dukepaaron

dukepaaron, 5 months ago to Israel

Oof. Brutal.

"I once found it meaningful when people set aside differences to build bridges towards positive change. It was not always easy to be in these spaces because of political or religious differences, sometimes related to #Israel/#Palestine, and sometimes because I was the only Orthodox #Jewish #woman in the room. But I really believed that the more diverse the coalition, the more likely we could reach success.

These days I’m so sad. Sad for the tremendous losses all around. And on a personal level, I’m also sad that I devoted so many years of my life to groups that don’t seem to care about me or my pain."

https://www.jta.org/2023/11/27/ideas/i-believed-diverse-coalitions-would-benefit-jewish-women-now-i-fear-we-were-all-alone

dukepaaron, 6 months ago to washington

Gooooo fuuuuuuck yoooourselves.

You can't possibly imagine desecrating a #synagogue in #Washington State is a legitimate target for something in Israel. You just hate #Jews.

"One of the largest #synagogues in #Seattle was defaced on Monday night with hateful anti-#Israel propaganda, the organization StandWithUs reported Wednesday, attaching a series of photos. The photos show spray paint graffiti with sentences such as "Shame on Israel," and "Stop killing."

https://m.jpost.com/diaspora/antisemitism/article-774664

dukepaaron, 4 months ago to random

I saw this weird lefty pro-Houthis post earlier today and I wrote and deleted a response like 3 times. In the end I didn't think it was worth it but pro-Houthis? What kind of first world anti-imperialist uber alles mindfuck do you have to come from for that?

Their motto is literally "God Is Great, Death to America, Death to Israel, Curse on the Jews, Victory to Islam" which is nutso.

Curse on the Jews ffs!

dukepaaron, 6 months ago to random

The Israel/Gaza fighting is a human tragedy.

I see a lot of people talking about it.

Some are expressing very real pain over the gruesome Oct 7 Hamas massacres. Some are expressing very real pain over the growing civilian deaths and displacement in Gaza from the Israeli bombing campaign. Some for both of course.

But most people who aren't personally connected to this tragedy (particularly Palestinians and Jews) are using it as a foil for their ideological team. Like grim, ghoulish cheerleaders.

For this last category, if you have no posts about the 9k dead and more than 5 million displaced in Sudan in the past few months (or any other similar tragic conflict happening in the world) I think you're either Islamophobic or antisemitic depending on the team you're rooting against.

And you should stfu.

dukepaaron, 5 months ago to Jewish

Can someone please explain this one to me?

"A "#Jewish and #Israeli owned falafel restaurant" in #Philadelphia cannot do a single thing about Israel's military campaign against #Hamas.

What you're looking at is people normalizing #antisemitic incitement against their Jewish neighbors."

https://www.rawstory.com/philadelphia-protesters-circle-jewish-chef-restaurant/

dukepaaron, 21 days ago to random

Go back to Poland, amirite?!?!

"The attack on the Nożyk #Synagogue happened around 1 a.m., the country’s American-born chief #rabbi, Michael Schudrich, said. The synagogue was hit with three #firebombs, or #Molotov cocktails, and only sustained minimal damage “by tremendous luck or miracle,” he said."

https://apnews.com/article/poland-synagogue-attacked-warsaw-jewish-firebomb-antisemitism-d51fa5305907bf10bbb7a1ecd02f126e

dukepaaron, 3 months ago to Jewish

I had no idea referring to the tentacles of the Jewish lobby might sound antisemitic! 😆

"The #NewSouthWales premier, Chris Minns, has warned parliamentarians about sowing division in the community after a #Greens MP apologised for referring to the “tentacles” of the “#Jewish lobby” and its influence across Australia.

The Newtown MP Jenny Leong said she did not intend to reference an antisemitic cartoon depicting #Jews as an octopus when she made the comments at the #Palestine Justice Movement forum in #Sydney in December, where the boycott movement against #Israel was being discussed."

