I had a chat yesterday with an old #Jewish comrade last night. I mentioned that I'm mad that there is so much #antisemitism on the #Left. My friend murmured, there's a lot of antisemitism everywhere these days.
But the Left was supposed to be the safe place! Where we prefigure a better world! So it's not the same.
I wrote about it in https://infosec.exchange/@ErikvanStraten/115080945308893583.
#NeverAgainJewsOnly#DaniDayanIsWrong#AvnerShalevIsWrong#BoostCattle#KlikVee#Hasbara#AuschwitzZionists#FrancescaAlbaneseIsRight#IsraelisAterroristState#Genocide#GazaGenocide#Gaza#WestBank#Lebanon#Syria#Yemen#Iran#Apartheid#Terrorists#Pagers#Starvation#BombingChildren#ShootingChildren#StarvingChildren#NotSinceOct7_2023#Since1948#Nakba1948#AntiSemitism#DefinitionOfAntisemitism#IHRA#DaniDayan#BeautyContest#SelectionProcess#HumanSelection#BoostBabyBoost#Students#POW#ConcentrationCampGaza#WestbankConcentrationCamps#GazaIsAConcentrationCamp#SS#Nazis#SSnazis#Facebook#Zionists#NoOtherLand
Against ‘Jewish Safety’ by Alana Lentin
"Thus, the almost total impunity granted Israel as it has exacted death and destruction on the people of Palestine and sown murderous chaos around the region since its founding can also be understood in terms of the function it serves for the West. Israel’s recent June 12 attack on Iran exposes this in no uncertain terms. Germany, erroneously thought by a majority of observers to be driven in its rabid support for the Zionist colony by guilt for its genocide of the Jews of Europe, made its desires clear. Commending the strikes, German Chancellor Merz said, “This is the dirty work Israel is doing for all of us.”
In the way we see that calls for “Jewish safety” are tacit calls to underwrite a war to preserve the West."
Against ‘Jewish Safety’ by Alana Lentin
"Thus, the almost total impunity granted Israel as it has exacted death and destruction on the people of Palestine and sown murderous chaos around the region since its founding can also be understood in terms of the function it serves for the West. Israel’s recent June 12 attack on Iran exposes this in no uncertain terms. Germany, erroneously thought by a majority of observers to be driven in its rabid support for the Zionist colony by guilt for its genocide of the Jews of Europe, made its desires clear. Commending the strikes, German Chancellor Merz said, “This is the dirty work Israel is doing for all of us.”
In the way we see that calls for “Jewish safety” are tacit calls to underwrite a war to preserve the West."
Zohran Mamdani's Win Is the Beginning of the End of the Old Democratic Party
Mamdani’s NYC primary victory shows that the old tricks of the political establishment are dying out—and something new is being born.
by Hamilton Nolan, June 25, 2025
Excerpt: "What, exactly, is the scary socialism of Zohran Mamdani that all of the #billionaires are screaming about from their high towers? #FreeBuses. #LowerRents. #PublicChildcare. Higher minimum wage. #SocialWorkers for homeless people instead of cops. Better grocery stores. Ahh! No! Not… not… all of these common sense ideas that the vast majority of NYC residents would be happy for! Anything but that!
"There is a limit to the political effectiveness of #RichMen who have servants telling regular people that their lives cannot be better. We may have reached that limit. The threat of the rich is that they will flee the city. The flaw in their leverage is that almost nobody likes them anyhow.
"Zohran’s campaign was distinguished by its determination to treat voters as adults. When accused of 'defunding the police,' Mamdani took the time to explain that he wants to create a department of mental health experts and social workers to take work off the NYPD’s plate. When accused of #antisemitism, he took the time to forthrightly distinguish that smear from valid criticism of the massacre in #Gaza. He was, often, more adult than the political press covering him, which is trained to treat dishonest attack lines as sporting challenges rather than as things to be dismissed. The youngest candidate in this race acted with the most maturity. The oldest, #AndrewCuomo, ran with the traditional playbook of treating voters like ignorant children — and failed.
