There isn't anything wrong with the children of the global elite attending elite Western institutions, per se - indeed, it is an effective instrument of soft-power projection. For this to be a worthwhile endeavor, however, it should satisfy three criteria: it must inculcate this student-elite class with a worldview that is beneficial to the West; it must not be an undue drain on state resources; and it must not be done in a way that either harms or politically alienates the citizenry of the host nation. When it operates as a patronage scheme for an unmerited global elite that embues its graduates with anti-Western animus while costing the taxpayer and radicalizing the citizenry against the state, as it does in this case, it is worse than futile: it is actively self-destructive.

Taking prisoners alive? I hope so

How can you call them settlers yet recognize their ancestry as Israelites lmao

Very impressed by Bondi's excellent work in saving so many lives. 119 million Americans who would otherwise be DEAD are ALIVE today, thanks to her. At this rate, by the end of Trump's second term, Pam will have saved 1.737 billion American lives. Wow! That's about five times more Americans then exist today. How does she do it?

Pavlou is a bombastic figure, often demagogic and sloppy in his rhetoric, but consistently supportive of democracy & self-determination. Hinkle is a paid shill for genocidal, revisionist dictatorships, a mass distributor of disinformation, and a prolific racist & antisemite. Seeing these two figures as mirror-images of one another is emblematic of the moral rot of the post-truth age - namely, an ethically-hollow subjectivism that confuses highly-imperfect good with near-perfect bad.

Antizionism is the belief that a currently extant, internationally-recognized state should be forcibly liquidated so that its Jewish population can be returned to their previous condition as diasporic subjects of their erstwhile oppressors. This ideology posits that no other states on the planet necessarily worthy of this treatment, and it bases this position on convulted jargon and historical revisionism. This historical narrative is fundamentally fascistic: 1 - It is essentialistic, painting Zionists as fundamentally, ontologically evil, and the world as their victims. 2 - It is anti-intellectual: reasoned discourse is substituted with emotive and motivated thinking, and debate is substituted with the aggressive deplatforming, intimidation, and shouting down of opponents. 3 - It is authoritarian, insofar as it a) glorifies political violence, which is antithetical to democracy; and b) it seeks to deprive millions of people of their citizenship and the rights and security it provides. 4 - It is romantic: it proffers a mythical past, wherein all peoples lived as equal on the land until the corrupting force of the Zionists introduced social strife for the first time. This is how we can attribute virtually any event, even if unrelated to Israel, to Zionism's perniciousness. 5 - It is chauvinistic: it posits Arabs as having a monopoly on Levantine historical connection, treating them as rightful masters of the region, linked through blood-and-soil. Conversely, it constructs the Jew as fundamentally foreign - not merely to the Levantine, but to everywhere - and as having no culture. Rather, the Jew is a rootless cosmopolitan, a shape shifting deceiver whose lineage is fabricated. 6 - It is pseudo-eschatological and, related to its romanticism, dangerously past-oriented: "Liberation," by any means necessary, is imagined to result in a return to that idyllic image of the untainted, pure Palestine before Zionism. 7 - It is grievance-oriented, revanchist, and dogmatically rejectionistic: its proponents balk at the idea of giving the Israeli population any say over their future on the basis of their perceived unique and fundamental criminality. All questions of fairness, or human rights, or self-determination are discarded with, all by making reference to these unforgivable and singularly-evil trespasses. I could go on, but this list will suffice for now. These ideological features are ubiquitous to fascistic movements throughout history. Every single antizionist isn't necessarily an antisemite, or even a (knowing) supporter of this type of fascism; most are motivated by earnest and rightful concern for the continued dispossesion and political alienation Palestinians and the Palestinian nation. However, the movement itself is inherently and inextricably fascistic in character - in its core ideology as laid out above, in its methods and practices, and in its relationship to and collaboration with reactionary far-right, far-left, and Islamist groups. A two-state process is the only just way forward, but antizionism seeks to destroy the Israeli state, rather than found an independent and free Palestine alongside it. I know big words scare and confuse you there champ, so I tried to lay this out concisely and in a manmer where I can reach less sophisticated readers such as yourself. If you have any questions, comments, or (substantive) rebuttals, feel free to leave them in the comments below. I doubt you (@ADeepSouthCrit ) will read this far, rather I imagine you will respond with something like "tl;dr" or "that's a lot of words for saying you like killing babies," evincing your internalizatoon of the 2nd feature of antizionism. But then again, this isn't really written for you, as you are likely a dyed-in-the-wool antisemite and overall political lunatic. This was written for those who are wolilling to reject this creeping fascism.

Some memes remain evergreen in the age of culture-war-infused interstate warfare ☺️

If you think certain classes of accused don't deserve proper representation and you prefer vigilantism, mob justice, and summary executions then you are a fascist.

Many will believe anything about Israel and Jews, no matter how hateful and absurd. Like... what?

If you look at the images OP chose, they're just dogwhistling their racism. Every image is a depiction of a Black person. The place he wants to escape is a multiethnic, racially-integrated America. In short, the guy's a Nazi.

You didn't buy a home but built it entirely yourself? Every element, including electrical, gas fixtures, plumbing?

Remember when people on the left used to say "if there are 10 people sitting at a table with a Nazi there are 11 Nazis?" Now they stand idly by while one of their own yells "heil Hitler" and incites genocide. At most, they can be expected to claim these occurences are rare, or the product of agitators...

