/2026/09/01/harassment-and-discrimination-of-jewish-government-employees-twice-as-high-as-civil-servant-average/

[T]he first data from #Jewish respondents is “particularly alarming,” and suggested the numbers could be higher as many Jewish #civilservants are afraid to publicly identify as Jewish at the workplace.

“The data that we are seeing today points to really high levels of #discrimination amongst those Jewish employees that feel comfortable in self-identifying. A lot of folks still hide their identity because they’re afraid,” Wilczynski explained.

Since the #Oct7, 2023 #Hamas attacks, #antisemitism in #Canada has reached levels without precedent in the available data. #StatisticsCanada’s police-reported #hatecrime figures, released in July, show that #hatecrimes targeting #Jews jumped 82 percent in 2023, to 959 from 527 the year before. The count has since eased slightly—943 in 2024 and 788 in 2025—but Jews, who make up roughly 1 percent of the population, were the target of 70.7 percent of all religion-motivated hate crimes and 16.7 percent of the 4,708 hate crimes..."

https://thehub.ca/2026/09/01/harassment-and-discrimination-of-jewish-government-employees-twice-as-high-as-civil-servant-average/

[T]he first data from #Jewish respondents is “particularly alarming,” and suggested the numbers could be higher as many Jewish #civilservants are afraid to publicly identify as Jewish at the workplace.

“The data that we are seeing today points to really high levels of #discrimination amongst those Jewish employees that feel comfortable in self-identifying. A lot of folks still hide their identity because they’re afraid,” Wilczynski explained.

Since the #Oct7, 2023 #Hamas attacks, #antisemitism in #Canada has reached levels without precedent in the available data. #StatisticsCanada’s police-reported #hatecrime figures, released in July, show that #hatecrimes targeting #Jews jumped 82 percent in 2023, to 959 from 527 the year before. The count has since eased slightly—943 in 2024 and 788 in 2025—but Jews, who make up roughly 1 percent of the population, were the target of 70.7 percent of all religion-motivated hate crimes and 16.7 percent of the 4,708 hate crimes..."

https://thehub.ca/2026/09/01/harassment-and-discrimination-of-jewish-government-employees-twice-as-high-as-civil-servant-average/

[T]he first data from #Jewish respondents is “particularly alarming,” and suggested the numbers could be higher as many Jewish #civilservants are afraid to publicly identify as Jewish at the workplace.

“The data that we are seeing today points to really high levels of #discrimination amongst those Jewish employees that feel comfortable in self-identifying. A lot of folks still hide their identity because they’re afraid,” Wilczynski explained.

Since the #Oct7, 2023 #Hamas attacks, #antisemitism in #Canada has reached levels without precedent in the available data. #StatisticsCanada’s police-reported #hatecrime figures, released in July, show that #hatecrimes targeting #Jews jumped 82 percent in 2023, to 959 from 527 the year before. The count has since eased slightly—943 in 2024 and 788 in 2025—but Jews, who make up roughly 1 percent of the population, were the target of 70.7 percent of all religion-motivated hate crimes and 16.7 percent of the 4,708 hate crimes..."

https://thehub.ca/2026/09/01/harassment-and-discrimination-of-jewish-government-employees-twice-as-high-as-civil-servant-average/

"In 2019, #DavidSorkin described his #book #Jewish Emancipation: A History Across Five Centuries as an effort to “re-direct the focus of modern Jewish #history.” “Jewish emancipation” refers in this case to the #Jews’ acquiring rights of #citizenship, and more generally #civilrights, in the countries where they had lived for centuries as resident strangers. By his own admission, #Sorkin wrote about that process of change “from the side of the state.” His new book, The Emancipationists: Nineteenth-Century Jews’ Campaign for Citizenship, is his effort to complement his prior work with “the other side of that history, the Jews’ political mobilization.”

The #Yale #historian’s primary interest is the period from the late 18th century to the eve of World War I, a time during which #European nations, and to a lesser degree the #UnitedStates and North #Africa, addressed and reformed the status of Jews in their midst."

https://momentmag.com/jagged-line-to-citizenship/

"In 2019, #DavidSorkin described his #book #Jewish Emancipation: A History Across Five Centuries as an effort to “re-direct the focus of modern Jewish #history.” “Jewish emancipation” refers in this case to the #Jews’ acquiring rights of #citizenship, and more generally #civilrights, in the countries where they had lived for centuries as resident strangers. By his own admission, #Sorkin wrote about that process of change “from the side of the state.” His new book, The Emancipationists: Nineteenth-Century Jews’ Campaign for Citizenship, is his effort to complement his prior work with “the other side of that history, the Jews’ political mobilization.”

