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Many of us who have participated in non-violent pro-Palestine work are learning that if we were arrested tomorrow and called "a Hamas supporter" that y'all would believe it. Even if there's no evidence whatsoever. Some of you might follow with "Maybe still don't deport him." Still a wild feeling!

submitted 19 hours ago • 4 comments

Opinion | We must end antisemitism at American Universities by deporting all the rootless cosmopolitans.

submitted 1 day ago • 10 comments

Gotta be one of the best things ever written. www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/as-...

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

There don't need to be any caveats after "Free Mahmoud Khalil." There doesn't need to be a comma-but after "Mahmoud Khalil should not be deported." We can really just oppose the disappearing of political dissidents, without "even though I disagree with..." or "despite my problems with his work..."

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Disgusting. ADoLatry strikes again. At some point a pro-Palestine Jew — from outside the US and attending an American university — is gonna be detained or deported. And a bunch of Jewish “legacy” institutions theoretically committed to “global Jewish peoplehood” (ADL first) will applaud that too.

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I've decided to start saying "theology" as "The -Ology" in the way that New Yorkers say "the city" and Ohio State people say "THE Ohio State University."

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I'm devastated about this to a degree that's maybe not reasonable. ATH was so special for so many. - Race off the school bus in middle school - Run to the tv at 4:00 Central Time - Learn what simultaneously intense and loving arguments look like That was the routine. So grateful I had it.

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

Today it occurred to me that “NSFW” assumes the W isn’t sex work.

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

I’m so overjoyed that No Other Land won. Film can move people in ways that you just can’t achieve with words. Thousands will feel called to watch, and be transformed. The fact that it won without a distributor will shed light on how Palestinian stories are consciously sidelined, all the time.

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My favorite genre of reading is Personal Life sections of Jews' Wikipedia pages. They never fail. Every one knows its purpose, and says roughly: X was born in St. Louis. Her mother is Ashkenazi-Jewish and her father is of Irish descent. She did have a bat mitzvah and the theme was Lizzie McGuire.

submitted 15 days ago • 2 comments

I’m fully in support of those who answer “sunsets” in response to the classic “what’s a moment you have felt closest to God” question. But have you considered “while bringing my cat’s poop to the vet?” This is mysticism at its essence. As always, this too (and this #2) is Torah and we must learn.

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I don't really know anything about the Epistle of Jude, but it'd be a pretty funny Supercessionism troll to start some theological movement called "Jude Deism."

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I don't know how to have a conversation at this point with folks who feel like we need to see the government saying things like this, and the people having it said to them, as just "two sides" with roughly equal guilt and responsibility.

submitted 20 days ago • 1 comment

If there's one thing I'm sure of, it's that there is a direct correlation between having a Bluesky profile and being a person that would adore the Paddington movies. If you're reading this, you should really see Paddington 3: Paddington in Peru.

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What a surreal encapsulation of anti-Palestinian racism. A Jewish and pro-Israel man shoots and injures 2 people because he thinks they're Palestinian. They're actually Israeli. The two victims respond by assuming the shooter was Palestinian and an antisemite, with one posting "death to Arabs."

submitted 23 days ago • 9 comments

🧵(1/4) Cis people all need to be actively considering and planning, right now, the risks we will take to protect the lives of Trans and Nonbinary loved ones. And whatever amount of risk feels possible at first consideration, we need to push ourselves toward a little bit more risk than that.

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With love, we are really missing the core of the story with Musk. Whether or not what he did was a Nazi salute, he has publicly professed support for a far-right German party that many (including, funny enough, the ADL) see as the heirs to Nazism in Germany -- and which has been growing in support.

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Trying out a new word: “ADL-atry.” Meaning: Unwarranted devotion to the Anti-Defamation League — an organization committed to ignoring antisemitism and attacking progressive activists, all in the name of defending the state of Israel. Pronounced “AY-dee-ELL-uh-tree”

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In case anyone was nervous about lack of Jewish representation, the Rambam (Moses Maimonides) is prominently featured in the world’s only penis museum — the Icelandic Phallological Museum.

submitted 54 days ago • 1 comment

- Knock knock. - Who’s there? - Interrupting Jewish cow. - Interrupting Jew… - Rom’moooooo

submitted 60 days ago • 2 comments

I've decided that the phrase "tooty-fruity" was created by a bilingual speaker of English and Hebrew, who noticed that two words -- the Hebrew "toot" for strawberry and the English "fruit" for fruit -- rhyme with one another. I will not be accepting counter-evidence at this time.

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I'll venmo $10 to the first person who sends me a screenshot of their source-sheet, featuring side by side quotes from Kalonymus ben Kalonymus (13th-14th century rabbi), and a mysterious one attributed to Anonymous ben Anonymous.

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Wow. The Brutal-est Golden Globes.

submitted 66 days ago • 0 comments

My thoughts on Adrien Brody winning the Golden Globe for Best Actor are that I think it's strange we give an automatic award to him every 23 years to him as long as he stars in a Holocaust-adjacent movie called The _____ist.

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It would be a lot more metal if the "unsubscribe" button for email lists was "proscribe."

submitted 75 days ago • 0 comments

#KeepTheUsInFestivus Wishing all a happy celebration. Time to bear grievances: too many of you people think Festivus is an individual experience and not a collective celebration. #FestivusNotFestivMe

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