*sees middle-eastern-appearing man* "Looks Israeli... also, the Zionists need to go back to northern Europe"

A couple of points on claims regarding the supposed uniqueness and barbarity of Israel's war in Gaza, using Russia's mass crimes at Mariupol as a comparitive example: 1. Mariupol had a pre-war population of less than a quarter of that of the Gaza strip; 2. Gaza's death toll, according to the Hamas-controlled health ministry, reached 20k today. Assuming that number is accurate AND is all civilians (which would require us assuming 0 Hamas fighters have died, a dubious claim), based on population the death toll in Mariupol (est. between 25k and 75k by observers) would be anywhere from more that 4x to more than 12x that of Gaza. If we take Israel's figure that 8k of the dead are fighters, than the per capita civilian death toll in Mariupol would be from ~8x to ~24x higher than in Gaza; 3. Mariupol didn't have military infrastructure embedded throughout and underneath the civilian population, meaning that the bombing of the civilian population by Russia was unnecessary militarily and therefore was a purposeful act of mass murder. Questions of discriminancy and proportionality aside, it cannot be said that there is no military purpose to Israel's bombing campaign in the dense urban parts of Gaza, as the integration of military and civilian infrastructure in Gaza is well-documented and pervasive. In Gaza, the placement of infrastructure by Hamas among civilians (which is a war crime) is intended to deter Israeli military action by producing conditions in which a large civilian death tolls is unavoidable in any operation to uproot Hamas. This muddles any discussion of proportionality, as the risks to Israeli troops on the ground in Gaza without a significant aerial campaign would be staggering, thereby changing the calculus regarding what constitutes a proportional strike in balancing risk to civilians to military necessity. No military would take that kind of risk, and frankly the operational risks Israel is tolerating in order to minimize civilian deaths (telegraphing strikes, providing windows of opportunity to flee, and putting troops on the ground where other forces would simply strike from the sky) is almost unheard of elsewhere; 4. Israel has legitimate casus belli to go after Hamas by any reading of international law, whereas Russia's naked aggression in Ukraine had no such military justification and is therefore illegal under int'l law. Ergo, *every* death caused by Russia is ipso facto criminal in a way that deaths caused by Israeli are not. 5. We have no way of verifying the actor responsible for all deaths in Gaza. It is reasonable to assume that the vast majority were caused by Israeli actions, but we know that around 25% of Hamas/PIJ rockets fall short. To take a dramatic example, when the al Ahli hospital compound was struck in October, Hamas claimed between 500 to 800 civilians were killed; it was later demonstrated conclusively that the cause was a PIJ misfire, not an Israeli strike. Estimates of dead have since been reduced considerably since this fact emerged to perhaps several dozens of civilians killed, but either way this constituted among the deadliest single-location strikes of the war. If Hamas's initial estimate were true, than 2.5% to 5% of the current civilian death toll was caused by PIJ in one strike on al Ahli. It stands to reason that there are many more such cases, and given the fact that there can't be warnings given to civilians as to where misfires will land it is likely there are a considerable number of deaths caused by such incidents. The game-playing regarding the al Ahli death toll also puts further into doubt the reliability and authenticity of Hamas health ministry claims. (continued below) 1/2

Bessie is a cow's name, for fucks sake.

Your friend is right, and your reaction to criticism is revealing - you chose to not remove his name, presumably to increase the degree of vulnerability your post would induce, and you responded to strong but conciliatory and honest criticism by attacking his identity. Not only are you an antisemitie, but you also appear to have features of trait narcissism. Seek help.

I'm a two-stater: I want to build a path to Palestinian statehood, and a lasting peace in the region. I don't see peace really happening until the Palestinian people see a way forward. That's why I don't go to those marches, and why I'll never say "free Palestine" - the people who scream that in my face? They don't want two states, they want one - Judenrein. They say it when they say "smash Zionism," the only movement that has ever secured self-determination and dignity for the Jewish people. They show it when they rewrite our histories, spinning tales of dignified dhimmitude and "Arabs of Jewish faith;" when they categorize us and divide us on their spurious and ahistorical lines. I don't need some country club socialist telling me about "ashkenormativity," or how "Israel sterilized the African Jews." I don't need an arrogant teenager giving me TikTok history lessons about my own people which picked up from videos published by opportunistic sociopaths seeking to monetize antisemitism. I don't need a 35-year-old, downwardly-mobile polyamorous virgin "Marxist" insist to me that the Jews fled the Muslim world not as a response to systemic oppression or ethnic cleansing, but because "Mossad chucked a grenade through a window in el Batawin." But most of all, I don't need some far-right lunatic or a Islamist mouth-breather to come up on me and compare *anything* to the mass-immolation of 6 million of my brothers and sisters, those victims of gentile crimes, and whose homes these same bigots now comfortably occupy in Paris and Berlin. When I hear "Free Palestine," I don't hear a call for "liberation" or "human dignity" - no, all I can hear is the familiar refrain they've been telling us for centuries: "so that we may live, you must die."

A man with an Italian surname dares to brand his restaurant as Mediterranean - how can I make this about Jews?

If you honestly think that the Biden administration is further to the right of Meloni, Millei, Orban, Erdogan and Putin et al, then you have little business arrogantly lecturing the whole discursive community on the fine details of global geopolitics. Completely inane claim.

