#antisemitic propaganda

[elder-millennial-of-zion]

If Israel is destroyed, a whole lot of people will be very disappointed once they realize they still have student debt and no healthcare and the looming threat of climate change.

[condemning-twitter]

Fact Check: The commenter is referring to "Jewish Bolshevism". This is an antisemitic and anti-communist conspiracy theory propagated by the White movement in Russia and later by the Nazis. The idea was to portray the Bolshevik rule of Russia as a Jewish plot to destroy the "Aryans".

While it is true that Jews were overrepresented (comprising less than 2% of the Russian population, yet 5-6% of the Bolsheviks) this was not by an "overwhelming" amount. Jewish support of the Bolsheviks was a reaction to the widespread antisemitism promoted by the oppressive Tsarist regime in Russia, fueling all kinds of revolutionary movements. The Red Terror (1918-1922) did not target any particular ethnicities but instead political dissidents. Since religion was considered "anti-communist", the clergy was one of its many victims.

The commenter above is an antisemitic conspiracist, asserting the notion that Jews were "always the genocidal ones". Assigning one ethnic group alone the capacity for genocide relies on the idea that evil is a genetic trait and is therefore racist.

[the-garbanzo-annex-jr]

Just two months after the Massachusetts Teachers Association voted in favor of a ceasefire resolution labeling Israel’s defensive war against Hamas as “a genocidal war on the Palestinian people,” the union has once again engaged in the demonization and delegitimization of Israel. On March 21st the MTA hosted a two-hour webinar titled “Context and Connection: Palestinian Struggle Against Anti-Palestinian Racism.”

The webinar claimed to provide a “framework” for understanding anti-Palestinian racism. In fact, the one-sided panel of radical speakers offered a recitation of crude anti-Israel propaganda. “Racism” in their definition is any attempt by the Jewish people to fulfill their right to self-determination and the state of Israel to defend itself from attack by Arab countries and terrorist organizations. Not surprisingly, the Hamas massacre of 1200 Israelis on October 7th was barely mentioned.

The webinar focused instead on claiming Israel, and even in one presenter’s words: the “so-called United States,” are settler colonial states and that anti-Zionism is not antisemitism. Intentionally disregarding major events in the Arab-Israeli conflict and manufacturing absurd historical claims, the webinar promoted a narrative of Palestinian victimhood at the hands of Israeli oppression. Presenters falsely claimed the people living in the mandate during the 1920s were “Jewish Arabs, Muslim Arabs, and Christian Arabs.”

The ancient, indigenous and continuous Jewish presence in the land of Israel, where only the Jewish people have ever established an enduring sovereignty and where vast archeological and historical evidence attests to the Jewish connection is never mentioned.

The speakers misleadingly stated that the many wars launched by Israel’s Arab neighbors “erupted” as if they came out of nowhere. They even redefined the Jewish people as only consisting of a religion ignoring Jewish ethnic and national identities. When an audience member asked whether Israel had a right to exist, the queried presenter was silent, seemingly unable to say yes, and a second injected that Oslo conferred the right and diverted their response to insisting that Zionism is “exclusionary”, ignoring the equal rights enjoyed by all its citizens, Jewish and Arab. A presenter then stated it is necessary to “separate the Israelis from Israel.”

Trafficking in antisemitic tropes, one presenter showed a slide of Jewish organizations’ logos and stated that the criticism of anti-Zionism as antisemitism is made by “Boatloads of pseudo-grassroots organizations” and “billionaires with lots of money to influence presidential elections.”

MTA Union President Max Page stated that the MTA would also be providing a webinar on “the rising tide of antisemitism” in the future. This is risible. The MTA in promoting antisemitic propaganda is in no position to explain antisemitism to anyone.Worse, the MTA has encouraged teachers to spread falsehoods and lies demonizing Israel and Jews in their classrooms. The MTA has proven itself to be an extremist, divisive organization fostering anti-Jewish prejudice in schools rather than providing historical and factual accuracy for understanding an ongoing conflict – and reducing bigotry.

The MTA needs to issue a full and factual retraction of the material falsehoods and defamation of the Jewish people disseminated to the public in its March 21st webinar;

The MTA needs promptly to provide a date and equal time and prominence for a public webinar comprised of knowledgeable speakers on the subject of Israel and the Arab-Israeli conflict to help repair the harm done to public understanding by the MTA;

Teachers, parents, students and all citizens of Massachusetts have reason to be profoundly alarmed by the influence the MTA can have on the Commonwealth’s public schools as well as the wider community. There needs to be swift action to signal rejection of the bigoted messages conveyed by the MTA and to ensure measures that prevent any such messages entering classrooms.

