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When conquering colonialists bring people as slaves to their home country, that doesn’t make the slaves indigenous. Ever. No matter how long they live there. We’re not European and we never have been. End of discussion.

After the Romans under Emperor Vespasian sacked Jerusalem and destroyed the Second Temple in 70 CE, they captured many of the Jews in Judea and dragged them as slaves back to Rome.

That is how many of our ancestors wound up in European Diaspora. We were slaves in Europe.

The Romans ransacked the Jewish Temple and used everything they stole from the Jewish people to fund their next great construction project: The Roman Colosseum.

And to add insult to injury, Emperor Vespasian, followed by his sons, Emperors Titus and Domitian, forced the enslaved Jews to build the Colosseum. Yes, the Roman Colosseum was built with Jewish slave labor. Then to rub it in our faces, Emperor Domitian commissioned the Arch of Titus for his older brother, commemorating how Titus had dragged the Jews captive through the streets of Rome.

To try and break the Jewish people, the Romans forced the Jews to carry the Holy Vessels, including the golden Menorah and the Shulchan (Showbread Table), which were only ever seen by the Temple Priests, and parade them through the streets. Both of these Holy Vessels are depicted in the Arch of Titus. Our subjugation in Europe is literally etched in stone.

So yeah. Stop telling us to “go back to Europe.” We’re from Eretz Yisrael. Europe is the place where we were enslaved.

“Born to a Jewish family.” “Mother/father was Jewish.” “‘Left’ Europe for New York City.”

Wikipedia is a disaster.

Whenever I see Jews on my dash arguing about interpretations of the Talmud I just chuckle and I’m like…Nothing’s changed. Nothing has changed in over 3,000 years. We’re still the same Jews. Our clothes, hairstyles, slang may be a bit more modern, but we’re still the same Jews. And I love us.

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I only watched their videos, which were fun. Twitter makes everyone worse.

They’ve gone fucking nuts. Mask-off antisemitism and simping for the leaders of the Reign of Terror in France.

Xiran has been harassing Jews online, encouraging their HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS of followers to harass Jews online, blaming everything on (((Zionists))) (aka Jews), and using the “blood money” canard against Jewish people. (see the above screenshot.)

they posted that screenshot to their Tumblr. they actually had the fucking gall to accuse a Jew of “blood money,” which is the same accusation that Christian Church Fathers used against Judas, and is the accusation used against us Jews when Christians blame us for “killing Jesus”.

Jews have been MURDERED for two thousand years for that accusation of “blood money”.

Xiran has gone mask-off as a Jew-hating bigot.

Today is the only day you can repost this

On this day exactly 12 years ago, Gravity Falls premiered on television.

Happy 12th anniversary to one of the greatest cartoons of all time! 🎉🥳❤️

Vote.

No buts. No ‘all evil candidates.’ No excuses. No bullshit. You either give a shit about what’s happening to you in the United States or you fucking don’t. No pleasantries, no argument to hide behind, this is it. Been seeing a lot of Propaganda cropping up again in my feed and I am 10,000% not here for it. I have officially hit my absolute limit for complete and utter nonsense spouted by right-wing bots and plants as some psyop to get the chronically online to not vote.

Bite your lip. Hold your nose. Hell, complain the whole time if you want. But fucking vote. If you care, you fucking vote. That’s it.

inspired

DOCTOR WHO (NUWHO) SPIN THE WHEEL.

RIVERDALE (2017-2023)

Montage de photos

“Let’s talk about the reason propaganda isn’t working on gen z” from the same people who casually say “oh it’s amazing that this got published I thought Jewish people owned all of our media companies.”

The Torah is alive. To me.

their handler gave up

Lmao

so we’re all collectively getting our shit rocked by declining mental health right now?

tumblr desperately needs to get over its boner for the soviet union

there is officially another jew in the world :)

Hiya tumblr take my uquiz

How Well Do You Know Tumblr (Except none of it is that one fandom because ugh)

I thought I’d do better but there were just some things that apparently never crossed my dash. However, as a smut writer in good standing, I have to dust my shoulders off a bit at my results.

I don’t know shit about this website.

52% Half marks or more! You know some tumblr stuff! I’m so proud

People claim to care so much about the Beta Israel women who were given birth control shots for years without informed consent, beginning in transit camps. People claim to care about these women, yet they also gleefully use this horrific crime to mock Beta Israel Israelis in the Instagram comments on videos of them dancing

Fucking disgusting behaviour.

