#'doctor' means 'hamas' in zionist

[notaconservative]

Thanks biden! Yes we know trump is worse. Why should we the people stand for leaders who commit genocide in our name, with our money??? Don't vote for fascists!!!

The Lemkin Institute for Genocide has released a statement saying that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza and the United States is complicit. The statement was released in the aftermath of the horrific attack on a refugee camp in Rafah

In April, Lemkin also issued a genocide alert for the West Bank

[spacelazarwolf]

hmmmmmmm i’m real fucking tired of jew haters lying abt me!

let's break this down, shall we?

white trans mascs like spacelazarwolf have no issue calling indigenous people "bone chillingly disturbing" for disagreeing with them.

actually i called what you said antisemitic, because it was. i called what i've witnessed from gentiles in general bone-chillingly disturbing and cruel, and that i've witnessed so much ignorance, hostility, and bloodlust from gentiles. because i keep seeing posts celebrating the massacre that happened on the 7th, and i keep getting anons that tell me "hitler missed one", "the world would be better off without your ilk", "we should have gotten rid of you all ages ago", "die zionists rats *nose emoji*", and a lot of very graphic descriptions of how they would like to rape and kill me. one user, blatantly on their blog, openly said that someone should kill me, and someone said they knew where i lived and could make that happen. that's not disagreeing with me. that is bloodlust.

they pretend to care about racism when trans women engage in it, but have zero issue jumping right to demonic stereotypes about indigenous people who dare to point out that their support of israel is supporting genocide.

hey asshole. I WASN'T TALKING ABOUT YOU.

also. I HAVE BEEN OPEN ABOUT MY CRITICISM OF ISRAEL, MY REFUSAL TO SUPPORT IT AS A STATE, AND MY BELIEF THAT WHAT THEY'RE DOING IS GENOCIDE. YOU FUCKING IDIOT.

literally just blatantly lying about a jew's opinion on israel so you can harass and demonize them is, i hate to tell you, antisemitic.

these so called "anti-semitic rants" were me saying jewish people can survive without israel and do not need to colonize or genocide another group of people to survive.

let's give some of the highlights of your posts:

"while you're here hand-wringing about the safety of israelis and spreading the white supremacist lie that they must be in israel to be safe, israel secured its continued existence by just now murdering 500+ parients and doctors under the excuse of 'well hamas is violent and is hiding in there"

'handwringing' do you mean mourning the deaths of peace activists and children? also if you've read literally any of my other posts on the matter, you know i literally talk about how zionists institutions and leadership use jewish safety and antisemitism in the diaspora to bolster support for a jewish state. pointing this out isn't agreeing with it when you do it, why is it when i do it? what could the difference possibly be??

also, there has been no confirmation on who caused the hospital bombing. there are many reports that it was a misfire by one of the groups in gaza, and those are still being investigated. regardless of who fired it, it's still a tragedy. it's still hundreds of innocent lives lost. and it does not change the fact that the lives lost on the 7th were also a tragedy. using this devastating loss of palestinian life as a bludgeon against a diaspora jew for having the audacity to mourn dead jews is disgusting.

"[you] only bring up jewish people of color to argue that israel is actually not a racist project because israel is the only thing stopping jewish people from being exterminated."

literally just lying.

"jewish people in israel are behaving as and acting as white supremacist colonizers of color"

thanks for literally just outright saying that you think the problem is jews, not the state of israel.

"colonizers globally are constantly killing kids"

and therefore the israeli children who died don't matter? are you expecting jewish people to choose between their nieces and nephews and innocent palestinian children who are killed in gaza?

"[spacelazarwolf has] ranted and raved that without israel existing, the jewish people would be genocided. he's appropriated the struggle of indigenous and black people abroad to cry that jewish people aren't welcome in countries like the us, despite living in the us and benefiting from his whiteness and the oppression of indigenous and black people as many other white jewish people do"

i think you've made it pretty clear you're totally fine lying about what i've actually said regarding israel, but the idea that jews are "appropriating the struggle of indigenous and black people abroad" when we talk about experiencing antisemitism in the countries we live in is so???????????? also you make it really clear in this snippet that your issue isn't with israel but with jews in general.

"white jewish people...have been able to exist in relative safety for decades in european countries"

are you actually fucking insane.

"israel's existence has made things more dangerous for jewish people in the middle east and north africa because these are areas that HISTORICALLY had co-existence between religious groups"

nice historical revisionism! swana was safer than christian countries for sure, but it's SO clear to me that you know absolutely nothing about the history of the jews of swana.

