#fuck islamist terrorism

[fdelopera]

Exactly this. Why the fuck are people so quick to put their trust in a group of murderous terrorists with connections to ISIS. This is not an "enemy of our enemy is our friend" situation. The enemy of our enemy in this case is still our enemy. Assad is a monster, and Jolani is a monster too. He didn't get that $10 MILLION bounty on his head for shits and giggles. He is a murderous terrorist.

I don't think anyone should criticize Israel for destroying the Assad Regime's military capabilities and chemical weapons supplies. Jolani and his terrorist minions are intending to use whatever firepower they can to slaughter Syrian civilians, starting with the Kurds (they've also been attacking Syrian Christians, and many Druze communities are rightly afraid that they'll be next). Jolani would absolutely have used those chemical weapons against the Kurds if he had been able to.

And then of course, HTS wants to try to destroy Israel. Because of course they do. Jolani is backed by Erdoğan, and Erdoğan is trying to slaughter his way to a "New Ottoman Empire." That is Erdoğan's STATED goal. He has already threatened to invade Israel. Erdoğan is using Jolani to further his ambitions to conquer Israel, and Jolani is in agreement with this goal. HTS's most pressing concern right now is attacking the Syrian Kurds on Erdoğan's behalf and preventing the Kurds from establishing an independent Kurdish state. But they very much will try to attack Israel at some point in the future.

Also, Assad's weapons don't belong to the "Rebels" any more than they do to any other average Syrian. They belonged to Assad. And since Assad has fled to Daddy Putin like a little bitch and abandoned his weapons, Israel is within its rights to destroy those weapons during the period of power vacuum before Jolani tries to establish a new government.

Also, we HAVE to acknowledge that Jolani is operating on the most basic CEO logic in his "promise" not to attack minority communities in Syria. He is letting his terrorist minions do the killing. He's saying, "I didn't do the bad thing. One of my employees did. I'll get rid of the employee when he gets caught so I can remain virtuous and keep my hands clean."

Jolani is like, "I'm not going to murder the Kurds. Oh no. Not me. (Yo HTS, go murder some Kurds. I won't look.) See, I'm not murdering any Kurds."

Jolani is already allowing his terrorist forces attack Syria’s minority Alawite community. This is because Assad is Alawite, and HTS has decided to blame the entire Alawite community for Assad's crimes. And HTS have also been attacking Syrian Christian communities. The Druze communities also recognize the danger that minority communities face in Syria, which is why the Druze communities on the Syrian side of the Golan Heights have asked Israel to annex them.

The long and short of it is this: Don't believe terrorists, don't believe politicians, and don't believe terrorists pretending to be politicians.

https://www.tumblr.com/xclowniex/771654617505398784/its-really-weird-in-when-leftists-in-general-but?source=share

The vast majority of Queer people are completely disgusted and appalled by pedophiles, the vast majority of Israelis either support what's happening to Palestinians or act stupid and shift the conversation to anti-semitism because they can't stand the idea of not being the victims, its not comparable at all because you will never see a gay pedophile trying to gaslight you into thinking that they're equally as much of a victim as the kid they molested or that you're homophobic if you feel sympathy for them.

Except this is where you are wrong and engaging in exactly the same type of rhetoric I was speaking about the post.

It's always really funny when you make a post about a general rhetoric and then someone goes "no you're wrong" whilst being the exact type of person you're talking about.

Because the thing is, most Israelis do not want to settle Gaza.

And when the topic does get "shifted to antisemitism" it's not being shifted by the Israeli or jew, but by the non jew being antisemitic.

There are ways in which you can and should criticize the Israeli government, and then there is antisemitic masked as criticism of Israel. There is very much a line, and pepple do cross it. If a whole bunch of Israelis and jews are telling you that you have crossed that line, then you've crossed the line. You shouldn't be looking at non jews for guidance on what is and isn't antisemitic, you should be listening to jews.

And also, I have seen queer pedophiles try to gaslight people into thinking pedophilia is okay. I forgot her name but there is this queer woman who bought a castle somewhere in Europe who is also a furry who uses that exact argument to justify her pedophilia. But just like the whole point of that post is, it is a very small minority of queer people who think like that, so therefore does not represent queer people.

But of course it is far more convenient for you to instead ignore the point and continue to belive that a minority of Israelis must represent all israelis as doubling down when your opinion is challenged is far easier than stepping back and reexamining your beliefs.

