‘In an open letter…460 signatories - including former #Israeli officials, #Jewish artists & intellectuals - urged heads of state to address "the underlying conditions of #occupation, #apartheid and the denial of #Palestinian #rights" absent from the current #ceasefire agreement. …Addressed to the #UN secretary general, the letter called on world leaders to uphold #internationallaw, halt #armssales…as well as ensuring the flow of #humanitarianaid to #Gaza. https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/hundreds-jewish-figures-and-israelis-urge-world-leaders-hold-israel-accountable-over
‘In an open letter…460 signatories - including former #Israeli officials, #Jewish artists & intellectuals - urged heads of state to address "the underlying conditions of #occupation, #apartheid and the denial of #Palestinian #rights" absent from the current #ceasefire agreement. …Addressed to the #UN secretary general, the letter called on world leaders to uphold #internationallaw, halt #armssales…as well as ensuring the flow of #humanitarianaid to #Gaza. https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/hundreds-jewish-figures-and-israelis-urge-world-leaders-hold-israel-accountable-over
I am starting to blame #Netanyahu for these types of attacks. His government has created more #antisemitism due to their #CrimesAgainstHumanity.
2 dead in attack at #UK #synagogue on #YomKippur, suspect shot dead
2 people were killed Thursday when a man drove a car into pedestrians & stabbed a security guard in an attack at a synagogue in #England where worshippers were marking Yom Kippur, the holiest day on the #Jewish calendar, British police said.
I am starting to blame #Netanyahu for these types of attacks. His government has created more #antisemitism due to their #CrimesAgainstHumanity.
2 dead in attack at #UK #synagogue on #YomKippur, suspect shot dead
2 people were killed Thursday when a man drove a car into pedestrians & stabbed a security guard in an attack at a synagogue in #England where worshippers were marking Yom Kippur, the holiest day on the #Jewish calendar, British police said.
How Germany’s fight against anti-Semitism is empowering the far right
"Prominent #Jewish #Australian journalist Antony Loewenstein returns to his ancestral home, #Germany, to investigate how the country’s impulse never to repeat the horrendous anti-Semitism that led to the #Holocaust has resulted in the suppression of any criticism of Israel and its actions in #Gaza.
With critics of Israel being sacked, cancelled, silenced, arrested and banned from Germany, one Jewish philosopher has called this a “McCarthyism” for the 21st century. We’ll see how in today's Germany, a nation that killed most of his family but granted him citizenship in 2011, Loewenstein is told, as a Jew, what is acceptable to say about Israel. To find out why the German authorities are so committed to stifling any criticism of Israeli actions and what it means for #democracy and #humanrights in the country, he will meet those being arrested and suffering job losses for criticising Israel, the people enforcing these laws and those on the far right claiming to support #Israel. "
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfK10unkiGw
#farright #extremeright #fascism #antisemitism #zionism #antimuslism #racism #StateRepression
@palestine @israel @EndIsraeliApartheid
Gonna start working of sequels for The Price of Survival -- one book for each character.
Just not sure what order to put the books in.
These stories are directly inspired by the experiences of Jews in Renaissance/Early Modern Europe, and are in effect an examination of the ways Jews survived and the different traumas those survival's caused.
Navin, at the end of Price of Survival, has settled into the role of Court Jew, walking the tightrope of survival in the highest circles based on the advantages he brings, but his survival hanging by the thread of his patron's support and forced to work alongside the enemies of his people.
Cyneburg is tasked with establishing a sort of rural ghetto, where she will spend the rest of her life.
Elisabeti... she'll be following the path of the converso, giving up her people and culture in order to assimilate into the dominant culture while trying to secretly retain as much of her true self as possible.
In the Price of Survival, I started with Navin, then introduced Cyneberg, then Elisabeti. I'm not sure if I want to write the sequels in the same order, or if I want to reverse it and tell Elisabeti's story first...
How Germany’s fight against anti-Semitism is empowering the far right
"Prominent #Jewish #Australian journalist Antony Loewenstein returns to his ancestral home, #Germany, to investigate how the country’s impulse never to repeat the horrendous anti-Semitism that led to the #Holocaust has resulted in the suppression of any criticism of Israel and its actions in #Gaza.
With critics of Israel being sacked, cancelled, silenced, arrested and banned from Germany, one Jewish philosopher has called this a “McCarthyism” for the 21st century. We’ll see how in today's Germany, a nation that killed most of his family but granted him citizenship in 2011, Loewenstein is told, as a Jew, what is acceptable to say about Israel. To find out why the German authorities are so committed to stifling any criticism of Israeli actions and what it means for #democracy and #humanrights in the country, he will meet those being arrested and suffering job losses for criticising Israel, the people enforcing these laws and those on the far right claiming to support #Israel. "
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfK10unkiGw
#farright #extremeright #fascism #antisemitism #zionism #antimuslism #racism #StateRepression
@palestine @israel @EndIsraeliApartheid
Gonna start working of sequels for The Price of Survival -- one book for each character.
Just not sure what order to put the books in.
These stories are directly inspired by the experiences of Jews in Renaissance/Early Modern Europe, and are in effect an examination of the ways Jews survived and the different traumas those survival's caused.
Navin, at the end of Price of Survival, has settled into the role of Court Jew, walking the tightrope of survival in the highest circles based on the advantages he brings, but his survival hanging by the thread of his patron's support and forced to work alongside the enemies of his people.
