#eliminationist antisemitism

[naipan]

After Goebbels learned that the photographer Eisenstaedt, who photographed him at the League of Nations meeting in Geneva in 1933, was Jewish, his outlook suddenly changed. When he turned to Eisenstaedt full of contempt, he pressed the shutter and called the picture 'The Eyes of Hate’

#the eyes of hate #goebbels #judenhass #hate of jews #antisemitism #antisemitismus #Eliza #Eliminationist antisemitism

[gael-garcia]

Writers Against the War on Gaza (WAWOG) is an ad hoc coalition committed to solidarity and the horizon of liberation for the Palestinian people. Drawing together writers, editors, and other culture workers, WAWOG hopes to provide ongoing infrastructure for cultural organizing in response to the war. This project is modeled on American Writers Against the War in Vietnam, an organization founded in 1965.

Statement of Solidarity

October 26, 2023

Israel’s war against Gaza is an attempt to conduct genocide against the Palestinian people. This war did not begin on October 7th. However, in the last 19 days, the Israeli military has killed over 6,500 Palestinians, including more than 2,500 children, and wounded over 17,000. Gaza is the world’s largest open-air prison: its 2 million residents—a majority of whom are refugees, descendants of those whose land was stolen in 1948—have been deprived of basic human rights since the blockade in 2006. We share the assertions of human rights groups, scholars, and, above all, everyday Palestinians: Israel is an apartheid state, designed to privilege Jewish citizens at the expense of Palestinians, heedless of the many Jewish people, both in Israel and across the diaspora, who oppose their own conscription in an ethno-nationalist project. 

We come together as writers, journalists, academics, artists, and other culture workers to express our solidarity with the people of Palestine. We stand with their anticolonial struggle for freedom and for self-determination, and with their right to resist occupation. We stand firmly by Gaza’s people, victims of a genocidal war the United States government continues to fund and arm with military aid—a crisis compounded by the illegal settlement and dispossession of the West Bank and the subjugation of Palestinians within the state of Israel.

We stand in opposition to the silencing of dissent and to racist and revisionist media cycles, further perpetuated by Israel’s attempts to bar reporting in Gaza, where journalists have been both denied entry and targeted by Israeli forces. At least 24 journalists in Gaza have now been killed. Internationally, writers and cultural workers have faced severe harassment, workplace retribution, and job loss for expressing solidarity with Palestine, whether by stating facts about their continued occupation, or for amplifying the voices of others. These are instances that mark severe incursions against supposed speech protections. Specious charges of antisemitism are leveled against Zionism’s critics; political repression has been particularly aggressive against the free speech of Muslim, Arab, and Black people living in the US and across the globe. As was the case following the September 11th attacks, Islamophobic political fervor and the widespread circulation of unsubstantiated claims has galvanized a US-led coalition of military support for a brutal campaign of violence.

What can we do to intervene against Israel’s eliminationist assault on the Palestinian people? Words alone cannot stop the onslaught of devastation of Palestinian homes and lives, backed shamelessly and without hesitation by the entire axis of Western power. At the same time, we must reckon with the role words and images play in the war on Gaza and the ferocious support they have engendered: Israel’s defense minister announced the siege as a fight against “human animals”; even as we learned that Israel had rained bombs down on densely populated urban neighborhoods and deployed white phosphorus in Gaza City, the New York Times editorial board wrote that “what Israel is fighting to defend is a society that values human life and the rule of law”; establishment media outlets continue to describe Hamas’s attack on Israel as “unprovoked.” Writers Against the War on Gaza rejects this perversion of meaning, wherein a nuclear state can declare itself a victim in perpetuity while openly enacting genocide. We condemn those in our industries who continue to enable apartheid and genocide. We cannot write a free Palestine into existence, buttogether we must do all we possibly can to reject narratives that soothe Western complicity in ethnic cleansing. 

