י.ל. פֿײַנשטײן JL Feinstein @derpayatz@masto.jews.international

It's pure bullshit, an absolute lie, to say the word trap did not begin as a transphobic slur used against trans women

kachol lavan agrees with likud on literally every issue except whether netanyahu should be prime minister

this is why they're considered "radical leftists" by the cult that is likud

or the Zionist is removed from the context of "the Jewish question" and from thousands of years of persecution, and placed at the root of that question and of that persecution

"if it weren't for Zionists, antisemitism wouldn't exist"

Zionism is toxic internalized oppression and misdirected anger that is oppressive in itself; that doesn't mean "the bad Jews" or the Zionists are responsible for the antisemitism that spawned them

the main problem with dividing Jews into "good Jews" and "bad Jews" is it removes Jews from historical context and ultimately confirms the idea that *some Jews* are responsible for antisemitism

e.g. George Soros is removed from the context of the Hungarian antisemitism that he and his family grew up in and is placed, ahistorically, at the root of that same antisemitism

"if it weren't for George Soros and people like George Soros, there would be no antisemitism..." say the antisemites

the ancient crime of Jews was being in the way of more powerful empires (Rome, Greece, Persia, Babylon). The books of Joshua, Judges, Samuel, and Kings were most likely composed in the aftermath of the conquering of the Northern Kingdom of Israel in order to spur Jews (Judeans) to action against the invading Babylonians and implore them to remain Jewish no matter what. it was probably not a historical account in any sense but an effort to toughen the Jews against a powerful invader.

in exile these books received further redactions. the archeological record shows no evidence of the conquest spoken of in these books; rather, it shows that the Jews were Canaanite pagans indistinguishable from our neighbors who gradually came to abandon polytheism.

there's good reason to believe Deuteronomy was first composed in the Northern Kingdom and that the original Temple was the one on Mount Gerizim. after the conquering of the Northern Kingdom, the book of Deuteronomy spread southward, received a few additions parallel to existing passages, and the "deuteronomic history" (Joshua->Kings) was composed to explain current events and existing legends in light of Deuteronomy.

granted, the thing about the book of Deuteronomy being originally from the Northern Kingdom is controversial, but the evidence is compelling imo

the rest of that is widely accepted, with various caveats, among near east scholars

even at the time of course, lots of people were migrating in and becoming Jews, which is why even to this day we call converts "foreigners". this is natural; migration has always been a huge thing in every area, especially the crossroads that is the Levant. people have come and left that area for ages. the only strange thing Jews did was to take our identity with us no matter where we were, and consequently continue welcoming foreigners into the fold. This, diaspora, is what defines us.

If this sounds like the ideology of 19th-century antisemitism, you're getting it backwards. That Jews have always called ourselves a "people" or a "nation" (same word in Hebrew) was never a problem under feudalism, but only became an issue under liberalism, which needed a new basis for sovereignty and settled on the concept of nation-states and national sovereignty.

It was the fundamental conflict between the newly constructed "German nation," "French nation," "Spanish nation," "Polish nation," and the constitutive others among them that led to modern ethnic conflicts such as the Holocaust, the Reconquista, etc..

Here's an amazing article going into Hitler's hatred the idea of a nation that could exist outside the context of blood and soil, and tying this into Nazi transphobia for good measure: https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/4188-the-eradication-of-talmudic-abstractions-anti-semitism-transmisogyny-and-the-national-socialist-project

sorry bernie but if you think i'm not playing pokemon go while i canvas for you in iowa you're fucking insane. walking for 3 days straight ? i'm gonna hatch so many 10 km motherfuckers for you, bernie

woo boy here's a take for your Monday, fedi

"Coders Should Be Activists"

> Open-source developers could push for climate action or humanitarian causes, but instead, their code has remained a reliable bet for even the most egregious of corporations to use freely

https://onezero.medium.com/coders-should-be-activists-5104bd18e349

The Nasir-ol-molk Mosque is a stunning place in Shiraz, Iran. Built in the late 19th century with a traditional five concaved design, it's decorated with lots of stained glass. The huge number of pink tiles in its interior design sometimes earn it the nickname of The Pink Mosque.

A blend of arabic and western aesthetics, the mosque has a design distinct from the traditional Persian style, with many colourful floral patterns rather than the turquoise geometric shapes seen elsewhere.

for a Jew, the equivalent of studying Satanism is studying Christianity

"I'm gonna read the Gospels"
"Be careful"
"Are you OK?"
"You're headed down a dark path"
"I'm worried you don't know enough about Judaism to be able to contextualize what you read, and will just be corrupted by it. The dark arts are not to be studied lightly"

contemporary neonazism 101: "white genocide" is an antisemitic conspiracy theory that implicates Jews in a conspiracy against the white race and is actively being used to gun us down in synagogues as well as to target us for constant harassment. It is alluded to constantly in the everyday politics of Republican politicians

i estimate that a large number of my toots could simply be replaced by "nu?" and i shall endeavor to make this happen