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#antisemitism

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Some point at folk deeply concerned about #Israel and others doing #Genocide in #Gaza and say, "You are ignoring all the other genocides going on today and focussing just the one Isreal and partners are doing - that's #Antisemitism".

Thing is the the others aren't;
supported by my government,
supported and supplied directly by "the leader of the free world" ,
the consequence of Western Civilization's Nazi's genociding Jews,
related to us by our Judeo-Christian myth, and,
highly publicised.

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Quoting Iris Leal on how Netanyahu and his allies are spreading antisemitic tropes:

Leal writes that #Netanyahu and allies have weaponized antisemitic propaganda against political opponents. Netanyahu stood beside Hungary's Orbán (who declared Soros an "enemy of the state") while his son Yair shared a cartoon depicting Soros as a lizard manipulating Netanyahu's critics—imagery that received praise from neo-Nazis. She argues that while Netanyahu's circle has accused Jewish philanthropists like #Soros and the Wexner Foundation of global conspiracies against Israel, they themselves may have been taking Qatari money.

[…] Soros, according to the right, is not just a political opponent, he also stands behind a global movement undermining the existing order. The speech Netanyahu gave during his visit to Hungary ignored the Hungarians' role in the murder of Jews, and as the Qatar affair explodes in the background with updates every half hour, one could remember György Schwartz, Soros by his familiar name, who was born in Budapest in 1930, and whose family members, as they say, pretended to be Christians during the Nazi occupation and helped save other Jews.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Hebrew haaretz.co.il/opinions/2025-04 or archive.is/inQm0

@israel
#antisemitism #holocaustdenial

words have meanings and no culture alone holds their meanings (yeah, its hard but true). 2-3000 years ago, it made some sense, but not today, when we know humans have developed many ways of organizing themselves into cultures. With no exceptions, no matter how much we want to "believe", all cultures have flaws and inspiring manifestations. Like it or not, we all have to communicate and that requires trust. Crying wolf out of context, is not wise.
#palestine #gaza #israel #antisemitism #words

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Speaking of cowardice, complicity, and paving the road for fascism, let us not forget that the Trump regime's enabling of an ongoing genocide by Israel in Gaza, their fascist kidnapping spree against student protestors, and their quest to control American universities under the guise of "fighting antisemitism" are built on the back of policies, and in particular ideological justifications, provided by a Democratic Party that picked supporting genocide, hunting down migrants, and building out a police state over winning "the most important election in American history."

theguardian.com/commentisfree/

Don’t just blame Trump – Democrats paved the way for this campus crackdown

"For instance, the reason Trump could plausibly refer to Gaza a “demolition site” is because, for more than a year prior to his re-election, his Democratic predecessor (urged on by Schumer and others) supplied unlimited weapons to Israel to carry out a campaign of destruction that has few modern equivalents – a campaign that was not just restricted to Gaza, but also extended to the West Bank, Iran, Yemen, Lebanon and Syria. Biden’s planned successor, Kamala Harris, and her surrogates repeatedly stressed to voters that these policies would continue largely unchanged under her watch.

Even before Trump had a chance to weigh in, Joe Biden immediately characterized the protests at Columbia as “antisemitic” and declared that “order must prevail” on college campuses. Democratic lawmakers put aggressive pressure on the former Columbia University president Minouche Shafik to crush the protests. She ultimately did so with the assistance of New York City’s Democratic mayor, Eric Adams (who justified his clampdown via evidence-free statements that the protests were driven primarily by “outside agitators”). Trump celebrated the pictures and videos of students getting roughed up by the NYPDand, upon Trump’s reclaiming the White House, the justice department interceded on behalf of Adams – making his criminal investigation go away in apparent exchange for the mayor adopting a more aggressive posture on immigration – a move that critics claim is a quid pro quo.

In a similar vein, it was Biden who enshrined the IHRA definition of antisemitism into federal guidance, despite the definition’s author repeatedly describing it as a “travesty” to use this definition to regulate speech and behavior. Building on Biden’s introduction, Trump is poised to sign a bill that would implement this same definition into federal anti-discrimination law – and in the meantime, he’s insisting Columbia and other schools adopt this definition in their own codes of conduct. NYU and Harvard have already taken this step, overriding concerns by civil rights and civil liberties organizations – from the ACLU, to Fire and the AAUP, to Israeli civil rights groups – who stressed that IHRA’s definition is extremely vague and provides strong leeway for institutional stakeholders to censor most critical discussion of Israel, Zionism or Judaism more broadly, by Jews and non-Jews alike."