[sole-e-acqua]

Negotiating with terrorists is wrong, says former terrorist | Cuomo

[nando161mando]

🇫🇷Francia anuncia la ilegalización/disolución del grupo fascista GUD París. Junto a tres grupos de extrema derecha más y uno islamista.

🇫🇷France announces the illegalization/dissolution of the fascist group GUD Paris. Along with three more extreme right groups and one Islamist group.

[glitzy-dynamite]

Hmm I guess you can easily spot the difference.

People I DO hate:

People I DO NOT hate:

So maybe that’s not because I’m a racist 🤔🤔🤔🤔

[fdelopera]

It's 99 years since Hitler published Mein Kampf, and you goyim have decided that it's once again "time to kill the Jews o'clock."

All you Hamasniks who shriek "go back to Europe" at us Jews, this is the death sentence that you want to send us to.

Trust and believe, Europe is sending us VERY clear signals that we are not welcome. And we are listening. And we are moving back to our indigenous homeland, Israel.

the footage coming out of amsterdam is terrifying and horrible. this is a pogrom. this is what “globalize the intifada” means.

[matan4il]

As I promised to update, I'm back from the hospital and I'm okay.

Food was starting to run out (only had enough left for about half a day), I really didn't want to go to the store when it's dangerous to be away from the bomb shelter, but had no choice. Got food, but there's no bottled water to be found anywhere, exactly when Israeli citizens were instructed last night to stock up our bomb shelters with enough dry food and bottled water for at least three days.

The number of confirmed dead is officially at 900 (still not final), the number of wounded is at over 2,600, the number of kidnapped is at least 150. The number of terrorists who breached Israel's border and massacred civilians on Saturday is estimated to be at least 1,500.

I mentioned Mor and her grandmother already, but I felt like hearing her telling their story is important enough to share this vid. Testimonies like this are coming out in incomprehensible numbers.

Since the beginning of this war on Israel on Saturday, five independent terrorist attacks were attempted and stopped. Thankfully, no one was reported to have been murdered, though there are casualties.

In Egypt, a soldier guarding tourists (likely inspired by Hamas' massacre) opened fire at a group from Israel. He murdered two Israelis and their Egyptian local tour guide. At least one more person was also wounded in this terror attack.

There have been rockets fired into Israel from the north by Hezbollah (while Hamas fires thousands of rockets from the south) and there was also a breach of Israel from the north by another terrorist organization named Islamist Jihad. During this, Israel's northern citizens were instructed to lock themselves inside their homes. All of the terrorists who infiltrated Israel from the north were killed, but so was an Israeli commander, Alim Abdallah. He was supposed to finish his army service this coming Sunday. May his memory be a blessing.

On a personal note, my former boss' son was killed (may his memory be a blessing. ז"ל), and one of my colleagues has been kidnapped and is held hostage in Gaza.

Another personal story is that of Lior Asulin. He was a talented soccer player. Among other clubs, he played for an Arab team and helped it become Israel's soccer champion. He was murdered at the music festival that he went to in order to celebrate his birthday, and where at least 270 young people were butchered (ז"ל).

There's news from other countries about anti-Israeli demonstrations where the massacre of innocent Israelis is celebrated, in Australia the pro-Palestinian demonstrators shouted "Fuck the Jews" as well as "Gas the Jews."

In at least one protest a pro-Israeli demonstrator was beaten up:

And already there are antisemitic incidents, where Jewish establishments outside of Israel are being targeted.

Countries whose citizens are known to have been kidnapped or murdered by Hamas in the attack on Israel:

(for all of my updates and ask replies regarding Israel, click here)

[jewelleria]

stop infantilizing palestinians.

it’s just fucking racist. it contributes to the (false) idea that palestine were so oppressed by their evil colonizers that they had “no choice” but to act like barbarians. it promotes the belief that senseless violence is the only way palestinians, a supposedly primitive and backwards people according to the uneducated westerners that defend them, know how to resist—and therefore excuses terrorism against jews in the name of “freedom fighting.” it paints jews as evil oppressors when in fact they are the oppressed, it shifts the focus away from hamas, the real oppressors of palestinians, and it places the blame entirely on israel.

you know what that is? it’s racist, it’s antisemitic, and it’s absolute bullshit.

hamas is not a group of unorganized and primitive barbarians who “just don't know any better,” or who were “forced” into making the genocidal choices that they did. they are adults who have the autonomy, free will, and political power to make their own choices. they have the power to end this conflict, and they choose instead to perpetuate it.

hamas been the governing and influential power in the gaza strip for almost twenty years. they are a sunni-islamist, fundamentalist, and genocidal terrorist organization hell-bent on burning israel to the ground and bringing the rest of the world's jews with it—and they know exactly what they are doing.