The #Yale #historian’s primary interest is the period from the late 18th century to the eve of World War I, a time during which #European nations, and to a lesser degree the #UnitedStates and North #Africa, addressed and reformed the status of Jews in their midst."

https://momentmag.com/jagged-line-to-citizenship/

"In 2019, #DavidSorkin described his #book #Jewish Emancipation: A History Across Five Centuries as an effort to “re-direct the focus of modern Jewish #history.” “Jewish emancipation” refers in this case to the #Jews’ acquiring rights of #citizenship, and more generally #civilrights, in the countries where they had lived for centuries as resident strangers. By his own admission, #Sorkin wrote about that process of change “from the side of the state.” His new book, The Emancipationists: Nineteenth-Century Jews’ Campaign for Citizenship, is his effort to complement his prior work with “the other side of that history, the Jews’ political mobilization.”

The #Yale #historian’s primary interest is the period from the late 18th century to the eve of World War I, a time during which #European nations, and to a lesser degree the #UnitedStates and North #Africa, addressed and reformed the status of Jews in their midst."

https://momentmag.com/jagged-line-to-citizenship/

"In 2019, #DavidSorkin described his #book #Jewish Emancipation: A History Across Five Centuries as an effort to “re-direct the focus of modern Jewish #history.” “Jewish emancipation” refers in this case to the #Jews’ acquiring rights of #citizenship, and more generally #civilrights, in the countries where they had lived for centuries as resident strangers. By his own admission, #Sorkin wrote about that process of change “from the side of the state.” His new book, The Emancipationists: Nineteenth-Century Jews’ Campaign for Citizenship, is his effort to complement his prior work with “the other side of that history, the Jews’ political mobilization.”

The #Yale #historian’s primary interest is the period from the late 18th century to the eve of World War I, a time during which #European nations, and to a lesser degree the #UnitedStates and North #Africa, addressed and reformed the status of Jews in their midst."

https://momentmag.com/jagged-line-to-citizenship/

"In 2019, #DavidSorkin described his #book #Jewish Emancipation: A History Across Five Centuries as an effort to “re-direct the focus of modern Jewish #history.” “Jewish emancipation” refers in this case to the #Jews’ acquiring rights of #citizenship, and more generally #civilrights, in the countries where they had lived for centuries as resident strangers. By his own admission, #Sorkin wrote about that process of change “from the side of the state.” His new book, The Emancipationists: Nineteenth-Century Jews’ Campaign for Citizenship, is his effort to complement his prior work with “the other side of that history, the Jews’ political mobilization.”

The #Yale #historian’s primary interest is the period from the late 18th century to the eve of World War I, a time during which #European nations, and to a lesser degree the #UnitedStates and North #Africa, addressed and reformed the status of Jews in their midst."

https://momentmag.com/jagged-line-to-citizenship/

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"Over the centuries, #American #Jews have built a vast religious landscape in which no single institution or orthodoxy can reign supreme or dictate how #Judaism should be practised. Such free market Judaism has produced a panoply of diverse religious #Jewish life, but it has also made collective representation more difficult.

Who ends up speaking on behalf of American Jews when #antisemitism spikes? Who testifies on Capitol Hill before Congress? Who can synthesise the concerns of #Orthodox, #Reform, #Conservative and unaffiliated Jews without pretending their differences don’t exist?

Whether #America ever gets a chief #rabbi again or a universally-accepted council of chief #rabbis may be beside the point. What isn't beside the point is that at a time of disturbing levels of antisemitism and a Jewish community fractured by politics, some kind of unity, however America chooses to build it, has never felt more necessary."

https://www.thejc.com/opinion/could-america-ever-have-a-chief-rabbi-rforj7x8

" #EzraFeig begins each Friday the same way: corralling 100 #Jews to go on a #run in #CentralPark.

He stands up on a park bench, towering above the crowd. They’re schmoozing and stretching, with impressive energy considering the hour. Around half wear blue shirts and shorts emblazoned with a white #StarofDavid, interlaced with an outline of a #runner.

#Feig spreads his arms wide and says “Welcome to #NiceJewishRunners.”

