Mark Zuckerberg is a despicable misogynist and a capitalist pig who sells all of our private information, and is responsible for selling that to the people who used it to ensure the election of a crypto-fascist president, but this site reaaaally needs to stop with the “secretly inhuman / alien / lizard person” jokes because he is jewish and that shit comes DIRECTLY from literal antisemitic conspiracies started and propogated by genuine neo-nazis so why is it so hard to just not do that?
Before you recoil from this and develop defensive emotions, I used to joke about him having to go to human classes (a real thing he did) but then when i was watching the Live Congress thing he’s doing yesterday, youtube had the comment feed on and i got to watch people literally in real time at like 8 mph use that rhetoric while spamming stars of david next to it and i recoiled back from that joke/line of mockery so fuckin fast my guys.
Consider yourself informed and move forward from it. We can think up new things to mock him with that aren’t being glorified by neonazis.
I’m reblogging this particular version bc of the second part. Like, this isn’t even covert stuff. It’s out in the open and if you don’t see it, all that means is that you are isolated from it – and probably that you’re not the target of it.
But neonazis sure do love for you to spread their hate by proxy, and I for one don’t want to be complicit.
I just found out that they have thousands – thousands! – of Torah scrolls, which they then donate to other Evangelicals for financial reasons and political leverage. (In one case, they donated a 16th-century scroll to Liberty University. It was completely unfurled and directly handled in an auditorium. By untrained students.) Almost two thousand of them are sitting in an explicitly Evangelical museum full of supercessionist bullshit, and the text of the largest display talks about how they were “saved” from burial or the genizah.
Saved.
From proper Jewish ritual handling.
By Evangelical Xians.
Who then donate these things to other Evangelicals who mishandle them.
For money.
I… I think I’m going to cry.
I was just about to post this! I even got a little shout-out in the article. 🙂
The notion of “build[ing] a Christian museum on the backs of Jewish items” is, as I’ve come to understand in my research of the history of Judaica collecting, goes back several centuries to the origins of the modern museum itself. But it is particularly disturbing to see how this classically-supersessionist and fossilizing language (“God gave those people [Jews] a job, and they did that job well,” Steven Green explains, referring to the “job” of preserving the Torah text in identical copies so that evangelical Christians could prove the Bible’s unerring nature) is intertwined with corporate capitalism and greedy tax evasion. If only there was something in all those Torah scrolls on the subject…
Not okay. Not even a little.
It gets even more disgusting when you realize that the reason why they’re desecrating our most holy artifacts is because they’ve figured out how to use them to perpetrate tax fraud. This is how the scam works:
A congregation owns a Sefer Torah. It is worth many thousands of dollars.
A rabbi examines the Sefer Torah and discovers that it contains one or more flaws which render it no longer kosher and it must be retired from use. However, because a damaged Sefer Torah likely contains individual panels that are still in good condition it can be dismantled and combined with other damaged sifrei in order to produce a new kosher scroll. Those panels make the entire scroll worth a couple of thousand dollars.
The congregation offers the damaged sefer up for sale with the expectation that the buyer will use it to produce a new Sefer Torah with the undamaged panels while properly laying to rest any panels that can no longer be used. Somehow one of these assholes buys it.
Said asshole donates it to one of these museums.
The museum then ‘appraises’ the scroll as if it were a kosher Sefer Torah worth tens of thousands of dollars. After all, who’s to say it isn’t, amirite?!
Said asshole deducts tens of thousands of dollars off of their taxes when they only paid one or two thousand dollars to buy the scroll.
So there you have it. Not only is the Sefer Torah deprived a respectful burial but a low-income congregation somewhere is deprived a Sefer Torah that they are able to afford. All so that some rich Christian asshole can scam the federal government out of a few thousand dollars.
I got some requests eons ago for resources to learn about antisemitism. Feel free to reblog or comment with more. My education was more formal, so these are resources that looked good, not necessarily where I learned.
ADL on Antisemitism – a pretty good historical overview of the history of Western antisemitism but doesn’t go into a ton of depth or talk much about modern antisemitism. Still a good place to start
– discussion of “American Jewish life during the rise of fascism, false equivalences between left-wing and right-wing anti-Semitism, and how anti-Muslim bigotry has become a shield for anti-Semites"
Jewish Virtual Library’s collection on Antisemitism – I haven’t read everything on here, but their content is always very good. I wouldn’t try navigating this without some background or a clear goal in mind. However, this list should be especially helpful if you’re looking for statistics & studies.
