This almost slaps, and I love the look and the effort. I've actually been daydreaming a similar flag, but with one big difference.
Do you the history of the so-called Magen David? The Seal of Solomon that it is based on is an ancient mystical, alchemical, and 'magical' symbol that isn't uniquely Jewish and is shared between a number of ancient traditions and perspectives. Nothing wrong with that at all. But it never really started to become 'the' symbol of Judaism until the 1897 First Zionist Congress, when it was selected specifically because it was non-religious. It evolved over a short time to become a Jewish counterpart to the Christian cross placed on the graves of slain soldiers in the first World War.
Growing up I felt a great deal of comfort and wonder at its elegance, the two intersecting equilateral triangles. I felt empowered by its reclamation after its horrible use in the Shoah. I used to draw it on everything, heck before I knew better I used to design tattoos with it as a feature ππ . But now that I know history, modern and contemporary, now that I know how the symbol of the "Star of David" has been used, I fear very much that it will be seen in future history as a symbol akin to the appropriated swastika of the NSDAP.
There are two Jewish symbols much, much older than the so-called Magen David, one of which is shared with other cultures and one of which is uniquely, deeply, and religiously Jewish; respectively the Tree of Life and the temple menorah. These are the symbols I wear now, proudly, to be visibly Jewish in this current world.
I am also, like you, the libertarian socialist flavor of anarchist! Hi comrade! βΊοΈβ₯οΈπ€β€οΈπ€
I think this flag with a golden temple menorah as the center symbol would be more Jewish and more, uh, I still bristle at "antizionist" even if its accurate but "opposed to the ethnonationalist settler-colonial project of Zionism" is too much of a mouthful so I guess it'll have to do.
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u/douglasstoll Reconstructionist Dec 19 '23
This almost slaps, and I love the look and the effort. I've actually been daydreaming a similar flag, but with one big difference.
Do you the history of the so-called Magen David? The Seal of Solomon that it is based on is an ancient mystical, alchemical, and 'magical' symbol that isn't uniquely Jewish and is shared between a number of ancient traditions and perspectives. Nothing wrong with that at all. But it never really started to become 'the' symbol of Judaism until the 1897 First Zionist Congress, when it was selected specifically because it was non-religious. It evolved over a short time to become a Jewish counterpart to the Christian cross placed on the graves of slain soldiers in the first World War.
Growing up I felt a great deal of comfort and wonder at its elegance, the two intersecting equilateral triangles. I felt empowered by its reclamation after its horrible use in the Shoah. I used to draw it on everything, heck before I knew better I used to design tattoos with it as a feature ππ . But now that I know history, modern and contemporary, now that I know how the symbol of the "Star of David" has been used, I fear very much that it will be seen in future history as a symbol akin to the appropriated swastika of the NSDAP.
There are two Jewish symbols much, much older than the so-called Magen David, one of which is shared with other cultures and one of which is uniquely, deeply, and religiously Jewish; respectively the Tree of Life and the temple menorah. These are the symbols I wear now, proudly, to be visibly Jewish in this current world.
I am also, like you, the libertarian socialist flavor of anarchist! Hi comrade! βΊοΈβ₯οΈπ€β€οΈπ€
I think this flag with a golden temple menorah as the center symbol would be more Jewish and more, uh, I still bristle at "antizionist" even if its accurate but "opposed to the ethnonationalist settler-colonial project of Zionism" is too much of a mouthful so I guess it'll have to do.
Hope these thoughts are welcome and that I didn't spew too much. Χ©ΧΧΧ!