A 35-year-old health care entrepreneur, Feig launched Nice #Jewish #Runners in the wake of the #Hamas-led #Oct7 attacks on #Israel. Three years later, the running group has kept up its pace. Jews from multiple generations, but mostly in their 20s and 30s, continue to feel the group’s pull. For those raised in less observant backgrounds but called to engage more with their #Judaism after Oct. 7, the weekly jogs give them a way to do so outside a #synagogue.

The group has expanded to at least 19 cities in five countries around the world."

https://forward.com/news/847343/these-jews-are-looking-for-a-runners-chai/

Snippet from Culture Cancer - tromsite.com/2026/07/culture-c…

Another example of stage 2-3 Culture Cancer is that of the occupation of West Bank by Israel. They have literally caged in a group of people, like you would do with livestock for consumption.

On top of that some people from the Israeli tribe are forcefully taking the land from the West Bank residents, beating, mocking them, even murdering them.

An example:

One of the Israeli settlers “hoarding” a Palestinian woman, mocking her as if she is a cattle. And filming all at the same time. Did I mention that he is holding a riffle?

In the video you can see him making the same noises that the Palestinians make to hoard their animals. The Israeli leaders tolerate and even encourage this behavior.I recommend these two documentaries to see the insane cancerous situation between Israel and the West Bank:

No Other Land - videoneat.com/documentaries/26…
Louis Theroux: The Settlers - videoneat.com/documentaries/26…

These are examples of a stage 2-3 Culture Cancer. It has spread significantly and it is hard to tackle. Thus it has a great influence over a population of people who can turn violent against each other.

#israel #gaza #westbank #settlers #war #genocide #jews #jew #palestine #palestinian #abuse

The Central Synagogue attack had no clear connection to Mamdani. He’s still being blamed.
The suspect’s social media posts show a history of supporting Israel and criticizing Mayor #ZohranMamdani
https://forward.com/news/845474/central-synagogue-attack-mamdani-antisemitism/

from #TheForward
[#Jewish publication from #USA]

“The attack at Manhattan’s Central Synagogue is a direct result of Mayor #Mamdani’s sustained campaign of incitement,” Ofir Akunis, consul general of #Israel in #NewYork, posted to X Saturday morning. “I warned that words would turn into actions, and that is exactly what is happening.”

The details that have emerged about Montes complicate that conclusion. A #Forward analysis of the attacker’s social media and statements from his family paint a very different picture of Montes: a pro-Israel #Republican who wanted to convert to Judaism.

#SanctionIsrael #FreePalestine
#news #politics #USpol #Zionist #Jews

A unique #theatrical #performance inspired by #Yiddish #folktales features dead #Jews dancing at a cemetery, a prophet appearing in the form of a bunny rabbit and a stone-munching worm named Shamir. It all takes place within the confines of a 2’ X 4’ box known as a #cranky and it’s coming to #NewYork later this month as part of the International #Puppet #FringeFestival.

For those unfamiliar with the decidedly low-tech medium, #crankies are portable stages through which a panorama is scrolled by cranking a pair of wooden dowels. The characters and scenery on the scroll are usually accompanied by #narration and #music, in this case a live #klezmer trio. In backlit crankies, #shadowpuppets can also be used for characters.

The cranky performance of #ShternaandtheLostVoice was created by the #MagidEnsemble, a far-flung interdisciplinary collective that includes a #storyteller, a #graphicartist and three former members of the #Boston klezmer band #Mamaliga."

https://jewishpostandnews.ca/uncategorized/in-a-world-of-ai-run-amok-yiddish-folktales-are-making-these-theater-wizards-cranky/

Nearly half of Israel’s government joins march vowing Gaza settlements
Thousands of right-wing activists walked through a closed military zone to the #Gaza fence, singing genocidal anthems as soldiers handed out bottled water.
https://www.972mag.com/wp-content/themes/rgb/newsletter.php?page_id=8&section_id=193600&utm_source=972+Magazine+Newsletter&utm_campaign=5b8dd5e269-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_9_12_2022_11_20_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f1fe821d25-5b8dd5e269-1401528606

from +972’s Sunday Recap
#972Magazine [published in #Israel]
July 26, 2026

Also:

• Israel seizing #WestBank heritage sites ‘piece by piece’
• Palestinians could decide Israel’s election. But their parties are at a stalemate
• ‘In #Germany, #Jews who reject #Zionism are seen as not really #Jewish’

