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ruminativerabbi · 11 months ago

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Anti-Judaism Then and Now

On Sesame Street, they used to sing a song that challenged young viewers to decide “which of these things belong together.” The idea was that the youngsters would be presented with a group of things all but one of which belonged to the same group. But the trick, of course, was that the specific nature of the group wasn’t revealed—so the young viewer had to notice that there were three vegetables on the screen and one piece of fruit, or three garden tools and a frying pan. You get the idea. All of the things belonged together but one didn’t. It wasn’t that complicated. But the tune is still stuck in my head and I don’t think I’ve heard the song in at least thirty years.

In the grown-up world, there are also all sorts of groups made up of things that are presented as “belonging together.” Some are obvious and indisputable. But others are far more iffy.

Languages, for example, are in the first category. Danish, Japanese, Laotian, and Yiddish all belong in the same group; each is an artificial code devised by a specific national or ethnic group to label the things of the world. You really can compare the Japanese word for apple with the Danish word because both really are the same thing: a sound unrelated in any organic way to the thing it denotes that a specific group of people have decided to use nonetheless to denote that thing. Languages are all codes, all artificial, and all each other’s equals. The world’s languages, therefore, really are each other’s equivalents

Other groups, not so much. Religion comes right to mind in that regard: we regularly refer to the world’s religions as each other’s equivalents, but is that really so? In what sense, truly, is Judaism the Jewish version of Hinduism or Buddhism? Is Chanukah the Jewish Christmas? Is the New Testament the Christian version of the Koran in the same sense that the Danish word for cherry is the Danish version of the French word for that same thing? You see what I mean: the notion that the religions of the world are each other’s equivalents hardly makes any sense at all.

But what about prejudices of various sorts? Are racism and homophobia each other’s equivalents, distinguished only by the target of the bigot’s irrational dislike? Are sexism and ageism the same thing, only different with respect to the specific being discriminated against? And where does anti-Semitism, with its weird medial capital letter and its off-base etymology (because it denotes discrimination against Jews, not other Semites), where does anti-Semitism fit in? Is it the same as other forms of discrimination, differing only with respect to the target?

I suppose my readers know why this has been on my mind lately.

Last week I wrote about that grotesque congressional hearing in which the presidents of three of America’s most prestigious institutions of higher learning, including two of the so-called Ivies, could not bring themselves to label the most extreme form of anti-Semitism there is, the version that calls not for discrimination against Jews but for their actual murder—they could not bring themselves unequivocally and unambiguously to say that that calls for genocide directed against Jews have no place on their campuses. The president of the University of Pennsylvania paid with her position for her unwillingness to condemn genocide clearly and forcefully. But hundreds and hundreds of faculty members at Harvard, perhaps the nation’s most prestigious college, spoke out forcefully in support of their president despite her unwillingness to say clearly that calling for the murder of Jews is not the kind of speech that any normal person would imagine to be protected by the First Amendment.

At a time when anti-Semitism is surging, it strikes me that treating different versions of prejudice as each other’s equivalent is probably more harmful an approach than a realistic one. That is what led to the moral fog that apparently enveloped the leaders of three of our nation’s finest academies and made them unable simply and plainly to condemn calls for genocide directed against Jewish people.

I think we should probably begin to deal with this matter in our own backyard. And to that end, I would like to recommend three books and a fourth to my readers: the three are “about” anti-Semitism (and each is remarkable in its own way) and the fourth is a novel that I’ve mentioned many times in these letters, the one that led me to understand personally what anti-Semitism actually is and how it can thrive even in the ranks of the highly civilized, educated, and cultured.

The first book is by the late Rosemary Ruether, known as a feminist and as a Catholic theologian, but also the author of Faith and Fratricide: The Theological Roots of Anti-Semitism, published by Seabury Press in 1974 and still in print. This was not the first serious study of anti-Semitism I read—that would have been Léon Poliakoff’s four-volume work, The History of Anti-Semitism, which also had a formative effect on my adolescent self. But Ruether’s book was different: less about anti-Semitism itself and more about the way that anti-Jewish prejudice was such a basic part of the theological worldview of so many of the most formative Christian authors that the task of eliminating it from Western culture would require a repudiation of some of the basic tenets set forth by some of the most famous early Christian authors. I was stunned by her book when I read it: stunned, but also truly challenged. In think, even, that my decision to specialize in the history of the early Church as one of my sub-specialties when I completed by doctorate in ancient Judaism was a function of reading that book and needing—and wanting—to know these texts (and, through them, their authors) personally and up close. Jewish readers—or any readers—concerned about anti-Semitism could do a lot worse than to start with Ruether’s book.

And from there I’d go on to David Nirenberg’s book, Anti-Judaism: The Western Tradition, published by W.W. Norton in 2013. This too is something anyone even marginally concerned about anti-Semitism in the world should read. The book is not that long, but it is rich and exceptionally thought-provoking; its author describes his thesis clearly in one sentence, however: “Anti-Judaism should not be understood as some archaic or irrational closet in the vast edifices of Western thought,” but rather as one of the “basic tools with which that edifice was constructed.” Using detailed, thoughtful, and deliberate prose, Nirenberg lays out his argument that Western civilization rests on a foundation of anti-Judaism so deeply embedded in the Western psyche as to make it possible for people who have doctorates from Harvard to feel uncertain about condemning genocide—the ultimate anti-Semitic gesture—unequivocally and forcefully. This would be a good book too for every Jewish citizen—and for all who consider themselves allies of the Jewish people—to read and take to heart. Anti-Judaism is deeply engrained in Western culture. To eradicate it—even temporarily, let alone permanently—will require a serious realignment of Western values and beliefs. Can it be done? Other features of Western culture have fallen away over the centuries, so I suppose it can be. But how to accomplish such a feat—the best ideas will come from people who have read books like Nirenberg’s and taken them to heart.

And the final book I would like to recommend is James Carroll’s, Constantine’s Sword: The Church and the Jews, published by Mariner Books in 2001. The author, a former Roman Catholic priest, makes a compelling argument that the roots of anti-Semitism are to be found in the basic Christian belief that the redemption of the world will follow the conversion of the world’s Jews to Christianity. I was surprised when I read the book by a lot of things, but not least how convincingly the author presses his argument that the belief that the redemption of the world is being impeded by the phenomenon of stubborn Jews refusing to abandon Judaism is the soil in which all Western anti-Semitism is rooted. It’s an easier book to read than either Ruether’s or Nirenberg’s—written more for a lay audience and clearly intended by its author to be a bestseller, which it indeed became—but no less an interesting and enlightening one.

So that is my counsel for American Jews feeling uncertain how to respond to this surge of anti-Semitic incidents on our nation’s streets and particularly on the campuses of even our most prestigious universities. Read these books. Learn the history that is, even today, legitimizing anti-Jewish sentiments even among people who themselves are not sufficiently educated to understand what is motivating their feelings about Jews and about Judaism. None of these reads will be especially pleasant. But all will be stirring and inspiring. And from understanding will come, perhaps, a path forward. Any physician will tell you that even the greatest doctor has to know what’s wrong with a patient before attempting to initiate the healing process. Perhaps that is what is needed now: not rallies or White House dinners (or not just those things), but a slow, painstaking analysis of where this all is coming from and an equally well-thought-out plan for combatting anti-Jewish prejudice rooted in the nature of the beast we would all like to see fenced in, tamed, and then ultimately slain.

And the novel? My go-to piece of Jewish literature, André Schwarz-Bart’s The Last of the Just, was published in Stephen Becker’s English translation by Athenaeum in 1960, just one year after the publication of the French original. A novel that spans a full millennium, the book traces the history of a single Jewish family, the Levys, and tells the specific story of the individual member of the family in each generation who serves as one of the thirty-six just people for whose sake the world exists. (The book begins in eleventh century England and ends at Auschwitz, where the last of the just perishes.) I read the book when I was a boy and have returned to it a dozen times over the years. No book that I can think of explains anti-Semitism from the inside—from within the bosom of a Jewish family that is defined by the prejudice directed against it—more intensely, more movingly, or more devastatingly. This is definitely not a book for children. I was probably too young to encounter such a book when I did, but it is also true that, more than anything else, it was that book that set me on the path that I followed into adulthood. (And that is probably just as true spiritually and emotionally, as it is professionally.) I was too young, perhaps, to process the story correctly. But when I was done reading even that first time as a sixteen-year-old, I knew what path I wished to follow. The Last of the Just is not a book I would exactly characterize as enjoyable reading. But it is riveting, challenging, and galvanizing. To face the future with courage and resolve, the American Jewish community needs to look far back into the past so as to understand the challenges it now faces. And then, armed with that knowledge, to find a path forward into a brighter and better world.