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/feb/07/chris-minns-jenny-leong-antisemitic-trope-octupus-greens-mp

dukepaaron, 8 days ago to Israel

Hooboy... America is wild.

"In that interview Evans, when asked whether “#Jews stole the election,” responded, “it’s a good question to ask right now.”

When Peters asked if it’s “over the line to draw the conclusion that #Israel had a whole lot to do with Jan. 6,” Evans responded, “No, it’s not.”

https://jewishinsider.com/2024/05/west-virginia-derrick-evans-carol-miller-republican-primary-election/

dukepaaron, 6 months ago to random

Professor Refaat Alereer. One of the UPenn panelists from the totally not antisemitic conference.

dukepaaron, 3 months ago to random

Important lesson for the Fediverse:

The Israeli govt sucks. Not antisemitic.

The Israeli govt covertly controls the US. Antisemitic.

This isn't difficult.

dukepaaron, 6 months ago to Israel

"Lists of such businesses are being circulated on social media, mostly on TikTok, urging people to #boycott restaurants and other establishments that are owned by #Jews or that are deemed to be supportive of the #Israeli government in its war against #Hamas in #Gaza. But protesters are not simply boycotting businesses; some are visiting them and vandalizing company property.

The owner of a chain of local coffee shops told the Montreal Gazette that “last weekend, they put #swastikas on the … menus downtown and they wrote F— THE JEWS.”

https://montrealgazette.com/news/local-news/jewish-owned-businesses-in-montreal-targeted-with-antisemitic-profanity

dukepaaron, 4 months ago to UnitedKingdom

"Stephen Fry issued a heartfelt #Christmas message Monday, calling out the surge in #antisemitism in the #UnitedKingdom and encouraging the country’s #Jews to take pride in their heritage — and swiftly sparked a torrent of online trolling and backlash, with many accusing the actor and writer of playing the victim instead of shining light on the plight of #Palestinians in war-torn #Gaza."

Fry is figuring out he should have kept it a secret. Sorry bud. Welcome to the thunderdome.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/stephen-fry-decries-antisemitism-in-christmas-video-is-pilloried-online/

dukepaaron, 1 month ago to random

In the ideological sphere of US non-Jews the rightwing declares Jews are bad if they are not sufficiently loyal to Israel.

In the ideological sphere of US non-Jews the leftwing declares Jews are bad if they are not sufficiently disloyal to Israel.

Both of these ideological positions posit US Jews as something other than Americans.

You either have to prove or disprove the dual loyalty accusations of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion to be accepted depending on the politics of the civic gatekeeper.

It would be cool if everyone just fucked right off instead.

dukepaaron, 4 months ago to random

Ireland Evergreen Post

dukepaaron, 3 months ago to random

<the western 'anti-imperialist' crowd ducks>

"A court of the #Iranian-backed #Houthis in #Yemen has sentenced 13 people to public #execution on #homosexuality charges, the French wire service AFP reported on Tuesday. Another 35 people have been detained for similar charges."

https://m.jpost.com/middle-east/article-785766

dukepaaron, 3 months ago to Israel

"These demonstrators, in choosing to stage their protest in front of the United States #Holocaust Memorial Museum, an area of the city with no ties to the US military, #Israel, #Yemen, or the #Palestinian people, chose to make their protest about #Jews," stated Roytman."

https://m.jpost.com/diaspora/antisemitism/article-784834

dukepaaron, 3 months ago to Israel

E. Michael Jones, next on newsies dot something.

“[#Jews] have always been involved in pornography as a way of gaining control over the population where they’re always a minority,” Jones said in the interview. “The Jews know this, and they have spent their entire time here in the United States of America undermining the moral fabric of the American people.”

Whitlock replied, “I get it, and I can’t say that I disagree.”