The current date is 4/3/2024

Experiment: I have started putting the hate I and other Jews receive into my queued posts. I do not seek it out. I only reblog or post what I just stumble upon. And I will see how long it takes for the queue to run out. I think my queue posts like twice a day. These things antisemites do and say live in our minds for a long time, often forever. Antisemites post a hateful thing to us and get a little rush of adrenaline before forgetting we exist and that they engaged in hatred. But to us, it’s an eternal reminder that we will never be safe. No matter how temporarily accepted we may be at a given time, we are always on the verge of mass calls for our death.

Notes:

1. This is heinous

2. Point of fact, nobody was sterilized. They were given birth control without proper consent. This was done with poor communication and without proper consent. It was, however, not an attempt to sterilize anyone. It was a fairly standard practice to reduce the dangers of life in a transit and refugee camp. When the problem was identified, it was remedied:

Source from @jstor: https://www.jstor.org/stable/26554851 via the Internarional Journal of Ethiopian Studies

Article from Reuters, a highly credible and factual source with minimal bias according to mediabiasfactcheck.com https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSBRE90R0SO/

Those are just two of many reputable sources on the matter. The Depo shot is not sterilization. It is a widely available birth control shot that requires less regular doses than the typical birth control pill and is much less invasive than an IUD or an implant. It simply ensures that people in dangerous living conditions do not also have to face pregnancy in crisis conditions or risk pregnancy from sexual assault, which is unfortunately common in all refugee camps everywhere.

Given that this is, again, widely available and often used in the United States, I’m confident that many of the Western activists peddling this easily disproven and decisively debunked lie have either a) just reblogged sensationalized headlines about sterilization without actually doing a single ounce of fact checking b) are purposefully peddling the lie in order to drum up outrage.

3. If you are looking to be angry at country a country that sterilizes black and brown women without their consent—and has a long history of doing so—you should direct that anger at racism in the United States. If you care about the reproductive health of black and brown women, focus on bringing justice to the Native American, Black, and Hispanic women this issue disproportionately affects. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4297312/

Surgical Sterilization, Regret, and Race: Contemporary Patterns

Stop mapping your own struggles onto Israel and Palestine.

Neither Israelis nor Palestinians are avatars for your own cultural trauma. Your cultural trauma is real and valid, but so is that of Palestinians and Israelis. Stop seeing their struggles on your terms and learn to see both groups as comprised of complex people with problems and histories that may or may not align with your own. Believe it or not, Palestinians and Israelis are actually human beings!

4. Yes. Obviously giving birth control without consent is bad. But I cannot trust anyone who doesn’t see the difference between that and forcible permanent sterilization.

5. You cannot claim to be an activist for human rights with one side of your mouth and then mock the people you claim are victims with the other side of your mouth. You cannot claim to be a thoughtful activist while falling for someone who does.

Smarten up. Use your noggins. Do better.

Found an interesting Twitter thread on some of the historical forerunners of the “"anti Zionist”“ tropes and totalizing claims we’re seeing in leftist antisemitism/antisemitism on the left today. The poster also has a more in-depth article up on their substack.

that graphic immediately makes me think of the nazi rhetoric that jews are behind every problem. and if you don’t see that, you need to learn your history. if you see it and willfully ignore it, "but israel!!1!!1!1!1!” or whatever, you are an antisemite.

^^^ exactly

‘Your children will be as abundant as the stars’

Stars, like seeds, are abundant.. There is also the isolating distance between them as they’ve spread. It can be lonely but hope you feel safe and loved and there’s beauty in the homes we’ve made all over.

“You never pretended to be a bride when you were a little girl?” No???? Like literally never?

I made witch soups in my garden

there was a brief period while TW was airing where it looked like jackles might just be ignoring the finale completely and I have literally never respected him more than in those moments because doing so would be

1. an incredible power move
2. unbelievably fucking funny

so what I am saying is in a hypothetical revival they shouldn’t even try to address the finale. sure they could pull in all the hints that something’s off with the version of heaven we see in the finale, they could even go full chuck won. but what they should do, imo (and what they would do if they weren’t cowards), is just pretend the finale never happened. it’s what most of us do anyway, so it would just make sense, but more importantly, to reiterate:

1. power move
2. very funny

thank you for coming to my ted talk

basically they should just treat 15x20 the way the cw has spent the last three and a half years treating 15x18.

If you have Spotify reblog this and tag what your number one song on your “on repeat” playlist is.