"Old people with old ideas do not stay in power forever. Old lies and old tricks do not work forever. Time moves slowly — excruciatingly slowly, if you are always paying attention — but it does sweep away the old husks and bring new things, eventually. #Socialists want more people to have decent lives. Zohran Mamdani is proof that that message cannot be mischaracterized forever and ever. We will look back on this primary win as the start of something new. If America is going to have one lone opposition party to #fascism, that party does not have to suck. The establishment is too deeply rooted to move. So we will run them over."
https://inthesetimes.com/article/zohran-mamdani-nyc-mayor-cuomo-democratic-party
#USPol#MamdaniForMayor
#DemocraticSocialists
#DINOs#CuomoSucks#TaxTheRichFeedThePoor#DSA
Zohran Mamdani's Win Is the Beginning of the End of the Old Democratic Party
Mamdani’s NYC primary victory shows that the old tricks of the political establishment are dying out—and something new is being born.
by Hamilton Nolan, June 25, 2025
Excerpt: "What, exactly, is the scary socialism of Zohran Mamdani that all of the #billionaires are screaming about from their high towers? #FreeBuses. #LowerRents. #PublicChildcare. Higher minimum wage. #SocialWorkers for homeless people instead of cops. Better grocery stores. Ahh! No! Not… not… all of these common sense ideas that the vast majority of NYC residents would be happy for! Anything but that!
"There is a limit to the political effectiveness of #RichMen who have servants telling regular people that their lives cannot be better. We may have reached that limit. The threat of the rich is that they will flee the city. The flaw in their leverage is that almost nobody likes them anyhow.
"Zohran’s campaign was distinguished by its determination to treat voters as adults. When accused of 'defunding the police,' Mamdani took the time to explain that he wants to create a department of mental health experts and social workers to take work off the NYPD’s plate. When accused of #antisemitism, he took the time to forthrightly distinguish that smear from valid criticism of the massacre in #Gaza. He was, often, more adult than the political press covering him, which is trained to treat dishonest attack lines as sporting challenges rather than as things to be dismissed. The youngest candidate in this race acted with the most maturity. The oldest, #AndrewCuomo, ran with the traditional playbook of treating voters like ignorant children — and failed.
"Old people with old ideas do not stay in power forever. Old lies and old tricks do not work forever. Time moves slowly — excruciatingly slowly, if you are always paying attention — but it does sweep away the old husks and bring new things, eventually. #Socialists want more people to have decent lives. Zohran Mamdani is proof that that message cannot be mischaracterized forever and ever. We will look back on this primary win as the start of something new. If America is going to have one lone opposition party to #fascism, that party does not have to suck. The establishment is too deeply rooted to move. So we will run them over."
https://inthesetimes.com/article/zohran-mamdani-nyc-mayor-cuomo-democratic-party
#USPol#MamdaniForMayor
#DemocraticSocialists
#DINOs#CuomoSucks#TaxTheRichFeedThePoor#DSA
According to Zionists, people who don’t want children killed are antisemitic. People who don’t want civilians killed are antisemitic.
Think what they’re saying:
If you don’t want children killed, you hate all Jews. Ergo, all Jews want children killed.
News flash: Implying that all Jews want children killed is antisemitic.
If you don’t want civilians killed, you hate all Jews. Ergo, all Jews want civilians killed.
News flash: Implying that all Jews want civilians killed is antisemitic.
Repeat after me: Zionists are antisemites.
https://bird.makeup/users/academic_la/statuses/1955804699619418366
#zionism #zionists #antisemitism #israel #genocide #Palestine #Gaza #WestBank #ethnicCleansing #apartheid #UEFA #protest #StopIsrael #FreePalestine
According to Zionists, people who don’t want children killed are antisemitic. People who don’t want civilians killed are antisemitic.
Think what they’re saying:
If you don’t want children killed, you hate all Jews. Ergo, all Jews want children killed.
News flash: Implying that all Jews want children killed is antisemitic.