Look, you can criticize me for playing "the blame game" all you like, but every goddamn thing Trump is doing surrounding the US-backed genocide in Gaza, including the domestic installation of fascist ideological policing, was and is facilitated by a Biden administration that was warned all of this - from Trump winning, to deploying War on Terror logic repression on anti-genocide protesters - was on the table if they didn't change course. If you want to know why only fourteen Democrats signed a letter decrying the fascist abduction of Mahmoud Khalil, and only thirty-four Democrat lawmakers signed the letter demanding the release of Rumeysa Ozturk (whose only "crime" appears to be have been writing an op-ed calling for her University to divest from Israel and condemn a genocide) you don't have to look any further than a mainstream Democratic Party leadership class that's fat on AIPAC donations and happily told you student protestors were violent antisemites who endorsed terrorist organizations, demanded colleges take action to suppress the protests, and justified a brutal police crackdown on... college kids who don't want their government to facilitate a genocide. It's kind of hard to criticize all that fascism when your donors love it and you directly made the arguments Trump is using to conduct it, after all.

The Guardian · Don’t just blame Trump – Democrats paved the way for this campus crackdownBy Musa al-Gharbi
#Fascism#Trump#Israel

Germany is now deporting pro-Palestine EU citizens. This is a chilling new step (The Guardian)

The country’s so-called political centre has licensed a new era of authoritarianism – to the AfD’s delight.

Germany can choose to uphold the principles it claims to stand for, or continue down a path of authoritarianism.

theguardian.com/commentisfree/

The Guardian · Germany is now deporting pro-Palestine EU citizens. This is a chilling new stepBy Hanno Hauenstein

#Antisemitism and holocaust denialism / Netanyahu whitewashes Holocaust history during meeting with Orbán

Wanted war criminal #Netanyahu deliberately avoided mentioning #Hungary's role in the systematic extermination of over 400,000 Hungarian Jews under the Miklós Horthy regime. Instead, he constructed a fictional narrative of shared fate between Hungarians and Jews.

When referencing post-WWII suffering, he highlighted Polish victims while carefully omitting that the Soviet Union was the occupier—likely to avoid offending #Putin, another conservative ally.

Not the first time Netanyahu, who has been practicing historical revisionism for years, is accused of holocaust denial, showing how far he is willing go to cement alliances with leaders who share his hate of #Islam and international legal institutions, like the #ICC and #ICJ.

[…] On the path to global right-wing unity, allies are forced to make compromises. Netanyahu, for example, partially sacrificed Israel's most sacred historical memory. In his remarks alongside Orbán, he did mention the Holocaust, but constructed an imagined narrative about a shared destiny between Hungarians and Jews. Additionally, Netanyahu avoided mentioning the Holocaust of Hungarian Jews and the responsibility of Miklós Horthy's regime, Hungary's ruler at the time, for the systematic extermination of more than 400,000 Jews.

[…] Instead, Netanyahu emphasized the suffering of Poles under the occupation that followed World War II. But here too, he avoided mentioning the occupiers - the Soviet Union. This could have offended another conservative ally - Vladimir Putin. Netanyahu and Orbán also preferred not to allow the many journalists in the hall to ask questions, which might have embarrassed each of them individually and both of them together. The unity of the global right sometimes requires walking on eggshells.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Hebrew haaretz.co.il/news/politics/20 or archive.is/UYoCh

@israel
#HistoricalRevisionism
#HolocaustMemory​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Douglas Murray at the Munk debate:

"The interesting thing about antisemitism is, the Jews can never win. Because historically they've been hated for being rich, and for being poor. They've been hated for integrating, and for not integrating. They've been hated for being stateless, and now they are hated for having a state.

Today the only really acceptable form of antisemitism, tolerated antisemitism, is antizionism."

#israel#jews#jewish

"The head of the nation’s leading organization fighting #antisemitism questioned the #Trump administration’s aggressive effort to find and deport foreign students who have protested on behalf of #Palestinians, suggesting that the administration is betraying #American values, denying due process and punishing people for their views rather than their actions.

In pulling #student #visas and seeking to #deport #protesters who hold #greencards, the administration has failed to ensure due process that is central to America’s justice system, wrote Jonathan Greenblatt, chief executive and national director of the #AntiDefamationLeague [#ADL]."

washingtonpost.com/education/2

The Washington Post · Leading Jewish group condemns deportations of pro-Palestinian protestersBy Laura Meckler