"The footage of the attacks on the Capitol gave him a “slow-motion panic attack,” he recalled, triggering what he described as an almost biological impulse to run. As a #Jew, he explained, he was raised with a deeply ingrained understanding that the people who survived during times of oppression were those with papers who allowed them passage elsewhere."
#passports
#citizenship
#refugees
https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/seeking-a-second-passport
Exhibit 3
Yair Rosenberg today in The Atlantic, on Joe Kent's resignations. Pro-tip: Kent is a conspiracy theorist and a raging antisemite blaming *the #Jewish lobby" for the war in #Iran, so fuck him all the way off.
Gift article via a friend.
The Dangerous Logic of the #JoeKent Letter: The conspiracist anti-war activist completely misunderstood the movement and the president he served.
Exhibit 2
#RebeccaSolnit's latest piece. Her Meditations in an Emergency newsletter is 💯worth a follow, and is NOT on Substack!
Today I Need to Say Something About (the Stupidity of) #Antisemitism
Two stories erupted in the last twenty-four hours that have to do with antisemitism. One is deeply positive. It's a letter signed by 132 Jewish faculty and staff at UCLA rejecting the Trump Administration's definition of antisemitism while pointing out what's dangerous about this right-wing definition of antisemitism: it's an
Another brief but necessary 🧵 on the complete insanity of being an American #Jew in this moment in time.
Exhibit 1 (gonna put stuff like this on repeat until *everyone* gets it). #Jewish #antisemitism
"[#HowardJacobson] has #written and spoken about how unmoored he has felt from his country, society and fellow citizens during the brutal conflict in #Israel and #Gaza, and has attracted opprobrium for doing so; in #Howl, he explores not simply a feeling of being out of joint with the times, but of experiencing the reawakened fear of #displacement and #violence that #antisemitism provokes. He knows, one suspects, that some #readers will find this utterly enraging, not to say morally repulsive, and he confronts them head on; in Ferdinand Draxler, he creates a man who wholeheartedly believes that #7October has allowed #Jew-hatred to flourish untrammelled, who argues – to anyone who will listen, and even more to those who will not – that it has provided the alibi for #antisemites to do what they wanted to do all along.
Unsurprisingly, Howl is an immensely uncomfortable #novel; it is also, like most of #Jacobson’s work, a comic one."
"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
Street Artist KLE “Solidarity” by KLE at Zakinthou Street in Patras, Greece. Mayor Carrer, with the help of Metropolitan Chrysostom Demetrius, refused to hand over even one person KLE on the mural: My last mural with the title “solidarity” was completed at 36 Zakinthou Street, in Patras. The impetus for me to create this work was a historical event that took place on the island of Zakynthos in 1943. In December 1943, during the occupation, the German authorities demanded that […]
Street Artist KLE “Solidarity” by KLE at Zakinthou Street in Patras, Greece. Mayor Carrer, with the help of Metropolitan Chrysostom Demetrius, refused to hand over even one person KLE on the mural: My last mural with the title “solidarity” was completed at 36 Zakinthou Street, in Patras. The impetus for me to create this work was a […]
"#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." 👀
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