#anti-Semitism #anti-Judaism #Rosemary Ruether #David Nirenberg #Andre Schwarz-Bart

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eretzyisrael · 2 months ago

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by Neal Pollack

This new class of literary people operates in an opposing sphere of intolerance, and of cancellation, and, most importantly, of anti-Semitism. Imagine if a writer refused to appear on a panel with someone because they were Black, or a bookstore employee demanded a boycott of a book with queer themes, or if a festival canceled a panel of Latino authors. Such things would never happen in a modern literary setting. Nor could they. The world wouldn’t tolerate it. So why, then, do we tolerate it when people refuse to appear with and patronize Jews?

Don’t tell me that “Zionist” and Jewish aren’t the same thing. Because in this context, they absolutely are. Yes, Elisa Albert has been publicly outspoken in her condemnation of Hamas. She has strong ties to Israel. She was in Israel visiting family on October 7. So perhaps you can excuse her for speaking out against the greatest single-day atrocity against the Jewish people since World War 2. You can have any opinion you like about the war, or about the way Israel has treated the Palestinians. It’s a free country despite the efforts of some people in the literary world. But that does not give you the right to refuse to appear with “Zionists.” That’s not a social-justice stance. It’s bigotry. In a universe of public discourse where everyone who disagrees with anyone is a Nazi, that’s literally Nazi talk right there.

There’s clearly been a change in the literary world since I made my debut on bookshelves nearly 25 years ago. The lit world has always been left-leaning. But a quarter of a century ago, it was also a lot more Jewish. Now, far fewer writers and people who work to support those writers are Jewish. And that’s all for the good. America, and the literary world, has grown more diverse. But Jews still need a place at the table they helped set. If you are trying to ban or cancel “Zionist” writers, then you’re no friend to literature, you’re no friend to the values of freedom and tolerance, and you’re no friend to humanity.

We cannot allow this mindset to continue, and we must continue to call it out whenever it appears. The Elisa Albert situation in Albany may be a small item involving one panel at a provincial book festival. But it’s also a sign that not is all well with our times. People of good conscience need to stand with Jewish writers and artists right now, and not be quiet about this evil that’s creeping over our culture. Stand with normal Jewish people, and stand against the fucking twits who don’t want to sit with them in public. If you don’t, then that shanda will mark you for the rest of your days.

#elisa albert #jews #zionists #literature #literary people #albany book festival #the snarling girl

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mightyflamethrower · 11 months ago

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Something eerie, something creepy, is happening in the world—and now in America as well. The dark mood is brought on by elite universities, the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion industry, and massive immigration from illiberal nations and anti-Enlightenment societies.

At Hillcrest High School in Queens, New York, hundreds of students rioted on news that a single teacher in her private social media account had expressed support for Israel. Waving Palestinian flags, and screaming violent threats, the student mob rioted, destroyed school property, sought the teacher out and tried to crash into her classroom—before she was saved from violence by other teachers and an eventual police arrival.

The subtext was that the overwhelmingly minority students (whose school is ranked academically near the bottom among New York City schools) were acculturated to the racist reality that as the “oppressed” they were exempt from any punishment for hunting down their own teacher. As a Jewish (and thus white) “oppressive” supporter of Israel, she was reduced to, in the words an enthusiastic commenter on a Tik Tok video of the riot, a “cracker ass bitch.” And so the student pack tracked her down as if they were hunting an animal. The old Nazi youth gangs tried to kill Jews because they were not considered “white;” our new Nazis hunt them down because they allege that they are. The common denominator between the 1930s and 2023 is an unhinged hatred of Jews.

Hundreds of such incidents are now occurring on a daily basis—as the country is leaving its Weimar phase and heading at warp speed into normalizing Jew-hatred and worse. Instructors singled out Jewish students in classes at UC Davis and Stanford. Pro-Hamas students ripped down posters, swarmed public buildings, and disrupted traffic.

A pro-Israeli demonstrator in Los Angeles was hit on the head and killed by a pro-Palestinian university professor.

Jewish students were trapped in a Cooper Union university library surrounded by pro-Hamas demonstrators. At MIT, Jewish students were warned to keep away from particular areas of the campus deemed dangerous for them.

What would happen to a university president who warned black or Latino students to keep clear of areas where she could not guarantee their safety from other students?

A bankrupt media deserves much of the blame. They daily broadcast Hamas’s suspect casualty figures, as if that terrorist organization has ever been capable of speaking the truth.

The Western news regurgitated “500 dead at a Gaza hospital,” due to a supposedly deliberate Israel bombing. In fact, the hospital parking lot was hit by an errant Islamic Jihad missile intended to kill civilians in Israel.

No matter—few reporters apologized for spreading Hamas-fed misinformation, despite the previous Hamas lies that they never harmed civilians, that tunnels were not beneath hospital grounds, that they did not murder 1,200 Israelis; or their lies that Hamas gunmen do not rape, when they engaged in mass rape on October 7.

The media normalizes Hamas’s atrocities by treating it as if it were an ordinary government, not a murderous terrorist clique that decapitates civilians, takes children as hostages, and mutilates those it slaughters. That the terrorist organization has kidnapped at least ten American citizens and killed perhaps another 31 is lost on the “journalists,” many of them Americans who could care less about the fate of their fellow citizens.

The media fixates on the Israeli response to mass murder, but rarely the mass murder of 1,200 Israeli civilians that prompted the current war. During ceasefires do Israeli terrorists drive into Gaza cities, and shoot and kill innocent civilians—and then brag, as did Hamas recently, that such murdering will only increase?

Sometimes the anti-Semitic hatred reaches Orwellian levels of absurdity. A British reporter asked an Israeli official whether his country valued life less than Hamas did because it had agreed to Hamas’s demand to release three convicted terrorists in exchange for one Israeli captive. The media fawned over a released disfigured Gazan terrorist—without mentioning that her injuries came from a car bomb she exploded in hopes of killing Jews.

The media is further emboldened by the Biden administration. When asked about the outbreak of anti-Semitism across the U.S.—nearly 60 percent of hate crimes are committed against Jews, who make up 2.5 percent of the population—Biden Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre dismissed them with the false claim that the White House “had not seen any credible threats” to Jews. And then she claimed that the real danger to American residents was Islamophobia and threats to Arab-Americans. Hate crime and interracial crime statistics do not support Jean-Pierre’s assertions, which prompts the question of why she made them in the first place.

Note that almost all the violence in demonstrations over the current war comes from the pro-Hamas side that shouts “river to the sea” genocidal threats, swarms the Capitol rotunda and the White House wall, disrupts traffic, occupies bridges at peak traffic, defaces private and public property, shouts down speakers on campus, harasses passers-by, and often battles the police. One wonders whether, should the U.S. military be forced to try to rescue American captives, the demonstrators would cheer for the American troops or Hamas hostage-takers.

Abroad, the world has gone even crazier.

The United Nations has appointed Iran—a theocratic, terrorist-supporting government that kills dissidents and takes hostages—as the chair nation of the UN Human Rights Council Social Forum. What a cruel joke.

But what would one expect from the UN when its secretary-general, António Manuel de Oliveira Guterres, a former Portuguese socialist politician, condemns the Israeli response to October 7, but rarely, if ever, the Hamas mass killing of civilians that prompted it. Right after the mass killing Guterres opined, “The attacks by Hamas did not happen in a vacuum.” According to the secretary-general’s logic, I suppose, Pearl Harbor, the 1939 Nazi invasion of Poland, and the Russian invasion of Ukraine did not happen in a vacuum either.

When told that an Irish citizen hostage was freed by Hamas, Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar declared that the “lost” child was finally “found.” In other words, he wished to hide the obvious fact that a terrorist organization had kidnapped an Irish citizen child, held her hostage for 50 days, and released her only when Israel gave up convicted terrorists to obtain her release.

Our domestic political leadership is not helping the situation.

Just days after October 7, Secretary of State Antony Blinken, along with the foreign minister of the now often hostile Turkish government, were calling for a cease-fire to prevent an Israeli response.

When the Islamic Jihad rocket aimed at Israeli cities went off course and damaged a Gaza hospital (leading to the fake story that Israel bombed the hospital), President Biden joked, “You got to learn to shoot straight.” Did Biden mean that, had the terrorists only launched a successful terrorist rocket into Jewish neighborhoods, there would have been no ensuing controversies?

