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Ex-Chabad Community Year-in-Review!

The ex-chabad project has been in operation for over a year now, so we thought it would be interesting to take a look at our numbers for the last year:

Ex-Chabad Reddit Forum:

426k Views, 1.5K Members, 673 Posts, 4.2k Comments!

www.reddit.com/r/exchabad

Ex-Chabad Discord Server

156 Members, Daily Activity, 30+ Channels!

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Ex-Chabad Instagram

260+ Followers, 18 Posts!

@exchabadcommunity

Ex-Chabad Mod Team

6 Volunteer Moderators!

Thank you to everyone who has participated and helped us get this project to where it's at! We have a lot in store for the coming year, stay tuned!

www.exchabad.org

"Recently I came across this photo from a Chabad content creator, their newborn is photographed, but their face is obstructed by a photo of the Rebbe, Menachem Mendel Schneerson.

My reaction was slight disbelief, sadness, and then frustration.

As someone born into a Chabad family, this photo is a great representation of an experience that I and many other ex-chabadniks are familiar with; our personal identity being overtaken and overshadowed by predetermined identity as a chabadnik and "follower" of the Rebbe.

For many of us who shed the programming, and choose to leave, (or are in the process of leaving) we end up grappling with many questions around personal identity:

- Who am I outside of the identity that was programmed in me?

- Which values are important to me, and which ones were decided for me?

- Who am I allowed to become and who do I want to become?"

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Ex-Chabad Community is seeking volunteers interested in helping create, write, and edit for our new Ex-Chabad Wiki initiative; Ex-Chabadpedia!

Three ways to get involved:

Send an email to: exchabad@gmail.com

Join the Discord Server: discord.gg/4er6wDKgDY

Donate to cover hosting: buymeacoffee.com/exchabad

Thanks!

- Ex-Chabad Community Mod Team

The colony has launched a campaign against anti-Zionism, probably as part of its recently-approved 730-million dollar propaganda budget. It is making use of anti-Zionists that are motivated by hatred of Jews: racist statements by anti-Zionist figures and influencers, anti-Jewish rhetoric used by anti-Zionist political movements, and —as we have recently seen— Nazis holding anti-Zionist demonstrations.

An instinctive response might be to deny the problem exists. We might recall the well-known fact that Zionism taxes all anti-Zionists as antisemitic, or maybe even feel that fascists are not real anti-Zionists. Yet the fact Zionism plays the antisemitic card does not mean actual Jew-haters cannot be anti-Zionist. “Anti-Zionism” is simply denial of the colony’s alleged right to exist—it says nothing about the motivation behind it. So how can democratic anti-Zionists deal with this?

Of course, we can make the apologia of our anti-Zionism, and repeat that what we are fighting is settler colonialism, not Jews. But the expression “anti-Zionism” encompasses both those who fight Zionism and refuse its conflation with Jews, and those who fight Zionism because they accept its conflation with Jews and hate Jews. The “anti-Zionism” umbrella is wide—very wide.

The solution is not to drop anti-Zionism. It is to clarify, not just what we are against, but what we are for: One democratic Palestinian state. A state that deals with its society on the basis of citizenship not identity. A state that grants privileges to none and rights to all. The anti-thesis to both Zionism and Nazism.

By doing so, we will move to where fascists can’t follow. We will also strip Zionism of its more potent arguments: Zionism can point to racist anti-Zionist elements, but it cannot attack a vision for democracy and equal citizenship without revealing its own colonial and supremacist nature. Centering our efforts on One Democratic State moves us from defense to counter-attack.

This should not be mere individual efforts. Political organizations, solidarity movements, syndicates, activists, influencers, whether Palestinian or allies, must actively work to align their vision with the historical Palestinian vision for liberation. The One Democratic State Initiative has been working on this for years. We call on you to join our efforts.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lqCdD4RzC8&t

• r/crownheights - U-Haul filled with abandonded and dying chickens on St. John’s pl and New York ave
• crownheights.info - Abandoned Kaparos Chickens Highlight Serious Tza’ar Ba’alei Chayim Concern
• nypost.com - Hundreds of dead chickens found abandoned in NYC trucks
• theyeshivahworld.com KAPAROS CHILLUL HASHEM: Hundreds Of Dead And Dying Chickens Found Abandoned In Brooklyn U-Haul Trucks
• trigger warning: dead chickens. a strange scene in my neighborhood tonight: chickens were being unloaded from a u-haul and transferred into cars as nypd officers stood nearby.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DdVXdJHt-MN