[sunshine304]

Today, the country is still in shock because of the horrible terrorist attack on Magdeburg's Christmas market yesterday evening.

I'd advise everyone to steer clear of sites like Twitter, TikTok or Instagram as it's the worst cesspit of angry rants, misinformation and actual disturbing videos of the attack.

By now, 5 people have died, and over 200 have been injured, some very seriously, though it's been stated that at least 11 of them could be stabilised enough to be out of immediate risk of death.

More and more information is coming through on the attacker, a 50 year old doctor for psychatry from Saudi-Arabia, who moved to Germany in 2006 and was granted permanent residency.

The first reactions of people (among them fucking Elon Musk) saying this must be an Islamist terorrist attack and therefore we all must vote for the right-wing Nazi party AFD seem to be, uhhh, incorrect.

Because the attacker was very vocal on Twitter, extremely Islam-critical, an activist who tried helping Muslim women to leave Saudi-Arabia ... who also seemed to drift off into ever more radical right-wing thoughts and ideas over the last few years.

He made claims that are typical for weird conspiracy theorists (like Germany wanting to spread Islam throughout the whole world), he liked/reblogged posts by AFD politicians, Elon Musk and right-wing influencers, and it seems obvious that he got very much radicalised into extrem right-wing ideas in the last years.

(this is quite embarrassing for the AFD who had already started to use last night's attack for their propaganda...)

It will be interesting to see what information will come out in the next few days - were there warnings about him that got ignored? Especially considering his very outspoken Twitter account. Was there perhaps a psychological problem that exacerbated the situation and led him to act this way?

With the information we currently have, it doesn't seem like an Islamistic terror attack - but instead a right-wing extremist one.

[kick-a-long]

one funny thing that an exmuslim youtuber pointed out in a video he made recently:

the western leftist and intracommunity muslim defense of muslim theocracy and pan arabism in the middle east, supporting various terror groups and muslim advocates saying that islam itself dosn't need to change because it already is in the "right," is actually a kind of reform of islam. it's literally creating a reformation period for the islamic religion. it's changing it much like the enlightenment did for christianity.

the Quran actually has a lot of fucked up shit in it (like most religious texts) that can't be believed as absolute laws, models for how to treat people who don't agree with you, or literal factual events while engaging in modern society, education or believing in human rights/equality (again, like most religious texts interpreted literally I'm familiar with.)

again, all forms of religious literalism I've heard of suck shit, this is not an islam only thing.

So the pro pal groups, queers for Palestine and muslim advocates, the real hard core leftist antisemites who endlessly infantilize muslim and arabs, the ones trying to whitewash hamas and iran and all the bullshit that theocratic govs and islamist/muslim supremacy say/do/believe... might ironically force those groups/states to incorporate western ideology into the interpretation of islam and force it to do what most christian groups have done: abandon scriptural literalism, abandon anti-science and revisionist history, abandon religious based violence, start allowing questions and discussions with religious interpretations, stop enforcing religious observance with state, terrorist, and familial violence and coercion.

I just think that's kind of crazy. I would prefer if reformers didn't try to do it while advocating that jews deserve rape, murder and even babies an 90 year olds are combatants based on their ethnicity and religion... but it's just ironic how things might work out.

[weemietime]

If someone had said "Judaism religion of death" and "Judaism is a death cult" you would be angry (rightfully so)

but because it was about Muslims and Islam all of a sudden "Well they were talking about this version of Islam they didn't mean all of Islam" such fucking bullshit

Do you understand that I am a separate person to secular-jew? Can you get that through your skull? My opinion is that extremist Islamist terrorism is a death cult. Regular, moderate Islam is not. And if there were an extremist Jewish terrorist faction, I would call them a death cult, too.