#SanctionIsrael #StopStarvingGaza #FreePalestine #BlockTheBombs
#RestoreFundsToUNRWA
#GazaBelongsToPalestine
#IsraeliCrimesAgainstHumanity
#StopGazaGenocide
#AllEyesOnWestBank #EndTheOccupation #SettlersOut #NeverStopTalkingAboutPalestine
#StopArmingIsrael #AntiZionismIsNotAntisemitism #BDS #DivestFromIsrael #EqualRightsForAllFromTheRiverToTheSeaIsNotAntisemitic #JewHatredHurtsPalestine
#Palestine #MiddleEast #news #politics

"#Galut is thus often understood as the experienced reality of being in exile, albeit structured, however, by the internalization of the textual notion of the #Diaspora and tempered by the daily experience (good or bad) of life in the world. The #Jew experiences the daily life of exile through the mirror of the #biblical model of expulsion, whether it be the expulsion from the #GardenofEden or freedom from slavery in #Egypt. Galut has formed the #Jewish self-understanding of exile, at least for religious #Jews. Yet for some thinkers today the involuntary dispersion of the Jews (galut or #golah) is articulated as being inherently different from the voluntary exile of the Jews (diaspora or #tfutsot). These two models exist simultaneously in #Jewishhistory in the image of uprooted and powerless Jews on the one hand and rooted and empowered Jews on the other."

Reprinted with permission from Antisemitisms: A History of Jew Hating by Sander L. Gilman.

https://lithub.com/on-the-complexities-and-contradictions-of-diasporic-jewish-identity/

#Israeli #Nazis continue their ethnic cleansing in Gaza. The world just watches. This mess of the Middle East was created by #Europeans. They didn't just murder #Jesus, a Palestinian #Jew. They have actually been supporting #European #Jews to continue to murder Palestinians and to destroy the peace in the #MiddleEast.

https://www.democracynow.org/2026/7/20/headlines?utm_source=copilot.com

#gaza, #israel #europe

Interesting Jewish experience on a city tour in Germany. These questions around memory are pretty important and thought-provoking.

"A year before, I’d gone on two more of these types of #Jewish memorial trips. In Poland, we’d visited #Auschwitz, #Treblinka, and the #WarsawGhetto. In #Prague, we saw the Old #Jewish Quarter, #Theresienstadt, and #Europe’s oldest #synagogue. Here, too, we naturally experienced these cities and tourist sights through the eyes of #Jews. Each monument was viewed and explained, each museum was visited or at least noticed, each chance for lamentation was taken.

But on this city tour through #Dortmund, I noticed something rather peculiar: no Jews. With one exception: me. Oh well, I thought, today, my generation is so trained to be tolerant that it would practically be an advantage to be the only #Jew in a large group."

https://jewishjournal.com/commentary/opinion/390165/the-kristallnacht-monument-and-the-question-of-whether-to-stop/

Not typically a fan of Rabbi Ruttenberg, but this is an interesting, provocative thought-piece.

"Nobody would think twice about demanding a #reasonableaccommodation if #corporations asked #Jews to start violating #Shabbat or partaking of the #pork BBQ at the #company retreat against their own practice. And while I would not demand that every #Jew request such an #accommodation (for Shabbat or keeping #kosher), they should absolutely have that option available, even if their #religious practice is a work in progress. So too, here.

And despite seeing many people (including religious Jews!) eliding the moral and religious issues around #AI because "that train has already left the station," we should make choices based on whether they are right or wrong. Also, it's a fallacy: Movements grow from dissent."

https://www.lifeisasacredtext.com/the-jewish-case-for-ai-work-exemptions/

🤡

"#Scandinavians in the upper Midwest, #AfricanAmericans clustered in the South and beyond, #MexicanAmericans in the Southwest, #Portuguese along the coast of New England, #Yemeni #immigrants and their descendants in Detroit, and #NativeAmericans living across a country that was once theirs.

“Much of what we see is a history of #immigration,” explain the authors, #AlbertSun, #JeffAdelson and #LarryBuchanan. The story accompanying the #map goes on to describe the ebbs and flows of the #migrant tide, including the surge at the turn of the 20th century and the current crackdown on #refugees, #asylumseekers and even naturalized citizens.

But zoom in on the map, and there’s a notable omission: #Jews. Hover over Manhattan, home to one of the largest #Jewish communities in the world, and you’ll find pockets where 20% or more of the residents are #Chinese, #PuertoRican, African American, #Dominican, #German and #Italian. Conspicuously, there is no heading for “Jewish.”

https://www.jta.org/2026/07/06/ideas/a-new-york-times-map-tells-americas-immigration-story-so-where-are-the-jews

"[S]ix million people were sent to the #Soviet #Gulag. A quarter did not survive. Another 16-17 million were transported to strict regime #laborcamps, where the death rate was around 10%.

