#history of anti-Semitism

[historicity-was-already-taken]

"The end of liberalization in Poland, like its beginning, was accompanied by anti-Semitism. During March of 1968, an organ­ized “anti-Zionist” (a euphemism for anti-Jewish) campaign was launched against those self-defined Poles whom Polish society as a whole tended to regard as nothing but Jews. It turned into one of the most extensive witch hunts in the history of that country. The harassment began with an attack on and purge of a few people in top positions in the party, in the government, in the army, and in public life, but soon it broadened to include individuals of Jewish origin in all walks of life. They were pressured to provide proof of loyalty to the state and party, proof which, when given, failed to exonerate them. Anti-Semitic insults were hurled at individuals of Jewish descent. The students protesting peacefully against the end of liberalization and the tightening of controls in Poland were alleged to be misled into insurrection and counter-revolution by clever, traitorous Zionist plotters. They were mercilessly sup­pressed. When interrogated by the police, arrested students of Jew­ish or mixed parentage were repeatedly asked to state their nation­ality, and their response 'Polish' was rejected as not true. Others who were 'real Poles' were asked, 'why did you tie yourself to these filthy Jews?' or, 'why did you allow yourself to be used by these kikes?' Their 'Zionist' leaders were arrested and put on trial. The parents of these stu­dents—sometimes prominent Communists—were removed from their jobs, as were other individuals of Jewish origin. All of these were urged to leave Poland, but permission to do so was given to them only if they renounced Polish citizenship and applied for exit to Israel."

Celia Heller, On the Edge of Destruction: Jews of Poland Between the Two World Wars, pg 299.

[politijohn]

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[thebrightestwitchofherage]

The UN's Official Mission report on Hamas' Sexual Violence in Israel was published

Please take your time to read this. Israeli \ Jewish victims deserve the same protection as any other women.

The brief version can be read here.

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***I am not going to include any graphic detailing.

The pattern of Sexual Violence used by Hamas is very clear:

It was one of their key goals and tactics on October 7th.

You cannot say "Female Hostages are treated well. you're lying by saying they're raped" anymore!

Notice how they also said **Children**

Civilians were in fact burned inside their homes

This is also clearly a pattern used by Hamas, as this is just one of many examples they detail. -Hamas has also burned soldiers alive in their dorms and offices. That is also further detailed in the report.

This is not fake or propaganda

I can't believe I have to write this but this report is an official report (finally) made by the UN's Sexual Violence Office, as part of their yearly report.

They had a 2-week delegation that toured the actual Kibbutzim (turned crime scenes), interviewed eyewitnesses, spoke to families of victims, etc...

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I do have to say I was mistaken in my earlier post, besides their conclusion, they have also written their recommendations:

...." V. Conclusions

Overall, based on the totality of information gathered from multiple and independent sources at the different locations, there are reasonable grounds to believe that conflict-related sexual violence occurred at several locations across the Gaza periphery, including in the form of rape and gang rape, during the 7 October 2023 attacks. Credible circumstantial information, which may be indicative of some forms of sexual violence, including genital mutilation, sexualized torture, or cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment, was also gathered. 22

With regards to the hostages, the mission team found clear and convincing information that some hostages taken to Gaza have been subjected to various forms of conflict-related sexual violence and has reasonable grounds to believe that such violence may be ongoing.

The mission team was unable to establish the prevalence of sexual violence and concludes that the overall magnitude, scope, and specific attribution of these violations would require a fully-fledged investigation. A comprehensive investigation would enable the information base to be expanded in locations which the mission team was not able to visit and to build the required trust with survivors/victims of conflict-related sexual violence who may be reluctant to come forward at this point.

Regarding the occupied Palestinian Territory, while its scope did not extend to verification, the mission team received information from institutional and civil society sources as well as through direct interviews, about some forms of sexual violence against Palestinian men and women in detention settings, during house raids and at checkpoints. Though the mission team did not visit Gaza, the Office of the SRSG-SVC will continue to monitor the situation for any relevant allegations of CRSV in the context of the ongoing hostilities. The relevant UN entities present in the occupied Palestinian Territory will provide UN-verified information for reporting to the Security Council on allegations of CRSV, which will be complemented by the information obtained by the mission team.