Yea but population-wise that's like a 1/3 of Latin America lol

Yes, of course they did. You're making a clearly inane, bad-faith point - it would be laughable if it weren't for the fact that there are millions of people stupid or self-deluded enough to fall for it.

The Somaliland Ambassador to the US denouncing Omar for her remarks is a strong indication that the translation is accurate. Wild.

Such nonsense. The Houthis hate Jews because genocidal political antisemitism is historically endemic to Yemen. The 2000-year-old Jewish community, which had been largely expelled in the post-48 period, saw its finally members ethnically cleansed by the Houthis - who had to flee to *Israel!* --------------- Yemen was a cradle of Jewish civilization, their scholars and rabbis considered among the most dutiful preservers of the Hebrew language. But Yemen was also a land of normalized cultural antisemitism, where Jews had second-class status and were frequently subjected to lethal - and even exterminative - violence. Of the many crimes perpetrated on the Jews of Yemen, the Mawza Exile is among the worst: in the late 17th century, the Jews were banished from the cities and towns in Yemen by decree of King Mahdi Ahmad, and sent into a wasteland region of Yemen with no capacity to sustain themselves. A deathmarch and a year of starvation in Mawza would take the lives of a substantial part of the Jewish community before they would be allowed to return to the cities. The reason for the reprieve? The Jews were the predominant urban craftsmen in a largely rural, agrarian country - apparently, the King was being inundated by complaints about a lack of effective farm implements, among other things. The antisemitic decree of the year before had brought ruin to Yemeni economy. So, in order to take up their traditional, key role in the Yemeni social-economy, the Jews were rehabilitated from their exile. By any measure, the Mawza exile would be considered both an act of ethnic cleansing *and* genocide: the former, insofar as the Jews were forcibly removed from their homes and communities; and the latter insofar as - with the inhospitable conditions of the Mawza area, and their capacity to fend for themselves  severely curtailed through seizure and rapid expulsion - the only logical expectation, and therefore purpose, of such an act was to cause mass death and suffering among the Jews. I've read that anywhere from a quarter to half the Jewish population died, on the march and in exile, from disease, starvation, and exposure. In many ways, the Jewish experience at Mawza bears a similarity to events like the Holdomor and the Irish potato famine - but what it most resembles, to me, is the Madagascar Plan. This was a Nazi idea to expel the Jews to Madagascar with no capacity to feed or sustain themselves, leading to mass death and, ultimately, the destruction of the Jewish people. This plan was explored by the Nazi's but was deemed unfeasible - instead, they settled on the Final Solution in Europe. Indeed, although in many ways especially brutal, the experience of Jews in Yemen were not exceptional in the history of the diaspora - but that's the point. Antisemitism isn't a product of Zionism, it predates the Jewish national movement by millennia. Zionism is a response to the conditions imposed on Jewish communal life in the diaspora, a solution to the precarity and indignity Jews have been intentionally subjected to by their non-Jewish overlords. The antisemitic king in Yemen who expelled the Jews into the Mawza expanse was a member of a Zaidi dynasty - the same sect of Shia Islam that the Houthis, as a religious fundamentalist group, are committed to expanding and entrenching as a force in Yemen and abroad. Zaidi Islam by no means need be antisemitic, but antisemitism is a historic fixture of Zaidi political expression in Yemen, and has been since at least the time of the Mawza exile. Zionism did not inspire or create the antisemitism of the Houthis, the reverse is true: the antisemitism of the Houthis made Zionism necessary - and their continued antagonism to Israel only further exacerbates extremist tendencies in the Zionist movement and Israeli society, rather than countering it as many of their newfound Western supporters may believe... cont'd, 1/

Says the neo-Nazi 😏

"Imagine if Hamas bombed Tel Aviv." Meanwhile, in the real world:

"Why didn't Israel train paramedics to respond to mass murder events where hostilities are ongoing to prioritize SA-focused forensic pathology over saving lives? They should have forseen a mass rape event occurring, and should have known that the international community would be rightfully skeptical of claims made by perfidious Jews! This 'failure' is prima facie evidence that Israel doesn't actually care about women at all, and that the victims were equally injured by their own community as they were by their assailants!" The level of intellectual gymnastics @RVAwonk is engaged in to justify her persistent atrocity denial is approaching the psychopathic threshold - but, chillingly, this attitude it has been demonstrated to be remarkably common in the wake of Oct. 7. Even in their own murder, rape and torture, it is the Jew that is the perpetrator. If anything has demonstrated the fundamental validity of Zionism as a defense against ubiquitous genocidal antisemitism, it is this moment now.

A cool couple milly from Qatar, and you can get a smooth operator to "Jooz did 9/11" in the most serious style 😎 But really, Mehdi Hasan is an antisemitic, anti-Western menace who has no place in any respectable discursive space. From atrocity denial to rank conspiratorialism, he passed the line of acceptability some time ago. Too bad he blocked me, so I have to rely on random screengrabs I see - I'm sure he's popping off pretty regularly like this lol

If yall havent seen it, lmaooo:

1. That's some misogynistic bullshit, and those clothes aren't in the least bit inappropriate (they are actually rather professional); 2. Jobs are about merit, and her record speaks for itself. Reinstate her! Side note, she's stylish and beautiful as hell

His brother said he thinks listening to and performing music is stupid several months ago. They seem like they just hate life, and I love that for them.

Oct. 7th has provided such an effective means of instantly discrediting someone's statements online - there should be an archive created so that we can reference these utterances decades from now.

