#Mike Peinovich

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[probablyasocialecologist]

At a rally near the White House, 40 white nationalist National Justice Party, or NJP, members demanded a ceasefire in Gaza on Oct. 28. “[In] a country as broke as ours … why the hell are they dragging us into another Zionist war?” yelled one member of the group, standing next to alt-right podcaster Mike “Enoch” Peinovich. After the speaker made an antisemitic reference to the U.S. as “Zionist occupied territory,” one of the attendees demanded “no more Jewish wars” to a passing cameraman.

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White nationalist Richard Spencer was notable for professing his support of the Zionist project and arguing that Jews and Israelis should support the alt-right because they “want the same things,” which in his formulation is authoritarian ethnic nationalism. Yet his commitment to Israel was opportunistic and has been a frequent topic of discussion on his various livestreams and private Zoom calls for Substack subscribers.  For white nationalists, the show of support for Palestinians is entirely a disingenuous attempt to hijack the conflict to add political weight to their antisemitism. “[For] neo-Nazis and many other white nationalists, anti-Zionism is based on hatred of Jews, not solidarity with Palestinians,” writes researcher of the far right, Matthew N. Lyons, in his 2018 book “Insurgent Supremacists.”  This appropriation of Palestinian struggles has been a long-term strategy in some sectors of the far right, which points to Israeli settler colonialism as an extension of the supposedly malevolent Jewish mind. “They have been doing this for years,” says antifascist researcher Daryle Lamont Jenkins. “It has been ‘an enemy of my enemy is my friend’ kind of thing. But in this case it is hollow, because the enemy of your enemy is also your enemy, but one you are trying to exploit.”

[lilyvalerieorchard]

Don't watch Kaiser Shounen.

He likes and follows members of the Gamergate/Comicsgate/Fandom Menace hate group like...

Literature Devil, Manga Kamen, LostChord, Critical Drinker, Just Some Guy...

and E;R, A LITERAL, HARDCORE NEO-NAZI.

These are not "critics" or "media analysists", these are vile hate mongers using "media analysis" as a trojan horse for their white supremacist, misogynist, anti-LGBTQ+ hate speech, all under the guise of "wanting better writing". Gamergate/Comicsgate/The Fandom Menace do not care about "wanting better writing", all they want is to chase women and marginalized people out of video games, comics, animation and film so they can gatekeep nerdom as an "apolitical", cishet male, whites only space.

This has been documented: https://thisiscomicsgate.wordpress.com/category/discrimination/racism/ https://angrywhitemen.org/2014/12/01/neo-nazis-for-gamergate/ https://angrywhitemen.org/2017/12/25/mike-peinovich-and-eric-striker-complain-that-feminists-and-jews-ruined-their-video-games/ https://web.archive.org/web/20180216050304/http://www.wehuntedthemammoth.com/2017/10/06/the-5-nazi-est-moments-from-buzzfeeds-expose-of-the-milobreitbart-alt-right-sausage-factory/ https://web.archive.org/web/20221129035022/https://www.wehuntedthemammoth.com/2015/08/24/weev-gamergate-is-the-biggest-siren-bringing-people-into-the-folds-of-white-nationalism/ https://rewritingripley.medium.com/in-plain-sight-how-white-supremacy-misogyny-and-hate-targeted-the-star-wars-sequel-trilogy-and-2fd0be4b242 https://thisiscomicsgate.wordpress.com/category/discrimination/transphobia/ https://thisiscomicsgate.wordpress.com/category/discrimination/sexism-misogyny/ https://thisiscomicsgate.wordpress.com/category/discrimination/homophobia/

Kaiser Shounen has fallen for their acts, spewing the very same hateful bile they propagate.

Don't give any of these ghouls a platform

P.S despite what these creeps tell you, "Mary Sue" is not and never has been a legitimate form of criticism. It is a sexist buzzword used to bash women/minority characters with agency and gatekeep marginalized creators from telling their stories.

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I could get your wife to pose in a dirndl and I wouldn’t even have to give ‘Weird’ Mike Peinovich any money. Skill issue.

[dchan87]

Can't say I'm surprised, unfortunately. And there's a whole swarm of marks who could gladly eat this shit up without knowing.

