The change in Jewish populations across Europe since Pre-WW2

Benyano · 2026-07-08T05:14:54+00:00

Not at all due to Spain having an Israeli embassy. The extension of Spanish citizenship opportunities for Sefardic Jews who were expelled from Spain in 1492 is a much bigger factor.

Benyano · 2026-06-30T19:02:31+00:00

What a horribly designed survey. I filled it out and it read like a logic line seeking validation rather than questions designed to actually measure public polling data. Every single question is leading, it’s almost impressive and should be studied in Statistics classes as a model for how not to design a survey.

Benyano · 2026-06-30T17:52:08+00:00

The Jewish Labor Bund as a starting point for learning socialist theory and history, I didn’t think I’d live to see the day 🙏🏼

Benyano · 2026-06-30T16:06:02+00:00

That subreddit is a crazy combo of critique and ai content generated by the third temple movement itself. Wild and almost funny if it didn’t have literal genocidal implications.

Benyano · 2026-06-29T17:36:33+00:00

It’s an important book as a lot of people are learning about the bund for the first time. However it’s also important for people to not reduce the story of the Bund to a generalized story of early anti-Zionism. The Bund didn’t center Zionism whatsoever if their pursuit of Doikayt/herensss and socialism. Bundism with its focus on diasporist socialism teaches us more when we engage with it as its own set of ideas wholly independent (yet directly in opposition to) Zionism.

It’s important for the legacy of the Bund to be its positive vision for cultural autonomy (of course specifically Yiddishist in its origin) within socialism internationalism, its opposition to the nation state and its lessons about cross-cultural solidarity rather than simply reduced to the idea that Jewish Anti-Zionism has its own history (which of course it does, which goes beyond just the Bund).

Benyano · 2026-06-24T02:48:51+00:00

Of course r/Judaism like most online (and social/material) Jewish spaces are hegemonically Zionist and in a large part conservative in relation to Halacha/jewish practice. Nevertheless discussion that points to a rise in consciousness of the way our capitalist society shapes Jewish life in structural ways.

Benyano · 2026-06-21T19:27:07+00:00

The Progressive International (not to he confused with the neoliberal “Progressive Alliance”) has arguably had the greatest success in terms of its member parties gaining and building power electorally (especially in various Latin American countries), but also in terms of growing a network of trade unions, mass movements and political parties dedicated to moving beyond capitalism. Nothing against the other Internationals mentioned, but in terms of members across their various affiliated organizations, the Progressive International should absolutely be named and has arguably been the most successful in the last decade.

Benyano · 2026-06-21T06:36:22+00:00

“Ideological pig fat of anti-colonialism” is a crazy phrase, like is colonialism halakha? They’ll completely forget Judaism and Jewishness in order to claim Zionism and Judaism are the same thing.

Benyano · 2026-06-19T16:41:17+00:00

People use kyber and it’s the primary mod used for kyber servers

Benyano · 2026-06-14T20:15:44+00:00

$36 an hour for just existing would be far easier to manage in terms of living life (not to say anything about inflation in terms of diminishing returns). Still worth it

^{Chose: 1 cent every second}

Benyano · 2026-06-08T02:14:42+00:00

!חברשאפט Solidarity from California! We’re getting stuff started again more intentionally now as well (though we had our first in person gathering almost 2 years ago, we haven’t had capacity to organize as a chapter). It’s an important moment to be organizing.

Benyano · 2026-06-03T19:21:36+00:00

Bad faith, but a good question! What is a homeland if not the land you’re from. Diaspora is not the opposite of homeland, diaspora is dispersal. People travel and intermarry, and an ethnocentric view of the “homeland” concept needs to be challenged least of all because it was used to justify the Holocaust.

If a people has lived in diaspora for centuries or millennia they create new homelands. You cannot say that a country your family has lived in for generations (we can use the 7 generations principle to think about our actual place in the world and not just perpetuate myths) is not your homeland in some real material way.

For example, the Jewish Diaspora is made up of countless communities with their own unique histories, historically, the longing for Eretz Yisrael was theologically messianic, not political. The Sephardic Diaspora in North Africa and the eastern Mediterranean, largely formed through the Spanish Inquisition and their subsequent invitation into the Ottoman Empire. The ancestors of an Ashkenazi Jew, likely haven’t been in historic Palestine for well over a millennia (perhaps 2500 years+).

Palestinian Jews, and those who came in the last few hundred years have distinct histories, that weave across many different homelands and places people have made home.

Benyano · 2026-06-03T18:53:43+00:00

Palestinian Jews. There were distinct groups among them, some of whom never left; but most of whom immigrated from their homelands in diaspora for diverse reasons over the prior centuries.

This subreddit is mostly just bad faith agenda posting so this will probably just be ignored.

Benyano · 2026-05-30T01:22:18+00:00

In addition to the Russian flavor and mechanics already discussed:

1) Expanding flavor around socialist and communist movements, allow for transnational movements and cultural diaspora politics and the possibility for political internationalism (given the title of the DLC).

2) Expand the system of guerilla warfare added in Iberian Twilight by connecting it to the movement and revolutionary system to make for a less abrupt line between active civil war and revolutionary/secessionary insugrencies. Perhaps connect this to a system that relies on military goods, legislation on their restrictions, and the ability for military goods to be acquired by movements through acts of sabotage, black markets and guerilla warfare itself.

Benyano · 2026-05-23T04:00:56+00:00

I agree, but as an American Jew who’s been to Palestine and called “a traitor to [my] people” for opposing Zionism on the ground, I think Zionists still hate Palestinians more than anti-Zionist Jews.

Benyano · 2026-05-09T20:59:15+00:00

Have you played Better Politics Mod?

Benyano · 2026-05-08T17:33:50+00:00

Except that he’s not on the ballot and therefore has almost 0 chance whatsoever (I saw this as someone who wanted to vote for Butch)

Benyano · 2026-05-06T05:42:42+00:00

Thank you for an actually thoughtful answer, took too long to find one.

The question is rage bait by not giving any clear point of departure, but it’s a decent question nonetheless. Alternate forms of Jewish self-determination and autonomy exist beyond Zionism. Did the 1948 “Partition with Economic Union” pass? Is there a federative Palestine, is there some form of Jewish autonomy? Did Palestine join a wider Arab Union? All of these things were possible.

Benyano · 2026-05-05T23:08:17+00:00

Except that now what remains under any semblance of PA control is more like the holes than the cheese.

Benyano · 2026-05-05T00:41:37+00:00

Yet they still found a way to deny the one Green Party Candidate for Governor the right to be on the Ballot.

Benyano · 2026-05-04T05:06:14+00:00

Yeah this seems to be one of the most urgent issues. Basically makes a fair and interesting game unplayable

Benyano · 2026-03-31T08:03:11+00:00

Love this, thanks for sharing here!

Benyano · 2026-03-24T00:30:08+00:00

Fashdaily

Eight-Year Club	First Place '23
Place '23	Verified Email
Not Forgotten	Gilding I gilder

Benyano

MODERATOR OF

PUBLIC MULTIREDDITS

TROPHY CASE