Given how incredibly (painfully) relevant it's getting in America, I feel it's worth it's own thread where I drop interesting articles, videos and photos of what Jewish Americans are having to live through today as well as some of the historical cases in America; it's a topic I've been deeply interested in lately and one that is painfully under-reported.
One note... a depressing amount of these will come from Florida, but it's a country-wide problem that is being buried under all the circus show, reality T.V. drama like Kanye and Kyrie cause - by making it hidden behind a joke, it hides a dark truth.
So, first off...
Why this Chabad rabbi wants to thank the antisemites on his lawn (https://forward.com/fast-forward/537336/orlando-chabad-harassed-by-antisemitic-hate-group/)
QuoteThe second time the antisemitic protesters showed up at the entrance of the Chabad of South Orlando, they brought a prop. So, in addition to flashing Hitler salutes and waving hateful signs, according to Rabbi Yosef Konikov, "they were able to say, 'Look, how many Jews can we fit into this barbecue grill?'"
Video posted on social media shows Jon Minadeo, who founded an antisemitic group called the Goyim Defense League, bellowing slurs and insults at Jewish people leaving the Chabad campus last Friday.
Quote"Leave our country go back to Israel"
"Heil hitler" "sir do you think you should be put in an oven"
Video of this clown (https://twitter.com/Ostrov_A/status/1628500212082696194)
Plenty more to come, but it's late.
Jewish Cemetary in Chicago Vandalized (https://www.wbez.org/stories/jewish-graves-desecrated-with-swastikas-spark-anger-tears/b65a506c-c5fa-479e-ade4-31cec2b9bc8e)
(Quick note - cemeteries are extremely sacred spots in Judaism, and the process of keeping a body "pure" in it's burial is an extremely big deal; unless you know the dead or are providing a service, you are not welcome in a Jewish cemetery for ritual purity. Agree with it or not, it's just a basic respect thing and also still a big deal.)
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"Kanye was Right" Banner in the Bay Area (https://www.atheistforums.com/%5C"KanyewasRight%5C"BannerintheBayArea)
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Two Jewish Men Shot Leaving Worship in LA (https://www.atheistforums.com/TwoJewishMenShotLeavingWorshipinLA)
QuoteFederal prosecutors have charged a man with two hate crimes after he allegedly shot two different Jewish men earlier this week, the Department of Justice announced Friday.
Jaime Tran, 28, is accused of targeting and shooting two Jewish men as they were leaving religious services at two separate synagogues in the same predominantly Jewish neighborhood, US Attorney Martin Estrada said in a news release.
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The suspect allegedly targeted the victims "because they were Jewish or he believed them to be Jewish" and was "motivated by hate," Estrada said.
And just because I'm sure this is going to be "so shocking", these same anti-Semites are the same people shooting up LGBT nightclubs and El Paso supermarkets...
Alleged gunman in Colorado Springs LGBTQ club shooting ran neo-Nazi website, detective testifies (https://www.jta.org/2023/02/23/united-states/alleged-gunman-in-colorado-springs-lgbtq-club-shooting-ran-neo-nazi-website-detective-testifies)
Quote(JTA) — The alleged killer in the mass shooting at a Colorado Springs LGBTQ club ran a neo-Nazi website that included a video of shootings at synagogues and mosques, according to a detective who testified Wednesday in a hearing about whether Anderson Lee Aldrich should face hate crime charges.
The testimony came a day before the release of a new report finding that mass shootings in the United States are increasingly linked to extremists.
The detective, Rebecca Joines, testified that Aldrich, 22, did not make the video that appeared on the "neo-Nazi white supremacist" website he administered, the Associated Press reported.
She said the video, which has appeared on other extremist websites, is a shooter training video and includes video of the 2019 attacks on two mosques in New Zealand carried out by a white supremacist, and also featured attacks on synagogues and mosques in Europe.