Around 40 people affiliated with the National Justice Party, a white nationalist and antisemitic group, gathered in front of the White House to protest Israel last weekend. The group was led by Mike Peinovich, a long-time white nationalist personality who previously used the alias “Mike Enoch,” and was one of the architects of the deadly 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville. Israel “is a pure genocidal state, make no mistake,” Peinovich told rally attendees over a PA system. “We Americans have been snookered into supporting [Israel] by Jewish control of our banks, our media, and our politicians, but we have to say enough and rise up as a people.” Their small demonstration was dwarfed by the hundreds-strong protest that flooded the streets of Washington D.C. But Peinovich’s rhetoric is an example of how far-right antisemites are trying to use the pro-Palestine movement, hijack some of its language criticizing the Israeli government’s actions in Gaza, and then use that as a vehicle to push anti-Jewish conspiracy theories and tropes into the mainstream.  The presence of the National Justice Party in D.C. shouldn’t be seen as an indication that there is some ideological kinship between that group and the wider pro-Palestine movement. Fringe extremist groups are first and foremost opportunists, and will leap at any chance to insert themselves into a popular movement. In 2020, the anti-government Boogaloo movement’s gun-toting adherents—including white supremacists—unsuccessfully tried to latch onto the Black Lives Matter movement by claiming they shared similar goals.  “They’re not pro-Palestine, they just hate Jews, and they see this moment as an opportunity to get attention, get coverage, put their banners, their images, their ideas, into reporting patterns,” said Jon Lewis, a research fellow at George Washington University’s Program on Extremism, told VICE News of the recent displays by brazen antisemites. “Nine out of ten of them would probably happily commit a hate crime against anyone [at the pro-Palestine protest].

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Around 40 people affiliated with the National Justice Party, a white nationalist and antisemitic group, gathered in front of the White House to protest Israel last weekend. The group was led by Mike Peinovich, a long-time white nationalist personality who previously used the alias “Mike Enoch,” and was one of the architects of the deadly 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville.

Israel “is a pure genocidal state, make no mistake,” Peinovich told rally attendees over a PA system. “We Americans have been snookered into supporting [Israel] by Jewish control of our banks, our media, and our politicians, but we have to say enough and rise up as a people.”

Their small demonstration was dwarfed by the hundreds-strong protest that flooded the streets of Washington D.C. But Peinovich’s rhetoric is an example of how far-right antisemites are trying to use the pro-Palestine movement, hijack some of its language criticizing the Israeli government’s actions in Gaza, and then use that as a vehicle to push anti-Jewish conspiracy theories and tropes into the mainstream. 

The presence of the National Justice Party in D.C. shouldn’t be seen as an indication that there is some ideological kinship between that group and the wider pro-Palestine movement. Fringe extremist groups are first and foremost opportunists, and will leap at any chance to insert themselves into a popular movement.In 2020, the anti-government Boogaloo movement’s gun-toting adherents—including white supremacists—unsuccessfully tried to latch onto the Black Lives Matter movement by claiming they shared similar goals. 

[organisationskoval]

