Note, this topic is not intended as a defense or accusation of Israel or Palestine I personally believe that both sides are in the wrong. If your intention is to turn this discussion political in any way I ask that you rethink your reply. While the conflict going on in that region is horrific that is not the topic of this suggestion. My intention is to suggest a way to support the Jewish community on Scratch. With that said here's the actual suggestion…

It is an unfortunate reality that hate crimes and other acts of antisemitism are on the rise at least in the US as a Jew who has had experienced and witnessed harassment based on my religion, I often find that very little is done about it primarily because of how few Jews there are worldwide. Recently there has been a movement against Anti-Semitism centered around posting the blue square emoji. I believe that Scratch should show its support for its Jewish community by adding the blue square emoji…

adding it as in accepting the unicode of it or making their own blue square emoji?

ciitrine wrote:

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adding it as in accepting the unicode of it or making their own blue square emoji?

As far as I know the Scratch Team probably won't add full Unicode support maybe something like _Bluesquare_

It's a good idea that might be implemented, but then it begs the question of what other emojis to show support should be added.

I don't think they can do this….

the scratch wiki wrote:

The Scratch site supports the Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP), which contains characters for almost all modern languages, and a large number of symbols, which include a few emojis which can be used in text fields. These might not render as emojis on every platform. Emojis beyond the BMP are not supported.

thry could add their own emoji, but really? just a blue square?

roofogato wrote:

just a blue square?

Here, read this part of the post from the OP:

bobcat0701 wrote:

It is an unfortunate reality that hate crimes and other acts of antisemitism are on the rise at least in the US as a Jew who has had experienced and witnessed harassment based on my religion, I often find that very little is done about it primarily because of how few Jews there are worldwide. recently there has been a movement against Anti-Semitism centered around posting the blue square emoji. I believe that Scratch should show its support for its Jewish community by adding the blue square emoji…

pasta_enjoyer7 wrote:

roofogato wrote:

just a blue square?

Here, read this part of the post from the OP:

bobcat0701 wrote:

It is an unfortunate reality that hate crimes and other acts of antisemitism are on the rise at least in the US as a Jew who has had experienced and witnessed harassment based on my religion, I often find that very little is done about it primarily because of how few Jews there are worldwide. recently there has been a movement against Anti-Semitism centered around posting the blue square emoji. I believe that Scratch should show its support for its Jewish community by adding the blue square emoji…

i did, but i bet 80 percent of scratchers won't understand why. the pride and blm emojis are very obvious. a blue square..? where would people use this? would it even be used?

roofogato wrote:

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where would people use this? would it even be used?

In June 2021, _pride_, (a drawing of a waving progress flag) and _blm_ (a drawing of three fists of different skin tones) were added. They were added for use in discussions involving the LGBTQ+ community and anti-racism respectively.

I think that a blue square could serve a similar purpose for discussions relating to the Jewish community…

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Would there similarly be some sort of emoji showing support for Muslims in Palestine?

Za-Chary wrote:

Would there similarly be some sort of emoji showing support for Muslims in Palestine?

No, because there is no symbol for Muslims in Palestine. Additionally, the OP mentions that the emoji is not supporting people in Israel, it's supporting Jews worldwide who suffer from antisemitism.

p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p- wrote:

Additionally, the OP mentions that the emoji is not supporting people in Israel, it's supporting Jews worldwide who suffer from antisemitism.

Understood, thanks — so this is a suggestion for general support, without regards to ongoing international conflicts.

That being said, I worry that due to international conflicts, adding such an emoji at this time could cause others to believe that the Scratch Team is taking a side in this conflict (even if the intent of the emoji is not related to this specific conflict).

Za-Chary wrote:

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p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p- wrote:

Additionally, the OP mentions that the emoji is not supporting people in Israel, it's supporting Jews worldwide who suffer from antisemitism.

Understood, thanks — so this is a suggestion for general support, without regards to ongoing international conflicts.

That being said, I worry that due to international conflicts, adding such an emoji at this time could cause others to believe that the Scratch Team is taking a side in this conflict (even if the intent of the emoji is not related to this specific conflict).

Yeah that's the only problem Isee here and the reason I have to put a note a to stop people from making this political at the start of the op…

Za-Chary wrote:

Understood, thanks — so this is a suggestion for general support, without regards to ongoing international conflicts.

That being said, I worry that due to international conflicts, adding such an emoji at this time could cause others to believe that the Scratch Team is taking a side in this conflict (even if the intent of the emoji is not related to this specific conflict).

The emoji is not in support of Jewish people, it's in support of ending anti-semitism. If somebody uses the emoji to talk about jewish people in general, they're using the emoji wrong.

Children have no reason to be mad at the ST for political values anyways, and if it's an adult they would be foolish to associate the emoji with the war.

p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p- wrote:

Za-Chary wrote:

Understood, thanks — so this is a suggestion for general support, without regards to ongoing international conflicts.

That being said, I worry that due to international conflicts, adding such an emoji at this time could cause others to believe that the Scratch Team is taking a side in this conflict (even if the intent of the emoji is not related to this specific conflict).

The emoji is not in support of Jewish people, it's in support of ending anti-semitism. If somebody uses the emoji to talk about jewish people in general, they're using the emoji wrong.

Children have no reason to be mad at the ST for political values anyways, and if it's an adult they would be foolish to associate the emoji with the war.

…Aren't Jewish people trying to end antisemitism?? isn't that what every jewish person wants?

I support, anti-semitism is not ok, and America has a racism problem.

The only issue is that people might take this the wrong was and think Scratch is picking sides with this war.

roofogato wrote:

…Aren't Jewish people trying to end antisemitism?? isn't that what every jewish person wants?

Correct. I didn't say otherwise.

-Rodri wrote:

The only issue is that people might take this the wrong was and think Scratch is picking sides with this war.

As I said before:

I wrote:

The emoji is not in support of Jewish people, it's in support of ending anti-semitism. If somebody uses the emoji to talk about jewish people in general, they're using the emoji wrong.

Children have no reason to be mad at the ST for political values anyways, and if it's an adult they would be foolish to associate the emoji with the war.

roofogato wrote:

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…Aren't Jewish people trying to end antisemitism?? isn't that what every jewish person wants?

Yes where did you get the idea we didn't?

bobcat0701 wrote:

roofogato wrote:

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…Aren't Jewish people trying to end antisemitism?? isn't that what every jewish person wants?

Yes where did you get the idea we didn't?

from the thing p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p- wrote

“The emoji is not in support of Jewish people, it's in support of ending anti-semitism”


isnt supporting jewish people and ending antisemitism the same thing??

roofogato wrote:

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bobcat0701 wrote:

roofogato wrote:

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…Aren't Jewish people trying to end antisemitism?? isn't that what every jewish person wants?

Yes where did you get the idea we didn't?

from the thing p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p- wrote

“The emoji is not in support of Jewish people, it's in support of ending anti-semitism”


isnt supporting jewish people and ending antisemitism the same thing??

I would say there similar but pretty darn close to being the same thing…

bobcat0701 wrote:

roofogato wrote:

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bobcat0701 wrote:

roofogato wrote:

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…Aren't Jewish people trying to end antisemitism?? isn't that what every jewish person wants?

Yes where did you get the idea we didn't?

from the thing p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p- wrote

“The emoji is not in support of Jewish people, it's in support of ending anti-semitism”


isnt supporting jewish people and ending antisemitism the same thing??

I would say there similar but pretty darn close to being the same thing…

is giving hungry people food and ending world hunger the same thing? ya, basically.

uhh idk if this is a good example I'm sorry