Within these numbers are the names of tens of thousands of #Jews of every kind, from the devout #hassid to the #assimilated #Communist.

#Stalin’s rule was fortified by spies who believed that they were repairing the world and saving it from the ravages of #fascism. The most effective of these were five young idealists who were at #CambridgeUniversity in the 1930s and who bore witness to the rise of #Hitler and the march of #Nazism across Europe.

#TheCambridgeFive: #GuyBurgess, #DonaldMcLean, #KimPhilby, #AnthonyBlunt, and #JohnCairncross sold their collective soul to Stalin. While their story has been retold countless times in many #books, the remarkable Stalin’s Apostles: The Cambridge Five and the Making of the Soviet Empire by #AntoniaSenior sheds new light[...]"

https://www.jpost.com/history/article-901146?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

"A woman who was #elected on Tuesday to a leadership position in the influential #Brooklyn #DemocraticParty has apologized for a #socialmedia post from last year that amplified #antisemitic comments and #conspiracytheories.

#CarmellaCharrington, whose #candidacy was supported by #democraticsocialist lawmakers, recirculated a video that highlighted a series of pamphlets in a newspaper owned by #HenryFord, the industrialist who founded #Ford Motor Company, that later became a book in the 1920s. The book highlighted well-worn conspiracy theories that #Jews controlled business and the media, and it blamed them for many of the country’s problems.

“The only way to change is understanding the truth!” Ms. #Charrington wrote in her post, which was first reported by #Jewish Insider.

Reached by telephone on Friday, Ms. Charrington said she was not antisemitic[...]" :fozzie_wocka_wocka:

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/26/nyregion/charrington-ford-jews-antisemitic-apology.html

"Many of us probably don’t imagine the #UnitedStates as a nation in which a tradition of #antisemitism reaches back to the original 13 colonies and has emerged in every generation. In her new #book, #historian #PamelaNadell carefully documents the #history of #discrimination, #conspiracytheories, and #violence against #Jews in our republic, as well as the resilience of #Jewish #Americans in resisting and organizing against antisemitism, both at home and abroad. This highly readable book offers an excellent introductory text for undergraduates, theological students, clergy, and adult study groups.

#Nadell defines antisemitism largely with #historical and contemporary examples rather than abstract theories. The term was coined by #WilhelmMarr in 1879 to distinguish the “modern #racial basis of #Jewhatred” from traditional Christian anti-#Judaism. The #author defines it as “#Jew hatred” and cites “many episodes of anti-Jewish animus” in #US history."

https://www.christiancentury.org/books/antisemitism-more-american-we-want-admit

This guy nails it I think.

"Many people imagine #antisemitism only in its crudest forms: #swastikas daubed on walls, abuse shouted in the street, threats and violence. Those forms are far too prevalent, and they are rightly and routinely condemned. But the #prejudice we face today as #Jews often presents itself in more subtle ways. It arrives wrapped in the language of #humanrights and #socialjustice. It insists that it has nothing against Jews as such. It simply posits that all Jews must be regarded as suspect until they have proven their purity.

This is very familiar to us.

In medieval #Europe, Jews were forced to prove their religious purity through #conversion, #baptism or public #renunciation of their faith. The #Nazis demanded a certain #racialpurity. Under oppressive regimes of various kinds, Jews had to demonstrate their political purity – that they were not either #capitalist #conspirators or #communist #subversives."

https://www.thejc.com/opinion/our-holiday-landlord-realised-we-were-jewish-what-happened-next-was-deeply-troubling-i9zjiz1p

#DavidHearst #MEE #MiddleEastEye

The #UK #FarRight : A Danger to #Muslims & #Jews

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-y4p4W-oGuU

"Not you. You guys are cool."

https://piefed.social/c/historymemes/p/1897049/not-you-you-guys-are-cool

They’re #suing #UPenn to get a count of #Jews on campus. Phila district court to hear the case. Let’s hope the court remembers #history. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/10/us/trump-penn-list-of-jews-subpoena.html?unlocked_article_code=1.SFA.0KEF.hADwEZxsNPSs&smid=nytcore-ios-share

@barrydeutsch.bsky.social
IMAGINE if the "brown people" #NaziDon's #gICEstapo are holding had no country to be #deported to. 🤔

The #Jews that the #Nazi's crammed into #ConcentrationCamps had no "homeland", becoming an expensive liability to the point they finally just gassed them and burned the bodies.

