@sheislaurence This bears repeating, it's so ridiculous:
" #antisemitism [is] used to label #Jews who demonstrate against #genocide"
Never in a million years would I have imagined that it would be a #Labour government that would turn the #UK into a full-on 1984 state where the #righttoprotest would be stripped and #Newspeak would be so out of hand in the oligarchist and state #media that #antisemitism would be used to label #Jews who demonstrate against #genocide.
That being said, I'd known that #KeirStarmer was a danger from his #Corbyn backstabbing days and I refused to vote his party in.
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Liel Leibovitz is kind of a rightwing kook, and this article is no different than usual. But I'm sharing it for this paragraph here where he says something interesting and worthwhile. The rest of the essay is dumb AF.
"#AntiSemitism works best when #Jews are treated as both anti-matter and matter: They’re the Marxist fiends who plot communist uprisings and also the capitalist pigs who own all the factories; they’re effeminate little creeps who can never achieve true and noble masculinity and also libidinous sexual predators who seduce the women and corrupt the young; they’re pathetic because they’re so powerless and dangerous because they’re all-powerful. These blatant contradictions aren’t a bug—they’re a feature, allowing the haters to cast the Jews as the ultimate shapeshifting villain. It’s a convenient illusion, excusing the Jew-haters from the hard task of fighting their real, and far more formidable, enemies."
Liel Leibovitz is kind of a rightwing kook, and this article is no different than usual. But I'm sharing it for this paragraph here where he says something interesting and worthwhile. The rest of the essay is dumb AF.
"#AntiSemitism works best when #Jews are treated as both anti-matter and matter: They’re the Marxist fiends who plot communist uprisings and also the capitalist pigs who own all the factories; they’re effeminate little creeps who can never achieve true and noble masculinity and also libidinous sexual predators who seduce the women and corrupt the young; they’re pathetic because they’re so powerless and dangerous because they’re all-powerful. These blatant contradictions aren’t a bug—they’re a feature, allowing the haters to cast the Jews as the ultimate shapeshifting villain. It’s a convenient illusion, excusing the Jew-haters from the hard task of fighting their real, and far more formidable, enemies."
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"A strong majority of #Jewish #Americans said they are concerned about #antisemitism on #college campuses but disagree with President #Trump’s approach to combating it, a national #poll showed.
By nearly 3 to 1, #American #Jews believe that Trump is using antisemitism as an “excuse” to “penalize and tax college campuses,” according to the poll released Tuesday by Ipsos in collaboration with social and political scientists at UC Berkeley and the #University of Rochester."
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-09-16/jewish-americans-trump-poll
"A strong majority of #Jewish #Americans said they are concerned about #antisemitism on #college campuses but disagree with President #Trump’s approach to combating it, a national #poll showed.
By nearly 3 to 1, #American #Jews believe that Trump is using antisemitism as an “excuse” to “penalize and tax college campuses,” according to the poll released Tuesday by Ipsos in collaboration with social and political scientists at UC Berkeley and the #University of Rochester."
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-09-16/jewish-americans-trump-poll
"A strong majority of #Jewish #Americans said they are concerned about #antisemitism on #college campuses but disagree with President #Trump’s approach to combating it, a national #poll showed.
By nearly 3 to 1, #American #Jews believe that Trump is using antisemitism as an “excuse” to “penalize and tax college campuses,” according to the poll released Tuesday by Ipsos in collaboration with social and political scientists at UC Berkeley and the #University of Rochester."
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-09-16/jewish-americans-trump-poll
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Out today: The Torah that says, “You must not oppress foreigners. You know what it’s like to be a foreigner, for you yourselves were once foreigners in the land of Egypt.”
In this sense, fighting for immigrant justice is, to #Jews, a religious and cultural obligation. https://www.texasobserver.org/never-again-texas-border-eagle-pass/
Out today: The Torah that says, “You must not oppress foreigners. You know what it’s like to be a foreigner, for you yourselves were once foreigners in the land of Egypt.”
In this sense, fighting for immigrant justice is, to #Jews, a religious and cultural obligation. https://www.texasobserver.org/never-again-texas-border-eagle-pass/
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The progressive activist lefty #synagogue in #Victoria#BC#Canada defaced with this:
“#Jews are evil! Because #genocide is evil! Stop genocide stop the Jews! Jews are murdering thousands of gentile children In the future #Palestinians will get their revenge against you child-killing #Jew-monsters!”
I've heard that little #antifascist joke about how many #nazis do you have at dinner for decades, and I don't want to hear it anymore.
The progressive activist lefty #synagogue in #Victoria#BC#Canada defaced with this:
“#Jews are evil! Because #genocide is evil! Stop genocide stop the Jews! Jews are murdering thousands of gentile children In the future #Palestinians will get their revenge against you child-killing #Jew-monsters!”
I've heard that little #antifascist joke about how many #nazis do you have at dinner for decades, and I don't want to hear it anymore.
