Anti-Semitic Social Justice

*Trigger Warning* anti-Semitism, rape culture, colonialism

Originally published Nov 9 2020 in my Facebook post. Republished here with minor edits.

Screenshot Bene Israel Jewish community that has lived in India for centuries.

Wow. Anti-semitism is deeply entrenched in our movement.

I just got accused by a man in this movement of having “Hebrew backers” because, according to him, I hadn’t called out the rapists he thought I should be calling out (“because they have ties to Israel or something”).

*stunned look*

This was after he messaged me gloating about Biden winning and I told him I don’t celebrate rapists.

By the way, he’s wrong, I’ve called out every person he thinks I “should have” called out. He just doesn’t pay attention to my work. What. A. Surprise.

Also, it’s not the job of a man to be telling a woman who and what she should call out. How dare he? We wouldn’t have rape if men called out other men. I’ve been on these frontlines my entire life because of the rape culture created by men. But he wants to tell me, a brown Hindu woman, what to say to put myself in even more danger? As if he was ever going to come and rescue me?

Also, for people with specific marginalizations, I try to call out rape in ways that do not exacerbate their community’s marginalization. When a Black or a brown man is…