They don’t check your lineage. They don’t ask which parent is Jewish. They don’t care if you fasted on Yom Kippur or lit candles on Shabbat. They don’t ask if you agree with Israeli policy or if you’ve even stepped foot in a synagogue.
And to those of you posting “#NotInMyName,” or in the Yeshivishe and Chassidishe chats, thinking that somehow your public disavowal of Israel will buy you safety or favor — understand this: The shooter doesn’t stop to ask who you voted for. He doesn’t check your Instagram for hashtags. He doesn’t sort out the Zionists from the anti-Zionists, the religious from the secular, the converts from the critics.
He sees Jew-ish — and that’s enough.. If your grandfather was Jewish — you were marked. And you were hunted.
That’s how antisemitism works. It doesn’t care about nuance. It doesn’t care about politics.It just cares that you’re Jew-ish. And no amount of hashtags will change that.
So if you’ve ever thought: “I’m Satmar, I'm Lakewood, I'm Neturei Karta, I'm not religious. This doesn’t affect me.” Or even, “I’ve distanced myself from Israel, so I’ll be fine.”
Think again.
This is your fight. It’s our fight. Because the people who hate Jews don’t distinguish between denominations, DNA, or degrees of observance. They don’t hate you for what you do — they hate you for what you are.
And while that truth is terrifying, it also holds a strange kind of power.
Because if being Jew-ish is enough to be targeted, then maybe it should be enough to stand up. Enough to speak out. Enough to say: if you come for one of us, you come for all of us. We live in a time where unity is no longer a luxury — it’s a matter of survival.We don’t get to choose how the world sees us. But we can choose how we see each other.
And maybe, just maybe, that’s where healing begins.
27 comments:
Ahhh, yetzt DIN halt zich a groisseh Filosof. You have a point which my sarcasm doesn’t apply to, but only to an extent. Bei unzera we can still appreciate what was shtelled aveck min Hashomayim. The place was full of Yidden but the anteh-Semitt BH only managed to eliminate a pair of goyim who were machshil the rabim with a episs a form of mayseh Midyan
Babbling fool.
Because it is as DINs own mentors feared way back that zionism were slowly but steadily determined to change the umbrella definition of Jew
Candidly admit now that their prescient concerns & broader horizons were on target.The redefining has succeeded
It was DIN’s fellow Zionist Mr Prozdor who first tipped off the whole world that Yaron was an Evangelical. But the tachlis is to trash Satmar & BMG who must be cast as the perpetual villains!
False.Several influential online anti-semites post they have little problem with the regular "little jew". It's the big dominating Jewish NGOs,Political establishment, Etc. etc that get their fire up
How about giving that a try
Iirc some Arabs grabbed a NK a while ago in London to attack him & he showed them his NK identity card or something & they let him go!
What about DIN’s improper agendas? I meant to write this earlier in the week but didn’t get around to it then. You’ve done this before to deny Modern Orthodox have pervert issues, it’s only Charedim you bellow. You pretend it wasn’t pointed out to you that there are many, many documented Moderner perverts on the lists of Vicky Polin, Eric Aiken, etc. You are in “good” company with your fellow tzebissener anti-Charedi jerk Shmuel Goldin who was mouthing off for years that only Charedim cover up child molestation, not YU. It later emerged that the highest echelons of YU were covering up the sickest forms of child abuse that even Kolko never reached like the rabbi who was sodomizing YU high school boys with a toothbrush. The Kolkos for your information were Tzionim through & through for generations in their upstate Rochester until relatively recently that a couple of them decided it’s in vogue to be yeshivish. There are media reports of never Charedi Kolkos who are sick people. Yes Tendler’s mother comes from Charedi parents as you were beating your chest about - but his father Dokter Rabbiner Moses was the big honcho among the Modern
Here's a Better challenge,DIN
How come Israeli Embassy invariably have such people with such nefarious agendae on their staff?They wouldn't put you or me??
Amein
So they weren't Jewish? Nu, they identified as Jewish. If you asked them, they'd both say "I'm Jewish and proud of it!" Imagine a society where a Gentile is willing to say "I'm Jewish" even with the cost that comes with it. And they weren't just anonymous people in a crowd but working for Israel and the Jewish nation, dedicating their lives to it.