Hey, I can’t believe I need to say this while the Holocaust is still in LIVING MEMORY but Jews, including white Jews, are not “allies” in the fight against Nazis, and if you think they are and that Jewish concerns shouldn’t be centered at anti-Nazi rallies, you need to look up what a Nazi actually is.
Should I not? Do you actually think Haaretz is making this up?
so no Australian news outlet covered this ? besides im not taking any news that comes from tel aviv
I imagine AUSTRIAN news covered this but it would have been in German.
as an austrian I can confirm that this story isn’t made up we really have that many rightwingers and fascists
here are some austrian sources for anyone who’s interested
IKG (Viennese Jewish community) – basically confirms what’s above Wiener Zeitung – broke the story, provides notable quote from waldhäusl: “we aren’t here to make kosher-slaughtered meat available to the viennese”. they want to restrict the buying of kosher meat to people who can prove that they always eat only kosher (”because the right of free religious expression is only an individual one”) hence the registration, övp says registration won’t happen but they are more than willing to work with the fpö insofar as restricting kosher slaughter Kurier – basically a rehash of the WZ article Der Standard – a take that focuses more on politics, övp wants to “find a solution that does not upset the IKG’s concerns” but again they are totally down to restrict kosher slaughter, spö and liste pilz call them out for behaving in a nazi-like way. also notes that restricting kosher slaughter will have implications for the muslim community because halal meat
and yeah the fpö being founded by ex-nazis is not exactly a secret in austria and its members constantly land themselves in hot water because they’re always getting caught being antisemitic. the most recent big one that comes to mind is the burschenschaft scandal earlier this year (long story short, guy was in a nazi frat). not that austrian antisemitism is limited to the far right! but they seem to be the ones who flaunt it the most
Its awfully telling that you care more about a News article being from an Israeli paper than the Austrian government’s former Nazi members trying to recreate discriminatory policies and making registries.
“so no Australian news outlet covered this ? besides im not taking any news that comes from tel aviv”
1) Austrian, not Australian
2) Translation: “At least half of all the world’s Jews are sneaky liars.”
Anyone who sees news about a Freedom Party being deeply and terrifyingly antisemitic and reacts with scepticism is dangerously uninformed. Confirm what you read, sure, but the default reaction to accusations of antisemitism against neo-Nazis should be “oh shit”, not “weeelll maybe…”
Look, this is a bit embarrassing, but I’m afraid that I’m a fully-paid-up honest-to-goodness barmitzvahed-and-circumcised Jew myself. And while I would, of course, like sympathisers and money, I most certainly do not want yours.
Also, it’s spelled ‘voluntary’.
Wow.
Imagine thinking something like this How repulsive How awful to have to read it. Much better and calmer response than I would have had.
Serge and Beate Klarsfeld, two of Europe’s most famous Nazi hunters, are preparing to publish a memoir as they confront Europe’s rising anti-Semitism and xenophobia, the Washington Post reported.
Over five decades the Klarsfelds, who are married, have tracked Nazis from Paris, their home, to as far away as Syria and Bolivia. Their most famous catch, Klaus Barbie, called the Butcher of Lyon, was extradited to France after their extensive lobbying of the French government and convicted of crimes against humanity in 1991.
“All my troubles in the past started when Madame Klarsfeld came to Bolivia,” Barbie said when his trial began.
But now the couple fears that Europe is forgetting the memory of the Holocaust.
“The young today don’t know hunger. They don’t know war,” said Serge Klarsfeld, who is Jewish and whose father died in Auschwitz. “They don’t know that the European Union brought to Europe so much, and they don’t know that the generation that came before them worked so hard for what there is.”
They hope an English translation of their memoir, “Hunting the Truth,” will help change that. The story covers Serge’s memories of watching his father be taken away by the Gestapo, and Beate’s memories of her German Protestant upbringing, and her parents who she says “sleepwalked” through World War II.
The couple has been behind seminal moments in Holocaust awareness history, such as when Beate slapped the West German Chancellor Kurt Keieinger in 1968 for being a member of the Nazi party.
“We fight for values that we will defend the rest of our lives,” Serge said. “After we die, we can’t say what will happen.”