Biden later apologized for doubting fatality figures provided by the Gaza Health Ministry, which is controlled by Hamas—a terrorist organization that has lied about the hospital “bombing,” denied it had tunnels under hospitals, denied that it had engaged in mass rape in Israel, and has supplied no proof of its civilian casualty numbers. Has Hamas released figures of how many of its terrorists were killed, and does it separate those numbers from lost “civilians?” And so are there really vast new cemeteries in Gaza to handle the 15,000 graves for those who, Hamas asserts, were killed?

What explains the collective madness?

For the last 40 years, while Western leftists have naively supported Palestinian terrorists, their governments have appeased terrorist-supporting Middle Eastern governments for very practical reasons. The old subtext to such mollification was that 500-million irate Arab Muslims, and a Middle East with 40 percent of the world’s oil reserves, in realist terms, simply argued against the interests of 10 million Israelis.

But now there are two new, venomous elements in the matrix.

One is that the racist DEI industry assumes that all intersectional nonwhite communities are victims of white privilege and supremacy. Therefore, as permanently oppressed, they are declared incapable of being racist themselves. And so they can harass with impunity the supposed victimizers—in this case American Jews, who are declared culpable whites.

So the oppressed, according to the DEI bible, cannot be anti-Semitic, though many certainly are. And they apparently cannot be held accountable for their hatred or frequent violence.

Secondly, in the last two decades there has been an epidemic of immigration into Western nations from the Middle East. In often-divided democracies like ours, politicians seek to appease as many pressure groups as possible, whether citizen voters or merely resident demonstrators, to acquire and maintain power.

Such pro-Hamas demonstrators, rah-rahing from a free, prosperous, and secure West, expect no rebuke for their obvious hypocrisy in cheering on an autocratic, dictatorial Hamas that has wrecked the economy of Gaza, shoots dissidents, and allows no free expression. And Middle Eastern guests and immigrants are never reminded that their very demonstrations are predicated on not being physically present in their homelands, where they might be shot for what they say and do freely in the West.

We are on a trajectory similar to that of 1930s Germany.

Every time a student is cornered, harassed, or threatened; a high school mob tries to swarm and harm a teacher; a government spokesperson dismisses such hatred; or American soldiers are targeted by Iranian-fed terrorist organizations; the madness, racism, and anti-Semitism will increase—until it reaches a saturation point of abject violence in our streets.

Once a society mainstreams the values of thuggish brownshirts, and ignores their “from the river to the sea” eliminationist chants and screams of “beat the f—king Jew,” then the next emboldened step is foreordained.

True, most Americans were appalled by October 7 and accept that every nation has the right to defend itself from terrorist killers. Most Americans deplore vicious demonstrators and their calls for violence on behalf of the Hamas death cult. And most Americans want their President to demand the release of American hostages and to deter Iranian-backed terrorists who attack U.S. military personnel in the region.

But unless the public demands that their universities enforce on campus the Bill of Rights and the right to move freely in safety, that police enforce laws against mob violence on America’s streets and in our schools, and that the United States stops greenlighting mass immigration from anti-Western nations and extending student visas to residents of anti-American, terrorist-supporting, and autocratic Middle East regimes, then in suicidal fashion we are headed for a 1930s nightmare.

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dragoneyes618 · 1 year ago

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Charles Cooke made an important observation in National Review in the wake of the multitude of pro-Hamas demonstrations on university campuses, while the images of Hamas savagery were still fresh. To wit, the dividing line is not between left and right, Zionist and anti-Zionist, pro-Palestinian and pro-Israeli, but between “normal human beings” and “unreconstructed crackpots who have lost their minds.”

“It is simply not within the normal bounds of human behavior to look at what has happened in Israel and to filter one’s instinctive moral reaction through whatever goofy, specious, ugly ideology one might have picked up in an overpriced seminar hall when aged 19,” Cooke wrote.

Happily, the numbers of normal people turned out to outnumber the crackpots, and to include in their ranks President Joe Biden (who both backed Israel’s right to rid itself of Hamas on its border and decried the “grotesque” anti-Semitism run rampant on university campuses), almost all members of Congress, and the leaders of most European countries.

Nevertheless, for many discovering how many crackpots there are whom one once considered comrades in creating a better world, all this has been profoundly disorienting. Few progressive Jews, I suspect, ever expected to see UCLA students rallying around the chant, “Israel, you can’t hide/We want Jewish genocide.” (I suppose we owe those students a debt of gratitude for making their goals so explicit, and not engaging in happy talk about a two-state solution. The Mufti of Jerusalem, who spent World War II in Berlin, would be so proud.)

The press last week was filled with the laments of many in the West whose worldview has been shattered (not to speak of the far-left members of the kibbutzim surrounding Gaza who were fortunate enough to survive.)

The Free Press led the way with an important column by Konstantin Kisin: “Many people woke up on October 7 sympathetic to parts of woke ideology and went to bed that evening questioning how they had signed on to a worldview that had nothing to say about the mass rape and murder of innocent people by terrorists.”

Boaz Munro, in a Tablet piece, “Jews of the Left,” described the discovery that one is in a toxic relationship: “It’s terrifying to feel the coldness of one’s friends. You feel the walls closing in, the floor dropping from beneath you. Every psychological handhold you lean on (‘America is safe,’ ‘Israel is safe,’ ‘the Nazis are dead’) turns to sand, and you fall down.”

Unhappily, the division between normal people and the crazies does not favor the normal among one group: the 18-24 demographic and those who teach them. In a Harvard-Harris poll taken after October 7, a full third of 18- to 24-year-olds did not believe that Hamas had murdered whole families, beheaded babies and kids, or had murdered 1,200 people (actually 1,400). Only 53% in that age group thought that Hamas had indiscriminately targeted civilians, and only 54% in the 25-34 age group. Just over half of the younger cohort felt that Hamas’s actions could be justified by Palestinian grievances, and nearly one-half (48%) of the next youngest cohort. A full quarter of the youngest group thought Israel should be ended and given to the Palestinians and Hamas.

Of course, they were not operating from a large knowledge base. Over a third of the younger cohort did not know that Hamas has been listed by the US government as a terrorist organization for decades. And 46% of all Americans are unaware that the Palestinians, not Israel, have run the Gaza Strip since 2005.

How do these views and level of ignorance play out on campus? Just a few examples from last week.

At New York’s Cooper Union, Jewish students were forced to cower in the school library for hours, while those shouting pro-Hamas slogans banged on the doors to gain entry. Campus police made no arrests of the demonstrators baying for Jewish blood.

Students for Justice in Palestine projected pro-Hamas slogans, such as “Glory to Our Martyrs,” on the campus library building at George Washington University, which building was, incidentally, donated by Jewish benefactors.

The student senate at Brandeis University, an institution originally built by the American Jewish community, failed to pass a resolution condemning Hamas’s attacks.

And at Hillary Clinton’s alma mater, Wellesley, the student leader of one campus dorm wrote to all the students in that dorm, “We firmly believe that there should be no space, no consideration, and no support for Zionism within the Wellesley College community.”

A graduate student in ethnic studies at UC Berkeley offered extra credit to undergraduates in her class who participated in the pro-Hamas “national walkout against genocide, settler colonization, and the siege of Gaza.” The Faculty Council of that same ethnic studies department sent a strongly worded letter to the chancellors of the various campuses of the University of California system complaining of distorted messages that termed the Hamas attacks “terrorism” or “unprovoked,” and endorsing the BDS movement. That same Faculty Council is pushing an ethnic studies requirement for all the tens of thousands of incoming students in the University of California system annually, with anti-Zionism as one of the animating principles of the proposed curriculum.

The campus woke brigades, it has suddenly become clear, are not just engaging in some youthful hijinks, like goldfish swallowing, which they will presumably outgrow upon entering adulthood. No, the SDS radicals of the ’60s, who went into university teaching, have produced a generation and, in some cases, two generations of students and successors in academia. Entire university departments — Middle Eastern studies, black studies, decolonization studies, and gender studies — have become hotbeds of hostility not only to Israel but to Jews in general. Nellie Bowles offered in her most recent TGIF column at the Free Press a sampling of hundreds of academic job-opening announcements from normal-sounding departments for which applicants must express their commitment to pressing for “decolonization.” One guess who are the leading white, settler colonialists in the world today among the bien-pensants.

In many cases, oil-rich Arab states have simply purchased entire university departments to advance their cause. Qatar alone has contributed $8.5 billion to American universities since the early ’80s. And those donors have gotten what they paid for, as documented by Martin Kramer in Ivory Towers on Sand: The Failure of Middle Eastern Studies in America. Columbia professor Joseph Massad of the Department of Middle Eastern and Asian Languages and Cultures (MEALAC), who vocally cheered Hamas’s October 7 massacre, described Israel as a racist state that has no right to exist in a 2002 speech at Oxford. Former department chair Professor Hamid Debashi wrote in an Egyptian daily, “Half a century of systematic maiming and murdering of another people has left... its deep marks on the faces of the Israeli Jews, the way they talk, walk, the way they greet each other.… There is a vulgarity of character that is bone-deep and structural to the skeletal vertebrae of its culture.”

