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Wendy's avatar

Today I wrote something on social media in a furious haze that basically said, stop being such fucking antisemitic assholes and I listed all the things that people should not do, like telling Jews they don’t know what antisemitism is, and that they’re not allowed to feel offended when people scream in their faces and all, but it was longer and somewhat more grammatical and more sarcastic with more fucks. A friend of mine reposted it. And within five minutes someone commented on the post and literally did every single thing I had just listed as antisemitic, ending by telling me that being anti-Israel isn’t antisemitic.

I felt my brain fold in on itself and limited myself to a short thank you for proving all of my points in a row.

Anyway. That is all to say, now my brain feels better since I just read this piece. Thank you.

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MQ's avatar

Eve. We goys should not support Jews because it will be to OUR detriment. We need to support them because no one is listening to the Jews themselves . It is up to us to shout from the roof tops that this is not Germany 1930, that butchering 1500 civilians and taking 250 hostages is a war crime and that a third intifada must not happen. It’s over to us!

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Dbn123's avatar

Amen MQ, Amen.

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Sanna Breytberg's avatar

"more grammatical and more sarcastic with more fucks" should be in writing style books.

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Neri Tannenbaum's avatar

Where can I read your piece, Wendy?

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Ruth Friedman's avatar

Since its inception, the IDF has been the only thing standing between the Jews of Israel and the successful implementation of the explicit and repeatedly-attempted goal of the Islamic supremacist death cult (whether next door, like Hamas or farther afield, like Iran) to annihilate them. The equation could not be more plain: No IDF = No Jews. To scream “Death death to the IDF” is to call for the slaughter of Jews. To tolerate such calls is to acquiesce.

The Glastonbury lemmings are no different than those Iranian women CNN featured the other day. As part of a regular ceremony, thousands of mothers raise their infants above their heads to signify eagerness to offer the children to die as “martyrs” in service of that same cause, chanting “Death to America! Death to Israel!”

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Tillman Eddy's avatar

A recent NYT headline stated that Harvard was found guilty of failing to protect its Jewish students from harassment by pro-Hamas groups! To those of us who bother to follow our esteemed institutions of higher learning´s behavior patterns, this comes as no surprise. The Left and their allies need scapegoats and none seem more vulnerable than Jewish students.

I have been criticized for supporting my Jewish friends, yet none would dare attack them or myself. I am an ex-soldier, accomplished in many means of destruction… my philosophical bent in favor of my friends is well known.

To use an acronym I recently learned: FAFO!

Am Yisrael Chai

Tillman

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Dbn123's avatar

Love your photo Eve. More importantly, love your words. All of these anti-semites don’t realize, like you said, every society that demonizes Jews ultimately dies. Every civilization that was around thousands of years ago is now in extinction. Every Jewish hate-mongering assholes are ultimately wildly unsuccessful in life.

Do you know a civilization that has been around for over 5,000 years? That’s right, the Jews. Do you know that 22% of all Nobel Prize winners were Jews? And that’s even though only .2% of the world are Jews. In scientific fields, the number of the Nobel Prize in Science up to 26% of all awards.

Do you know who invented a cure for polio? A Jew. Do you know who founded the theory of relativity? Yep, a Jew. Do you know who lead the development of pacemakers and defibrillators? A Jew. Do you know who lead the research on the human genome project? Right again, a Jew.

Do you know who has contributed nothing to society? Yes, Bob Vylan and Run The Jewels. And Jeremy Corbin and the rest of the hateful mob.

Am Yisrael Chai!

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Akiva DeJack's avatar

Really excellent essay, brilliant writing—thank you.

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Claire Akerman's avatar

Honestly Eve, your writing is one of the only things that gets me through these dark days… trying to make sense of this madness. Just when I think things can’t get worse, there’s Glastonbury…. This poison has infiltrated every space that I thought was safe.