93) The Right Stuff (TRS) - neonazistowska strona internetowa, promująca kwestionowanie holokaustu i biały nacjonalizm, zajmująca się teoriami spiskowymi, zawierająca blog i forum dyskusyjne, a także podcasty, w tym The Daily Shoah. Założony przez amerykańskiego neonazistę i antysemickiego teoretyka spiskowego Mike'a Peinovicha (lepiej znanego jako Mike Enoch), blog promował używanie „echa”, antysemickiego znacznika, który używa potrójnych nawiasów wokół nazwisk w celu identyfikacji Żydów w mediach społecznościowych. Alex McNabb, współgospodarz The Daily Shoah, został zwolniony z pracy jako technik ratownictwa medycznego po brutalnych i rasistowskich komentarzach, które wyraził w podcaście. Witryna promuje białą supremację, neonazizm, antysemityzm, zaprzeczanie holokaustowi i teorię spiskową ludobójstwa białych. Cytuje pracę Kevina B. MacDonalda, byłego profesora psychologii i antysemickiego teoretyka spiskowego, znanego z twierdzenia, że istnieje żydowski spisek mający na celu kontrolowanie świata w celu podważenia interesów białych ludzi. Wiele treści TRS jest poświęconych negowaniu holokaustu, a także zaprzeczaniu ludobójczej polityce nazistów wobec Polaków, Rosjan i innych słowiańskich „Untermenschen”. Aby usprawiedliwić swoje zaprzeczanie nazistowskim okrucieństwom, gospodarze TRS promują teorię spiskową, że dokumentacja potwierdzająca te ludobójstwa została sfałszowana przez nieokreślonych Żydów lub agentów Żydów. W grudniu 2012 r. The Right Stuff określiło się jako „blog polityczny i kulturalny”, którego celem było zjednoczenie „alt prawicy” oraz trollowanie liberałów i postępowców. Z czasem podcast stał się bardziej radykalny i przyjął konspiracyjną neonazistowską ideologię. Blog opracował i zachowuje leksykon definiujący żargon używany w jego publikacjach, a także szerszy ruch alt-right. Witryna zyskała ogólne rozgłos dzięki promocji potrójnych nawiasów lub (((echo))). W 2014 roku program zaczął wykorzystywać efekt zniekształcenia, gdy w jego części „Merchant Minute” wymieniano nazwiska Żydów. Mem został dostosowany do tekstu za pomocą nawiasów, a latem 2016 roku stał się znany dzięki kolumnie na ten temat w New York Times. The Right Stuff była jedną z pierwszych stron internetowych, które używały terminu „cuckservative”. Ponadto blog był wczesnym orędownikiem propagandowego filmu With Open Gates, który atakuje wielokulturowość i uchodźców z Bliskiego Wschodu w Europie oraz promuje teorię spiskową, że Żydzi sprowadzają uchodźców, aby zaszkodzić białym ludziom. Blog odnotowuje stały spadek w stosunku do szczytu w 2017 r. We wrześniu 2021 r. Raport Southern Poverty Law Center wykazał, że ruch na stronie spadł o 87,5% od lutego 2017 r., co zbiegło się ze spadkiem całkowitej liczby członków obsady pojawiających się w The Daily Shoah. W lutym 2019 roku Mike Peinovich odpowiedział na wezwanie do ujawnienia danych z pozwu cywilnego Sines v. Kessler, stwierdzając, że TRS „straciło stałych słuchaczy”, a wielu użytkowników „usunęło swoje konta i przestało odwiedzać witrynę”. Na początku 2017 roku Mike Peinovich, założyciel The Right Stuff, który przez lata działał pod pseudonimem Mike Enoch, został oszukany przez innych neonazistów, którzy opublikowali informacje biograficzne o nim, które były sprzeczne z jego wyznawaną ideologią. Dox ujawnił, że żona Peinovicha była Żydówką i że ich ślub zawierał tradycyjne żydowskie obrzędy i śpiewy. Jako neonazista Peinovich był również wyśmiewany po ujawnieniu jego serbskiego nazwiska, w świetle rasowej klasyfikacji Serbów jako podludzi („ Untermenschen ”) przez nazistowskie Niemcy oraz ludobójstwa Serbów popełnionego przez marionetkowy reżim chorwackich Ustaszy. Po doxxingu niektórzy zwolennicy Peinovicha zareagowali gniewnie na ujawnione informacje. Rozpowszechniali sfałszowane zdjęcia jego i jego żony, które wyśmiewały ich pochodzenie etniczne. Dziennikarz Salon, Matthew Sheffield stwierdził, że neonazistowscy słuchacze podcastów spekulowali, że Peinovich był Żydem, „kontrolowaną opozycją” lub w inny sposób nieszczery w swoich przekonaniach. Alex McNabb jest byłym technikiem ratownictwa medycznego (EMT), który pojawił się w The Daily Shoah pod pseudonimem „Dr. Narcan”. Został zwolniony z pracy jako ratownik medyczny po tym, jak wyszły na jaw rasistowskie komentarze, które wygłosił w The Daily Shoah, w tym porównując czarnych pacjentów do zwierząt i twierdząc, że torturował młodego czarnego chłopca za pomocą igły cewnikowej.

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Conservative elites and their feckless Republican Party allies—primarily Jewish—are pushing back on normal Americans for aggressively opposing further encroachment of homosexual and transgender propaganda in the cultural and educational spheres. Much of this opposition has manifested in ordinary people labeling those in favor of homosexual and transgender indoctrination in schools and in children’s films as “groomers.”

Parents groups have caused major disruptions to the system’s pro-gay efforts, confronting school boards and putting teachers on the defensive for trying to preach the LGBTQ agenda. Last week large protests were staged outside the offices of the Walt Disney Corporation in Burbank, California.

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Initially it was gay advocates in the media who complained about the use of the groomer label, but increasingly voices on the right are cautioning concerned parents and citizens against using the effective attack.

