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About the dual loyalty trope:
As a Jewish anarchist, loyalty to any state is bad.
So jews defying goy's supremacist regimes to care for their siblings beyond the arbitrary and artificial borders is very based actually 😎.
I know what "rewards" millions of Jews got for being loyal to goy states
As a Jewish anarchist, loyalty to any state is bad.
So jews defying goy's supremacist regimes to care for their siblings beyond the arbitrary and artificial borders is very based actually 😎.
I know what "rewards" millions of Jews got for being loyal to goy states
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This goes both ways, of course. The Trump administration is *counting* on people forgetting that the question "Does this student protester agree that Israel's actions in Gaza constitute genocide" is not the same as "Does this protester agree that Jews should be ethnically cleansed from Israel."
April 16, 2025 at 5:54 PM
This goes both ways, of course. The Trump administration is *counting* on people forgetting that the question "Does this student protester agree that Israel's actions in Gaza constitute genocide" is not the same as "Does this protester agree that Jews should be ethnically cleansed from Israel."
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If you insist on seeing people as either Zionist or anti-Zionist and don't care who agrees with whom about what issue, you end up thinking that a Jewish governor with fairly standard views on Israel for a liberal American Jew has a personal wish to commit genocide against Palestinians.
Alleged arsonist targeted Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro over Palestine, search warrant says
The arsonist who allegedly tried to kill Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro decided to firebomb his residence because of "what he wants to do to the Palestinian people."
abcnews.go.com
April 16, 2025 at 5:47 PM
If you insist on seeing people as either Zionist or anti-Zionist and don't care who agrees with whom about what issue, you end up thinking that a Jewish governor with fairly standard views on Israel for a liberal American Jew has a personal wish to commit genocide against Palestinians.
Are there people who think that if the USA didn't exist, than a Holocaust/Shoah wouldn't have happened?
January 23, 2026 at 8:17 AM
Are there people who think that if the USA didn't exist, than a Holocaust/Shoah wouldn't have happened?
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You can broadly ask what should the US do with regard to military aid for Israel, but people really do prefer all-or-nothing answers. "Should the US condition certain types of military aid on adherence to certain rules of war" vs "Should the US stop all military aid to Israel indefinitely?"
April 16, 2025 at 5:39 PM
You can broadly ask what should the US do with regard to military aid for Israel, but people really do prefer all-or-nothing answers. "Should the US condition certain types of military aid on adherence to certain rules of war" vs "Should the US stop all military aid to Israel indefinitely?"
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There are a lot more. "Who is responsible for Palestinian Arabs losing their land in 1948" is not the same as "What should be done for the Palestinians today."
"Was Israel justified in responding to the 10/7 attacks" is not "Was Israel justified in the *way* it responded to the 10/7 attacks."
"Was Israel justified in responding to the 10/7 attacks" is not "Was Israel justified in the *way* it responded to the 10/7 attacks."
April 16, 2025 at 5:36 PM
There are a lot more. "Who is responsible for Palestinian Arabs losing their land in 1948" is not the same as "What should be done for the Palestinians today."
"Was Israel justified in responding to the 10/7 attacks" is not "Was Israel justified in the *way* it responded to the 10/7 attacks."
"Was Israel justified in responding to the 10/7 attacks" is not "Was Israel justified in the *way* it responded to the 10/7 attacks."
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Even “should Israel have a military response to Oct 7 to prevent a recurrence?” and “should Israel block all humanitarian aid?” are separate questions.
April 16, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Even “should Israel have a military response to Oct 7 to prevent a recurrence?” and “should Israel block all humanitarian aid?” are separate questions.
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If you want to even understand what's going on, you have to think like a Talmud scholar and be prepared to disentangle multiple questions.
For example: "Should Israel stop attacking Gazans" and "Should Israel give all its land back to the Palestinians" are, in fact, different questions.
For example: "Should Israel stop attacking Gazans" and "Should Israel give all its land back to the Palestinians" are, in fact, different questions.
April 16, 2025 at 5:30 PM
If you want to even understand what's going on, you have to think like a Talmud scholar and be prepared to disentangle multiple questions.
For example: "Should Israel stop attacking Gazans" and "Should Israel give all its land back to the Palestinians" are, in fact, different questions.
For example: "Should Israel stop attacking Gazans" and "Should Israel give all its land back to the Palestinians" are, in fact, different questions.
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I should add that this remains true even if you believe you have absolute moral clarity on this issue. Because there is no "this issue." There are multiple issues. And if you bundle them together, you alienate allies and find yourself forced into defending positions that normal people find absurd.
April 16, 2025 at 5:28 PM
I should add that this remains true even if you believe you have absolute moral clarity on this issue. Because there is no "this issue." There are multiple issues. And if you bundle them together, you alienate allies and find yourself forced into defending positions that normal people find absurd.
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Specifically: Zionism.
Guess what? Dividing people into "Zionist" and "anti-Zionist" is not a helpful way of understanding the people, the political issues, or the situation facing real people in Israel and Palestine. Because the issues being argued over are not. That. Simple.
