I need you to understand that the constant litmus tests, asking Jews to prove ourselves to you, has made this process even more torturous because you’ve forced us to publicly declare war on each other and you won’t give your allies any public safe space to discuss the details of how we’re agonizing. - ThreadSky

erinbiba.bsky.social • 1 day ago

I need you to understand that the constant litmus tests, asking Jews to prove ourselves to you, has made this process even more torturous because you’ve forced us to publicly declare war on each other and you won’t give your allies any public safe space to discuss the details of how we’re agonizing.

Reposted from Erin Biba

All the Jews I know personally have been deeply wrestling with our identities, suffering and agonizing. Figuring out how to reconcile what’s happening with our beliefs and our relationships to our community. Meanwhile y’all just handwaving your shit away and shirking any responsibility. Typical TBH.

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erinbiba.bsky.social•1 day ago

You don’t know what we’re going through because you refuse to allow us to tell you.

fraying.bsky.social•1 day ago

My favorite part is when I mention literally anything and some rando screams at me about Israel.

mboxer.bsky.social•1 day ago

I'm a professor who studies the Jewish community. I've been working for three years on a study of how North American Jews interpret some commonly asked survey questions about Israel. I've gotten more hate mail from that project than anything I've done over the previous 20 years combined.

fraying.bsky.social•1 day ago

I wish I could say I was surprised.

fraying.bsky.social•1 day ago

I have just learned that it’s unsafe to talk about any of it online.

erinbiba.bsky.social•1 day ago

Yepppp

I literally cannot stop myself but it’s not healthy and it’s giving me a very very grim view of the world

fraying.bsky.social•1 day ago

Always here for you if you wanna chat in private.

rikibeth.bsky.social•1 day ago

Yeah. I am not prepared for the level of vitriol I’d stir up if I tried to discuss it in public.

mattcrespi.bsky.social•23 hours ago

I dipped the tiniest toe in that water once and decided to give it at least a few years before trying again. It's...really irrational out there.

erinbiba.bsky.social•1 day ago

Forcing Jews to whisper about their existence in private extremely normal no red flags at all!

rikibeth.bsky.social•1 day ago

I’ve been packing that one suitcase I can take with me in my head since I was eight, it’s background noise (I hate it and wish I could uninstall it)

ymandel.bsky.social•14 hours ago

I refuse to declare war on a single fellow Jew, which is why I have almost no posts about any of the "hot" issues.

(hot in quotes cause, like, disability is just as hot an issue)

akeion98.bsky.social•1 day ago

Yeah this constant litmus testing is not healthy for y'all at all and doesn't help Palestinians in the slightest

hogofthefuture.bsky.social•1 day ago

I don't care about any of that. If someone says they are Jewish, I'll believe them. I'm an outsider. I have no right to say otherwise.

nonajabiznez.bsky.social•13 hours ago

She's not talking about anyone proving their Jewishness. I think she's talking about "proving" that we have the correct view regarding the State of Israel and how any answer is wrong anyway so we can't fucking win.

petticoatshrink.bsky.social•21 hours ago

Yeah, nobody’s arguing with that.

statsjew.bsky.social•1 day ago

Literally.

Me: neither Zionism nor anti-Zionism are incompatible with Judaism.

Rando: Zionism allows murder which is against the 10 commandments. Checkmate, Zionist!

petticoatshrink.bsky.social•1 day ago

And yet some how even that is preferable to the ones who think the Torah and Talmud are all about how (((we))) are superior beings with the right and duty to kill or oppress everybody else.

The bar is in hell.

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