Jewish neocon and infamous warmonger Bill Kristol complained on Twitter that those using the label and opposing the gay agenda are “embracing and …toying with The Protocols of the Elders of Zion”

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Another Jewish neocon, David Harsanyi, penned an editorial in The National Review chastising normal Americans for “Turning it to eleven” on the issue. Harsanyi would prefer the socially conservative base of Republican voters follow the lead of GOP politicians and give in on every issue.

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The recent groomer controversy comes in the wake of Republican Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signing the so-called “Don’t Say Gay” law, which restricts teachers from discussing sexuality outside of the assigned class curriculum for kids below 4th grade, and requires schools to inform parents if a child starts saying they are gay or trans. Even this rather milquetoast and ineffectual law has generated outrage from Disney, which operates its premier amusement park in Orlando, Florida and has many offices and employees in the state.

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Gay and Liberal teachers have taken to social media to cry about how they are so oppressed and devastated under the parental rights law because they are not allowed to discuss their sexual practices or things they did with their gay partners over the weekend with children as young as 4-years-old.

Florida’s law, while the focus of gay rage, only provides protection for children until roughly age 10, at which point presumably teachers are free to groom children with the blessing of Republicans.

The weakness of the Republican party’s actions aren’t limited to the Sunshine State. In fact the GOP has a storied history of failing to protect school students.

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Even on something as relatively inconsequential as women’s sports, Republicans would rather cater to the sensibilities of groomers and shift the discussion to non-starters like school choice or privatization.

The fact is, people who want to discuss their perversions and sex lives with children are, in reality, groomers. Their self-admitted purpose is to make children see LGBTQ as morally superior to those who supposedly oppress them—normal people—and therefore make them more likely to embrace LGBTQ. Children who “come out” are lauded and rewarded as brave and special.

This is why there has been an explosion of self-professed homosexuality and other unnatural perversions among generation Z.

The National Justice Party supports protecting students from K-12 from any discussion of homosexuality, transgenderism or any other kind of “kink” or deviant sexual practice in schools or on film. The LGBTQ agenda shouldn’t be taught in school or appear in children’s movies and TV shows at all.

The people who attempt to indoctrinate children with gay propaganda or normalize perverse sexual practices with grade school kids should be arrested and imprisoned on felony charges for the sexual corruption of minors.

The conservative elite and policy makers in the Republican party must stop bowing to the wishes of Jewish donors and homosexual advocates like Paul Singer and his cabal of pro-gay hedge fund managers.

The National Justice Party stands for the protection of children from sexual predators, without apology, reservation or qualification.

[micdotcom]

Mike Enoch, the neo-Nazi blogger behind (((echoes))), has a Jewish wife

Over the weekend, unnamed activists leaked the true identity of Mike Enoch, the neo-Nazi behind TheRightStuf.biz and co-host of its Daily Shoah podcast.

According to the Medium post, which has since been taken down for rules violations — but is still archived online — Enoch is actually Mike Peinovich.

Peinovich lives in New York City's ritzy Upper East Side neighborhood, has a "lucrative tech job" and a "liberal family, rooted in the affluent suburb of Montclair, New Jersey." 

The Medium post noted that Peinovich concealed his true identity to enjoy the trappings of his liberal city lifestyle.

As news of his true identity spread, Peinovich — whose Right Stuff site popularized (((echoes))) — was forced to admit to fans his true identity — and that his wife is Jewish.

According to Salon, Peinovich's wife appeared to be aware of her husband's online identity — and even made several appearances on the podcasts. Read more

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Matthew N Lyons, a longtime scholar of the far right and author of a forthcoming book on the “alt-right”, agrees that the movement is facing a difficult moment.   “There’s been real disagreement between the alt-right and some of its sympathisers. The brouhaha over fascist salutes at the NPI conference was an example of that. Some people were critical of Spencer for making the alt-right look bad, especially figures on the alt-light,” he said. The disagreements over tactics and ideology is “to some extent coming more out into the open. It’s likely those tensions will continue.”   But Lyons said the fact that they were on the back foot was largely a testament to the effectiveness of anti-fascist tactics. He said doxxing “does certainly constrain their freedom of action in the sense that it makes them more cautious. Mike Peinovich did not want his name to be made public because of work and personal considerations. That’s clearly an example where doxxing weakened the movement.”   But is violence a legitimate tactic? “The far right have, again and again, shown that they are quite ready to use violence, and more likely to use it against those who they see as vulnerable. If they see that people are prepared to defend themselves, in many cases they back off.”

