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Starting to feel a little unwanted around this country... 👀

"Alana Gans, 28, told the Chronicle that she and her 27-year-old friend were sitting on a curb waiting for an Uber after a night out when a man near them started screaming, "F--- #Jews, #freePalestine.” Gans said the assailant shouted for about a minute before she told him she was #Jewish and asked him to leave.

When she made the plea, he walked over and said, "F--- you," she said.

She stood up, as did her friend, who got in between her and the assailant, she said.

Two other men who were nearby took out their phones and started to record the commotion as they laughed. They, too, shouted, "F--- Jews," Gans said.

As she tried to pull her friend's arm to walk away, the assailant sucker-punched her friend, Gans said. Both she and her friend fell. Gans said she was unsure how she was knocked down: "I have no idea," she said. "I was just on the (ground)."

sfchronicle.com/crime/article/

In genau diesem Moment findet der
✡️Jüdisch-Antizionistische Kongress✡️ in Wien statt - der Geburtsstadt des Zionismus! (13.-15.6.).

Hochkarätige Sprecher*innen wie
•Ilan Pappé
•Yakov Rabkin
•Donny Gluckstein
...und viele mehr finden sich zusammen um eine starke internationale jüdische Stimme gegen die schamlose Anneignung des Jüdischseins und des Traumas der Shoah durch den Staat Israel zu formen! 💪

"#Zionism is a crime against #Judaism and the indigenous people of #Palestine, and we are committed to putting an end to it. Over the years, it became clear that Zionism, instead of protecting #Jews, placed them in great danger by committing atrocious acts in their name. Zionism is based on racial supremacy, adopting the very racist assumptions which are inherent to #antisemitism – describing Jews as belonging to some chosen race – a notion which is fundamentally racist and which has no relation to Judaism."

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juedisch-antizionistisch.at/en

First Jewish Antizionist CongressProgramm: Kongress zum jüdischen Anti-Zionismus | First Jewish Antizionist CongressWiener Jüdisch Antizionistische Initiative Jüdische Stimmen aus Österreich und der ganzen Welt erheben sich gegen Zionismus, Apartheid und Kolonialismus und fordern Gerechtigkeit für Palästina. Jetzt mehr erfahren!

I cede the anti-Bibi crown to no one, but if (and sure, a big “if”) #Tehran was even nearly as close to a weapon as #Israel suggests, and had the intention to create one, there was little alternative here.

Haters can mutter about Israeli aggression all they want — I don’t care, as long as there’s an Israel for them to hate, rather than a glassy, smoking grave for 7 million #Jews and millions of other Israelis.

Excuse us if we prioritize our existence over your poorly developed, topsy-turvy morality.

#Sarajevo has proclaimed itself a ‘city of openness and tolerance’ for anyone but #Jews,” commented #Rabbi Pinchas Goldschmidt, president of the Conference of #European #Rabbis. “Chief rabbis from all over #Europe were due to convene to discuss the most pressing issues facing European #Jewish life today and matters of freedom of religion or belief. Shockingly, we have been made unwelcome.”

The European Commission hosted in April the Civil Society Forum in #Brussels on combating #antisemitism and fostering Jewish life amid a surge in antisemitism following 7 October 2023 where Jews in the #EU are linked to #Israel and blamed for the far-right #Israeli government’s violation of international law in the #war."

brusselstimes.com/eu-affairs/1

www.brusselstimes.comEuropean Commission deplores cancellation of Jewish conference in SarajevoBy The Brussels Times

«Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character & goodness.» A.Frank

Via @auschwitzmuseum

Anne Frank was born on this date in 1929. She did not survive the #genocide of #Jews in #Nazi Germany.

To remember and talk about Anne Frank today means to talk and act 𝘵𝘰𝘥𝘢𝘺 about all innocent little girls who perish under evil political and military forces.

Today, Anne Frank is called Yaqeen Hammad. She was #Palestinian, and lived in #Gaza. She was killed by #Israeli #warCriminals.

"To read about #American #Jews this summer, you only need to open the newspaper. For better or worse, and probably for worse, Jews have been all too much in the news of late.

Seventy years ago, the situation was quite different. With #WorldWarII moving into the realm of history, in the mid-1950s Jews were being depict­ed not as alien or disreputable #immi­grants but rather as mem­bers of a respect­ed Amer­i­can #reli­gion, reflected in a mid­dle­brow #literary #cul­ture that reached a main­stream audience. That was true at the end of the 1955 beach #reading season when an unlikely pair of popular #novels made a splash on the #NewYorkTimes #Bestsellers list.

