shocked to see that this post circulated almost exclusively around Jewish blogs and generally been ignored by gentiles – shocked, i tell you!
“the biggest problem is that aside from a handful of outraged Jewish students, nobody is talking about this. Not our administrations, not our school newspapers, not our campus minority groups; no one.”
The neo-nazi who drove his car into a crowd of counter-protesters and murdered Heather Heyer was found guilty of first-degree murder and a bunch of other charges and will die in prison, Happy Hanukka.
So this is Nazi’s new anti semitism dog whistle,please keep your eyes out for this behaviour.
This isn’t a one off and people are already reporting it being used
y’all get that the main way this shit works is if they rile you up right?
just have some self-awareness for a second, if all these people are doing is saying “happy hannukah” then the correct response isn’t to get all riled up and potentially ruin the phrase, but rather take it at face value and turn the potential for an ill-considered reaction unto them.
I mean it’s still good to know. Like… finding out that your coworker or relative or “friend” is an antisemite (which considering that Facebook has made becoming “friends” with your coworkers like that a thing) is important information regardless of how you react to it.
Knowing the dog whistles isn’t overreacting to them. It’s knowing that that uncle that always felt skeevy is not just a gun nut but someone that doesn’t believe you have a right to exist. And that’s especially true for those in the closet (seeing as these people are generally also queerphobic). This isn’t just about the antisemitism. This is about protecting those who have hidden who they are so they can stay safe.
I almost feel bad for them. This is such a sad attempt, even for 4chan.
Also like ‘let’s fool them into thinking x is an antisemitic dogwhistle’ isn’t exactly TRICKING someone if the way you do it is by…making sure people use it as an antisemitic dogwhistle…? Like they seem to think that stuff like this is somehow pulling the wool over people’s eyes instead of just…being loudly antisemitic and hoping people will notice. Truly Masterful tactics
…The study released ahead of a conference this week in the UK Parliament on misogyny and anti-Semitism found that Jewish women MPs are 15% more likely to be the targets of bile on far-right website Stormfront than their male peers.
The venom they receive is particularly noxious, too, given that it combines the hatreds of women and Jews. The likes of Dame Margaret Hodge, Luciana Berger, and Ruth Smeeth – all prominent Labour parliamentarians – are not just c**ts, they are Jewish c**ts, as their online detractors might put it.
…One of the ongoing stories of Labour’s years-long anti-Semitism crisis has been the preponderance of hate and violent rhetoric directed at the party’s Jewish women MP’s in particular.
Earlier this month, the UK police launched an investigation into violent anti-Semitic threats made against Berger, who had to attend Labour’s Party Conference this year flanked by armed police guards after receiving credible threats to her life on social media.
Parliamentary Speaker John Bercow told the Sara Conference that his own experience of anti-Semitism, “Dwindles into complete insignificance and nothingness in comparison with what female Jews have experienced and do experience.”
At a general parliamentary debate on anti-Semitism in April, Smeeth got a standing ovation after reading out her hate mail “greatest hits”. These included choice specimens like: “First job for Jeremy Corbyn tomorrow expel the Zionist Bicom smearhag bitch from the party,” and “The gallows would be a fine fitting place for this dyke piece of yid shit to swing from.”
For Jews who wish to participate in political life in the UK, abuse is “par for the course,” Smeeth said.
During the same debate, Berger described how the hate came from both far-right and far-left.
Four people from the far right have been convicted for abuse against her; after one of those convictions, Berger noted, “a far-right website in the United States initiated the #filthyjewbitch campaign, which the police said resulted in me receiving over 2,500 violent, pornographic and extreme anti-Semitic messages in just one day alone.”
She went on to point out that, “in 2018, anti-Semitism is now more commonplace, more conspicuous and more corrosive within the Labour party,” and the abuse she’s received from the left includes accusations “of having two masters. They have said that I am Tel Aviv’s servant, and called me a paid-up Israeli operative…suggesting that I am a traitor to our country. They have called me Judas, a Zionazi and an absolute parasite, and they have told me to get out of this country and go back to Israel.”
According to the research, members of Stormfront not only hate Jewish women in power, they also see feminism as a Jewish plot, adding to the litany of anti-Semitic tropes that sees the Jewish people pulling invisible levers behind a curtain and controlling the world.
This, along with the other findings, highlights the fact, often taken for granted, that women are on the front lines when it comes to society’s expressions of violence. Only in 2016, Labour MP Jo Cox was murdered by a far-right extremist. Her killer shot and stabbed her in the street in broad daylight.
Anecdotally at least, we already know what this research shows: that women who stick their heads above the parapet are on the receiving end of a horrific cocktail of abuse. This abuse interweaves their identity and perceived weakness with a hatred of women.