"In her childhood, my mother was starved by a dark regime. When the #Nazi army occupied Poland and #Jews were pushed into ghettos, they were forced to make do with less and less #food... My mother was 7 years old when the Lvov ghetto closed in on her. Fortunately, both her parents were alive and did everything to ensure her survival.... my mother was lucky. Other children wasted away and died."
https://robertreich.substack.com/i/169603272/silence-in-the-face-of-gazas-starvation-is-absolute-betrayal-of-holocaust-victims
#Gaza#Palestine#Israel#Genocide#WarCrimes #News#Press#WorldNews
#AsAJew who is observant and believes that God gave us the Torah, (although that is getting extremely difficult right now) I believe that all #Jews are responsible for another. I believe this very strongly. In normal times, whatever that means, it's a very important principle of solidarity, which underlies the powerful, effective, and innovative mutual aid institutions that have sustained traditional Jewish communities over the millennia.
However, at this time this principle is tearing my soul to pieces!!! Because the Torah tells me that no matter my personal views and feelings, and no matter the sacrifices I personally made to not be part of the genocide machine, and no matter the things I've done to fight it, my faith tells me that I am personally responsible for the unspeakable crimes that my kinfolk are committing in #Gaza (and the West Bank). I know that it is not really how you're supposed to think in an individualist society, and frankly I'll fight any goy who holds diaspora Jews responsible for Israeli crimes or scapegoats Jews or Israelis.
But before Hashem my soul is responsible for those crimes because all Israel are responsible for one another, and there's nothing that I can do as an individual that can change that. It's too late. All I can do is keep bashing myself against the wall of stone hearts, do anything I can to stop the madness that has consumed my people, the idolatrous worship of state and land and violence that demands endless sacrifice of blood.
And in the meantime we are pushing Hashem farther and farther away with this endless idolatry in Jewish clothing, this incomprehensible horror of death and fire and pain that we have opened up to pour out our own anguish into, this Chilul Hashem of atrocities committed in His name, this anger and hate with which we are starving those babies in Gaza, which is our anger and hate at Him for having let us suffer; and our thirst for power and mastery, which is our rebellion against Him and rejection of the faith in His protection.
We have to stop, but I don't know what to do. My heart and my strength are broken.
"Unidentified vandals defaced two #Jewish sites in #Dolka, #Poland, over the weekend, spray-painting anti-#Israel slurs and #Nazi #swastikas on the remains of a local #synagogue and a memorial at the Jewish cemetery.
The synagogue, located in southeast Poland, was destroyed by the #Nazis during the #Holocaust, while the cemetery’s memorial, built in recent years by townspeople, symbolizes pre-Holocaust coexistence between Poles and #Jews."
1. I cringe a bit sharing Ynet, but I dont see this anywhere else yet. Important to be aware that it's a right-wing rag if you dont follow Jewish media outlets.
2. This story is why you see some Israel-critical Jews squint at gentile anti-Israel rhetoric and hesitate to take it at face value. Particularly when its presented alongside clearly fucked up stuff.
https://www.ynetnews.com/jewish-world/article/b1ebjdbile#google_vignette
A senior #EU official has been lobbying against sanctions on Israel, using claims of antisemitism and arguments that critics say cross the line from political advocacy into disinformation. But what does the leaked diplomatic cable reveal?
Von Schnurbein warned that reviewing the agreement could be based on “rumours about #Jews,” and claimed that humanitarian actions in #Gaza were being ignored by the media and the #UN. She also described charity bake sales for Gaza within EU institutions as creating an atmosphere of "ambient antisemitism."
Her remarks directly contradicted findings from the EU’s own foreign service, the UN Human Rights Office, and the International Court of Justice, bodies that have documented starvation, large-scale civilian deaths, and possible war crimes in Gaza.
By framing calls for sanctions as antisemitic, she didn’t just misrepresent policy, she attempted to delegitimise criticism altogether. That’s a dangerous move, especially when it risks silencing evidence of war crimes and civilian suffering.
https://euobserver.com/eu-and-the-world/arcd9a298e
#icj #eucomplicity #eupol #gazagenocide #israelsanctions
"As Jewish protesters began flooding capitol building rotundas, blockading roads in cities across the country, and staging an unprecedented protest in New York City’s Grand Central Station, journalists attempted to pin down this “new” phenomenon. Some in Jewish establishment organizations decried these Jewish dissenters, either claiming them as patsies for terrorism, betrayers of their community, or not Jews at all. Others saw this as a brand new reclamation of Jewish identity, the building of an authentically emergent way of being Jewish that broke with the mainstream Jewish consensus. While this was a resurgence in alternative Jewish organizations and religious and cultural life away from the overwhelming Zionism of American Jewry’s dominant institutions, in truth, nothing about this was new.
As scholar Benjamin Balthaser tracks in his new book, Citizens of the Whole World: Anti-Zionism and the Cultures of the American Jewish Left, the vision of Jewish identity on display in Jewish-led Palestine solidarity demonstrations organized by groups like Jewish Voice for Peace, IfNotNow, and the Jewish Anti-Zionism Network are the latest stage in a long history that sees Jewish identity as in relationship with all communities facing oppression and on a diasporic model of internationalism.