We act alongside other writers, scholars, and artists who have expressed solidarity with the Palestinian cause, drawing inspiration from the Palestinian spirit of sumud, steadfastness, and resistance. Since 2004, the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) has advocated for organizations to join a boycott of institutions representing the Israeli state or cultural institutions complicit with its apartheid regime. We call on all our colleagues working in cultural institutions to endorse that boycott. And we invite writers, editors, journalists, scholars, artists, musicians, actors, and anyone in creative and academic work to sign this statement. Join us in building a new cultural front for a free Palestine.  

Signed,

WAWOG Interim Organizing Committee

Hannah Black

Ari Brostoff (Senior Editor, Jewish Currents)

Elena Comay del Junco

Kyle Dacuyan (Executive Director, Poetry Project)

Kay Gabriel (Editorial Director, Poetry Project)

Kaleem Hawa

E. Tammy Kim

Shiv Kotecha

Wendy Lotterman (Associate Editor, Parapraxis)

Muna Mire

Perwana Nazif

Brendan O'Connor

Alex Press (Staff Writer, Jacobin)

Sarah Nicole Prickett

Dylan Saba

Zoé Samudzi (Associate Editor, Parapraxis)

Jasmine Sanders

Claire Schwartz (Culture Editor, Jewish Currents)

Janique Vigier

Harron Walker

Chloe Watlington

Gabriel Winant (Department of History, University of Chicago)

Audrey Wollen

Hannah Zeavin (Founding Editor, Parapraxis)

Signed, In Solidarity

Fatimah Warner (Noname)

Saul Williams

Susan Sarandon

Janeane Garofalo

Gael García Bernal

Danez Smith

Ocean Vuong

Aria Aber

Saidiya Hartman

China Miéville

+ full list here

#writers against the war on gaza #wawog #free palestine #this letter is the one #you know how i encountered this when you see one of the people who signed #text #noname #susan sarandon #saul williams #gael garcia bernal #ocean vuong #joel kim booster #what a pleasant surprise #patti harrison #fariha roisin #zoe samudzi

[amaditalks]

There’s a post in the Jewish hashtag that uses photos of open graves in order to make a remarkably reductive political I/P point that serves no purpose but to pretend antisemitism isn’t real.

If you’re literally making your point on the backs of corpses, it had better be the best and most critical damned argument ever made.

For the record, “(y)ou still believe advocating for the human rights of Palestine = antisemitism?” is not only not a good argument, it’s a begged question. Obviously, the answer is no, unless that advocacy uses antisemitic or eliminationist language or ideology which happens with alarming frequency.

And this is how we know people aren’t actually listening to Jews, in or out of Israel, because we keep explaining this over and over, but they don’t actually care what any of us have to say at all.

#Jewish #i/p conflict #antisemitism

[fandom-hoarder]

Today in: TERFdom is inherently and inevitably linked to antisemitism:

Shaun has uploaded another great long video essay. Content warning in his description (thanks for not letting me copy/paste anything, fucking YouTube)

A highlight from the video closing:

"Hate groups do not say: 'We hate this minority group for no reason. We're just irrationally hateful, I guess. Now, do you agree with us or not?' That sort of thing would be easy to spot and stand against, right? And it's easy now, looking back, to say you obviously would not have fallen for nazi lies about Jewish people. But I think it's a worthwhile exercise to consider seriously if you actually might have. [...] People who assume propaganda will never work on them are always the most susceptible to being influenced by it, because they don't think there's a need to be vigilant against it.

We live, right now, in a time of intense anti-trans propaganda; because there is no silent majority just waiting to speak up like [KJK] thinks there is, that majority needs to be built --- over time, with a sustained propaganda campaign. And if you're ambivalent on this issue, you would've been ambivalent about all those historical civil rights fights that you'd like to think you'd've been on the right side of. I'm not saying you would've been openly hateful even, but if you fall for arguments about dangerous trans people in women's spaces, you would have fallen for arguments about dangerous black men coming into white spaces to abuse white women, or dangerous gay men in schools, or so on.

