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🎥🎙️⌨️ @will.the.weiser

"Go back to Poland" gets thrown around a lot. But the actual history tells a different story.

For centuries, Poland was a major center of Jewish life because its rulers invited Jews in when other European countries expelled them.

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November 20, 2025 at 2:19 AM
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Saw a video yesterday where someone interrupted Van Jones as he was speaking. Glad Jonah Platt shared this video for the other view.

Will add Jonah Platt's caption as a 🧵
November 20, 2025 at 12:45 AM
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Read a tweet from BrightMind24_7 about Mordechai Wolff Haffkine. Had to go read more, so I'm sharing what I found today!

A Jewish scientist, Haffkine made some very important contributions to immunology and saved millions of lives. Gotta love scientists that test on themselves first!

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November 19, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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@jewishlifenow - "It's hard to comprehend the evil that is Hamas, but believe it."
Matt Tardio @angertab I just watched the unedited videos from October 7th that have not been released to the public. I had to sign an NDA before watching. Don't compare Hamas to ISIS or the Nazis. They are a new level of evil. I can only hope one day they will be unmasked. Read that twice. 15:21 15/09/2025 2M Views
November 19, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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It's wild to me that someone thinks it's ok to go into a neighborhood with a predominant culture and protest against them violently.

The problem here is extremism. The problem is fundamentalism, the problem is a lack of tolerance.
1/3 Benji Rosenweig @benjiRosenzweig White Nationalists marching in Dearborn to Protest against Islam, while they Burn a Copy of the Quran in the name of being a Patriot, is just as Racist & Bigoted as Muslims showing up in Jewish neighborhoods, harassing Jews in the name of Anti Zionism. 2 peas in the same hateful pod. Descriptive alt text Benji Rosenweig @benjiRosenzweig This is perfect speciment of the Horseshoe Theory in Action Screenshot of tweets: ----- Anthony Hudson @Hudson4G... 6d Replying to @RJ_ee26 @SShats and @sshat Agreed we don't support Israel so leave our page. 11/8/25 Anthony Hudson @Hudso.. Replying to @Crypto918656 Yah exactly. This why we are breaking bread together. I'd DIE before I took money from Israel or a Zionist. We have the same enemy. ----- The Counter Protest against him, was shouting Free Palestine Benji Rosenweig @benjiRosenzweig Am Yisrael Chai We will get the remaining Hostages back Let's hope this war ends soon. If this message empowers you, share it with others who can use it.
November 19, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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November 19, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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Via Karol Markowicz - "City College in NYC hosted an interfaith event and it went super great:"
A Difficult Moment at an Interfaith Event Yesterday, City College hosted an interfaith program intended to bring students of all backgrounds together in dialogue & mutual understanding. Unfortunately, what unfolded was deeply troubling for many who attended. During the program, one of the invited speakers-an imam-refused to begin his remarks while I was present, stating that he would not speak "in front of Zionists." His comments quickly escalated into inflammatory & openly antisemitic rhetoric, including statements about "cutting off the fingers of the rich," along w/ other remarks that had no place in a space intended to foster respect & learning. Instead of an interfaith dialogue, the speech shifted into a conversion-style message that made many attendees, Jewish, Christian, & Muslim alike, deeply uncomfortable. At the end of his speech, the imam turned toward me directly & verbally attacked me, saying he was "disgusted that a Zionist is here," & accusing me personally of being "responsible for the murder of his brothers in Gaza." He then told the students: "IF YOU ARE A GOOD MUSLIM. YOU SHOULD WALK OUT NOW." Nearly 100 students wearing keffiyehs stood up & exited the event at his instruction. Two Jewish students & approx 20 Christian students remained, stunned by what had occurred. When the program concluded, security paused the exit of the remaining attendees until they could ensure our safety, as a large group had gathered outside. We were eventually escorted out w/ assistance of campus security. I want to emphasize clearly: our concern is w/ one individual's extremist rhetoric-not w/ Islam, not w/ Muslim students, & not w/ interfaith engagement itself. We remain committed to building bridges across communities & to creating spaces where all students feel respected & safe. City College leadership is fully aware of what occurred, & we know they will respond appropriately. Our shared goal is to ensure that future interfaith programming truly reflects the …
November 19, 2025 at 4:58 AM
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November 18, 2025 at 11:38 PM
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Building bridges. Standing together. That's how we are going to fight hate.

We got to sit down and hear from Emmanuel Acho and the great work he is doing to build bridges between Black and Jewish communities.