As "fun" as it would be to branch into that... yeah, Europe (particularly Central Europe [Belgium, France particular] and Western Europe) have had a very long string of attacks (particularly firebombings) against synagogues lately - but that is just too much news to try to keep track of. This is believed to be largely conducted by Muslim migrants, but I think that takes a lot of pressure off of Europe's white supremacists that they deserve as well - both are equally evil.
One notable thing (haven't even got into the "Black Hebrew Israelite" yet...) is just how diverse the hatred is - Asian, African, White all united in attacking the Jewish people.
Anti-Semitism, though inherently linked to certain politics, is also something worse than and beyond politics - it is cultural identity for large parts of the world.
I'll try to do multiple articles as multiple posts from now on, I don't like how that looks as one big post.
Louis Farrakhan Goes on Anti-Semitic Tirade (https://twitter.com/OGAride/status/1630082236841349120).
Just for context - Louis Farrakhan has been recognized as an "anti-white theologist" since the 80's, a recognized anti-Semite for just as long, is homophobic and preaches out of a $3 million dollar mosque built by Gaddafi in Chicago - and has close ties to several far-right politicians and organizations.
Birds of a feather...
Quote"I've never been an anit-Semite, and uh... if I had them infront of me they could not prove their charge, BUT! they make the charge... and when they make the charge they have CONTROL of so MUCH of what shapes thinking and the human mind.
QuoteSo when Jewish people do not think that anyone is WORTHY to criticize them...
QuoteThis stranglehold has GOT TO BE BROKEN, or this country is going down the drain.
... what stranglehold? He was talking about JEWISH POWER and the ABUSE of that power.
You want to hear about the end of the war don't you? You're in the right place! [note: I have no idea what the fuck he is talking about here either]
JEWISH POWER is what has ALL OF OUR PEOPLE OF KNOWLEDGE AND WISDOM AND TALENT AFFFFRAAAID AFRAID TO SAY WHAT!
People come to see me; they like me - like Nichodimus, but they have to come by night when nobody is looking - they cant allow the *enemy* to see them coming to me. It's in the book of John! AND YOU'VE READ IT!
WHO DID YOU THINK IT WAS TALKING ABOUT?
*mass applause*
I was going to quote more of them, but I honestly feel like shit after having to write that all out; you get the idea what this piece of shit is about.
3.45 million radicals follow this man, and have made him worth $5 million dollars - but more importantly a figure with political power.
That's as much as I want to talk about him.
Haven't been keeping up with this thread as well as I should, but...
Updated FBI Statistics Show 20% Increase in Anti-Semitic Hate Crimes (https://jewishinsider.com/2023/03/hate-crimes-antisemitism-fbi-rep-kathy-manning-anti-defamation-league-american-jewish-committee/)
QuoteFBI: A total of 1,590 incidents related to religion were reported:
Anti-Jewish: 51.4%
Anti-Sikh incidents: 11.6%
Anti-Islamic incidents: 9.6%
Anti-Catholic incidents: 6.1%
Anti-Eastern Orthodox: 3.1%
Left out, but relevant... the % of the population each group makes.
Jews - 2%
Sikh - .2%
*
2.2% of the population, 63% of religiously-motivated hate crimes - but yeah, no, Christians are just persecuted left and right and cant go a day without oppression.
*(I was going to add Islam, but given they are a fair chunk of anti-Semitic violence... fuck them.)
I was under the impression that Christians are blessed when oppressed... 🤔
I remember as a youth taking in the Catholic indoctrination, that there was a kind of appeal to the rebel, saying prayers when nobody else did. That persecution complex stuff started early.
(Some of the) daily anti-Semitism I get that... just makes me not really want to log onto Twitter, except then it just becomes more of an echo chamber where people like this are not called on their bullshit.
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The last one is particularly funny - I forgot to save it, but he had posted a wall of text "argument" photo essentially saying that all Jews are actually Khazars* and that any evidence I provided was Rothschild funded propaganda, and that I needed to vet my sources.
