Tag: antisemitism

workingclasshistory:

On this day, 22 May 1920, the anti-Semitic hoax document the Protocols of the Elders of Zion was printed by auto industry mogul Henry Ford in the Dearborn Independent, inaugurating a policy of anti-semitism in that paper. The paper was sold in all Ford outlets, and had a circulation of 700,000. For his efforts, Henry Ford was later presented with the Grand Cross Of the Supreme Order of the German Eagle by Adolf Hitler, the highest Nazi order which could be awarded to a non-German. More info about Ford and other big corporations helping the Nazis in this excellent article: https://ift.tt/20t0EmY https://ift.tt/2s33CFv

Source: workingclasshistory

jewish-education:

behirahbee:

listen up, goyim, because i’m gonna say this once and once only.

antisemitism is a form of oppression, but it relies on a different mindset. it is a different ballgame than ANY sort of prejudice you know. yknow why? because to antisemities, jews aren’t lesser (well, we are, but that’s not the important thing). we’re successful.

that’s the kicker.

antisemities WANT you to believe that jews are doing well, because if we’re doing well, we’re not REALLY being persecuted. it all goes back to the protocols of the elders of zion: the jews are taking over. the jews are a threat. therefore, if they’re a threat, it’s only right to kill them. it’s only right to ghettoize them. it’s only right to have exterminated 40% of the world’s jewish population in the 40s.

nevermind the fact that antisemitism makes up nearly 50% of all religious hate crimes in the us. nevermind the fact that jews make up less than 2% of the world’s population. nevermind the fact that jews, historically, have been scapegoated and killed and othered for literal millenia. i mean, who cares, because jews are rich and powerful, right?

don’t fall for it. don’t fall for the centuries-old claim that jews are just faking it. listen to us. support us.

and the next time you brush off antisemitism because ”oh, it’s not a big deal, jews are successful”, take a good hard look at yourself and realize that you’re spouting the same nazi propaganda that killed six million people.

Also because we aren’t successful…time for some fun data:

Ways to help are under the cut.

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lumaterian:

tikkunolamorgtfo:

bellaxiao:

Fascinating how white liberals and white supremacists get along perfectly 

Excuse me, but I’d really like to fucking know why somebody felt the need to put a June 2017 timestamp on a November 2016 photo taken of a Jewish journalist who was not only assigned to interview Spencer for her election night coverage article, but was also racially and sexually harassed by him during said interview: 

“I feel like this is an inquisition”—when he refused to say whether Hitler was good or bad—“he’s an important historical figure”—or whether the Holocaust was good or bad, said that the anti-Semitic alt-right trolls haranguing me and other Jewish journalists were “just kids having fun,” and when he slid his finger down the back of my dress and said, “You have a slit here.” Surprised at my request not to touch me, he asked me to “calm down.”

I’d like to know why somebody thought it would be funny to take a photo of a Jewish woman who immigrated to this country as a refugee, misrepresent its context, gloss over the harassment she endured, and then compare her, a victim of white supremacy, to a fucking white supremacist. 

Because I know people took Trevor Noah to task for hanging out with Tomi Lahren, but I don’t think anyone compared him to a white girl with friends in the KKK, so…

this screencap is making the rounds on twitter tonight, so just want to remind everyone of this.

(also, fun note! the op is one of the russian gov accts)

Source: twitter.com

kankurette:

thecoppercow:

coneshotline:

wow looking forward to the #discourse next year

It’s already started! Not 5 minutes after she won, the usual antisemitic (mainly leftwing corbynite, some rightwing fash-y, ofc, in case you wondered) types have come crawling out of the woodwork to cry about how “Israel shouldn’t exist as a country, yadda yadda, surely this is the one country to have ever had a fractious domestic political system, how could the european public vote to crown a …you know. You know what she is. Jewish– no wait I meant Zionist. That’ll cover it. I’m totally motivated by care for random Palestinians and not because I’m a giant piece of trash. Israel’s not even in Europe* anyway.”

