Being Jewish (and white) in America means
People hate you because you’re not a “real American” (read : christofascist)
But those same people who hate you also want to use you as political capital to further their agenda to punish people they hate even more (read: brown skinned people)
These people are obviously not Jewish yet they speak for us. (Read: silence us with propaganda)
They protect us from the “antisemitism” of the left (read: being anti genocide in Gaza)
Because the fascists aren’t ready to punish white Jews.
Yet.
Source: me, an American Jew who identifies with the culture but not the superstition or Zionism
Lol I’m in the same boat.
Gotta be real carful saying you’re ethnicly jewish these days. And gotta follow it up with specifying you side with the innocent civilians who are the real people suffering and dying in this “war”
Fuck Zionism and all the political fluff, the Zionists co-opted the voice of the Jewish people during the reperations from WW2
I’m sick of my tax dollars being spent on killing Palestinian children instead of feeding and educating American children.
Most of the American Jews I knew growing up were atheists or agnostic. Like, temple was a social thing only a couple moms took seriously.
But those same people who hate you also want to use you as political capital to further their agenda to punish people they hate even more (read: brown skinned people)
Oh, it goes a bit deeper than that too. They do love using you folks to have an excuse to harm brown people but that’s not all of it. The christofascists are also members of a Doomsday Cult. Very literally. They literally (not figuratively) want to being about the end of the world.
They only support Israel (and claim to support Jews) because they interpret biblical prophecy to mean that Armageddon, which, again, they are actively trying to achieve, can only start once all of Israel is ruled by Jews. Following that, they believe that all Jews will convert to Christianity or be killed, along with a bunch of other things resulting in the end of the world.
So, there will likely be attempts at forced relocation of American Jews and/or more extemination camps, if the theofascists maintain and solidify power. Yay.
Reminds me of when half the 2010 election cycle was fixated on Park51, an office complex that was being converted into a community center financed and managed by Muslim residents of NYC.
The Republicans termed it the “Ground Zero Mosque” and made it the centerpiece of a crusade to race-bait voters nationwide. They won that election season in a landslide, and spent the next eight years pushing increasingly white-supremacist policies through the House.
Wonder what will happen if reactionaries win in NYC again?
I actually had a coworker that worked in one of the twin towers prior to 9/11 (fortunately he wasn’t working the day it happened), and he thought the ‘ground zero mosque’ hysteria was the stupidest shit. Everyone I talked to in NYC about it at the time did, but the media never gave a shit about that or that the majority of the protestors weren’t from or living in NYC.
Weird coincidence with current politics, that’s also the election that Cuomo became governor.
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