it's fucking shameful how the anti-semites on this site have jewish users so fucking scared that they (plural, VERY FUCKING PLURAL) have to ask me to answer their DMs privately. These DMs contain nothing messy or controversial. Literally just stuff like "Thank you for articulating XYZ it means a lot as a Jewish user." And multiple users are SCARED to say that to me publicly.

I'd like for these assholes harassing Jewish users to feel ashamed, but, as a Modern Jewish and Holocaust Historian, I know these anti-Semites most likely feel righteous. They always convince themselves that they're righteous while The Jews are ones:

-secretly allying with the Soviet Union as a threat to Polish sovereignty

-oppressing the proletarian classes

-murdering children in gaza

-murdering catholic babies in england

-spreading covid

-fomenting anti-german sentiment

-fomenting anti-french sentiment

-forming a dangerous fifth column to the peril of germany/france/poland/russia/syria/iran/USA/UK/transnistria/aragon/yemen/iraq/flanders

-fomenting anti-russian sentiment

-poisoning the wells

-being tacky with their Jew Money and Internationalism

-ensuring the Germany will lose WW1 and see its Eastern territories divided amongst its neighbors

-abusing dickensian orphans

-not worshipping the gods the emperor told us to worship

-deicide

-Controlling Hollywood

Okay this shouldn't need to be fucking said but don't attack, harrass, or blame jewish people over shit just being jewish

For clarification I not jewish and I am very pro-palestine but don't attack normal people over the shit the IOF and Israeli government are doing or over conspiracys you might have heard, Normal jewish people are not the people you need to convince or attack it's the government of countries continuing to support Israel

Blaming normal civilians is not the goal and it only helps propaganda

No it shouldn't need to be said. I'm a Holocaust historian who works on Jewish resistance during the Holocaust, and I should be able to post about the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising without snide assholes slipping in and leaving comments like BUT NOW YOU'RE DOING THE SAME EXACT THING IN GAZA as if I, an American Jewish woman, have any actual influence of the military of a country on the other side of the world.

As an American Jewish historian, all I should have to say is "I'm not Israeli and my work has little to do with the topic. I do not support the military goals of any nation state, including Israel." But instead it's been 7 fucking months of constant shit over here like I'm Netanyahu's personal spokesperson. My followers have been harassed and told to "kill themselves" for publicly asking me questions. i'm having to DM people and tell them to delete their replies because i don't want them to deal with anti-Semitic abuse. I appreciate your voice here, and I hope you're calling in your movement, and doing everything you can to make it a safe space for the participation of Jews who support Palestinian human and civil rights. Most of us ("us" in this context being Jewish people who are deeply concerned for Palestinian human and civil rights) do that in our own specific movements because the general ones are filled with assholes spewing Cossack-level anti-Semitism.

it's fucking shameful how the anti-semites on this site have jewish users so fucking scared that they (plural, VERY FUCKING PLURAL) have to ask me to answer their DMs privately. These DMs contain nothing messy or controversial. Literally just stuff like "Thank you for articulating XYZ it means a lot as a Jewish user." And multiple users are SCARED to say that to me publicly.

I'd like for these assholes harassing Jewish users to feel ashamed, but, as a Modern Jewish and Holocaust Historian, I know these anti-Semites most likely feel righteous. They always convince themselves that they're righteous while The Jews are ones:

-secretly allying with the Soviet Union as a threat to Polish sovereignty

-oppressing the proletarian classes

-murdering children in gaza

-murdering catholic babies in england

-spreading covid

-fomenting anti-german sentiment

-fomenting anti-french sentiment

-forming a dangerous fifth column to the peril of germany/france/poland/russia/syria/iran/USA/UK/transnistria/aragon/yemen/iraq/flanders

-fomenting anti-russian sentiment

-poisoning the wells

-being tacky with their Jew Money and Internationalism

-ensuring the Germany will lose WW1 and see its Eastern territories divided amongst its neighbors

-abusing dickensian orphans

-not worshipping the gods the emperor told us to worship

-deicide

-Controlling Hollywood

lmao i lost a follower. keep unfollowing me, cowards.

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Yes. I am ancient. I am eternal. I have watched civilizations grow mighty and turn to dust. Etc.

(I joined on March 9, 2011 after several LJ friends assured me that tumblr would be a great place for me to write a history blog)

howlerofthemoon2, in regard to this post:

This is a history blog written by an American Jewish Holocaust historian who is concerned with memory and attitudes within her own community, and this is what I choose to write about in relation to my observations of the discourse surrounding recent events.

