"Before “fake news” gained traction in the modern day, the #Damascus #BloodLibel became a clear example of the damage that could be done. On February 5, 1840, a Capuchin monk, Father Thomas, and his Muslim servant disappeared mysteriously. Their disappearance fueled the fire for a false and malicious rumor quickly spread, alleging that the city’s #Jews had #kidnapped and #murdered them to use their blood for baking #Passover #matzah.

The #French consul in Damascus at the time was known for his #antisemitic views and took the opportunity to take the allegations and formally accuse the #Jewish community of ritual murder. This led to severe repercussions — Jewish leaders were #arrested, subjected to brutal #torture, and many were coerced into giving #falseconfessions. The wave of persecution shocked the global Jewish community, triggering an unprecedented international effort to intervene on behalf of Damascus #Jewry."

https://m.jpost.com/diaspora/antisemitism/article-844498

"I hate to say this because it’s an agonizing thing that we are sitting here in 2025, but we must regain our instinct for danger, which we’ve lost in the last 70 years, because we’ve been living in the golden age of #Jewry. And it doesn’t mean that we’re all going to be in danger all the time, and we have to cry “#antisemitism” every second. But we just have to regain the instincts, the sensitivities that our ancestors had.

My parents, when they were growing up, were real quiet. My mother was always saying to me, “Give an extra tip, because they know we’re #Jewish.” But at the same time, she was so grateful to #Britain, because Britain had given them safety, and Britain still gives them safety. #America still gives American #Jews safety. But I just think it’s a time for a little more awareness about who we are and how others see us."

https://www.thefp.com/p/bari-weiss-simon-sebag-montefiore-israel-end-of-history

When someone quotes words from any #Australian #Jewish organisation, it might help to know where that organisation fits both politically and in terms of Australian #Jewry: https://thejewishindependent.com.au/who-speaks-for-australian-jews None speak for all Australian #Jews. Only one speaks for Australian Jewish organisations

"Probably the most famous line from the HBO series True Detective is: “Time is a flat circle.” The line, spoken by Det. Rust Cohle (played by Matthew McConaughey) in the first season, is an homage to Nietzsche’s concept of “eternal return,” the unavoidably cyclical nature of history.

The line is spoken in utter seriousness but instantly became a running joke, especially online. Yet with the recent challenges faced by the #American #Jewish community, I can understand why it haunts Rust Cohle. (Perhaps time is a flat circle after all.) One of the reasons organizational #Jewry went from particularist advocacy to a widening universalism was that some of the societal problems that #Jews faced were posed to new victims. But a recent spate of specifically #antiSemitic discrimination shows us how important it’s going to be for the organized Jewish world to face this part of the circle coming around again."

https://www.commentary.org/seth-mandel/are-american-jews-prepared-for-the-return-of-history/

"In the late 19th and early 20th century, the majority of Haredi #Jews in Palestine and around the world opposed Zionism and the establishment of the state of Israel. […]. Many have come to accommodate the state’s existence, moving further to the right and, in recent years, embracing the most radical forms of territorial maximalism."
Molly Lipson: https://vashtimedia.com/2023/12/29/formats/the-pickle/neturei-karta-not-your-allies-anti-zionist-jews/

I seldom paint with a broad brush. #TheChristians. #WASP. #TheJews. #Jewry. #TheBlacks. #Christendom. Discuss their provenance.

#ChatGPT #PBR fueled #Goyim #Jewry #Shakespeare

Out Now in OA: 'The Last Years of #Polish #Jewry, Volume 1: At the Edge of the Abyss: Essays, 1927–33' by Yankev Leshchinsky, ed. by Robert Brym, trans. by Eli Jany and Robert Brym.

#Ukrainian-born #YankevLeshchinsky (1876–1966) was the leading scholarly and journalistic analyst of #EasternEuropean #Jewish socioeconomic and political life from the 1920s to the 1950s. Known as “the dean of Jewish sociologists” and [...] “the father of Jewish demography,” #Leshchinsky published a series of insightful and moving essays in #Yiddish on #Polish #Jewry between 1927 and 1937.

Despite heightened interest in interwar #Jewish communities in #Poland in recent years, these essays have never been translated into English. 'The Last Years of #Polish #Jewry' helps to rectify this situation by translating some of #Leshchinsky’s key essays. A thoughtful Introduction by Robert Brym provides the context of the author’s life and work.

Access this title for free or get a copy at https://openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0341

Ancient DNA recovered from a German cemetery has opened a window into the history of today’s largest Jewish population.

https://t.co/aAjLS5lv2t

#LongReads #Judaism #Jewry @mazeldon