The Weakening of the Alt-Right

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Things People Blame the Jews For, Volume LVI: The Impossible Burger

Have you tried The Impossible Burger -- the plant-based veggie patty that actually tastes like a regular, meatified hamburger? I have -- at White Castle, of all places. Impossible Burgers are pricier than their dead-animal counterparts, and I figured a slider was a cheap way to try it out with minimal risk in case I didn't like it. (A friend told me that I was especially brave to try an Impossible Burger at White Castle. I remarked that it would have probably been braver to eat the meat patties there). How was it? Well, my assessment is in line with the conventional wisdom, I think: it's not the best burger I've ever had, but it's not the worst either, and most importantly it does taste like an actual burger. That puts it head and shoulders above any other competitor, as far as I'm concerned. Anyway, if you're like me and you've had an Impossible Burger, take a moment to thank -- or blame -- your local Jew. Because ...

[E]nter a new food-borne Jewish plot: the menacing Impossible Burger.

You may recognize that creation as a non-meat-based patty that claims to be indistinguishable in taste and texture from a traditional hamburger.

But one Joseph Jordan and one Mike Peinovich claim to have uncovered the sordid truth. They announced on their paywall-protected white power podcast — that the fake meat is, as you may have suspected, part of a Jewish scheme to destroy the white race.

It is an odd accusation (aside from its essential oddness), since the scientist-founder of Impossible Foods Inc. is a lily-white gentleman by the name of Patrick O. Brown. But who knows? Maybe his decidedly un-Jewish name is as fake as his burgers, he has bleached his skin and hidden under his T-shirt lies a tallis kattan.

It’s not entirely clear how the newfangled burger ties into the Jewish plot. But it apparently has something to do with the purported dangers of soy and an intent to, as Messrs. Jordan and Peinovich assert, “make it impossible for working people to be able to afford meat, make it impossible for working people to drive automobiles, make it impossible for average people to live in an industrial society.”

And should that case somehow prove less than convincing, Mr. Jordan adds, “They wanna make us into India!”

Making things even more undeniable, he adds that “the new breed of hyper-wealthy Judeo-capitalists in the tech industries especially” want to usurp industries currently run by “goys.”

Mr. Peinovich then provides the coup de grâce: “Oh, you’re not gonna believe this: it’s kosher!”

I do believe it, actually, seeing as the Impossible Burger is -- again -- a plant-based product. via The Debate Link https://ift.tt/2rg9Xk2

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2020 has sent shockwaves throughout the world. First, the coronavirus pandemic was used as a catalyst by anti-Semites and conspiracy theorists across the political spectrum to blame Jews and Israel. Now, the shocking killing of George Floyd is the latest tragedy to be appropriated by the far-right and anti-Israel activists against Jews. THE FAR-RIGHT CLAIM JEWS ARE ORCHESTRATING THE PROTESTS Far-right extremists have rekindled an old conspiracy theory that Jews are the organizing masterminds behind the world’s institutions and the world’s problems. Their current claim is that the protests and riots are designed to benefit Jews, against whites. As Lee Rogers, writer for the Daily Stormer stated, “What a shocker. Jews are using the George Floyd murder to attack White people...” The far-right proclaim that the agitators are funded by Jewish money. Neo-Nazi, Kyle Hunt stated that ”They []ews] Are Starting a Race War So People Don’t Rally Against ZOG [Zionist Occupation Government].”

ANTI-ISRAEL ACTIVISTS CLAIM THAT ISRAEL IS ENGINEERING U.S. POLICE BRUTALITY Anti-Israel activists have claimed that Israel and American Jewish organizations are responsible for police brutality resulting in the deaths of black people, such as George Floyd. They state that U.S. police forces are trained by Israel to deliberately use brutal methods of policing. They further claim that this training is organized and sponsored by the American Jewish community.

This false and dangerous accusation was initiated by fringe organization, Jewish Voice Peace (JVP), in 2017, with the launch of their “Deadly Exchange” smear campaign. The campaign claimed that Israeli training programs include, “extrajudicial executions, shoot-to-kill, police murders, racial profiling, massive spying and surveillance, deportation and detention.” As part of their campaign, JVP even released a video accusing [00:04:04] mainstream Jewish organizations of complicity in police violence against Black and Brown communities. JVP’s lie has now spread and become a popular conspiracy theory among anti-Israel activists.

