a list of don’ts for goyim in regard to jews and jewishness

xnjolras:

no-good-nik:

• do not ever ever compare jews or a jewish person to vermin. i don’t care what the context is. it is an incredibly historically loaded thing
• do not under any circumstances alter our magen david or call it something dirty or awful. it is a symbol of all jews, and if you call it something like “satanic”, you are hurting all jews
• do not insert israel or palestine in conversations about jewishness or jews when it has nothing to do with either subject
• do not blame the actions of israel on world jewry
• do not think knowing a jew gives you authority on anything. having a jewish SO or friend gives you authority on nothing
• do not think that your country does not have an antisemitism problem.
• do not think that antisemitism is isolated to one region or one people
• do not think that antisemitism today is harmless or dead or a “political tool”
• do not ever source nazi/neonazi material for any of your social justice work. i don’t care how “spot on they are for this one issue”, if you do that, you are trash and your social activism is trash too.
• do not celebrate our holidays because you think it would be a fun thing to do. would you think it’s fun or interesting to walk into a synagogue surrounded by cops on yom kippur, weak from fasting, knowing that your chances of experiencing violence on this holy day have increased a hundredfold because of your jewishness? 
• do not respond to accusations of antisemitism with “i bet you’re a zionist”. 
• do not ever speak over a jew on jewish identity. 
• do not erase or ignore our suffering
• do not call our genocide a white people’s genocide
• do not use our genocide against us. genocide is never a lesson for the victim
• do not forget the various genocides and suffering of jews outside of europe and the holocaust. 
• do not forget that we are as subject to various -isms as gentiles. your social activism is not intersectional if you forget jews. 
• do not forget the jewish history of various social movements
• do not forget that we are a varied people—jews are never a monolith.