“Growing numbers of Jews in Australia and globally oppose the actions of the Israeli government and reject its attempts to speak in our name. We refuse to be ignored or silenced.”
“Conflating Judaism with the policies of a state accused of genocide and crimes against humanity erases our voice and fuels #antisemitism rather than combating it.”
A 19-year-old accused of setting a Mississippi synagogue on fire allegedly dubbed Beth Israel a “synagogue of Satan.”
The phrase echoed antisemitic rhetoric used almost 60 years ago by a KKK leader accused of masterminding a bombing of Beth Israel.
https://www.propublica.org/article/jackson-mississippi-synagogue-arson-antisemitism?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Mississippi #Antisemitism #WhiteSupremacy #Racism #History
A 19-year-old accused of setting a Mississippi synagogue on fire allegedly dubbed Beth Israel a “synagogue of Satan.”
The phrase echoed antisemitic rhetoric used almost 60 years ago by a KKK leader accused of masterminding a bombing of Beth Israel.
https://www.propublica.org/article/jackson-mississippi-synagogue-arson-antisemitism?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Mississippi #Antisemitism #WhiteSupremacy #Racism #History
“Growing numbers of Jews in Australia and globally oppose the actions of the Israeli government and reject its attempts to speak in our name. We refuse to be ignored or silenced.”
“Conflating Judaism with the policies of a state accused of genocide and crimes against humanity erases our voice and fuels #antisemitism rather than combating it.”
2 weeks ago while I was investigating #Antisemitism training for the #ItalianPolice, I was targeted by TWO #phishing attacks on #Signal installated on 2 different phones with 2 different OSs.
Here @netzpolitik_org report on this kind of attacks:
Specifically, it is essential that we know whether the Mastodon server covenant (https://joinmastodon.org/covenant) adopts the IHRA’s Working Definition of Antisemitism (https://holocaustremembrance.com/resources/working-definition-antisemitism) – which conflates antisemitism with criticism of Israel – or the Jerusalem Declaration on Antisemitism (https://jerusalemdeclaration.org) – which does not. (Or some other declaration that I’m not myself aware of or had discussed with the mastodon.social team.)
#mastodon #serverCovenant #antisemitism #moderation #israel #zionism #genocide #Gaza #Palestine https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral/115989885113349752
“History teaches us that this crime was not a momentary aberration, but the result of systematic hate rhetoric, #statesponsored #propaganda, and society’s tolerance of inhumanity,” KIS said.
“Yet today we see that #antisemitism is once again present, manifesting itself in new forms and under different guises. It is no longer ‘latent’; it no longer lurks beneath the surface or teeters at the margins. Goebbels-style propaganda has been replaced by #revisionism, #disinformation, and the #demonization of #Jews as a social and national collective.” 🔥
“History teaches us that this crime was not a momentary aberration, but the result of systematic hate rhetoric, #statesponsored #propaganda, and society’s tolerance of inhumanity,” KIS said.
“Yet today we see that #antisemitism is once again present, manifesting itself in new forms and under different guises. It is no longer ‘latent’; it no longer lurks beneath the surface or teeters at the margins. Goebbels-style propaganda has been replaced by #revisionism, #disinformation, and the #demonization of #Jews as a social and national collective.” 🔥
Over the last 10 days:
I've tried hard to investigate training courses on #Antisemitism for #ItalianPolice held by orgs labelling #BDSMovement as antisemite,etc.
I've been targeted by 2 phishing attacks on #Signal (2 different phones,OSs),
I've no evidence to accuse anyone
Update. The Trump admin is demanding a list of Jewish faculty, staff, and students at #UPenn.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/13/upenn-trump-jews-list
Trump's #EEOC asked for the list last July. Penn refused, and the EEOC sued the university in November. What's new is that several groups just filed a motion in federal court to intervene in the lawsuit on the side of the university -- the American Association of University Professors (#AAUP, national and UPenn chapters), the American Academy of Jewish Research, the UPenn Jewish Law Students Association, the UPenn Association of Senior and Emeritus Faculty.
From #StevenWeitzman, UPenn prof of religious studies and past member of its antisemitism taskforce: “Part of what sets off alarm bells for people like me is a history of people using Jewish lists against Jews. The Nazi campaign against Jews depended on institutions like universities handing over information about their Jewish members to the authorities.”
#Academia #AcademicMastodon #Antisemitism #Trump #Universities #USPol #USPolitics
Update. Yesterday #UPenn filed a 163-page brief in federal court condemning the #Trump admin demand for a list of #Jews at the institution as “extraordinary and unconstitutional".
