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Some of y'all think that just bc you are from another minority group you can't be antisemitic or get a free pass.
There is antisemitism in the black, Latino, Muslim, lgbtq+, Asian, & indigenous communities.
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There is antisemitism in the black, Latino, Muslim, lgbtq+, Asian, & indigenous communities.
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Antisemitism is present in EVERY ethnic group, political ideology, financial bracket.
If you can't call it out in every group regardless of who they are you are part of the problem.
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If you can't call it out in every group regardless of who they are you are part of the problem.
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Every country on EARTH has an antisemitism problem.
Some larger than others but it is there, it is dangerous, and it is violent.
Jews have been persecuted in every country we have ever lived in.
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Some larger than others but it is there, it is dangerous, and it is violent.
Jews have been persecuted in every country we have ever lived in.
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Just like I expect people to call out racism, homophobia, transphobia, Islamophobia, sexism and all bigotry in the Jewish community, I expect the same for antisemitism.
Just bc lots of us considered are "white-passing" doesn't mean the bigotry we face isn't any less real.
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Just bc lots of us considered are "white-passing" doesn't mean the bigotry we face isn't any less real.
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For thousands of years, we have been enslaved, raped, murdered, ethnically cleansed, forced to convert, colonized, exiled, stolen from, mutilated.
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Antisemitism doesn't begin OR end with the Holocaust.
We were colonized in Judea by the Babylonians and the Romans.
Our temple and our land destroyed and named after our enemies (the Philistines)
We were taken in slave ships to Europe by the Romans.
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We were colonized in Judea by the Babylonians and the Romans.
Our temple and our land destroyed and named after our enemies (the Philistines)
We were taken in slave ships to Europe by the Romans.
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We were forced to convert or be killed in the Spanish Inquisition.
We survived pogroms and second class citizenship across Europe.
We were raped and murdered during the crusades.
We were blamed and killed for the Black Plague.
We lived as dhimmis in the Muslim world.
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We survived pogroms and second class citizenship across Europe.
We were raped and murdered during the crusades.
We were blamed and killed for the Black Plague.
We lived as dhimmis in the Muslim world.
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We were burned as witches by the church.
We were killed by communists.
We were killed in pogroms in Iraq like the Farhud.
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We were killed by communists.
We were killed in pogroms in Iraq like the Farhud.
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We were kept in ghettos by the Italians.
We were gassed and experimented on by the Nazis.
We were colonized by pan-Arabization.
Our temple mount has a Mosque built over it.
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We were gassed and experimented on by the Nazis.
We were colonized by pan-Arabization.
Our temple mount has a Mosque built over it.
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We were exiled from all MENA lands and ethnically cleansed.
Land 5x the size of Israel was stolen from MENA Jews.
For centuries Ethiopian Jews were oppressed and persecuted in Ethiopia.
MENA Jews were also put into Nazi camps.
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Land 5x the size of Israel was stolen from MENA Jews.
For centuries Ethiopian Jews were oppressed and persecuted in Ethiopia.
MENA Jews were also put into Nazi camps.
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We weren't allowed to buy property in areas in Canada and America until way less than a century ago. (land I sit on rn)
We have been targetted and killed for the last 2000+ years.
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We have been targetted and killed for the last 2000+ years.
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Don't tell me this is new. I am sick and tired of people minimizing our struggles and what our ancestors went through and the violence we continue to face today.
Don't tell me we don't need Israel and should just live under people who want us dead.
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Don't tell me we don't need Israel and should just live under people who want us dead.
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No one gives a sh*t about us except for us.
We are indigenous to the land of Judea (Jews...Judea...).
You have NO right to tell us we are colonizers in the land that genetics, archeology & history shows we are indigenous to.
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We are indigenous to the land of Judea (Jews...Judea...).
You have NO right to tell us we are colonizers in the land that genetics, archeology & history shows we are indigenous to.
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If you can't accept this and see that Jews need you as REAL allies not just when it is convenient then you are the problem.
If you can't accept we are indigenous to the Levant then you have an antisemitism problem.
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If you can't accept we are indigenous to the Levant then you have an antisemitism problem.
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also if you say "I only hate Zionists but I love Jews" you have an antisemitism problem b/c about 97% of us are zionists and Zionism is the belief that Jews have the right to self determination in our ancestral land of Israel/Judea.