"he and israel supporters like him are constantly distracting from the war crimes and terrorism ISRAEL IS COMMITTING by handwringing perpetually about 'but violence is bad and hamas is bad for being violent, the only good palestinians are the ones that are quiet and don't fight back against us when we kill their kids"

sorry, who's "we"? are diaspora jews killing kids? or do you just equate every single jew in the diaspora to israel? also, yet more blatantly lying and claiming i support israel when i repeatedly have stated i haven't! but it's much more convenient to claim i have, because then you can say that i kill kids!

there's a bunch of other times you repeat the lie that i support israel and "advocate for the continued existence of a settler colonizer state and lying and claiming it's the only way for jewish people to be safe" but i won't include all of those bc this post would be VERY long.

"israel supporters are really out here arguing that palestinians need to hold hands with their genociders and forgive them and find peace - completely ignoring that for centuries there was peace between religious groups in the region and israel destroyed it"

goyim being embarrassingly ignorant of jewish history outside of a warped view of the holocaust? i am shocked!

"the supposed civilians attacked turned out to be iof soldiers so yeah actually it's fucked for you to say. they shouldn't attack people who colonize and massacre palestinian people for their day job"

blatantly supporting the massacre of 1,300 israelis, including children.

"all they can do is fight back or die, while israelis grab their passport and fly back to the us or some other european country and wait for israel to finish their genocide so they can go back"

feel like i don't need to explain why. this is conspiracy theory levels of antisemitic.

"the crying and bellyaching that if the jewish people don't have israel, they'll have to go back to countries that are hostile to them is not one i have sympathy for"

yeah we know you don't have sympathy for jews, that's very clear.

"jewish people, black people, and indigenous people all still live there and survive and fight back and thrive in solidarity together. and they DON'T participate in genocide against other groups of people"

yet again making the blatant assertion that it is JEWS who are committing genocide, and not the israeli government. also let's not pretend that. there's always been perfect solidarity between our communities. jews have not always been the best allies to indigenous people and black people, and vice versa.

"there are other places to turn to if you had any interest in NOT participating in western hegemonic white supremacy. but instead of staying and fighting and existing and thriving with other marginalized people who are at HIGHER risk than you in these countries, you argue that somehow jewish people should be exempt from this work that every other marginalized community does"

shouldn't have to point out that i don't argue that, but also this is, again, conspiracy theory levels of fucked up.

"bonkers to watch israel-supporters screaming and crying that if they don't colonize and genocide palestinians then jewish people can't safely exist"

yikes.

"if it were remotely true, israelis wouldn't have pulled out their dual citizenship passports and gone back to europe and the us to wait at a distance for their government to finish the genocide they started in 1948"

again, yikes.

there is a choice outside colonization - you can just fucking leave and go back to your home countries that are welcoming you with open arms cuz you still have dual citizenship. you don't have to commit genocide colonize people to exist."

more yikes.

"spacelazarwolf really wants to try and argue that they can't stop colonizing palestine cuz if they do, they have to go back to - checks notes - countries where a ton of people still live"

who is "they"?

"for some reason [spacelazarwolf] thinks that to avoid going through [genocide], jewish people need to be allowed to commit genocide themselves and eradicate palestinians"

once again lying abt me, and also openly saying that they believe it is jews who are committing genocide.

"fucking bonkers that he thinks he somehow has the right to commit genocide and colonize to avoid the situation other jewish people, indigenous people, and black people worldwide find themselves in. cowardly bitch baby behavior actually. like i'm sorry lots of other groups of colonized people, who have been subject to genocide and violence, and racism and are still undergoing it, has managed to NOT colonize other groups of people for their own gain."

bc jews are just inherently more evil than other marginalized ppl, right? we're just more prone to being selfish and hurting people? we're just sniveling whiny bitch babies who will turn around and stab you in the back, right?

"screaming and crying that 'we need to be allowed to genocide palestinians or otherwise we have to go back to the us, where we as white jewish people never have to actually deal with the things indigenous and black people there do' is disgusting genocidal behavior. the thought of actually being in solidarity with colonized people is repulsive to people like spacelazarwolf - that's why they all seek to justify colonial projects instead."

again, conspiracy theory levels of fucked.

at no point do i engage in anti-semitism. all i ever criticize is israel.

don't feel like i need to point out that this is not true.

he has repeatedly stated that israel has to exist, otherwise jewish people have to go back to the us, where indigenous people are being genocided.

cool lie! also fucked up thing to say!

i've said nothing about jewish pain and trauma. in fact, i have said on numerous occasions that jewish pain and trauma are very real and that they DO NOT justify. colonization.

mmmmmmmmmm nah. "whiny little bitch babies" is not saying that "jewish pain and trauma are very real." also oops you accidentally did dual loyalty again.