The leading scholars of Middle Eastern studies departments are not only filled with hatred of Israel but incompetent, in thrall as they are to the declaration of their guiding light Edward Said, that terms such as fundamentalism and terrorism are inherently racist and reactionary. Not one predicted the Islamic Revolution in Iran. And of the 144 planned sessions for the national conference of Middle East study departments at the time of 9/11, not one dealt with the threat of Osama bin Laden or terrorism. Even after 9/11, a hastily created session focused almost exclusively on how to prevent an American response to “so-called terrorism.”

But if Arab oil money has been well spent in creating departments at many of America’s most prestigious universities for highly ideological professors to indoctrinate captive students, Jewish donors have proven inept in their efforts to create Jewish studies departments as something of a ballast. Those departments are too frequently rife with Jewish professors who are also highly critical of Israel, and they do little to buttress Jewish identity.

Part of the great awakening among those who always considered themselves left politically has been the discovery of how lethal are many of the doctrines in which our young are being marinated on campus. Jonah Goldberg’s comment, “Scratch a progressive and you’ll find a totalitarian,” has been proven true.

Take, for instance, the panoply of doctrines that have been used to justify all sorts of infringements on free speech and to stifle diverse viewpoints: Bad ideas are harmful, and thus one is justified, even required, to shout down and prevent from speaking all those who espouse wrong thoughts; believe all women, especially when it comes to claims of assault; micro-aggressions, as defined by the victim, must be strictly policed.

Yet as the aforementioned Charles Cooke notes in another excellent piece, in the wake of October 7, those formerly justifying a wide variety of restrictions on “bad speech” suddenly became First Amendment absolutists, at least as far as the rights of those chanting their support of Hamas’s murderous rampage are concerned. Those chants for “Jewish genocide” are not exactly micro-aggressions, on the general scale of things.

Harvard University offers a prime example. Harvard is not exactly a bastion of free speech or viewpoint diversity. Indeed, the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression rated it dead last among American colleges in that respect. But in response to the petition of 34 Harvard organizations placing exclusive responsibility “entirely on Israel” for Hamas’s murder of Israeli citizens, Harvard acted decisively. Dean of students Thomas Dunne created a special task force to deal with what he termed an attack on the Harvard community by those publicizing the names of the students involved.

That task force was charged, inter alia, with vouching for those students with potential employers. One wonders whether Harvard would also find it incomprehensible why potential employers might want to know that a job applicant was a Holocaust denier, if only because such beliefs raise questions about the basic sanity of their holders and create a hostile environment for Jewish employees. Why should promoters of a second Holocaust be any different?

The double standards about what speech deserves protection means that the left’s doctrines of free speech or the limitations thereof are ultimately about one thing — power, i.e., the ability to manipulate what ideas may be voiced to gain and maintain power. Control of the range of acceptable ideas is always the first step of totalitarians everywhere.

Second, the doctrine of intersectionality that all favored victim groups are linked in a common cause by virtue of their skin color or their victimhood ultimately justifies the elimination of all those on the other side — the oppressors and holders of privilege. In the Manichean universe of the proponents of intersectionality, there are only those fighting for a glorious utopian future and those opposing them. And like utopians from the French Revolution on, those standing in the way can be “offed” with a clear conscience.

Here is Hasan Piker, a popular commentator, with 2.5 million followers, who defended the killing of Jewish babies as not only legal, but moral. The Palestinians have a legal right to violently seize back their lands from these settlers, he argues, and “there are baby settlers as well.” The head of Students for Justice in Palestine at George Washington made the same argument: Any Hamas member, even an armed one, is a civilian; any Israeli, even one unarmed, is a soldier.

"We are finally discovering how deeply our leading institutions have been penetrated by the progressive mindset. What is clearer than ever is that the governing classes of far too many Western institutions want Israel to fail,” Times of London columnist Juliet Samuel writes. “They want it to fail physically, as they state with increasing brazenness. But just as importantly for their fragile worldview, they want it to fail morally. They need this failure because without it, all their nonsensical, convoluted political theories, all the ridiculous victim hierarchies and weird psychological complexes projected onto the world, make no sense and will be revealed as the worthless, nasty nest of guilt and prejudice they really are.”

A prior association with the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) or other Muslim Brotherhood associated organizations — i.e., the ones proclaiming “from the river to the sea” — is no bar to employment at the US State Department or senior positions on the National Security Council. Middle-level staffers at the State Department recently staged an open protest over President Biden’s support for Israel after October 7. The Voice of America described the “angry and tearful reactions of State Department staff to the humanitarian crisis in Gaza.”

The Times of London reports: “The BBC has been accused by its journalists of being too lenient on Israel and ‘dehumanising’ Palestinian civilians, allegedly leaving staff crying in lavatories and taking time off work.” In a widely circulated email to BBC director-general Tim Davie, the journalists accused their employer as “treating Israeli lives as more worthy than Palestinian lives,” and protested words such as “massacre,” “slaughter,” and “atrocities” being applied to Hamas’s actions.

The young BBC journalists call to mind their counterparts at the New York Times who forced the departure of the editorial page editor and his deputy over the publication of an op-ed by Senator Tom Cotton arguing for the employment of National Guardsmen to stop the widespread arson and looting in the wake of the death of George Floyd.

Not surprisingly did the NYT eagerly promulgate around the world the myth that Israel bombed the Al-Ahli Arab Hospital, solely on the say-so of Hamas, and without any independent fact-checking or consultation with Israel. That story was soon shown to be false in every particular: the responsible party (i.e., a misfired Islamic Jihad rocket); the area struck (the hospital parking lot); and the number of casualties (between ten and fifty, not 500).

The bombed hospital story was the 2023 reprise of the alleged 2000 shooting by Israeli forces of Mohammed al-Dura, a Palestinian boy shown cowering behind his father, later proven conclusively to have been a staged fraud. But now as then, the damage was already done in terms of inflaming public opinion against Israel. According to Honest Reporting, the NYT’s continues to employ as stringers in Gaza at least three Palestinians who have expressed support on social media for Palestinian terrorism and Adolf Hitler yemach shemo.

What do those State Department staffers and young BBC and New York Times journalists have in common? I’d take a large wager that the vast majority were educated at elite universities in their respective countries.

The time has come for Jewish parents, but not only, to ask themselves whether the possibility of landing a post-graduation job at Goldman Sachs is worth the risk of having their children’s minds twisted and subjecting them to possible physical threats on elite campuses.

#israel hamas war #antisemitism

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Henry Kissinger: Dead at 100

(Only the good die young.)

Stephen Jay Morris

11/30/23

©scientific Morality

Henry Kissinger died yesterday. He was a German Jew who was a refugee from Nazi Germany. He was educated at Harvard University, where he studied philosophy. Somehow, he became Secretary of State in the Nixon Administration. President Nixon would ingratiate himself in front of Henry, then shit-talk him behind his back. You want to talk about antisemitism? You should have heard the anti-Jew hate speech Nixon gave to the Watergate criminals. Nixon didn’t trust Jews. Here is an excerpt from a published article, including quotes from one of his tapes: Washington "is full of Jews," the President asserted. "Most Jews are disloyal." He made exceptions for some of his top aides, such as National Security Adviser Henry Kissinger, his White House counsel, Leonard Garment, and one of his speechwriters, William Safire. Most leftists from my generation viewed Kissinger as a war criminal. However, that would be a deep dive into history, which I won’t write about here. Maybe another time.

Henry Kissinger reminded me of the Peter Sellers’ character, “Dr. Strangelove,” from the movie of the same name. Likewise, Strangelove reminded me of Kissinger. Strangelove had this horse with a German accent, and he resembled a cold psychopath. My grandmother always told me that most Jews in the community disliked German Jews because they had a superiority complex. Some of them were obedient to the Nazi regime. A lot of Jews were leftists ranging from Socialist Zionists to Anarchists. They wanted to overthrow oppressive governments. Others thought that by being obsequious to an Aryan, authoritarian government, they would be spared being jailed a concentration camp or put to death. The Jewish Community called those Jews “Capos” and, later, “Uncle Jakes.” German Jews told Zionist activists that Hitler was no threat to the Jewish people unless they were Leftists. Instead of going to Palestine, those Jews remained in Germany.

