Stop Antisemitism

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Police in North Carolina have launched an investigation after a banner bearing antisemitic and neo-Nazi messages was hung above a highway overpass on Sunday, one week after a similar banner was discovered at an overpass in the same area.

The banner was spotted early on Christmas Day and then removed from the Pineywood Church Road overpass overlooking the US 1 highway in the Cameron area. It carried the slogan “A touch of death time” and was signed by the “NS [National Socialist Resistance Front,” a previously-unknown neo-Nazi group that may be an offshoot of existing white supremacist organizations. At the base of the banner were two swastikas and the numerals “1488” — neo-Nazi code for the “14 words,” a white supremacist mantra invoked by far-right groups, along with the Nazi slogan “Heil Hitler.”


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North Carolina Police Investigating Second Neo-Nazi Banner Hung on Highway Overpass

An antisemitic banner hung over the US 1 highway in Cameron, North Carolina. Photo: Screenshot Police in North Carolina have …

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The word "Jew" was listed on Google as a verb marked offensive, defined as "to bargain with someone in a miserly or petty way" for most of the day on Tuesday​

Google's definition of the word 'Jew,' as seen on December 27, 2022.
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Google fixes error after labeling 'Jew' as an offensive slur

The word "Jew" was listed on Google as a verb marked offensive, defined as "to bargain with someone in a miserly or petty way" for most of the day on Tuesday

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He needs to worry about muslims in his country not jews.

 

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How does one stop Antisemitism? Which is another word for Jew hatred .
First it was Judeophobia, and then a German Jew-hater changed the expression to Antisemitism in the 19th century. Nothing changes, It is all the same.

Many groups like to say that Jews are against Israel or against Judaism.

This one seems to be one of them. And there probably are many others, which I will post in the future.

Jew hatred may morph, but the intent is always the same.

Let us try to stop it.

Why are they always running work shops about understaning white culture, when they cry that the culture IS white culture????

 

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UNESCO announced that it has launched a US-wide online professional training programme for school teachers, superintendents and principals to address antisemitism.

Their partners are the University of Southern California’s Shoah Foundation, the American Federation of Teachers and the American Jewish Committee.

Audrey Azoulay, UNESCO Director General, said, "Antisemitism is an attack on our shared humanity. It must be confronted head-on, without naivety and with perseverance. This is the commitment of UNESCO, the UN agency mandated to promote education on the Holocaust and the prevention of genocide. We are proud to support American teachers to raise young people’s awareness of the nature and impact of this toxic hate speech and ideology that drive discrimination."

The name of the course is "Shine a Light." It does not mention too many details, just a general description: "Participants will develop their knowledge, skills and confidence to teach about antisemitism and to dismantle antisemitic stereotypes. They will also learn strategies to address antisemitic incidents in schools, and to respond effectively to conspiracy theories including Holocaust denial and distortion."

I am all for training teachers about how to combat antisemitism, but I fear that this is only addressing a small subset of the issue. The mention, multiple times, of Holocaust denial seems to indicate that the only flavor of antisemitism it will tackle is far-Right, neo-Nazi antisemitism.

I don't see any indication that it will address false claims popular among Black antisemites that Jews controlled the slave trade or that Blacks are the real Jews and Jews are imposters. I don't see anything about left-wing antisemitic conspiracy theories involving the "Israel lobby."

The USC Shoah Foundation seems to be the driver of the training, and they have had a course for students on antisemitism since 2016, which defined it this way:

Antisemitism is the term for hatred of Jews as a group or a concept. Hatred of Jews has existed since ancient times, and in the nineteenth century it was being influenced by modern scientific ways of thinking. The word “antisemitism” was coined in Germany by political activist Wilhelm Marr to represent this newer way of thinking. “Semitism” supposedly expressed all things Jewish, since at the time national groups were frequently defined by their language and the traditional language of Jews is Hebrew, which is a Semitic language. Of course there is no such thing as “Semitism” and all speakers of Semitic languages never belonged to the same national or ethnic groups. Antisemitism may take the form of religious teachings that proclaim the inferiority of Jews, their supposedly evil nature, or other negative ideas about Jews. It may include political efforts to isolate, oppress, or otherwise injure them. It may also include prejudiced or other stereotyped views about Jews derived from racial or other ideologies.

I can find only a small hint that anti-Zionism may be linked to antisemitism in this handout, no longer online:
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Given that UNESCO has adopted the Palestinian fiction that denies or minimizes the Jewish connection to Jerusalem, the Temple Mount and Hebron, it seems apparent that Arab antisemitism will not be covered by these courses. After all, Temple denial is no less antisemitic than Holocaust denial, but UNESCO spreads that lie, explicitly or implicitly.. It would almost certainly not want to accuse Arabs of antisemitism.

