Antisemitism
Antisemitism – the desire to diminish, blame or hurt Jews – has never really gone away, although it has gone underground for longish periods, as it did once people grasped the horrors of the Nazi holocaust.
Lately, however, I’m seeing more and more of it. I’ve particularly seen it targeted to libertarian, ancap and other pro-freedom movements. Whether this is simple opportunism or whether some group is sponsoring it, I can’t tell. But I am seeing it a lot, and I feel a need to respond.
So I’m going to tell you how to recognize antisemitism, and all it requires is that you hold one fact in mind:
Antisemitism is an obsession.
There are other ways to recognize it, of course, but this the best tell I know.
The promoter of antisemitism needs to talk about Jews. He or she (usually a he) will jump at even half-opportunities to do so. He’s also likely to cultivate a set of “facts,” ready to go at a moment’s notice.
Such a person will ignore correction. You can stand up and say, “I’m a Jew and I’ve never heard that,” but they’ll continue telling everyone they can “what really goes on in synagogues.” And if you don’t go away at that point, they’ll pull out some dubious statement from a supposed Jewish holy book, saying that we’re supposed to lie… that we are forced to practice lying. After that, they can brand you as a purposeful deceiver and claim victory.
There are sets of quotations going around that I call “the stupidest things ever said by a Jew.” These are treated seriously, as if all of us secretly believe such stupidities. And again, it matters not whether any actual Jews have ever heard those things, much less agreed with them.
There are also many slogans. Some take a “We’re not really antisemites,” tack, as with, “It’s not Jews, it’s Zionists,” or, “They’re not Jews, they’re Khazars.” And there’s always the classic: “A secret group of Jews is running the world.”
Even when such people can’t outright say “the Jews,” they’ll use code words: “the Chosen,” “the Tribe,” and whatever the newest ones may be.
As for the new version of antisemitism, I can tell you only what I’m seeing. (Note: I do not use Twitter, Facebook or the others.) And what I’m seeing is a version of the old “world-ruling conspiracy,” mixed with some horrifying stories of child abuse and Satanism. Filthy stuff… “need a shower after listening” stuff.
And so, there you have it. It’s here, it’s ugly, it’s making the rounds, and I hope I’ve helped you to recognize it.
Finally, please remember that the ultimate solution is to love one another. All else is distraction, decline and darkness.
Paul Rosenberg
- Abe Greenwald, The ‘Hyper-Whitening’ of the Jews
https://twitter.com/IzaTabaro/status/1666289642398703616
https://www.algemeiner.com/2023/06/18/how-antisemitism-in-arab-media-infiltrates-the-west/
https://twitter.com/em_eisenberg/status/1671825511947935744
- https://twitter.com/adammaanit/status/1733124066163167576 You can't even call to blow up a venue full of Jews without being called antisemitic these days...
Europe
USA
https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/antisemitism/article-747439
https://twitter.com/CombatASemitism/status/1672980389793521664
Brooklyn
https://x.com/NiohBerg/status/1852014083656053103
France
https://x.com/HenMazzig/status/1851633306942546157
Universities
https://twitter.com/StopAntisemites/status/1716994962703724728
https://twitter.com/visegrad24/status/1723616350315094403
Harvard
https://twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1719908598438834479
GWU
https://nypost.com/2023/12/10/news/gwu-med-faculty-panel-defended-hamas-right-of-resistance/
University of Utah
https://twitter.com/PhilWMagness/status/1734926164425064577
UK
London
https://twitter.com/hurryupharry/status/1715761432359301204
https://twitter.com/metpoliceuk/status/1715767952539103408
https://twitter.com/SirJamesNiner/status/1715863971876475084
https://twitter.com/HenMazzig/status/1715773676899926106
https://twitter.com/hearnimator/status/1715777012806127629
Met Police
https://twitter.com/hearnimator/status/1715777012806127629
You have to understand that police are busy. Busy explaining why Jihad doesn’t mean Jihad, why calling for genocide isn’t calling for genocide and how Jihadist flags aren’t jihadist flags.
