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Yad Vashem

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“don’t be ridiculous….. why should Jews be centered in discussion of the holocaust” because it happened to us. it happened to us. what the fuck is wrong with you people. IT HAPPENED TO US

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this man is an antisemitic conspiracy theorist, an isolationist, and anti-Ukraine.

this would be another Islamic Regime win from the Republicans today, while the left is out there also cheering on proxies of the Islamic Regime…cool. we’re in a great place as a nation! 🙃

jpost is reporting that this isn’t going through. they’re the first source breaking that news thus far.

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A Chinese export parcel-gilt silver and enamel Esther scroll case, mid to late 19th century

hexagonal, chased with panels of bamboo and prunus highlighted with blue and green enamel, “bamboo” form handle, gilt fruit-form finial, pull bar and scroll lacking

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Unique collection of Jewish wooden stamps for Purim gingerbread, XIX - early XX century, Vinnytsia Regional Museum of Local Lore, Ukraine

This collection was collected in 1926-1927 by one of the founders of the museum, Gustav Briling. He collected 392 stamps in the Jewish cities and villages of Eastern Podolia.

“In the 90s, at the first Jewish conference in Ukraine, I showed these unique stamps. One of the public figures asked permission to make copies. The copies of the stamps were made, the cookies were baked at a confectionery factory, but they didn’t look like the original gingerbread cookies, since the recipe was not preserved. On Purim in Podolia, they still cook Hamantash, but not the stamped gingerbread cookies.” - Alla Lipskaya, Senior Researcher of Vinnytsia Regional Museum of Local Lore

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So.... The left has an antisemitism problem.

This is not exactly a great revelation. I and others have already made many posts explaining that the blatant antisemitism seen in the antizionist movement cannot be dismissed as alt-right infiltration. Antisemitism is endemic in Western society, and any movement that doesn't actively guard against it is in danger of falling into those tropes.

But frankly, that doesn't go far enough.

We need to talk about Durban 2001.

In 2001, the World Conference Against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia, and Related Intolerance was held in Durban, South Africa, with sponsorship by the United Nations.

Whatever might genuinely have been accomplished at this conference, its primary legacy will always be antisemitism.

I will be using this article as my major source. You do need a jstor account to read it, but you can create one for free through either a google or microsoft account.

The conference was preceded by an NGO forum, where groups representing all marginalized groups were able to speak, before finally drafting a joint declaration.

The forum went bad almost immediately.

The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, if anyone is unfamiliar, is literally a piece of Nazi propaganda, and it was being openly sold at this conference against racism.

(Well, Imperial Russian, but the Nazis were very fond of it.)

When it came time for the joint declaration to be drafted, there was one group, and only one group, whose points were all excluded--the Jews.

So, a declaration that every Jewish group considered antisemitic was created, and no less than Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch held it up as the voice of victims worldwide--deliberately obscuring the exclusion of the Jews.

Then the UN conference began.

Attendees were allowed to openly compare Israel to the Nazis, but not to say, "please don't attack the Jews."

As the attendees began drafting their resolution, strong opposition soon arose to the notion of acknowledging Jews as the victims of prejudice and oppression, past or present.

Note the countries. Syria, the UAE, Egypt, Sudan, and Iraq are all members of the Arab League. Iran and Pakistan are not, but are also Islamic countries. This was a coordinated action.

At the same time as they insisted that the conference not acknowledge antisemitism or the Holocaust, these countries insisted on including in the resolution on global racism language specifically criticizing Israel--but not any other issue of discrimination or systemic prejudice anywhere else in the world.

This clear double standard led to the Israeli delegation and all the Jewish NGOs leaving in protest, with the US delegation leaving as well in solidarity.

And matters continued to go downhill from there.

Now, the right of return is an entire topic in and of itself, but the relevant point is that this standard--that refugees must be allowed to the homes they fled--is not applied to any refugee population other than the Palestinians.

The stance on antisemitism was clear--it could only be discussed if placed alongside condemnation of Israel.

The problem here is not that Israel was criticized but that, at a conference meant to address global racism and oppression, Israel was singled out as uniquely evil.

The fact is, Israel is not now, nor was it in 2001, the worst global abuser of human rights.

Israel is not even the worst abuser of the rights of Palestinians!

Notably, while the Durban conference of 2001 was particularly egregious, this behavior did not start in 2001, nor did it end there.

But looking at the Durban conference and its immediate aftermath are crucial because of how familiar they seem to those who have been paying attention recently.