For example, Abbas Hamideh of Al-Awda tweeted: “This is where the Minneapolis Police Department learned their police brutality tactics from. israeli occupation terrorist soldiers (on the left) murder Palestinians on a daily basis. We must stop training our American police officers to be gestapo units. #GeorgeFloyd #Palestine.

And Dunia Ghanimah, president of a Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) chapter, tweeted: “after all, the U.S. police departments are sent to Israel, or sometimes Israeli forces come to the United States, to train on joint tactics to brutalize innocent Black/Palestinian lives.”

So there you have it, according to anti-Semites, Jews are to blame for both rioting and looting and also the police tactics to quell the rioting and looting.

The far-right and the anti-Israel activists have more in common then they would have you believe.

IN THEIR OWN WORDS... The individuals and organizations quoted below have a history of anti-Semitism. While they come from different extremes of the political spectrum, they share a common strategy of exploiting tragedy to attack Jews and the State of Israel.

THE FAR-RIGHT

Lee Rogers “What a shocker. Jews are using the George Floyd murder to attack White people...This is why I hate you kikes...Just f**k off to Israel and enjoy your Jewish supremacist state. You can take your beloved colored pets with you too.”

Lee Rogers “No Susan, the riots are funded by wealthy Jews like George Soros and are being carried out by anti-fascist terrorist groups who are agitating blacks to go ape.��� Read more…

Kyle Hunt ”They []ews] Are Starting a Race War So People Don’t Rally Against ZOG [Zionist Occupation Government].” Read More…

Mike Peinovich https://twitter.com/MikePsJuice/status/1267319941923045376 “I'm not mad about it [looting], because I understand what blacks are about. It would be like getting mad at the wind for blowing. I'm mad at the jews and their white butt goys organizing society around deliberately not understanding it and making ordinary white people pay for it.” Read more…

Ryan Dawson https://twitter.com/RyDawson2/status/1266575463905849345 “ (((Them))) will play both sides here trying to get blacks and whites to go at each other.” Read more…

Note: The use of triple parentheses, known as “echoes,” has been adopted by antisemites, such as neo-Nazis and white nationalists, to stigmatize and target individuals of Jewish background for online harassment. ANTI-ISRAEL ACTIVISTS

Jewish Voice for Peace https://jewishvoiceforpeace.org/update-on-deadly-exchange-campaign/ “At Jewish Voice for Peace, and in our coalitions focused on ending the Deadly Exchange...We are closer than ever before to a true sea-change in this country, and all of us have a responsibility to stay focused on the fight to #DefundThePolice.”

BDS Movement https://twitter.com/BDSmovement/status/1073253630101344258 “US and Israeli police are sharing violent and repressive tactics. These police exchange programs have been devastating for both communities of color in the United States and for Palestinians. End the #DeadlyExchange” U.S. Campaign for Palestinian Rights (USCPR) https://twitter.com/USCPR_/status/1266113526545944576: “The Israeli military trains US police in racist and repressive policing tactics, which systematically targets black and brown bodies.” Read more...

Abbas Hamideh, Al-Awda https://twitter.com/Resistance48/status/1265684774187909120 “This is where the Minneapolis Police Department learned their police brutality tactics from. israeli occupation terrorist soldiers (on the left) murder Palestinians on a daily basis. We must stop training our American police officers to be gestapo units. #GeorgeFloyd #Palestine.

Dunia Ghanimah, SJP “After all, the U.S. police departments are sent to Israel, or sometimes Israeli forces come to the United States, to train on joint tactics to brutalize innocent Black/Palestinian lives.” Read more…

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EXCERPTS:

“GROSS: When you decided to follow some of the trolls before and after the presidential election, you had to decide whether, in doing so, you were exposing them and therefore doing a productive thing or whether you were giving them more of a platform by talking about them in The New Yorker and then writing a book about them, letting people know their names. And my impression is, even from reading your book, that a lot of the people who have been putting out the disinformation on American social media, they want attention. I mean, going viral is really important to them, and getting attention seems to be really important to them. And you would be giving it to them.

MARANTZ: Mmm hmm, yeah. I lost a lot of sleep over that. I did not want to be used as a vector for propaganda. I didn't want to be someone else's pawn. And look, I mean, I think it would be naive to ignore the fact that there is some transactional nature to all journalism and especially this kind of journalism that, as you say, is really fundamentally about attention. There are a lot of people in the book who thrive on any kind of attention, whether it's positive or negative. They monetize it. They use it to build their brand up. So I knew that that would be part of it. And a lot of times, when a person or an event or a storyline didn't meet a certain threshold of newsworthiness or instructiveness or any of these other things, I didn't include it. And that's - the majority of things didn't reach that threshold.”