Poland
https://www.dw.com/en/poland-marks-50-years-since-1968-anti-semitic-purge/a-42877652
https://twitter.com/SirJamesNiner/status/1715863971876475084
https://twitter.com/visegrad24/status/1715793610195534306
Spain
https://twitter.com/visegrad24/status/1715761963655999602
Soviet colonies
Scotland
Arab
https://twitter.com/baum_p/status/1672704800587227146
Jerusalem
https://twitter.com/azoury_ayelet/status/1672948471836430336
Palestine
https://twitter.com/israel_advocacy/status/1682290055946158081
Antisemitism
https://twitter.com/BNONews/status/1711532849571197179
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/timmerman-disinformation
tearing down posters of kidnapped children
https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1715395039348539836
https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=24191
https://twitter.com/search?q=tear%20down%20missing&src=typed_query
https://twitter.com/DaveAtherton20/status/1712552261816300002
https://twitter.com/antisemitism/status/1714239017850491301
https://twitter.com/StopAntisemites/status/1715149381425348756
https://twitter.com/EylonALevy/status/1712529800022106310
https://twitter.com/ItamarOfner/status/1715067408656842881
https://twitter.com/canarymission/status/1715364832227041311
https://canarymission.org/individual/Aleela_Taylor
https://twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1716487505225175165
https://twitter.com/visegrad24/status/1716576755983556942
https://twitter.com/StopAntisemites/status/1715932770302562582
https://twitter.com/StopAntisemites/status/1716459344085098873
https://twitter.com/CAMERAonCampus/status/1716522704453484950
https://twitter.com/StopAntisemites/status/1716829309766353075
https://twitter.com/AntisemitismCA/status/1717196774236971283
https://twitter.com/visegrad24/status/1718108525279281537
https://twitter.com/visegrad24/status/1718391672575283458
https://twitter.com/yaelbt/status/1718622827509633143
https://twitter.com/StopAntisemites/status/1718671318692790510
https://twitter.com/visegrad24/status/1719037185784008736
https://twitter.com/StopAntisemites/status/1719150626729250959
https://twitter.com/visegrad24/status/1719164582587961488
https://twitter.com/StopAntisemites/status/1719192853803409761
https://twitter.com/HaMeturgeman/status/1719321191821742274
https://twitter.com/StopAntisemites/status/1719332230734979191
police
https://twitter.com/adammaanit/status/1719112279516410149
https://twitter.com/sumlenny/status/1719354614967947687
https://news.met.police.uk/news/statement-on-met-officers-removing-posters-in-edgware-474515
https://twitter.com/GileadIni/status/1719426722418839568
https://twitter.com/visegrad24/status/1719448965416923349
https://twitter.com/nickjr001/status/1718375009641763309
https://twitter.com/DYShor/status/1717941165520007471
https://twitter.com/StopAntisemites/status/1720176653987651775
https://twitter.com/StopAntisemites/status/1720823507511063014
https://twitter.com/skjask/status/1720859456525758848
https://twitter.com/canarymission/status/1721958193507565773
https://twitter.com/visegrad24/status/1721918737161285918
https://twitter.com/canarymission/status/1721943094227013901
https://twitter.com/YossiGoldstein8/status/1721985730883272810
arrests
https://twitter.com/AdamAlbilya/status/1722459805032296733
https://twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1723014285729661034
https://twitter.com/visegrad24/status/1723813749167968379 NYU professor
"keep the world clean" antisemitic poster
https://twitter.com/daverich1/status/1715785882974777820
https://twitter.com/visegrad24/status/1715792860241363377
https://twitter.com/visegrad24/status/1715793610195534306
https://twitter.com/visegrad24/status/1716143726358061310
https://twitter.com/StopAntisemites/status/1717230780751950164
https://twitter.com/IsraelWarRoom/status/1724078230552912213
Canada
https://twitter.com/AntisemitismCA/status/1715870414616887788
https://twitter.com/AntisemitismCA/status/1716164454482665895
https://twitter.com/AntisemitismCA/status/1716601071747871085
https://twitter.com/GadSaad/status/1715835902646186311
I've often explained that many phenomena involve only three possible outcomes. For example, on any given day, your weight can either increase, stay exactly the same, or decrease. There are no other possibilities.
Now on October 7, 2023, 1,400+ innocent Israelis were slaughtered and raped in astoundingly brutal ways. Many of the victims were children, women, the elderly, etc. Now you would think that this is one reality that would absolutely unite all decent people in their collective revulsion. Hence, subsequent to the October 7 massacre of 1,400+ innocent Jews, the world could either see an increase of Jew-hatred, no change in Jew-hatred, or a decrease of Jew-hatred.
