It says a lot more about who you are as a person than it says about the world and the evil in it.

tikkunolamorgtfo:

agnellina:

Wooow…?

(I’m assuming this is in response to my comment: “What does it say that I am truly shocked someone took the time and had this kind of compassion.”)

I’ll never forget being dismissed and attacked by people I thought were my friends over expressing discomfort at a Jewish victim of Newtown being memorialised by a cross and a Christmas tree. Even though the few other Jewish bloggers in that community backed me up, people were enraged that I was offended by somebody who was “just trying to be nice.” 

Now I’m seeing this happen to another Jewish blogger over a memorial for other Jewish shooting victims (of course, the need to make these shootings stop is the most important issue here, but I digress), and I am once again baffled that gentiles feel they have the right to police our feelings over our own dead. 

Sorry y’all, but just because it feels like a nice gesture to you, that doesn’t mean it’s not offensive to us, and you don’t get to decide what is and isn’t offensive to Jewish people. 

Having our identities erased, especially in death, even within an intended act of kindness, is hurtful to us. It’s disrespectful to our people, to our dead, and could even be interpreted as flaunting chukat hagoyim, which is the is a prohibition in Judaism of imitating Gentile manners in their dressings and practices. 

Just because it feels warm and fuzzy to you doesn’t mean it’s not disrespecting our dead by involuntarily making them participate in something that actively goes against the fabric of our culture and religion.

The guy who put up the crosses remedied his mistake by making Magen David for the victims instead. Instead of defending his mistake, why not follow his fucking lead by being respectful of who we are and how we interpret our own goddamn identities.