Kissinger was one of those Jews who wanted to be loved by the Goys. So much so, that he would do evil things to win their admiration.

Okay. I now take a sharp turn and talk about Antisemitism.

Is Antisemitism left wing or right wing? The American Left was comprised mostly of Jews in the mid-Twentieth century. In the 1950’s, during the McCarthy era, some Jews left the Communist Party and joined the Democratic Party. When Julius and Ethel Rosenberg got the death penalty, in 1953, for giving secret files to the Soviet Union, everybody knew they were innocent. Many Jews were freaking out over this, so some of them became Republican Conservatives. Did they become more accepted by Gentile America as a result? Not really. Many Jews weren’t permitted to golf on Christian golf courses or join private clubs until the New Left rebellion materialized in the 60’s. The Left has been anti-Zionist since 1948. Is that Antisemitism? Fuck no! Even some Orthodox Jews are anti-Zionist. They are called “Neturei Karta;” they believe there can be no Israel until the Jewish Messiah comes. Needless to say, they don’t believe Jesus is him. So, the Anti-Authoritarian Left is not anti-Semitic. The Tankies are, but they are Authoritarian Left. In their moronic minds, they think Islamo-Fascists are part of an anti-colonial, Third World rebellion. A minority of Authoritarian Leftists romanticize any guerilla group that terrorizes American Imperialists. Groups like the Revolutionary Communist Party; Not the Communist Party USA.

So, no, the Left is not Anti-Semitic. The Right? They are. Christian Zionists use Israel for their stupid bible prophecies. According to Revelations in the King James Bible, most Jews are going to hell; that is, except for the Jews who accept Jesus as their Lord and savior. Extreme hate groups, like the Nazis and the Klan, see all Jews as evil. A normal person knows that evil exists in

If you are a Left-wing Jew, you have your list. Here is mine.

You want names, you got ‘em:

First on the list is David Berkowitz, famously branded as the “Son of Sam” by the media. He was a serial killer during the 70’s, who murdered six New Yorkers. To be fair, he suffered from Schizophrenic Paranoia and was non compos mentis. You law students know what that means.

How about Jewish gangsters? There was Bugsy Siegel, Arnold Rothstein, Meyer Lansky, Louis “Lepke” Bacheller, to name just a few. These thugs go back to the 1920’s and 1930’s. They heavily extorted Jewish merchants for protection. See the movie, “Once Upon a Time in America.” Great flick.

Here follows a prime example of a true Uncle Jake: Nowadays, if you are anti-Israel Jewish Leftist, you are a self-hating Jew. Dog shit!

Introducing Dan Burros. He committed suicide in 1965. Why did he do it? This dude had Traumatic Stockholm Syndrome. Nobody knew he was Jewish. Here is the kicker: he was the leader of Neo-Nazi group and, prior to that, he was a member of the K.K.K. He hated himself so much that he wanted to become an Aryan. His comrades were suspicious because of his Semitic features. Ultimately, they did some detective work and discovered he wasn’t who he said he was. Now, that’s a self-hating Jew!

Jews like Benjamin Aron Shapiro make me sick! He is an Uncle Jake and wants to be loved by white Christians. He has a business called “The Daily Wire.” It’s allegedly a conservative business that makes its money attacking the Left. He employs White racists like Matt Walsh. Then there is Benny Netanyahu, the Israel’s Prime Minister. He is the leader of the Likud Party. His party wants to turn Israel into a Jewish Theocracy and kick all non-Jews.

In closing, I’ll state this: I love myself too much to hate self, as I do all Jews who are on the Left.

But I don’t like Right wing Kikes!

Shalom mother fucker!

#stephenjaymorris #american politics #poets of tumblr #baby boomers #anarchopunk #youtube #anarchocommunism #anarchism #henry kissinger #anti zionisim #jewish history

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Since people have been posting both alterhuman/nonhuman-related ones and non-related ones I've got one for each

Alterhuman/nonhuman-related: just because we may not be a part of the LGBTQIA+ community doesn't mean we couldn't have our own similar activist movement for rights or w/e if necessary (and sometimes given some news stories like the litter-boxes-in-schools thing I feel it might be verging on being necessary)

Unrelated: While I hate JKR I do still love Harry Potter as it's (in my opinion) not as problematic as you'd think as e.g. that image of goblins came before the anti-semitic stereotypes people think it's referencing (and they only had hooked noses in the movies), not every fantasy slave race is a reflection of the writer's views on black people (and there's some who might say thinking so is racist to just look at slave and see black), in-universe the Ilvermorny mascots were just magical animals that existed in that world's North America and even the parts people have said make the books transphobic don't as the point of the Snape boggart scene wasn't that Snape in women's clothes caused the laughter it was Snape in clothes so far removed from what he'd normally wear, just because Rita Skeeter is an antagonist with "mannish hands" and a colorful dress sense who spies on students probably doesn't mean she's meant to represent the right-wing conflation of trans woman and drag queen and implicitly spies on students in the lavatory, and the physically-conventionally-unattractive women weren't meant to be coded as men in dresses or w/e or one wouldn't have had a biological child. I think it was kinda virtue-signal-y (though I respect their motives) for the creators of the sortinghatchats system and the people in charge of the real-life quidditch league or w/e to change the names of the things (sortinghatchats used animals instead of house names and irl quidditch got changed to quadball) as they can't erase any trace of HP connection in those things without changing their fundamental nature so changing only the name seems a little "look, I'm doing something". I wish this Khelif lawsuit led to a domino effect that eventually led to JKR having to give up all the rights to her series so we-the-remnants-of-the-fandom could just yoink them

Y'know what, for fun.

Alterhumans/nonhumans/any other label that may apply, what is your hottest take you have?

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Mine isn't anything big or dramatic, I just don't like Autumn J, I get the hype but like... I find their music mid and don't like the lyrics. That's just me though lol.

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NATO's Long-Range Missiles, Russia, and World War III

‘While people are saying, “Peace and security,” destruction will come on them suddenly, as labour pains on a pregnant woman, and they will not escape’ ~1 Thessalonians 5:3. Western propaganda says that we are not at war yet. This is false. We are at war, and people in the UK are being led to believe that none of this is happening. The government is fully aware that they are strategically attempting to trigger Russia. The media will begin scapegoating Russia, in order to place blame on them for things currently happening in Europe. This is designed to convince Italy, France, and Spain, among many other European countries, that Russia has malicious intentions towards them in an attempt to further isolate Russia, and to eventually discredit Giorgia Meloni’s anti-Islam stance. This is all a psychological operation being carried out by the British government, and it favours Islam. Deep down, the imperialist agenda is worse than any other current agenda. Prime Minister Keir Starmer already took a number of measures which aim to protect the criminals, and to criminalise normal people. Dangerous offenders are being released early from jail in order to make space for people who might have posted something as innocuous as “who the fuck is allah?” on social media, or that have verbally expressed such a thing publicly. These extreme measures protect Islam, rapists, and paedophiles. They neglect victims, and radicalise otherwise normal individuals who feel threatened by displacement and replacement. The Ministry of Defence (MOD) in the UK has authorised Ukraine to use long-range missiles against Russia. These NATO missiles, when used in the offence of a country, become the trigger which unfolds a series of unfortunate events. The UK’s capabilities are enormous, and should never be underestimated. The UK is capable of causing sabotages in allied countries only to scapegoat Russia. Yes, the UK is capable of eliminating and creating evidence to accomplish any of their goals. Russia is currently being overwhelmed with aggression emanating from the UK and the US, and being applied through Ukraine as a proxy. Will Vladimir Putin give in to the fear-mongering being propagated by Western propaganda? No. The world stands with Russia. Africa, Asia, and Latino America increasingly support Russia. But the best news is that Israel might also be siding with Russia next. For a long time, Western countries have used Israel as a token, claiming they are pro-semite. But here in the UK, no prime minister or home secretary has ever taken as extreme measures to protect Jews, as the current government does to protect Islamist criminals. Even pro-Hamas activists are being protected. Indeed, Benjamin Netanyahu can increasingly notice the two-tier nature of Western culture, and the hypocritical diplomatic stance they hold. The UK decided to stop trading weapons with Israel, abandoning Israel when it is most at risk. This betrayal was condemned by Netanyahu, and this is why now it is more likely than ever before that Russia and Israel will become allies. This is positive when it comes to truth and justice, and for the change the subdeveloped nations pray and hope for. Eschatological theorists believe that both Russia and Israel have a prophetic role to play in the great tribulation being awaited by Christians. The labour party in the UK has proved that they will put any sort of abhorrent human being over their own people, and over the vulnerable and innocent. Those who believe in prophecies, expect the UK to face epidemics, plagues, natural disasters, and conflicts. All these outcomes, according to the Bible, are dictated by God and are a direct repercussion of social immorality and injustices. The UK government is pro-Islam, anti-semitic, and anti-Christian. Paedophiles are justified based on their Islamic religion, and their Jewish or Christian victims are not protected. Rapists are allowed to walk free, and this is indeed creating tensions all over the planet. For instance, it is no surprise that Iraq supports the UK, and that Iran naturally does not. Iraqi culture is a culture of female subjugation. Even though the UK claims to be taking de jure measures to combat misogyny, the truth is that de facto wise, women continue to be under-represented even in jobs where oestrogen performs more efficiently than testosterone. This cultural misogyny is also reified in NICE reports which show that Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) is the most abused condition in the UK. Also, in the way that the current administration is persecuting the English indigenous people, as well as other ethnicities, in order to safeguard the Iraqi people, and the Ukrainian people. Prime Minister Keir Starmer has gone as far as cutting funds of the elderly in order to spend such taxpayer money supporting Ukraine’s terrorist attacks against Russian civilians. As a matter of fact, now Ukraine is placing innocent Russian civilians in concentration camps. The Western media continues to be an accomplice of such a crime, as they barely report on these gruesome details of reality. Canada is now also being vocal about participating in World War III. The UN secretary, Antonio Guterres condemns the Jew, but nowhere does he condemn the paedophile that effects child marriage. Indeed, the UN was created as a pro-semite organisation, and has been contaminated by Islam. Now the UN secretary general cares about Yemen and Palestine, but only because that is where paedophiles are found, and such seems to be the ultimate protected characteristic of this organisation. Yes, the UN no longer seems to want to eliminate Nazism. Instead, they try to eliminate self-defence, and to protect the perpetrators, whilst neglecting the victim All in all, it is natural to see why many people pray and hope for a new world order. Why care about the paedophile, instead of the child? Why protect the Nazi instead of the Jew? Why jail the defender of the nation, instead of the terrorist? When justice fails, change is a necessity. Read the full article