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/20/us/university-of-pennsylvania-trump-jewish-staff.html
"The #EEOC insists that Penn produce this information without the consent — and indeed, over the objections — of the employees impacted while entirely disregarding the frightening and well-documented history of governmental entities that undertook efforts to identify and assemble information regarding persons of Jewish ancestry. The government’s demand implicates Penn’s substantial interest in protecting its employees’ privacy, safety and First Amendment rights."
#Academia #AcademicMastodon #Antisemitism #Universities #USLaw #USPol #USPolitics
"Some people will look at these clips and claim it’s antisemitic to even share them. Others will look at them and cite them as evidence that the world is ruled by Jews. For me they’re just evidence that the world is ruled by wealthy sociopaths, and that western democracy is an illusion... I mean, you really couldn’t ask for a better illustration of the sham of American democracy than this. Two billionaires from supposedly opposite political parties publicly admitting that they use their obscene wealth to manipulate US politics to advance the military and geopolitical agendas of a foreign state on the other side of the planet..."
To be opposed to the spuriously-faithbased whitenationalist ideology that excuses and promotes genocide like the 2025-6 US-Israeli #holocaust in Gaza and broader Western Asia - whether or not you label it as antizionism - is to be in favor of democracy over authoritarianism.
#Antizionism isn't #antisemitism, period. #deconflate It is however antifascism. Which is why hundreds of millions of dollars, if not billions, have been spent (on something the Likud and other Israelis call Hasbara) to vilify those of us who find the now-ubiquitous, 21st Century #fascism intolerable. The US bargain with the people running the colonialist, occupying, apartheid, terror state of Israel was always a devil's bargain, in the end helping to promote and reinforce the US version of white-nationalism and its enforcers who are now at war against the US public in places like Minnesota. And Maine. And North Carolina. And Oregon. And Illinois.
Thank god it can't happen here #tgichh #plutocracy #corruption #racism #whiteNationalism
That's my take; here's @caityjohnstone's
https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/zionist-billionaires-openly-acknowledge
Today in Labor History January 18, 1943: The start of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. In the summer of 1942, over a quarter million Jews were deported from the ghetto to Treblinka and murdered. In response, the remaining Jews began building bunkers and smuggling weapons and explosives into the ghetto. On January 18, 1943, when the Nazis began their second deportation of the Jews, the armed insurgency began. They fought with whatever they could smuggle into the ghetto: handguns, gasoline bottles and a few other weapons. They inflicted enough casualties on the Nazis that the deportation was halted within a few days. Only 5,000 Jews were removed, instead of the 8,000 planned. They knew from the start that the uprising was doomed. Most of the Jewish fighters did not expect to survive. Rather, they saw their resistance as a battle for their honor and a protest against the world's silence. Marek Edelman, one of the few survivors, said their inspiration to fight was "not to allow the Germans alone to pick the time and place of our deaths."
#workingclass #LaborHistory #holocaust #genocide #nazis #worldwartwo #uprising #warsaw #jews #antisemitism #ghetto #resistance #fascism #antifascism
Today in Labor History January 18, 1943: The start of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. In the summer of 1942, over a quarter million Jews were deported from the ghetto to Treblinka and murdered. In response, the remaining Jews began building bunkers and smuggling weapons and explosives into the ghetto. On January 18, 1943, when the Nazis began their second deportation of the Jews, the armed insurgency began. They fought with whatever they could smuggle into the ghetto: handguns, gasoline bottles and a few other weapons. They inflicted enough casualties on the Nazis that the deportation was halted within a few days. Only 5,000 Jews were removed, instead of the 8,000 planned. They knew from the start that the uprising was doomed. Most of the Jewish fighters did not expect to survive. Rather, they saw their resistance as a battle for their honor and a protest against the world's silence. Marek Edelman, one of the few survivors, said their inspiration to fight was "not to allow the Germans alone to pick the time and place of our deaths."
#workingclass #LaborHistory #holocaust #genocide #nazis #worldwartwo #uprising #warsaw #jews #antisemitism #ghetto #resistance #fascism #antifascism
They're just nazis
Update. The Trump admin is demanding a list of Jewish faculty, staff, and students at #UPenn.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/13/upenn-trump-jews-list
Trump's #EEOC asked for the list last July. Penn refused, and the EEOC sued the university in November. What's new is that several groups just filed a motion in federal court to intervene in the lawsuit on the side of the university -- the American Association of University Professors (#AAUP, national and UPenn chapters), the American Academy of Jewish Research, the UPenn Jewish Law Students Association, the UPenn Association of Senior and Emeritus Faculty.