[...]

So I'll say to any cis people watching this video: Be vigilant about attempts to turn you against trans people. The "reasonable concerns" era is long over by now --- we've got JK Rowling offering to bankroll the legal actions of an eliminationist anti-trans activist who's launching a political party! We've gone WAY beyond the "reasonable concerns" phase.

[...]

But seriously, cis people watching this, stand with trans people. Reject this sort of bigoted propaganda, and recognize that it's the exact same sort of propaganda that's been used to hurt different minority groups all through history."

#trans rights are human rights #shaun video essay #transphobia #antisemitism #propaganda #fuck terfs #video essays #Youtube

[beardedmrbean]

New York (CNN) — Harvard University, like many campuses across America, continues to struggle in its contention with hate speech, protests and unrest over the Israel-Hamas war. One of its most prominent donors said Harvard needs to take urgent action to fix the problem, or it could risk a massive donor exodus.

Billionaire hedge fund CEO Bill Ackman called on Harvard to take steps to tackle a rise in “blatant antisemitism” and “anti-Israel attacks” on campus.

“The situation at Harvard is dire and getting worse, much worse than I had realized,” Ackman said in an open letter to the university’s president, Claudine Gay, posted to X, formerly known as Twitter, on Saturday.

Ackman, who received his undergraduate degree and MBA from Harvard, added that the failure to take action would put “important sources of Harvard’s revenues” at risk.

He said that Jewish and pro-Israel students have felt unsafe on campus since the October 7 surprise attacks on Israel and subsequent Israel-Hamas war.

Ackman, who met with a group of more than 200 Harvard students and faculty last week, said the university’s administration is not doing enough to protect them.

“Jewish students are being bullied, physically intimidated, spat on, and in several widely-disseminated videos of one such incident, physically assaulted,” he wrote, referring to a video that shows a clash at an on-campus “stop the genocide in Gaza” demonstration.

Harvard Business School Dean Srikant Datar said in a statement that the confrontation was “troubling” and left “many of our students shaken.”

“Reports have been filed with (the Harvard University Police Department) and the FBI, the facts are being evaluated, and it will be some time before we learn the results of an investigation,” Datar wrote.

But in his letter, Ackman said further action was necessary. The students involved in the incident, he said, should face immediate suspension regardless of the pending investigation.

“Harvard student disciplinary actions should not be outsourced to the police department,” he wrote.

Safety is a concern

Ackman added that students, who chanted “intifada” and what he called “eliminationist” statements towards Israel during protests in support of Palestine, should also be subject to disciplinary action.

Harvard’s Slack chats, where some students have allegedly been posting antisemitic statements and images, should be closely monitored and those who post such things should be disciplined, he said.

When contacted, Harvard directed CNN to earlier statements from Gay and Harvard’s Executive Vice President Meredith Weenick about community conduct.

In a previous statement, Gay said she had convened a group of advisors to come up with a plan to combat antisemitism on campus.

“As we grapple with this resurgence of bigotry, I want to make one thing absolutely clear: Antisemitism has no place at Harvard,” Gay said on October 27 in a speech at Harvard Hillel. “For years, this university has done too little to confront its continuing presence. No longer.”

Employment prospects

Tensions at Harvard’s campus began shortly after the attacks on October 7 when a coalition of student groups released an anti-Israel statement. That letter blamed solely Israel for the deadly attacks by Hamas, although a spokesperson for the group later wrote in a statement that the group “staunchly opposes violence against civilians — Palestinian, Israeli, or other.”

The letter set off a firestorm of criticism, doxxing of students and prompted some student groups to withdraw their endorsements of the letter. (Some students said they had not seen the statement until after it was released.)

Ackman and others suggested there should be employment consequences for students who had signed the letter.

Last week, a group including some of the nation’s most powerful law firms warned America’s elite universities that if they did not crack down on antisemitism on campus, they would face recruitment problems. Elite law firms often recruit directly from top law schools.