And if you think that the behaviors and attitudes of Arab and Muslim states aren't relevant in the West, learn more about the billions of dollars poured into Western universities by first Saudi Arabia and then Qatar:

Then consider that the leaders of Hamas currently live in luxury in Qatar, while the citizens of Gaza are living in refugee camps.

So to anyone who's noticed that Jews seem to label almost everything that antizionists do as antisemitic, it's not a tactic to shut down criticism, it's because the playbook they're reading out of, whether they realize it or not, was literally written in between complaints that Hitler didn't go far enough.

The global antizionist movement doesn't have an antisemitism problem, it is fundamentally antisemitic in a way that cannot be fixed without abandoning major parts of its behavior and rhetoric.

Because that is what it was designed to be.

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Even people who have called for my death have the right to due process, akshuwally

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Need to move states because of anti-LGBTQ+ policies?

Keshet and the Hebrew Free Loan Society are partnering to offer interest-free loans of up to $10,000 for individuals and families to support relocation costs to another state because of anti-LGBTQ+ laws, policies, and climate in their current state of residence.

Applicants do not have to be Jewish and can be moving from any state in the U.S. to any state in the U.S. (but not outside of the country).

Instructions on how to apply are at the above link. 💗

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Watching people use the same rhetoric as far right MAGA and QAnon types to defend protestors using rhetoric from recognized terrorist groups, justifying said terrorists’ actions, and distributing their materials has been something else.

Y’all do realize you’re using the same goalposting, sealioning, gymnastics that the far right has used and continues to use to justify their bigotry and actions, right?

The same cries of “First Amendment rights!” have been used to justify right wing transphobic rhetoric on college campuses just as its being used to justify and defend college protestors and rhetoric from terrorist groups.

In the former situation many people will point to the harm that said rhetoric does, how i has (and continues to) contribute and/or influence stochastic against trans individuals and people (as a whole). We recognize the actors that contribute to this and object to their presence and actions.

Conversely, an individual and group actively handing out terrorist approved and produced materials is a form of support according to USA Law (especially when it comes to foreign nationals on visas and green cards). When you endorse these groups, use their same rhetoric, and distribute their materials then your speech is no longer protected.

Defending it as such is the same as the MAGA and QAnon folk defending the rhetoric of people causing stochastic terrorism, but with even more legal precedent and standing.

Objecting to one but not the other indicates that you do not understand the law as much as you claim, hold double standards, and want “laws for thee, but not for me” standards that are hypocritical.

We can object to ICE, the Trump Admin, and everything all we want. But if you want to claim rule of law and the laws surrounding certain Rights, then it is paramount that you understand them else you just sound ignorant.

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re: last reblog, that’s where so many terminally online leftists go wrong. they forget that the oppressed minorities they’re self-flagellating for are human beings. just people. not better or worse than them.

there’s a difference between “I don’t see color / gender / etc” and “I treat these people like equals who are informed by different life experiences than me” and the terminally online left still refuses to grasp that, and that’s ultimately why so much racism and homophobia and transphobia festers there, and also why their philosemitism turned to antisemitism overnight on October 7th

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This is who the Democrats need to make the face of protesting Trump's deportations, not Jew-hating "Death to America" terrorist-sympathizers.

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this is not new for them.

another example, 2018:

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BE NORMAL ABOUT JEWS SO I CAN GO BACK TO REBLOGGING PORN YOU RAT FUCKS

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my most toxic trait is i fucking love work gossip. i play neutral not to be the bigger person or take the high road but to hear slander and hearsay from every side. two coworkers complained about each other to me in the same afternoon and i nearly blacked out from the rush

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I feel like today is as good a day as any to remind everyone of Sonderaktion 1005 (Special Action 1005) which was a Nazi plan from 1942-1944 designed to hide the evidence of Operation Reinhard, the extermination project against Jews in occupied Poland. It mainly involved sonderkommandos ("special units", a fancy way of saying Jewish death camp prisoners) being forced to exhume the bodies of the Nazi's victims so they could be incinerated. Bones were ground into dust and re-buried. Afterward, the sonderkommandos were executed and were themselves cremated

This was quite unusual for the Nazis, who generally speaking were fanatical record-keepers and documentarians. But it became necessary once it was clear the Nazis wouldn't be able to hold into the occupied Eastern territories for long. When Hitler learned of the mass graves from the Katyn Massacre committed by the Sovyet Union against Poland (killing 22,000), he panicked, fearing the same might happen to him

There's a lot more to it, but I won't go into too much detail here. The important thing is to remember that Holocaust denial started at the fountainhead. The Nazis wanted people to remain ignorant, to deny what happened. They would want you to forget, which is why we never can