“MARANTZ: So some online activists found out who [Mike Enoch] really was, put that information out there, and who he turned out to be was a guy named Mike Peinovich, living on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. He was married to a Jewish woman. He came from Maplewood and Montclair - these very sort of progressive, kind of multicultural suburbs in New Jersey. He had gone to high school with Lauryn Hill and Zach Braff. His father was a professor of "Beowulf." He had an adopted brother who was biracial.So again, as often happened when I would delve into this stuff, it just - none of it was what I had thought it would be if I was just sort of using my caricature, fill-in-the-blanks imagination. And at that point, I was intrigued. So I actually - I wrote to him, to the propagandist, and I also wrote to another email address called Mike Peinovich, and that one turned out to be his father, Mike Peinovich Sr. And then it - I ended up finding a kind of family saga buried in it.”

“MARANTZ: So you know, they - for instance, they invented the meme of putting three parentheses around the names of Jewish people. That was then something you saw everywhere. So a lot of...

GROSS: Like, on Twitter, a lot of, like, Jewish journalists have the three parentheses around each side of their name to say, yeah, I'm Jewish, and I'm proud of that. That's fine.

MARANTZ: Yeah, to kind of reclaim it.

GROSS: Yeah, to reclaim it so that you can't be attacked for being Jewish. You're saying, yeah, I am.

MARANTZ: Yeah. And so that was the kind of thing where most people who did that probably had no idea where it originated, and yet if you actually go trace that meme back to its source, what you see is that this wasn't - it obviously wasn't just innocent fun. It also wasn't just a way to make Jews feel upset and afraid, although it was that, too. It was specifically - what they were interested in doing was called naming the Jew. So they're very put off by the fact that Jews can appear to be white, but in their pseudoscientific hierarchy, Jews are not white. And they're very, very concerned with this. You know, Jews are these shape-shifters, these scary creatures to them.“

“GROSS: So Enoch is anti-Semitic, racist and promotes those thoughts on his blog and podcast. Did he support Donald Trump during the election? Does he support President Trump now? Did he play any role in promoting Trump?

MARANTZ: Yeah. So he and the rest of the alt-right definitely supported Trump during the campaign and saw him as the best they were ever going to get from a plausible presidential candidate. I mean, they saw him as someone who would give voice to their kind of white identity movement in a tacit way but still in a way that sounded very clear to them.After he became president, he started to alienate them by being erratic and inconsistent - also by being a little too hawkish. A lot of these people came out of anti-war organizing, either from the left or the right or both. So when he started dropping bombs on Syria, a lot of the alt-right stopped being Trump supporters. And then also when he failed to build the wall and failed to enact what they wanted, which was essentially a proto-white nationalist agenda, he lost a lot of their support, too.But a lot of them - you know, in a way the anti-Semitism, it's not just a kind of purely irrational - I mean, it's obviously irrational, but it doesn't come out of nowhere. A lot of it for them comes out of what they perceive as libertarian or anti-war politics.

GROSS: So if Trump were to run again, do you think he'd have the support of Mike Enoch or other people that you've written about in the book?

MARANTZ: Yeah, it's a really good question. A lot of them have moved on to other people like Tulsi Gabbard. A lot of people in my book are really into Tulsi these days.”

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Moslem Convert Mike Peinovich is Very Concerned About His Brothers in Iran

Moslem Convert Mike Peinovich is Very Concerned About His Brothers in Iran

Mike Peinovich, a Jewish convert to Islam, is very concerned about the coronavirus that is sweeping Iran.

https://twitter.com/MikePsJuice/status/1235767584496201730

As usual, Moslem Mike blames America for Iran’s woes.

It couldn’t possibly be that Iranians are insane religious fanatics who go around licking shrines to deliberately contract the coronavirus.

No, only Zionists would…

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First Amendment Run Amok?

First Amendment Run Amok?

We all remember last August, when white supremacist groups held a rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, on the pretext of protesting the removal of a Civil War statue of Robert E. Lee.  At least, that was what we were told was the purpose of the rally.  One of the organizers let it slip that the real purpose of the rally was to unify far-right hate groups including white nationalists, white…