That's the most unloving embrace I ever seen lmao. Totally frozen, mouthes ain't even open, staring resentfully into each other's eyes - THAT COULD HAVE BEEN ME !!!1!

She doesn't care about Israel or Palestine, one way or the other - she cares about what her Russian paymasters want

The genocide libel was always about "manufacturing consent" for the mass murder of Israelis and Jews.

Bro, she knows - she's just gone full-bore for cultural erasure. She's a raging antisemite.

This is just the leftist inverse of commenting "bet it was the usual suspects" under every crime report like a racist yokel.

What does the "thrift" in "thrift store" refer to, exactly?

You spelled "above the law" wrong. And yes, none of us are above the law - we had a whole Revolutionary War about it, remember?

You do know the president isn't the head of the NYPD, nor does he administer Columbia - a private institution - right? You're welcome to your choice, as is your prerogative. But you will have functionally joined forces with the far-right against democratic institutions if you do

I want to believe that those young, bright-eyed protesters I see down the street every Saturday are mostly well-intentioned, if somewhat misguided, humanitarians. That they are there because their heart breaks at the loss of human life, and their blood boils at the cruel denial of human dignity. But when I see a crowd shouting down an elected official, a woman of color no less, triggered most visciously when she expresses solidarity with victims of violent rape because those victims happen to be Jewish, I lose my belief in the good-faith of this movement's rank-and-file. When I see children - actual children! - repeating atrocity denial about how "they [Hamas] murdered *no one,*" proudly and on camera, and I consider the fact he was likely taught this hateful canard in his childhood home by his dearest kin, I become suspicious of even the kindest face and warmest smile when it comes wrapped in a kuffiyeh. When I see that a crowd of normal people - students, retirees, professionals - can be mobilized en masse to disrupt and intimidate the official proceedings of representative government because their fanciful and dehumanizing conspiracy theories aren't specifically catered to in the halls of democracy, I can't help but hear the echoes of a dangerous recent past - like their voices are reflecting off the walls of a München beer hall or paving stones on road to Rome. We live in an age of distrust, of nihilism and inhumanity and mass political delusion. We live in an age where the misdirected passions of crowds are shaped by demagogues and disinformers, where the incoherent, contradictory desires of masses become the well-defined instruments of personal rule. Institutions squeak and creak like scared pets or worn-out woodwork, drowned out and extinguished by the brightly-burning voices of political arsonists and opportunistic grifters. We live in an age of noise.

"Kristalnacht? Who cares - it's just broken glass!"

1. Race is a social construct developed by Europeans 500 years ago; 2. Jews do not claim to be a "race" - Jews are an ethnoreligious community and national grouping who maintain a traditional belief system in Judaism; 3. Common descent and close relations among Jewish groups is well-established; 4. Palestinians run the gamut of skin tones as well, from an Afro-Palestinian, to a Sinwar, to a Tamimi. No one challenges the legitimacy of their national identity or movement on this basis, nor should they; 5. @theafroaussie is a race essentialist and an antisemite, and as such is, in this case, almost indistinguishable from a Nazi. Not only that, but she also clearly has bad judgement and is likely pretty unintelligent, given her choice of making such a facile and bigoted claim and then posting it for the world to see as a "gotcha." She is a living personification of Dunning-Kreuger. 6. Ms. Abdi has a Ph.D from Harvard. What does that tell you about the quality of education coming out of our most "prestigious" institutions? I would say she could be an outlier, but we have seen a recurring pattern across such institutions demonstrating that extremist antizionist ideology as pervasive in higher education.

I was so preoccupied with "that's clearly not the Bronx" that I didn't see Barack in the bottom lmao

He is also a Holocaust denier.

LEFT-WING ANTISEMITISM: THE THREAT DOWN THE STREET When people downplay, deny, or justify left-wing antisemitism, what they fail to understand is that such antisemitism is a proximate threat to Jews. Jews predominantly live in the most liberal cities, in liberal states, attend liberal schools, have liberal and multicultural social circles. Jews count on those institutions as the basis for their social integration in the US. Sure, right-wing antisemitism is a dangerous phenomenon, but it is socially, geographically, culturally, and institutionally more remote, relative to the location of the bulk of American Jewry. I won't be davening in northern Idaho any time soon; my kid's Hebrew school isn't in rural Kansas; I'm not trying to attend Liberty University. And that isn't even to claim those places are unsafe! But, presumably, I'd be more likely to encounter right-wing extremism and antisemitism in those places than elsewhere. But if you tell me that my kids day school in suburban California is being picketed by people who justify and celebrate the murder of Jews on October 7, or my synagoge in Montreal got firebombed, or my Hasidic neighbor got jumped in Brooklyn, those are things that directly threaten many Jews - and those all keep happening. Meanwhile, our ostensible allies are either downplaying it, quiet on it, or paying cynical lip-service to the fight against antisemitism without engaging in meaningful action. Liberal DAs are letting antisemitic rioters walk; school administrators are either throwing their arms up in the air or actively playing interference for institutionalized antisemitism, suppressing Jewish participation in higher ed; and, I hate to say it, but some members of communities we passionately supported in their moments of need are leaving us hanging - or worse. We allied with LGBTQ folk so they could marry who they love; our communities sponsored refugees to escape oppression, a privilege and extension of friendship our own refugee ancestors never received; we've marched, and picketed, and went on strike, and organized in every major moment in American history - we have been at the front of the demand for cross-communal solidarity from. the. beginning. And now, in our moment of need, we find that only our fellow Jews and what feels like a small handful of righteous allies will stand with us. Most folks keep their heads down, not wanting to lose friends or have a target on their back, fearful of having their lot indelibly thrown in with "those people." And some of our erstwhile "friends" - a small, but loud and aggressive minority - spit at us in the street, deny our peoplehood, mock our faith, claim our languages are made up or ugly or obsolete, castigate us as schemers and deceivers - in short, reproduce all the worst elements of historical, genocidal antisemitism. We thought we left that all behind in the old world, across the ocean in the diasporic cage that is Afro-Eurasia. The pogroms, the forced segregation, the exclusion from society, the expulsions, the robberies, the rapes, the criminalization of our customs and languages, the special taxes, and the everyday indignities that were imposed, that was supposed to be over. No more Pale, no more jizya, no more libel, no more murder factories and death marches and mass graves. But now we hear the echoes of our oh-so-recent history here, on the other side of the world, we see creeping shadows of evil increasingly tolerated in polite society, and we recoil as ancient, murderous rumors spring up anew and go largely unchallenged. (Continued, 1/2)