Based on all that we've seen, there has been a marked INCREASE of Jew-hatred when 1,400+ Jews were massacred. That's what genocidal Jew-hatred looks like. Jews do not have the right to be dignified even in their deaths. Even their slaughter needs to be sullied. Jew-hatred is a stain on the human spirit. It is all-consuming; eternal; hysterical; diabolical. This does not mean that there isn't hatred targeting other groups. But there is no greater cancer of the human spirit than Jew-hatred. There is no hatred that is more self-definitional than Jew-hatred. There is no hatred on which people organize their entire societies than Jew-hatred. Never again is happening again.
https://twitter.com/Anthony__Koch/status/1722337933670162752
https://twitter.com/wesyang/status/1722711549867909151
russia
https://twitter.com/ManiacMagic1/status/1718472730977181862
France
https://www.politico.eu/article/french-jew-live-fear-antisemitism-hamas-attack/
https://twitter.com/HenMazzig/status/1719407466809548913
Australia
UN
https://twitter.com/DrewPavlou/status/1724338293859578205
Iraq
Iran
dhimmitude
https://twitter.com/CptAllenHistory/status/1706882994017882596
One often overlooked aspect of the #Arab/#Israeli conflict is what #British Vice Consul in Mosul H.E.W. Young called in 1909 a “culture of #dhimmitude,” which he described as #Muslims looking at #Jews in a “master/slave sort of way” where Jews lived “at the whims of [their] Muslim overlords” and “tolerance” only existed to the extent Jews “kept their place.”
The very idea of Arab Muslims living in a “#Jewish State,” therefore, was ornithologically shocking to Arab Muslims who had been looking down on their subordinate Jewish neighbors as something more akin to #Muslim property for centuries.
In the eyes of a Muslim, Jews were simply not a people capable of or worthy of being rulers, but only capable of or worthy of being ruled by Muslims.
After all, how could those who rejected #Muhammad rule over those who accepted Muhammed and lived by his teachings?
Jews’ rejection of Muhammad automatically made “Jews” synonymous with “#infidels,” and required any Jews living in Muslim lands to openly acknowledge the superiority of Muslims in all ways and at all times.
In fact, history shows that any time Jews started gaining something even close to “#equality” with Muslims while living in Arab or #Islamic lands, the Jewish communities were repressed, sometimes violently.
Similarly, under Ottoman Muslim rule, most Jews in Eretz #Israel lived in abject misery due to their inferior #dhimmi status.
One 19th century traveler to Eretz Israel, Signor Pananti wrote, “there is no species of outrage or vexation to which they are not exposed … the indolent Moor, with a pipe in his mouth and his legs crossed, calls any #Jew who is passing, and makes him perform the offices of a servant … Even fountains were happier, at least they were allowed to murmur.
Also, as Bernard Lewis wrote in “The Jews of #Islam,” “[T]rouble [for the Jews] arose when Jews were seen to be getting too much power.” So, when Jews were persecuted and even massacred in Arab and/or Islamic lands, “the usual argument was that the Jews had violated the pact by overstepping their proper place.”
So, as the Jewish population in #British Mandate #Palestine grew larger and stronger while the Jews spoke of “statehood” and “sovereignty,” there was panic and fear among some in the local Arab Muslim population.
The Jews had been a dependent people, inferior to Muslims for centuries. How could the Jews suddenly become an independent people in charge of their own destinies?
This institutionalized humiliation of Jews in Arab/Muslim lands would not disappear quickly, and Jews who arrived from outside the Islamic world had no knowledge of or experience with the dhimmi relationship between Jews and Arab Muslims. So, the customs and mannerisms of European Jews were foreign in a way that made many Arab Muslims uncomfortable and feel disrespected because, “how dare that Jew fail to treat me with the proper respect and fail to acknowledge my superiority?”
With the State of Israel, suddenly there has been a Jewish State in a formerly “Islamic” land with its capital in #Jerusalem, which – while being the holiest place to Jews for more than 3,000 years – is the third holiest site for #Sunni Islam (not for #Shia Islam).
This simply “does not compute” for many Muslims to this very day, which is an undercurrent of the blind hatred many have for Jews and the Jewish State of Israel.
https://twitter.com/persianjewess/status/1786888608181567766
It’s not a coincidence that the most vocal supporters of the Ha*mas death cult in America are Radical Islamist WOMEN.
Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib, Nerdeen Kiswani… the list goes on.
Why?
Because without their Dhimmi Jews, Muslim women are the lowest, most disenfranchised and oppressed group in the MENA social hierarchy.
Some brave souls, like the courageous women in Iran, fight the system for a better future.