If you don’t want civilians killed, you hate all Jews. Ergo, all Jews want civilians killed.
News flash: Implying that all Jews want civilians killed is antisemitic.
Repeat after me: Zionists are antisemites.
https://bird.makeup/users/academic_la/statuses/1955804699619418366
#zionism #zionists #antisemitism #israel #genocide #Palestine #Gaza #WestBank #ethnicCleansing #apartheid #UEFA #protest #StopIsrael #FreePalestine
Among other things, the BlueSky Zionist accused someone of victim-blaming. That sparked a memory.
The image is from "The fate of the Jews" by Roberta Strauss Feuerlicht (1983).
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#Zionism
#EthnoSupremacism
#antisemitism
I've been lurking on a BlueSky thread where a Zionist is saying that he can't be antisemitic because he claims to be Jewish. The Jerusalem Declaration: "Antisemitism is discrimination, prejudice, hostility or violence against Jews as Jews (or Jewish institutions as Jewish)" https://jerusalemdeclaration.org/ doesn't rule out antisemitism, by virtue of the perpetrator claiming to be Jewish.
Australian Zionist Mark Leibler provided a case study. The image is of a certified copy archived by the NSW state Parliament. https://www.parliament.nsw.gov.au/lcdocs/other/21800/X%20post%20%E2%80%93%20Mark%20Leibler,%208%20February%202025.pdf
Would a court rule that the words "repulsive and revolting" and "vicious antisemites" aimed at Jews is antisemitic? Those words are certainly hostile and prejudiced. The apparent deletion of the post implies the answer. Leibler is a lawyer.
#AusPol
#antisemitism
#Zionism
I've been lurking on a BlueSky thread where a Zionist is saying that he can't be antisemitic because he claims to be Jewish. The Jerusalem Declaration: "Antisemitism is discrimination, prejudice, hostility or violence against Jews as Jews (or Jewish institutions as Jewish)" https://jerusalemdeclaration.org/ doesn't rule out antisemitism, by virtue of the perpetrator claiming to be Jewish.
Australian Zionist Mark Leibler provided a case study. The image is of a certified copy archived by the NSW state Parliament. https://www.parliament.nsw.gov.au/lcdocs/other/21800/X%20post%20%E2%80%93%20Mark%20Leibler,%208%20February%202025.pdf
Would a court rule that the words "repulsive and revolting" and "vicious antisemites" aimed at Jews is antisemitic? Those words are certainly hostile and prejudiced. The apparent deletion of the post implies the answer. Leibler is a lawyer.
#AusPol
#antisemitism
#Zionism
Among other things, the BlueSky Zionist accused someone of victim-blaming. That sparked a memory.
The image is from "The fate of the Jews" by Roberta Strauss Feuerlicht (1983).
Page 221
#Zionism
#EthnoSupremacism
#antisemitism
I've been lurking on a BlueSky thread where a Zionist is saying that he can't be antisemitic because he claims to be Jewish. The Jerusalem Declaration: "Antisemitism is discrimination, prejudice, hostility or violence against Jews as Jews (or Jewish institutions as Jewish)" https://jerusalemdeclaration.org/ doesn't rule out antisemitism, by virtue of the perpetrator claiming to be Jewish.
Australian Zionist Mark Leibler provided a case study. The image is of a certified copy archived by the NSW state Parliament. https://www.parliament.nsw.gov.au/lcdocs/other/21800/X%20post%20%E2%80%93%20Mark%20Leibler,%208%20February%202025.pdf
Would a court rule that the words "repulsive and revolting" and "vicious antisemites" aimed at Jews is antisemitic? Those words are certainly hostile and prejudiced. The apparent deletion of the post implies the answer. Leibler is a lawyer.
#AusPol
#antisemitism
#Zionism
This is mainly the work of Matthias J. Becker, a postdoc researcher at the Center for Research on Antisemitism.
Given the amount of publicity given to that text on the user’s timeline, and even in their own bio, I have reasonable grounds to believe that they are either the author/editor of that book or someone closely related to them.