VI. Recommendations

The mission team makes the following recommendations: a) Continue to encourage the Government of Israeli to grant, without further delay, access to the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights and the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem and Israel, to carry-out fully-fledged investigations into all alleged violations that would deepen the preliminary findings contained in the present report. b) Urge Hamas and other armed groups to immediately and unconditionally release all individuals held in captivity and to ensure their protection including from sexual violence, in line with international law. c) Call on all relevant and competent bodies, national and international, to bring all perpetrators, regardless of rank or affiliation, to justice based on individual, superior and command responsibility, in accordance with due process of law and fair trial standards. d) Encourage the Government of Israel to consider signing a Framework of Cooperation with the Office of the SRSG-SVC to strengthen capacity on justice and accountability for CRSV crimes as well as security sector engagement, training, and oversight to prevent and address CRSV. 23 e) Strengthen the capacity of the United Nations to monitor and report on incidents, patterns and trends of CRSV in both Israel and the occupied Palestinian Territory through the establishment of the Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Arrangements on CRSV (MARA), convened by dedicated technical specialists, namely Women’s Protection Advisors (WPAs), deployed to the region to ensure prevention, protection and coordinated multi-sectoral assistance to survivors/victims. f) Encourage relevant actors to uphold information integrity and ethical, trauma-informed representations of conflict-related sexual violence, including by respecting and safeguarding the dignity and identity of survivors/victims and witnesses of sexual violence, as sensationalizing headlines, media pressure and scrutiny, exposure of identity, political instrumentalization and pressure, and/or fear of reprisal can result in the suppression, silencing and discrediting of survivors/victims and witnesses, further compound trauma and increase the risk of social stigmatization. g) Urge all parties to the conflict to adopt a humanitarian ceasefire, and to ensure that expertise on addressing conflict-related sexual violence informs the design and implementation of all ceasefire and political agreements and that the voices of women and affected communities are heard in all conflict resolution and peacebuilding processes....."

Israelis have been repeatedly saying all of this for months now, while you deny it. I've personally had people tell me it's all "fake propaganda". You should all be ashamed.

I am infuriated at the fact that for 5 months, our evidence and word isn't enough for Anti-Zionists. Here is some undeniable proof for you.

Believe Jewish Women.

[grimm-the-tiger]

I made this post a little while ago listing some facts about shipwrecks that probably only I find interesting, so now I’m back to talk about some of them. Specifically, the Olympic. The Olympic was the namesake of the Olympic-class liners, whose most notable member was the Titanic. Out of the three Olympic-class ships - Titanic, Olympic, and Britannic - only one of them was actually unsinkable, and that was the Olympic. 

Over the more than 20 years of its existence, the Olympic was never once in real danger. The Olympic was the danger. On its fifth voyage in September 1911, Olympic was running parallel to the HMS Hawke, a British warship designed specifically for ramming things. Olympic suddenly turned to starboard (right side of the ship if you were facing towards its front), catching Hawke’s commanding officer off-guard; he wasn’t able to avoid the collision and ended up ramming the other ship. Olympic was left with a substantial hole beneath the water line (although flooding was for the most part averted due to its bulkheads actually working properly, *cough* Titanic *cough*) and a slightly less substantial hole above it. Hawke, meanwhile, had its entire bow caved in. Olympic made it back to port just fine under her own power, while Hawke almost capsized. Somehow, no one was seriously hurt or killed. 

Three fun facts about this situation: Violet Jessop, a woman famous for surviving the sinkings of both of the Olympic’s sister ships, was onboard the Olympic when this happened. This incident also reinforced the idea that the Olympic-class was unsinkable. The famous postponement of the Titanic’s maiden voyage also occurred because of this incident; a propeller shaft was damaged in the collision, they needed a new one ASAP, and, well, the Titanic was right there... 

Four years later, WWI broke out. The Olympic was requisitioned as a troop ship, given 6-inch naval guns, and sent on its way. In 1918, while travelling to France with a literal boatload of American soldiers, Olympic spotted U-103, a German U-boat chilling on the surface of the ocean. Olympic opened fire on U-103, which immediately crash dived to keep from dying, then turned to ram the U-boat. Olympic hit U-103′s conning tower and tore open the hull with its propellers. U-103′s crew decided “fuck this” and abandoned ship; Olympic didn’t bother to stop to pick them up, so a nearby American warship did instead. It was later found that U-103 was preparing to torpedo Olympic when they’d been spotted, but they couldn’t flood the torpedo tubes in time. Olympic remains the only merchant vessel in WWI recorded to have sunk an enemy vessel (which would become a more common occurrence during WWII, to the extent that the Nazis apparently tried and hanged at least one captured British merchant captain for ramming one of their U-boats. The Nazis were ones to talk, considering they rehired the man who sank the Carpathia and was notorious for war crimes that included things like “drowning surrendered enemy crews by forcing them to strip and stand on the roof of his submarine, then diving the submarine” and “attacking designated hospital ships that made it very obvious they were hospital ships”). 