Shapiro is right: these are reactionary hate-marchers in the mold of the KKK. If that is impolitic to point out within the contemporary Democratic Party coalition, then there is an antisemitism problem in that coalition.

Do 17-year-olds not get arrested for murdering civilians in cold blood in the Arab world? When people say crap like this, they demonstrate they have no value for Jewish life and are nothing but bad faith terror-supporters.

You mean the guy who gouged a teenagers eyes out, mutilated him and castrated him alive, then shot him in the chest and left him to die in an olive grove? That guy? Absolutely ridiculous editorial decision... is @CTVNews the Canadian affiliate of @AlMayadeenNews??

"F(uck)-47(Trump)," and it sounds like a foghter aircraft designation so they put the plane.

She's not a "LibZio," she's a Kremlin stooge, and you all are her useful idiots - at least she got some roubles out of the deal lol

The fact that Sinwar was killed while not hiding doesn't prove that he never hid - if anything it merely implies that hiding is more effective than not. I'm asking people to use their brains, just this once

Obama's message was that Gaza's "people" suffered (i.e. entire population), whereas select Israeli "families" (i.e. a subset of the population) suffered. If anything, Obana appears to be downplaying the degree of Israeli suffering relatove to Gazans, althoigh not egregiously so given the near-total character of Gaza's immiseration through this war. It may seem like Ms. Rachel considers the acknowledgement of *any* Israeli suffering as "dehumanizing" to Palestinians, but I don't think it's that deep, in this case. I think she is merely a pedentic, ignorant buffoon desperate to cast herself as morally-superior by finding fault in the minutiae of the utterances of people with some degree of actual relevance.

"There vacations a year" THE HUMANITY

Sorry you had to deal with that; glad you dealt with it how you did.

How is this indiscriminate? They fired the perpetrators. That's the definition of discriminate lmaooo Y'all know what the word means, right?

That was yours??? Perpetual bragging rights for checking the ayatollah lol

"Made up a word." Google is free, you fascist toady

I don't know why, but this story always hits me especially hard, emotionally speaking. They all do, clearly, but this tragedy in particular feels so senseless and evil. A father, punished by monsters for making his daughter's life brighter; a vulnerable young woman, unable to run, brutalized in the most viscious fashion. Two beautiful lives among many, cruely stolen from the world. Those in the West who celebrate these acts sicken me to my core, and I don't know that I will ever forgive them. Those that proudly march under the banner of Hamas and Hezbollah are neo-Nazis, plain and simple. I can't help but hope that the rest of their lives are as empty and cold as their hearts.

Comprehensive, humble, and reaffirming and conciliatory towards labor - Costco PR be spittin' BANGERS

You heard it from Hasan first: you are justified in murdering random Turks in front of the Turkish Museum because Kurdistan.

This guy looks like he walked out of a Nazi propaganda poster...

You'll never be good enough, @rafaelshimunov - they always immolate their tokens in the end.

You servile, spineless toad. The one thing Trump got right was that you're a "liddle" man

This. Jews overwhelmingly voted for the party that was actually concerned with the welfare of Gazans. Antizionists, antisemites, and those whose anger and naïvety outweighed their good sense voted for the ethnic cleansing of Gaza. The differences between the parties were clear - Democrats didn't choose this outcome through "bad campaigning," the voters chose it. This outcome is solely on voters - yes, including those in Dearborn. The fact that antizionist voters chose greater Palestinian suffering and displacement over pragmatism and the mutual recognition of Palestinian *and* Israeli political rights is merely a reflection of the like choice continually made by the Arab world since 1948. Whether they admit it to themselves or not, these voters see Palestinian suffering not as something to alleviate for its own sake, but rather something to exploit and intensify as a means of robbing Jews of their right to self-determination. Those that are angrily denying this fact amount to those a) in denial/too naïve to understand what they chose; b) those who refuse to accept responsibility for their choice; and c) those who know how cynical this looks and would like to shield their toxic ane reactionary political movement(s) from criticism. Don't say Democrats should have communicated that this would be the outcome of a Trump victory, because they did - you were just unsatisfied with anything less than an outright rejection of the state of Israel's right to exist, and you chose to take it out on your fellow citizens by voting by spite. You made your bed, now prepare to lay in it for the next four years.

