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[palominojacoby]

Cara Drook, Reclaiming La Belle Juive, (2022 –).

'"La belle Juive" translates to "the beautiful Jewess." It is an archetype of Jewish women that is repeatedly shown in paintings and media throughout history. "La belle Juive" is rooted in antisemitism and misogyny. My goal with this collection is to have Jewish women take control of their narrative and reclaim "La belle Juive." I want to return dignity to the subjects and show what truly makes Jewish women beautiful.'

[bobemajses]

A Jewish wedding in Bukhara, Uzbekistan, 2000

[chutzpahchesed]

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/18/magazine/goy-antisemitic-youth-slang.html

Last week I interviewed a teenager about his use of the word “goyslop.” That’s a term for cruddy, low-quality food — as coined, or at least popularized, by far-right antisemites. This teenager was absolutely not a far-right antisemite; he just happened to attend a New Jersey high school where students, Jewish and Christian and otherwise, said “goyslop” all the time. “If your friend goes and gets McDonald’s, and gets two burgers and a shake,” he explained, “like, ‘Oh, my god, that’s so goyslop, that’s goy.’”

If you enjoy Philip Roth, you might be interested to hear that this school sits not far from where Alexander Portnoy, of “Portnoy’s Complaint,” was chastised by his mother for eating hamburgers and other chazerai — junk — while his constipated father drank “not whiskey like a goy, but mineral oil and milk of magnesia.” That’s one typical use of “goy,” or the plural “goyim”: to refer to those who aren’t Jewish. The Hebrew “goy” just means a people; Bibles routinely translate it as “nation.” But it also came, in Hebrew and Yiddish, to describe the peoples that Jews lived among — say, the ones Portnoy calls “goyim with golden hair and silver tongues,” the ones whose company will never actually promote his father, only treat him to the occasional weekend away in a “fancy goyischehotel.”

All of this is really normal. The world is full of names for “not us”: haole, gaijin, Englischer, allochtoon. They can be totally neutral, or deeply unkind, or just about anywhere in between. Many Jews would tell you “goy” is like, say, “foreigner” — neutral, but certainly capable of becoming an insult if the speaker wants it to.

The abnormal part, in this case, begins with the distressing number of people who imagine that the world is controlled by secretive Jewish cabals, and that the very existence of “goy” is airtight proof of their supremacist plot. For years now, antisemitic extremists have engaged in a trollish embrace of the word — creating, among other things, a neo-Nazi group called the Goyim Defense League and a fringe crowdfunding platform called GoyFundMe.

Some of these people felt vindicated by the release of documents concerning Jeffrey Epstein. Never mind the exploitation of children: Here in his inbox were wealthy Jewish men, writing one another sardonic emails about the goyim! The way Epstein used “goy” was often pretty similar to how gentiles might joke about WASPs, and his sourer uses just feel like a famously loathsome guy being loathsome, but still: Soon we had the far-right pundit Candace Owens treating this as proof of a bigotry fundamental to the faith. “This is, for them, a religious philosophy, a racist perspective that we are goyim, meaning cattle, that are meant to be herded and ruled over,” she told podcast listeners. That “cattle” idea traces back through literal Nazi propaganda to antisemitic sources like “The Protocols of the Elders of Zion”; if Owens really believes it to be true, she differs from other Catholics in her understanding of Scripture, which would have God promising Abraham that “I will make of you a great cow.”

“Goyslop” has its roots in people who think this way starting to agree with Portnoy’s mother about the chazerai. But they imagine sinister Jewish elites purposefully feeding the masses cheap, enfeebling swill — a notion they express, for the most part, not on podcasts but in flippant internet postings about the pliant “goycattle” being herded to their troughs. And it’s that version of “goy” that ended up leaching into high school.

My source — 15, Jewish, a colleague’s son, resident of a racially and religiously diverse suburb — estimates that at least 70 percent of the students in his school would be familiar with “goyslop.” (Another student, who feels less firm on the exact meaning, puts the number at just under half.) He is fully aware that it arose via an “antisemitic thing about Jews trying to kind of poison the minds of the people through food and stuff.” But this is not, in his experience, remotely how it operates among his peers, who see it as criticizing, if anything, corporations. “It’s not really a thing like that anymore,” he says. “Like, everyone says it.”