but spacelazarwolf is so rabidly racist he immediately began fearmongering about the bloodlust savage knocking at his door trying to kill him.

i'm on desktop or i would include that mike wazowski standing meme bc genuinely what the fuck.

anyway, i have no doubt that their support palestinians is genuine. that's great. but it is also incredibly clear that they hate jews, and that is going to be a huge detriment to their activism for palestinians, and they're not the only one this is happening with. people need to figure that shit out on their own instead of harassing and lying about jews online and perpetuating this kind of violently antisemitic rhetoric. bc this is like beyond fucked. i am tired of gentiles blatantly lying abt me so they can get away with saying horrendously antisemitic things to and about me. get your fucking shit together.

[psudopod]

genocide apologists like you should go die

Ah, I think you have the wrong account? I'm not a Zionist, I don't think Israel has a right to colonize and genocide Palestine either!

I think you should change your strategy, though, there's no point in just insulting or threatening people. Just state the facts of the situation, otherwise people will assume you're an idiot who doesn't have a reason for the opinions you have. Try saying stuff like "the Israeli government has a long established pattern of targeting journalists and doctors" or "the Israeli government funded Hamas, ignored the warnings about the attack, and refused to negotiate because war and the deaths of civilians and soldiers means nothing to Netanyahu compared to his hold on political power." Find your own anti-zionist points and add em to the pile, though!

[kineticpenguin]

It's weird seeing liberal Zionists trying desperately to thread the needle and resolve their cognitive dissonance. "Oooh, I won't stand for people being Islamophobic on my posts, but nevertheless, every last civilian slaughtered by the IDF is really the fault of Hamas! The IDF committed a war crime by posing as medical and aid personnel? Then that means Hamas really was hiding amongst the doctors and aid workers, so killing any number of doctors and aid workers continues to be justified! It is antisemitic to have a problem with any of this!"

[notaconservative]

Ethnic cleansing is a form of genocide. She's literally advocating for genocide bc of racism and colonialism.

How people can see this as anything other than fascism is way beyond me

You cannot be neutral about this

[rebelwheelsnycpoetry]

Regina Regina In Zionist Blue (a poem for Palestine)

by Michele Sommerstein

Pt 1 It's been months since I could hear your music, and not feel this sorrowed discomfort deeply rooted Regina Regina in Zionist blue for I used to play your tunes in times of need and joy but a comfort, no more for your voice and piano, these summers in the city these fields below these blue lips and dance anthems Pavlov's daughter drooling on her pillow and do you remember that time you covered a Lennon song in protest of the Darfur genocide all that real love real love because genocide is fucked up and it is and it was but now, all these songs are just a reminder (this pain, sometimes so angry that one longs to cry out stop! and why!) and with a sigh so heavy like a storm wind that fucks with the tides with a sigh so heavy from a heart that breaks because it doesn't have to be this way Regina in blue, there is another way

and yet I know we are not getting the same news and how there can never be peace when there is justice due and how some Zionists in power don't want that to ensue and how they lied to us and are lying to you gives me deeply rooted Zionist blues this anti-Zionist Jew and rising “not in our name!” and with great pride chanting for we exist too and we are many we who unlearned the toxicity that resides in Zionism who unlearned the fallacies, now knowing the truth

and this genocide, that they attempt to normalize, makes my head, cave in To the point sometimes where I don't know what the fuck to do… Regina Regina, in Zionist blue the 34,000 murdered and counting these artists, these doctors, these Palestinians these people undeserving of this violence & death he was my father - dead my cousin - dead my best friend - dead, the love of my life… my wife – dead (how do you not care? where is your heart?) and 12,000 of them just children, small children who are no longer here Regina how many more? who Israel is starving. Intentional. This famine, engineered these deaths avoidable these parents forced to witness their child's demise, children abruptly orphaned and the trauma in their eyes the fucking grief are you not a mother too?

Pt 2 and I'm not saying what happened on October 7th wasn't traumatic and fucked up because it was and I imagine was quite triggering for survivors of violence of which I am one and I imagine was quite triggering for a people who have been told since birth to not trust, to not relax. beware the non-Zionists and watch your back. “They don't want you to be safe, they don't want us to be free” (but at whose cost and what does that mean?)

and then came the day Hamas striked back and though we don't agree, I can acknowledge that the trauma and humanity of Israelis at the event in question in a quiet stillness, to stop and be present, but can you too acknowledge the humanity and trauma of those in Palestine? And not just this genocide unjustified, but for the last 75, years and counting Regina for while yes, the festival, themed as “love and unity”, Regina but on the borders of and for whom?