#OrangeHitler has MORE people in MORE "detention centers" across the country right now than #Hitler did at this point in his Chancellorship.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfsWFoKqBQA

Cyrus the Based

https://piefed.social/c/historymemes/p/1737373/cyrus-the-based

Regarding cops:

#INTERPOL #police #nazi #gestapo #heydrich #reinhardheydrich #holocaust #extermination #jews #hitler #diabolical #finalsolution #sinister #ICPC #kristalnacht #genocide #murders #murder #pogrom #pogroms

Update. Yesterday #UPenn filed a 163-page brief in federal court condemning the #Trump admin demand for a list of #Jews at the institution as “extraordinary and unconstitutional".
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/20/us/university-of-pennsylvania-trump-jewish-staff.html

"The #EEOC insists that Penn produce this information without the consent — and indeed, over the objections — of the employees impacted while entirely disregarding the frightening and well-documented history of governmental entities that undertook efforts to identify and assemble information regarding persons of Jewish ancestry. The government’s demand implicates Penn’s substantial interest in protecting its employees’ privacy, safety and First Amendment rights."

#Academia #AcademicMastodon #Antisemitism #Universities #USLaw #USPol #USPolitics

Samaritanism

Samaritanism is an Abrahamic monotheistic, ethnic religion. It comprises the collective spiritual, cultural, & legal traditions of the Samaritan people.

Often preferring to be called Israelite Samaritans, who originated from the Hebrews & Israelites. They began to emerge as a relatively distinct group after the Kingdom of Israel was conquered by the Neo-Assyrian Empire during the Iron Age. The Neo-Assyrian Empire was the 4th, & penultimate, stage of ancient Assyrian history.

Central to their continuity as an Indigenous Heritage in the Holy Land is keeping the Patriarchal & Mosaic covenant as specified in the Samaritan Torah. Samaritans believe this is the original & unchanged version of the Pentateuch (which is the first 5 books of the Hebrew & Christian bible) since Moses & the Israelites at Mount Sinai.

The Abisha Scroll is traditionally held by the community to be the oldest existing scroll written by Abisha, son of Aaron the priest, around 3,000 years ago based on living tradition. However, Jewish & Christian theologians have made attempts to dispute this claim which proved unsatisfactory.

Judaism claims Samaritanism developed right alongside their own religion. Samaritanism asserts itself as the true preserved form of the monotheistic faith that the Israelites kept under Moses. Samaritan belief also holds that the Israelites’ original holy site was Mount Gerizim, near Nablus, the State of Palestine (West Bank).

They also believe that Jerusalem only attained importance under Israelite dissenters who had followed Eli (In the Book of Samuel, Eli was a priest & judge of the Israelites in the city of Shiloh) to the city of Shiloh.

The Israelites who remained at Mount Gerizim would become the Samaritans in the Kingdom of Judah. Mount Gerizim is revered by Samaritans as the location where the Binding of Isaac occurred. In comparison to the Jewish belief that it occurred at Jerusalem’s Temple Mount.

Today there are only about 900 registered communal members. This puts Samaritanism as 1 of the smallest ethnoreligious groups globally in the Abrahamic faiths. Samaritans believe that this is a prophecy fulfilled from the scriptures: “You’ll be left few in number.”

Though they hope for a future time when a prophet like Moses known as the “Taheb” (Restorer) will perform 3 signs, namely the jar of manna, the staff of Moses, & Cherubim, or the Golden Candlestick.

This time period they believe is when an era of Divine Favor would return, & the hidden tabernacle of Moses would miraculously be revealed for the Israelite people & Mount Gerizim is restored to its former glory.

Samaritans trace their history, as a separate entity, to a period soon after the Israelites’ arrival into the “Promised Land.” Samaritan historiography traces the schism to High Priest Eli leaving Mount Gerizim, where stood the 1st Israelite altar in Canaan, & building a competing altar in nearby Shiloh.

The dissenting group of Israelites who followed Eli to Shiloh would be the ones who, in later years, would head south to settle in Jerusalem (the Jews). Whereas the Israelites who stayed on Mount Gerizim, in Samaria, would become known as the Samaritans.

Genetic studies in 2004 suggest that Samaritans’ lineages trace back to a common ancestor with Jews in the paternally-inherited Jewish high priesthood (Cohanim) temporally near to the period of the Assyrian conquest of the Kingdom of Israel. They’re probably descendants of the historical Israelite population. The Cohanim refers to the Jewish priestly class, male descendants of Aaron the priest.