This may be a wild journey for a word to take, but it’s not an unusual one. The internet is full of fringe jargon that breaks containment and seeps, mostly shorn of its original politics, into the way ordinary young people talk. How? One analogy might be the way that, in conversation, you can use a silly voice to playact as another type of speaker — say, pushing up your glasses and doing a “nerd” voice when correcting somebody. Online, people do this by parodying other posters’ vocabulary or typing habits — including, sometimes, the language the fringes are constantly bombarding everyone else with. It gets toyed with at an amused and dismissive arm’s length, then passes from arm’s length to arm’s length until it is miles from where it began, operating as a kind of 6-7ish in-joke that many young people will tell you is not nearly as deep or serious as whatever alarming origins you’re worried about.

For them, it simply means something else. Does that make “goy” an epic failure for antisemites, who feared the eye-rolling of a few million Jews and now have even gentiles using the word? There are times when a trip through this pipeline does seem to deflate extremist thinking; there are others when it feels as if incredibly unpleasant ideas are worming into the mainstream via glib, uninterrogated jokes. I cannot tell you which cases are which. Most everyone who says “goyslop” is, on some level, kidding. But given the history of the ideas behind it, you might be forgiven for worrying that the joke had spun out of control.

[chutzpahchesed]

Opinion: Jewish Redditors got an antisemitic video game taken down. It’s a drop in the bucket

'Goyslop' only lasted four days online—but other, equally harmful games remain.

On June 22, an independent video game developer (read: one person, perhaps in a dimly lit basement) published a PC game called Goyslop on the popular platform Steam. They described Goyslop as a “Nazi Souls-like game”—implying it resembled the seminal game Dark Souls, which Goyslop almost certainly did not—“filled with the biggest conspiracy theories about Jews.” 

Full disclosure: we have not played the game. Instead, we turned to reviews for a plot summary. Czech reviewer Párek8, who purchased the game for a few dollars and played it for less than an hour, called it “a completely unhinged internet fever dream where u basically help hitler fight jesus, communists and god knows what else in a wild shooter battle. story makes zero sense, the bosses look like actual sleep paralysis demons, and the dark humor is just straight up insane.”

A Jewish Redditor discovered the game a few days before its release and sounded the alarm to the main Jewish subreddit forum, leading to numerous complaints filed with Steam, none of which led anywhere. For those unfamiliar with the gaming giant, Steam enjoys approximately 147 million active monthly users, owning a full three-quarters of PC gaming market share. Almost anyone can upload and sell a game on Steam, whether it’s a AAA title or cheap “shovelware” garbage like Goyslop. While Steam is incredibly popular, Goyslop was not; data shows a handful of people actually played it. 

Yet despite the small numbers, Goyslop is a perfect crystallization of our society’s trouble with regulating harmful digital content. 

The game’s lack of popularity makes it all the more surprising that Steam actually removed Goyslop just four days after its release. A follow-up post on Reddit revealed one user escalated the complaint to Congresswoman Kim Schrier of Washington state, who is Jewish, and in whose district Steam’s parent company, Valve, operates. Within 24 hours of notifying the congresswoman, the user claims, Goyslop was gone. 

Indeed, on June 27, the creator of Goyslop posted an update to his small but enthusiastic community: “Yesterday I was working on a new update, and when I checked the game’s store page, it had been taken down. Steam only sent me a single line saying it was removed. I appreciate everyone who enjoyed the game, and I’m sorry to those who didn’t get the chance to play it. I’m asking Steam support whether there’s any way to bring it back, but honestly, it doesn’t look too good. I spent 7 months developing this game, so it really pains me to have it taken down after just 4 days—but life moves on.”

Quipped a user in response, “I don’t think this vibe-coded asset flip took 7 months to make. That being said it was still a funny delisting speedrun. Look forward to the sequel.”

The problem is, Goyslop isn’t the only game of its kind. 

These games are not coded messages found only in obscure corners of the internet—these are antisemitic tropes, disguised as edginess, openly listed on the world’s largest PC gaming platform, where young people can find them with a simple search. 

It is, if not easy, at least conceivable that young men will fall into this too-online rabbit hole so deep that denying the Holocaust in your high school yearbook seems based. This culture is more prevalent than you might think: the Anti-Defamation League has found more than a million such examples of extremist dogwhistles or symbols in user profiles and discussion boards across Steam.

So what’s the solution? Like every other tech giant, Valve must accept responsibility for its platform’s content, but appears repeatedly unwilling to do so—unless a congresswoman calls. Do we have to get the congresswoman to call about Bad Goys, too? What about all the weird Hitler sex games? 

The burden of responsibility should not fall on the end user, but this is the trend of big tech in the 2020s. Facebook and Xfamously decimated their content-moderation workforces, offloading those duties to users while throwing their hands up in defeat, saying their platforms are simply too big to manage. 

