I personally only know one convert and she’s an antizionist POC Jew so I don’t believe she would feel this way, but I won’t speak for her or anyone else. Is this normal belief of converts that you’re converting to a different ethnicity than your own?

*edit to add, the comment I am highlighting came from a post about what to list themselves as on a census.

So let’s check our notes: alleging Israel is committing a genocide is libel and Holocaust inversion. Calling ms Rachel a Nazi and Mamdani literally Hitler, totally fine!

Just a note, the second is a message I received because I said I’m not a Zionist.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZuV5L0QL04

Edit: Sorry if there is confusion I know their names are very similar, but I am talking about Tu B’av not Tisha B’av.

Sorry if I have words that don’t make sense, I’m also cognitively disabled.

I am physically disabled and mostly housebound and can’t ever go to synagogue celebrations since they’re in the evening. (my synagogue has a wonderful program where you can get rides to celebrations but jesus christ couldn’t HaShem have thought about those of us who can’t do things in the evening?) (joke)

Does anyone have advice for Tu B’av things to do at home? It’s usually around my Hebrew birthday (I have a lot of issues with my Gregorian calendar birthday so my Hebrew birthday is special) so I always want to do something but can’t. I have friends coming over to celebrate my birthday though and thought that maybe I could do something this year.

I can’t do pretty much anything with physical exertion, and I’m also non-binary so some of the super femme (understandable given the holiday but gender won’t stop me lol) stuff online doesn’t jive with me.

I know I’m asking for such a narrow thing but if anyone has any ideas for what all I could do I will deeply appreciate any and all of them.

Also sorry to be asking this quite literally right before Tisha B’av but I’d need to have my caregiver help buy or set up things now to be ready for my celebration.

https://x.com/israel_elects/status/2079233278792323555

https://jppi.org.il/en/%d7%9e%d7%93%d7%93-%d7%94%d7%97%d7%91%d7%a8%d7%94-%d7%94%d7%99%d7%a9%d7%a8%d7%90%d7%9c%d7%99%d7%aa-%d7%9c%d7%97%d7%95%d7%93%d7%a9-%d7%99%d7%95%d7%9c%d7%99-2026-%d7%a7%d7%a8%d7%99%d7%a1%d7%94-%d7%a9/

https://x.com/ireallyhateyou/status/2060803025757700358

I'm guessing it won't have much of an impact on its own, but would there be any point one could reasonably expect where Israelis will realize that it's not about them being Jewish, it's the fact their government/soldiers/people are committing genocide?

There is nothing inherently different about any ethnicity/nationality with regards to susceptibility for fascism/anti-fascism, so I'm wondering what will it take to change the minds and hearts of more people in Israel.

https://www.instagram.com/p/DbEONK6qGP_/?hl=en

From Julian Andreone, Capitol Hill correspondent for Drop Site News

The article itself criticizes Zohran for "focusing too much on Israel over NYC" but the wording of the title was a very strange thing to see on fox news along with an Israeli flag next to his face. It felt like they were trying to both ride the growing right wing frustration with US support for the state of Israel while also trying to label him as anti-israeli.

It gave me the weirdest feeling like fox news is testing the waters to see if they can cater to growing antisemetism in their audience in case they are unable to flip the narrative.

For most of my adult life, I was aware that my Zionism clashed with the rest of my relatively coherent anarchist politics. I had noticed that both the political thinkers i tended to agree with and the friends who i considered to be the most moral disagreed with my position, but I just chalked it up to the unique complexity of the Jewish experience. Life is strange and nuanced and we all make compromises. I honored the Zionism of my survivor ancestors with a private pledge to not disparage Israel. Criticizing the current government was fine, of course. But I generally counted myself greatful for its existence.

My reluctant Zionism could withstand any number of theoretical arguments, but it could not withstand the first post -10/7 purge of Gaza. Well, maybe it could have, but when I started talking about how deeply shaken I was by the massive death toll, friends and family responded by calling me some of the most hurtful names I've ever been called. (You know the ones. Self-hating. Kapo. Useful idiot. Today they roll off my back. But back then, it stung.)

And they warned me that I would be marched into the gas chambers of the future along with every "faithful" Jew. That only Israel was preventing such a fate.

I didn't disbelieve them so much as I decided that I wasn't going to prioritize future hypothetical violence that might someday be committed against me over real, actual uviolence being committed today, by my people.

I looked at Gaza and thought, "my safety isn't worth that." I would not save myself if it meant claiming that what happened to Hind Rijab was a psyop.

I no longer believed that Israel was a safe place for anyone, including Jews. But maybe it was a place that was still willing to protect me? Was i really going to throw away what might be the only place that I belonged? I tried to square the circle of feeling that I belonged to a country that mass murdered children. I grew up on the land of a people who were genocided 200 years ago, so I was was used to making that kind of calculation.

I was chilled by how American Jews off of the Freedom Flotilla were treated. They were seen by the state not as wayward and misguided childrenp, but as traitors who deserved the worst possible punishment that Israel could stand diplomaticly. They were released alive and without permenant physical injury, so far as I know. I had thought that just being Jewish meant that I qualified for Israels's protection - now I started to see that the protection was reserved for those who didn't criticize the state too harshly.

I was so naive.

