Pls remember wrds have impact. Invoking the Holocaust can b triggering. Pls don't leave us out of your activism too.


It's true. We're all scared and stressed out and worrying about the weeks and months to come.

I'm not trying to take away from that. The very real fear that LGBTQ2SIA Black, POC, disabled, Muslim, Indegenous, women, people are experiencing. This is simply a respectful request for visibility.

The day president elect Hitler 2.0 won the highest office in America (let's be honest. America is hardly the 'most powerful country in the world'. Biggest bully does not equal most powerful) was also the 78th anniversary of the night the 'solution to the Jewish problem' was set in motion. Kristallnacht marked one of the first direct actions against the Jewish people and helped start a war that would forever damage the entire planet.

Not many people online seemed to notice. But they were all still referencing all the ways Drumpf is a Nazi.

We are scared. We have been here before. We know what it's like. (I've been trying so hard not to say we told you so. But dammit. We begged you to remember history, or repeat it) It’s really hard to be out here, feeling like we're on our own watching the world remind us of the tragedies that have befallen us. While silencing us and excluding us from the conversation.

You know all that talk about 'international bankers?' That's about us. Straight out of the Nazi handbook. And a bunch of people tried to tell us it had nothing to do with us. We were overreacting. Looking for reasons to be dramatic. Do you still believe that? That people do that? That we don't know our history or experiences better than anyone else?

Have you noticed? Anti-Semitism is rarely part of people's activism? Even though both Drumpf and Pence are noted anti-Semites?


People are quick to invoke the Holocaust but slow to hear and acknowledge our fears. As if the Holocaust wasn't a thing that happened to us. As if we aren't targeted every time a swastika is spray painted on a building or whenever a white person shouts 'sieg heil'. As if the very things that trigger you. Don’t trigger us too.

‘Don't overreact. It's not such a big deal. We will deal with it.’

The Principal told that to my Mum when she came in to talk about the fact that my brother was getting beaten up nearly every week. Often while those boys screamed 'dirty jew' and ‘get out of our town'

'Just paint over it’


The police officer when we called about the swastika spray painted on our garage.

The house finally went on the market when the older brothers of the boys who kept attacking my brother, followed my Mum home after dark. She wasn't easily fucked with. But she was terrified for her children.

'We don't need any statements'


Another police officer. As my mum tried to wash the blood off her hands and clothes.

While holding the door open for an elder woman, she watched as the sweet elder man who always had pockets full of Wurthers Originals for all the young yeladim fell to the ground on the front steps. Less than 10ft from where she stood. Shot. In the head. While I was learning Hebrew downstairs.


Somehow. That sweet Zaidy didn't die.


They tried to kill us. But we're still here.


Our Shul went from a comfortable place to engage in culture, community and tradition. To an intimidating, locked-down, armed-guarded, place where fear tainted every celebration and hate lurked in the tall hedges that used to feel like the divide between a suspicious world and the safe bubble of love and light and community.

Forever altered.

'Maybe you shouldn't be getting into trouble'

A 'friend' after I was cornered in the back of a bar by a group of white supremacists. Heart racing and palms sweaty I said 'let's go. Now' But she wasn't done. I walked home by myself. Past 2 more members of their group. Clutching my phone and shaking. I took my first self defence class shortly after.

For many years I just stopped telling people about my Jewishness. Hiding was easier. Safer. Friendlier. But over the last few years I've started feeling like I just can't hide any more. I won't. I will go down fighting. I will keep the names of my ancestors on my tongue as I scream and shout and fight for your freedom.

If you don't mind?

The thing is. I don't want you to give me any extra space. I don't need you to hold my hand or teach me how to be a good ally. I've done the research. I am literally all ears. Hands. Fists. Revolution.

I don't even want you to spend any more time thinking about my problems than you actually want to. In fact. The only space I'm asking for is for all of us to add fighting anti-Semitism to the list of our activism. And understand we’re walking around with the fear of an entire people who have been here before. And we need to do something. I want to march, and protest, and vent, and cry, and fight, and love and be visible. With all of you who are hurting. I want to use my privilege to our collective advantage whenever I possibly can. And I have done all these things in the past while hiding. No more hiding.

I've kept quiet. And ignored my own memories. Desperately tried to bury them. And stood back so as not to ruffle any feathers. While the tragedy of my people is used to further other people's agenda. I just can't keep my mouth shut any more.

So please listen when your Jewish brothers and sisters are talking about their experience. And include anti-semitism when you are fighting oppression. And remember that if you understand how horrible the Holocaust was, you acknowledge that 6 million Jewish people were massacred. And it still fucking hurts. You can't use our tragedy if you won't hold us up too. Please. And. Thank you.

Please. And. Thank you.