Today in Labor History January 18, 1943: The start of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. In the summer of 1942, over a quarter million Jews were deported from the ghetto to Treblinka and murdered. In response, the remaining Jews began building bunkers and smuggling weapons and explosives into the ghetto. On January 18, 1943, when the Nazis began their second deportation of the Jews, the armed insurgency began. They fought with whatever they could smuggle into the ghetto: handguns, gasoline bottles and a few other weapons. They inflicted enough casualties on the Nazis that the deportation was halted within a few days. Only 5,000 Jews were removed, instead of the 8,000 planned. They knew from the start that the uprising was doomed. Most of the Jewish fighters did not expect to survive. Rather, they saw their resistance as a battle for their honor and a protest against the world's silence. Marek Edelman, one of the few survivors, said their inspiration to fight was "not to allow the Germans alone to pick the time and place of our deaths."

#workingclass #LaborHistory #holocaust #genocide #nazis #worldwartwo #uprising #warsaw #jews #antisemitism #ghetto #resistance #fascism #antifascism

Today in Labor History January 18, 1943: The start of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. In the summer of 1942, over a quarter million Jews were deported from the ghetto to Treblinka and murdered. In response, the remaining Jews began building bunkers and smuggling weapons and explosives into the ghetto. On January 18, 1943, when the Nazis began their second deportation of the Jews, the armed insurgency began. They fought with whatever they could smuggle into the ghetto: handguns, gasoline bottles and a few other weapons. They inflicted enough casualties on the Nazis that the deportation was halted within a few days. Only 5,000 Jews were removed, instead of the 8,000 planned. They knew from the start that the uprising was doomed. Most of the Jewish fighters did not expect to survive. Rather, they saw their resistance as a battle for their honor and a protest against the world's silence. Marek Edelman, one of the few survivors, said their inspiration to fight was "not to allow the Germans alone to pick the time and place of our deaths."

#workingclass #LaborHistory #holocaust #genocide #nazis #worldwartwo #uprising #warsaw #jews #antisemitism #ghetto #resistance #fascism #antifascism

"I was walking home from a #Shabbat morning service, wearing a #kippah and carrying my #tallit bag in my urbane, diverse #NewJersey town, when a pickup truck slowed down beside me. The driver rolled down his window and yelled something. I won’t repeat it here, but I can say with certainty it was not “ #ShabbatShalom.”

Why? Because of a small piece of fabric on my large, bald head.

My truck-driving antagonist was in good company. On social media, bigots will refer to #Jews as “the little hat people.”

"...During the 1968 #NewYorkCity school teachers’ strike, which aroused #antisemitism, an announcer on radio station WBAI-FM read a poem written by a school child, dedicated to #AlbertShanker, the Jewish head of the teachers’ union: “Hey, #Jew boy, with that #yarmulke on your head/You pale-faced Jew-boy, I wish you were dead.” Shanker, in fact, did not wear a yarmulke."

https://religionnews.com/2026/01/08/jews-and-hats-a-thousand-year-old-love-story/

Ep. 123. Israel Is Collapsing From Within - Ilan Pappé Explains Why | The voices of war

Is Israel beginning to collapse from within? In this in depth conversation, renowned Israeli historian Ilan Pappé explains why he believes Zionism has entered its final phase, how Israeli society is disintegrating internally, and what a just future for Palestinians and Israelis could look like. Pappé, director of the European Centre for Palestine Studies and author of The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine, Lobbying for Zionism on Both Sides of the Atlantic and Israel on the Brink, , draws on decades of archival research to argue that Israel is a classic settler colonial project built on ethnic cleansing, apartheid and permanent military rule over Palestinians. He details the social implosion inside Israel, the growing split between secular and religious Jews, the role of the U.S. and European powers, and why he thinks decolonization is inevitable. We discuss 1948 and the Nakba, the Gaza war, accusations of genocide, the collapse of the two state solution, one democratic state between the river and the sea, Jewish-Palestinian coexistence, and what real decolonization might require in practice. For anyone trying to understand the future of Israel-Palestine, this is an unfiltered, long form analysis from one of the conflict’s most important dissident historians.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uaw3Lxgqw34

#Palestine #Gaza #Israel #IlanPappé #Jews #politics @palestine @palestine

"With #Canada experiencing an unprecedented wave of #antisemitic hatred, a new program is offering #Jewish families a potential exit strategy, relocating to #Tulsa, #Oklahoma, as reported by the #TorontoSun.

Michael Sachs, a #Canadian #expat who moved his family to the #UnitedStates earlier this year, helped launch "Lech L'Tulsa," a program designed to assist eligible Canadian #Jews in making the transition to his new home city."

Siri, whats the dumbest solution to antisemitism this month?

https://www.jfeed.com/jewish-world/canadian-jews-tulsa-relocation

"With #Canada experiencing an unprecedented wave of #antisemitic hatred, a new program is offering #Jewish families a potential exit strategy, relocating to #Tulsa, #Oklahoma, as reported by the #TorontoSun.