From #StevenWeitzman, UPenn prof of religious studies and past member of its antisemitism taskforce: “Part of what sets off alarm bells for people like me is a history of people using Jewish lists against Jews. The Nazi campaign against Jews depended on institutions like universities handing over information about their Jewish members to the authorities.”
#Academia #AcademicMastodon #Antisemitism #Trump #Universities #USPol #USPolitics
UPDATE: a spokesperson from JP Morgan Chase told the Texas Observer they fired the operator of a neo-Nazi X account who we identified as their employee.
"This person is no longer at the firm. We do not tolerate hate in any form and take incidents such as this very seriously."
https://www.texasobserver.org/revealed-operators-neo-nazi-x-accounts/
#politics #USpol #extremism #racism #antisemitism #Texas #news #SocialMedia #ElonMusk
Annnnnd it's gone.
Without a single name on the statement or taking of any responsibility. Good job all.
https://www.adelaidefestival.com.au/news/2025/adelaide-festival-board-statement-13-january-2026
This the blueprint for our arts sector in Australia now? Nameless forces destroying festivals.
And what about our universities? And schools? Visa applicants? They gonna get defunded and re-educated and denied entry by people who won't even put their name to it?
"I was walking home from a #Shabbat morning service, wearing a #kippah and carrying my #tallit bag in my urbane, diverse #NewJersey town, when a pickup truck slowed down beside me. The driver rolled down his window and yelled something. I won’t repeat it here, but I can say with certainty it was not “ #ShabbatShalom.”
Why? Because of a small piece of fabric on my large, bald head.
My truck-driving antagonist was in good company. On social media, bigots will refer to #Jews as “the little hat people.”
"...During the 1968 #NewYorkCity school teachers’ strike, which aroused #antisemitism, an announcer on radio station WBAI-FM read a poem written by a school child, dedicated to #AlbertShanker, the Jewish head of the teachers’ union: “Hey, #Jew boy, with that #yarmulke on your head/You pale-faced Jew-boy, I wish you were dead.” Shanker, in fact, did not wear a yarmulke."
https://religionnews.com/2026/01/08/jews-and-hats-a-thousand-year-old-love-story/
The Jewish Council of Australia said it will work with the Royal Commission to adopt an anti-racist approach and ensure diverse Jewish voices are heard
"There is a major problem with framing antisemitism as an issue of ‘religiously motivated’ extremism that can be solved through security responses and migration settings. We must avoid demonising faith groups and migrants and instead see antisemitism as one expression of a deep problem of racism in Australian society.
"A credible inquiry must be independent, compassionate and evidence-based not turned into a platform to attack the Palestine solidarity movement, universities, migrants or human rights institutions. Jewish safety is not served by encouraging more racism or politicisation; it is served by accountability, evidence and genuine public confidence." - Dr Max Kaiser, Executive Officer, Jewish Council of Australia
The Jewish Council of Australia said it will work with the Royal Commission to adopt an anti-racist approach and ensure diverse Jewish voices are heard
"There is a major problem with framing antisemitism as an issue of ‘religiously motivated’ extremism that can be solved through security responses and migration settings. We must avoid demonising faith groups and migrants and instead see antisemitism as one expression of a deep problem of racism in Australian society.
"A credible inquiry must be independent, compassionate and evidence-based not turned into a platform to attack the Palestine solidarity movement, universities, migrants or human rights institutions. Jewish safety is not served by encouraging more racism or politicisation; it is served by accountability, evidence and genuine public confidence." - Dr Max Kaiser, Executive Officer, Jewish Council of Australia
![Jewish women and children, arms in the air, forcibly removed from a bunker by Nazi soldiers during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. By Unknown author (Franz Konrad confessed to taking some of the photographs, the rest was probably taken by photographers from Propaganda Kompanie nr 689.[1][2]) - Image:Warsaw-Ghetto-Josef-Bloesche-HRedit.jpg uploaded by United States Holocaust MuseumThis is a retouched picture, which means that it has been digitally altered from its original version. Modifications: Restored version of Image:Stroop Report - Warsaw Ghetto Uprising 06.jpg with artifacts and scratches removed, levels adjusted, and image sharpened.., Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=17223940](https://kolektiva.social/system/media_attachments/files/115/917/275/359/033/705/original/b7081e7eee8378fa.jpg)
