AIBU to post solidarity with the Jewish community here?

You, however, seem to have come on this thread to performatively declare that public support for Jews is performative and that Jews aren't being oppressed.

Oh lord. Do you have a “black lives matter” t-shirt too?

I'm half German. I support Jewish people.

I do not support genocide and I am pro Palestine as I hope ye all are too.

if you think wearing a pin is doing anything beyond being self serving your own image then crack on.

I know my own motivations better than you, thank you.

The point is you think it's performative, whereas others don't. You having an opinion is just that - an opinion. It's not a fact.

If you feel you doing it would be performative, then you're quite right to not do it. However, it's quite arrogant to assume this would be the case for others.

Oh geez 🙄. How is this difficult for you to comprehend?

I don’t like performative actions. The examples I gave were not solely about Judaism, so don’t even start with the “you have an objection to people posting in support of Jewish people”

if you think wearing a pin is doing anything beyond being self serving your own image then crack on.

Oh geez 🙄. How is this difficult for you to comprehend?

I don’t like performative actions. The examples I gave were not solely about Judaism, so don’t even start with the “you have an objection to people posting in support of Jewish people”

if you think wearing a pin is doing anything beyond being self serving your own image then crack on.

Ok.

Just so I can understand - what is your objection to people posting in support of Jewish people, or wearing a badge to show support?

Is there something you would prefer people to do instead? Or would you rather people do nothing?

It's certainly less performative then all those people now wearing a keffiyah.

I'm half German. I support Jewish people.

I do not support genocide and I am pro Palestine as I hope ye all are too.

Ok.

Just so I can understand - what is your objection to people posting in support of Jewish people, or wearing a badge to show support?

Is there something you would prefer people to do instead? Or would you rather people do nothing?

Because that comparison is the same 🙄.

Jewih people are not being systematically marked by being forced to wear a pin. So a non-Jew choosing to wear the symbol isn’t disrupting a system of oppression.

Imagine if during Nazi times everyone would have decided to have worn the star of david Jews were forced to have worn....
Someone willingly exposing themselves to the antisemtiism Jews face daily as a sign of solidarity is more than performative.

Imagine if during Nazi times everyone would have decided to have worn the star of david Jews were forced to have worn....
Someone willingly exposing themselves to the antisemtiism Jews face daily as a sign of solidarity is more than performative.

If your ‘action’ doesn’t actually affect anything outside your own image, it’s performative—no matter how many people join in

If your ‘action’ doesn’t actually affect anything outside your own image, it’s performative—no matter how many people join in

It’s done to appease conscience rather than to create substantive, systemic change.

Well, I wonder about that.

Would the ability to create substantive, systemic change not depend on how many people started wearing them? What prominence they were given, if it was a movement that was reported on, debated, got a high profile, grew...

The marches have had an impact, haven't they? They've contributed to the rise in antisemitism and legitimised antisemitic views, while leaving Jewish people more fearful. Perhaps an attempt to redress the balance could go some way to doing that. I'd like to think so, at any rate.

Perhaps a badge wouldn't be the thing that would do it, but something needs to happen to turn this shit around.

I think it's important to add that an estimated 70 - 80, 000 Jewish refugees arrived in GB prior to the start of WW2 in 1939; and a further estimated 10,000 arrived during the war.

I agree that anti-Semitism was a factor in the decision to stop refugees. But it wasn't the only one. Once the war began, the Government's view was that arrivals from a Nazi-occupied country were potential spies or enemies. There was also grave concern as to whether there would be sufficient future food supplies to feed the existing population and my Grandparents lived through rationing and shortages of various food types throughout the war. The future food supply concern was such that the government issued a pamphlet to pet owners at the beginning of the war advising them to euthanise their pets as feeding them would become unsustainable. An estimated 750,000 cats and dogs were put to sleep as a consequence.

Eh? Who are you? 🤣

I left a comment directed at the OP, why have you twisted it and made it about you. Are you low on attention?

I think if you’re a non-Jew then wearing a pin of the Star of David is performative. Like wearing a Black Lives Matter t-shirt, or leaving a “Free Palestine” comment on a random YouTube video.

It’s done to appease conscience rather than to create substantive, systemic change.