And some hateful creatures like Ilhan, Rashida and Nerdeen target, harass and threaten Jews to make themselves appear “higher” in social status within the oppressive cage of Radical Islam.
They are no better than female “morality police” of the Islamic Regime, dragging girls off the streets to abuse, rape and murder them in private.
But my family didn’t go through hell to escape the Islamic Regime, just to sit back and watch as female baby-faced terrorist agents subvert Democracy to usher in Radical Islamist ideology.
So bring on your Intifada.
This Persian Jewess will never be anyone’s Dhimmi ever again.
https://x.com/GadSaad/status/1779680236877029798
The mindset in the Middle East is very simple. It is based on the Qur'anic concept of dhimmi status for all religious minorities who are "people of the book." Such people can at best be tolerated but they should NEVER be in a position in power whether within a country or within the Middle East. As such, Israel's existence violates a definitional and fundamental tenet of the mindset in the region. It is that simple. It has nothing to do with land; nothing to do with two states; nothing to do with other geopolitical realities. Islam is supreme. Islam can protect you as long as you know your place. Israel said NO! We have dignity; we have a right for self-autonomy. Ask yourself the following question: How are non-Muslim minorities faring throughout the Middle East? Yes, there are times when minorities are "tolerated" but the overlords reserve the right to exterminate you as they see fit. There is 1,400 years of that recorded history. Learn your history.
https://x.com/CptAllenHistory/status/1839481710011986412
What is “dhimmitude" & why is it an important, but often ignored, reason behind widespread Arab Muslim obsessive hatred for Israel as a Jewish state?
“Dhimmitude,” described by British Vice Consul in Mosul H.E.W. Young in 1909, describes the pre-modern State of Israel treatment of Jews by Muslims in the Middle East, which Young described as a “master/slave sort of way” where Jews lived “at the whims of [their] Muslim overlords” and “tolerance” only existed to the extent Jews “kept their place.”
The very idea of Arab Muslims living in a “Jewish State,” therefore, was an impossibility. Arab Muslims had been looking down on their subordinate Jewish neighbors as something more akin to Muslim property for centuries.
In the eyes of a Muslim, Jews were simply not a people capable of, or worthy of, being rulers. Jews were only worthy of being ruled by Muslims.
After all, how could those who rejected Muhammed rule over those who accepted Muhammed and lived by his teachings?
Jews’ rejection of Muhammed automatically made “Jews” synonymous with “infidels,” and required any Jews living in Muslim lands to openly acknowledge the superiority of Muslims in all ways and at all times.
In fact, history shows that any time Jews started gaining something even close to “equality” with Muslims while living in Arab or Islamic lands, the Jewish communities were repressed, sometimes violently.
Similarly, under Ottoman Muslim rule, most Jews in Eretz Israel lived in abject misery due to their inferior diimmi status.
One 19th century traveler to Eretz Israel, Signor Pananti wrote, “there is no species of outrage or vexation to which they are not exposed … the indolent Moor, with a pipe in his mouth and his legs crossed, calls any Jew who is passing, and makes him perform the offices of a servant … Even fountains were happier, at least they were allowed to murmur.”
Also, as Bernard Lewis wrote in “The Jews of Islam,” “[T]rouble [for the Jews] arose when Jews were seen to be getting too much power.” So, when Jews were persecuted and even massacred in Arab and/or Islamic lands, “the usual argument was that the Jews had violated the pact by overstepping their proper place.”
And as the Jewish population in British Mandate Palestine grew larger and stronger, and as the Jews spoke of “statehood” and “sovereignty,” there was panic and fear among some in the local Arab Muslim population.
The Jews had been a dependent people, inferior to Muslims for centuries. How could the Jews suddenly become an independent people in charge of their own destinies?
This institutionalized humiliation of Jews in Arab/Muslim lands would not disappear quickly, and Jews who arrived from outside the Islamic world had no knowledge of or experience with the dhimmi relationship between Jews and Arab Muslims. As such, the customs and mannerisms of European Jews were foreign in a way that made many Arab Muslims uncomfortable and feel disrespected because, “how dare that Jew fail to treat me with the proper respect and fail to acknowledge my superiority?”
With the State of Israel, suddenly there has been a Jewish State in a formerly “Islamic” land with its capital in Jerusalem, which – while being the holiest place on Earth to Jews for more than 3,000 years – is the third holiest site for Sunni Islam (it is not holy to Shia Islam).
This simply “does not compute” for many Muslims to this very day, which is an undercurrent of the blind hatred many have for Jews and the Jewish State of Israel.