The details I’ve grabbed about him and his work are honestly chilling when looked in their entirety:
His research lies within the disciplines of (pragma)linguistics, research on prejudice, and internet studies and focuses on the construction of implicit hate speech.
In his postdoc project, he examines various forms of antisemitic and racist hate speech on British news websites in the context of Brexit.
And his public lecture also includes screenshots taken around social media to build the case for antisemitism.
Note that in those slides you won’t find only traditional caricatures of Jews or shameful Holocaust denial as evidence of antisemitism (it’s definitely right to condemn these as the acts of hate and prejudice that they are).
But also memes that condemn the genocide in Gaza, the unaccountability of Israel guaranteed by the US, or “Stop calling it a conflict, it’s a genocide” images.
Basically that guy is grabbing social media content posted by any users that he considers antisemitic, takes screenshots, and adds them as evidence of antisemitism in his books, lectures and research.
And is trying to blur the boundaries and expand the definition of antisemitism.
So my first crucial question to the staff of mastodon.social is:
Are you aware that there are State-sponsored accounts on your platform that harass your users, publish screenshots of their conversations in their lectures and books, and probably feed their posts to language models without their consent, and without any legal basis, and this has been going on for YEARS? Are you ok with it? Have you at least run internal investigations to justify their operations? Will my posts or Aral’s also go in their corpora of evidence of antisemitism? Can you guarantee that it won’t be the case? Can you guarantee that the authors of the content won’t end up in one of the arbitrary lists of “hostile people” regularly redacted by Israel? Because in the past you have put permanent bans for much less than this. And if you can’t guarantee that then it should probably OTHER INSTANCES TO DEFEDERATE mastodon.social, because of threat it poses to the privacy of their users and the usage of their data, NOT THE OTHER WAY AROUND
My second point is more subtle and academic, but it’s even more dangerous than the privacy issue.
And it’s about the gradual extension of the boundaries of antisemitism through pseudo-academism that is not rooted in actual academic discourse, but on the random book of a postdoc researcher cited as if it was the apex of scientific consensus in the field.
We all agree that denying the Holocaust, posting apologies of Nazism or depicting Jews as greedy is deeply antisemitic and deserves condemnation.
But what about calling what’s happening in Gaza a genocide?
What about digging the most controversial passages of their sacred texts exploited by far-right rabbis to justify their claims over the whole land and look at them from a modern perspective?
What about questioning the good faith of those behind the Holocaust foundations?
What about putting Israel’s trilemma under their nose and ask them how they are supposed to solve it - and that no, throwing bombs all around while they figure out a solution is not an acceptable solution?
What about asking them to repeal the Law of Return, because it’s basically ethno-religious colonialism achieved through displacement of local populations?
What about asking them why they keep expanding their illegal settlements in the West Bank and squatting people out of their houses?
What about putting under their nose that commemorating the Holocaust while manufacturing a new one is, at the very least, incoherent?
What about putting under their nose that the most vocal supporters of the current genocide are parties like Otzma Yehudit in their cabinet, which are just the descendants of the outlawed Kach party, led by Meir Kahane, a man arrested 60 times in his life, considered a terrorist by the US, the USSR and Israel itself, whose infamous They must go pamphlet (written in one of his regular stays in a jail) has been rightfully been compared to Mein Kampf when it comes to the tone and the conclusions - and not by me, but by Jewish cultural associations? And that his leader Ben-Gvir himself has been listed as persona non grata in many countries? Can we point out the incoherence of accusing Hamas of terrorism while hosting terrorists in their own cabinet?
Can we say that Kahane and his political heirs are rotten fascists to the core without being called antisemitic, just like I can say that the government of Meloni in Italy is a direct heir of fascism without being called anti-Italian?
What about comparing what they are doing to the Arab population today to what other regimes have done to other minorities in the past to get the right perspective?
What about criticizing their continued rejection of recognizing the authority of international institutions like the UN?