Guess what? Dividing people into "Zionist" and "anti-Zionist" is not a helpful way of understanding the people, the political issues, or the situation facing real people in Israel and Palestine. Because the issues being argued over are not. That. Simple.
April 16, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Specifically: Zionism.
Guess what? Dividing people into "Zionist" and "anti-Zionist" is not a helpful way of understanding the people, the political issues, or the situation facing real people in Israel and Palestine. Because the issues being argued over are not. That. Simple.
Guess what? Dividing people into "Zionist" and "anti-Zionist" is not a helpful way of understanding the people, the political issues, or the situation facing real people in Israel and Palestine. Because the issues being argued over are not. That. Simple.
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I missed this excellent thread because the (actually pertinent, but not obviously at first) intro threw me off - so I'm linking to the denouement instead
The point I'm making is that categorizing some people as "right" and some people as "wrong," or even some people as "side A" and some people as "side B," can lead to false impressions. And those false impressions can obscure the real issues that divide people.
Yes, I have a modern example in mind.
Yes, I have a modern example in mind.
April 18, 2025 at 6:28 PM
I missed this excellent thread because the (actually pertinent, but not obviously at first) intro threw me off - so I'm linking to the denouement instead
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The point I'm making is that categorizing some people as "right" and some people as "wrong," or even some people as "side A" and some people as "side B," can lead to false impressions. And those false impressions can obscure the real issues that divide people.
Yes, I have a modern example in mind.
Yes, I have a modern example in mind.
April 16, 2025 at 5:24 PM
The point I'm making is that categorizing some people as "right" and some people as "wrong," or even some people as "side A" and some people as "side B," can lead to false impressions. And those false impressions can obscure the real issues that divide people.
Yes, I have a modern example in mind.
Yes, I have a modern example in mind.
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Because the study has intrinsic value. It’s not just a process to get to the Halacha. If that’s all Rav Ashi and Ravina wanted they could have written the Shulchan Aruch instead
April 16, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Because the study has intrinsic value. It’s not just a process to get to the Halacha. If that’s all Rav Ashi and Ravina wanted they could have written the Shulchan Aruch instead
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🧵One thing about the Talmud that exasperates some students is the effort the sages spend to figure out which rabbi believes which thing.
Does Rabbi A agree with Rabbi X or Rabbi Y, and about what issues do rabbis X and Y even disagree? Does Rabbi B agree that that's what they disagree about?
Does Rabbi A agree with Rabbi X or Rabbi Y, and about what issues do rabbis X and Y even disagree? Does Rabbi B agree that that's what they disagree about?
April 16, 2025 at 5:15 PM
🧵One thing about the Talmud that exasperates some students is the effort the sages spend to figure out which rabbi believes which thing.
Does Rabbi A agree with Rabbi X or Rabbi Y, and about what issues do rabbis X and Y even disagree? Does Rabbi B agree that that's what they disagree about?
Does Rabbi A agree with Rabbi X or Rabbi Y, and about what issues do rabbis X and Y even disagree? Does Rabbi B agree that that's what they disagree about?
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All of the arguments he's depicted as making are the sort you make to deflect people though, it's part of the pattern. Can you find an example in the Bible of divorce before Sinai? No? Then nobody, not even the generation of the Flood ever got divorced. Gotcha!
April 3, 2025 at 9:35 PM
All of the arguments he's depicted as making are the sort you make to deflect people though, it's part of the pattern. Can you find an example in the Bible of divorce before Sinai? No? Then nobody, not even the generation of the Flood ever got divorced. Gotcha!
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This was the opening of my argument with my dad: Pharisees ask Jesus standard questions that they ask each other, and Jesus responds either with something cryptic or like they killed his dog.
Jesus answers with basically "Actually a man can't divorce her at all."
That was not a choice. Because, as the Pharisees point out, it specifically says otherwise in the Torah.
Jesus gives a weird answer about the hardness of men's hearts, which even his disciples think is too much. But whatever.
That was not a choice. Because, as the Pharisees point out, it specifically says otherwise in the Torah.
Jesus gives a weird answer about the hardness of men's hearts, which even his disciples think is too much. But whatever.
April 2, 2025 at 4:18 PM
This was the opening of my argument with my dad: Pharisees ask Jesus standard questions that they ask each other, and Jesus responds either with something cryptic or like they killed his dog.
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Jesus answers with basically "Actually a man can't divorce her at all."
That was not a choice. Because, as the Pharisees point out, it specifically says otherwise in the Torah.
Jesus gives a weird answer about the hardness of men's hearts, which even his disciples think is too much. But whatever.
That was not a choice. Because, as the Pharisees point out, it specifically says otherwise in the Torah.
Jesus gives a weird answer about the hardness of men's hearts, which even his disciples think is too much. But whatever.
April 2, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Jesus answers with basically "Actually a man can't divorce her at all."
That was not a choice. Because, as the Pharisees point out, it specifically says otherwise in the Torah.