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November 18, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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Kosher keeping Jew here…… Please continue buying from Aldi’s (not this particular product if kashrut is an issue) as kosher symbols and halal symbols merely indicate it is fit to be eaten by the targeted group. It does not mean the animal was “sacrificed” in the religious sense of the word Fun fact - kosher meat is halal, but halal meat is not kosher. Our process checks off all of Islam’s boxes - they fall short on a couple of ours. Accepted without judgement by both groups A social media post from user "wellnurse_journeyrn" with the text: "Attention ALDIS CUSTOMERS FYI if you believe in the Bible check your meat packages for the Halal symbol. We are commanded not to eat foods sacrificed to other gods. That's exactly what Halal is. I have nothing against other religions but I follow the Bible. Side note - how can something be kosher AND Halal???" Below the text are two images side-by-side. The left image shows a package of "GROUND LAMB" with the Halal symbol circled in blue. The right image shows a "Modern Oats" oatmeal cup.
November 18, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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November 18, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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November 18, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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Why It Matters The critical study of antizionism is an act of moral and historical repair. To expose this ideology's genealogy is to interrupt its power-to disentangle inherited propaganda from legitimate critique, and to prevent the repetition of its harms. Understanding how antizionism evolved from a tool of repression into a language of supposed "moral virtue" allows us to see through its disguises and protect those it endangers. In that sense, to study this history with clarity is to defend truth over manipulation, dignity over hatred, and life over the machinery of ideological destruction.
November 18, 2025 at 6:06 AM
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The Academic Rebrand By the 1990s, those ideas resurfaced as "theory." Australian historian Patrick Wolfe's settler-colonial theory claimed colonialism was not an event but an ongoing "structure of elimination." Scholars extended this to Israel, depicting it as a settler state bent on erasing Palestinians. Many drew-often unknowingly-from PLO and Soviet sources like Fayez Sayegh and the Journal of Palestine Studies. By the time the framework entered universities, its origins were forgotten. What began as propaganda had matured into scholarship -a self-replicating theory that mistook inherited hostility for academic truth.
November 18, 2025 at 6:06 AM
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The Academic Translation In the 1970s, Edward Said transformed that political rhetoric into academic orthodoxy. In Orientalism (1978), he redefined knowledge itself as a form of Western domination. Though not a Soviet propagandist, Said drew from the same ideological current that had recast Israel as the colonial oppressor. He gave antizionist logic cultural prestige, translating it into the language of postcolonial theory and moral critique. Said's brilliance made the old Soviet narrative sound like high scholarship- embedding its tropes deep in the Western humanities.
November 18, 2025 at 6:06 AM
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The Soviet Re-Import Moscow quickly saw Sayegh's success as proof that its rebrand worked. In 1969, Soviet writer Yuri Ivanov published Beware: Zionism!, codifying antizionism as global doctrine. Drawing on Sayegh's language and the anti-colonial mood, Ivanov replaced race hatred with the rhetoric of liberation. Now, Soviet hostility could march under the banner of "human rights." This made it exportable-to Arab allies, the Non-Aligned Movement, and crucially, to the Western Left-where antizionism blended seamlessly into the moral vocabulary of equality and anti- imperialism.
November 18, 2025 at 6:06 AM
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The Arab Reframing After military defeats in 1948 and 1967, Arab leaders found in this Soviet language a new weapon. Fayez Sayegh, a Lebanese-Palestinian intellectual directing the PLO's Palestine Research Center, fused Soviet propaganda with Arab nationalism. His 1965 paper Zionist Colonialism in Palestine claimed that Zionism was not a national movement but a European colonial project, and that Jews were an invented nation. This logic turned battlefield loss into moral victory. It culminated in UN Resolution 3379 (1975) -"Zionism is racism"-later repealed as a moral and historical error.
November 18, 2025 at 6:06 AM
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The Code-Switch Between 1963 and 1965, the USSR tried to sanitize that doctrine. Trofim Kichko's Judaism Without Embellishment, filled with grotesque antisemitic caricatures, drew global outrage and humiliated Moscow. Open Jew-hatred had become untenable, so Soviet ideologues ordered a linguistic purge: attack "Zionism," not Jews. By redefining Zionism as "racist colonialism," they gave prejudice moral camouflage. Antizionism was reborn, ready for export to the decolonizing world.
November 18, 2025 at 6:06 AM
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Stalin's Synthesis Under Joseph Stalin (1948-1953), antizionism fused with Soviet global power. Initially supporting Israel to weaken Britain, Stalin reversed course when Israel turned Westward, recasting Zionism as "imperialist treason." "Zionist" became a coded word for "Jew." Campaigns against "rootless cosmopolitans" and the 1952 Doctors' Plot framed Jews as agents of a global conspiracy. Stalin's vocabulary gave racial paranoia the cover of Marxist orthodoxy- embedding antizionism as an official doctrine and turning ethnic hatred into revolutionary duty.
November 18, 2025 at 6:06 AM
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The Soviet Genesis In the early Soviet era, antizionism began as an ideological experiment. In 1913, Vladimir Lenin cast Zionism as a bourgeois "class betrayal," incompatible with international socialism. Under Semyon Dimanshtein, this view became state policy through the Yevsektsiya (Jewish Communist Section), which shut down Hebrew schools, banned Zionist groups, and replaced Jewish culture with atheist propaganda in Yiddish. The goal was simple: dissolve lewish nationhood into the Soviet collective. Antizionism thus entered history as a mechanism of ideological control.
November 18, 2025 at 6:06 AM
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Antizionism's Ideological Assembly Line 07 06 05 04 03 02 01 Vladimir Lenin (1903) Introduced it: cast Zionism as a class betrayal and obstacle to socialist unity. Joseph Stalin (1948) Weaponized it: fused Marxism with racial paranoia, turning antizionism into state dogma. Trofim Kichko (1963) Corrupted it: revived crude antisemitic tropes, exposing the regime's ideological rot. Yuri Ivanov (1969) Rebranded it: swapped Kichko's ethnic hate for "anti- imper itique" to lure the Western left Fayez Sayegh (1965) h Arab nationalism, branding Israel "racist colonialism." Edward Said (1978) Refined it: e ant toric academic legitimacy and cultural prestige. Patrick Wolfe (1999) Systematized it: embedded antizionism in settler- colonial theory's self-replicating logic.
November 18, 2025 at 6:06 AM
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THE LONG MARCH OF ANTIZIONISM How an Ideology Built to Dismantle Jewish Peoplehood Became a Western Cause maazaction.org
November 18, 2025 at 6:06 AM
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November 18, 2025 at 1:42 AM
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Every Holocaust survivor deserves their stories to be heard, shared, and remembered.
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