Shane Burley spoke with Balthaser about how Jews in both the Old Left and the New Left convened their sense of Jewish identity, how they understood and responded as Zionism emerged and then later dominated American Jewish life, and how this model of Jewishness has found its continuity in the radical Jewish activism attempting to halt the genocide in Gaza."
https://jacobin.com/2025/06/history-left-jewish-identity-politics
2/5🧵: science has shown how #grandparents make happier, more adjusted kids & adults, serving a very specific evolutionary purpose. At the #Palestine Solidarity Campaign march in #London, they were out in force
1- older man dressed in black with a tabard ' #Jews against #genocide'
2- Eilee from Plymouth
3- older woman carrying sign 'where there is injustice there will always be #resistance'
4- Stephen was happy to be photographed with his sign 'Jews against #Gaza genocide'
Stephen was surprisingly fluent in French. He was happy me taking a portrait of him carrying the sign 'Jews against Gaza genocide'
older woman carrying sign 'where there is injustice there will always be resistance'
Eilee left Plymouth at 7.30am to march in London with the #Palestine Solidarity Campaign. I noticed her yellow barefoot shoes and asked if I could take a picture of her. She totally surprised me when she took off her hat, to display a glorious blue mane
old man dressed in black with a tabard 'Jews against genocide'
For the American timezone.
VICE: Israelism: How Young American Jews’ Views of Israel Are Shifting
"The critically acclaimed feature-length documentary ‘Israelism’ investigates a movement of young American Jews who are campaigning to redefine Judaism’s relationship with Israel.
At the heart of the documentary are Simone Zimmerman, who grew up in Los Angeles and visited Israel on an exchange programme; and fellow American Eitan, who joins the Israeli military after graduating high school. Simone and Eitan are raised to defend the state of Israel at all costs but their lives are changed when they witness the mistreatment of Palestinians with their own eyes.
Their stories reveal a generational divide in the American Jewish community as more young Jews question the narratives their synagogues and Hebrew school teachers gave them as children.
‘Israelism’ features interviews with academics and political activists, including Noam Chomsky, Cornel West, Lara Friedman and a former director of the Anti-Defamation League, Abe Foxman. The film was initially released in February 2023, generating significant debate across American campuses."
#AmericanJews#US#Jews#Palestine#Israel#Israelism#Zionism#ZionismIsNotJudaism
Final post about this for today. The Kristallnacht remembrance tomorrow in Amsterdam is canceled. It was organized by the Jewish anti-Zionist organisation Erev Rav and Platform Stop Racisme. See the attached slides by Erev Rav for an explanation.
✏️ edit: Sorry to edit this (lot of boosts), but I like to have your attention for this related post from an hour ago: https://todon.nl/@joenepraat/113454654247805343 🙏🏻
#Amsterdam #Kristallnacht #Jews #Halsema #Ajax #HumanRights #FreePalestine #MaccabiTelAviv #TelAviv #Zionists #IDF #Israel #Zionism #Palestine #Gaza #genocide #racism #Arabs #islamophobia #homophobia
This chain of events leads us to announce the cancellation of our Kristallnacht remembrance moment tomorrow- which would take place in Amsterdam. Given the current volatile situation- the heavy presence of Zionist Israelis in the city with the intent of continuing acts of violence, we cannot in good faith, guarantee the minimum safety of our speakers and attendees, particularly those most vulnerable in our communities.
It is deeply disappointing that this violence has disrupted Jewish community life in Amsterdam, preventing us from holding this important memorial event.
We believe that more appropriate police intervention against the initial disturbances by the Maccabi football fans combined with a clear stance from the city, mobilizing to disperse gatherings where violent racist, Islamophobic and homophobic things were being shouted (in the public space) could have prevented the subsequent escalation of violence.
The media portrayal of these events as an unprovoked antisemitic attack on peaceful football supporters does not reflect the full context.
The visiting fans engaged in provocative behavior, destroying private property, intimidating passerby’s, carrying flares, gathering in the city center, and directing inflammatory racist and violent chants at locals. Many were recently discharged soldiers, active in the genocide in Gaza. Their conduct at the football match itself was also more than controversial, as they refused to observe the minute of silence for Valencia flood victims.
One cannot engage in violent and disruptive actions and then cry ‘antisemitism’ to avoid accountability. Our identities do not exist to absolve our actions. We find this weaponization of Jewish safety incredibly alarming.
The city of Amsterdam deserves better.
Erev Rav strongly condemns the Amsterdam police's handling of recent events involving football fans over two consecutive nights in the city.
We are deeply concerned that instead of restraining groups who caused disturbances in the city - including tearing down Palestinian flags from private residences and engaging in racist chanting - the police allowed the situation to escalate into widespread street violence.
It is troubling that arrests were selective, primarily targeting local Moroccan youth who confronted these groups, while Maccabi fans who initiated provocations faced no consequences.