The Hasmonean king, John Hyrcanus, destroyed the Mount Gerizim Temple & brought Samaria under his control around 120 BCE. This led to a long-lasting sense of mutual hostility between the Jews & Samaritans.

From this point, the Samaritans likely sought to consciously distance themselves from their Judean brethren. Both peoples came to see the Samaritan faith as a religion distinct from Judaism. By the time of Jesus, Samaritans & Jews deeply disparaged one another, as shown by Jesus’ Parable of the Good Samaritan.

The main beliefs of Samaritanism are:

• There’s 1 God, Yahweh, the same God recognized by the Jewish prophets.
• The Torah is the only true holy book & was given by God to Moses. The Torah was created before the creation of the world & whoever believes in it is assured a part in the world to come. The Torah’s status in Samaritanism as the only holy book causes them to reject the Oral Torah, the Talmud, & all the prophets & scriptures, except for a version of the Book of Joshua (which they don’t hold as Scripture), whose book in the Samaritan community is significantly different from the Book of Joshua in the Jewish “Bible.” Moses is considered to be the last of the line of prophets.
• Mount Gerizim, not Jerusalem, is the 1 true sanctuary chosen by God. The Samaritans don’t recognize the sanctity of Jerusalem & don’t recognize the Temple Mount, claiming instead that Mount Gerizim was the place where the Binding of Isaac took place.
• The Apocalypse, called “the day of vengeance,” will be the end of days. When an entity called the Taheb (basically the Jewish Messiah equal) that comes from the tribe of Joseph will come, be a prophet like Moses for 40 years & bring about the return of all the Israelites, following which the dead will be resurrected. The Tahib will then discover the tent of Moses’ Tabernacle on Mount Gerizim, & will be buried next to Joseph when he dies.

The Samaritans have retained the institution of a high priesthood & the practice of slaughtering & eating lambs on Passover Eve. They celebrated Pesach, Shavuot, & Sukkot. But they use a different method from that used in mainstream Judaism in order to determine the dates annually.

For example, Yom Teru’ah (the biblical name for Rosh Hashanah), at the beginning of Tishrei (This is the 1st month of the civil year & the 7th month of the ecclesiastical year in the Hebrew calendar.), isn’t considered a New Year as it is in Rabbinic Judaism.

Their Sabbath is observed weekly by the Samaritan community every week from Friday to Saturday, beginning & ending at sundown. For 24 hours, the families gather together to celebrate the rest day: all electricity with the exception of minimal lighting (kept on the entire day) in the house is disconnected, no work is done, & neither cooking nor driving is allowed.

The time is devoted to worship which consists of 7 prayer services, reading the weekly Torah portion, spending quality time with family, taking meals, rest & sleep, & visiting other members of the community.

Passover is particularly important in the Samaritan community, climaxing with the sacrifice of up to 40 sheep.

The Counting of the Omar remains relatively unchanged. The Counting of the Omar is a ritual in Judaism that consists of a verbal counting of each of the 49 days between the holidays of Passover & Shavuot. However, the week before Shavuot is a unique festival celebrating the continued commitment Samaritanism has maintained since the time of Moses.

During Sukkot, the Sukkah (the temporary hut built for use during Sukkot) is built INSIDE of houses, instead of OUTSIDE like mainstream Judaism. This Samaritan tradition is traced back to the persecution of the Samaritans during the Byzantine Empire.

The roof of the Samaritan Sukkah is decorated with citrus fruits & branches of palm, myrtle, & willow trees. This is in accordance with the Samaritan interpretation of the 4 species designated in the Torah for the holiday. The 4 species are 4 plants (the etrog, lulav, hadass, & aravah) mentioned in the Torah as being relevant to the Jewish holiday of Sukkot.

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The way we Jews describe ourselves in English, a People, an Ethnicity, a civilization, is largely based on the way that Mordechai Kaplan and his reconstructionist colleagues addressed the issue of both the language and goals of Jewish identity in the US (and disapora at large). He cared about Jewish cohesion, Jewish unity, and Jewish goals in the diaspora while still being connected to, and working together with the Zionist movement to create a larger vision for Zionism than just a nation state.