Perhaps what bugs people is that, in one horrible moment, two people who we would probably never hang out with because she'd spent her life trying to be nice to the Arabs and he was a Jew for J, those two people vaulted over all of us into the highest part of Heaven as a reward for how they were killed. And maybe some of us just can't stand that.
2:21
Recycling crap from 100 years ago!
Their concerns were a heap of stale crud! Zionists without the Charedim built a beautiful country a home for close to 8 million Jews!
Figurines ,
I'm not addressing the Evangelicals, I'm addressing the Yeshivishe Heimishe Oilim!
2:36
You sound like Eichmann, that's mamash what he said at his trial, that the Nazis had no problem with "little Jew" and were only after the "rabbiners"
do you have any other Nazis you want to quote from?
The Goyim that kill Jews are not the "influencers" the Goyim that kill Jews don't even have a clue what a "little Jew" is! They kill Jews not because of their politics but because they are Jews! You Meshiginar!
They are saving him for the ovens!
2:56
I don't think that you are reading what I write; you're just shooting your mouth off!
I never said that there are no perverts in the YU and MO community, I post about them all the time!
I am saying that Charedidim think and believe that their Torah is Toras Emes and so I'm pointing out that they are just as perverted as anyone else and maybe even more so, and I'm pointing out that they hate each others guts as well!
If you took some time to read the comments here, you would have seen a Charedie writing that the Zakon Hador Reb Shmuel Kaninetzki is a "rasha" that Rav Belsky was also a "rasha and a mashchis" Rav Asher Weiss is a "joke in the Yeshivishe velt" etc etc
Charadim by in large hate each other!
This is not the story! The story is that an antisemite murdered two people that he thought were Jews ! That's the story, period!
What planet are you on? He didn’t identify as a Jew, he identified as Evangelical Xtian!
The Kolkos were discussing on a genealogy forum that their patriarch who came to Rochester had to flee the alter Heim because he was serial deadbeat who owed everyone money. When the Kolko discussion was discovered & posted on UOJ with the shayla that maybe deadbeat is a cover for child molester (who in the Heim the kehillos would “toivel” in the river), the Kolkos privatized the forum lol
Shmuel K the zoken mamrei IS a Rasha because among other things he whitewashes Mamzerus. This is not bashing other Charedim because except for being an imposter in an outfit he is not Charedi. Belsky was a similar outlier & he participated in the same Mamzerus cover up as Shmuel K plus in others with Mendel Epstein. Rav Elyashev blasted them as did many younger gedolim. The Modern Orthodox bunch on the OU Board despised Belsky for numerous reasons which they were actually justified in. But leave it to DIN to grab at any straws & twist the facts abee to bashmutz non-Tzionim
Ahh & if my African-American cleaner decides to pretend he is Jewish to promote anti Jewish creeds & happens to be unlucky will he just get highest part of Heaven
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"Their concerns were a heap of stale crud!"
Is that your attitude to them then? You would never cherrypick them to suit?
DICKion Duster
I left the above comment intact to show my readers that what I'm saying over and over again is that Chareidim Hate each other's guts! And DICKstein's comment above this is my quintessential example!
Somehow they manage still to flourish !
J's for J call themselves Jewish. If you walk up to one of them in the street and ask, he'll say "Of course I'm Jewish." Now, part of it is the agenda of the movement - sucker other Jews into attending their "messianic" synagogue and try to convert them but the point is that this guy told people he was Jewish, had the murderer asked him before shooting him, he'd have said he was Jewish and he was killed because the murderer thought he was a Jew.
The two camps here have different definitions of a jew. Cut to the chase already!
Raoul Wallenberg for example was a righteous amazing person with much merit,but that still won't make him Jewish for us
Your funny Kool aid notwithstanding,
Bila'am also wanted to die as jew,but sorry that wasn't gonna count
7:07
I haven't a clue to what the Hell you are blabbering about!
isn't very hard to grasp!
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