Pt 3 did you even learn about The Nakba, did you ever hear that word? More than three fourth of a million people, three fourth these Palestinians forced from their land, their homes, why did they not teach that in Hebrew school all those years ago not even mention Palestine, and so we never knew why did they not want us to know? why do they hide things from us, Regina? and what else do they not disclose?

and the modern footage and what it exposed these Palestinians who they try to control who could not even wave their own flag without vast persecution felt weirdly familiar remembering my grandmother paternal who lived in Russia who could not be openly Jewish without vast persecution how could I not see the similarities why don't you?

These powers that be that poke the wound, this trauma that they don't let nor want us to heal and with the fucking audacity, so brazen to look us in the eyes, to call this protection and love

But with all their propaganda, have you ever stopped to question? where is this promised safety that they have repeatedly mentioned? this unrealistic and false promise and obsession for it is impossible to achieve safety through oppression for it is impossible, to achieve safety through oppression it is impossible, to achieve safety, through oppression For consequence will always ensue as a result from these intentions

Pt 4 And I am so fucking tired tired of trying to shadow box any and all possible critique tired of trying to reach those that perhaps can not be reached those who do not see the human rights violations because they don't see Palestinians as humans those who deny their humanity, but then expect them to always honor theirs those who say Israel has the right to defend themselves but Palestine should just take it those who respond to protesters, these Zionist agitators with pepper spray unprovoked those who skirt accountability saying “yeah but what about” in response to this genocide those who accuse you of being antisemitic for even bringing up this genocide as if acknowledging genocide is antisemitic – it is not never again means never again for all those with their boom boom rapid fire rehearsed bad faith questions in an attempt to bewilder & overwhelm, in hopes that next time you'll be silent those who respond IN ALL CAPS, yelling vicious insults and intimidation screaming, in hopes that that next time you'll be silent do not be silent

and those who genuinely feel immense terror because they believe there is no safety without Zionism near for it is hard to see clearly when in a triggered space Help me officer, for I do not feel safe! She said after seeing the protesters peacefully protest

Regina Regina, with Zionist fists will probably not know this poem exists in ways I am just getting this off my chest A quest of catharsis and healing, so I may be lighter, mindful in my solidarity as an act of love put to action For if one does not do the work, to process the weight so heavy, these feelings this urgency & this compassion overload & burnout, overgrown & all-consuming and your actions unaware, become, far too motivated, by the need for your own release which isn't helpful to the movement, nor what Palestinians need

Pt 5 and so, safety, actual safety it is not rooted in imperialism or isolation It is all the people marginalized united and knowing that our liberation, our struggles, growing and connected and this idea that we must fight each other is wrong for it's the powers that be, not us, that benefit when we're divided those who attempt to thwart any semblance of progress when they see we're making strides and those who preach and fan the flames of fear and ignorance and it's on both sides, both sides, these elephants and donkeys co-opted for a price those who try to erase and decrease, the growing existence and resistance of non-Zionist Jews those who do not actually care about the safety of Palestinians or Jews, though they swear their loyalty true, they lie, white-toothed and smiling Those who don't want to make things right for this that goes against their profit line these vultures who profit from genocide with their overflowing greed insatiable they who want to keep us from the light so we do not grow so they can maintain this status quo, of wretched supremacy it is them we must fight, they are the enemy Not each other

AUTHOR'S NOTE: "Regina Regina In Zionist Blue" is a passionate nuanced poem written from the heart. A tale of two Jews, it is a call to action & reflection in a time of misinformation, exploitation of trauma, and genocide. A poem from an anti-Zionist Jew (myself) to a Zionist Jew (but really all Zionist Jews.)

I used to love Regina Spektor 's music. Her songs were one of my go-to's in good times and bad. But when she came out as a hardcore Zionist after the attack, her songs became this reminder of genocide and a symbol of every interaction I've ever had with Zionists. To be clear, I don't fault people for having strong feelings regarding the attack on October 7th. But to only have compassion for Israelis and nothing but viciousness for Palestinians, I feel is fucked up. Especially given the history and the current genocide.

For weeks, these heavy feelings were building up inside me, and then once I heard Macklemore's "Hind's Hall", it had to come out. I had to write this poem.

The poem delves into the history, trauma, toxicity, ideas of safety, solidarity, and more. My hope is that it will make some people think and re-think what they've been brought up with, and take action.

That said, “summers in the city”, “fields below”, ”blue lips”, “dance anthems” and “pavlov's daughter” are references to her song titles if anyone was a bit confused.

Lastly, here are 3 ways to take action from Jewish Voices For Peace.