Jesus gives a weird answer about the hardness of men's hearts, which even his disciples think is too much. But whatever.
That was not a choice. Because, as the Pharisees point out, it specifically says otherwise in the Torah.
Jesus gives a weird answer about the hardness of men's hearts, which even his disciples think is too much. But whatever.
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incredible work by the Forward who found the one Jew in Greenland so they could work the Jewish angle on the Greenland story
(spoiler alert: he does not want Trump to take over Greenland)
(spoiler alert: he does not want Trump to take over Greenland)
Greenland’s only Jew hears a familiar pattern in Trump’s annexation talk
Paul Cohen, Greenland’s only Jew, explains how Jewish history shapes his response to Trump’s renewed talk of annexing the island.
forward.com
January 22, 2026 at 10:23 PM
incredible work by the Forward who found the one Jew in Greenland so they could work the Jewish angle on the Greenland story
(spoiler alert: he does not want Trump to take over Greenland)
(spoiler alert: he does not want Trump to take over Greenland)
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This also hits an important insight that I've seen mentioned by eg Taner Akçam: that I/P, despite the scale and ideological proximity of the moral emergency, is not at all unique. Wexler argues afaict that definitions of "the citizen" that close off Jews (eg "Chabad specifically is on stolen land")
January 23, 2026 at 6:29 AM
This also hits an important insight that I've seen mentioned by eg Taner Akçam: that I/P, despite the scale and ideological proximity of the moral emergency, is not at all unique. Wexler argues afaict that definitions of "the citizen" that close off Jews (eg "Chabad specifically is on stolen land")
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I do think the motives the author describes here are more academic than events would suggest: scholars like Wolfe might demonstrate the shape of the discourse or even to some degree shape it in turn, but mostly these activists shouting eg "go back to Romania" have skimmed the intro to (contd)
January 23, 2026 at 6:17 AM
I do think the motives the author describes here are more academic than events would suggest: scholars like Wolfe might demonstrate the shape of the discourse or even to some degree shape it in turn, but mostly these activists shouting eg "go back to Romania" have skimmed the intro to (contd)
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Really interesting article, thanks for the recommendation. The part about Israel/Zionism as a sin eater for the "unresolved dilemmas of Canadian multiculturalism" (which in this case seems to effectively mean something like "white guilt") rings especially true
January 23, 2026 at 6:08 AM
Really interesting article, thanks for the recommendation. The part about Israel/Zionism as a sin eater for the "unresolved dilemmas of Canadian multiculturalism" (which in this case seems to effectively mean something like "white guilt") rings especially true
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especially considering what Forward is as a publication to begin with. do they not read the description
January 23, 2026 at 2:43 AM
especially considering what Forward is as a publication to begin with. do they not read the description
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Thanks for the link, the article echoed many of my thoughts. I’ve been astonished and saddened at how the settler-colonial discourse very quickly flipped into demonizing immigrants as invaders, and don’t comprehend how those promoting it didn’t see that this would happen.
January 23, 2026 at 3:54 AM
Thanks for the link, the article echoed many of my thoughts. I’ve been astonished and saddened at how the settler-colonial discourse very quickly flipped into demonizing immigrants as invaders, and don’t comprehend how those promoting it didn’t see that this would happen.
So hey, why not settle the France or the England or the germany?
Be proud settlers of western white lands 😎.
Rename them 😼.
France is called in Hebrew by a completely different name.
England or Britain was called in Hebrew in the middle ages "Sea Land".
And ashkenaz was a middle ages name for
Be proud settlers of western white lands 😎.
Rename them 😼.
France is called in Hebrew by a completely different name.
England or Britain was called in Hebrew in the middle ages "Sea Land".
And ashkenaz was a middle ages name for
Incidentally Sakr was going on in a similar vein about how Zionists are settlers no matter where they live
January 23, 2026 at 6:27 AM
So hey, why not settle the France or the England or the germany?
Be proud settlers of western white lands 😎.
Rename them 😼.
France is called in Hebrew by a completely different name.
England or Britain was called in Hebrew in the middle ages "Sea Land".
And ashkenaz was a middle ages name for
Be proud settlers of western white lands 😎.
Rename them 😼.
France is called in Hebrew by a completely different name.
England or Britain was called in Hebrew in the middle ages "Sea Land".
And ashkenaz was a middle ages name for
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This article has gotten so much traction recently, it's not funny
January 23, 2026 at 2:46 AM
This article has gotten so much traction recently, it's not funny
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Specifically, the problem beautifully described by my friend Ben Wexler (maybe he'll turn up here one day?)
The Eternal Settler
In Canada, a fresh iteration of anti-Judaism takes shape. Ben Wexler, a recent graduate from McGill University in Montreal, watched with alarm as a wave of attacks swept through his hometown’s Jewish…
k-larevue.com
January 23, 2026 at 2:45 AM
Specifically, the problem beautifully described by my friend Ben Wexler (maybe he'll turn up here one day?)