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Ralph Geiger
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Husband, cat dad, collector of jazz, fan of Guided By Voices. Was once known for filling in ovals. 5 U.S.C § 3331. 🇺🇦🇮🇱
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The thorny problem is this: Anti-Zionism is not inherently antisemitism, but many anti-Zionists are antisemites who use anti-Israel activism to launder their anti-Jewish prejudice. You see it on the right and you see it on the left. This corrupts the conversation.
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The list of such people is long. There is the foreign minister of Pakistan, a nuclear-armed country of 231 million people, who claimed on CNN in 2021 that Israel controls the media with its “deep pockets.” (Oddly, the Zionists invited him on the air in the first place.) There is Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, a NATO leader, whose inner circle produced a propaganda film in 2015 that detailed, in the words of the Turkish columnist Mustafa Akyol, “how ‘the children of Israel’ want to dominate the world, subjugate other peoples and thus surround the world like a ‘giant octopus.’” To date, Erdoğan has refused to condemn Hamas, some of whose top officials reside in his country. It’s not just anti-Zionist politicians who turn out to be anti-Semites. Greta Berlin, a co-founder of the Free Gaza activist group, wrote on Twitter in 2012 that “Zionists operated the concentration camps and helped murder millions of innocent Jews.” She and another Free Gaza co-founder, Mary Hughes-Thompson, later suggested that Israel’s Mossad was behind the Charlie Hebdo terrorist attack in France. (An al-Qaeda affiliate claimed responsibility.) The celebrated author Alice Walker joined one of Free Gaza’s missions to Gaza, and later refused to allow The Color Purple to be reissued in Hebrew. She also spent years posting baldly anti-Semitic material on her personal blog, and even promoted—in The New York Times—a wildly anti-Jewish book by the conspiracy theorist David Icke that claims that Jews bankrolled the Holocaust. When criticized for her conduct, she retorted that “the attempt to smear David Icke, and me, is really an effort to dampen the effect of our speaking on Palestine." The far right is no exception to this trend. Former Ku Klux Klan Grand Wizard David Duke, perhaps the most infamous white nationalist in America, is also a virulent anti-Zionist, regularly regurgitating classical anti-Semitic conspiracy theories and replacing the word Jew with Zionist. (A typical sample of the genre: “The Zionists occupy most of the American media and now control much of American government.”) When the Republican politician Marjorie Taylor Greene shared a video on Facebook alleging that “Zionist supremacists” were “breeding us out of existence in our own homelands,” and later accused the Rothschild banking dynasty of causing forest fires with a space laser, she was drawing from this fever swamp. When the Trump supporter Kanye West (now known as Ye), during his 2022 anti-Semitic implosion, declared that “culture is controlled by the Zionist media,” he was simply reflecting ideas that had long circulated on the fringes of the American right, but have become steadily more mainstream. Trump himself has claimed that Israel “literally owned Congress” and told Republican Jews that “you want to control your own politician”—and that was before he had dinner at Mar-a-Lago with Ye and the anti-Semitic influencer Nick Fuentes. Seen in this context, it should not be surprising that the website antizionism.org is run not by Palestinians, but by neo-Nazis.
November 9, 2023 at 12:44 AM
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revmagdalen.bsky.social
It's both unsurprising and sad that it was so easy to trick yet another generation into thinking "No, this time the Jewish people really ARE all-powerful, rich, and up to diabolical plans, and not a tiny minority group surrounded by people who want to wipe them out. This time for sure!"
October 26, 2023 at 1:54 AM
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The Bloody Hands Of Virtue Signallers ⋆ GirlieGirl Army
The Bloody Hands Of Virtue Signallers by Daphna Rowe There is a reason why history repeats itself and it’s not because we don’t learn from our mistakes. It’s because the desire to be perceived a...
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October 22, 2023 at 3:56 PM
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valerieblaise.bsky.social
It hit me yesterday that most people don’t have the formative experience of being a small child in the 1970s & lying down next to a giant speaker because your older sibling is playing Queen records & it’s the one thing I can think of in my life that I wish you all could share
October 19, 2023 at 9:39 PM
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we need a "post reply and block user five seconds after they read this reply" button
October 12, 2023 at 6:31 PM
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October 7, 2023 at 1:44 AM