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In super-exciting news, the people who have unwaveringly backed Israel’s genocide from the start have proven they’re on the right side of history by sending masked cops to arrest students and professors who were committing the terrorist act of peaceful protest. Obviously, brutal crackdowns on academia are only bad when Iran or China do them, and in this case, should be applauded. If you’re unclear why this is happening, Benjamin Netanyahu made a totally sane speech demanding the US crack down on peaceful protests that he doesn’t like. Netanyahu’s request came just days after Israel told the US to stop meddling in its internal affairs. Personally, I think it’s brilliant the US constitution only applies until the president of a foreign country with a powerful lobbying group decides it’s inconvenient. At that point, you can shove your first amendment up your ass (that’s American for arse).

Not long ago, universities were talking about how important free speech on campus is, even if it’s speech normal people dislike. Emory University in Atlanta ignored those free speech values because they were intended to ensure Ben Shapiro would not be cancelled before he could explain why he hated the Barbie movie so much. Now that Ben has had his rant, free speech doesn’t matter any more. Emory University sent armed enforcers into campus to fire rubber bullets and tear gas at the scariest people in America. The decision presumably had the approval of the US president who had spent the week smearing the protesters as anti-Semites. This is the standard tactic to delegitimise critics of Israel. I understand the president is now considering whether to stand by his original position or pretend he was on the students’ side all along. Given he tried to shake hands with a ghost recently, anything is possible with this man.

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Other universities across the US have also taken their fair share of hostages. It’s hoped that mass arrests, along with the TikTok ban, will endear young people to Israel and help them realise genocide is just as woke as they are. If not, their lives will be destroyed because it’s only what they deserve.

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I often comment on the horrific outpouring of virulent, literally Nazi-level anti-Semitic hate that has been normalized, particularly in Left-wing circles that should know better, since October 7th. However, I want to take this moment to acknowledge that this war has also seen a renewed wave of viciously, genocidally Islamophobic hate. This includes Israeli officials characterizing Gazans as, for example, "animals". It includes American Republicans calling for a ban on Palestinian refugees, a renewed and expanded Muslim ban (Trump is campaigning on this), and even the use of nuclear weapons on Gaza. One Florida state legislator went so far as to publicly call for the extermination of every Gazan. I reported and blocked a long-time Facebook friend, who I had previously understood to be a liberal, for posts depicting all Muslim or Arab Americans as a terrorist threat who had to be dealt with, in language that only stopped just short of openly calling for their genocide. I have seen some pro-Israel posters on social media who have basically tried to justify every action by the IDF or the government of Israel, or worse, characterized Palestinians as all being terrorists, deserving whatever happens to them, or using racial slurs for them. Some of this is people (like the Republican fascists) who were always virulently Islamophobic latching onto recent events to push their hate back onto centre stage. Some of it is no doubt a predictable product of anger and rage in response to the atrocities of October 7th, and other acts of violence against Israel or Jews. Such a response is not, to be clear, in any way universal or unique to supporters of Israel, Zionists, Israelis, or Jews. It is a common reaction throughout human history in war time to dehumanize and advocate atrocities against those who share a race, religion, or nation of origin with the enemy (I'm old enough to remember what America was like right after 9/11, I remember the "Leftists" who would now likely whine about "forever wars" cheering on the invasion of Iraq, and I have a distinct memory of, shortly after the attacks, watching a Fox News host, I don't recall their name, call for the nuking of Mecca). To an extent, I can even appreciate the feeling, when one's own people have been brutally attacked. But regardless of the reason, it's still racism. It is still condemning innocent people, including children, because they happen to share a nationality or faith or skin tone with some very evil people. It is collective punishment, it is ALWAYS wrong, and if you see it you should call it out, report and block it.

#Anti-Semitism #Islamophobia #Racism #Fuck Racists

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Literally america became nazi and can't wake up to that fact because of "diversity", their diversity means shit coz that's every countries deal now tbh and well you can have a diverse country but if they all culture nazi mentality it be kind of the same shit... so nowadays we have to deal with he black tokens they was able to ally themselve with and those black tokens supposedly should make me forget about their actions just by looking and them color

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The joker is also ours again now.. in case you ain't informed. Came right back to daddy.

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Yess finally some non massonical christmas

The timelime:always the same timeline

Olé G content to cure us from that last wrestling poste that look exactly the same as 20 years ago

Now a sad reality of the result of the jewish celebrations... btw... i've met people from congo.. it is outsiders that come to that usually soldiers....

And they be also there doing this victim blaming at the same time

Then they blame hamas althought they ain't with no minerals or they wouldn't be poor

And wow thank you for your service. Funny enough they somehow know about this better than others and is always making post about this to clean their record coz they be the witnesses there duhhh

I wonder if those minerals can make lithium

So this ain't wwe's fault but they be so silly as to think the veteran soldiers they station at the middle east are the same as the gypsy veterans that fought againts nazis and then this happens ... they were not muslim or ashley would notice babes coz it's that damn noticeable when you are trully an arab... since jews tend to do this and look non arabic, i'm guessing it comes back to the same as it happens in congo

Now look at who your veterans really was

Wow no article? Not even a rita hayworth reference? Dang...

Of course there"s an article for them and damn they did a lot huh... blac blac fight for colonies of course

I would love to know how they get to this numbers. It ain't credible. Give me names and faces.

Russia pro jewish? Yah. They was literally againts them because they was ashkaNAZI

In their minds we was anti semitic

Conclusion...literally no names and faces just presumed numbers all the freaking time. And that is why thy havee credibility coz you know you just gotta say it was like shitloads of men broo... and we just find some stories coz you know we ain't lying so it's normal we isn't able to reserach 179191910191 people that was erased on purpose because all that info disappeareed on purpose... so i wonder how every other victim don't have that infor just some stories that survived and they have 71919101101019109911781191818911918197292891 people counted as victims

Guys this is known all over asia.... they just mock tf out of y'all fof being jewishfied through all this years

Literally yellow smile when you go to their country coz you know we are civilized and then they just focus on reality

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"Bla bla bla fight for colonies OF COURSE" ans i'll leave you all for today with this line coz humour is all we got now

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Actually i need one more

"They is rapping congo people for minerals but then don even have a country to live and a market to invest those minerals on.. they gotta be hostaging the minerals also because why not"

Have you clicked on that link where it says cristiano ronaldo is the most searched athlete online? Well they ain't kidding... the dudee is bigger than the wwe babes... and all those comments from american fans saying he wasn't a big deal and comparing him to current wrestlers served as more humour for when you turn yo backs and we drop the yellow smile to joke about your endless stubborness about this subject.

We are fucked... well i'm literally immigrating to asia after this one.