So this guys defense is "all Arabs like to triumphantly parade the bodies of children they brutally murdered to torment there surviving family members, and you're being racist if you criticize it." Masterful gambit, sir.

Dude, we don't even know how many people have been killed in Mariupol alone... probably 50,000 (over a few month siege.) Also, you're comparing verified deaths from the U.N. to claims made by the Hamas Ministry of Health (which systematically manipulates data). Hamas claims all deaths, civilians and combatants, in the same figure. You are making very sweeping claims without critically parsing the source and quality of data to push an ideological point - one that erases the crimes Russia is currently comitting in Ukraine and Syria (where Russia levelled entire cities, murdered 100,00s, and caused the biggest refugee crisis of this century...)

Vaxxed?

Is "I ain't reading all that" an official slogan at this point? Why are they so proudly anti-intellectual and openly hostile to competing sources of information or dissent? Don't they understand how stupid this looks? Lmao

Detection of Antisemitic propaganda: -Taleb doesn't have Jesus's DNA to make such a claim, but all Jewish subgroups have been shown to have common Levantine ancestry - meaning his claim of "0 connection to most groups" is a lie designed to undermine Jewish identity; -the claim "Jews did not exist" is absurd and ahistorical: Jews in Galilee, Judea, and across the Roman empire spoke a shared language, religion, and national identity, and were *identified as Jews by the state* (hence the Fiscus Judaicus); Herod was called "King of the Jews" by Rome (a title I'm pretty sure Jesus himself had applied to him by disciples?); Taleb here is also being semantically dishonest, not recognizing that the words for Judean, Jew, and Judahite are all the same word in Hebrew (יהודי), and saying the word was used in one sense but not the other when it bears both meanings -Jesus being born in Galilee, which was a predominantly *Jewish* province, was a fact of Roman administration, not ethno-geography (this would be like denying Palestinan peoplehood by saying "it was called the Sanjak of Jerusalem, not Palestine" by the Ottomans); -Ethnically cleansed of Canaanites? Taleb might want to look into what sub-group of western Semitic languages Hebrew belongs to - it is the only extant Canaananite tongue (Jews are descended from a Canaanite group). Here he ironically relies on Jewish religious belief about a fundamental distinction between Jews and Canaanites in order to sever Jewish connection to the region; -Medvin's claims are largely correct, and Taleb hasn't actually addressed any of her points substantively; -Taleb comments about "dreaming of maximum territory" doesn't actually substantively related to anything Medvin said. Medvin was attempting to detail the history of the territory known variously as Judea, Israel, Syria-Palestina, Palestine and now Jordan, Palestine and Israel - a necessary step if one wants to interogate the underlying claim. Taleb is trying to make it seem like she is making a revanchist claim in order to negatively polarize readers by attaching her commentary to the "Greater Israel" conspiracy theory - its a completely inane point but also insidious as it attempts to undermine Medvin's capacity to proffer an argument at all. Jewish identity and connection to the land doesn't negate Palestinian indigeneity - in fact, it buttresses it: Palestinians are substantially descended from antiquity Jews and other locals who were converted (first to Christianity, than later Islam) and then Arabized through conquest (both being processes largely enabled through the use of force). As well, many Palestinians descend from Samaritans (such as in the Nablus area), further enhancing their claims to indigenity. Taleb doesn't need to erase Jewish identity to prove Palestinian identity, but *he explicitly chooses to,* in order to severe Jewish ancestral claims as part of a political project aimed at the denial of Jewish self-determination (i.e. antizionism). The original claim that Medvin was challenging - that "Jesus was a Palestinian" - is an anachronistic inanity designed likewise to "dejudaify" Christianity's history to the same end (Jewish erasure). Jesus would have never identitfied as a Palestinian (a Greek word not applied to the region officially until a century after Jesus's death, ironically applied as a means of insulting Jews and severing their connection to the land), and more critically, Palestinian national identity as we know it (and as Taleb is ultimately using it) wouldn't coalesce until modernity. Claiming Jesus was a Palestinian would be like claiming Muhammed was a Saudi, Sitting Bull was a South Dakotan, and that Noah was Turkish because he landed at Mount Ararat. None of those terms had any meaning in their day, and are not relevant to their actual lived experiences or identities, and so its application is fallacious and nonsensical. This doesn't mean that Palestinians aren't related to Jesus... 1/

Image is so grainy I thought that was some AI generated version of Sarah Huckabee Sanders doing Tae Bo

Holy fuck. Drew's been on a significant right-bent lately, but hard to argue that the explosion in the popularity of "Yahya" as a baby name post-Oct. 7 is anything but a harbinger of increasing Islamist revanchism in the UK.