‘Be strong, be successful, stick together’. I heard these words yesterday and it feels like that is the only way to navigate this. History repeating itself…

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Eric F's avatar

Yeah it’s all so heartbreaking. My therapist, a man I really trust, told me when I complained about antisemitism that he gets it, but that he hates to see that Israel/Netanyahu has now done to the Palestinians what the Nazis did to Jewish people. I almost threw up. It’s like everywhere you turn, even people you thought you could trust, aren’t home. They’re not on Earth.

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Allan W's avatar

He doesn’t get it! Minimizing your pain and your experience. Should’ve kept his mouth shut.

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Judy Illes's avatar

I hope you didn’t pay him!

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Peter Shaw's avatar

Its your business, but id need a new therapist after that .

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Peter Shaw's avatar

I just had an image from the original ' Invasion of the Body Snatchers' when he realises they are EVERYWHERE

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Brad G's avatar

I’m so sorry. You need to get a new therapist.

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Charles St-Louis's avatar

Full support for your essential work, as always. Love to my Jewish friends here in Canada on our National Day.

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Judy Illes's avatar

Ever since October 7, it’s your words I seek to organize the confetti of a mess of thoughts and emotions in my mind. By now, I know you’ll put it all together like Carrie from Homeland. On one of those bulletin boards stringing together all the facts and pictures and solving the crime in a few minutes, showing the world that the evidence was right there in front of us all along. Yet, too many refuse to see it.

Know this - when you say, “ I won’t be erased!”, you give voice and motivation to your people to do the same.

You have paid a dear price for your courage and fierce authenticity. I miss an old self too. The person that was naive enough to believe or hope that this level of attempted erasure could “never happen again”.

When I saw a photo you posted the other day, the one with all of your music cover pieces, I too googled your name. This old rock n roll fan girl did a deep dive on Vice and I read several of your features on bands I love or formerly loved. There I saw the same grit, wittiness , sass and intellect that I’ve come to expect in this space.

There is a big “ they” out there trying to erase us, make us invisible , but you remind us that we have no option to sit this one out. We won’t be erased.

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MAG's avatar
Jul 1Edited

The useful idiots that chant in the streets are too stupid to realize that they are the first to be rounded up and murdered when the psychopaths they cheer on come to power. Stalin, Hitler, Mao, The Ayatollah, Idi Amin, The Killing Fields of Cambodia, Assad family, Sadam Hussein, history repeats.

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Ian Mark Sirota's avatar

I think that if anyone had told the old leaders of the Soviet Union that 35 or so years after it ceased existing, its ideas and ideals would be venerated on college campuses across the West (and, of course, at music festivals), they'd have laughed their heads off. Congratulations, Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush, you won the battle. Congrats, Leonid Brezhnev, Yuri Andropov, Konstantin Chernenko, etc. You won the (Cold) War.

And we Jews are the ones paying the price.

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Zara Walden's avatar

Love your writing, Eve, but so, so saddened to hear what you've been going through. I am a lot older and have never been part of the 'trendy' set anyway. My non Jewish friends haven't treated me any differently because of Gaza but they're not part of that set either. I worry about the younger generation of Jews e.g. the ones at university facing intimidation from students and academics alike, younger people like yourself having to deal with workplace anti-semitism. That must be awful. I count my lucky stars that I never faced anything like that at uni. Be assured that we'll get through this together and you are not alone. Your career is definitely not over, your talents are reaching a wider audience and you will make a whole bunch of new friends!!

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Csb's avatar

Hang in. Gd is on your side. Keep looking for the evidence. I hope you find it.

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Neri Tannenbaum's avatar

Spot on, per usual. Time to circle the wagons. 💙

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Casey Jones's avatar

You're a top-tier member of the Casandra Club. Welcome from the trenches. Keep it up!

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kathy's avatar

I appreciate everything about your writing, including its earned fury. And I think it is time for Jews and gentiles make a choice. They’re with us or they’re against us.

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