If I wasn’t already supporting her because of her song, I’d be supporting her out of spite because it’s upset the racists…

*(The answer to the last question is – because if you knew your Eurovision history you’d know it was because Israel is a founder member of the EBU, you fake Eurovision fans.)

Yeah, if I had a quid for every time I saw ‘butbutbut Israel isn’t in Europe!’ I’d be loaded. Oddly enough, no-one says this about Turkey, Georgia, Armenia or Azerbaijan.

Also: it begins.

Federal magistrate judge recommends ruling against neo-Nazi’s motion to dismiss SPLC case

bi-boomer:

The Daily Stormer, which takes its name from the Nazi propaganda sheet Der Stürmer, is
the leading extremist web forum in the country. It also promoted the
deadly “Unite the Right” white supremacist rally in Charlottesville,
Virginia, last August.

‘Let’s Hit Em Up’

The terror campaign began in December 2016 after Anglin accused Gersh
of attempting to extort money from the mother of white nationalist
leader Richard Spencer. Gersh had offered to help the woman sell a
building in Whitefish after residents of the town planned a
demonstration there to protest Spencer’s activities. Anglin and Spencer
are both prominent leaders of the “alt-right” movement.

“Tell them you are sickened by their Jew agenda,” Anglin wrote under
the headline “Jews Targeting Richard Spencer’s Mother for Harassment and
Extortion – TAKE ACTION!” The post included Gersh’s contact
information. It also included photographs of Gersh, her husband and son.
One was altered to include a yellow Star of David with the label “Jude”
– an allusion to the emblem the Nazi regime required Jews to wear
during World War II.

Anglin launched his campaign with these words: “Let’s Hit Em Up. Are
y’all ready for an old fashioned Troll Storm? Because AYO – it’s that
time, fam.”

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Federal magistrate judge recommends ruling against neo-Nazi’s motion to dismiss SPLC case

1946 U.S. document reveals Poles treated Jews as badly as Germans did

orevet:

littlegoythings:

A declassified US State Department report from 1946 documented the abhorrent treatment of Poland’s Jews before, during and after World War II. The report equated Polish and Nazi treatment of the Jewish population and said many Jews preferred to flee, even to Germany, after the war.

The document, titled “The Jews in Poland Since the Liberation,” was obtained by the Simon Wiesenthal Center and shown exclusively to The Jerusalem Post on Wednesday, the same day a Polish governmental delegation arrived in Israel to discuss Warsaw’s contentious “Holocaust law,” which has caused a diplomatic crisis between the two countries.

“There is little doubt that the current anti-Jewish manifestations in Poland represent a continuation of activities by rightwing groups that were at work before 1939, when even major political parties had antisemitic programs,” the report said. “In other words, there is not much that is essentially new or different in the current antisemitic agitation.

However, the antisemitic overtones in prewar Polish politics predisposed many Poles to the acceptance of Nazi racial theories, and there is evidence that Poles persecuted the Jews as vigorously as did the Germans during the occupation. The retreating Nazis, moreover, left in their wake a heavy residue of their racial theories.

Even before the liberation of Poland, antisemitic propaganda emerged in Polish émigré circles.”The Intelligence Research report, dated May 15, 1946, was distributed by the US Office of Intelligence Coordination and Liaison as a restricted document.

1946 U.S. document reveals Poles treated Jews as badly as Germans did

Hey I have a question… Why are messianics shat on so much on jumblr lol? Like I understand if messianics aren’t either ethnic or converted Jews. But if they are either, why’s it our place to ridicule and denounce them? Yes, from us non-jesus believers they’re wrong, and we don’t want to be proselytised by them, but I don’t really get why they’re any different from, say, atheist Jews or any Jew who doesn’t always do the right thing, which is everyone…

naomiandruth:

janothar:

keshetchai:

because messianics are christian evangelicals who believe if they  can convert all the jews then they can bring about the end times. 

Basically um…when I see people not understand or take messianics serious as an issue, I figure that is because they are deeply unfamiliar with fundamentalist and evangelical christianity. So to explain a little bit, you have to know that the modern messianic movement is from the 60′s and 70′s and was created mostly by fundie evangelicals. 