In 1929, the ancient Jewish community of Hebron experienced genocidal violence and were ethnically-cleansed, largely based on lies about Jews seeking to capture al-Aqsa. There was no talk of "settler-colonialism," an anachronistic concept with no currency in Mandatory Palestine. These same people talk about "Arab Jews," and "Palestinian Jews" out of one side of their mouth while justifying the murder of said Jews out the other side, on the basis of their perceived alien character. To them, a Jew who can trace his family back fifteen generations on the Land is a "settler," and a Syrian Arab immigrant who arrived in 1910 is "indigenous." It is merely ethnofascism dressed up as egalitarianism. As with October 7th, the Hebron massacre was not premised on "anti-colonialism;" rather, it was a fit of ethnosupremacist rage. @BonsaiSky is treating the rape of women and the slitting of children's throats during a race riot as virtuous and justified in the same manner folks like him justify Hamas' barbarism on October 7. The only difference here is that the Jews have changed the equation by repeatedly triumphing over this form of criminality, and are now the more powerful party. The Arab world's continued failure to adjust to this reality is a product of a near-ubiquitous incapability to grapple with Jewish autonomy, rooted in a chauvinistic worldview. The Palestinian people deserve self-determination, but that is not what violent creeps like Nader seek - their dream is negation, not creation. For them, anything short of Jewish subordination is unbearable, and anything less than an Arab boot on a Jewish neck is tantamount to genocide.

He's a brazen antisemite. You going to have David Duke host the week after? Fucking idiots lol

"Are Jewish holidays too 'Jewy?' We ask three gentiles, a kapo, and the chair of the Brooklyn DSA to find out! Becky Brackenridge-Goebbels, an Argentinian-American dog-walker from Flatbush and self-designated expert on Jewish perfidy, tells us that the Passover narrative about 'coming out of Egypt' has unmistakable Zionistic overtones. In response to this clear provocation by the Jewish community, Ms. Goebbels has begun a boycott of all businesses that carry Streit's Matzo, vowing to continue until 'all those Yemeni Jews admit they're actually Polish-Khazarian interlopers.' The New York Times has verified that Ms. Goebbels has no antisemitic inclinations through the 'ask if antisemite' method. Famously, this iron-clad system of verification has vindicated Jeremy Corbyn, David Duke, and Hassan Nasrallah in the face scurrilous (((zionist))) smears they all faced. The N.Y. Times can confidently report that not only are all three men not antisemitic, they are in fact philosemitic (at least as it regards *real* Jews, such as JVP activists, Neturei Karta cultists, and Fmr. N.Y. congressman George Santos)."

I'm still coping with the fact that his dog has arms

I think about this meme a lot when I see hamsics...

"I’m from where I was born. I thought that’s what we all collectively decided" is the most privileged-ass Western-centric assumption I've read in a while. How do you think that worked out for the Jews ethnically cleansed from MENA countries, or Ethiopia, or the collapse of the USSR, or the Jews who were mass murdered and expelled from Europe? You descend from ethnic cleansers, and Israelis descends from the expelled, so no shit your experience of history and your relative security in your place of birth is different lmao. The shallowness of your own identity isn't some global reality for all people, and is in fact a mark of your privilege and lack of personal or communal jeopardy. Outside your Western bubble, communal population precarity is common - look at Turkey's colonialist policies in northern Syria as an example. In most of the world - and across Jewish history - communal security is paramount and existential, and is only available through concerted communal effort. Sit your privileged ass down and read a book, maybe actually meet some Israelis before projecting your own North American suburban white girl framework onto their lives and experiences

It's as though "Intifada" is a particularly loaded term in the Israel/Palestine context 🤔 "State's rights" also isn't an inherently fraught term, but when you use it in the context of the South, we know you're talking racism, Jim Crow, and slavery. Context is critical.

"Hamas only murdered 37 children in cold blood! Checkmate, Je-... Zionists!!"

Privileged Gen Z antizionists are the synthesis of everything wrong with previous generations: Millenial political self-righteousness, Gen X social cynicism, selfish Boomer hyper-individualism, and the antisemitism of the Lost generation and their predecessors. They share nothing with the Silent or Greatest generations - they ain't great, and they sure as hell ain't silent. Depressing-ass meme of a generation, I swear

1) signal to noise: we imagined tech would give us all access to knowledge, therefore make us wiser; instead it gives us access to reams of dubious and contradictory information, too copious and too muddled to be parsed effectively, peaving us confused and detached from reality 2) irony poisoning: the current generation didn't grow up alongside tech's widespread adoption, but were born directly into a tech-saturated world. Things that my generation said ironically online are now simply unironically accepted as received knowledge, their original contexts lost.

Shapiro was targeted not simply because he is a Jew but because he is a Jew who the far left visciously smeared. This is what "globalizing the intifada" means: pushing Jews out of public life everywhere through the use of political violence.

1. Worst genocide in 21st century? Gaza is dwarfed by Tigray or Darfur in both scale and intent, among many examples. As for designating the Gaza War a "genocide," the free world largely stands against the accusation, and it was lodged by the corrupt friends of Assad, Putin, and the Janjaweed. It's transparently hypocritical nonsense. 2. Denied Palestinian's their basic rights? They aren't the Israeli government, they can't change the occupation's policies by edict. 3. Sparked the war? No, Hamas' unjustified terroristic aggression on October 7th sparked the war, and Iran and Qatar helped spark it through their material support for Hamas. 4. Refused to uphold the convention? There is a case at the ICJ right now, so I'm not even sure what this means. No actor can be accused of failing to uphold international law until an alleged breach has been identified and found to be true. Besides which, are you advocating for the US to unilaterally enforce its interpretation of international law by force? I'm guessing you're against that, so this critique is also nonsensical. 5. Made a mockery of international law? The Russian do that in Ukraine through its illegal aggression; China does this in its provocative acts against the Filipinos and others in the South China Sea; the now Houthis do so by lobbing missiles at civilian ships in international waters. Also, see point two. You're a sophistic propagandist whose specious lies would be laughable if so many naïve people weren't taking at face value. Your hollow words have only one purpose: guarantee the relection of Trump, and thereby harken the destruction of Western democratic institutions.