He proceeds to quote Edgar J. Steele - Klansman attorney and man serving 50 years in jail for attempting to kill his wife.
It would be funny, if Democrats didn't agree with a fair amount of it themselves - but they call it "anti-Zionism" so it's not racist :).
*Apparently the "Khazar hypothesis" is part of some grand anti-Semitic conspiracy that I cant even figure out the point of... I think it's to justify killing all the Jews and claiming "Messianic Jews" (Christians in Jewish cosplay) are the real Jews? I don't know, it's weird - Dr. Henry Abramson has a really good video detailing the science and history that proves it a load of horse.
"Okay, we'll take the niggers and the chinks, BUT NO IRISH!"
Gangs of New York? 👀
Quote from: Gawdzilla Sama on April 23, 2023, 01:14:14 PM"Blazing Saddles."
Mel Brooks is a national treasure that needs to be re-introduced to society.
Yeah, the Right can have their Mel Gibson, we've got our Mel Brooks! 🤣
My opinion on all of this...
Let anti-semites be anti-semites. It'll only empower Israeli soldiers to protect their people from these dipshits. Which means more Krav Maga classes in the States. Me being a martial arts fan? Yahweh's blessing!
Jokes aside, fuck these anti-semites. At the first sign of violence, the police force is coming after their sorry asses.
I haven't been keeping up with this thread, largely because it only continues to go down hill - now, a "heroic young woman", with a history of celebrating terrorism against Jews and declaring, "We will see a day when Israel is no more" gets to be graduation speaker at CUNY.
CUNY has, since at least 2016, been involved in multiple cases of anti-Semitic rhetoric and has a history of allowing guests who support and fund terrorist organizations.
Because you know... "woke college".
https://www.nationalreview.com/news/may-every-zionist-burn-in-the-hottest-pit-of-hell-meet-cuny-law-schools-antisemitic-graduation-speaker/
QuoteIn a May, 2021 tweet, Mohammed wished that "every Zionist burn in the hottest pit of hell."
The following day, Mohammed confessed on Twitter: "my mom would have a heart attack if she knew i pray upon the death of the USA on a public platform but yolo i guess."
Later that month, Mohammed responded to a message by Andrew Yang condemning "Hamas terrorists" and insisting that the "people of NYC will always stand with our brothers and sisters in Israel who face down terrorism and persevere."
QuoteHowever, Mohammed's rhetoric and antisemitism continued throughout the ensuing years. In 2022, Mohammed spoke at a rally put on by the activist group Within Our Lifetime, a pro-Palestinian organization that had a member imprisoned on federal charges for assaulting a Jewish man in New York City in 2022.
Court documents following the attack showed the group had brought Molotov cocktails and instructed members to refer to targets as "Zionists" rather than "Jews" to avoid accusations of antisemitism.
"Remember, don't chant out Jews, it's the Zionists," one participant wrote in the group chat before another added later: "Fuck all Jews."
Funny, CUNY is just one letter off from the perfect adjective to describe this person.
Not America, however as the second link notes... anti-Semitism from Russia is in America.
Half of Russia' Jews Flee Russia Since Russia's Invasion of Ukraine (https://baptistnews.com/article/80000-jews-have-fled-russia-since-putin-invaded-ukraine/)
Quote"This new situation for Jews in Russia is becoming more and more dangerous," said Pinchas Goldschmidt, chief rabbi and president of the Conference of European Rabbis and the exiled chief rabbi of Moscow.
Approximately 50,000 Jews have emigrated from Russia to Israel since Vladimir Putin's February 2022 invasion of Ukraine, and about 30,000 more have left for numerous European and Middle Eastern countries, Goldschmidt said during USCIRF's March 15 event titled "Russia's Invasion of Ukraine: Implications for Religious freedom."
Goldschmidt said he decided to leave Russia so he could continue to monitor and criticize the Kremlin's increasing persecution of Jews — an activity that is now illegal in that country.