Dara Horn, What Happens When the Last Jew Leaves Afghanistan

Israeli immigrants from Algeria, Yemen, Morocco, India, and Iran. More photo scans on the subject of Israeli immigration here.

there are so many posts about ~tumblr is so broken, you can’t find any post on your own blog, it’s impossible, bluhrblub~

I am here to tell you otherwise! it is in fact INCREDIBLY easy to find a post on a blog if you’re on desktop/browser and you know what you’re doing:

• url.tumblr.com/tagged/croissant will bring up EVERY post on the blog tagged with the specific and exact phrase #croissant. every single post, every single time. in chronological order starting with the most recent post. note: it will not find #croissants or that time you made the typo #croidnssants. for a tag with multiple words, it’s just /tagged/my-croissant and it will show you everything with the exact phrase #my croissant
• url.tumblr.com/tagged/croissant/chrono will bring up EVERY post on the blog tagged with the exact phrase #croissant, but it will show them in reverse order with the oldest first 
  
• url.tumblr.com/search/croissant isn’t as perfect at finding everything, but it’s generally loads better than the search on mobile. it will find a good array of posts that have the word croissant in them somewhere. could be in the body of the post (op captioned it “look at my croissant”) or in the tags (#man I want a croissant). it won’t necessarily find EVERYTHING like /tagged/ does, but I find it’s still more reliable than search on mobile. you can sometimes even find posts by a specific user by searching their url. also, unlike whatever random assortment tumblr mobile pulls up, it will still show them in a more logically chronological order
• url.tumblr.com/day/2020/11/05 will show you every post on the blog from november 5th, 2020, in case you’re taking a break from croissants to look for destiel election memes 
• url.tumblr.com/archive/ is search paradise. easily go to a particular month and see all posts as thumbnails! search by post type! search by tags but as thumbnails now
• url.tumblr.com/archive/filter-by/audio will show you every audio post on your blog (you can also filter by other post types). sometimes a little imperfect if you’re looking for a video when the op embedded the video in a text post instead of posting as a video post, etc
  
• url.tumblr.com/archive/tagged/croissant will show you EVERY post on the blog tagged with the specific and exact phrase #croissant, but it will show you them in the archive thumbnail view divided by months. very useful if you’re looking for a specific picture of a croissant that was reblogged 6 months ago and want to be able to scan for it quickly 
• url.tumblr.com/archive/filter-by/audio/tagged/croissant will show you every audio post tagged with the specific phrase #croissant (you can also filter by photo or text instead, because I don’t know why you have audio posts tagged croissant) 

the tag system on desktop tumblr is GENUINELY amazing for searching within a specific blog! 

caveat: this assumes a person HAS a desktop theme (or “custom theme”) enabled. a “custom theme” is url.tumblr.com, as opposed to tumblr.com/url. I’ve heard you have to opt-into the former now, when it used to be the default, so not everyone HAS a custom theme where you can use all those neat url tricks. 

if the person doesn’t have a “custom theme” enabled, you’re beholden to the search bar. still, I’ve found the search bar on tumblr.com/url is WAY more reliable than search on mobile. for starters, it tends to bring posts up in a sensible order, instead of dredging up random posts from 2013 before anything else

if you’re on mobile, I’m sorry. godspeed and good luck finding anything. (my one tip is that if you’re able to click ON a tag rather than go through the search bar, you’ll have better luck. if your mutual has recently reblogged a post tagged #croissant, you can click #croissant and it’ll bring up everything tagged #croissant just like /tagged/croissant. but if there’s no readily available tag to click on, you have to rely on the mobile search bar and its weird bizarre whims) 

url.tumblr.com/tagged/croissant/chrono will bring up EVERY post on the blog tagged with the exact phrase #croissant, but it will show them in reverse order with the oldest first 

I’ve been here since 2016 and I didn’t realize this.

Time to go deep diving into my tags!

I suspect it was a previous version of this post which taught me about /chrono which I have found invaluable.

/archive/tagged/ is also probably more useful than I realize but I don’t remember to try it very often

Super useful and important post BUT one correction: if a tag contains a space, you no longer put a - there. Now you put a space in the URL, or if your browser doesn’t like that you can replace it with %20. Which means that we can now use tags with dashes in them - previously “my-croissant” in a URL brought up posts tagged “my croissant” but if you tagged something “my-croissant” that tag just didn’t work at all. Now “my croissant” and “my-croissant” are both valid tags with separate URLs.

Star of David Belt by Isaac Mizrahi (American, b. 1961), New York, 1991

The fashion designer Isaac Mizrahi has always operated at the intersection of high style and popular culture. In his fall 1991 collection he mixed cultural influences from his childhood in irreverent ways, from Native American to American Jewish. “If crosses are everywhere,” he reasoned, “why not make the Star of David ubiquitous too?”