People adding Nazi apologist shit onto my posts like “but nazis invented cell phones and space rockets so without them we’d be less technologically advanced VuV” like buddy, if you think for one second we wouldn’t have eventually made it to the moon or made instant communication devices without mass genocide then I dunno what to tell you except to get the fuck away from me.
Your kind aren’t welcome here.
Also would I “trade” my cell phone for a world with no Nazis?
Are. You. Fucking. Kidding. Me?!?!
I’d trade my own life for a world without nazis. Fuck my phone. Fuck going to the moon. Human life should not be the cost of societal and technological progress.
What the fuck is wrong with you.
??? We’d have probably had cellphones sooner given the amount of inventors, theorists and artists the nazis killed. We’d have been to the moon sooner if we didn’t have segregation. God only knows where we’d be if women were given the opportunity to invent sooner. Disabled people come up with cool stuff too. It’s a whole new world of creation if you value human life equally!
*the sound of a thousand nuclear physicists laughing*
Buckle up kids, today we’re talking about why the Nazis never invented the atom bomb. We’re gonna do this
to white supremacist minds.
Ok. So the Nazis were all about physics … as long as it was with things you could see & touch. Rockets, improved motors, even radio tech (which gives tangible audio and/or visual results) were awesome and very good careers for good German boys.
Theoretical physics, on the other hand, was viewed as made-up Jewish bullshit. The German scientific old guard did NOT like little punks like Einstein. Who did they think they were, running around with their “time is relative” and “the interstellar ether doesn’t exist” and who the shit even cares what’s INSIDE an atom, Albert, it’s not like the INSIDE does anything. JESUS.
The Nazis saw modern physics as being the same thing as Freud’s psychology, Klimt’s modern art, and Kafka’s stories: a decadent waste of time, way too Jewish, and definitely not cool or manly. So to combat uncool Jewish science, pro-Nazi German scientists founded an actual movement– “Deutsche Physik/Aryan Physics”– all about real stuff like engines and bombs and it was gonna serve the SHIT out of the fatherland. No Jews allowed.
Every single one of them, and more, emigrated to the US in the 1930s. Jewish colleagues from Axis Italy, like Emilio Segrè and Enrico Fermi– aka the guy who built the world’s first nuclear reactor, and married to a Jewish woman– joined the brain drain as Europe hemorrhaged nuclear physicists right into America’s warm, heaving, bloodthirsty bosom.
*artist’s rendition
Albert Einstein’s application to become a US citizen. Dated Jan 18th, 1936.
Nationalist German scientists cheerfully joined the persecution of their Jewish colleagues, because Nazi scientists just really wanted Jewish physicists’ jobs. But the bummer was, the Nazi scientists couldn’t handle the mathematics that made relativity work. They were too dumb to do that science. Look– we’ve all been there. But the nationalist German scientists’ approach was– instead of leveling up their game, just discredit everything their rivals did. Declare it dumb, and made-up, and all the good parts of this stuff we just said was dumb and made-up were already invented by Aryans anyway, so why keep Jewish scientists around? Just forget about this atomic physics crap and keep giving us money to talk shit about Neptune, it’ll be great.
“Hahaha wut?” -Nazis
Eventually the Third Reich figured out that atom bombs were a thing and they should probably make one. They put Heisenberg– who, if you’ll recall, just had to have his mom call in an anti-bullying PSA to the Fuhrer’s secretary three short paragraphs ago– in charge. With every single other person who knew about nuclear fission having left Germany years ago, Heisenberg was pretty much on his own. The Nazi bomb project went nowhere.
A Nazi Germany with nuclear weapons would been able to do whatever the fuck they wanted.
The only thing that stood in their way? Their own. goddamn. antisemitism.
Director of Los Alamos weapons lab and Jewish American, J. Robert Oppenheimer, seen in profile as he oversees final assembly of the Trinity test bomb. Trinity was the first test detonation in the US nuclear weapons program. (x)
Is this a post in support of atom bombs? No.
This is a post about how being so high on your own inferiority complex that you’re down to murder people smarter than you, will fuck you in assholes you didn’t even know you had.
Thank you, Science Tumblr, for that deconstruction of Nazi bullshit.
This is excellent as is, but, I need to point out that the USA political situation is in many ways falling into this same hole now. We are becoming xenophobic and anti science at our top political level. The GOP is practically anti reality at this point. We need to fix this.
Holy shit, this is the best addition to any of my posts.
we really have that many rightwingers and fascists
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