"We are worried about the state of the Jewish community there. Not everyone can leave," he said. "We can definitely call the Jewish community of Russia today a community in distress."
Russia's Involvement In Global Anti-Semitic Ideology (https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/security-aviation/2023-06-13/ty-article/fake-news-sites-and-antisemitic-memes-global-russian-op-targeted-israel-u-s-jews/00000188-b4f9-d1d6-a7b9-fffd4d1a0000)
QuoteA global Russian disinformation operation faked the websites of a number of prominent and even internationally renowned news outlets, among them Israeli websites in Hebrew and even a Jewish American newspaper, as part of the Kremlin's attempt to advance its war efforts against Ukraine.
The operation was revealed Tuesday by France and was attributed by French authorities directly to "Russian actors" and "state entities (or entities) affiliated with Russia that participated by amplifying false information." The statement by the French Foreign Ministry is an escalation of Western efforts against Russia's information war.
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Israel has frequently been targeted alongside other states by Russian disinformation efforts. However, this seems to be the first time that content aimed at Israel was also aimed at American Jewry. There were at least three forged Jewish Journal reports, including one about Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's attack on Iran "harming Israel" and possibly another about Florida Governor Ron DeSantis.
Dubbed operation "Doppelgänger" due to the high quality of the forgery of the different news sites, the operators of this campaign succeeded to create almost perfect replica of its targets: the design and aesthetic of the websites were seemingly identical to the original legacy outlets, and their domain was "spoofed" to lend credence.
To get back to the American-centric theme...
Pulitzer Prize Winning Holocaust Comic "Maus" Increasingly Being Banned in America (https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/06/14/art-spiegelman-maus-book-bans/)
QuoteRight-wing culture warriors pushing restrictions on classroom instruction sometimes defend these measures by insisting that they avoid targeting historically or intellectually significant material. In their telling, these laws restrict genuinely objectionable matter — such as pornography or "woke indoctrination" — while sparing material that kids truly need to learn, even if it's controversial.
A new fracas involving a school board in Missouri will test this premise. The controversy revolves around Art Spiegelman's graphic novel about the Holocaust, and it indicates that those seeking to censor books seem oddly unconstrained by the principle that they are supposed to avoid restricting important, challenging historical material.
"It's one more book — just throw it on the bonfire," Spiegelman told me ruefully, suggesting the impulse to target books seems to have a built-in tendency to expand, sweeping in even his Pulitzer-winning "Maus" under absurd pretenses.
"It's a real warning sign of a country that's yearning for a return of authoritarianism," Spiegelman said.
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It's not yet clear what the employees found objectionable. But "Maus" — which illustrates Spiegelman's parents' experience of the Holocaust and features Nazis as cats and Jews as mice — graphically depicts his mother naked in a bathtub after taking her own life.
"She was sitting in a pool of blood when my father found her," Spiegelman said of his mother. It is a "rather unsexy image seen from above," he noted, and "not something I think anybody could describe as a nude woman. She's a naked corpse."
While kids in Missouri cannot be offended by having to see animal-depictions of Nazis abusing Jews, meanwhile in Florida...
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Recently saw several armored personal carriers being moved into the Austin-San Antonio area... I figured they were on the way *elsewhere*, but I wonder now if it's preparing for the domestic terrorists that live in our local foothills.
Learning the far right - people like this - had working 120mm howitzers and 70s-eras tanks within 30 minutes of my house was probably around the time my sanity broke and I just accepted all this as normal.
East Cobb, Georgia Synagogue Harassed By Nazi-Germany Flag Waving... Nazis. (https://www.fox5atlanta.com/news/governor-sen-warnock-and-others-respond-to-antisemitic-rally-outside-east-cobb-synagogue)
Really worth reading, it just gets worse and worse as you go.
These are just the guys not invited to the party - those men are the ones that worry me.