This article snaps one of my last remaining ties to Israel as a place which, if I was truely in trouble, would welcome me home.

Is Israel an apartheid state? I do think it is, but more importantly, I had always identified as with idea that Jews will always disagree with each other and that flagrantly voicing those disagreements is part of what binds our culture together. Of course, there is a line in the sand which I only saw once I stepped over it. I was truely surprised at how quickly people I cared about began to see me as "an enemy of the Jews."

At the same time, this weekend's march on the Gaza border articulated Israel's genocidal intetions with a clarity and openness that still, somehow, shocked me.

When i speak to Zionists these days, i feel angry. But when i speak to you guys, I mostly feel sad.

The best part of this new stance is that I no longer feel the cognitive dissonance of trying to justify Israel's continued existence. The worst part is how I can no longer communicate with the people who I use to agree with - it's like we're speaking two different languages.

And then I see some genuine antisemitism in the middle of a pile of anti-Zionist comments and I feel lonely.

How are you all feeling these days?

Noel Ignatiev was a Marxist author, historian, and steel mill worker, best known for his book, How the Irish Became White, which argues that race is a social construct and not a biological reality, as well as Race Traitor magazine. He was also a Jewish antizionist. Here's an excerpt of an essay on this topic he wrote in 2004, Zionism, Antisemitism, and the People of Palestine:

Ariel Sharon, the Israeli prime minister, [was] reportedly greeted “like a rock star” by Christian evangelicals in Jerusalem last month.

DeLay was followed by Pat Robertson, the coalition’s founder, sometime presidential candidate and the very personification of the successful American TV evangelist. Robertson cites the stories of Joshua and David to prove Israel’s ownership of Jerusalem “long before anyone had heard of Mohammed”.

These are the people my grandfather warned me about-the people who want to ban Darwin from the schools, who want to send to camps people who have sex with members of their own sex-and antisemeets (as he used to say), Jew-haters to the backbone of their souls.

Osama Bin-Laden was telling no more than the truth when he said that the Muslim world is facing an alliance of Zionists and Crusaders.

Before I get around to proposing solutions, I want to address the present state of the Israeli peace movement. As everyone knows, there are forces inside of Israel who oppose the government now in office. Some of these people, particularly the soldiers who refuse service in what they call the occupied territories or who refuse to carry out atrocities such as bombing civilians, and those who encourage them, are people of exemplary courage. Yet all of them, with one notable exception (to which I shall return), are handicapped and in the long run rendered ineffective by their acceptance of the fundamental premise of Zionism, the legitimacy of the Jewish state. “Land for peace” implies the permanent partition of Palestine. It was under the leadership of the Labour Party, with which much of the opposition is affiliated, that the initial dispossession and exclusion of the Palestinian people from their homeland took place and the expansion into the West Bank, the Gaza Strip and the Golan Heights was carried out.

History has shown, in Ireland, India, and everyplace else it has been tried, that partition of a territory along lines of descent whether called “racial” or “religious” is a guarantee of permanent war. It is understandable that some Palestinians, having been subjected to torture for over two generations, have reluctantly agreed to accept as a substitute for justice a Palestinian State built on less than a fourth of their original land. But they are making a mistake. Such a State, if it is ever established, will be a Bantustan, a reservation where the only attributes of a free nation will be a flag and a national anthem. I am no more a Palestinian Zionist than I am a Jewish Zionist.

What solution, therefore, do I propose? A simple and moderate one: within historic Palestine, the area between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River, live ten million people. I propose that there be established there a single state, in which every person who declares his intention to live there and adopt citizenship be recognized as a citizen and have one vote. I propose further that the special advantages given to Jews be terminated, that the Palestinians who were forced into exile after 1948, and their descendants, be granted the right to live there, and that the state undertake practical measures to make it possible for them to do so by building housing and extending to them to right to rent or buy, if necessary providing funds to help them. I propose further that both Hebrew and Arabic be declared official state languages to be taught in the schools, that all residents be granted the right to publish newspapers and maintain cultural institutions in any language they choose, that the special position of Orthodox Judaism be ended and that the state declare freedom of worship and make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.

It is a simple and, I repeat, a moderate program. It does not entail driving anybody into the sea, and it recognizes the elementary right of people to live where they choose.

The journal he started, which I believe was his last project, announced on July 15 that it's shutting down. I wanted to write a small post of appreciation and farewell to him and the journal's contributors.

The House Rules Committee prevented debating or voting on an amendment to strip Section 219.

https://www.military.com/us-israel-defense-integration-horizon-house-keeps-section-219-ndaa

https://truthout.org/articles/house-committee-blocks-push-to-strip-pentagon-bill-of-israel-integration-measure/

Related to Section 219/Section 1217 of the NDAA:

https://www.reddit.com/r/JewsOfConscience/comments/1unamun/primer_on_section_219_of_the_fy2027_ndaa_a/

https://www.reddit.com/r/JewsOfConscience/comments/1ujltmx/house_rules_committee_rejects_amendment_to_remove/

https://www.cair.com/action_alerts/cair-action-alert-tell-the-senate-to-reject-mandatory-u-s-israel-defense-and-intelligence-integration-in-the-ndaa/

https://www.anewpolicy.org/the-legislative-tracker/section-224-ndaa