Michael Sachs, a #Canadian #expat who moved his family to the #UnitedStates earlier this year, helped launch "Lech L'Tulsa," a program designed to assist eligible Canadian #Jews in making the transition to his new home city."

Siri, whats the dumbest solution to antisemitism this month?

https://www.jfeed.com/jewish-world/canadian-jews-tulsa-relocation

Ep. 123. Israel Is Collapsing From Within - Ilan Pappé Explains Why | The voices of war

Is Israel beginning to collapse from within? In this in depth conversation, renowned Israeli historian Ilan Pappé explains why he believes Zionism has entered its final phase, how Israeli society is disintegrating internally, and what a just future for Palestinians and Israelis could look like. Pappé, director of the European Centre for Palestine Studies and author of The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine, Lobbying for Zionism on Both Sides of the Atlantic and Israel on the Brink, , draws on decades of archival research to argue that Israel is a classic settler colonial project built on ethnic cleansing, apartheid and permanent military rule over Palestinians. He details the social implosion inside Israel, the growing split between secular and religious Jews, the role of the U.S. and European powers, and why he thinks decolonization is inevitable. We discuss 1948 and the Nakba, the Gaza war, accusations of genocide, the collapse of the two state solution, one democratic state between the river and the sea, Jewish-Palestinian coexistence, and what real decolonization might require in practice. For anyone trying to understand the future of Israel-Palestine, this is an unfiltered, long form analysis from one of the conflict’s most important dissident historians.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uaw3Lxgqw34

#Palestine #Gaza #Israel #IlanPappé #Jews #politics @palestine @palestine

Do you know how fucking terrible a human has to be to make me root for that sack of shit Ben Shapiro? Pretty terrible.

" #Conservative commentator #CandaceOwens sharply criticized #BenShapiro in a recent #podcast episode, responding to his remarks at #TurningPointUSA’s #AmericaFest conference where he condemned her for spreading #conspiracytheories.

#Owens, in profane language, dismissed #Shapiro and referenced historical #antisemitic #tropes, including claims about the #Talmud and #Jewish involvement in the Atlantic #slavetrade. She held up a copy of “Der Talmudjude” (“The Talmud #Jew”), an 1871 book by #AugustRohling, a 19th-century #Catholic #priest whose work has been widely discredited as relying on mistranslations, selective quotations and fabrications to portray #Judaism as hostile toward non- #Jews."

https://vinnews.com/2025/12/21/candace-owens-escalates-feud-with-ben-shapiro-promotes-discredited-antisemitic-claims-about-talmud/

Do you know how fucking terrible a human has to be to make me root for that sack of shit Ben Shapiro? Pretty terrible.

" #Conservative commentator #CandaceOwens sharply criticized #BenShapiro in a recent #podcast episode, responding to his remarks at #TurningPointUSA’s #AmericaFest conference where he condemned her for spreading #conspiracytheories.

#Owens, in profane language, dismissed #Shapiro and referenced historical #antisemitic #tropes, including claims about the #Talmud and #Jewish involvement in the Atlantic #slavetrade. She held up a copy of “Der Talmudjude” (“The Talmud #Jew”), an 1871 book by #AugustRohling, a 19th-century #Catholic #priest whose work has been widely discredited as relying on mistranslations, selective quotations and fabrications to portray #Judaism as hostile toward non- #Jews."

https://vinnews.com/2025/12/21/candace-owens-escalates-feud-with-ben-shapiro-promotes-discredited-antisemitic-claims-about-talmud/

From Erev Rav (unfortunately not yet on the fediverse):

"Once again, Dutch mainstream media has presented a dismissive and homogenous picture of a protest, failing to mention the diversity of protesters, singers, and musicians who stood up against artwashing genocide on Sunday. The press also failed to mention that the protest was co-organized by an anti-Zionist Jewish organization rejecting the use of our religious symbols as propaganda and reclaiming our festivities. 🕎🇵🇸"

#ErevRav #concertgebouw #Amsterdam #media #DutchMedia #artWashing #Gaza #genocide #antiZionism #antiZionistJews #Jews #FreePalestine

From Erev Rav (unfortunately not yet on the fediverse):

"Once again, Dutch mainstream media has presented a dismissive and homogenous picture of a protest, failing to mention the diversity of protesters, singers, and musicians who stood up against artwashing genocide on Sunday. The press also failed to mention that the protest was co-organized by an anti-Zionist Jewish organization rejecting the use of our religious symbols as propaganda and reclaiming our festivities. 🕎🇵🇸"

#ErevRav #concertgebouw #Amsterdam #media #DutchMedia #artWashing #Gaza #genocide #antiZionism #antiZionistJews #Jews #FreePalestine

We Jews can't even practice a fucking holiday about light and joy and celebration in peace. Fuck this shit.

#Jews #Jewish #Hanukkah #Australia

https://forward.com/fast-forward/790090/bondi-beach-hanukkah-shooting-antisemitism-australia/

"[O]ne of the obligations of #Chanukah is to “publicize” the miracle of a small #Jewish community successfully resisting the surrounding, oppressive culture. The #Talmud, one of the most sacred sources of Jewish wisdom, argues that a menorah should be placed outside of one’s home, ideally at the busiest time of day. This way the general public will see the candles and learn about the miracle. The Talmud builds in a backup plan. For #Jews living during times of persecution, they should light a #menorah inside their homes, where it isn’t visible to outsiders.

