1) cheering on gunmen attacking US synagogues actually feeds INTO Israeli propaganda that they're the only safe place for Jews, so if your anti-Zionism doesn't include making the diaspora safer for Jews, it's not really about Palestinian rights
and just another gentle reminder that:
2) American Christians are FAR more likely to unquestioningly support the actions of Israel than American Jews, so if the only Zionism you focus on is what you *assume* is coming from Jews, helping Palestinians is probably not your priority
but like seriously, American Christians can be like lol we're doing our Zionism without any Jews involved and y'all STILL want to find a way that it's a Jewish conspiracy secretly running the government rather than deal with the fact that Christian Zionism is its own thing
which is why, for the umpteenth time, gentiles, if you want to support Palestinians, boost *Palestinian voices*
when you try to do it on your own you fall on your faces 98% of the time
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I also think the tendency to demonize Jews this way stems from dissonance within Christian thought about how to view Jesus’s teachings. They’re trying to have it both ways:
-Jesus’s teachings are simple and self-evidently true
So on one hand, if Jesus’s teachings are simple teachings about compassion and they’re self-evident if you think about them and they all just boil down to the Golden Rule, you’d have to be either incredibly stupid or incredibly evil not to agree with them.
The problem with that, of course, is basic compassion and the golden rule are hardly unique to Jesus. So if you reduce it that much, he has nothing substantive to say.
-oh, the Pharisees have a problem with Jesus healing on Shabbat? they value following a meaningless religious law over saving someone's life
OR
-they value following a meaningless religious law over alleviating suffering
And Jewish pushback on this story has generally focused on pikuach nefesh, the principle that almost any Jewish law can be trumped by the need to save a life.
Like at some point we’re going to have to talk about the talent of the actors who made Whedon’s dialogue in a lot of his shows entertaining rather than just hours of insufferable
Like I read a lot of screenplays, and one thing that always fascinates me is how often Whedon’s characters read really different from how they come across on screen
It’s similar to Sorkin, in a way, although I’m put off less by Sorkin on the page and more just bored.
They both write patter, and while I don’t want to undersell the role of the writer in writing patter that works, it lives or does in delivery.
the $150,000 security costs he's talking about are I think, roughly the same as our total operating budget, most of which goes to rent and the rabbi's salary
smaller synagogues often don't own buildings and can't institute permanent security measures like these
late this summer, when we'd all been vaxxed and it looked like maybe COVID was winding down, for a few weeks we met in the courtyard
I sat on the steps up to the second floor in a sundress
the neighborhood could hear us singing
Even if we had all those security measures and closed and locked our doors during services, I think if someone came to the door and said they needed shelter, we would let them in