Why does a supposed journalist feel the need to belittle the Hebrew language? This "khamas" stuff is such brain-dead nonsense: English speakers critiquing the orthographic transliteration between two Semitic abjads, and the resulting pronunciation difference this produces, all so they can make a cheap crack about Jews "sounding funny." Absolutely unserious, juvenile and plainly ignorant behavior - so basically what you'd expect from a senior reporter at @theintercept.

Damn, you don't even know the basics of a conflict you publicly pontificate about? What a loser lmao

Switzerland got a thing for Jill Stein or something?

"Jews back to Brooklyn - except don't!" Antizionists call Jews colonizers on any clump of dirt they happen to lay their head. Don't get it twisted: they want us dead.

If you're not a kuffiyeh-clad, Extinction Rebellion-supporting Tankie willing to firebomb a Walmart, then your membership to the Queer Club™️ is hereby revoked. No more banging dudes for you. Sorry, I don't make the rules 🤷‍♂️

Y'all notice that prominent Democrats and media figures have been giving Piker numerous offramps towards cushy democratic socialist-type media work, and he just keeps doubling down on pro-terrorist, racist, and plainly sociopathic behavior? It's a choice. Accept it, and reject his toxic brand of politics.

Funny thing, that... Iraq passed a "Nationality Law" in 2006 that allows for the restoration of the citizenship of those "denaturalized on political, religious, racist or sectarian grounds," save for those whose citizenship was stripped "pursuant to "Law No. (1) of 1950 and Law No. (12) of 1951." Those aforementioned laws allowed for the Iraqi state to strip Jews of their citizenship, freeze their assets, and seize their property. That is, Iraq - the current state, under the same constitution as today - has reentrenched Jewish denaturalization *in law* as recently as 2006. Iraq is a systemically antisemitic country in which Jews are uniquely barred from enjoying the same rights as non-Jews. This is what the democratically-elected parliament of modern Iraq has put into law. Iraq is not, and will likely never be, hospitable to Jewish life again. Sending a Jew back to Iraq would be tantamount to having them imprisoned or shot. Antizionist creeps like Hasan largely know this - they just don't care. @hasanthehun @h3h3productions @DrewPavlou

Hasan claims: -it's ok to rape rich women; -Russian crimea occupation = good, Ukraine striking Crimea bridge = "terrorism" (it isn't); -Houthis (antisemitic death cult that ethnically-cleansed last of Yemen's ancient Jewish community) are badass. These are just three off the top from someone who actively suppresses any though of that naval-gazing hypocritical doucher. The reasons to distrust and despise Piker are legion. I think keeping an eye on his fans is far more important: he's bringing vatniks, antisemites, and and all kinds of miscreant lowlifes into his community - and some, I assume, are "Good People™️" (I don't actually assume that 🤷). Remember: Slava Ukraini, Am Yisrael Chai, Free Palestine, God Bless America, and May God Have Mercy on Piker's Soul! 🇺🇲🇺🇦🇵🇸🇮🇱🫡

The "central camps" literally refers to refugee camps in the center of Gaza. Israelis, ironically, often argue against referring to these built-up areas as refugee camps, and it is the UN and Palestinians themselves that prefer this labelling as a means of maintaining focus on the Nakba and their grievances with Israel (a logical strategy, frankly). Sderot was originally a transit camp for Jewish refugees of ethnic cleansing by Arab states, but today is (rightfully) referred to as a city. Anywhere else besides Palestine, Nuseirat would be called a city, too. But I'm not even challenging the designation, because it's both irrelevant and fundamentally political. What is key here is that @brhodes is a raging partisan hack who looks under every rock for any sign "ZioNazism." He's so horny for Holocaust inversion he seeks an opportunity to express it in regards to every Israeli utterance. There's a reason his colleagues in the Obama Administration nicknamed him "Hamas." Learn the basic history and the accepted terminology around the conflict, bozo.

Why would you think those two things were mutually exclusive, unless you liked Nazis... which is kinda proving the point 😅

You really need to consider counselling, as well as a visit to the Holocaust Museum. The only mirror to white supremacy on display here is in your rank antisemitism:

She is a carpetbagger, an entryist, an apologist for Hamas, and a former Texas Republican - she is a perfect example of the institutional threat of the "reactionary left:"

(((Zionist))) doctors, you say...

I know many liberals who support the existence of the state, the maintenance of the character of its core institutions, and even select decisions of its political echelon; I know exactly zero liberals who "support the government" of Bibi, Smotrich, and Ben Gvir.

"Nakba merely means 'catastrophe,' so when I say 'globalize the Nakba,' I really just mean I want a catastrophe to befall all oppressive systems!" See how stupid that sounds? Connotation is a core part of how we understand words. Quit obfuscating.

Breaking: Dravidians officially elevated to "honorary Aryan" status; northern Indians hella mad.

"Fundraising is drying up"

Ah, I see they are entering the "its just a joke, bro" stage of antisemitic terror-activism. This signals the shift from the "FA" stage to the "FO" stage when, after emerging from their Jewish-blood-induced fugue state, the erstwhile-Nazi begins to take stock of just how low they have sunk, and attempts to rehabilitate their image in the wider community. Because they are disproportionately pathological narcissists, this "rehabilitation" often takes the form of gas-lighting, denial, and projection.