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Rabbi Menachem Levine's avatar

“When anti-Zionism becomes a normative political position, active anti-Semitism becomes the norm. Because if you believe that Zionism is racism, it follows that Zionists are racists. And everyone knows what should happen to racists.”

― Bari Weiss, How to Fight Anti-Semitism

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Robert's avatar

You are absolutely right, Rabbi.

And we need to call out Jew hating when we see it. We need to not accept their argument that anti-zionism isn't racism. If you hate (at a minimum) half the world's Jews, you're a Jew hater. Period. If I said I don't hate black people, just the ones in the United States, I'd, correctly, be labeled a racist. So should Jew haters.

Don't call them anti-Zionists, call them what they are, Jew haters.

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Susan Sullivan's avatar

What is happening is despicable! I Will always stand with you and speak out for you.

You are Gods own people.

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Dana Ramos's avatar

Quoting the essay: "Are people comfortable with Israelis and Jews being excluded, demonized, shamed, and mocked?" Apparently, yes--they are not only comfortable with it, but encourage it.

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Nathan Brown's avatar

There are three big lies that need to be addressed to the world …

1. Israel is not an apartheid nation. South Africa segregated its blacks and whites. In Israel, society is homogeneous, with Muslims and Christians participating in society.

2. Zionism is the belief in a homeland for the Jewish people. Zionism is not racism.

3. There was never a country called palestine which was colonised by European settlers.

These three lies which are constantly propagated play a huge part in today’s hate against Jews.

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Dan's avatar
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Simple statement of the facts: Hamas’s Charter expressly calls for a Genocide against The Jewish People. And then they hid amongst civilians after just such a war, after their attack of Oct 7th. 50,000 died as the result. These civilian casualties WOULD ABSOLUTELY NOT HAVE HAPPENED if those two things were not the case. Furthermore: They had the chance of a state, which they blew with a War and the irrevocable choice of Martyrdom. So toughen up. History was never our fault. Tell this like this is to all your Antisemitic AntiZionist colleague. And if they can’t take these truths THEN CEASE contact with them. You might want to add that Hamas has an alliance with the re-formed Nazi Party here in London, which we have monitored. Let us see the confected outrage at this too. I bet this fact is met by faces like a smacked arse. Or indeed lips pursed like a cats arsehole. Hint: they were never friends or colleagues anyway.

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Gail's avatar

It is obsession. Even for hate, this is not normal. It has become a singular, all encompassing fixation. The Covid version of hatred.

I’ve read comments so insane that one would think ( if there was still such thing as functional thought), it was a protracted SNL skit.

Like, “ My dog was killed by an alligator in the Everglades”- The alligator was Mossad

“ I was trying to flag a taxi in the pouring rain and fell in the street”- Jews control the weather

“Thirty Nigerian Christians were kidnapped by Boko Haram while attending church and beheaded”- They were Jews masquerading as Boko Haram

My Hindu son in law whose parents emigrated from India was surrounded by Jihadists screaming “Die Zionists!” in front of the Guggenheim Museum - Peggy Guggenheim was a filthy Jew so he must be one

“ But he’s very dark complected and was wearing a Nehru tunic”- India is really Israel with an a at the end . Hindus are satanic Kabbalah demon worshipping Zionist Jews.

Depending on which revisionist conspiracy theory suits the hatred-Churchill, Lincoln, Washington,Grant, Jefferson, Locke, Paine, Madison, Adams, Franklin, Lord Acton, Montesquieu,Voltaire,Rousseau,Huxley,Steinbeck,Margaret Mitchell , Shah Pahlavi,Attaturk,Dalai Lama were Jews

And so were Hitler, Stalin,Mussolini,Genghis Khan,Attila,Vlad the Impaler,Hirohito,Nero,Napoleon, the British Monarchy,David Duke, Charles Manson, Jeffrey Dahmer,Ed Gein, Gacy, Richard Ramirez,Ted Bundy, too.

“Mossad” killed Charlie Kirk,the Kennedys,John Lennon, Shinzo Abe, Uribe,Marilyn,MLK,Malcolm X, Lincoln,the Lindbergh baby,Tupac, Biggie,Joan of Arc,Mary Jo Kopekni,Amelia Earhart,Roger Rabbit,Sheriff John Brown,Flipper,Cujo,’Old Yeller, Billy Jo McAllister,the dinosaurs and of course, Jesus

Mossad created Al Qaeda, Hamas, Hezbollah,Taliban, Epstein, ISIS,perpetrated 9/11, the Gulf War, Afghanistan,Libya,10/7,US Embassy bombing in Lebanon,Iran-Contra,Ukraine/Russia,created Covid, AIDS, Ebola,H1N1,West Nile, SARS,MERS,Thyphoid, Measles, Polio Smallpox, cancer, cystic fibrosis, Hashimoto’s thyroiditis, tuberculosis…. cooties..

Oh yeah! The volcanic eruptions of Vesuvius, Mt Saint Helens, Mauna Loa.. the Mexico City, San Fran, Turkey, Syria, Tangshan, Indian Ocean, Haitian, Chilean, Messina Earthquakes, too.

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1938again's avatar

Exactly.

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