[notaconservative]

Zionists hate Jews

pro-palestinian academic ilan pappe was detained and questioned by fbi on 13th may 2024.

[icyxmischief]

Been following you for over a decade, but I'm afraid I have to unfollow after that Zionist reblog. Please educate yourself on the history of Palestinian oppression and the reality of Israel being an apartheid, settler state with the blood of millions on its hands.

I respect your decision. I think that you should always curate your dash to be what you are comfortable with, and what your moral alignment is.

I also think the best way for me to respond to this message is minimally: with just the simplest of clarification of what I have learned and am acting upon.

I support Jewish communities across the world. I support recognizing that Jews who are upset by Hamas terrorism and who claim PART of the disputed land in question are not Islamophobic. I support remembering the impact of the Holocaust on the (shockingly small) worldwide Jewish community, and its role in strong emotions about the Holy Land. I support that Muslims who are upset by Israeli military bombings are not antisemitic. I support Muslim communities across the world. I support a cease-fire in Gaza and the restoration of its food, water, and resources. I support Palestinian independence.

I do not support an apartheid state. I do not support the current Israeli Prime Minister or his military. Nor do I support Hamas, or any form of terrorism. Mostly, I do not support the rise of black and white thinking around this issue, or any form of antisemitism or Islamophobia.

You are still welcome to think what you like about me, because no matter how long you have followed me, we don't know each other, and you do not owe me belief in what I say. Honestly, I am at peace with that, and the fact that you have probably already unfollowed me, and won't see this.

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Ultimately, one of the most important parts about being an activist--and one I am only learning as I enter my forties--is that you must allow fellow activists to misunderstand you, in order to do what you think is right. This means that there will be partings of ways, which, while hard, is okay. What I think is right, and what I will stand by, requires an admission of complexity--which is not the same thing as saying "both sides are equally bad"--and a realization that social-media-based social justice cannot always accommodate that necessity. I believe this encounter is a prime example.

I am learning a lot of things. Feel free to walk through these thoughts with me, or to keep scrolling to the bottom, where important links are posted.

A) I have learned that: it's important to support Palestinians who are being murdered (including, in Gaza, mostly children) in ways that violate international human rights (access to food, water, electricity, internet and medicine), that are, indeed, genocidal. This means monetary donations. It means taking and teaching courses on the long history of this region of the world. It means rallying to free the Gaza Strip from Israeli occupation. It means protesting the nconscionable acts of the current Israeli governmment and military. It means asking our national leaders to stop supporting the Israeli government.

B) And I also have learned that: Hamas is unconscionably evil, and must be stopped from further kidnapping, m*tilating, r*ping and m*rdering Israeli families (inluding, again, children), who are no more in charge of the Israeli government than Palestinians are in charge of Hamas.

C) And I also have learned that: many Jews believe Israel should not exist because the Torah forbids a central sovereignty "run by a people in exile"; many other Jews believe that it should and that they have ethnic, cultural, and religious roots in the region. The way that they acquired the "nation" of Israel is still deeply problematic. Most importantly, we must continue to protest the human rights violations being committed by the Israeli government. Bombing and starving unarmed civilians will not root out Hamas; it will only radicalize more people to its numbers. But "Israel = Jewish support" is an over-simplification.

D) And I also have learned that: Hamas does not even remotely represent anything ethno-religiously Islamic, nor Palesininian. There are also Palestinian Jews (and Christians, etc). "Palestine = Muslims" is another dangerous and misleading over-simplification.

E) And I also have learned that: both Islamophobia and Anti-Semitism are on the rise, often under the guise of "activism" and/or "anti-colonialism." This is one reason that Pro-Palestinian Jews in America are protesting under the moving rallying cry, "NOT IN MY NAME." There are still ill-informed people who are running up to American citizens who are wearing Stars of David and screaming, "FREE PALESTINE," as if any Palestinian would want you to persecute someone in a far-off country who happens to be Jewish (or any Jew, for that matter). There are Jewish civilians being assaulted in the doorways of their own homes. There are ALSO mosques being bombed and Muslims being assaulted, having their hijabs ripped off, being treated like terrorists, since 9/11/2001 (and earlier). This is why the way we talk about and look at these issues matters. I teach graduate-level courses in the way that propaganda takes root in societies and leads to these unimaginable tragedies (not a flex of credentials, just saying I'm hyper-aware of these issues thru professional exposure). I just can't uphold any overly-simplified or singular point-of-view, because that is the mentality that gives rise to these unthinkable acts.

