Back In Ninth Grade I Was Failing Geometry Because The Pythagorean Theorem Made No Sense To Me. Now I’m

You can tell that Percy Jackson is Jewish in the same way you can tell that Will Byers is Jewish: both their mothers are so, so incredibly Jewish.

In 2022, people were cancelling Stranger Things for the tattooed numbers being reminiscent of the Holocaust and them filming in Lukiškės Prison. Now, those same people are “cancelling” it for having multiple Jews “Zionists” who are a part of it. No opinions on the first part, but it’s just interesting to see.

it's cool how even normal people on the left have gone from like performatively complaining about how antisemitic harry potter was to just unilaterally deciding that jewish pain and antisemitism don't matter because someone might mistake them for a zionist if they defend us

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Oded Lifshitz brought Gazan children needing medical attention into Israel to receive the best care. If one believes that Palestinians are currently going through a genocide, and there exists no hardship in Israel, you would think that he would be seen as a Nicholas Winton of his time. Yet I have not seen a single pro-Palestine influencer condemn his murder or say anything about the things he did to help Palestinians.

As a transsexual male, I don’t consider myself biologically female. For one, biology is the study of life, not the study of birth. Also, many things are biological. I’d say biological sex is a combination of body parts, hormones, chromosomes, and your brain. I’d say my body is mostly male. I have a (micro)penis, but no testicles, which not all cisgender men definitely have (whether from birth or from an accident). I have facial hair, a male facial structure, and muscle growth lining up with that of a male’s. At some point my body will be completely male too, as in I will have a penis and testicles. I have normal hormone levels for a male. I’m taking testosterone as a shot, but tons of cisgender males need to as well. I have no clue what my chromosomes are and barely anyone else knows theirs as well. However, I remember finding that a lottt of people with Klinefelter Syndrome ended up being trans women, and seeing some trans women with XX chromosomes, so I wonder if the chromosomes of transsexual people are more likely to match the gender they identify as. Onto brain, at last. Well, that’s the whole point of being transsexual. My brain is male. So to me, I am more biologically male than female.

I wrongly trusted a Christian Zionist. And I know what they are like. My (Christian) grandma will go on and on about Israel and cry for the Jews, but minutes later will say that all Jews will go to Hell for not believing in Jesus.

I’ve known this friend for four years now and became much closer with him last year when he expressed anger at the people applauding October 7th. We’ve spent the last year talking about this stuff, sending each other ridiculous things said, and sending happy Jewish culture things. It’s been great. In a lonely time in most other places, I did not feel alone because of him.

And yet, he voted for Trump. I don’t get it. It goes against so much of what we agreed on (outside of Israel as well). Sorry, but a man saying he’ll deport the “enemies from within” (being democrats)(source), he’ll declare a national emergency and use the military for mass deportations (source), he’d get away with killing someone (source), and police should have “one really violent day” (source) sounds all too familiar. If you voted for that today (and, Hell, one of those comments goes back to 2016), I have no doubt you’d vote for the man (who’s also a felon but “better for the economy!”) saying the same exact things in 1933.

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hating jews will always be the popular opinion, save for the few years it is taboo to hate us bc there was a mass killing of jews, but the point is you are not groundbreaking in your “sudden understanding of why people hate jews but hmmm you’ve always had suspicions and mever liked us anyway hmmmmmmmmmmm”.

Kinda wish I were an only child ngl

Yes, I’d be curious to hear other Ashkenazi views on this. I’ve heard a few Mizrahim say the opposite, they do *not* want to be called Arab, only Mizrahi, because it was the Arabs who pushed them out of their countries. Older Ashkenazim seem to be the same, but in a more “they aren’t allowing me to be part of them” generational trauma way instead of an “I’m too angry at them” generational trauma way (from what I can tell).

I was talking to my Holocaust studies teacher about this. When asked his ethnicity, her father will always say Jewish, never Polish, and will even say “No, I’m Jewish” if someone “corrects” him and brings up Poland. She (my teacher) said it’s really generational trauma. European citizens were suddenly told they weren’t European at all, only Jewish, and for some that stuck.

Still, I’m curious about what others think. I might be different because of my circumstances; my Jewish side comes from Russia, but that side has been in America for a long time (I think maybe my great-great-grandparents were born there, but it might even be farther back). My Polish (gentile) family members were in concentration camps and some were killed. So I guess I don’t have a strong “Jewish specific” connection to Europe, just in general. But, again, I know antisemitism exists everywhere, and I still plan on spending the majority of my life in Israel (once i perfect my Hebrew).

I can only respond as an Ashkenazi, I don’t know how everyone else feels, but I disagree. I am a Zionist. I feel a strong cultural and religious connection to the homeland. I even plan on permanently living in Israel when I’m older. But I’m also European. My great-grandparents were born in Poland and Italy, and I feel a connection to those places. Additionally, I feel a strong connection to both Hebrew and Yiddish, and even as a Zionist I don’t think Yiddish should be “phased out.” It’s a language of our European history and I like that.