Can we have honest conversations around these themes without our posts ending up in the slides of this guy as evidence of antisemitism whose definition he has manufactured in his own book out of thin air?
If not, can we admit that Israel is simply trying to forge an iron dome around itself that makes it immune from any form of scrutiny that any democratic country should be subject to, and it’s trying to do so by manufacturing a false sense of academic consensus on the basis of what a random researcher reads on the Web and thinks that it’s antisemitic? And unaccountability is basically the foundation of fascism - but if we dare to say that the current political leadership is fascist we’re also accused of antisemitism. And just because the book of this guy has a whole chapter on why “Israel has a fascist government” is supposed to be an act of antisemitism. It’s basically like an invincibility glitch - whatever you say against the chosen people of god, it’s you the one who’s wrong.
The contradiction is just more evident when you look at what the user wrote in their bio:
Criticism of / opposition to Israel is not automatically antisemitic, but it can be.
There’s basically no “it’s not automatically antisemitic“ at play here. Whoever expresses criticism against Israel on any of the topics that he considers a taboo automatically gets a #Fediblock or #AntiSemitism hashtag and the screenshot of the post shared on that pathetic wall of shame that it’s his timeline, without much room for discussion.
I mean, think of your incoherence, Eugene. You’ve made such a big deal on the technical implementation of quotes because “they could be used to harass people”. And then you let folks like these do whatever they want with the content posted by other users (on their own timeline, in their books and in their slides) for YEARS, despite the reports, without moving a single finger?
Do you, Eugene, or the staff of mastodon.social, agree with such an arbitrary extension of the concept of antisemitism, and to turn your users into guinea pigs for these non-transparent and unethical acts of research on their data sponsored by a country that mine and others consider a threat to their national security?
Do you agree with the UN and with countless international observers that what is currently taking place in Gaza is a genocide, and that anybody who spreads propaganda in its support should be treated like someone who denies the Holocaust?
We demand answers, and we’ve been waiting for too long.
cc FYI: @palestine @aral @moderation
The Guardian has identified the self-described “national socialist” behind an openly extremist YouTube channel that in just over two months has accumulated 50,000 subscribers, seen more than 2.3m views, and likely made thousands of dollars from YouTube’s revenue-sharing monetization program.
Johnathan Christopher “Chris” Booth, 37, lives in the unincorporated community of Coral, a part of Maple Valley Township in Michigan’s Montcalm county, and is married to a senior local Republican official.
Booth has published more than 70 YouTube videos since May on his Shameless Sperg account, whose graphic design elements feature stylized SS bolts. Titles of his videos – generally a recording of him delivering his views direct to camera – include: “Why I Dislike Jews. It’s not complicated”, “Black Crimes Matter: Never Relax” and “Jews and FBI hate you and your free speech”.
...
Booth is married to Meghyn “Meg” Booth, the Republican treasurer of Maple Valley Township. Meg Booth has “liked” several posts with extremist themes on Chris Booth’s Facebook account with her personal account. Chris Booth’s Facebook page also features extensive racist propaganda along with iconography often employed by neo-Nazis.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/02/christopher-booth-far-right-youtube-channel
#NeoNazis#ChrisBooth#MegBooth#MapleValley #fascism#MontcalmCounty #antisemitism #racism #fcknzs
The Guardian has identified the self-described “national socialist” behind an openly extremist YouTube channel that in just over two months has accumulated 50,000 subscribers, seen more than 2.3m views, and likely made thousands of dollars from YouTube’s revenue-sharing monetization program.
Johnathan Christopher “Chris” Booth, 37, lives in the unincorporated community of Coral, a part of Maple Valley Township in Michigan’s Montcalm county, and is married to a senior local Republican official.
Booth has published more than 70 YouTube videos since May on his Shameless Sperg account, whose graphic design elements feature stylized SS bolts. Titles of his videos – generally a recording of him delivering his views direct to camera – include: “Why I Dislike Jews. It’s not complicated”, “Black Crimes Matter: Never Relax” and “Jews and FBI hate you and your free speech”.