And by the way, I do routinely denounce Jewish terrorists on this blog. Bezalel Smotrich, Baruch Goldstein, Menachem Begin, Irgun, etc. You're not fighting me, you're fighting someone you made up in your own mind to hurt your own feelings and then blaming me, simply because I reblogged from someone who may or may not have said something you disagree with.

Absolutely incomprehensible, and may G-d have mercy on your soul. I've said all I need to say about this so I'm deleting any future asks about it.

[old-school-butch]

What do they think Hamas wants? What do they think Israel is supposed to do? Do they seriously think Israel is supposed to be like sure here you go we are all going to leave Israel and you can have everything? Do they think that would bring about peace? I’m serious. Like really do they think there is anything Israel could do that would stop any of this? Do they think Israel should’ve done nothing and this situation would’ve just disappeared? Americans are the dumbest fucking people on the planet. Hamas wants compliance or death, that’s how terrorism works, that’s war.

Whoever is running the information warfare at Hamas is truly brilliant. The ideology of Islamists has been run through some kind of autotuner so it sounds like it came from a chapter in Pedagogy of the Oppressed and Western liberals are eating it up. While liberals are still catching up on which river and which sea the chant refers to, they still don't grasp that the end goal here is the elimination of the state of Israel entirely. And while 20% of Israelis are Arab Muslims, there are zero Jews in Gaza. The PR people are saying Zionist these days instead of Jews, so maybe it doesn't sound too bad when they say Kill All Zionists but that's just the English translation. Zionism is the creation of a Jewish state. Hamas will call it the 'Zionist entity' because they don't recognize it as a state. They don't recognize it because all states should be Muslim. Israel is occupying territory that should be Muslim. When they say 'end the occupation' it sounds like a call for liberation of an oppressed people, instead of the desire to destroy Israel, kill or expel the Jews and create a Muslim state in its place.

Yemen's Houthi rebels (who are currently attacking Israel) have a slogan "God is the Greatest, Death to America, Death to Israel, A Curse Upon the Jews, Victory to Islam" and I think it says a lot that they take the time to double down on how much they hate Jews/Israel instead of a single 'Houthis are great!' thrown into their own slogan.

The Islamists have noted the 'anti-colonial' rhetoric in Western universities and capitalized on it by positioning Israel as a proxy for the West and thus a scapegoat for the West's sins of imperialism. It does rely on some very old anti-Semitic tricks - because Jews assimilate fairly well (because they don't have an evangelical aspect to the faith) they are both within a culture and othered from the culture - the perfect scapegoat. Many liberals shrugged when the Nazis marching in Charlottesville chanted "Jews will not replace us" but the suspicion that Jews control the media, capitalism, also socialism, Hollywood (and any other center of power you can imagine) runs very deep in Western cultural anxiety. Imagining Israel as a prowerful villian is all too easy when you're primed to believe that.

A wild example of this is how Westerners view Israel as a colonialist power rather than a gathering point for religious refugees. The reality that Jews originated from the land of JUDEA should not be hard to grasp, but is conveniently ignored. The fact that they've negotiated with colonial powers like Britain and the UN is viewed as a sign of political power, even though the main goal of those colonial powers was to prevent Jewish refugees from flooding their own countries. And the memory that the post WW2 boost in political heft came at the price of the Holocaust in Europe, seems to have been lost. The reality that most Israelis are Jewish refugees expelled from Muslim countries, is conveniently ignored. There are enough white faces and dual citizens in Israel for guilty Westerners to find a convenient scapegoat to do all that decolonizing and let themselves be destroyed for our sins. Not that anyone is thinking that hard about it, it just feels right, because it's safe and convenient to accept blame and then shift it to someone else - no matter how many land acknowledgements they crank out.

I guess Westerners think colonizing is something only white people do, and they are blissfully unaware of the size and scope of the Arab Islamic Empires of the past. And also apparently unaware that Islamists explicitly say they want to recreate that empire. Zionists want a single state - and I have a lot of issues with the idea of a religious state at all, but no one can accuse Jews of ever having or wanting to create an Empire. Israel might be criticized for not having a more liberal democractic state, but Hamas isn't even trying to create one. It wants a single Muslim state occupying their entire region, where Jews are killed or expelled and Islamists can consolidate regional power - that's their goal. But the slogan is 'end the occupation' which sounds way nicer than 'end the occupation of land of Israel by Jews so we can make an Islamic state in its place and kill all the Jews who don't run away fast enough.'