The American Jewish Committee, which has strongly condemned UNESCO in the past for its own Jerusalem resolutions, does embrace the IHRA working definition of antisemitism. On the other hand, the American Federation of Teachers is likely to only emphasize neo-Nazi style antisemitism and ignore or deny all others.

It is very unclear what this course is going to look like. UNESCO's involvement and its press release emphasis on Holocaust education and denial gives me pause. Holocaust education is crucial, of course, but today's youth cannot easily link Jews being herded into gas chambers with their view of Jews today as a successful, integrated group in the US.

The entire point of a course on antisemitism should be that no group is immune to being infected hy it, and showing examples from across the board, from Alice Walker to Mahmoud Abbas, from Louis Farrakhan to Roald Dahl, from Richard Nixon to Ilhan Omar, from the murderer at Tree of Life to the murderers in Jersey City and those in Paris, from Henry Ford to Kanye West, from Osama bin Laden to Marjorie Taylor-Greene. The wide range is exactly the point, and if the Shoah is the main focus of the course, it will not achieve its goals.


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UNESCO teaching how to stop antisemitism? I have questions.

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The Health and Human Rights Journal has a special section this month: "Settler Colonialism, Structural Racism, and the Palestinian Right to Health." It was organized and curated by the Community and Public Health at Birzeit University and the FXB Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard University.

Its seven articles are predicated on malicious, antisemitic lies about Israel. The lies - that Israel is a racist, apartheid, settler-colonialist state bent on eradicating Palestinian Arabs and their culture - are accepted as unvarnished truth, without any debate.

The introduction of an article purported to be about amputations begins with this antisemitic framework:

Since 1948 and with the establishment of the state of Israel, Israel has been deploying physical and structural violence against Palestinians in multiple well-documented ways, all aimed at the erasure, subjugation, and oppression of the Palestinians, in line with what Patrick Wolfe has called the “logic of elimination” in settler-colonial states.[1]

Israel’s colonial ideology is manifested in the “daily assault on Palestinian life as a result of settler-colonial ideology that renders them killable as a part of and a furthering of their removal from their land.”[2]

Another article's abstract begins with antisemitic lies as irrefutable facts:

In this paper, we examine the social construction of race as a determinant of health inequities in Palestine. Race myths about Palestinians conform to the “logic of elimination” integral to settler colonialism, predicated on the dispossession and removal of the Indigenous people from the land.

These are all absurd and hateful lies. Somehow, the Palestinian population nearly quadrupled under this genocidal regime since 1967.

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Health journal article: Antisemitism is a necessary therapy for Palestinians' mental health

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Vandalized menorah in Coney Island, New York. Photo: Twitter.
A menorah in the Coney Island section of Brooklyn, New York was vandalized this week.

Others across the world have met the same fate, according to several reports by StopAntisemitism, a US-based watchdog group, with similar incidents occurring in New York City, Beverly Hills, Berlin, as well as in Rockland, Maine, and Temuco, Chile.


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Menorah in Coney Island Destroyed Amid Wave of Antisemitic Vandalism Incidents Across the World

Vandalized menorah in Coney Island, New York. Photo: Twitter. A menorah in the Coney Island section of Brooklyn, New York …

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Brazilian Jews Condemn ‘Antisemitic’ Tropes Leveled at Prominent Israeli-Born Economist

Brazilian Jewish economist Ilan Goldfajn. Photo: Reuters/Latin America News Agency Brazil’s Jewish community has reacted furiously to comments made during …

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NBA Shares Guide to Dispelling Prejudices, Antisemitic Tropes Against Jews

An NBA League basketball hoop and basketball. Photo: Gobierno CDMX via Wikimedia Commons The National Basketball Association shared on its …

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How the iconic Barbara Walters led the charge against antisemitism and social injustice (sometimes)

The legendary interviewer and TV personality from "Today," "ABC Evening News," "20/20" and "The View" has died at the age of 93.

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[ Toxic religion, culture, hatred ]

 

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Colorado antisemites target kids with Crayon-filled packets

Christmas day this year saw an unusual and disturbing batch of “presents” distributed in the Redlands neighborhood of Grand Junction, Colorado.

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If anti-Zionism isn't antisemitism, why did Arabs recruit Nazis in 1948?

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WATCH: How Jewish Teens Fought Hate With Light! | United with Israel

Last year, antisemites harassed a group of Jewish teens celebrating Chanukah in London. This year, that group sent the haters a powerful message.

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LOL.....Ethiopian Jews might take issue with all that "whiteness" being bandied about..

Take note, Whoopi.