F) Nothing is more important than de-centering ourselves and our own (we may often think) virtuous rage. My point--and I truly don't mean this unkindly--is that It doesn't really matter if you follow my Marvel roleplay blog or not. It doesn't matter if you approve of or like me or not. It matters that I (we?) continue to listen and learn about the thousands of people literally dying. For this reason, even though I think you have misread my intentions, I am GRATEFUL that you called me out, so that I can check my sources more closely. But demonizing an entire social group (shy of genocidal governments or genocidal terrorist cells) always lands a person on the wrong side of history. I do not want to use my privilege to do that.

You may be wondering why I reblogged an Israeli Government vs Hamas post to a Loki rp blog in the first place. I have pushing 3,000 followers, which isn't a lot, but is enough to make ripples, so I want to pass along carefully checked educational posts (and donation links) from people who are directly involved in this heartbreaking war. These will always be tagged #World News CW.

If you've read this far, thanks for walking with me. <3 I sincerely appreciate it. This is still not a geo-politics blog, and I am not expert enough to entertain numerous messages about the issue. Thanks for understanding.

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While I have your attention, 3 weeks ago, I contacted my local International Faith Center and asked them for the most reliable place to donate money directly to on-the-ground humanitarian relief for children in Gaza. Here it is. There is also Doctors Without Borders and UNICEF. Please spend some of your time, energy, and resources here. Thanks.

[clementine-lominsan]

Daniel Hannan: Why do so many on the Left have a blind spot when it comes to anti-Semitism?

Daniel Hannan MEP, Mar. 3, 2016 People seem oddly shocked. Anti-Semitism at Oxford University’s Labour Club? The Labour Club? Aren’t Leftists meant to be empathetic and compassionate and interested in the welfare of minority groups? Evidently not when it comes to this minority. Anti-Semitism has an old and cruel history on the Left. The man who coined the word “socialism” was an anti-Semite; the man who popularised the phrase “anti-Semitism” was a socialist. The former was the nineteenth-century French radical, Pierre Leroux. “When we speak of the Jews,” he wrote, “we mean the Jewish spirit – the spirit of profit, of lucre, of gain, of speculation; in a word, the banker’s spirit.” The latter was a German Leftist called Wilhelm Marr. “Anti-Semitism is a Socialist movement,” he pronounced, “only nobler and purer in form than Social Democracy”. Before going any further, I should make clear that Oxford’s Labour Club is as entitled as any of us to the presumption of innocence. The seriousness of an allegation doesn’t shift the burden of proof. The accusation in this instance is certainly serious: Labour members are charged, not just with being too aggressively pro-Hamas or too free with their anti-Zionist rhetoric, but with making Jewish students feel targeted and uncomfortable. Then again, anyone who has been involved with undergraduate politics knows that wild accusations are sometimes thrown around. The rest of us should let Labour conclude its investigation. Let me, instead, address a broader and perhaps more alarming trend. It may be social media, or it may be the way that the far Left was galvanised by the recent Labour leadership contest, but I’ve noticed that anti-Semitism these days often dispenses with the traditional circumlocutions (“It’s only Zionism I have a problem with, not Jews”). Here is a selection of quotations, taken more or less at random from the Twitter accounts of self-declared Corbyn supporters: “We’ve had the Holocaust rammed down our throat by Zionists forever ensuring only Jewish suffering counts.” “Jews and Zionists own the whole world.” “Zyklon B was used for delousing”. I don’t mean to suggest for a moment that Jezza himself is anti-Semitic. The self-righteous old boob, who seems to go out of his way to cultivate the appearance of a Reform rabbi, is sincere in his dislike of racism. But the same is plainly not true of some of his most enthusiastic backers. What is going on? In part, we’re seeing the ugly alliance between Islamist radicals and parts of the fringe Left that Nick Cohen keeps writing about, based on a curious my-enemy’s-enemy’s-enemy-is-my-enemy logic. If your starting point is that the Western powers are responsible for the ills of the world, you can easily find yourself in a mésalliance with movements which, while they might be anti-feminist, anti-gay and anti-secularist, are at least satisfyingly anti-American. The more time you spend with these groups, the more you start sympathising with their world-view. And Jews generally don’t occupy a positive place in the jihadi world-view. Not that Left-wing anti-Semitism is a new phenomenon. The two Victorian socialists I quoted at the beginning may not have represented the majoritarian strain of the Left in their era; but they were by no means exceptional. Anti-Semitism was bound up with a dislike of capitalism, banks and markets. Jews were portrayed, in much Leftist propaganda, as a living off the honest toil of the workers. “How, as a Socialist, can you not be an anti-Semite?” Hitler asked his party members in 1920. Listen, to pluck an example more or less at random, to the French socialist (later communist) deputy, Pierre Myrens, in 1911, “The Yid [‘Youtre’] is an Israelite by religion, a Jew by race and, what is more, a capitalist!” I could fill the rest of this column with similar quotations, but I find them as distasteful as I hope you do. My purpose is simply to wipe away the self-righteousness, the smugness, that is slathered over large parts of our contemporary Left. Quotations like these have been edited out of our collective memory, because the dominant narrative of our age is that Left-wing means nice and Right-wing means nasty, ergo anti-Semitism must be Right-wing. Sorry, comrades, but that’s not how it was – or is. Yes, I know that there have been plenty of bigots on the Right, too. I know there have been many principled Jewish socialists. I know that Karl Marx was the grandson of two rabbis. But listen to the way he wrote about Jews: “The essence of Judaism and the root of the Jewish soul is expediency and self-interest; the God of Israel is Mammon, who expresses himself in the lust for money. Judaism is the embodiment of anti-social attitudes.” It’s true that the odious cadger disliked all religions, but he never wrote about Christianity that way. Indeed, he could be quite sentimental about it – though he deplored its corruption by “the Jewish spirit”. Marx’s dislike of Judaism did not remain confined to his turgid books. It found expression in the anti-Semitic campaigns of the Comecon regimes: the purges of Jews by Poland’s Communists; the show trials in Czechoslovakia and Hungary of “Israeli spies”; Stalin’s “Doctors’ Plot”, which accused Jewish physicians of conspiring to assassinate the Communist leadership, and which was intended as a prelude to the mass deportation of Soviet Jews to Siberia (fortunately, the old monster died first, and Khruschev dropped the policy). In all these cases, “Zionist” was used as an unsubtle code-word for “Jew”. Why do so many people, who think of themselves sincerely as anti-racists and opponents of discrimination have a blind spot when it comes to this one minority group? Largely, I think, because anti-racists rarely push disinterestedly for equality before the law. Their real motive – and it’s not, in itself, a bad one – is the desire to stick up for the underdog, to help the underprivileged. When it comes to, say, quotas in university admissions, they can be quite enthusiastic about racial discrimination. Jews haven’t always fitted easily into the role of underdog, especially since the birth of Israel. Indeed, that state exists precisely because its founders had had enough of playing such a part. Israel’s success against the odds is one of the wonders of the twentieth century. In a region where autocracy is the normal form of political organisation, it has remained a democracy – a gloriously cussed and disputatious democracy. In a strip of land without natural resources, it has created wealth from the greatest resource of all: human ingenuity. That very success means that, not only the state itself, but some non-Israeli Jews, now forfeit the sympathy of those who insist on seeing the world as a hierarchy of victimhood. It’s regrettable; but, in the circumstances, I’d say it’s a price worth paying. http://www.conservativehome.com/thecolumnists/2016/03/daniel-hannan-why-do-so-many-on-the-left-have-a-blind-spot-when-it-comes-to-anti-semitism.html

