"I’m personally a Holocaust survivor as an infant, I barely survived. My grandparents were killed in Aushwitz and most of my extended family were killed. I became a Zionist; this dream of the Jewish people resurrected in their historical homeland and the barbed wire of Aushwitz

this is why it’s so important to emphasise that it is NOT a religious conflict but an ethnic cleansing and genocide. Palestinians of all backgrounds are affected

colonized people deserve unwavering support that isn't dependent on how nice their resistance is and colonizers don't deserve the luxury of any kind words when they are actively killing people and have been for decades. hope this helps

By identifying pro-Palestine student groups as “pro-Hamas” (an organization classified as a terrorist organization by the US government), the US Senate (including Bernie Sanders) has just robbed thousands of students of their freedom of speech and criminalized them en masse.

⚠️ HAPPENING NOW AT NYC'S GRAND CENTRAL STATION: THOUSANDS OF JEWS AND ALLIES HOLD AN EMERGENCY SIT-IN, DEMANDING A CEASEFIRE IN GAZA. WE'RE TAKING OVER THE GRAND CONCOURSE. WE'RE REFUSING TO ALLOW A GENOCIDE BE CARRIED OUT IN OUR NAMES. CEASEFIRE NOW! NEVER AGAIN FOR ANYONE! ⚠️

I don’t think anyone is grasping the dystopia of this all

You don’t need to be a military expert to know that killing thousands of people with nowhere to go will leave entire generations scarred, will harden hearts and will breed more hate and violence.

vivafalastin on upscrolled And to see it reinforced in fiction like “this is the natural order of things, our hierarchies are the only thing keeping us from committing atrocities” no this is a you problem it’s all preemptive justification to institutional violence

the way well-off white jews in the west have managed to monopolize claims to antisemitism, grief, and victimhood, while black and other nonwhite (incl., palestinian) jewish persons are rendered entirely invisible from public memory, has been fascinating to witness recently!

i'm learning yiddish rn and have wanted to for years, my dad insisted on yiddish being "useless" and dead, and he refused to teach me it!! I'm trying to be connected to my culture and there's such an abandonment of it that's connected to zionism and a desire to forget our roots

Among other things, by codifying ethno-nationalism as the only acceptable expression of Judaism in America, this is the most antisemitic resolution to be considered in generations:

I literally learned *in hebrew school* that anti-zionism should not be conflated with antisemitism, and to believe so is to play into the antisemitic stereotype that jewish people have a double loyalty to israel

Falsely stating that anti-Zionism is antisemitism conflates all Jews with the Israeli state and endangers our communities. It fuels deadly violence and censorship campaigns against Palestinians. We are proud anti-Zionists Jews. We refuse to pit communities against one another.

if imma be actually political ill say New york city is fucking evil for cutting library budgets Especially now in the winter. Libraries are some of the only safe and warm spaces accessable to the homeless and so many working adults need the resources provided there too

beefing with the mayor so hard this school year

the nyc library system is one of the only reasons why I became the person I am today, I spent all of the pandemic running online youth programs there, I spent my whole childhood sitting in the library while my parents were at work, it's such a safe haven for so many people

the library creates children's spaces, that are safe and educational and fun, in a world that increasingly wants kids to grow up and engage with work and adult activity. Not to mention all the other resources that the bkpl and the nypl offer!

Wild how every Western leader is like "The world is dangerous for Jewish people and that place way over there will be the only safe place for them" rather than making their own countries a materially safe place for Jewish people to exist.