"I am a #Bukharian #Jew. But for most of my life, I took for granted what those words truly meant.

My parents fled #Uzbekistan, then part of the former #SovietUnion, in their late twenties, leaving behind family, friends and a life that, for all its limits, had been familiar, carrying me, just 18 months old, into a new life in #Australia.

Like many #refugees, they rebuilt their lives in a new country, determined to give their children opportunities they never had. And, like many children of #migrants, I learned early that fitting in was easier than explaining. My birth name, Tatyana, was hard to pronounce, easy to tease. “Bukharian” meant nothing to most people. “Uzbekistan” was usually met with puzzled looks. Saying “I’m #Russian” was simpler, even if it wasn’t quite accurate.

Last year, I returned to Uzbekistan, the country of my birth. The journey was not only about travel, but about curiosity..."

https://www.australianjewishnews.com/returning-to-uzbekistan-as-a-bukharian-jew/

The #FarRight #Fascists need a scapegoat, any scapegoat. If it isn't the #Jew, the brown or the #black, it's the #Muslim.

This has been in development over decades, to pivot over to #Zionism in order to find another bogeyman to vilify so they can gain power through fear, hatred, #bigotry and #racism.

They are a sociopathic & psychopathic ilk who leave nothing but societies burnt to ashes.

Why #Israel is joining hands with #Europe's far right | #MiddleEast Eye
https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/why-israel-joining-hands-europes-far-right

Solidarity – By KLE in Patras, Greece. On the saving of 272 Jews in WW2

https://streetartutopia.com/2022/03/31/solidarity-by-kle-in-patras-greece-on-the-saving-of-272-jews-in-ww2/

"#JFS pupils were subjected to #antisemitic chants during an under-15 #football match held near #Norwich late last week, with reports that spectators shouted abuse including “go back to the #gaschambers” and “dirty #Jew”.

As reported by The Telegraph, an under-15s national football tournament match, at JFS were playing ThorpeStAndrewSchool in Norfolk, spectators also yelled “#Zionists. Dirty Zionists”, with a mixed-race JFS player being targeted with the slur “N-word Jew”.

Both Norfolk police and the English Schools Football Association subsequently confirmed that they had received reports of the abuse and were investigating." 👀

https://www.jewishnews.co.uk/jfs-pupils-targeted-by-dirty-jew-and-gas-chamber-chants-at-football-match/

"#Jewish life persists, even 4000 feet above sea level. Before I embarked on a three month #backpacking trip across #SouthAmerica, I was unsure how I’d be able to adapt my #kosher and #Shabbat lifestyle to destinations without any Jewish infrastructure. Conversely, I discovered that in the moments when I was most geographically isolated from a Jewish community, my identity was its strongest.

I spent the first night of #Chanukah in #Peru, staying with an indigenous family on an island on #LakeTiticaca: the highest navigable lake in the world. With my travel-#chanukiah in hand, I asked my host if I could light some candles for a Jewish celebration.

Bemused by the request, and unsure what a #Jew even was, she kindly obliged..."

https://www.jewishnews.co.uk/postcards-from-south-america-jewish-identity-cant-be-contained-it-travels-with-us/

"What is a holiday like #Purim doing on the #Jewish calendar? What is a #book like #Esther doing in the #Tanakh? Was the holiday really established the way that the book of Esther describes, following intrigue at the #Persian court and the last minute intervention of a Jewish queen that saved her people from massacre? (And let’s not forget the massacre of Persians that happens instead.)

The story itself belongs to a genre that stretches back to #Joseph’s time in #Egypt, that of the Jewish courtier ensconced in a foreign court, and it is a genre that continues today wherever a #Jew is portrayed as a fish out of water in the #Diaspora and ends up in a position of influence. Another early story of this type, #Daniel, has its protagonist trying to survive in the court of #Babylon, and some scholars have guessed (because we can only guess) that the story of Esther began circulating around the same time as Daniel, perhaps during the fourth century #BCE."

https://jewishchronicle.timesofisrael.com/the-origins-of-purim/