Patrick Dennis (the pen name of Edward Everett Tanner III) published his first #novel, “Auntie Mame,” in August of 1955. “Mame” quickly reached number one on the fiction #bestseller list. A few weeks later, Dennis’s novel ceded the top spot to Herman Wouk’s “Marjorie Morningstar.”

jta.org/2025/06/12/ideas/70-ye

Jewish Telegraphic Agency · 70 years ago, these beach reads explained Jews to AmericaBy Rachel Gordan

Hi hi!! I really need some #MutualAid!!

I’m trying to find the full 45-minute documentary “The Anarchist Rabbi” (2014) by Adam Kossoff.

This movie is a documentary about Rudolf Rocker, a German anarchist who worked with Jewish migrants in London’s East End, and it’s narrated by Steven Berkoff.

Here’s the movie on IMDb and similar websites:
- IMDb: imdb.com/title/tt3445106
- Lux Moving Image: luxmovingimage.square.site/pro
- Vimeo (short clip): vimeo.com/245762198

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Why is this ranndon documentary important to me?

Because I’m #ActuallyAutistic and I have a super strong hyperfixation on Rudolf Rocker, the German anarchist thinker who wrote nationalism and culture, among other works like Anarcho-syndicalism: Theory and Practice.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf

When it comes to #Jews, what's the difference between center, right, and left? Both have their pretty Jews taking photo ops next to guys who pressure the Protocols. In the case of this new MAHA guy, it's even the same person!

I'd say that we need to bring back cherem for Jews who legitimize antisemites, but as we can see from, for example, Steven Miller yimach shemoy, those pathetic specimens don't care about being ostracized.

Disclosure: I've got photo ops with anti-Zionist groups that today I wouldn't trust to keep Protocols peddlers out

"The story of #immigrants in the early #20thcentury coming to the #UnitedStates through New York’s Ellis Island is well documented. Perhaps lesser known is the story of immigrants coming to this country through another port: #Galveston.

In particular, some 10,000 #Russian #Jews fled #Russia and Eastern #Europe to escape growing violence in the buildup to World War I and came to #Texas between the years of 1907 and 1914. That effort, championed by several #Jewish assistance organizations, was known as the Galveston Movement.

The co-founder of that movement was David Jochelmann, the great-grandfather of writer Rachel Cockerell, and she has written a #book about it called Melting Point: Family, Memory, and the Search for a Promised Land."

houstonpublicmedia.org/article

Houston Public Media · How 10,000 Jews immigrated to the U.S. through Galveston — not Ellis IslandBy Michael Hagerty

Google translate is so wonderful. Almost Star Treky. I mean I'm learning #norwegian. But my big ol' Cuban neighbor who doesn't speak a lick of English...I was able to communicate that if he needs anything, because it's scary right now for #immigrants to let me know. I'll hide home some where like people did for the #jews. Not idea where because he's a big ol' boy...but I'll do it. #LOVE APPPLIES TO EVERYONE, ANYWHERE! Lets spread it!

"#Jews are the smallest #religious group analyzed separately in this report, accounting for 0.2% of the global #population. Most Jews live either in North America (primarily in the United States) or in the Middle East-North Africa region (almost exclusively in Israel). Jews make up less than 2% of the overall population in each of those regions.

The number of Jews around the world grew by 6%, from an estimated 14 million in 2010 to nearly 15 million in 2020. That’s fewer than the estimated 16.6 million Jews who were alive in 1939, prior to the #Holocaust.

Our estimates for Israel are based on the Ministry of Interior’s population register of Jews in Israel. Outside of Israel, we generally use a definition of #Jewishness based on self-identification with #Judaism as a religion.25

During this time, the rest of the world’s population grew about twice as quickly. Despite this gap, the share of the global population that is #Jewish still rounds to 0.2%.

pewresearch.org/religion/2025/

Pew Research Center · 8. Jewish population changeBy jcoleman

"#NewYork’s Festival #Sefarad — which is inspired by the Festival Séfarad de #Montréal, which celebrated its 45th anniversary last month — will include robust programming with more than 40 events, including #Shabbat dinners, #book talks, #tours, #workshops, #films and #concerts.

#NewYorkCity is home to one of the most diverse and dynamic #Jewish communities in the world,” the American #Sephardi Federation, one of the lead organizers of the festival, said in a statement. “After the atrocities of #October7, the need for creating communal, intellectual, and cultural connections that bring all #Jews together has never been greater.”

jta.org/2025/06/05/ny/nycs-fir