neil-gaiman:

irisbleufic:

firesighn:

neil-gaiman:

Look, this is a bit embarrassing, but I’m afraid that I’m a fully-paid-up honest-to-goodness barmitzvahed-and-circumcised Jew myself. And while I would, of course, like sympathisers and money, I most certainly do not want yours.

Also, it’s spelled ‘voluntary’.

@irisbleufic I think this might be of interest to you atm

…after the horrendous abuse I took this weekend for just being who I am, seeing someone that I admire stand up to similar in the way I always strive to, in spite of my anguish, is a comfort. I don’t know what it’s been about anti-Semitism these past few days, but I’m feeling so physically unwell with what I’ve faced that I can’t express what it’s like emotionally.

I’ll post this because the original 2012 answer from me has vanished in the last year. I don’t know why (at a guess, because someone tagged it as offensive). I answered this creepy ask originally because I wanted people to get some kind of an idea of the kind of antisemitic sludge I get on my asks, and this one was easier than most, because it wasn’t aimed at me, and I kept it up because of the number of people in the notes who went “Whoa, that’s actually a thing, huh?” and the people who felt safer that I wasn’t letting it go.

It’s about standing up to this nonsense.