You ever notice how most of these proponents of "the master race" aren't exactly ideal specimens themselves? A fine tradition going all the way back to ol' Adolf, I suppose.
Quote from: Hijiri Byakuren on June 28, 2023, 10:41:26 PMYou ever notice how most of these proponents of "the master race" aren't exactly ideal specimens themselves? A fine tradition going all the way back to ol' Adolf, I suppose.
Right? Any way to gain some higher ground, I guess, though it is pathetic.
Quote from: Hijiri Byakuren on June 28, 2023, 10:41:26 PMYou ever notice how most of these proponents of "the master race" aren't exactly ideal specimens themselves? A fine tradition going all the way back to ol' Adolf, I suppose.
I recently was watching this video on Nazi race theories; it struck me that you have to both simultaneously an absolute rocket scientist to understand it, and yet simultaneously dumber than a bag of dull rocks to think it makes even the remotest bit of sense.
The guys at the top, to an extent anyways, seemed to be in on the gig; they knew it was all nonsense, but it gave them power. A mix of true-believers and opportunists.
If you ever forget why education is so poorly funded and maintained... video if anyone wants to see it. It's... dumb. It's a good video, but it's "flat earth" levels of nonsense.
Quote from: Shiranu on June 29, 2023, 01:23:01 AMI recently was watching this video on Nazi race theories; it struck me that you have to both simultaneously an absolute rocket scientist to understand it, and yet simultaneously dumber than a bag of dull rocks to think it makes even the remotest bit of sense.
Your average conspiracy theory, basically. I remember running across a video trying to tie together ancient aliens, the Nazca lines, Atlantis, Lemuria, the Pyramids, Stonehenge, Bigfoot, Flat Earth, a bunch of other shit I can't even remember, and it was just... the most complicatedly stupid thing I've ever seen. Like, I can't even pick it apart because there's so much wrong with the stupid thing that I don't even know where to begin.
Quote from: Hijiri Byakuren on June 28, 2023, 10:41:26 PMYou ever notice how most of these proponents of "the master race" aren't exactly ideal specimens themselves? A fine tradition going all the way back to ol' Adolf, I suppose.
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In today's epsiode of, "How Can We Reach A New Low In American Politics", Democrat (in name) RFK Jr. implies that the Corona Virus was designed to specifically protect Jews and Chinese people while harming whites and blacks.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/07/15/robert-kennedy-jr-covid-conspiracy/ (https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/07/15/robert-kennedy-jr-covid-conspiracy/)
The guy is a fool. Sad to say, (way too) many people believe such foolishness.
Quote from: Shiranu on July 15, 2023, 08:39:17 PMIn today's episode of, "How Can We Reach A New Low In American Politics", Democrat (in name) RFK Jr. implies that the Corona Virus was designed to specifically protect Jews and Chinese people while harming whites and blacks.
I just looked at the data (https://www.apmresearchlab.org/covid/deaths-by-race) to see if there was any truth to that. Largely, covid kills fairly indiscriminately, (though as is typical, more impoverished and less white populations have had more deaths, likely due to less healthcare access). Even so, asian americans are killed noticeably less, even when you adjust for age.
Imho, there's a pretty simple explanation for this. East asia notably experienced the bird flu outbreak (and several others since) and thus mask-wearing became a more culturally-ingrained practice there. And obviously, some asian americans have friends/family in such countries and likely to be more predisposed to don the mask than...*cut to maga people freaking out over masks* ...others.
White Supremacist Nick Fuentes Calls for "Holy War" Against Jews (https://newrepublic.com/post/174372/white-supremacist-nick-fuentes-calls-holy-war-jews)
Quote"We're in a holy war. And I will tell you this: Because we're willing to die in the holy war, we will make them die in the holy war."
This is what neo-Nazi Nick Fuentes, who had dinner with Republican front-runner Donald Trump less than one year ago, said at an "America First" rally in West Palm Beach on Sunday.
