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emcohen.bsky.social
writing about philosemitism, zionism, antisemitism. constantly thinking about Jews. https://emcohen.medium.com/
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submitted 105 days ago • 15 comments

The mandate for academics in this moment is to 1) figure out how their knowledge and skills can be made useful and applicable to the movement to end colonial violence at home and abroad and 2) move as many resources out of the university as possible

submitted 105 days ago • 1 comment

What is philosemitism? Philosemitism is the basis of post-Holocaust white euro-american identity formation where white euro-america forgives itself for the Holocaust (and for all of its past/present/future racist colonial crimes) and resurrects itself as the “protector of Jews.”

submitted 105 days ago • 1 comment

a lot of self-proclaimed radicals, socialists, progressives, communists, etc etc etc have allowed pandemic denialism to lead them into clear alignment with the far right.

submitted 110 days ago • 1 comment

"You can’t build a mass movement that forces everyone to mask in 2024. It’s not where the people are" Effective communist orgs don't craft their line around what they assume people (inc reactionaries) will agree with. They develop a principled line and fight to make it reality.

submitted 110 days ago • 1 comment

rates of mask wearing at left org meetings would go up if masks were provided and the people who set up the meeting wore them. lots of people would show up, see everyone else masking, see the masks at the front, and put one on without a fuss. it's very simple.

submitted 110 days ago • 0 comments

On this point not enough people read em cohen "But as shown above, in assigning itself the role of “protector of Jews” white Euro-America becomes responsible for defining who is a Jew and who is a threat to the Jews." By the incredible @emcohen.bsky.social emcohen.medium.com/on-the-dange...

submitted 110 days ago • 1 comment

liberal fascists are also "single issue voters," with the single issue being "preserving the untenable neoliberal colonial status quo for just a little bit longer."

submitted 117 days ago • 0 comments

(actual) leftists should be really careful, over the coming months, of the liberal fascists who made clear that genocide was not a red line for them who try to join leftist organizations, groups, and direct action efforts now that trump is the president again. they are not safe.

submitted 117 days ago • 11 comments

liberals wanted four more years of maintaining the untenable neoliberal colonial status quo when the reality of the situation facing us could not be any clearer: our options are socialism or barbarism.

submitted 117 days ago • 1 comment

reminder that the ADL supported the Rosenbergs' executions.

submitted 121 days ago • 1 comment

Reminder: you should be wearing a well-fitting N95, KN95, or KF94 whenever you are in shared public spaces to protect yourself and the people around you from COVID-19.

submitted 134 days ago • 0 comments

the world's nazis are all gloating and celebrating, as if their precious zionist entity is not closer to collapse than it ever has been.

submitted 137 days ago • 0 comments

if someone in the middle of the holocaust was saying that the problem wasn't nazism itself but hitler, and that the solution was to 'hold hitler accountable' while maintaining the third reich, you would have very little trouble recognizing that person was still just a nazi.

submitted 138 days ago • 3 comments

i don't think there is any one singular 'litmus test' for having 'good' politics. we are always seeing who people are, what their goals are, what their focus is, and what they are ignoring or unaware of. there is no end or 'passing the test.'

submitted 243 days ago • 2 comments

The philosemitic fascists (like the ADL, Biden, Douglas Murray, and Trudeau) and the antisemitic fascists (like David Duke, Richard Spencer, and Lucas Gage) work together and benefit from the existence of each other.

submitted 250 days ago • 2 comments

when your genocidal blood libel served its purpose so you can stop talking about it.

submitted 281 days ago • 0 comments

is the call 'not in our name' or 'not with our tax dollars' or is the call 'the zionist genocide must be stopped by any means necessary and all those who enabled or participated in it must be held responsible'

submitted 281 days ago • 0 comments

My new essay, The Only Way Out is Through emcohen.medium.com/the-only-way...

submitted 282 days ago • 3 comments

you need to understand that biden is also part of "the far right."

submitted 286 days ago • 0 comments

I just finished writing, and rewriting, and rewriting, an essay with my reflections on antisemitism (and philosemitism) today, titled The Only Way Out is Through. I have been thinking about writing this piece for years and finally did. However, I will not publish it yet. 🧵

submitted 288 days ago • 1 comment

'israel' is a settler-colony founded through, and currently committing, genocide. conversations about 'Jewish safety' and whether so-called israel actually provides it are not just irrelevant but racist and dehumanizing.

submitted 304 days ago • 1 comment

HOW TO for budding anti-fascists: 1. Get a group of friends and agree to work together on this 2. save as much footage of the UCLA zionist gang attack last night as possible. Find it from every source 3. Scour the footage for shots of faces, phones, backpacks, clothes, hair. etc

submitted 306 days ago • 1 comment

It feels absurd to boost an essay now, but I'm seeing repeats of the same issues that pushed me to write "On the Dangers of Fighting Antisemitism" in 2020 In it, I describe how philosemitic "anti-antisemitism" is part of a broad fascist colonial project. emcohen.medium.com/on-the-dange...

submitted 306 days ago • 2 comments

the "campus antisemitism crisis" is a distraction manufactured by the people responsible for filling mass graves and the media doing what it can to cover them up

submitted 315 days ago • 0 comments

ADL: "ANTISEMITISM IS SKYROCKETING A MILLION PERCENT" The "antisemitism": Via Em Cohen on twitter x.com/EmCohen_/sta... This is such a joke, oof

submitted 320 days ago • 6 comments

biden doesn't support racist colonial genocide because AIPAC gives him money. AIPAC gives him money because he supports racist colonial genocide. 50 years ago, when AIPAC was still a new org with barely any power or influence, biden was in the senate opposing integration.

submitted 321 days ago • 1 comment