If you care about any of these topics, this talk by Deborah Waxman is worth a watch.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kr8iTuh3j2Q

#Judaism #Jews #Mazeldon #Reconstructionism #Zionism #NonZionism #MordechaKaplan

This article in Harper's about being a Jew in Auschwitz in 2024 is so important for non-Jews to read.

https://harpers.org/archive/2024/09/my-auschwitz-vacation-tanya-gold-tourism/

Please my non-Jewish friends who talk about the Holocaust, read it and spread it.

It speaks to how European "Jewish Heritage Sites" and "Holocaust Memorials" make a spectacle about Judaism, but they often rely on the same antisemitic tropes that Jews deal with today, how non-Jews are happy to talk about the Holocaust but don't want to deal with real Jews, and the reality of being an actual living Jew.

If you get even more curious about this phenomenon, please read "People Love Dead Jews" by Dara Horn.

It also speaks to the way Poland has worked so hard to rewrite its own history, to make itself both the victim and the saviors.

#Jews #Judaism #Holocaust #JewishHeritage #PeopleLoveDeadJews #Poland #Auchwitz

It happened, so it can happen again – a journey through Auschwitz

We must firmly block – with our bodies and our souls and the ways that we lead our lives – the pathways of accumulative radicalisation that lead to Auschwitz, writes Harsh Mander.

#holocaust #auschwitz #nazism #genocide #hindutva #RSS #radicalisation #germany #AdolfHitler #hitler #VDSavarkar #MSGolwalkar #savarkar #golwalkar #nazis #jews #history #histodon #india

https://scroll.in/article/1065400/harsh-mander-it-happened-so-it-can-happen-again-a-journey-through-auschwitz

https://invidious.lunar.icu/watch?v=n_RU47EKEz0

#UKShitShow !!!!!!

#PoliticsJoe

A #BRITISH woman is an #artist who has been rendered statelesss by #CruellaBraverman's office. BORN in #BRITAIN

The #UKHomeOffice is a disgrace!!!

#racism

COMMENT: I have to say, this made me think of the 1930s when German-born #Jews were rendered stateless in Germany. #antisemitism

https://www.timesofisrael.com/red-tape-keeps-non-orthodox-worshipers-a-stones-throw-from-the-western-wall/

So disappointing to see this kind of ongoing deliberate discrimination against non-Orthodox #Jews by the state of #Israel

It feels like there is a fundamental disconnect between Israeli religious authorities and the diaspora, because, for most of us diasporists, the allowance of an egalitarian space at the wall is the bare minimum that we can live with. Which makes me believe that in the years to come in #Diaspora, we will be wondering what, if any, is the relevance of the state of Israel to us, when those who share our beliefs and practices face such religious discrimination.

#WesternWall #Mazeldon #Jewdiverse

The #Holocaust, known by many Jews as The Shoah, was the systematic and deliberate #genocide of ethnic #Jews, #Slavs, #Roma, #homosexuals, #transgender people, #handicapped people, and political opponents by Adolf Hitler's Nazi Germany from 1941 to 1945. This program of mass murder occurred in various methods, including mass extrajudicial executions, #pogroms gas vans, forced labor in concentration camps, and gas chambers in Nazi extermination camps. The most heavily used death camps were Auschwitz, Bełżec, Chełmno, Majdanek, Sobibór, and Treblinka, which the Nazis built across occupied Poland. Nazi Germany and its Axis allies murdered approximately 17 million people in the course of the Holocaust, about 6 million of them Jews.

#RationalWiki #nazigermany
https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Holocaust

If you think you know about the #Holocaust you don't. If you think you understand the connection to the #AmericaFirst and #MAGA movements, you don't.

At least 90% of the images and footage in the #KenBurns documentary were things I'd never seen before. And even though I went to progressive schools during the 1960s and 1970s, most of the real story of US involvement in the genocide, was never taught to me.

Unfortunately, it's not remotely a stretch to say that the US was complicit in the Holocaust and responsible for perhaps 25% of the deaths of #Jews who could have been easily saved if not for US #antisemitism

#CharlesLindbergh was the #TuckerCarlson of the Holocaust.

Had we merely *processed the visa applications of the Jews trying to flee Hitler,* hundreds of thousands of lives would have been saved.

Instead we kept strict numeric quotas in place throughout the war, and even turned away a shipload of refugees that was forced to return to Europe. About 1/3 of the refugees on that ship died in the camps. That's only one of about 10 bombshells in the doc.

This is the stuff of literal #nightmares As in, if you watch this, you will definitely have actual nightmares.

Watch it anyway. Because if we don't learn these lessons, we might all have to relive it.

https://www.pbs.org/kenburns/us-and-the-holocaust/