In his letter, Ackman acknowledged the success of that message and suggested that Harvard administrators warn students of the potential consequences.

“Because Harvard students are notoriously focused on their job and career prospects post-graduation, disciplinary actions by the administration for failure to meet the University’s standards for appropriate conduct that become part of a student’s permanent record should serve as an effective deterrent to overt antisemitic acts on campus,” he wrote.

“No law firm, corporation or graduate program will hire or admit an antisemitic or racist student,” he added.

Funding at risk

The donor backlash at Harvard so far has included a nonprofit founded by billionaire retail mogul Leslie Wexner and his wife Abigail. The Wexner Foundation said it’s breaking off ties with Harvard University, alleging the school has been “tiptoeing” over Hamas’ attacks.

“We are stunned and sickened by the dismal failure of Harvard’s leadership to take a clear and unequivocal stand against the barbaric murders of innocent Israeli civilians,” the Wexner Foundation’s leaders said.

Ackman, who founded Pershing Square Capital Management in 2003, wrote in his letter: “Harvard has failed in recent weeks to meet its Title VI obligations which threatens a major source of the University’s funding.”

“Title VI of the Civil Rights Act requires universities to provide all students, including students who are or are perceived to be Jewish, a school environment free from discrimination. The consequences for a university’s failure to meet the requirements of Title VI include the cancellation of federal funding,” he said.

“When coupled with numerous Jewish and non-Jewish alumni that have publicly and privately shared these same concerns, important sources of Harvard’s revenues are at risk,” he added.

Lawrence Summers, a former president of Harvard and treasury secretary in the Clinton administration, has denounced the strategy of donors withholding financial contributions as a means to influence universities’ stances on issues.

“I believe the adjustments from universities should come from their conscience and conversations within their communities, not in response to financial pressure,” Summers told CNN last month.

Campuses in turmoil

Tensions have risen across American college campuses as student groups clash around the Israel-Hamas war and antisemitic actions surge.

There has been a 400% increase in antisemitic incidents (which include assault, harassment and vandalism) since October 7, according to the Anti-Defamation League. At least 54 such incidents have been reported on campuses.

Ackman said in his letter that Harvard’s lack of response to such events has “emboldened this antisemitic subset of the community to escalate their antisemitic actions.”

“As Harvard’s leader, your words and actions are followed closely,” he wrote. “As a result, the steps you take to address antisemitism at Harvard will be recognized around the world, and can contribute greatly as an example to other institutions seeking to eliminate antisemitism in all of its forms.”

#nunyas news #hit em in the wallet

[sethshead]

Yet once college students were informed about the BDS movement and its efforts to put economic pressure on Israel by imploring companies and organizations to divest from the country, a plurality (43 percent) of college students believe BDS is either antisemitic itself or has antisemitic supporters.

Similarly, after learning about BDS, just 29 percent of college students say BDS does not pose a threat to Jewish students.

A friend of mine, after Oct. 7, expressed shock at what Hamas stood for; he had always assumed they just wanted Palestinian statehood in Gaza and the West Bank, or maybe a binational one-state solution, I guess. I’ve been shouting for years from the rooftops about the genocide baked into their founding documents, about the bloodthirst expressed by their leaders, and even my friend paid it no regard.

I’m not sure about how education will work. Yes, I’ve read the anecdotes about how, once students were make aware of geography, or which river and which sea, they became less eager to spout the trendy Israel-eliminationist slogans that have taken hold of college campuses and high school hallways. But I have my doubts since so many more people simply refuse to listen to or trust Jews. Our experiences, our history, our safety don’t count. The more we try to explain, the more I fear we will be resented for it.

I wonder if the only answer for us really is an Israel, defended by a very strong Sampson option.

[cosmicanger]

Writers Against the War on Gaza (WAWOG) is an ad hoc coalition committed to solidarity and the horizon of liberation for the Palestinian people. Drawing together writers, editors, and other culture workers, WAWOG hopes to provide ongoing infrastructure for cultural organizing in response to the war. This project is modeled on American Writers Against the War in Vietnam, an organization founded in 1965.