Jones said the public needs to identify the “457 Jews who are running the Biden administration,” and “hold them accountable.” He also said that “[Jews] created this plantation for Black people known as sexual liberation.”

https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2024/01/anti-lgbtq-broadcaster-agrees-jews-are-using-black-people-to-ruin-america/

dukepaaron, 5 months ago to Jewish

Remember kids, it's not antisemitic to create a climate of fear and intimidation for all of those kikes I mean Jews I mean zionists involved in the checks notes Richmond Jewish Food Festival.

"The annual #Richmond #Jewish Food Festival has been postponed indefinitely over what organizers call a "volatile climate" of #antisemitism surrounding the war between #Israel and #Hamas.

Rabbi Dovid Asher, director of Keneseth Beth Israel — a "center of traditional #Torah #Judaism in Richmond" that puts on the yearly event — cited a rise in #antisemitic threats and the prohibitive costs of security as the war in #Gaza enters its 42nd week."

https://richmond.com/news/local/richmond-jewish-food-festival-postponed-over-security-risks-israel-hamas-war/article_4f473c38-9e70-11ee-b702-cf21f0b84574.html

dukepaaron, 4 months ago to Israel

🖕🖕🖕

"A recent study has uncovered an 1800% increase in global Google searches for the term "kill #Jews," highlighting a severe and growing trend in #antisemitic sentiments.

https://m.jpost.com/diaspora/antisemitism/article-779937

dukepaaron, 4 months ago to random

<Circus music plays Jewishly>

dukepaaron, 9 days ago to Israel

"With over 40,000 #Jews in #Mexico City, hailing from all different parts of the world, their culture and food is a beautiful mix of homely #Jewish cooking and authentic #Mexican #cuisine. It's this very blend that’s brought award-winning entertainer, television personality, and social media star, Eitan Bernath to unearth Mexico's hidden Jewish #culinary history.

Mexico City in many ways is a perfect microcosm of this diasporic history, with a Jewish population that spans #Ashkenazi, #Sephardi, and #Mizrachi #food stories all beautifully melding with traditional Mexican flavors."

https://aish.com/exploring-the-jewish-culinary-world-of-mexico-city-with-eitan-bernath/

dukepaaron, 1 month ago to random

There's an interesting thing I notice. A lot of times I see post on fedi that say "I'm not antisemitic a lot of Jews agree with me" or similar.

Here's the thing though, if you need to invoke the jews because you think you sound antisemitic the intent behind whatever you're saying is probably coming from a different place than your tokenized Jews. And you are antisemitic.

Even if we agree.

1/2

dukepaaron, 4 months ago to Toronto

"Police and public officials have been remarkably tolerant of the demonstrators who have periodically occupied Avenue Road at Highway 401 in #Toronto to protest the #Israeli government’s attacks in #Gaza against #Hamas.

They weren’t protesting in front of the Israeli consulate, some nine kilometres to the south, or at a familiar gathering place such as Nathan Phillips Square at City Hall. They chose to make themselves seen and heard in a prominent #Jewish - #Canadian neighbourhood.

This is not protest. This is intimidation.

There is a video circulating on X, the former Twitter, in which a woman at what appears to be the Avenue Road protest tells Jews to “go back to Poland, go back to Russia, go back to Ukraine.” Others offer similar remarks. This is not free speech. This is hate speech.

Someone vandalized and set fire to a Jewish delicatessen in Toronto on Wednesday. This is not just a crime. This is a hate crime."

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/editorials/article-when-protests-become-acts-of-intimidation/

dukepaaron, 4 months ago to random

"#Tunisian President Kais Saied has a history of #antisemitic statements, going as far as to claim that Cyclone Daniel, which devastated Libya and other Mediterranean countries between September 4 and 12, was the product of #Zionist influence."

🌪🌪🌪🌪🌪🌪🌪🌪🌪🌪🌪🌪🌪🌪

https://www.timesofisrael.com/targeted-again-after-oct-7-tunisias-small-jewish-community-wonders-what-future-it-has/