@paul_ipv6 Which is why it’s so frustrating that so few stand with us now. @mekkaokereke @donray
@AlliFlowers @paul_ipv6 @donray
The good news is that I don't think that it is so few?
I think that there is an intentional effort by right-wing anti-semites to portray any criticism of current Israeli government policy as broad anti-semitism against Jews everywhere.
There is vile, dangerous, rising anti-semitism everywhere right now. A lot of masks are coming off. But I think the vast majority of liberal and leftist people are against anti-semitism, and stand with Jewish people on this.
@mekkaokereke @AlliFlowers @paul_ipv6 @donray
You’ll also hear this coming from right-wing Orthodox Jews, btw. I know more than one. (Because of family history, I don’t often say this, but I am Jewish.)
@deirdresm My father’s side is Lubovitch. My mother’s side is Israeli. We’re slap in the middle, and pretty much atheist, culinary Jews. 😂 @mekkaokereke @paul_ipv6 @donray
@AlliFlowers @mekkaokereke @paul_ipv6 @donray
My mother's mother was adopted into a Christian family (great-grandfather was both a Methodist minister and a physician), and the story was that she had been adopted from a Jewish woman who had to give up her child.
Except, we find out from 23andme, that was an anti-semitic lie.
Meanwhile, I had a Bat Mitzvah to reclaim the family heritage when I was young, but not as a convert (as we believed I wasn't).
So. Complicated.
@deirdresm Wow! That is quite the story! @mekkaokereke @paul_ipv6 @donray
@deirdresm I can only imagine how that’s played with your head. @mekkaokereke @paul_ipv6 @donray
@AlliFlowers @mekkaokereke @paul_ipv6 @donray
Many Jewish people *were* adopted into Christian families, so there was no reason to disbelieve the story at the time.
Anyhow, not ethnically Jewish, but that knowledge is only within the last 10% of my life. My bio great-grandmother turns out to have been from a poor area of rural Norway and not, as we'd been led to believe, Germany.