Statement of Solidarity

October 26, 2023

Israel’s war against Gaza is an attempt to conduct genocide against the Palestinian people. This war did not begin on October 7th. However, in the last 19 days, the Israeli military has killed over 6,500 Palestinians, including more than 2,500 children, and wounded over 17,000. Gaza is the world’s largest open-air prison: its 2 million residents—a majority of whom are refugees, descendants of those whose land was stolen in 1948—have been deprived of basic human rights since the blockade in 2006. We share the assertions of human rights groups, scholars, and, above all, everyday Palestinians: Israel is an apartheid state, designed to privilege Jewish citizens at the expense of Palestinians, heedless of the many Jewish people, both in Israel and across the diaspora, who oppose their own conscription in an ethno-nationalist project.

We come together as writers, journalists, academics, artists, and other culture workers to express our solidarity with the people of Palestine. We stand with their anticolonial struggle for freedom and for self-determination, and with their right to resist occupation. We stand firmly by Gaza’s people, victims of a genocidal war the United States government continues to fund and arm with military aid—a crisis compounded by the illegal settlement and dispossession of the West Bank and the subjugation of Palestinians within the state of Israel.

We stand in opposition to the silencing of dissent and to racist and revisionist media cycles, further perpetuated by Israel’s attempts to bar reporting in Gaza, where journalists have been both denied entry and targeted by Israeli forces. At least 24 journalists in Gaza have now been killed. Internationally, writers and cultural workers have faced severe harassment, workplace retribution, and job loss for expressing solidarity with Palestine, whether by stating facts about their continued occupation, or for amplifying the voices of others. These are instances that mark severe incursions against supposed speech protections. Specious charges of antisemitism are leveled against Zionism’s critics; political repression has been particularly aggressive against the free speech of Muslim, Arab, and Black people living in the US and across the globe. As was the case following the September 11th attacks, Islamophobic political fervor and the widespread circulation of unsubstantiated claims has galvanized a US-led coalition of military support for a brutal campaign of violence.

What can we do to intervene against Israel’s eliminationist assault on the Palestinian people? Words alone cannot stop the onslaught of devastation of Palestinian homes and lives, backed shamelessly and without hesitation by the entire axis of Western power. At the same time, we must reckon with the role words and images play in the war on Gaza and the ferocious support they have engendered: Israel’s defense minister announced the siege as a fight against “human animals”; even as we learned that Israel had rained bombs down on densely populated urban neighborhoods and deployed white phosphorus in Gaza City, the New York Times editorial board wrote that “what Israel is fighting to defend is a society that values human life and the rule of law”; establishment media outlets continue to describe Hamas’s attack on Israel as “unprovoked.” Writers Against the War on Gaza rejects this perversion of meaning, wherein a nuclear state can declare itself a victim in perpetuity while openly enacting genocide. We condemn those in our industries who continue to enable apartheid and genocide. We cannot write a free Palestine into existence, but together we must do all we possibly can to reject narratives that soothe Western complicity in ethnic cleansing.

We act alongside other writers, scholars, and artists who have expressed solidarity with the Palestinian cause, drawing inspiration from the Palestinian spirit of sumud, steadfastness, and resistance. Since 2004, the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) has advocated for organizations to join a boycott of institutions representing the Israeli state or cultural institutions complicit with its apartheid regime. We call on all our colleagues working in cultural institutions to endorse that boycott. And we invite writers, editors, journalists, scholars, artists, musicians, actors, and anyone in creative and academic work to sign this statement. Join us in building a new cultural front for a free Palestine.