Following WWI, while Olympic was being refit for civilian service, a sizeable dent was discovered below the waterline. It was later concluded to have been caused by a faulty torpedo, most likely fired by U-53 while the Olympic was travelling through the English Channel. 

Olympic collided with another, smaller ship, Fort St. George, in New York Harbor on March 22, 1924. There’s not much information on how badly Olympic fucked Fort St. George up, just that Olympic apparently fucked around a little too much and found out, because the collision broke its sternpost (support post in the back of the ship; think of it like a central pillar in a structure), forcing the entire stern frame to be replaced. 

On November 18, 1929, Olympic was cruising not far from the Titanic’s wreck site when the whole thing began shaking for two minutes. This was later found to have been caused by a 7.2 magnitude earthquake off the coast of Newfoundland. 

The Olympic’s last hurrah (and casualty) was on May 15, 1934, when it collided with the lightship LV-117. Olympic had known the lightship was in the area, but didn’t know where exactly it was until they were right on top of it. Olympic’s captain immediately ordered a hard turn and the engines slowed, so Olympic wasn’t moving particularly fast when it did hit LV-117 (about 3 and a half miles per hour), but Olympic was fucking huge, and the people onboard barely noticed when they practically crushed the lightship under them. Only four of the eleven crew aboard LV-117 survived; four went down with the ship and three died in Olympic’s hospital (yes, these things had hospitals; I told you there were fucking huge). 

Olympic was fully scrapped in 1937, forever going down in history as both the only Olympic-class ship that was actually unsinkable and the one with the longest reign of terror. Good God, man. I understand sinking the U-boat, but you didn’t need to bring like four other ships down with you. 

[proudzionist]

This is Istvan Reiner and he was only 4 years old ( look how happy he was) when he was murdered in 1944 in Auschwitz💔

This is Gittel Chill .

4 yr old Gittel ( also known as the little girl in the red coat from Schindler's list )

This was not a fictional character .

Gittel was murdered by the Nazis while she was hiding 😔💔

This is 3 yr old Lunek Milch .

He was buried alive along with his family💔

I made this post because too many people don't believe the Holocaust even happened .

And to deny this happened is a disservice to all those who perished in the Holocaust and a disservice to the survivors who gave their testimonies so we would never forget !

The Holocaust happened .

Educate yourself!

[whencyclopedia]

Nuremberg Laws

The Nuremberg Laws of September 1935 were a set of racial laws which set out a number of restrictions on Jewish people such as depriving them of the right to German citizenship and right to marry non-Jews. Amendments to the laws then defined who exactly was to be identified as a Jew in Nazi Germany.

The laws, formulated at Nürnberg, were another phase of Adolf Hitler's 'solution' to the question of just how to remove Jewish people from German territory, a process which ended in the 'Final Solution', the murder of 6 million Jewish people in Nazi-run death camps.

The Nazis & the Jews

The leader of Nazi Germany Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) was determined to create scapegoats for the ills of the Weimar Republic, created in 1918. The Nazis wanted to boost their own popularity by identifying common enemies. The principal Nazi scapegoat were the Jewish people living in Germany. As far back as his book Mein Kampf, published in 1925, Hitler had identified the Jews as a group which he considered was holding Germany and the pure Germanic Volk (people) back from their true potential. Once they had gained power in 1933, Hitler and the Nazis were determined to make life as difficult as possible for Jewish people. The Enabling Act (The Law for Removing the Distress of the People and the Reich) was passed on 23 March 1933. This act allowed Hitler to pass laws without needing to go through the parliament.

The Nazis systematically removed Jews from small villages and towns, moving them into the cities. There were boycotts of Jewish businesses. Emigration was actively encouraged, although the state often seized assets and only let the departing take the minimum of possessions. The Law of the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service was passed in April 1933 and meant that Jewish people were forbidden from holding government and official administrative positions. There were, too, restrictions or impediments in several other professions such as law or medicine. Jewish people suffered many other discriminations in daily life and physical persecution from the Nazi paramilitary groups the Sturmabteilung (SA) and Schutzstaffel (SS).

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[racefortheironthrone]

Maybe this is too broad, but wondering if there's a better term than "conspiracy theorist" to describe some large figures in the ongoing national discourse? Not that "fluoride in the drinking crowd" were serious thinkers or total harmless, but am I alone is finding "conspiracy theory" too quaint and mild to describe how mainstream rather fringe these things are and also how totally evidence-free and something just plain dumb they can also be?

