Trump is a Nazi who says he will protect the Jewish people from anti-semitism. I'll take my chances with shark-infested waters.
https://newrepublic.com/post/193725/donald-trump-israel-hostages-nazis-jewish-prisoners-love

Trump is a Nazi who says he will protect the Jewish people from anti-semitism. I'll take my chances with shark-infested waters.
https://newrepublic.com/post/193725/donald-trump-israel-hostages-nazis-jewish-prisoners-love
‘Vancouver has an antisemitism problem,’ byelection candidate says
Candidate Jamie Stein, who finished sixth in the race for two vacant council seats on Saturday, made the comments during his concession speech, admitting he was going "off script."
#politics #antisemitism #Vancouver
https://globalnews.ca/news/11121708/vancouver-council-byelection-allegations/
McGill University accused of failing to prevent antisemitism in class action application
A McGill University undergrad is hoping to launch a class-action lawsuit against the school for allegedly failing to protect Jewish students from antisemitism and discrimination on campus since Oct. 8, 2023.
#lawsuit #school #antisemitism #discrimination #News #Canada
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/class-action-lawsuit-application-mcgill-university-1.7505340?cmp=rss
Update. Defense of #Palestinian rights is not #antisemitism, let alone terrorism. It should not be grounds for campus discipline, let alone deportation. Calling it antisemitic is a dishonest attempt to use support for Jews to deny and suppress support for Palestinians, free speech, and human rights.
Not In Our Name (I've signed)
https://docs.google.com/document/u/0/d/e/2PACX-1vRt_jMNTlIH7ABX_s7fQFuspYWf_yN2OGzfbrVzhNoO87YWlCyPQzhaq2VcWYDGYvWJRfLq7lNtpnd4/pub?pli=1&urp=gmail_link
"We are Jewish professors, staff members, and students from universities across the United States. We hold various views about Israel and Palestine, politics in the Middle East, and student activism on our campuses. But we are united in denouncing, without equivocation, anyone who invokes our name – and cynical claims of antisemitism – to harass, expel, arrest, or deport members of our campus communities. We specifically reject rhetoric that caricatures our students and colleagues as “antisemitic terrorists” because they advocate for Palestinian human rights and freedom."
I genuinely find it fascinating how people can sit idly by while hundreds of thousands of Syrians were killed by the Assad government, while millions in Africa die in terrible wars, while over ten million Uighur are oppressed and killed, while LGBTQ+ folks are sentenced to death (or worse) in many countries, but the only country they express their anger towards is Israel. The only country they express wanting to divest from is Israel.
There are no saints here, nor absolution of Israel for its actions, but I find the double standard of going to the school yard and picking on the smallest kid indicative that maybe it's not injustice that bothers them but (((something else))).
That goes even more so when it's not Israel they're after but "Israel adjacency". That's just antisemitism's 21st century costume.
And that doesn't even touch on BDS's domestic terrorist actions or terrorist links.
@kajedro : sorry, I knew.
If a message comes with an adorable pre-captivity photo, that image will *always* show a Jew. Most of the Jews mentioned in such messages are not recorded in the online database (https://victims.auschwitz.org/victims). Some are, but usually with incomplete (and sometimes plain wrong) data. You'll not find any feel-sorry pre-captivity photo's in that DB.
IMO it is a horrible disgrace that holocaust victims are being abused for #Hasbara - most boosters and retweeters simply cannot believe that maintainers of a former concentration camp would be that traitorous.
#Antisemitism and holocaust denialism / Netanyahu whitewashes Holocaust history during meeting with Orbán
Wanted war criminal #Netanyahu deliberately avoided mentioning #Hungary's role in the systematic extermination of over 400,000 Hungarian Jews under the Miklós Horthy regime. Instead, he constructed a fictional narrative of shared fate between Hungarians and Jews.
When referencing post-WWII suffering, he highlighted Polish victims while carefully omitting that the Soviet Union was the occupier—likely to avoid offending #Putin, another conservative ally.
Not the first time Netanyahu, who has been practicing historical revisionism for years, is accused of holocaust denial, showing how far he is willing go to cement alliances with leaders who share his hate of #Islam and international legal institutions, like the #ICC and #ICJ.
[…] On the path to global right-wing unity, allies are forced to make compromises. Netanyahu, for example, partially sacrificed Israel's most sacred historical memory. In his remarks alongside Orbán, he did mention the Holocaust, but constructed an imagined narrative about a shared destiny between Hungarians and Jews. Additionally, Netanyahu avoided mentioning the Holocaust of Hungarian Jews and the responsibility of Miklós Horthy's regime, Hungary's ruler at the time, for the systematic extermination of more than 400,000 Jews.
[…] Instead, Netanyahu emphasized the suffering of Poles under the occupation that followed World War II. But here too, he avoided mentioning the occupiers - the Soviet Union. This could have offended another conservative ally - Vladimir Putin. Netanyahu and Orbán also preferred not to allow the many journalists in the hall to ask questions, which might have embarrassed each of them individually and both of them together. The unity of the global right sometimes requires walking on eggshells.