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so I don't know much about terminology, I always thought "zionism" meant "jewish people wanting a place to call home", is it something worse?

In its oldest, original form, yes that is what Zionism means. It became part of the modern geopolitical parlance in the late 1800s when Jews found themselves prey to antisemitic nationalist movements in Europe, particularly France and Russia.

“Nationalist” is a bit of a dirty word today due to some of that old European style antisemitism mixed with Islamophobia and other racism and other forms of bigotry creeping back into the mainstream, but at the time, say 1881 or so, there was a movement among Jewish folks that said “you know what? We are never gonna be equal to non-Jews unless we establish a nation of our own.”

Fun fact: one of the earliest writings on Zionism was by a guy named Leo Pinsker. He was a Russian-Polish doctor who was originally all for assimilation. Then he witnessed some pogroms over in Russia and that really got him thinking about Jewish nationalism as a defense against antisemitism, so he wrote a pamphlet in German that was called Auto-Emancipation.

The rest is history - Israel as a country was formed in 1948 and ever since then it’s been a lot of push-and-pull with its neighbors ever since to put it in very very simplistic terms. Today, again, in very simplistic terms, a Zionist is someone who likely advocates for Israel to continue being THE Jewish state.

Unfortunately, critics of that movement have done everything in their power and influence to redefine that word into someone that is racist, colonialist, or otherwise advocating for violence against Palestinian people.

It’s gonna mean different things to different people. It’s complicated.