I wish I could tell you that this precaution is antiquated and no longer necessary. But, unfortunately, that isn’t the case."

https://www.denverpost.com/2025/12/13/chanukah-jewish-community-stress-persecution-discriminaton-attacks/

We Jews can't even practice a fucking holiday about light and joy and celebration in peace. Fuck this shit.

#Jews #Jewish #Hanukkah #Australia

https://forward.com/fast-forward/790090/bondi-beach-hanukkah-shooting-antisemitism-australia/

"[O]ne of the obligations of #Chanukah is to “publicize” the miracle of a small #Jewish community successfully resisting the surrounding, oppressive culture. The #Talmud, one of the most sacred sources of Jewish wisdom, argues that a menorah should be placed outside of one’s home, ideally at the busiest time of day. This way the general public will see the candles and learn about the miracle. The Talmud builds in a backup plan. For #Jews living during times of persecution, they should light a #menorah inside their homes, where it isn’t visible to outsiders.

I wish I could tell you that this precaution is antiquated and no longer necessary. But, unfortunately, that isn’t the case."

https://www.denverpost.com/2025/12/13/chanukah-jewish-community-stress-persecution-discriminaton-attacks/

"Blacklock's Reporter says Mohammed Hashim, CEO of the taxpayer-funded #Canadian #RaceRelations Foundation, told the #Senate #humanrights committee that criminals targeting #Jewish institutions are deliberately sending a message meant to intimidate the community.

“All these incidents across the country are to send a message, that #Jews cannot be safe here,” he said.

Hashim said Jewish #schools and #synagogues have been hit repeatedly.

#Toronto’s Kehillat Shaarei #Torah #Synagogue, he noted, has been #vandalized 10 times despite cameras, reinforced windows and fencing.

A Toronto day school, Bais Chaya Mushka, was shot at on three separate occasions.

“To every Jewish Canadian who feels unsafe or alone, who fears they need to be hidden, I want to say #Canada will always be a place of safety for you,” Hashim told senators.

Sen. Marilou McPhedran pressed him on how he could make such a promise.

“Hope,” he replied. “No one knows what the future is going to hold.” 😂

https://www.westernstandard.news/news/canadas-race-relations-chief-says-safety-for-jews-cant-be-guaranteed-relies-on-hope/69437

"Blacklock's Reporter says Mohammed Hashim, CEO of the taxpayer-funded #Canadian #RaceRelations Foundation, told the #Senate #humanrights committee that criminals targeting #Jewish institutions are deliberately sending a message meant to intimidate the community.

“All these incidents across the country are to send a message, that #Jews cannot be safe here,” he said.

Hashim said Jewish #schools and #synagogues have been hit repeatedly.

#Toronto’s Kehillat Shaarei #Torah #Synagogue, he noted, has been #vandalized 10 times despite cameras, reinforced windows and fencing.

A Toronto day school, Bais Chaya Mushka, was shot at on three separate occasions.

“To every Jewish Canadian who feels unsafe or alone, who fears they need to be hidden, I want to say #Canada will always be a place of safety for you,” Hashim told senators.

Sen. Marilou McPhedran pressed him on how he could make such a promise.

“Hope,” he replied. “No one knows what the future is going to hold.” 😂

https://www.westernstandard.news/news/canadas-race-relations-chief-says-safety-for-jews-cant-be-guaranteed-relies-on-hope/69437

"Many #Americans know of #JosefStalin’s Terror of the late 1930s, during which more than 1 million people were arrested for #politicalcrimes, and over 680,000 #executed.

Fewer know about the repressions that began after #WorldWarII and ended with #Stalin’s death in 1953. Much like the repressions of the 1930s, they involved fabricated #plots, #arrests, coerced #confessions and #purges. Unlike the Terror of the 1930s, they were accompanied by a wave of #statesponsored #antisemitism – including the purge of #Jews from multiple occupations and unwritten quotas that limited their professional and educational opportunities.

The abolition of the #Jewish #AntiFascist Committee on Nov. 20, 1948, and the arrest and execution of its members was central to this postwar #assault."

https://theconversation.com/stalins-postwar-terror-targeted-soviet-jews-in-the-name-of-anti-cosmopolitanism-265562

"The only known #photographs of the #deportation of the #Jewish population in the #German city of #Hamburg have been discovered in a German #police officer’s secret #photo album.

Until now, no visual record of the #deportations from Hamburg was known to exist. But researchers have now identified three photographs taken in October #1941.

For 84 years, these #images remained hidden in the private album of a German #policeman who served in #Unit101 of the #Ordnungspolizei, or “green police,” a unit involved in #deporting and #murdering tens of thousands of #Jews during the #Holocaust."

https://petapixel.com/2025/11/30/only-known-photos-of-hamburgs-jewish-deportation-discovered-in-secret-album/