Listen the sephardic jews came from the ottoman empire so they always do the same shit that is why they are expelled all the time. Most of the ones sent to america was black and forgot their identity like literally african...there's jewish nigerian for example.

Now the sephardic are even victims of racism in israel but at least they look like jews.. pictures on my next post.. althought not every pic online is jews coz you know their game

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Pessimism runs deep in the Jewish psyche, with, tragically, good cause. Anti-Semitism goes back to the very beginnings of Jews as a people. Since biblical days, Jews have been seen as “the other,” outsiders, victims of conspiracy theories and myths that have no rational source. The pages of Jewish history are bloodstained from countless persecutions and pogroms. Jews have been accused of being too wealthy and too poor, too powerful and too weak, communists and financiers.

— Is Anti-Semitism the New Normal in America?

#gary rosenblatt #is anti-semitism the new normal in america?#history #antisemitism #conspiracy theories #judaism #persecution #pogroms

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omething eerie, something creepy, is happening in the world—and now in America as well. The dark mood is brought on by elite universities, the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion industry, and massive immigration from illiberal nations and anti-Enlightenment societies.

A pro-Israeli demonstrator in Los Angeles was hit on the head and killed by a pro-Palestinian university professor.

What would happen to a university president who warned black or Latino students to keep clear of areas where she could not guarantee their safety from other students?

A bankrupt media deserves much of the blame. They daily broadcast Hamas’s suspect casualty figures, as if that terrorist organization has ever been capable of speaking the truth.

Abroad, the world has gone even crazier.

Our domestic political leadership is not helping the situation.

What explains the collective madness?

But now there are two new, venomous elements in the matrix.

So the oppressed, according to the DEI bible, cannot be anti-Semitic, though many certainly are. And they apparently cannot be held accountable for their hatred or frequent violence.

We are on a trajectory similar to that of 1930s Germany.

On days like this I can't help thinking "Maybe the end of the world wouldn't be such a bad thing.

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#Hottakes #8: When You Play Stupid Games, You Win Stupid Prizes, Kanye.

Kanye West has been the topic of discussion for the last two weeks. Normally everyone chalks it up to Kanye being Kanye and not caring enough to hold him accountable for his outlandish behavior and actions. But this time, he’s officially gone too far with his comments and has landed himself in deep waters. It’s no shock that he is now being blackballed but his actions should’ve been an issue before this incident.

This all began on September 15 when Kanye notified GAP that he was terminating their anticipated partnership and said that he planned to open his stores, two weeks later he held a surprise off-schedule fashion show at Paris fashion week to present his latest fashion collection under his label YZY formally known as Yeezy where he showed up in an oversized white T-shirt with white lives matter on the back of it which is a phrase of hate speech that’s origin began with white supremacists who used it in response to the Black Lives Matter movement in 2015. From October 7’th through October 9’th Kanye was restricted by both Instagram and Twitter because he suggested that Diddy was being controlled by Jewish people, he was later restricted by Instagram that day. A day later his behavior continues, and he lashes out at Jewish people in a series of tweets where he tweeted he would go ‘death con 3’ on Jewish people. Kanye’s Twitter account was soon locked after that statement, but a couple of days later he does an interview on the podcast ‘Drink Champs’ where Kanye falsely says that George Floyd has died from fentanyl use instead of the police officer kneeling on his neck for more than eight minutes. And he also continues his anti-semitic speech on the podcast causing social media to irrupt and most brands to withdraw business with him.

Most brands went on to publicly denounce his words and withdraw from doing business with him in the future. It happened rapidly almost every hour there was a new brand or partnership that dropped Kanye West ranging from Balenciaga, Creative Artists Agency, GAP, Def Jam, Foot Locker, and most importantly Adidas which has been the home of the sneaker brand Yeezy since 2015. There have been talks about Kanye West's music being removed from some streaming platforms, and Apple Music recently has taken Kanye West's music off of their streaming playlists but his music remains available on all platforms. He is also currently being sued by the family of George Floyd for his defamatory comments about his death in the misinformation he spread about it. His downfall came faster than I think he ever expected, it almost seems like he didn’t think that he’d be held accountable for his behavior. Especially since he tried to barge into Skechers corporate office and make them the new home to his shoe brand Yeezy, he was later escorted out of the corporate office.

Kanye West is always referred to as a genius and smarter than most of his peers. While that may be correct for his business ventures and music, I never thought of him to be someone who has intellectual thoughts. Kanye has a cult-like following that would defend his every word no matter how outlandish his words are. Before they acknowledge his obvious mental health issues instead of encouraging him to get help, they weaponize it against people when they condemn him for his repulsive behaviors. I’ve seen a lot of theories that Kanye was trying to ‘get out’ of his contracts with all these brands and he was able to get out of these contracts for free instead of paying out of the contract. That sounds ridiculous. He’s not a genius nor was he thinking ahead of how his words and behavior will affect him in the long run. He somehow thought he was on the same level as a white man where they see no repercussions for their behavior. He was quickly reminded who he was in America, which is a Black man.

Class and social circles can ultimately change who you are and your behaviors toward people and that’s what happened with Kanye, The more renowned he became his behaviors became more outlandish, impulsive, and flat-out disgusting. People often run to blame someone for his actions, the blame has ranged from his mom‘s passing to Kim Kardashian, to Pete Davidson, and anyone under the sun other than the actual problem. Which is Kanye West himself. After being coddled for so long and only mentioning his mental health after making controversial statements, it’s become a cycle that we were all too familiar with. His mouth was going to get him in trouble one day, but we just didn’t know when. We all thought the ‘slavery was a choice’ comments have been the nail in the coffin and an ideal world, it would’ve. The anti-semitic comments were the rest of the world's breaking point and rightfully so. I do remember, people making excuses for his ‘slavery was a choice’ commentary and saying that he didn’t mean it like that when in actuality, he did. His harassment towards his ex-wife, Kim Kardashian for months over social media garnered so much support and laughs as if it was funny for him to publicly embarrass the mother of his kids in the manner that he did while she’s also taking the blame for him being this way. His behaviors have been enabled to the point where he thought that this was ok and that he will easily be forgiven and that’s not the case anymore with how we are progressing as people.

Being held accountable may be new to celebrities but it’s common practice in the real world. We don’t all have a cult-like following who can defend our every word even when we’re wrong, it’s up to us to watch our mouths and always remember our words can come back to bite. The saying, ‘you play stupid games, you win stupid prizes’ is an understatement of what has happened to Kanye over the past couple of weeks. It shouldn’t have taken this long to call out his problematic behavior but we’ll take what we can get. I hope in the future when we see some of our favorites saying some outlandish things that we can have enough maturity to call it out. Kanye went years unchecked and instead laughed at when nothing was funny, he accepted his behavior because we accepted his behavior and that’s what led us to where we are today.

What do you guys think? Did we enable Kanye? Why wasn’t he ‘canceled’ at the first problematic comment? Can Kanye bounce back from this?

Happy Halloween! See you next post!

Cherokee🤎🎃

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stephenjaymorrisblog · 1 year ago

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Low Turnout for Trump’s Tailgating Party

Stephen Jay Morris

6/14/2023

Oh, you should have read the Tweets on Twitter’s cyber bulletin board! The Chuds were as histrionic as a high school drama major. One Tweet read, “We will avenge the deep state in indicting our patriotic leader President Donald J Trump! Blood will be flowing in the streets of Miami! Signed American Warrior!” Well, the only thing flowing was sewage from a busted pipe in the street gutters of Miami—which is a normal occurrence in that city.

The only glamour that’s ever come out of Miami was in the 1980’s TV crime drama, “Miami Vice,” with its pastel colored clothes and buildings, fast sports cars, and 80’s music on the soundtrack. Florida has become the premier state of reactionary politics, alligators high on meth, and White Trash criminals robbing convenience stores. If you like tornadoes, tidal waves, or unbearable humidity in the summer, Florida is your state! There’s lot of racism against Afro-Americans and Latin migrant workers. Jewish retirees are subjects of Anti-Semitic jokes. That is, unless you’re a WASP or an exile of Communist CUBA. White Catholics are treated as second class Aryans unless they’re Conservatively correct. No wonder the state is shaped like a penis. Does that mean America is no longer identified by the pronouns she/her? America is a Trans-nation?? Florida’s governor, an Italian American named Ron DeSantis, thinks he is going to beat Trump for the presidency in 2024. He cannot stop using the word, “Woke” anytime he’s on camera, in public. Does he have a solution to Florida’s infrastructure problems or natural disasters? No! But he swears he is going to stop the woke agenda! Whatever the fuck THAT is! He’s already promised that, if Trump is convicted, he will pardon him. Yes! That is the way to get Trump votes!