[eretzyisrael]

[a-very-tired-jew]

The Cradle has long defended Hamas and other terrorist groups. It's a less known anti-Israel and antisemitic news site that has garnered more attention as other more well known ones have been explicitly linked to terrorism and the IRI. For examples of their bias; many of their authors openly praise the IRI and attempt to wash away its history of oppressive theocratic authoritarianism. At the same time, the authors attack any country in the ME region that stands up to the IRI or decides to help Israel in some capacity (such as Jordan during the IRI strike on Israel). And Mondoweiss is run and co-founded by Philip Weiss. Weiss has a long history of antisemitism. Yes, he is a Jew himself, but has repeatedly written about how he hates that part of himself and openly engages in antisemitic conspiracies about his ethnicity. Weiss is the quintessential "self hating" Jew that many have talked about. His behavior harkens back to Kissinger saying "If it were not for the accident of my birth, I would be antisemitic". Many of their authors have a history of supporting violent terrorism, praising terrorists, and being openly antisemitic. Their authors have openly lost positions at universities and other employment due to their open antisemitism. They're not quality sources. Period.

[notaplaceofhonour]

As a leftist Jew who believes strongly in the cause of dignity and freedom for the Palestinian people, and that Israel has abused them, I am begging fellow leftists to understand that real life is not a comic book. A government being “the bad guy” in a situation does not automatically make anyone who opposes it “the good guy”.

Hamas denies the Holocaust. Hamas disseminates the Protocols of the Elders of Zion—the conspiracy theory it paints is what they mean by “Zionist”. Hamas forbids foreign aid educators from teaching human rights to Palestinians, and claims that even teaching that the Holocaust happened is a war crime. Hamas has written the aim of annihilating Israel (the country and its people) into its charter—the mass slaughter and violent expulsion of 7 million Jews from the land is written into its laws.

There is no crime any state could ever do that would justify any of that; there is no act of state repression that could ever make it acceptable to side with the organization spreading Nazi pamphlets and Holocaust denial.

Oppose Bibi Netanyahu. Oppose Israel’s far-right, authoritarian government. Oppose Likud���s policies. Oppose its violence against Palestinian civilians. That isn’t antisemitic. But Hamas is—verifiably, beyond a shadow of a doubt, to its core—antisemitic. Its portrayal of Israeli Jews as blood-thirsty, child-killing master manipulators that control international media and finance is antisemitic. Its insistence that Palestinian freedom necessitates the death & expulsion of Jews from the land is antisemitic. Its redefinition of “Zionism” as a pejorative to mean genocidal Jewish/Israeli Supremacy is antisemitic.

Supporting the Palestinian people in their plight is a noble and loving goal; please never stop that. But do not let Hamas co-opt that into excusing or denying their rampant antisemitism and war crimes.

[hussyknee]

Wikipedia’s editors have voted to declare the Anti-Defamation League “generally unreliable” on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, adding it to a list of banned and partially banned sources. An overwhelming majority of editors involved in the debate about the ADL also voted to deem the organization unreliable on the topic of antisemitism, its core focus. A formal declaration on that count is expected next. The decision about Israel-related citations, made last week, means that one of the most prominent and longstanding Jewish advocacy groups in the United States — and one historically seen as the leading U.S. authority on antisemitism — is now grouped together with the National Inquirer, Newsmax, and Occupy Democrats as a source of propaganda or misinformation in the eyes of the online encyclopedia. Moreover, in a near consensus, dozens of Wikipedia editors involved in the discussion said they believe the ADL should not be cited for factual information on antisemitism as well because it acts primarily as a pro-Israel organization and tends to label legitimate criticism of Israel as antisemitism.

Imagine pouring millions into Hasbara for decades just to lose the information war this fucking badly lmaooo

Anyway, plugging my masterlist of Palestinian media and sources again:

[news4dzhozhar]

[elder-millennial-of-zion]

Also, “the Jews are responsible for our economic woes” is literal Nazi rhetoric.

[lem0nademouth]

according to the replies on this tweet literally every tv show has Zionist Propaganda™️ so i guess the hamasniks are just going to have to twiddle their thumbs for entertainment

edit: some of the nonsense from the replies

do not call yourself progressive or inclusive or revolutionary or anticolonial or whatever other fucking “I’m A Good Person” label de jour you’ve chosen if you say shit like this. you cannot talk like a Nazi and then insist you’re just an antizionist.

[odinsblog]

“I had a Zionist grandmother who grew up, she grew up in Poland, she was supposed to go to Israel to study. Her father had paid for her for the first year of tuition. And then in 1939, when she was in her last year of high school, Germany and the Soviet Union invaded Poland.

She ended up for a couple of years in the Soviet-occupied part of Poland, which was how she ended up in Moscow. And by the time Germany occupied all of Poland. So then she spent the rest of her life living in Moscow.

