This entire discourse feels like gaslighting. Yes antisemitism exists on the left and appears to have spiked since Oct 7. But anti-Arab and anti-Islamic prejudice ALSO EXIST and are major contributing factors to an ONGOING CAMPAIGN OF MASS MURDER.
Why is 99% of media concern aimed at the former?
Why is 99% of media concern aimed at the former?
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Obviously not everyone that wears them ascribes to those things but they often feel like veils or shibboleths.
a 7 year old child was murdered for being palestinian
anti-genocide protesters have been attacked by masked thugs as cops stood by and watched
what the nyt chooses to amplify here is a deliberate choice and a deeply racist one
jews are in fact being assaulted and murdered by white nationalists in the u.s. and we *can* fight antisemitism and islamophobia at the same time without one fight detracting from the other.
Do I believe antisemitism exists on the left? Absolutely. But those folks do not hold anywhere near the power the antisemites on the right do. Because those antisemites are about to…
Keep pretending that people are doing this for only the right reasons if you want, but it's easy to see through🤷♂️
I'm not trying to dowplay misogyny as a whole but like, if you hate Zionists, you hate all of em, not just one gender of em
Our priority should be on preventing any conflict.
also, the lines in the middle east were very much not drawn up by americans. that would be various european countries again.
You're giving them way too much credit if you think it is from inherent bias one way or the other.
David Frum was out there saying universities did 10/7 while the bodies were still warm on the ground.
You standing up to say you want more dead Palestinians killed by psycho right wingers and you don't want anyone else to talk doesn't make you a hero.
With "I love it when they incite violence by lying"
Again, most zionists are not Jewish. This hypothetical protestor saw a piece of Zionist iconography and shouted this in response. They probably had no idea if the woman was Jewish or not b/c many Jewish people look like any other white person.
If one is more offended by a rude comment than by genocide, they don't care about humanity
I'm not gonna defend someone calling the author "zio bitch" but Arabs and Muslims have also been called indefensible names and are not getting space in the NYT!
Calling someone "zio-{misogynist slur}" is antisemitic and misogynist, but not for the reasons the piece says. (cont'd)
IMO the antisemitism is in equating Jewish with pro-IDF-doing-genocide, and IMHO in using "zionism" as a lazy shorthand for ONE type of far-right zionism, whose adherents *want* to suppress other forms of zionism.
https://bsky.app/profile/gonebabygone.bsky.social/post/3lcb3vcktik24
far as I can tell, those bomb threats were mostly from 2022 and at the time, the NYT and most other major sane news sources did cover this
like, i feel that a politician declaring they want to ethnic cleanse Gaza is worse than the incident described in the article
You can't just put mass murder and genocide in front of people and expect them to play along.
https://theloop.ecpr.eu/judeonationalism-antisemitism-for-the-discrediting-of-muslims/
It's direct from Pootin, used to pit good folk against good folk around the world. Corbin was a bad candidate but cries of antisemitism silenced the left on #brexit
Pootin invaded #ukraine to "protect them fr antisemitic Nazis"
Because that's the spirit at my kids' schools. We get emails home about a Free Palestine sticker, but no open discourse is allowed about how Israel's behavior isn't okay. The chilling effect in action.
The dead Palestine child murdered explicitly because the guy who murdered the kid thought he would grow up to do October 7th might be alive without the media
In the U.S.: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/politics-and-religion/article/abs/homeland-violence-and-diaspora-insecurity-an-analysis-of-israel-and-american-jewry/2F7D87C36A37A0D0EB9600C7D58B2510
In Belgium: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/0031322X.2011.605845
In Australia: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/01639625.2021.1968283
Both are being hard done by the leadership groups in this conflict.
Because I don’t think you meant to.
You responded to a post on Islamophobia by bringing up how Jews have felt the last year. That looked to me like justifying Islamophobia. If that was not your intent, I apologize.