"They will go down—we have God on our side—and they will go down with their Satanic master," he continued. "They have no future in America. The enemies of Christ have no future in this world."
DeSantis campaign deletes video after Nazi images found (https://www.rawstory.com/ron-desantis-delets-video/)
Whoops! I guess they just kind of forgot that they're just supposed to (((dogwhistle))) that stuff. Cause that ad imagery was so overtly indicative of fascism that I would assume it was meant as a parody, not as sincere praise.
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Truly the intellectual superiority of the master race is unquestionable; it is utterly inconceivable that this is not the peak of human rationality and capacity for rebuttal.
Also - average Twitter checkmark under Elon Musk :) - either anti-Semitism, Christian Nationalism or culture war bullshit.
Again, who *ever* could have seen that coming.
Yeah, it seems the main motivation for the blue checkmark is for the most vile people imaginable to grab the biggest mic they can. Not so different from Musk himself.
The nazis' stance towards Christianity was certainly strange - on one hand, you have some nazis advocate for "positive Christianity" (Christianity divorced from its Jewish roots and rebranded as Aryan), others were quite fond of german paganism. Hitler reportedly privately despised Christianity, yet publicly professed to be a leal Christian. The more scientific-minded (inasmuch as that was allowed - allegations of "jewish science" and all that) among them were quite fond of social Darwinism and so in love with eugenics that any mention of human selective breeding instantly invokes them even almost 80 years later. Transhumanists and people who advocate for human genetic engineering or even mapping the human genome have to watch their step and plot a very careful course through this ethical minefield.
As far as I can tell, the Nazis simply desired power above all else and were against Christians who opposed them and were quite fond of Christians who were not opposed to them. That's why their stances swing all over the place.
For once something positive; the beauty of a modern synagogue short.
Jewish DNA tests leaked online (https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna119324)
Quotefirst and last name, sex, and 23andMe's evaluation of where their ancestors came from.
Targetting Ashkenazi Jews in particular.
As we all know from history class (just kidding, mine never even touched on the subject) Ashkenazi Jews (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashkenazi_Jews) are essentially Jews of European descent who were largely wiped out in the holocaust and now predominantly live in the US, Israel, and Russia with smaller populations in various countries - almost entirely in Europe, North and South America, and Australia. They're basically the main ethnic group that neo-nazis are obsessed with.
Quote"Crazy, this could be used by Nazis," one person who appears in the database said.
Ya think?!
QuoteIn an emailed statement, a 23andMe spokesperson said the company believes it wasn't hacked per se. Instead, it believes that the hackers simply gained some users' passwords that had been hacked and leaked from other sites, then exploited the fact that 23andMe can give users vast access to each others' genetic information.
Us? Nope, we weren't hacked. Hackers just took people's passwords that were just hanging around on the web and accessed their apparently still active accounts used that to harvest vast swathes of personal and genetic information that persons unknown then trade with each other like they're pokemon cards.
A couple quick questions:
1) How the ever-loving *$(% do you guys know that some of your users' passwords are just drifting around cyberspace and their passwords still work and their accounts are still unlocked?
2) Have you heard of terms like password reset? Two factor authentication? Even something as basic as figuring out from where in world this stuff is accessed and comparing it to the norm. I can't access my Youtube playlist from a library computer without Google having a conniption and counting down like ED-209, but people's passwords and accounts and genetic info is just out there for the taking. Yeah, that makes sense.
3) Maybe limit a little bit what people can share and see about other people, just a tad. Maybe instead of putting that stuff out there like a bulletin board how about we use more semi-confidential sharing. Maybe both accounts have to agree before that info is sent or something. I dunno, just spitballing here.
QuoteA popular option available to the company's 14 million users, called DNA Relatives, allows any account to search for others who may be even a distant genetic match. A single account can see the accounts of thousands of others.
Oh FFS... Get rid of that feature pronto!