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At that grad school happy hour (ETA: 13 years ago), where I toasted everyone "l'chaim" and that Trevor jackass smirked at me and toasted "Free Palestine," he didn't see a Jewish woman bringing warmth from her own culture into a social event. He saw a Jew saying something in Hebrew, and therefore declaring her allegiance to the state of Israel. He saw an agent of the Israeli state-building project, and took it as his sacred duty to let me know that he saw through me.

When I posted something here about my research on Jewish resistance during the Holocaust and someone replied AND NOW YOU'RE DOING IT IN GAZA. They didn't see an American Jewish woman posting about her research. They saw an agent of the Israeli state-building project, deftly molding Holocaust memory into an instrument of political repression to be wielded against Levantine Arabs.

When someone posted on the substitute teachers subreddit about a student doodling a swastika on their desk, and Jewish users in the comment started talking about their family's experiences in the Holocaust, someone commented GEE I CAN'T WAIT TIL GAZANS ARE POSTING ABOUT SURVIVING THE CAMPS. I asked them a. why on earth they felt that Gaza was relevant to Jews discussing their generational trauma; and b. what they were hoping to accomplish with said comment. In return I was verbally abused by multiple commenters who clearly felt that they held the obvious moral high ground, subjected to 102-level anti-Jewish speech, downvoted, and banned. Because they didn't see Jews engaging in collective mourning and healing. They saw agents of the Zionist state-building project making up reasons to ignore and speak over Palestinian pain and suffering. In none of those circumstances was I, were we, simply random Jews existing in the world. We were first and foremost, inherently, Zionists. Everything we do or say in English or Hebrew or any language about our family history, or the Holocaust marks us in the minds of these people as simply and completely agents of the Israeli State. Evil, hiveminded Jews, secret Elders of Zion, who will stop at nothing to forge their past into a bomb with which to terrorize Palestinian civilians.

We could never simply be individuals, each with our own unique, complex, multi-faceted understanding of those geopolitics and political appropriations of memory. No. We are Jews. Our existence is inherently political. And in the eyes of most of the world, we are--and always have been--guilty.

all of this said, i would choose the company of these assholes over Christo-Zionist MAGAts who pretend to care about anti-Semitism any day of the week.

If tumblr goes down goodbye forever y'all are not seeing my ass again

Yes I am

Cry me a fucking river

ahhhh finally the weekend is beautiful and wide open ahead of me. surely this will be the weekend I finally get my whole life in order and do the twenty-seven things I've been putting off and fix my sleep schedule and make memories with friends and discover my purpose in this world. surely

the grip tumblr has on society while being universally believed to be dead

"it's all in your head" correct! unfortunately I am also in there

*guy who is very clearly going through. something* oh yknow. just a little tired haha

Reblog this picture of me holding a Family Size box of Honey Nut Cheerios? I’d really appreciate it.

How can I say no to such a great photo and such a polite request?

Other people's emotions are deep and complex and beautiful but mine are proof that there is rot at the core of my being

💯 but its 000 for when something's fuckall

THE LICE ONE IS MAKING ME FUCKING CRY OH MY GOD

Do we all share the same image on the wincest tag and do we also share the same idea on which one of them is in short-shorts and polka dot socks and situated in a verrrry particular spot??? Or???

dean winchester serving blank face "i see, god damn, sucks to be you, sheesh brotha" at the 'confession' scene but two episodes later belting shakespeare monologues to his baby brother for 7 MINUTES while suffering from blunt trauma AND THEN driving around for years in heaven waiting for his sam is something. its something i love. its something.

purity culture and media illiteracy in the form of "fiction = reality" is on the rise because conservatism is on the rise. the two are utterly interlaced and 'fandom' purity culture is 100% a way to the alt right pipeline. But none of you are ready to accept that 🤡