• fartographer@lemmy.world
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    I’m Jewish. I’m not religious. I’ve studied a fair amount about Jewish, Abrahamic, and Judeo-Christian history, scripture, and culture. I am by no means an expert, but I’ve forgotten more about these religions than most people ever bother to learn.

    Armed with this knowledge, I’m ready to make an assessment:

    • P!NK is a bad Jew.
    • Any pro-genocide Jew is a bad Jew.
    • Any Jew who calls people antisemitic for criticizing military actions is a bad Jew.
    • Any Jew who compares humans to animals and uses xenophobia to justify marginalization is a bad human.
    • Any Jew who uses comparisons to animals as justification for extermination is a bad person.
    • Any Jew who condemns children instead of reaching out to them is a bad person and is not paying attention.
    • Any Jew who celebrates the extermination of entire families, bystanders, and civilians needs to examine their entire life while literally eating a brick.
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      I hate that criticism of Israeli foreign or domestic policies has been equated with a criticism of judeusm and Jewish people as a whole.

      There are definitely Jewish people in Israel who disagree with their governments actions. Same as every country.

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        My family sure isn’t in that group and I’m so fucking pissed at them. We lost dozens of family members in the Holocaust, passed down our stories for, like, 2 generations, and then said “fuck it, the real problem was that we didn’t get to be the Nazis.”

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      Another one for the list:

      Any jew who forgets that they’re not the only semitic pepple and cries antisemitism for themselves but not the Palestinians is a bad jew.

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        I did as I began to editorialize a bit more, but in just examining “what does Judaism say makes a good Jew,” there are enough relatively black or white assessments that a good/bad value can be assigned. My opinions on whether or not someone is a good person is probably less hurtful to Nazionists than “your scriptures around which you’ve built your identity say that you’re doing it wrong, and anecdotally, God hates you.”