Maybe it's that most Westerners don't live in a theocracy, and have no sense of just how controlling and energetic theocratic societies can be, that they can't grasp the idea of global jihad and what that really means. "The Caliphate is the answer" is written in Arabic on protest signs, flying under the radar of English-speakers and certainly not seen as hate speech, but when people tell you they want to establish a global world order under Islamic rule, and are actively coordinating their efforts between states and regions - you should believe them. Moderation is apostasy, punishable by death. Anyone negotiating with Israel faces opposition from more radical Islamists ready to take their place. This is why Islamists spend most of their time attacking more moderate Islamic states and leaders. And by 'moderate' I mean the Taliban, which can barely set up a state in Afghanistan - because it means diverting resources from expanding and conquering other areas. A group called ISIS-K is trying to overturn the Taliban to bring back the glory days of the Khorason, an entity so sprawling it would involve invading China, Pakistan, Iran, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan and Tajikistan, which would undoubtedly spark a global conflict. That doesn't phase them. Hamas can barely control the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, which rejects any peace accords with Israel including the Oslo accord. Dying as a martyr is the highest achivement - eternal war is not a problem. The Islamic world is failing to contain radical movements it created and supported for its own interests.

The Palestinians are a good microcosm of this. When Israel declared independence in 1948, the region was invaded by its neighbors. The war ended with Jordan occupying the West Bank and Egypt occupying Gaza and normally the people living there would have been absorbed into these countries, or created a self-governed state. Instead Palestinians, as a group, were created as a stateless people. They didn't want to form a state within the boundaries determined by the war, but instead remain as refugees from a war and promised the 'right of return' i.e. that Israel would be returned to them. Importantly, the war didn't have a declared end. It's still happening, which is how they are still refugees 75 years later. And they live in 'refugee camps', otherwise known as buildings and towns, but it's all temporary in this narrative. Does no one wonder why the pro-Palestinian rallies call for a ceasefire and not for peace? Peace is not desired, just a pause in fighting until they can regroup and try again.

A separate reality was created where the 1948 war is still happening, Israel is not real, it's a 'Zionist entity' occupying the land and that refugees includes everyone displaced by the 'ongoing' war, and all their descendants are refugees too because they have nowhere to live - because where they are living is just temporary. And ‘all they want is to go home’ (but not their current home for 3 generations, the home back in Israel ofc). In this world, they all have to right to live in the region that the zionist entity is occupying, where their duty is to establish a Muslim state. The purpose of this fiction is to create a perpetual problem for Israel, a stateless population whose entire existence is focused on them eventually overthrowing Israel. But it's had unexpected effects.

Palestinian refugees have been more than willing to bring violence to any country that has taken them in as immigrants. Their nationalists have a long list of assassinations of anyone who supports a peace treaty with Israel, including the King of Jordan, the former prime minister of Lebanon, Robert F Kennedy and more. They've also started a civil war in Jordan until they were expelled to Lebanon, where they hijacked a series of international flights and started a civil war there that lasted for 15 years. Palestinians living as refugees in Kuwait aided Saddam Hussein's invading army until they were expelled when his regime fell. These are the reasons none of Israel's neighbor's will accept any more Palestinian refugees, but the Islamist problem remains for any country in its path. What I have found most disturbing among feminists on Tumblr, however, is the complete wilful ignorance about Islamist ideology and its relationship to women. You think you’re ok with the Quran? Read it. There aren't many religions founded by a conqueror who wanted to rule the world. Read what it says about conquest, murder, torture, raping and enslaving non-Muslim women. Arab slave traders castrated men and bred female slaves who were kept as captive wives. Using sexual violence as a tool of war and as a reward for Islamic fighters is long documented and continues today. The birth rate in Gaza is about 5 children per woman and frequently exhorted to be higher. Why? Arafat said it most clearly ‘the womb of the Palestinian woman is the weapon that will defeat Israel.' Population and fertility are part of the political landscape and Islamist strategy. It's how Lebanon went from being a Christian majority country to a Muslim majority country today. There is no reason whatsoever that feminists - who have not shied away from criticizing the sexism of Christianity or Judaism - should mince words when it comes to criticizing Islam in the strongest possible terms. Islamists - who combine Islam with a goal for global dominance - should ring every alarm bell we have.

