seder in the streets...5

by animus on April 15, 2025

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4/15

this is the text from post today on IG
it took me a while to write
and I wanted to preserve it here...
i am beside myself
over the complacency of the people around me
i am beside myself
how people can accept
living in a world
where we ignore the suffering around us
so i wrote this

yesterday evening’s emergency seder in the streets
bought to you by IfNotNow, Jewish Voice for Peace & Rabbis 4 Ceasefire

it’s been a long time since i identified as jewish
but it feels important to do so now
to stand as someone who says
“not in our name”
“come for one, face us all”
“none of us are free until all of us are free”

the regime is using antisemitism
as a pretext to divide us,
to make us fear each other
and to pick us off,
one by one

if you were waiting for a constitutional crisis
to believe our democracy has devolved into fascism
THAT WAIT IS OVER

we are living under a regime that
snatches people off the streets,
ships them overseas to torture camps without due process,
and then defies court orders to bring them back,
a regime that has co-opted the top law firms
to fight PRO BONO on its behalf

this is happening NOW
and THIS is what fascism looks like

turning a blind eye to injustice
does not make it go away
it makes one complicit
it robs one of one’s own freedom

if one feels they themselves
(or their loved ones)
will never be targeted directly
think again
it is our collective humanity that is up for grabs
and there is no grey area in that game.

I stand with courage,
the courage to challenge my fears,
to challenge my own beliefs about others,
and to challenge my beliefs about what i require to truly “be free”

the time for saying:
“it could never happen here”
is over
it is happening,
it has happened,
it’s not a bad dream
and the only thing that can stop it is us

please find a march on Saturday and take to the streets again
it really does matter

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i had not read you on instagram, so thank you for sharing your words here.........

the worst of this all is younger generations........

they do not seem to be informed at all about all the major issues going on in the world nowadays.........

let's call it gaza, or loss of human rights at so many levels, or the carrot head man, or something as basic as our planet.......they do not seem to care nor are willing to get informed..........they just live in an artificial world of superficiality and are so easily manipulable..........besides they know nothing about recent history (natzis and concentration camps for example) and when they know again they do not care as they feel invincible as far as they get likes and visits on their social media...........

this is the reality of adolescents as far as i perceive it every single day at school and something should be done............

i do not know where the first steps should be taken.........at schools, we have our hand tied up tight and talks/lectures on political issues and the like must be approved by the parents, otherwise the cannot be held.............

it is sad to say but i think that the right wing party will be the next winner when elections are celebrated in spain...................at least that is the vibes i have been perceiving in the last few years (two or three) when i talk to teenager to check how they feel about what is going on in our country (especially when it comes to immigrants, lgtbq+ community and women's rights).........

sad...........

so sad............

and above all, alarming...............

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