Notices by ראָב עפֿן (dukepaaron@babka.social), page 3

<Circus music plays Jewishly>

Oh for fucKS sake already 🙄

"Wednesday’s deadly bombing in southern #Iran of a memorial service for a senior #Iranian general was actually carried out under the orders of #Israel, despite claims by the #IslamicState terrorist group that it carried out the attack, a website affiliated with Iran’s #Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said Friday.

According to an unsourced account on the #IRGC’s Tasnim news site, “the #Zionist regime ordered the #ISIS caliphate to accept the responsibility for this action,” using a reference to Israel."

https://themessenger.com/news/israel-pulled-strings-behind-isis-bombing-in-iran-says-revolutionary-guard

French podcast making the case for Dreyfus being targeted over his central European-Ness. 🤣

"As the Pan-American Maccabi Games are being held in Buenos Aires, Argentinean media reported the arrest of three suspects, all of Syrian or Lebanese descent, in an alleged #terrorist plot to attack #Jewish targets throughout the South American country."

https://www.ynetnews.com/culture/article/skg8c9got

"Sometimes, the only solution to life’s problems is soup. No strangers to hardship, #Jews through the ages have mastered the art of a good pot of soup, be it delicate #Persian gondi to bring in #Shabbat or tangy #Ashkenazi dill pickle soup for cold winter nights.

So, here are 21 #Jewish soup recipes from around the world to soothe your soul, your sore throat (see: Jewish penicillin), your stomach post-Yom Kippur fast, or any other ailment your bubbe is currently losing sleep over."

https://www.myjewishlearning.com/the-nosher/21-jewish-soup-recipes-to-soothe-your-soul/

How someone responds to Stephen Fry's alternative Christmas message about #antisemitism is the most simple and easy way to tell if someone is worth talking to or should just be blocked immediately.

https://deadline.com/2024/01/stephen-fry-speech-cdn-deborah-williams-linkedin-antisemitism-1235694221/

"[W]hy are #Jews around the world held to account for the actions of the #Israeli government when this correlation does not apply to any other country? #Christians are not attacked for the predations of the United States, nor are #Muslims abused for the transgressions of Iran. Pakistanis are not vilified for the fact that their government is, as we speak, expelling thousands of refugees, mostly women, back to Afghanistan. Why does the perception of Jews as aggressors create deep unease in many? Is it that Jews are considered white, powerful and able to defend themselves? Or is the idea of the #Jew as the shifty, duplicitous outsider also powering a rhetoric across a society which blithely ignores history, reducing a multilayered human tragedy into a simplistic campaign of good versus evil?"

https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2024/01/02/oliver-sears-why-are-jews-around-the-world-held-to-account-for-the-actions-of-the-israeli-government/

There's sooooo much going on in this story. So so so much.

“He comes by, he looks at the sign, and he says, ‘Nice. I’m a #Jew, too,’” Zippel recounted, noting that Irving then showed him a Star of David tattoo he has.

Zippel said he was annoyed by the comment, but did not want to cause a scene. He said he replied, “Nice. Happy New Year, buddy.”

After Irving took the pass and began to dribble up the court, Zippel said the point guard yelled to them, “Don’t gotta bring something like that to the game.”

A few moments later, Irving checked out of the game. It was during the subsequent timeout, Zippel said, that the trouble began."

https://www.sltrib.com/sports/jazz/2024/01/02/utah-rabbi-says-jazz-made-him-put/

Just came across three separate posts by separate people who were all very clearly and egregiously wrong on topics I care a lot about.

And I didn't comment.

I have defeated the social media today.

#Fedi #antisemitism discussion

Ms. Miller: If you prick us, do we not bleed? If you tickle us, do we not laugh? If you poison us, do we not die? And if you wrong us, shall we not revenge? Okay. So talk to me, people. How does what Shylock says here about being a Jew relate to our discussion about the anger of the outcast in society?

Cordelia: Well, how about color me totally self-involved?

MM: Care to elaborate?

C: Yeah. With Shylock it's whine, whine, whine, like the whole world is about him. He acts like it's justice, him getting a pound of Antonio's flesh. It's not justice, it's yicky.

MM: But has Shylock suffered? What's his place in Venice society?

Willow: Well, everyone looked down on him.

C: That is such a twinkie defense. Shylock should get over himself. People who think their problems are so huge craze me. Like this time I sort of ran over this girl on her bike. It was the most traumatizing event of MY life, and she's trying to make it about HER leg! Like MY pain meant nothing.

A little after 11pm and the only one who isn't ready to crash out is the tween. Doing my best kid.

Wherein Crown Heights dot Info trolls antisemite Chasidicly. 🤣

https://crownheights.info/chabad-news/849383/the-battle-of-brooklyn-in-august-1776-was-all-to-build-a-jewish-neighborhood-in-crown-heights/

Schmurton's Law

As an online discussion about #antisemitism grows longer, the probability of it becoming #antisemitic itself approaches 1.

"Early in World War II, President Franklin Roosevelt learned of #Nazi plans to systematically murder European #Jews. Later, advisors urged him to order the bombing rail lines leading to Auschwitz. He rejected their pleas. Actions to prevent these murders, he responded, would turn the war into a campaign to save Jews, and in so doing undermine American’s support for the war.

So, information about the systematic destruction of European Jewry was suppressed. Military intelligence shelved reports. The New York Times buried articles. Prominent people kept quiet."

https://thehill.com/opinion/4381904-the-universitys-fdr-dilemma-why-campus-leaders-cannot-confront-antisemitism/

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"A recent study has uncovered an 1800% increase in global Google searches for the term "kill #Jews," highlighting a severe and growing trend in #antisemitic sentiments.

https://m.jpost.com/diaspora/antisemitism/article-779937

@robertnorlyn I used to get some Christian church come to my house twice a year. Same big white guy and dofferent little old black ladies. I was always polite.

Then one day I was doing chores and said I'm Jewish because i was busy. The big guy that always came got really agitated got to close and started in in some line about Jesus was Jewish.

I said not interested and then he said something or other I didn't catch and moved towards my toddler playing in the driveway.

I helped him off the property and haven't seen them in about 6 or 7 years.

Worst ad or worstest ad?

Either way I'd like it to stop. I've got it like 50 times in the past two days.

"Ultimately, this is a #cookbook that really feels much more than just a book of recipes. It serves as a testimony to Nacamulli’s family story, and as general #Italian #Jewish history. There’s no shortage of unique recipes to try, along with familiar favorites that are impossible to resist. And, of course, we can all recognize that beautiful and important feeling of taking a bite of #food that connects us to something bigger, be it family, community, or history, which is really at the core here."

https://aish.com/unlock-the-secret-recipes-of-jewish-italian-cooking/

"Isaac Arazi, who as former president of #Lebanon’s tiny #Jewish community led the rehabilitation of #Beirut’s abandoned Magen Avraham #synagogue, died Tuesday. He was 80.

A lawyer for the community, which numbers less than 30, confirmed his death to Agence France-Presse."

https://www.jta.org/2023/12/27/obituaries/leader-of-lebanons-tiny-jewish-community-dies-at-80

"Four states originally had #primaries scheduled for April 23, the first full day of #Passover. But Delaware, Rhode Island and Maryland all moved their elections to different dates.

#Pennsylvania is the only state with a #primary still scheduled then."

https://www.jewishexponent.com/pennsylvanias-primary-remains-on-first-day-of-passover-how-can-observant-jews-still-vote/