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Happy pride & שבת שלום

How about you don't harass Jewish queer people who hold a pride flag with Magen David on it instead of squinting at the design in order to decide whether it's okay to do hate crime or not?

A thing about the discourse of where antisemitism and antizionism interact is that

1) a fair amount of antizionists are neonazis, Islamists, Arab supremacists, and communists who believe ethnic self-identity is a barrier to World Revolution, who are just *barely* concealing it (if that)

2) a fair amount of antizionists base their antizionism on a denial of an element (or elements) of Jewish self-identity (denial of Jewish ethnicity, denial of ethnogenesis in the Levant), and a whole lot of Jews find non-Jews essentially arguing that they should get to define what Jews are and aren’t offensive (and antisemitic)

3) there are a fair amount of antizionists whose antizionism comes from a deep hatred of an element or elements of what they determine is evil about “western” society, and for some reason they have decided to obsessively focus on Israel and ignore other “western” countries. This may be genuinely not antisemitic, but it’s still fucked up and weird.

Dude, how can it be that every single fucking thing about US politics trends on here immediately, yet when 27 countries in the EU vote and there's a historic, alarming lurch to the right (far right parties have won the elections in Italy, Austria and France), it's not even trending? In Germany, the AFD, a right-wing populist, anti-democratic, racist party with a wing that is officially extremist (read: Nazis) and is in parts monitored by the office for the protection of the constitution, is the second strongest party (also among 17-24 year olds!). Guess I'll die.

Yes, go ahead! Let me know how it turns out!

Happy pride & שבת שלום

Classic pareve chocolate cake

1 3/4 cup flour

2 cup sugar

3/4 cup cocoa

1 1/2 tsp baking soda

1 1/2 tsp baking powder

1 tsp salt

2 eggs

1 cup orange juice or oat milk

1/2 cup oil

2 tsp vanilla

1 cup boiling water

Preheat oven to 350.

Grease & flour cake pan(s).

Mix all dry ingredients well.

Add remaining ingredients except boiling water, mix well.

Add boiling water, mix well.

Batter will be very thin.

Pour batter into pans.

Bake 350 for 30 minutes.

Allow to cool in pans about 15 minutes, then remove from pans by flipping them upside down onto cooling racks. Allow to cool completely on rack.

Frosting:

1/2 cup soft margarine

1/4 cup cocoa (optional, if you want chocolate frosting. If not, skip it.)

2 1/2 cups powdered sugar

1 tsp vanilla

4 tsp orange juice or oat milk

Mix ingredients, adding extra liquid or sugar as needed until consistency is good for spreading. Wait until cake has cooled completely before frosting.

Happy pride & שבת שלום