Signed, WAWOG Interim Organizing Committee

Hannah Black

Ari Brostoff (Senior Editor, Jewish Currents)

Elena Comay del Junco

Kyle Dacuyan (Executive Director, Poetry Project)

Max Fox

Kay Gabriel (Editorial Director, Poetry Project)

Kaleem Hawa

E. Tammy Kim

Shiv Kotecha

Wendy Lotterman (Associate Editor, Parapraxis)

Muna Mire

Perwana Nazif

Brendan O'Connor

Alex Press (Staff Writer, Jacobin)

Sarah Nicole Prickett

Dylan Saba

Zoé Samudzi (Associate Editor, Parapraxis)

Jasmine Sanders

Claire Schwartz (Culture Editor, Jewish Currents)

Janique Vigier

Harron Walker

Chloe Watlington

Gabriel Winant (Department of History, University of Chicago)

Audrey Wollen

Hannah Zeavin (Founding Editor, Parapraxis)

Signed, In Solidarity:

Fatimah Warner (Noname)

Saul Williams

Susan Sarandon

Janeane Garofalo

Gael García Bernal

Danez Smith

Ocean Vuong

Aria Aber

Saidiya Hartman

Judith Butler

China Miéville

Cathy Park Hong

Robin D. G. Kelley

and much, much more here

To sign this letter in solidarity, click here

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I keep seeing people making arguments about whether or not to play the HP viddygame based on “harm to the community”. Which is a reason but is such a broadly defined term that I think it lacks impact. And honestly engaging with problematic texts isn’t inherently harmful. Lots of problematic texts can be meaningful to you and even valuable to you so long as you approach the problematic element critically. It makes me uncomfortable to see people arguing otherwise. (Even though in the context of this game there are enough problematic elements that I would think the game would be difficult to enjoy if you truly approached it with awareness.)

But to me, the most compelling reason to boycott HP properties is that JK Rowling uses the money she earns from the IP she owns to fund genocidal organizations and lobbying groups. And make no mistake: Trans eliminationist rhetoric IS genocidal. It advocates for withholding necessary medical care from a sector of the population and paints that population as uniquely depraved and dangerous. Both hallmarks of genocidal rhetoric. And it is no accident that antisemitic rhetoric would be the next plank she’d add to her public platform via this game. The Nazis burned groundbreaking research on gay and trans identities as they were coming to power, in addition to their harassment of Jews. These kinds of hatred travel together.

I consider Rowling and the IP that funds her to be one of the few straight lines that I could draw between my bank account and actual fascism in the world. If someone in the supply chain for my bicycle is a Three Percenter, I’ll never know. But if I buy an HP book or game, I know that money is going directly to someone who is explicitly allocating her money to organizing for and promoting political positions that aim to get people killed. And the more relevance her IP has, the more comfortable people feel engaging with it, the more people will buy it, and the more money goes into those campaigns.

I’m not here to tell you what to do with your existing fandom swag and your fanfics. Personally, I will find you uncomfortable to be around if I see you out in public in wizard robes because Rowling has chosen to make that act an explicitly political statement and I don’t know if you’re doing it to express solidarity with her views. So I’d probably avoid you. Fanfic, eh whatever. I don’t read in that fandom anyway. But presumably you’ve thought about this and decided it’s a price worth paying. (Right?)

But when it comes to new media, being released now, from corporations that had to license that IP from Rowling herself? You’re funding a genocidal campaigner. Full stop. And you’re a free agent who can do whatever you want, but I am a free agent who will judge the fuck out of you for it.

#harry potter legacy

[donewithcapitalistfrayers]

reminder, the Holocaust and eliminationist antisemitism is a hellscape from north, not east and not south, of the Mediterranean

[thenewsguru]

