Jew: we have active shooter drills in our synagogue because the threat of antisemitic violence is real and constant. I wish people took antisemitism seriously.
Jew: I got called a kike as a kid and classmates threw pennies at me. I wish non-Jews would realize that this is an ongoing problem.
Jew: a guy on my street got beat up because he was dressed as an Orthodox Jew. I wish news of this ever spread beyond Jewish communities.
Jew: someone on my college campus is handing out recruitment flyers for the American Nazi Party, and I got messages in my inbox of graphic Holocaust imagery. I wish people listened when we told them this was happening.
Jew: my synagogue hired an armed guard for my children’s Hebrew school after a terrorist murdered a bunch of Jews at a baby-naming. I wish people treated this as more than just a one-time occurrence, because it’s not an outlier.
Jew: my Polish grandfather’s grave was smashed and graffitied with political slogans that have nothing to do with him. I was kicked out of an LGBT space for displaying a symbol of my religion and culture because projecting a straw-man political identity onto me is an effective way of ridding yourself of Jews while pretending you aren’t racist. This goes on constantly and I never feel safe in any non-Jewish space.
Non-Jew: umm sweaty actually nazis hate all of us :))) you probably didn’t know that tho :) asking us to lift a finger to help is literally identical to the oppression you complain about :) even the fairly performative act of simply spreading Jewish voices by reblogging a Jewish post is like, basically asking us to walk into Auschwitz :))) I’m sure you understand :) I hate nazis tho