Hebrew https://www.haaretz.co.il/news/politics/2025-04-04/ty-article/.premium/00000195-fc7b-df89-a39f-fc7b1e720000 or https://archive.is/UYoCh
@israel
#HistoricalRevisionism
#HolocaustMemory
Douglas Murray at the Munk debate:
"The interesting thing about antisemitism is, the Jews can never win. Because historically they've been hated for being rich, and for being poor. They've been hated for integrating, and for not integrating. They've been hated for being stateless, and now they are hated for having a state.
Today the only really acceptable form of antisemitism, tolerated antisemitism, is antizionism."
"The head of the nation’s leading organization fighting #antisemitism questioned the #Trump administration’s aggressive effort to find and deport foreign students who have protested on behalf of #Palestinians, suggesting that the administration is betraying #American values, denying due process and punishing people for their views rather than their actions.
In pulling #student #visas and seeking to #deport #protesters who hold #greencards, the administration has failed to ensure due process that is central to America’s justice system, wrote Jonathan Greenblatt, chief executive and national director of the #AntiDefamationLeague [#ADL]."
#Trump Admin Set to Pause $510 Million for #BrownUniversity
The admin has now targeted 5 #schools’ federal #funding claiming it’s part of a pledge to combat what it has labeled #antisemitism, but what in actuality is #students exercising their #RightToProtest on #university campuses.
#law #FreeSpeech #FreedomOfAssembly #extortion #MafiaState
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/03/us/trump-administration-brown-university-funding-pause.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=p&pvid=CE266166-B715-45A7-9A62-0A68EE55B1CD
@appassionato In view that the Palestinian people are also a semitic people, I've come to the conclusion that the most anti-semitic governement in the world is the Israeli government.
@hannu_ikonen Thank you for sharing that; it’s an excellent piece and I hadn’t seen it.
“#Antisemitism in the U.S. is a real and dangerous phenomenon, most pressingly from the alt-right white-supremacist politics that have become alarmingly mainstream since 2016. To contend against these and other antisemitic forces with clarity and purpose, we must put aside all fabricated and weaponized charges of “antisemitism” that serve to silence criticism of #Israeli policy and its sponsors in the U.S.”
In more "What the heck is going on in Australia?" news, it looks like a city council realized it had a problem on its hands when a song calling for the murder of Jews won a song contest, and the author of the song made antisemitic statements in her acceptance speech for the award.
The town has shut the context and the organization down, so that's good at least.
@EndIsraeliApartheid : they'd like everyone to think that condemning genocide is antisemitism.
However, they're confusing antisemitism with antizionism.
Antisemitism is prejudiced hatred of any Jew, regardless of what they did, their opinions or even their age (fsck any other made up definition).
THAT definition of antisemitism is what CAUSED the WWII genocide.
Zionism is what causes the genocide taking place in Palestine since 1948, intensified in Oct. 2023. Not of Jews, but of Palestinians.
Deliberately stating that antizionism is antisemitism implies Holocaust denial.
Actually twice: because of what I wrote above, and because of the "never again" message. We are repeatedly told to learn from the Holocaust, but apparently "never again" only applies to Jews - Zionists living in Israel in particular.
Apart from that, not all antisemtism is as bad as it seems (the picture below was transmitted often on Dutch TV - without the mitigating text).
It's a discrace for anyone with (partial) Jewish blood - like me.
I'm going to make this as simple and straightforward as I can make it.
You don't have to agree with Zionism
You don't have to believe that Zionism is Jewish civil rights.
You don't have to agree with the Zionist idea of Jewish self-determination.
But you do have to accept the following:
Holding all Zionists responsible for the actions of a few politicians in a minority government is not just wrong, it's a form of hate.
Zionism has been part of Jewish thought since were forcibly expelled from our homeland 2,000 years ago, and even in its modern form is older than Herzel and the European Zionist movement.
Saying Zionism is a hate group or hateful ideology is disgusting and inverting the meaning of hate.
70-80% of all Jews are Zionists, and Zionists live around the world.
Using minority viewpoints to say what is and isn't part of Judaism is gross and tokenizing.
Oh, I didn't signal the eye rolling/irony of my response - my fault, sorry.
Although there are lots of antizionists who are not antisemites, some of them are, and I suspect the Bannon tendency includes many who fall under that description. It's a return to one of the primal preoccupations of reactionary politics. I'm sure the fascination with Putin also plays a part, as does the association of many of that group with "Traditional Catholicism", a religious dish frequently served with a large dollop of Jew hatred.
I just hope these odious people don't muddy the waters when it comes to condemnation of that goon squad kidnapping in the video .
I agree with Bernie Sanders on many things, and I disagree with him on other things.
I think his actions during the hearing on Antisemitism on March 27th are "Complicated at best",.
I'm glad that he brought up the way that the right peddles and continues to peddle antisemitism.
I'm unhappy because he demanded sound byte answers from others while taking a very long time to speak, and the way he used his time was typically political.
And I'm furious that he used his time to give cover to campus antisemitism by way of selective contrived examples, rather than deepening the dialog.
Update. Here's a short and simple public statement that criticism of #Israel is not #antisemitic. I just signed and hope you will too.
https://civicshout.com/p/sign-if-you-agree-criticizing-israel-is-not-antisemitic