Hypocrisy: CNN Refuses To Condemn Pundit’s Anti-Semitism

The Double-standard of the left is painfully obvious when it comes to racist comments. However, their commentator, Marc Lamont Hill when all in when he made a crazy speech to the UN, this week. I have always noticed that this CNN commentator usually has some racist comment about everything. However, his racism is usually directed toward white people. He never has anything good to say about white people as a whole. That should raise red flags whenever he speaks. It is insane that a perfect example of this trend could be found on CNN. Marc Lamont Hill, allegedly “one of the leading intellectual voices in the country,” according to the network, already boasted a long history of using anti-Semitic rhetoric, not only defending terrorists abroad but praising Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan here at home. On Tuesday @CNN aired a devastating report on antisemitism in Europe. Today CNN's @marclamonthill echoed Jihadist calls for Israel's violent annihilation, calling for "resist" to achieve "a free Palestine from the river to the sea." Not a great look. pic.twitter.com/r26Q1BU0lR — Avi Mayer (@AviMayer) November 29, 2018 On Wednesday, Hill gave a speech in front of the United Nations, advocating for violence against the Jewish State and dropping the well-known eliminationist phrase, “from the river to the sea,” a favorite of Hamas and other Islamic terror groups, to the applause of representatives from theocrats and tyrannies around the world. Who knows why he was there giving a speech in the first place? What does this guy have to say that is at all important? Moreover, Hill isn't the only racist on CNN. Just a few weeks ago, Don Lemon said that White men are terrorists. Noone apologized for that one either. Don Lemon is known for his racial attacks on white people. Yet, CNN still allows him to have a primetime show. CNN has been a joke for years, but they really got bad during the 2016 presidential election. Their ratings are falling and they don't know why. Probably because the majority of Americans do not like the racial slurs that emanates from the network. Read the full article

#anti-Israel #anti-semitism #BrianStelter #cnn #Israel #MarcLamontHill #mediabias #MediaCriticism #Palestinians #UN #UnitedNations

[naipan]

The innocent people of Gaza and the Westbank.

#eliminationist antisemitism #rapeculture #death cult #islamic jihad #Hamas nazis #hamas is isis #antisemitismus #Frauen Verachtung #mysogyny #reeducation #entnazifizierung #me too #sexuality #patriarchy #oppression #women #gender #morality #regressive left

[antisemitism-eu]

Europe: Contemporary anti-Semitism offers us a stunning paradox

Via Standpoint Magazine (Professor Robert Wistrich (1945-2015):

Contemporary anti-Semitism offers us a stunning paradox. Never has it seemed so unfashionable to be an anti-Semite, so politically unacceptable and incorrect, even beyond the pale. And never, since 1945 have Jewish communities been so fearful of its eruption and the State of Israel so concerned about it. The official consensus is amazing, almost too good to be true. Successive Popes have condemned anti-Semitism, using terms like "never again". Governments fight it and some even legislate - especially against Holocaust denial. The Organisation for Security & Co-Operation in Europe (OSCE) has organised successive conferences against it - in Vienna, Berlin, Cordoba and Bucharest. The US State Department is obligated by Congress to monitor anti-Semitism. In the UK, a parliamentary committee issued a detailed report on it. The Israeli Foreign Ministry has also begun seriously to address the subject and now sees it as an element of policy, international relations, state-to-state relations. And I was interviewed not long ago on Al-Jazeera, the Arab news TV channel, and given every opportunity to refute the Holocaust-deniers and even to discuss Arab anti-Semitism. So what is going on?  

Is it not remarkable that in the European Union (which some call Eurabia) so many government leaders and officials are eager to pronounce their abhorrence of racism, anti-Semitism, Islamophobia and xenophobia, though levels of Jewish anxiety about Jew-hatred have never been so high since 1945? Is it not ironic that the memory of the Holocaust is so frequently and respectfully evoked - especially by European politicians, intellectuals, academics, journalists, churchmen and shapers of opinion - at the very time when Israel-bashing has become a Europe-wide popular sport which has achieved global resonance? And how is it that the UN solemnly commemorates the Shoah yet remains - despite some improvements - a world forum for vicious anti-Zionist incitement against Israel? 