...
Booth is married to Meghyn “Meg” Booth, the Republican treasurer of Maple Valley Township. Meg Booth has “liked” several posts with extremist themes on Chris Booth’s Facebook account with her personal account. Chris Booth’s Facebook page also features extensive racist propaganda along with iconography often employed by neo-Nazis.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/02/christopher-booth-far-right-youtube-channel
#NeoNazis#ChrisBooth#MegBooth#MapleValley #fascism#MontcalmCounty #antisemitism #racism #fcknzs
Today in Labor History July 29, 1962: British aristocrat and fascist leader, Oswald Mosely, was beaten by antifascists in London’s east end. Even after police began to escort him away, activists from the antifascist 62 Group (AKA 62 Committee), led by Jewish, communist, and black activists, were able to pelt him with eggs, fruit and rocks. He later called a rally, which the activists successfully disrupted with shouts of “down with fascists.” The only people arrested were antifascist activists.
62 Group disrupted fascist meetings throughout the early to mid-60s, beating up or attacking fascists whenever they had the chance, much like the Jewish antifascist 43 Group did in the 1940s. As a result, they were able to significantly reduce the power and effectiveness of the fascists in the 1960s.
Mosely had been a Labor MP and junior minister from 1918-1931. As the leader of the British Union of Fascists, publicly supported antisemitism and tried to form alliances with Mussolini and Hitler. During the 1936 Battle of Cable Street, antifascist demonstrators including unions, anarchists, socialists, communists, liberals and Jews, prevented the BUF from marching through the East End of London. During World War Two, Moseley and his wife were imprisoned as threats to the national security.
Mosely is portrayed in numerous works of fiction, including the television series, The Peaky Blinders. He is portrayed in Pink Floyd’s the wall; Aldous Huxley’s 1928 novel, Point Counter Point; HG Wells's 1939 novel The Holy Terror; PG Wodehouse's Jeeves series; and Philip Roth's The Plot Against America.
#workingclass #LaborHistory #oswaldmosely #fascism #antifascism #london #antisemitism #anarchism #communism #socialism #racism #books #novel #author #writer #fiction @bookstadon
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![Zionists believed Jews had to be transplanted in order to be redeemed. Uri Avnery wrote, “Zionist literature, taught to every Jewish child in Palestine, depicted Jewish life in Eastern Europe as despicable, the whole tradition and folklore of the ghetto as cowardly, crooked, parasitical.”5 He noted that Jews were “depicted in Zionist schoolbooks in a way rather reminiscent of anti-Semitic literature,”6 and because of this, Israelis consider themselves “vastly superior” to diaspora Jews, “treating them at best with a paternalistic, rather colonial attitude.”7
Yehezkel Kaufman, professor of Bible studies at Hebrew University in Jerusalem, wrote that Jewish nationalism was built “on a foundation of anti-Semitism.” It blamed Jews themselves for their misfortunes and said they deserved to be hated. To shed their iniquities they had to leave the diaspora and become a nation and a people like all others. “The poison which flows from Jewish nationalist sources,” wrote Kaufman, “is perhaps the most dangerous of them all.”8
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He noted that every nation has its diaspora—those who emigrated—yet “none are considered slaves and dogs except the Jews—and by themselves.”10 He wrote, “Many Zionists . . . are completely convinced that in order to become ‘good Zionists’ we must first become ‘good anti-Semites,’ that we must first hate ourselves.” 11](https://cdn.theblower.au/media_attachments/files/115/004/034/878/719/170/original/c6c93c51d322f9bb.png)
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Mark Leibler
@LeiblerMark
Nothing, but nothing, is worse than those Jews who level totally
unfounded allegations of genocide and ethnic cleansing against the
State of Israel. They are repulsive and revolting human beings. Their
relatives who were murdered by the Nazis - the role models for Hamas -
will undoubtedly be turning in their graves. Their avowed anti Zionism is
clearly no more than a cover for the reality that they are vicious
antisemites.
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