[spot-the-antisemitism]

Standing Together controversy https://www.jns.org/baltimore-synagogue-event-calling-israel-apartheid-roils-community/

Diaspora Jews upset that Israeli Jews DARE say their country and military are commiting war crimes (spoilers they fucking are)!

Apartheid? Lol lmao even! Didn't BDS add Standing Togehther to their blacklist for NOT calling Israel an apartheid? WOW that's like starting to parrot your abusive ex's cult propaganda to get them to take you back level move

Ethnic Cleansing? Eh.... So the Likud really wants to clear out Gaza out of what they see as a race of terrorists that can only commit acts of terror but is temporarily displacing people due to war a second Nakba? I don't think so. correct me if I'm wrong

War Crimes? Yeah, the IDF did commit war crimes in Gaza. Full stop. If the truth makes you uncomfortable then you need to step out and scream at G-d for a second so you can resume the conversation like a mature adult and not be reduced to irrational tear filled name calling like most of tumblr

Ah so the Rabbis are mad the same thing I am! Good!

I have some respect for BHC now and feeling like Standing Together is rapidly becoming a token for Islamist ideologies and downplaying antisemitism. That's not how you win over more people that's how you lose everything

[lordadmiralfarsight]

So, this is something I've been sitting on for a good while. Mainly because I got too heated each time to write a post about it.

On the 7th of February 2024, France organized a memorial service for the Franco-Israeli killed in the 7/10 attack. That was a good thing but, like many people in France, I personnally felt that it was a bit late. Still, better a memorial service than nothing at all. A nice touch was inviting the famillies of hostages and putting them front and center. That was positive, in my opinion, and a good show of solidarity.

So, you might be wondering what about this has me heated. Two words : Far left. or, in three words : La France Insoumise. LFI is a far left party that has a worrying amount of weight in France, right now. They have some of the common hallmarks : revolution fetishism, radicalist talking points, repeated attempts to delegitimize the election system (like Mélenchon claiming the 2022 presidential election was "stolen" when he ranked 3rd), etc... Recently they have also refused to condemn Hamas' attack. While they didn't openly support it like some fring trotskyist parties, they refused to condemn it, and at least one of their PMs went to Tunisia to basically parrot Islamist talking points blaming Israel for everything. They have overwhelmingly expressed support for "Palestinian liberation", because saying they support Hamas wouldn't be good press, so they skirt around it. But everyone gets the message, really. So, what did they do for that memorial service ? Well first off they participated against the wishes of the famillies of the victims and hostages. That's bad, but it gets worse. Because of course. See, their main representative in Parliament, Mathilde Panot, felt the need to also put front and center Palestinian victims. Now, I do believe Palestinian victims of this war should be remembered, and honored (provided they weren't terrorists). But ... is the memorial fro the 7/10 victims really the place ? No, no it fucking isn't. And that's what has me heated : this was a memorial for Jewish victims, and they were looking to appropriate it. And it gets even worse ! Because you see, Miss Panot had the perfect exemple : two Franco-Palestinian kids from her constituency that had died in Gaza. Why is that worse ? Because of why the kids were there. They were there because their mother fled to Gaza, from ISIS, after embezzeling money meant for Syrian refugees. Let me rephrase : the mother created a charity to support the victims of the Syrian civil war and of ISIS attacks, then made off with the money to deliver it entirely to ISIS. Then had kids with her ISIS assigned jihadi husband. And when ISIS collapsed, she sought refuge with Hamas. And because of that, her kids were in harm's way when Hamas launched a pogrom. And LFI thought that THIS was the correct exemple to bring to that memorial service. Is it tragic the kids died ? Yes. But maybe, just maybe, putting their terrorism enabling mother up as an exemple of martyred mother, during a memorial for the victims of an antisemitic pogrom perpetrated by said terrorism enabler's allies is a profoundly shitty thing to do. And that, among other things, is why most of France considers LFI to be antisemitic.