There is no single, monolithic anti-Semitism that we face in all these cases, but rather a cluster of loosely related phenomena - some of them irritants of the common cold variety and others potentially lethal. I do not believe there is a single master strategy to deal with these disparate ailments. But establishing priorities is clearly important. One obvious point is that we have to take into account national differences - the specific challenge in each country will necessarily reflect its history, culture, politics and the character of its Jewish communities. Another is that Jews cannot fight anti-Semitism alone - they need allies who will change response to the specific type of anti-Semitism and the conditions prevailing in a given society. 

The most dangerous form of anti-Semitism today is that of radical Islam. Islamism cannot be dismissed as "extreme" because it has become increasingly mainstream. It directly threatens 5.3m Jews in Israel with annihilation. It is a danger to Europe, to America, to the whole world. The usual educational and political methods will not work because Islamist anti-Semitism is tied in to jihad (holy war), international terrorist networks and global ambitions. Petro-dollars, the cult of death and martyrdom and messianic fanatical fervour give it an especially dangerous edge. It is suicidal and genocidal at the same time. In Iran, radical Islamism is linked to preparing the next planned genocide (with Israel as a prime target) - in other words, Holocaust II while denying Holocaust I. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iran's president, could become an imitation Hitler with nuclear weapons unless Israel or the US and the "international community" stop him. But the Muslim Arab countries which need to worry about Iran as much as Israel does (Saudi Arabia, Egypt, the Gulf States, Jordan) are also major purveyors of anti-Semitism - as are Syria, Lebanon and the Palestinian Authority. The Iranian, Hamas and Hiz-bollah style of anti-Semitism can in my view be qualified as "exterminationist" or "eliminationist" in spirit. Already 20 years ago, in a book entitled Hitler's Apocalypse, I called this threat "apocalyptic" anti-Semitism and presented Khomeini's Iran as the heir of Nazi Germany, long before it became fashionable to do so. The popularity of European imports like the Protocols of the Elders of Zion and the widespread use of the Christian blood libel in the Muslim mass media, strengthen the feeling that here we are confronting a danger that is potentially, at least, on a par with that of the 1930s.

read more  This is the revised text of a lecture delivered at the Argentine Council of International Relations in Buenos Aires on August 7, 2008. The New Antisemite: http://ift.tt/2gWFn6V

#antisemitism in europe

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Why Retired people Are Actually Relocating To This Community In Thailand.

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In 1924 she was hired due to the Vitagraph Firm as well as obtained effectiveness in movies such as 3 Females (Ernst Lubitsch, 1924), with Might McAvoy and also Marie Prevost as the mistress and also Lew Cody as the male in the middle, as well as Smouldering Fires (Clarence Brown, 1925), through which she is a prosperous businessperson who weds her much younger employee (Malcolm McGregor), though he fancies her more youthful sibling (Laura LaPlante).

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Book Cover "Eliminationist" German anti-Semitism, Citizen-Killers

Book Cover “Eliminationist” German anti-Semitism, Citizen-Killers

I read this soon after it came out…written beautifully.

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Hitler’s Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaustis a 1996 book by American writer Daniel Goldhagen, in which he argues that the vast majority of ordinary Germans were “willing executioners” in the Holocaust because of a unique and virulent “eliminationist antisemitism” in German political culture which had…

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Doing or saying things beneficial to Israel does not grant absolution for previous antisemitism. If you seek forgiveness for indulging in white replacement conspiracy theories or speaking of Jews as sacrificial pawns in one's millenarian theology, then acknowledge your error. Don't try to change the subject.

I am not so kind as Ms. Goldberg as to dismiss those who use and defend "from the river to the sea" as simply naive; they know that a river-to-sea Palestine leaves Jews vulnerable to an Oct. 7 of vastly greater proportions, and at best those activists simply don't care. Their apathy towards the fate of half the world's Jews has a name. I will be very happy to see people who use such eliminationist rhetoric disciplined; they are not engaging constructively or critically.

Musk remains, however, more problem than solution, promoting antisemitic slanders and libels, defaming Jews and Jewish institutions, and expressing sentiments that get Jews killed. More importantly than cracking down on others' hate speech, he should make t'shuva for his own.

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