Cyneburg is tasked with establishing a sort of rural ghetto, where she will spend the rest of her life.
Elisabeti... she'll be following the path of the converso, giving up her people and culture in order to assimilate into the dominant culture while trying to secretly retain as much of her true self as possible.
In the Price of Survival, I started with Navin, then introduced Cyneberg, then Elisabeti. I'm not sure if I want to write the sequels in the same order, or if I want to reverse it and tell Elisabeti's story first...
"A strong majority of #Jewish #Americans said they are concerned about #antisemitism on #college campuses but disagree with President #Trump’s approach to combating it, a national #poll showed.
By nearly 3 to 1, #American #Jews believe that Trump is using antisemitism as an “excuse” to “penalize and tax college campuses,” according to the poll released Tuesday by Ipsos in collaboration with social and political scientists at UC Berkeley and the #University of Rochester."
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-09-16/jewish-americans-trump-poll
"A strong majority of #Jewish #Americans said they are concerned about #antisemitism on #college campuses but disagree with President #Trump’s approach to combating it, a national #poll showed.
By nearly 3 to 1, #American #Jews believe that Trump is using antisemitism as an “excuse” to “penalize and tax college campuses,” according to the poll released Tuesday by Ipsos in collaboration with social and political scientists at UC Berkeley and the #University of Rochester."
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-09-16/jewish-americans-trump-poll
"A strong majority of #Jewish #Americans said they are concerned about #antisemitism on #college campuses but disagree with President #Trump’s approach to combating it, a national #poll showed.
By nearly 3 to 1, #American #Jews believe that Trump is using antisemitism as an “excuse” to “penalize and tax college campuses,” according to the poll released Tuesday by Ipsos in collaboration with social and political scientists at UC Berkeley and the #University of Rochester."
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-09-16/jewish-americans-trump-poll
US #Holocaust #Museum announced temporary closure of exhibit detailing #UnitedStates turned away #Jewish #refugees during #worldwarii This decision reportedly follows an order from #Trump to vet #Smithsonian museums for content considered to be #antiamerican. Closure of the exhibit, which highlights a critical historical narrative, has sparked a conversation about the boundaries of such vetting processes and their impact on historical education. @NoLieWithBTC: Museum closes exhibit #censorship
US #Holocaust #Museum announced temporary closure of exhibit detailing #UnitedStates turned away #Jewish #refugees during #worldwarii This decision reportedly follows an order from #Trump to vet #Smithsonian museums for content considered to be #antiamerican. Closure of the exhibit, which highlights a critical historical narrative, has sparked a conversation about the boundaries of such vetting processes and their impact on historical education. @NoLieWithBTC: Museum closes exhibit #censorship
I had a chat yesterday with an old #Jewish comrade last night. I mentioned that I'm mad that there is so much #antisemitism on the #Left. My friend murmured, there's a lot of antisemitism everywhere these days.
But the Left was supposed to be the safe place! Where we prefigure a better world! So it's not the same.
If you want to help with hunger but don't want to support any local christian organizations who are also likely working toward stripping you of your rights to religious freedom, there are alternatives.
You can give to your local Federation, which usually has a fund to help with food and emergencies.
Find your nearest Federation Office: https://www.jewishfederations.org/federation-finder
Or you can give to Mazon.
Link: https://mazon.org/
If you want to help with hunger but don't want to support any local christian organizations who are also likely working toward stripping you of your rights to religious freedom, there are alternatives.
You can give to your local Federation, which usually has a fund to help with food and emergencies.
Find your nearest Federation Office: https://www.jewishfederations.org/federation-finder
Or you can give to Mazon.
Link: https://mazon.org/
"When some of #Rabbi Mia Simring’s congregants named themselves The Very Narrow Bridge Congregation, they weren’t just referring to the anthemic #Hebrew song “Gesher Tsar Meod” or the teaching from Rabbi Nachman of Bratslav on which it is based.
They were also alluding to their status as inmates on #RikersIsland, #NewYorkCity’s largest #jail.
“Everybody there knows that they are separated from the rest of their lives by an actual very narrow bridge,” Simring said.
So when it came time to name the jail’s new #siddur — perhaps the first ever #Jewish prayer book compiled expressly for the use in a correctional facility — the choice was obvious. “The Very Narrow Bridge: A Rikers Island Siddur” entered use earlier this summer."
"When some of #Rabbi Mia Simring’s congregants named themselves The Very Narrow Bridge Congregation, they weren’t just referring to the anthemic #Hebrew song “Gesher Tsar Meod” or the teaching from Rabbi Nachman of Bratslav on which it is based.
They were also alluding to their status as inmates on #RikersIsland, #NewYorkCity’s largest #jail.
“Everybody there knows that they are separated from the rest of their lives by an actual very narrow bridge,” Simring said.
So when it came time to name the jail’s new #siddur — perhaps the first ever #Jewish prayer book compiled expressly for the use in a correctional facility — the choice was obvious. “The Very Narrow Bridge: A Rikers Island Siddur” entered use earlier this summer."
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"This is conduct... creates horror beyond the ability to imagine, and this allows most Israelis to deny it...
The #Israeli public's silence is a betrayal not only of the entire world of values it claims to hold; it is an absolute betrayal of #Holocaust victims, in whose name we demanded a state for ourselves where we could ensure our existence...
It is a betrayal of the entire long legacy of #Jewish existence as a persecuted minority. It is a betrayal of humanity in general"