[girl-mercury]

like ten years ago i was in a class on the causes and dynamics of terrorism and how to address it, so obviously reading a lot of scholarly articles on what different people think causes people to join extremist violent groups and engage in acts of terrorism. (this was mid-2010s, so we were still hung up on islamist extremist groups in southwest adn central asia and north africa, with minimal focus on 20th-century central american groups or current white nationalism american groups.) some researchers talk about american imperialism, others talk about widespread poverty, some get into psychology, some want to impose a law enforcement model, others talk negotiable aims versus maximalist aims, there are all kinds of opinions. some oversimplify more than others. it gets brought up that there is a clear gender component; most people committing suicide terrorism are men, though there are certainly examples of women doing it, and often being more effective in how much damage they cause when they do.

there's one argument, that my old straight man professor seemed to really relish, that, in majority-muslim countries that have experienced a lot of western imperialism and poverty, there is little opportunity for young men to get jobs and move out of their families' homes and marry, due to the reduced socioeconomic outlook. my professor seemed to really enjoy talking about how if these young men were just out having sex, they wouldn't feel the need to blow themselves up and take a bunch of people with them.

i was pretty vocal in that class, but the one thing i didn't say was: who's supposed to fuck them? if we're going to prevent terrorism, if this is the explanation, then who's going to fuck these guys for counterterrorism? does anyone want to call up NCTC and volunteer for "fuck the terrorism out of random dudes" duty? does anyone want to put "i fucked bomb vests right off of guys" on their linkedin? what kind of army medal do you get for that? i've kicked myself for not saying that for years. its my least favorite terrorism argument (but there are some economic arguments close behind.)

anyway i'm seeing the current discourse going around tumblr, about whose responsibility it is to prevent radicalization in men, and feeling like damn, i already did this one, i think i'm good actually

[mariacallous]

Down the road from where I live a friend came across a man tearing down pictures of Israeli hostages. You’ve probably seen the portraits by bus stops and railway stations. Activists print them off from sites highlighting the hostages’ plight and fly-post pictures of the men, women and children Hamas kidnapped.

As the hostages are civilians, my friend asked why would anyone want to destroy their pictures.

He was beaten up for his pains. Defending innocent Jewish civilians makes you an accomplice of Benjamin Netanyahu in London today.

And not just in London. Anti-Jewish hatred in the UK has exploded since Hamas attacked Israel – recorded incidents have doubled.  The violence my friend experienced is still rare, thankfully. But the fear of Islamist terrorism or just everyday thugs running riot is everywhere in the Jewish community, and to a lesser extent in wider society as well.

A drumbeat of stories builds the tension.

Belatedly and reluctantly, the Labour party disowned its Muslim candidate in the forthcoming Rochdale by-election. He had all the usual prejudices, and a few I had not heard about before.

He imagined that “people in the media from certain Jewish quarters” were targeting pro-Palestinian politicians, and that the Israeli state had allowed Hamas to rape, shoot and burn alive 1200 of its people because it wanted a pretext to invade Gaza.

As I am writing this piece, there’s news of a (white) comedian, who describes himself as an “experimental fusionist” and an “absurdist laughter chef,” and is just as stupid as his description implies. In a scene redolent of medieval prejudice, he encouraged the audience at the Soho Theatre in central London to chant “get the fuck out” and “free Palestine” at a Jewish member of the audience.

Incidentally the Soho Theatre is on the site of the old West End Great Synagogue, built at a time when Jews were welcome in London

Before that Rabbi Zecharia Deutsch, the Jewish chaplain of Leeds University, his wife and two kids were moved to a safe house on  police advice after receiving hundreds of death threats.

Online “activists” pointed out the rabbi had served in the Israeli Defence Force, and so presumably any number of violent threats were justified.

The justification, such as it is, would have carried more plausibility if incidents of hatred had not exploded as soon as the news of the Hamas massacres broke in October.  They were celebrations of anti-Jewish violence not a reaction to the violence of the Israeli armed forces.

If you doubt that there are reasons to be frightened, go to your nearest synagogue and see the guards. Or talk to the parents of Jewish children and hear them describe how Jewish schools tell pupils to discard uniforms that allow potential attackers to mark them out as targets.

All of this and much more is causing deep alarm in the Jewish community, and a dangerous reaction among right-wing Jewish pressure groups, who are getting the response to racism about as wrong as they possibly can.

Here’s how.

The Jewish right is caught up in the same paranoid ideology of the rest of the modern British right, and indeed of the Trumpian right in the United States. It sees the woke mind virus everywhere. It assumes that progressives have marched through the institutions and made them borderline antisemitic, if not all-out racist.

In the case of violence against Jews, the supposed triumph of wokedom means that ideologically compromised police officers will not protect Jews by standing up to far leftists and Islamists.

