Absolutely devastating news from Australia that at least 11 people were killed in an antisemitic attack on a Hanukkah celebration in Sydney. One of those who was murdered, Alex Kleytman z”l, was a Holocaust survivor. His wife, also a Holocaust survivor, saw as he was shot. I cannot imagine the grief and pain she and many others are feeling.

My heart is with all the victims and their loved ones, as well as the broader Jewish community in Australia. May the memories of the victims be a blessing.

We deserve to be able to congregate and observe Jewish holidays without fear of violence, in Australia and globally.

I also want to commend the courage of Ahmed al Ahmed, a man who happened to be walking by when the shooting began and rushed to disarm one of the shooters, despite being unarmed himself. Ahmed is the owner of a fruit shop and a father of two. He was shot twice during his brave intervention and is now in the hospital. I am praying for his swift recovery and the recovery of all the others who were injured in this attack.

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other people have talked about how this is a stupid fucking sentiment but I hadn’t seen the original post until today and just like people have talked about how we all need to take a step back and wonder when it became some kind of social contract that you have to be a fan of or at least neutral on a work of art or maker of art just because they have good politics like ?? why is that some kind of obligation I’m sorry if your music sucks your music sucks it doesn’t matter how many rainbow flags you put on stage or how many gay metaphors you put in your lyrics

but I think perhaps more tellingly what surprised me about the original post is how much it’s about them (imagine dragons) being mormon and being branded religious and im sorry but I have to laff of course a bunch of fucking white gays would be hyperfocusing on the relationship between religion and fucking allyship or whatever and angrily being like “why can’t you get over the fact he’s a mormon look he has religious trauma” while completely glossing over the fact that maybe a bunch of people might be uncomfortable with mormons no matter how much deconstruction they do because its founded on antisemitism and white supremacy it’s just a thought

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literally what is the deal with this performative soft helpless disability shit people are doing online. like straight up coming onto peoples posts talking about like casual antisemitism and shit and going "oohhhh i cant read but i sure hope nothing bads going on here!" like

shut up

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theres a difference between varying degrees of literacy and "i can go online and use social media just fine until people talk about bigotry or racism or whatever and then suddenly i cant read actually" which is like

getting ridiculously common lately

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like yeah do your own rehab learning and listening whatever the fuck you want as a person but if you spent your formative online years being a racist transphobic antisemitic shitheel for everyones sake dont become anything close to resembling a public figure

please stop reblogging sylvia plath poetry 

For ppl asking why she’s an anti black, anti Semite. She has used the n word and compared her depression to the holocaust

Even not counting her poetry her private journals are full of disgusting, overblown antisemitism. She didn’t just use Jewish people for her metaphors, she outright hated them irl and yet decided to use their suffering for her own gain

apparently neo yokio has a line about coco chanel and they add “may her memory be a blessing” which is extremely fucked up considering coco chanel was a nazi sympathizer and “may [their] memory be a blessing” is an explicitly hebrew/jewish phrase so like … can goyim reblog this and make people at least aware of stuff like this because i haven’t seen a single post about it