We saw it in the vitriol aimed at Hillary Clinton when she ran for president. We saw it in the barrage of hate U.S. Jewish journalist Julia Ioffe received after she profiled Melania Trump in 2016.
Here in the UK, we have seen it in the abuse suffered by Jewish women in Parliament and in the combination of racism and sexism aimed at women of color and minorities. Labour’s Shadow Home Secretary Diane Abbott, the first black woman to become an MP in the UK, received more abuse in the run-up to the general election in June last year than any other woman parliamentarian, according to Amnesty International…
Of course, there is a difference between anti-Semitic and (or) misogynistic trolling and physical abuse, but both are part of the same spectrum of violence. The Pittsburgh shooting only this month and Jo Cox’s murder are just two pieces of evidence, if anyone actually needed it, that violent rhetoric can and does end in bloodshed…
“Although 76% of Germany’s Jews believe anti-Semitism is a problem, 77% of non-Jews in Germany believe the opposite, according to a recent government report. And parents say that makes it hard for administrators to confront anti-Semitism in their own schools.
“If you ask somebody’s who’s not Jewish if there are problems with anti-Semitism in Germany, they would say no way,” said Wenzel Michalski, the father of a 15-year-old who was forced to switch schools after months of anti-Semitic bullying. “They think it’s a Jew making a fuss.”
Michalski is the head of the German chapter of Human Rights Watch. He said his son began attending Friedenauer Gemeinschaftsschule in December 2016. Its motto: “A School Without Racism”.
The grandson of a Holocaust survivor, Michalski’s son told his new classmates he was Jewish.
“He said it was like you could a hear a pin drop,” said Michalski. “His cover was blown. His new friends said you can’t hang out with us anymore because you’re Jewish and the attacks quickly became worse and worse.”
Michalski says his son, who was 14 at the time, was smacked on the head and kicked to the point where he developed bruises. Three months into his stint at the school, a fellow student shot him with an air gun while taunting him with anti-Semitic slurs.
Michalski said school administrators tried to play it off as “boys will be boys,” and were unwilling to do anything about the incident. He ended up pulling his son out of the school three months after he enrolled.”
“A quarter of Hungarians estimated that the world is more than 20% Jewish, and a fifth of British and Polish respondents said so.”
They were off by a factor of 100. About 0.2% of the world’s population is Jewish, according to the Pew Research Center’s Global Religious Landscape study.
I’m also just remembering again before I moved, when a friend of the family felt a need to have a talk with my mother. She’d grown up in NYC, and ended up at I think it was University College London for some postgraduate work in the ‘80s.
And she ran into enough mostly casual antisemitism and xenophobia–including some dog whistle references to Zionism in lectures–that it helped her not stay any longer than she needed to.
And also feeling a need to warn non-WASPy people who were not Jewish, 20 years later, because of how closely the social acceptability of that and more general xenophobia tend to run together. And some of what she and friends had personally encountered. She didn’t figure that things could have changed so significantly in that time, and she was honestly concerned about my possibly going into some not so great situations unaware. The change had been enough of a shock to her.
“Lack of Holocaust knowledge is particularly striking among young people in France: One out of five people there between the ages of 18 and 34 said they’d never heard of it.” ummmm what the actual fuck???????????
The overestimates came even as majorities or near-majorities in every country CNN polled said they were not aware of ever having met a Jewish person. Two-thirds of Germans, Austrians and Poles said they didn’t think they had ever socialized with a Jew, while about half of people in Britain, France, Hungary and Austria said the same.
I keep trying to not worry about rising antisemitism. Antisemitism is nothing new and if we up and left every time someone made a Jew joke, we’d never be still. And since I don’t have the means to leave the country, I can’t spend my emotional spoons worrying myself sick. But I also know that a lot of people who have tried to convince themselves of the same thing ended up murdered, and every community today exists because someone knew when it was time to get out.
I just got an email from my synagogue updating the congregants about new security efforts. We’re a small synagogue. Friday night services usually get around 15 people. We’re out in the boonies. We’re not fancy or rich. We don’t even usually do Saturday services because we’re too small. But the board unanimously decided to have armed guards at every service and event. Someone had already sponsored 6 months’ armed security for our Hebrew school, in case someone wants to come in and murder our children in cold blood. They’re talking of steel doors and a safe room, and self-defense classes for congregants.
Do you non-Jews understand? Do you understand the heartbreak and anxiety that we feel because we KNOW that these are practical steps for a non-zero possibility that someone will want to vandalize us, or set us on fire, or murder us and our children for no reason other than that we are Jews? Do you understand that this is happening in 2018 and it never went away? That your silence is complicit? That every equivocating tweet about “Zionists” and a philosophy you don’t understand, every time you defend kicking Jews out of your so-called progressive movements, every time you tell Jews that they’re basically white and privileged so stop complaining, it is another bullet in the chamber?
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