I don’t think conspiracy theories have ever been quaint and mild.

Think about the history of antisemitism from medieval blood libels to 19th century theories of Jewish financial cabals to the “Protocols of the Elders of Zion” dreamed up by Tsarist agents-provocateur that took the theory global and spawned untold numbers of imitators, to Hitler’s invention of “Judeo-Bolshevism” that married traditional antisemitism to anti-Communism and nationalist populism. Conspiracy theories one and all, but fully capable of spawning pogroms and fascist dictatorships.

Likewise, we think of Anti-Masonic or Illuminati conspiracy theories as self-evidently ridiculous and harmless, but we forget that they were used by cultural conservatives in church and state to wage culture wars on the Enlightenment, liberalism, secularism, democracy, every revolution from America to France to 1848 and beyond, feminism and almost every social movement of the 18th and 19th century. People died or were surveilled or were sent to prison, political parties were formed or banned, and conservatism itself was founded in the name of “poisoning the minds of the lower orders” to inoculate them from the influence of secret societies.

As Dan Olsen has shown, even seemingly benign conspiracy theories like the JFK assassination cover-up or the Moon landing was faked or the earth is flat can hide much more malign motivations, just waiting for the opportunity to radicalize and proselytize:

[matan4il]

When I tell you that every single day I, as a Jew, see antisemitism online, I mean that every single day I come across at least one post, one video, one take like what you see above.

Just FYI, this is Nick Fuentes, a notorious White Supremacist.

For the record, Israel's Yad Vashem institute has documented and archived (available online) the names and as much info as possible on roughly 4.9 million Jewish victims of the Nazis and their collaborators. We KNOW these are not all the names, there is also PLENTY of evidence that even more Jews were murdered (what's referred to in historic research as "convergence of evidence" from multiple sources). Still, the genocide of my people was SO thorough, it happened on SUCH A SCALE, that many names are gone forever. My grandmother had two cousins murdered in the Holocaust whose names are unknown to us. She just knew she had two cousins, she knew the community they lived in, and she found out after she survived that this entire community was wiped out in the gas chambers in Auschwitz. There was no one left for my grandma to talk to and try to find out more about her cousins. NO ONE with integrity can claim the numbers are exaggerated, not when despite the magnitude of the slaughter, there's evidence with names, places of birth, circumstances of murder, pictures, documents and more for basically 5 million Jewish victims.

I also think one of the most dangerous things that helps the spread of different forms of antisemitism nowadays is the "I've educated myself" idea, where the sources of info are an echo-chamber that repeats and amplifies antisemitic lies. Please, if you ever wanna know, understand or talk about antisemitism, please ONLY EVER TURN to legitimate sources of knowledge accumulated by Jewish mainstream organizations, such as The Jewish Virtual Library.

[magnetothemagnificent]

What is the difference between anti-semitism and antisemitism? I personally prefer anti-semitism just because it makes it easier to read and breaks up the word into more easily digestible parts. I have a learning disability so I find it helpful to know the origins of a word. Anti, meaning against, semite, like semitic languages or ethnicities including hebrew or jewish respectively. Is it just that one is technically correct? (As if I was saying re-cycle instead of recycle)

""Anti, meaning against, semite, like Semitic languages or ethnicities including hebrew or jewish respectively.""

Your reasoning is exactly why it's wrong to write "anti-semitism". It's not against Semitic languages and ethnicities- Semitic languages include a ton of languages in the SWANA region, and they are not the target of antisemitism. Only Jews are.

"Antisemitismus" (German for "antisemitism") was popularized in Germany by a Jew-hater as an alternative word to "Judenhass" (literally means Jew-hatred), which was a bit too on the nose for his liking, and he wanted to make Jew-hatred sound more scientific and logical and palatable. This was during the age of Scientific Racism and eugenics- "antisemitism" was coined to sound more scientific, in the same way medicines are "antiviral" or "antiseptic" or "antibiotic". "Antisemitism" made Jew-hatred sound cleansing and logical, like a cure for the proliferation of the racial mutts Scientific Racism categorized Jews as. It made Jew-hatred not just about religiously motivated hatred, but as "science"-backed racism.

