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Behind the Aegis

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3. It is a reminder (daily now), that we are not American Jews or Jewish Americans...
Mon Jul 28, 2025, 12:33 AM
Jul 28

...we are Jews who live in America!

It may seem like I have said the same thing three times; I have not. All the major anti-Semitic tropes have come out to play, never mind the CONSTANT braying of how non-Jews know more than we do ('splaining) and how their pets, the Court Jews, are the only "true" Jews. How Jews are expected to speak out on Israel for anything and everything. How anti-Semitism is "bad" but other things are worse. There is always a caveat, the big BUT always reveals itself. Want to mock Jews? COOL! Want to tell us to SHUT UP and SIT DOWN! Awesome, put us in our place! Want to defame Jews, use the Holocaust! Strip out the word "Jew" replace it with "Zionist" or "Israel" and instantly, something that is anti-Semitic is just "talking politics". Who cares if it is ahistorical, it is "truth to JEW power" so that magically makes it NOT anti-Semitic. Hell, the very use of the word "anti-Semitic" is bastardized, like SO many words, so as to NOT allow Jews any status among minorities.

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