And 45 years after the end of the war, dreaming of being able to go to Israel, but not being able to because she was now stuck in the Soviet Union. And so I think I was very infected by, infected in a non-derogatory sense, by my grandmother's dream of Israel. And I had my own dream of Israel growing up as a, as a Jewish kid who was bullied and beaten up and teased.

I just wanted to live in a country that, that was majority Jewish. I could not understand why my parents would want to go to the United States and live in another country where Jews are in the minority. My parents on the other hand just didn't want to be Jewish.

Like their only experience of being Jewish was being systematically discriminated against. They were both born during the Second World War, so they were second generation, utterly non-religious and separated from any Jewish tradition, except the tradition of being a targeted minority. So they just, they just wanted to go somewhere where they wouldn't be Jewish.

And so when I was 15, a year after we moved to the United States, I actually went to Israel planning to stay there and didn't. For a variety of reasons, but one of them was being confronted with, with what I found at the age of 15, a shockingly racist society.

So the first time I went to Israel was when I was 15, it was 1982. And then there was like an 18, 17 or 18 year gap.

And I started traveling to Israel regularly from 1999, 2000. And the first time I went back was to actually complete the research on the book about my grandmother's. So it's been a good 25 years that I've been coming back.

And I think Israel has undergone a lot of changes in that time. But no, I don't think that like the kind of Ashkenazi Sephardic racism that shocked me in 1982 has found subtler expressions. But politics of settlement have only been exacerbated.

And I still find them extremely painful to observe, especially because some of my beloved relatives are settlers.

I did visit them this last time I was in Israel, because I really wanted to see what it looked like for them.

I was compelled to go visit them because of a Facebook post that my cousin made. And just to give you an idea, I really hold these people very, very dear. But for years, I would go to Israel, Palestine and not tell them that I was there, because I kind of couldn't face them.

So it's been a number of years since I last saw them, a number of years since I went to that settlement. But my cousin had posted something on Facebook. It was a picture of her son playing the violin.

And she wrote, in one of the houses where they stayed in Gaza, there was a violin. He played for his soldiers and then put the violin back. And I found that post-heart-rending and eye-opening, the picture of him playing the violin was not from Gaza.

It was from earlier, but he had apparently told her about playing the violin in Gaza. And obviously she was worried about her son serving in Gaza and so she's posting about it. And she wants to assert that he is a good boy.

But also, entirely missing from that post and from her world view is that somebody lived in that house in Gaza. That violin belonged to somebody. Like, it was such an extraordinary example of the blindness that we were talking about a little bit earlier that I wanted to go visit them and kind of engage with that blindness more.

And I got a really good dose of blindness to the point where, and we had this incredible moment when we went walking around the settlement after Shabbat lunch. And we sort of got to this hilltop where there's a swing and there's a little free library.

And we're looking out on a Palestinian village. And I said, what are we looking at, to my cousin? And she was trying to get her bearings.

And she said, where are we looking? And she named another settlement, which was kind of, which was not on our line of sight. It was like this literal example of looking at an actual Palestinian village that she drives past every day.

And before the village was sealed off after October 7th, she used to get gas there. And she knows it exists. But somehow she, also it also doesn't enter her geography.

It is nameless.”

—Masha Gessen, the descendant of Holocaust survivors, discusses the dehumanization of Palestinians (part 2 of 3)

[ind1g3n0us-lev1t3]

Genocide does not look like being given more food than some first world countries, nor does it look like this.

All these Gazans celebrating this ‘ceasefire deal’ look better fed than half of the United States.

Also, they’ve already threatened another October 7th.

[elder-millennial-of-zion]

“iSrAeLiS aRe BrAiNwAsHeD” you are projecting.

Look - really look - at how little Gazans know about Israel. How little they know about the country right next door, the country they claim to know more about than its own residents.

If they know so little, imagine how little YOU know. At least they have an excuse: Gaza is controlled by a terrorist organization and it does not have a free press. The press is bought and paid for by the totalitarian regimes of Iran and Qatar whose agenda is the destruction of Israel. They are inundated with propaganda. You antisemites “anti Israel” “anti Zionists” have the freedom to access any information in the world, including from Israel itself, and yet you choose to believe the narrative about Israel that comes not from actual Israelis, but from a terrorist propaganda machine. Their narrative is based on misinformation, and you choose to swallow the same misinformation exclusively and uncritically.

All those “independent journalists on the ground” in Gaza, and none of them have managed to educate their own people on the most basic facts about Israel that can be googled from across the world, let alone across a border.

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[nesyanast]

The State Department just published a 51 page report detailing over a century's worth of Russia's exploitation of antisemitism as a tactic to spread disinformation and propaganda