 The Campaign Against Antisemitism, has encouraged its allies in the Conservative government to introduce ever-greater restrictions on rights to protest. This week it was welcoming new punishments for demonstrators who desecrate war memorials (who could already be prosecuted under existing law) and who wear face coverings to conceal their identity.

I do not want to condemn the campaign out of hand. There’s no doubt the pro-Palestinian marches in London frighten Jewish people. Some  90% of British Jews say that they would avoid travelling to a city centre if a major anti-Israel demonstration was underway.

There is no doubt, too, that fear of violence is not just confined to Jews. It is everywhere, although we don’t like to talk about it.

People disappear in ​the UK for offending Islamists, and respectable society looks the other way. Before the rabbi at Leeds University, there was a religious studies teacher at a Yorkshire school. Three-years ago he showed his students a cartoon of the Prophet Muhammad. He still remains in hiding and is unlikely ever to return home.

The UK is nowhere near being the free country it pretends to be. I understand why so many are frightened. That said, you can still look at right-wing politicians and organisations and wonder where they are heading.

While praising Conservative ministers’ trifling changes to the law, which are little better than PR stunts, the Campaign Against Antisemitism denounces the police.

“For months now, we have been asking for tougher restrictions to be placed on these protests, which have made our urban centres no-go zones for Jews. While the police have failed the Jewish community and law-abiding Londoners, the Government, to its credit, is listening. These new laws will help address the mob mentality that we have observed in these protests. There is no justification for such scenes, and now, there will be no legal defence.”

Jewish leaders who work to protect the community told me on condition of anonymity that the attacks on the police make no sense. They consult with officers regularly, they say. The idea that the police are part of some woke conspiracy to ignore radical Islam and turn a blind eye to potential terrorism is ridiculous.

So it is, and it conceals a dangerous desire.

For if you think that conservatives are yearning to ban peaceful demonstrations, you are not wrong. Rishi Sunak and Suella Braverman, his radical right home secretary last year, tried to force the police to do just that.

Braverman fell into anti-woke conspiracy theory and accused the police of taking a tougher approach to right-wing groups than to “pro-Palestinian mobs displaying almost identical behaviour”.

The Met to its credit refused to buckle under the pressure. Officers told the politicians they could interfere with freedom of assembly only if there was a threat of serious disorder, and that the "very high threshold" has not been reached.

The right has not given up. Here is the Campaign Against Antisemitism again.

“The people of this country expect the lawlessness on our streets to be brought firmly under control, and with these changes there are now even fewer excuses for police inaction.”

The attack follows the Campaign’s previous denunciations of London’s liberal Muslim mayor Sadiq Khan (which I covered here). Khan has gone out of his way to defend London’s Jews, but is the centre of a far-right and at times a fascistic hate campaign from Donald Trump and others, simply because he is a Muslim.

Yearning for bans is hopeless from both a moral and practical point of view. Tactically, it is all wrong. I can think of nothing more likely to fuel conspiracy theories about Jewish power than the banning of demonstrations.

If they were turning into riots, it would be another matter, and they should be banned regardless of the conspiracy theories.

But they are not degenerating into riots, and in a free country, people should be free to protest. We do not want to be governed by the Western equivalent of Hamas, after all.

Equally if protestors are not engaged in violence or the incitement to violence, it is a waste of police time suppressing them: police time which – and forgive me if I am labouring the obvious – could be better spent countering authentic threats to Jews and everyone else.

For who on earth do right-wing Jewish groups think stand between them and Islamist terrorism? The Tory party? The comment desk of the Daily Telegraph? A professional loudmouth on GB News?

Or the police service they waste so much time and energy denigrating?

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the number one fucked up thing is the anti-israel antisemitism that characterized the pogrom. the other awful thing is the fact this was literally a race riot. a race riot.

antisemitism is a sign of democratic malaise. so is the fact in an european society you have a certain demographic so detached from liberal democratic values they set out to exert their own justice against who they deem a 'public' enemy, and otherize people, whether in that society or foreigners, from their own humanity and cultural identity.

that's not supposed to happen in a fucking modern european democracy. islamism. this is the same struggle. cultural jihad has to be taken seriously and islamist politics have to be disenfranchised as the terror apology they are. i'm exhausted of western socdems toughening up on immigration policy just for electioneering but lacking any moral clarity.

political islamism kills europeans, too. let's wake the fuck up.