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Blake Fonberg

Launched 5 months ago

Fck You and Fck Antisemitism and Fck Not Having Your Own Opinions and Fck Anyone Who Is Incapable of Discourse.

I am done with performative activism. I am done watching people copy and paste opinions they found on someone else’s story without a single original…

Jun 19•Blake Fonberg


My Generation Only Cares About the Right Kind of Victim.

Maybe the right photo would do what thousands of years of history couldn’t.

May 18•Blake Fonberg

יום הזיכרון (Day of Remembrance)

I’m sad.

Apr 20•Blake Fonberg

A Ceasefire Will Kill More People Than the War.

I know peace feels closer when the guns and missiles go quiet. But quiet is not the same as peace and we have confused them too many times.

Apr 8•Blake Fonberg

If we don’t celebrate Passover, the Jewish people won’t survive.

Every generation has its Egypt. Every generation has its Pharaoh.

Mar 31•Blake Fonberg

We Forgot How to Fall

I am a hopeless romantic in a generation that finds hope cringe.

Mar 26•Blake Fonberg

I Dare You to Boycott Jews.

The selective boycott doesn’t target what’s convenient. It targets what’s visible.

Mar 23•Blake Fonberg

We Used to Argue in Color. Now Everything is Black and White.

Every idea that moved the world forward was born in the friction between two people who saw it differently and refused to stop talking.

Mar 18•Blake Fonberg