Antisemitism

• Paul Rosenberg, How To Recognize Antisemitism [1]

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

• Holocaust Inversion

• https://twitter.com/crayandrizzy/status/1671381333086547968

• David Paxton, You know what it means so why are you bullshitting?

• Kremlintarian Party/Antisemitism

• Kremlinism/Antisemitism

• Ukraine/Antisemitism

• https://twitter.com/canarymission/status/1663540081888460806

• https://twitter.com/JennieTetreault/status/1664647224163454977

• Roger Waters

• Jeremy Corbyn

• https://www.philaholocaustmemorial.org/antisemitism-explained/

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://www.jewishnews.co.uk/opinion-warwick-uni-prides-itself-on-inclusivity-yet-stayed-silent-on-antisemitism-during-my-years-on-campus/

• Went to the Holocaust Museum and learned something new: 1. The Nazis passed hundreds of anti-Semitic laws in their first year in power, but most were relatively minor and allowed for exemptions of popular groups (e.g., Jewish WWI veterans); some were even rolled back.

• 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...
  • https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-bristol-67659271

• Shocking. Two women beat a Jewish woman unconscious in London, then continuing to beat her limp body while passers-by ignore the whole thing. Echoes of history

Europe

https://www.wsj.com/world/europe/as-jews-feel-threatened-in-western-europe-the-east-offers-more-safety-90549846

USA

• American Jews Are Concealing Their Jewish Identity

https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/antisemitism/article-747439

https://twitter.com/CombatASemitism/status/1672980389793521664

• https://twitter.com/gdatz/status/1711901493438120191

• https://twitter.com/LernerIsaak/status/1712580607744864376

• https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1715395039348539836

• https://twitter.com/StopAntisemites/status/1715932770302562582

• 51% of 18 to 24-year-olds say Hamas's slaughter of Israeli citizens was justified. Yet 62% also say it was a genocide. So, a sizeable number of young Americans think genocide against Israelis is justified.

• https://twitter.com/yashar/status/1731444886531129452

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

• https://twitter.com/bruce_weingart/status/1664686460870483968

• https://twitter.com/OfDalston/status/1704882442106974342

• https://twitter.com/__jacker__/status/1711779655089295847

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://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12738691/Suella-Braverman-right-biased-woke-policing-know-Im-officer-line.html?s=09

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.

• As @metpoliceuk braces for a massive pro-Palestinian march in London this afternoon, bear in mind that @JewishChron has revealed that several of its leaders have links to Hamas. Some have been photographed meeting terror chiefs in Gaza and several have openly expressed support for the violent organisation, in apparent defiance of British law. Details below.

https://www.thejc.com/news/news/several-groups-behind-london-pro-palestinian-march-have-links-to-hamas-1dTlHEq2XhvdqUGvvwPBJV

• Police investigating cases of London bus drivers not stopping for Jewish kids: “Jewish kids waited at a bus stop in Stamford Hill. The driver slowed down but continued without stopping. Passengers encouraged him, made antisemitic remarks & expressed gratitude for not stopping”

Poland

https://www.dw.com/en/poland-marks-50-years-since-1968-anti-semitic-purge/a-42877652

https://www.jta.org/2023/06/06/global/polish-city-throws-childrens-bubble-party-on-top-of-jewish-graves

https://twitter.com/SirJamesNiner/status/1715863971876475084

https://twitter.com/visegrad24/status/1715793610195534306

Spain

https://twitter.com/visegrad24/status/1715761963655999602

Soviet colonies

• Prague revamp reveals Jewish gravestones used to pave streets

Scotland

https://www.jta.org/2023/06/20/global/the-pink-peacock-glasgows-queer-friendly-yiddish-speaking-cafe-shuts-down-after-alleging-antisemitism-from-leftists

https://www.israellycool.com/2023/06/23/anti-zionist-jews-not-quite-learn-hard-way-their-fellow-israel-haters-hate-jews/

Arab

https://twitter.com/baum_p/status/1672704800587227146

Jerusalem

https://twitter.com/azoury_ayelet/status/1672948471836430336

https://www.thejc.com/news/news/anger-as-islamist-hate-cleric-who-praised-hitler-for-killing-jews-allowed-into-uk-3AdbVFM2CEHU9r34v25glG

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

• I think this is why the missing person signs have become a flashpoint. The dissonance between oppressed Palestinians and Hamas terror is too great. One path to resolve this dissonance is to denounce Hamas as occupiers of Gazan Palestinians. The other is to deny their crimes.

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

• https://twitter.com/canarymission/status/1731116037075251436

"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

• https://twitter.com/ManiacMagic1/status/1718591766163525723

France

https://www.politico.eu/article/french-jew-live-fear-antisemitism-hamas-attack/

https://twitter.com/HenMazzig/status/1719407466809548913

• https://www.timesofisrael.com/im-afraid-every-day-for-my-children-as-antisemitism-soars-french-jews-flee-to-israel/

Australia

• Anti-Israel activists targeted a hotel in Melbourne tonight after rumours circulated that it was hosting the family members of Israeli hostages. Note the dolls with fake blood stains. Just horrifying and bizarre anti-Semitism. I am so ashamed as an Australian

UN

https://twitter.com/DrewPavlou/status/1724338293859578205

Iraq

• The Adas Affair

Iran

• https://twitter.com/persianjewess/status/1753544773519192468

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.