I’m not sure I could tl;dr what is mostly American Fundie Evangelicals to you very well, but let me summarize a few key points, because it explains why Messianics are so horrible and also why you can’t trust an evangelical “pro-Israel” movement farther than you can throw one of their tacky precious moments statues:

  • Lots of Christians believe that a mass-conversion of Jews to Christianity will help signify or kick-start the end times. 
  • Martin Luther is actually pretty well known for being initially super enthusiastic that all the Jews would convert because of how awesome Protestantism gospel was. Except, of course, all the Jews did not convert, and then he wrote a book called On Jews and Their Lies, because he’s a raging antisemite.

     [Sidebar: Muhammad tried to get the Jews to convert too, and there was the whole, “Look, see? We also pray facing towards Jerusalem!” and the Jews said “That’s nice, we’re Jews. Also we don’t do prophets anymore.” And then Muhammad got a nice revelation saying he didn’t have to pray towards that Jewish city anymore anyways.] 

  • anyways lots of christians think if all the jews convert and live in Israel then the literal end of the world will happen and that’s good because after the hellfire and antichrist, they’ll get to “yay jesus.” any bloodshed and general horrors that happen in the meantime are a sign of the end times coming faster! 
  • also if you DON’T convert, you’ll be wiped out and sent to hell 

literally: 

Sean Illing

I don’t fully understand why evangelical Christians are so supportive of Israel. Can you walk me through it?

Elizabeth Oldmixon

First, we should remember that “evangelical” is a really broad term. In a most general sense, evangelicals are people who believe in the absolute authority of the Bible, in salvation through Jesus, and in the need to spread the gospel. People who identify as evangelicals internalize those three things to different levels, and so in the same way we talk about cultural Catholics, we can also talk about cultural evangelicals.

So I would really focus here on a subset of the evangelical community for whom the status of Israel is really, really important because of the way they understand the end of time.

Sean Illing

And how large is that subset?

Elizabeth Oldmixon

Roughly a third of the American evangelical population, which is something like 15 million people.

Sean Illing

Why are these evangelicals so interested in the fate of Israel?

Elizabeth Oldmixon

These are the folks who believe that there will be a millennium in the future, a golden age, where Christ reigns on Earth, [and] they believe that before Christ will return, there will be a tribulation where Christ defeats evil. There will be natural disasters and wars, and perhaps an Antichrist, as the book of Revelations notes. Then at the end of that period, the people of the Mosaic covenant, including the Jews, will convert. Then after their conversion, the great millennium starts.

Sean Illing

And what about the people who don’t convert? What becomes of them?

Elizabeth Oldmixon

Well, according to the evangelicals who believe this, they’ll end up with the rest of the unsaved, which means they’ll be wiped out and sent to hell.

tl;dr: messianic christians want to see the end of the world and the destruction of all of judaism outside of “acceptable believers in Jesus” and so purport cultural genocide, meanwhile an atheist jew davens next to me in synagogue,  is a real mensch, did nothing wrong.  

To understand scale and how bad this is for Jews, that 15 million Evangelicals who are hardcore into this stuff? That’s about as many Jews as there are ON EARTH. More than twice the number of Jews in the US.

And this is why as a general rule I consider any sect that is evangelical, at all, period, and that prioritizes proselytizing is inherently dangerous and suspect.

(No matter the religious background of it, to be honest. Proselytizing inherently implies you think your message is More Correct than everyone else’s and therefore should be Obviously Appealing to All. This makes for very unhappy people when you tell them “no” and a very not-fun conversation.)

themiscyra1983:

poledancingghostson:

In case you still needed proof that our president is anti-Semitic

Whether Trump ACTUALLY knows it or not, it is really not an accident that he’s using anti-Semitic rhetoric. Look at the people he’s surrounded himself with, look at the rhetoric they use, look at how he parrots it.

There are two lines of thinking here: either Trump is anti-Semitic HIMSELF, or it is INCREDIBLY easy to get him to adopt the rhetoric and tactics of total bigots because he’s a useful idiot and they give him the praise and attention he craves. I can’t exactly say either option is a great one.

Source: poledancingghostson