Writing "anti-semitism" implies that it's about being "anti" Semites (which are not an ethnic group, actually, it's just a language family that includes Hebrew, Aramaic, Arabic, and Amharic), which its not. Gentile Arabs aren't the targets of antisemitism. Gentile Assyrians aren't the targets of antisemitism. Gentile Ethiopians aren't the targets of antisemitism. Only Jews are, whether or not they speak the Semitic language of Hebrew.

"Antisemitism" is a historical word with heavy implications- it reminds us that Jew-hatred isn't just about the hatred of Judaism as a religion (which many people claim it is), but that it's about the hatred of Jews as a *people*. Jews aren't oppressed just because of our religion- indeed, atheist Jews and Jews who converted to other religions are still targets of antisemitism. We are targeted and marginalized because of our ethnic and racial identity, too. It's only in recent history that "Hebrew" or "Jew" isn't considered a racial identity.

The origins of the word don't lie within "anti-semitism", so if you have a learning disability, that won't help you understand the word. The word originated as a single, unhyphenated word (remember, German words don't have as many hyphens as English words do), and you must use it correctly and listen to Jewish people when we tell you that you need to recognize its context and history.

[baby-girl-aaron-dessner]

Jewish author, Sim Kern, shares a brief history of the term, “antisemitism” and why they will no longer be using this word.

Read the original thread here

[historicity-was-already-taken]

The weirdest thing about Holocaust memory is how people who are not Jewish or do not interact with that community think that all Jews, especially descendants of survivors, emerge into adulthood fully informed about the Holocaust, genocide, dangers of the nation-State, propaganda, impacts of generational trauma, etc.

We don’t. Jews are just people who can choose to read up on their pasts, and choose not to. Like you; like literally anyone. Learning from the past is difficult and painful for everyone, and few humans are bad enough heavy metal bitches to be comfortable with the cognitive dissonance true learning can bring about.

Jews are not exceptional. The only people who seem to think we are, are the groups who have concocted weird bullshit about us over the last ~3000 years.

[politijohn]

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[thebrightestwitchofherage]

zionist pig

That’s not kosher sweetheart, thank you for the compliment though 🫶☺️

You’re not escaping your anti Semitic hate , this is gonna be pinned lol

[lilithism1848]

[ketrindoll]

Nachman Abramovich in Siberian heavy labor gulag, 1941.

He was one of the 3000 Jewish people from Lithuania: among whom were doctors, teachers, businessmen, and common laborers, exiled to Siberia with tens of thousands Lithuanians and other nationalities in June of 1941, most dying from harsh conditions.

That's just in case you thought Soviets/russians were somehow less antisemitic.

Edit - more about Nachman:

He owned a hotel in the city of Taurage and got exiled because of it with his wife and 3 children. He was separated, as most men were, and sent to heavy labor gulag while his wife and kids were sent to Komya.

Ironically, he's the grandfather of russian oligarch Roman Abramovich.

[whencyclopedia]

Kristallnacht

The Kristallnacht (Reichkristallnacht, 'Night of Broken Glass', or November Pogrom) was an attack on Jews and Jewish property across Germany and Austria on 9-10 November 1938. Orchestrated as part of a systematic and escalating persecution of Jews by the Nazis, the state-organised pogrom was the beginning of a sharp slide into depravity that terminated in the Holocaust and the murder of 6 million European Jews.

The Nazis & the Jews

The leader of Nazi Germany Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) was determined to create scapegoats for the ills of the Weimar Republic, created in 1918. A poor economy, weak army, and lack of Germany's prestige abroad were blamed on the Treaty of Versailles (1919) when the victors of the First World War (1914-18) had imposed harsh terms on Germany. Another Nazi scapegoat was the Jews living in Germany. As far back as his book Mein Kampf, published in 1925, Hitler had identified the Jews as a group which he considered was holding Germany and the pure Aryan Volk (people) back from their true potential. Hitler and the Nazis were determined to force Jews into emigrating, firstly by petty humiliations and confiscating property, and then by more direct and physical persecution. Jews were broadly identified by the restrictive 1935 Nuremberg Laws as any person with one Jewish grandparent, but ever since 1933, the Nazis had been systematically removing Jews from small villages and towns, moving them into the cities. Emigration was actively encouraged, although the state often seized assets and only let the departing take the minimum of possessions. Jews were forbidden from holding government and official administrative positions and suffered many other discriminations in daily life. By 1938, half of Germany's 500,000 Jews had emigrated, and the number of Jewish businesses in Germany had shrunk from 50,000 (1933) to 9,000. For Hitler, this was not enough. The ominous steps to a violent solution to what Hitler described as 'the Jewish Question' (Judenfrage), began with the Kristallnacht.

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