You're seeing posts of this nature because people like you are going around leaving comments implying that all Jews are right wing Israelis complicit in murdering babies in Gaza, and it's traumatizing us. Because that is rhetoric which has been violently deployed against us for centuries. You're seeing posts of this nature because people like you are going around policing the conversations Jewish creators choose to have in relation to their lived experiences since Oct 7. We would love not to be having these conversations, but we have to, because of users like you.

I am presently choosing to use my knowledge as a historian to call in parts of my community, and help explain some of our communal responses to things to outsiders. If you would like to see me screaming about how much I h8 Israel and what a Good, Righteous, anti-Zionist Left Wing Jew I am, there are plenty of posts like that. And if you don't like what I write about on my history blog as an American Jewish Holocaust historian, then don't follow me.

Finally, I don't believe that this WAS a genuine question. It's so cartoonishly stepped in hostile, anti-Semitic, fifth-columnist, global JudeoZionist hivemind undertones and assumptions that it's difficult to believe it wasn't intentional. Also your blog only has one post. But, in case you are being genuine, please understand that people just like you are the reason why Jews like me and so many of the Jews who follow this blog feel deeply unsafe participating in non-Jewish pro-Palestinian activist spaces.

Reblogging mostly because I’m very petty and still pissed, but also because, if this was a genuine question, it serves as a good object lesson.

https://archive.org/details/DontBeaS1947

Here’s the whole video. It’s called “Don’t Be A Sucker” and it’s 17 minutes long.

don’t just scroll past this actually watch it, it’s only 2 minutes long. If you re-recorded this today word for word with modern actors and places, it wouldn’t even look out of place as a PSA

300,000 notes and i can’t find a transcript

Transcript: (sorry for the language!)

Speaker: “I see negroes holding jobs that belong to me! And you! I’ll ask you, if we allow this thing to go on, what’s gonna become of us real Americans!”

Hungarian man with clear foreign accent: “I’ve heard this kind of talk before, but I never expected to hear it in America.”

Young man: “This man seems to know what he’s talking about.“

Speaker: “What are us real Americans gonna do about it? You’ll find it right here in this little pamphlet—the truth about negroes and foreigners! The truth about the Catholic Church! You’ll find…” [audio grows quieter as camera shifts to the onlookers]

Hungarian man: “You believe in that kind of talk?“

Young man: “I dunno, it makes pretty good sense to me.“

Speaker: “And I tell you, friends, we’ll never be able to call this country our own until it’s a country without… without what?“

Other man: “Yeah? Without what?“

Speaker: “Without negroes, without alien foreigners,”—the young man is nodding, following along—“without Catholics, without Freemasons! You know these…“

Young man: “What’s wrong with the Masons, I’m a Mason.” Looks to European man worriedly, “hey, that fellow’s talking about me!“

Huungarian man: “And that makes a difference, doesn’t it.“

Speaker: “These are your enemies! These are the people who are trying to take over our country! Now you know them, you know what they stand for. And it’s up to you and me to fight them!” A bunch of the onlookers in the vicinity wave him off like he’s crazy and turn away, “fight them and destroy them before they destroy us!”

Speaker: “Thank you.“

One man in the now somewhat awkward crowd: “claps“

Young man: *is visibly uncomfortable*

Hungarian man: “Before he said Mason, you were ready to agree with him.”

Young man: “Well yes but, he was talking about… what about those other people?“ *the pair sit down on a park bench*

Hungarian man: “In this country, we have no ‘other people.’ We are American people, of course.“

Young man: “What about you? You aren’t American, are you?“

Hungarian man: “I was born in Hungary. But now, I am an American citizen. And I have seen what this kind of talk can do. I saw it in Berlin.”

Young man: “What were you doing there?“

Hungarian man: “I was a professor at the university. I heard the same words we have heard today. But I was a fool, then. I thought Nazis were crazy people, stupid fanatics. But unfortunately it was not so. You see, they knew that they were not strong enough to conquer a unified country, so they split Germany into small groups. They used prejudice as a practical weapon to cripple the nation.”

This war has to stop. Israel is stopping aid from getting into Gaza and people are starving.

I’ve known Ayelet for over twenty years, and am now, as so often, proud of her. Here’s her husband, Michael’s Instagram, with more background and information.

Just fyi for anti-Semites people who refuse to grasp the diversity of Jewish political views and actions. Because we’re not a hive mind.