Well, leading up to yesterday, there were promises made to the public, over cable TV and social media, that fifty thousand, enraged Trump supporters, armed with pitchforks and torches, would show up in Miami and tear down the federal court building! A contingency of Proud Boys had committed to come and beat up Left wing, counter-protesters. Militia groups were going to march, AR 15s at their side, ready to use them if provoked. They were to begin a second civil war in America!

So, what happened? All in all, about 250 Trump supporters showed up. It amounted to what looked like a Trump campaign rally in Montana. “Blacks for Trump” showed up, all 9 of them, though it was more like a low turnout for a tailgate party for the Miami Heat in the parking lot of Kaseya Center. The Heat just lost the NBA championship, by the way. I’m sure Miami is proud of their team.

The only action reported was that of a Baby Boomer “Woke” protester. He was wearing a 19th Century era, black and white striped prison uniform, and holding a sign that read, “Lock Him UP.” At one point, he ran in front of the motorcade to try and stop it, but Secret Service agents immediately pushed him aside and onto the ground. Miami police took him away in handcuffs.

In the end, Trump entered a plea of “Not guilty,” and then he and his team went on their merry way to a campaign rally at his New Jersey golf club.

The next time I go to traffic court, I want my own motorcade paid for by the taxpayers.

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schmergo · 3 years ago

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Weird obscure little rant here: There's this one particular conspiracy theory I've seen floating around the internet a lot lately that's a minor pet peeve of mine. There are a lot of more famous, major, and dangerous conspiracy theories going around right now, ones that are clearly anti-Semitic, anti-science, and doing genuine measurable danger to families and communities across the countries. But those have been extensively covered and analyzed by way more knowledgeable people than me (those articles are very much worth reading), and I don't think there's anything new I can bring up there.

The one I'm talking about is just skirting mainstream discourse and starting to become more widely known. It's the Missing411 'conspiracy.' The reason I put 'conspiracy' in quotes is that this isn't a traditional conspiracy theory with a clear bogeyman or scapegoat like some of the others. A traditional conspiracy theory usually goes something like, "[Group of people] are secretly [doing bad thing] so that they can [accomplish sinister goal]. but they control the [powerful organization], so nobody knows about it!"

By contrast, Missing411 is super vague. It basically boils down to, "Mysterious disappearances are taking place throughout America's national parks and protected wilderness lands, and they fit a pattern!" There are hints among fans of this theory that the National Park Service knows more than they're letting on, but the extent of their 'involvement' doesn't seem really central here. The 'theory' doesn't come right out and explain any root cause for this pattern of events, just drawing attention to the pattern itself, though, once again, there are hints as to a deeper meaning.

Here's the thing: "Missing411" is the brainchild of one guy named David Paulides who wrote a bunch of expensive self-published books compiling these cases. He's an ex-police officer (either retired or fired, depending on who you ask) who also happened to be super invested in Bigfoot hunting before he started with "Missing411," and, indeed, a lot of Missing411 stories do seem to point toward something... sasquatchy without ever coming right out and saying it. The other thing is that Paulides is the only one who can officially label a case a Missing411 case. A lot of people on the internet will say, "Oh, this sounds like Missing411," but Paulides is the one authority on which cases count and which don't.

Turns out a lot of 'missing person' cases in the national parks don't fit these criteria, and others that Paulides claim do are stretches. The criteria themselves are loose, and a missing person doesn't need to fit all or even most of them to be considered a Missing411 case. Missing411 cases include people who were never found, people who were found dead, and people who were recovered safely. Common factors in these 'patterns' include such vague terms as berries or berry bushes playing a role, being found near or in bodies of water, bad weather shortly after the disappearance, someone who is sick or disabled going missing, and someone being with a group at first but becoming separated from them after a surprisingly short period of time. And, of course, the fact that these disappearances take place in National parks and protected wildernesses.

Humans naturally seek and recognize patterns and make connections, but are categorizing cases in a way like this really helpful? I've seen people on the internet gleefully jump to this explanation whenever someone goes missing in a national park. Comments of "Google Missing411!" are common on news articles about this topic. I honestly think it's insensitive to the family members of the missing people who are looking for answers-- and misleading to those participating in the investigations. Currently, there's an incident going on in which a young couple was traveling cross-country in a van and visiting many National Parks. The man returned home with the van but without the woman, who hasn't been heard from in a few weeks, and isn't talking about what happened. Believe it or not, I've seen internet posters comment, "MISSING411!!!!" in response to this tragic story. A few months ago, a young man disappeared in Shenandoah National Park and his body was later recovered. I followed the case closely and the posts by Shenandoah National Park were full of "MISSING411!!!!" comments, despite the fact that it was very clear what led up to the disappearance: according to family members, a new medication caused psychosis and led to him driving in his pajamas from his home to Shenandoah (his family followed him there), crashing his car, and running into the woods, unprepared to deal with wilderness and not in good mental health.

Like I said, I think this gleeful pattern-recognition is a little distasteful, but more than that, I think Missing411's eagerness to spot sinister causes behind disappearances in the wild is problematic for another reason: I think the average American has a difficult time grasping the concept of 'wilderness' and its dangers. We're used to everything being safe and convenient for us in our towns and, because national parks are popular tourist destinations, it's easy to forget that there are many dangers that exist in wild public lands.

Inexperienced hikers often misjudge their skills and set off on trails too challenging for them and with inadequate water and supplies. Even experienced hikers can easily get lost or turned around-- and cell phone signals are usually nonexistent in national parks. Falls from cliffs, ledges, and waterfalls (mossy rocks near waterfalls are often lethally slippery) can mean injured people end up in inaccessible areas where they're not visible from the trail. A sudden health emergency like a heart attack, stroke, or even a broken leg can occur during vigorous physical activity. Abrupt changes in weather can change a pleasant stroll into deadly freezing temperatures in the blink of an eye. Dangerous wild animals like bears do live in the national parks. Although national parks are popular tourist destinations, these dangers are very, very real and can happen to anyone, and the parks themselves emphasize the importance of being prepared when entering wild areas.

On a darker note, remote hikes and camping trips in national parks are often a convenient way for people to cover up foul play (a few of the high profile Missing411 cases seem to fit this narrative). And, like the young man who disappeared in Shenandoah, many people who disappear in the wilderness alone are mentally unwell and, in many cases, disappearing on purpose. (National parks are sadly a popular place for people to take their own lives.)

Some of the common Missing411 traits, like people being found without clothes on, could be explained by foul play but, more likely, it's a phenomenon called 'paradoxical undressing' that happens when you have hypothermia to the degree that you actually feel warm. Family members will talk about how a missing person is an experienced outdoorsman and unlikely to go missing, but 60 years of experience in the woods also comes with the health limitations of advanced age-- the 'mysterious' disappearance of a partially-sighted man with notable mobility issues might not be a huge mystery. Others, like the presence of berry bushes and bodies of water, points to basic survival instincts. Why so many disappearances in national parks? Well, it's a lot harder to be found in dense wilderness than in, say, an Arby's parking lot.

I've watched two Missing411 documentaries, which are easy to find on mainstream streaming services, and, while many of the cases covered are truly strange, some seem easily explainable by Occam's razor, and the selection of why some cases are included and others aren't seems bizarre to me. Some don't even involve a disappearance at all but hearing or seeing strange things in the woods. Some don't involve national parks or public lands. There are very vague hints throughout that 'Bigfoot type creatures seem to exist in the woods and use outer space or interdimensional technology to hide themselves from people or spirit people away, and the government might know about it' but nothing more than vague hints.

Like I mentioned, some of the cases they profiled point toward foul play. The most prominent case featured in the original Missing411 documentary was about a little boy named Deorr Kunz Jr. who disappeared on a camping trip with his family... but there's also no proof that he actually was on that camping trip with his family... and the family's stories have some discrepancies... and even if it really was a disappearance from the campsite, the stories are that the grandfather thought he was with the parents and the parents thought he was with the grandfather.

Life is often boring and repetitive and it's totally normal to use stories to make ordinary life more interesting and exciting, but the almost... gamified way that I've seen internet dwellers react to real-life stories of heartbreaking disappearances and deaths in dangerous and remote locations is kind of disturbing, and similar to the over-the-top fanciful theorizing I've seen from other, more insidious conspiracy theories. The idea that there's a secret 'other world' being hidden from us behind the curtain of society is enticing, but it can lead down paths as confusing and dangerous as the ones that real travelers get lost on in the wilderness.

#national parks #nature #conspiracies #conspiracy theories

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