I won’t lie to you, I am not very knowledgeable about Israel-Palestine. But I’ve always expressed Two-State leanings and have spoken out against violent extremism when I’ve observed it. I got there from learning it from pretty much every Jewish person I’ve ever spent time with. Every Israeli I’ve ever met has been a secular Jew with no beef with the Palestinians whatsoever, but strong condemnation against Hamas, who by pretty much everyone’s account is a militant group that managed to get themselves elected into power. And for the life of me, I can’t really blame them.

I just don’t get it. I thought the Left was supposed to be better than what we saw in Chicago over the weekend but it hasn’t been. I thought we understood nuance and the importance of a unique identity as part of a global collective and that set us apart from the objectivist Right. I’m tired of Jews being pushed out of activist spaces over beliefs they may or may not have. I’m tired of the Star of David being banned because someone THINKS it means something it isn’t. I’m tired of Jews being put through absurd ideological purity tests before they’re accepted into intersectional spaces. And then, what, they’re gonna have the nerve to get mad when Jews keep to themselves for their own protection? Like every marginalized group on the planet does? Give me a break.

I don’t want Palestinian kids to get blown up either. Literally no Jewish person I’ve ever met does. But what happened at the Chicago Dyke March was an absolute disgrace.

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Usrael is trying to outdo hitler and then claim their opponents are nazis 🤔

[notaconservative]

Thanks biden

Net favorability—the percentage of people viewing Israel positively after subtracting the percentage viewing it negatively—dropped globally by an average of 18.5 percentage points between September and December, decreasing in 42 out of the 43 countries polled. China, South Africa, Brazil, and several other countries in Latin America all went from viewing Israel positively to negatively. And many rich countries that already had net negative views of Israel—including Japan, South Korea, and the U.K.—saw steep declines. Net favorability in Japan went from -39.9 to -62.0; in South Korea from-5.5 to -47.8; and in the U.K. from -17.1 to -29.8.[...]

The U.S. remains the only rich country that still had net positive views of Israel. Net favorability dropped just 2.2 percentage points, from a net favorability of 18.2 to a net favorability of 16 from September to December. Washington's support for Israel carries a cost in global public opinion, however, particularly in Arab countries, the surveys show. In Egypt, the U.S. went from having a positive favorability of 41.1 to a negative favorability of -14.9 from September to December. In Saudi Arabia, the U.S. saw a similar trend, dropping from a positive favorability of 12.2 to -10.5 over the same time period.

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[notaconservative]

I could have sworn biden said something about protecting American lives... oh but apparently the victim wasn't from the right part of America. Canadian deaths are fine for biden, he doesn't give a fuck just like he doesn't give a fuck about protecting Jewish people here. Why else would he claim there's no safe place for them besides israel, instead of doing something about their safety in the country he supposedly leads?

So the occupation bombs UNRWA, the Palestinian food aid lifeline in Gaza, then it tells the outraged world that World Central Kitchen will be allowed to help, then it bombs them as well. World Central Kitchen has now suspended operations and ceases distributing food. So now what is the message to any foreign aid worker who wants to enter and help Gaza?

[notaconservative]

Don't fall for propaganda!

Transcript & Alt ID: Poster labeled 'Israeli Propaganda' that details various types of propaganda tactics, each with a color coordinated label.

Greenwashing - Israel appeals to environmentalism in order to deflect attention from or mask its harmful practices. EX: JNF tree-planting campaigns of invasive species.

Redwashing - Israel appeals to the image of progressive politics on order to deflect attention from its harmful practices. EX: Historic exclusion of non-Jewish workers from unions

Bluewahing - Israel uses humanitarian aid campaigns in order to deflect attention from its harmful practices. EX: 'Water infrastructure upgrades' that divert 6x more water to settlers than to Palestinians

Pinkwashing - Israel appeals to LGBTQ+ rights in order to deflect attention from its harmful practices. EX: blackmailing queer Palestinians into being informants under the threat of being outed to their communities. (transcriber's note: I don't feel this is a good example of pinkwashing, I think that mentioning that Israel has a habit of promoting itself as a safe haven for LGBT+ folks, and promoting Palestine solely as homophobic, in order to justify their actions is a more appropriate example)

Purplewashing - Israel appeals to women's rights and feminism in order to deflect attention from its harmful ideals. EX: Israeli Occupation Force drafts woman to military service by law to participate in the ethnic cleansing of Palestine.

Faithwashing - Israel appeals to interfaith dialogue in order to deflect attention from its harmful practices. EX: conflating Zionism and Judaism in order to accuse all criticism of Zionism as anti-semitic.

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@zionistbeyonce do you ever feel stupid for defending genociders? Next you'll say the old man was hamas 🤣🤣🤣

[notaconservative]

Bankrolled by biden/harris with our tax dollars, against our will, but they want us to vote for them again