"The #Catskills became famous for its #Jewish resorts, popular in the early to mid-20th century. But such enclaves formed out of necessity, with #antisemitism widespread and millions of Ku Klux Klan members nationwide. And it all started with a book: the Jewish Vacation Guide, which cataloged where #Jews would be safe, well-fed and entertained. It also inspired the Green Book, a widely used guide for Black travelers.
There's a Torah burning in Sweden, but I haven't seen or heard one Jew saying that Swedes around the world need to publicly condemn this.
Yet it's quite common for me to see calls for Jews (not just Israelis, but all Jews) to be told that antisemitism is because of Israel, or just... because Jews are Jews, just like this radio interviewer did in Sweden:
A school board in a small Michigan town near me just voted to close a free children's health clinic over a mural with #transgender and #LGBTQ colors. The board implicitly endorsed charges of #Satanism rooted in #Antisemitism and #Islamophobia.
Then, in a shocking move, the town roared its disapproval! Is this an inflection point. I don't know, but click for details and my analysis. 👇
Wow, just twitter? Because from what I've read there and elsewhere, I'm gonna guess a poll could show similar numbers on progressive platforms given the survey question: "Who do you hate more"
a) Richard Nixon
b) Henry Kissinger
Putin has been eager to retain the support of the Russian far-right — and antisemitism has been weaponised to further this agenda, writes Colin Shindler
I really hope the #fediverse doesn't pre-emptively defederate and/or block #Threads from joining the fun when it finally enables #ActivityPub features.
Getting a mainstream audience onboarded will surely stress systems, but it will also spur growth and innovation to deal with the new scale.
Apologies and #museums are nice, but action and education are part of proper restitution:
“We don’t just want it as a museum,” Prinsely told the Jewish Chronicle about the community’s bid for Jurnet’s House. “It could also house an institute for the study of #antisemitism"
I don't know who is this lady, but that it was sarcasm doesn't seem to me a valide argument. And that she identify herself als Jewish doesn't made things better. #antisemitism
Bias incidents against #LGBTQIA+ people occur at four times the rate of all other hate crimes, according to newly released data from the #Texas Department of Public Safety.
If a journalist ever properly wrote about the #antisemitism that's rampant across the #fediverse I'm not sure the network would respond in anything approaching a productive attitude.
#arabjews#israel#germany#islamophobia#antisemitism I'm not a big #poetry person myself (over my head most of the time 🙃) but I enjoy reading Mati Shemoelof's poetry and essays. He self identifies as an Arab-Jew writer, poet, activist, author, and editor.
He was born and raised in Haifa, Israel, but for a while now based in #Berlin. As he is very prolific, I guess I can't really label him, but one theme that caught my eye on his personal site was what he calls "hybrid identities" https://mati-s.com
This is from a piece he wrote for Haaretz (somewhat ironic, since Haaretz, before it became a "liberal" and "progressive" daily newspaper, was really anything but... especially in its strong bias against Arab-Jews, which its editors now over-compensating for).
The demand for full assimilation has always scared me. I’ve never had a talent for mastering other languages, and my writing talent has been my saving grace, allowing me to invent my own syntax in different forms of the art of writing. When I immigrated to Berlin, I knew that I wouldn’t abandon my beloved #Hebrew language, and in 2019 I published my first bilingual poetry book, “Baghdad | Haifa | Berlin.” It was one of the first books published after the #Holocaust to be written by a non-Ashkenazi Hebrew writer living in Berlin.
@louis already told you in private how sorry I am you had to waste your time on this. Honestly, I apologize on behalf of the Jewish people (at least that part who doesn't reside in Brooklyn). This onslaught of lies, inaccuracies, hyperbole, omission of facts (did the 3 recover the toots they've deleted?), is soooooo familiar to me as an Israeli (we've been living with this American import to the occupied territories for years, see for example https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilltop_Youth).
The irony is of course that I'm Israeli, and they're not (I'm not even sure if they speak Hebrew). But please bear in mind, this has nothing to do with #antisemitism, it's about politics and an attempt to block any voice outside the narrative acceptable by this group (again, they're not Israeli... I am).
It's also hypocritical that a complaint to the moderator about the dissemination of #Islamophobic content tooted by @baruch and boosted by @serge (aka @emacsen) goes unaddressed. Why? I don't see that toot on Baruch's timeline. Might be wrong, but was it removed? I repeat, it was boosted by Serge.
Stop the witch-hunt against vaccinologist Peter Hotez!
Fight for Free Speech and truth in science!
Fascists stalked Hotez at his home on Sunday. He regularly receives antisemitic and antivax death threats. He is publicly vilified by Steve Bannan, Joe Rogan, Elon Musk & RFK Jr.
Why?
*Led efforts to develop a low-cost, patent-free vaccine for COVID-19.
*Public opposes right-wing pseudoscience.
*Calls proponents of anti-vax propaganda neo-fascists
I'm always on the lookout for stories about #Khazars, regarding either the #medieval#Jewish empire (in what was today's Ukraine & southern Russia) or contemporary #antisemitism
But because the late Bob Lee unwisely chose to hook up with Khazar Elyassnia, the murder case has been flooding my timeline
Fortunately (for my research, at least) the haters & nutjobs are still out there, if one is but patient & knows where to loo.
There & in the pointedly entitled, "When Europeans Became Semites" (https://english.almayadeen.net/articles/blog/when-europeans-became-semites), Kanj cites the favored sources of support for the #Khazar hypothesis: Shlomo Sand's 2008 The Invention of the Jewish People & Eran Elhaik's 2012 genetic study (earlier it was: Arthur Koestler's The 13th Tribe: The Khazar Empire & its Heritage; 1976). All are legitimate but deeply flawed works of scholarship, whose conclusions the academic community has resolutely rejected.
Accused men discussed attack on Jewish community offices and mosques in group chat named Operation WaffenKraft, in a nod to Nazi Waffen-SS military branch
Punko’s #Haikoot Thread.
Experiment: Going to post and collect my #Haikoots here, in a thread that I will build upon by responding to this initial post.
I will be reaching back into my collection and reposting #Haiku I am fond of that were flushed with the #TooterRooter as well as new material.
Opinion: 500 days of the Ukraine war – and scapegoating (www.jewishnews.co.uk)
Putin has been eager to retain the support of the Russian far-right — and antisemitism has been weaponised to further this agenda, writes Colin Shindler
The British town where the antisemitic blood libel theory was born could get a Jewish heritage center - Jewish Telegraphic Agency (www.jta.org)
Local Jews in Norwich are considering leasing Jurnet's House, built by a Jewish moneylender in the 12th century, for the new institution.
Putin Opening Way For Anti-Semitic Campaign In Russia (www.eurasiareview.com)
Four far-right suspects on trial in France for terror plot targeting Jewish sites (www.timesofisrael.com)
Accused men discussed attack on Jewish community offices and mosques in group chat named Operation WaffenKraft, in a nod to Nazi Waffen-SS military branch