In the gaming industry, the responsibility of content moderation cannot reasonably fall to children—so instead it falls on parents. David Baszucki, the CEO of Roblox, once said of his popular gaming platform—whose struggles with pedophilia, financial exploitation and child harm are so well-documented that they’ve earned their own Wikipedia page—that if parents are “not comfortable, don’t let your kids be on Roblox.”

This argument is, frankly, dumb. It assumes parents are, a) always aware of what their children are doing online; b) up-to-date with sometimes convoluted, quietly insidious online subculture slang and references; and c) cognizant of the dangers inherent to the platform before their children become addicted to it.

It is clear that the tech giants require comprehensive, enforceable regulations to keep harmful content away from impressionable young people, either at the hardware or software level. Given that such international regulations are unlikely in the near future, Canada has taken it upon itself to propose legislation that would restrict anyone under 16 from using social media. Notwithstanding the fact that teenagers could easily bypass this block with a VPN, it is unclear whether gaming platforms like Steam and Roblox would even be affected. Could a 13-year-old still download Bad Goys? Could a seven-year-old still be sexually exploited on a Roblox forum? Would Steam still publish Goyslop 2, should that ever exist, and sell it in broad daylight?

And even if the answer is “no” to all of those within Canada, what about the rest of the world? 

Last week, the New York Times Magazine published a piece about “goyslop”—not the game, but the term. In the piece, a 15-year-old Jewish high schooler from New Jersey explains that his friends all use “goyslop” to refer to junk food. They are not antisemites. They vaguely understand, and don’t care about, the hateful origins of the phrase, which stems from the notion that Jewish elites are feeding the world’s goyim cheap, unhealthy garbage to keep them subservient and oblivious. “If your friend goes and gets McDonald’s, and gets two burgers and a shake,” the teenager explains, that’s “so goyslop.” 

The damage has been done. The culture has shifted. In a world where nobody wants to take responsibility for what young people consume online, extremism seeps in through the margins—and eventually into the real world. 

forgive me for editorializing, but we’ve been telling everyone that the widespread usage of “slop” and its derivation online from “goyslop” was bad, and have been met with skepticism and derision for calling it out, and lo and behold, it’s a pipeline to normalizing antisemitic extremism.

[jewish-vents]

can we talk about how little it actually costs an artist, particularly a musician, to boycott israel? let's say an artist was unhappy with the behavior of the government of the People's Republic of China. let's say they actually gave a damn about the well-being of Uygurs and Tibetans et al. let's say they decided the best way to show that was to make it so the average chinese fan was unable to listen to their music. an aside: that would be stupid on the face of it, but let's say they decided to do it anyway. you could pick any number of countries for this thought experiment. there is a lot of guilt to go around. maybe they could decide they want to stick it to Trump and the american political establishment in the least possible effective way and stop doing business in the US. why might it be that they don't? because that would actually interfere meaningfully with cashflow. the israeli consumer market is not big. it is, in real terms, a very small and not terribly populous country. israel is, in the eyes of the average soulless music mogul, expendable. you can shit on it all you like and there are too few people there to make much difference. and it's probably offset considerably by increased sales to anti-zionists, because some precious little morons will see "anti-zionist" and immediately vomit up their paychecks without checking ANYTHING else. i wouldn't be surprised if it actively makes MORE money to boycott israeli. it probably does. you don't see these artists boycotting the PRC or the US or Russia or Pakistan or France or Brazil or the UK or the UAE because there is no percentage in doing that. nobody is going to buy your music because you boycotted pakistan over debt slavery because nobody gives a damn about just how many people are enslaved via debt in pakistan. (it's estimated at millions. MILLIONS.) again, it would be just as stupid and ineffectual as anything, but they're not even trying and the REASON they're not even trying is because antisemitism is where the real money is. there's always a market for that.

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[stupidjewishwhiteboy]

I’ve noticed a thing recently (well, I’m sure people have been doing it for a while, but it only occurred to me recently) wherein people will deny the antisemitism of the committing a crime against Jews in the diaspora as a way of expressing anger at Israel, then when they’re called on it they’ll go “hey, I never said it wasn’t a crime, I just said it wasn’t *antisemitic*” and bitch, you’re not as cute as you think you are.

[amaditalks]

It's worth noting that this particular gambit has been attempted by the Democratic nominee for the US House race in Colorado 1, Melat Kiros, who refuses to use the word antisemitism in connection with last year's firebombing attack on a group of Jews at a Jewish event in Boulder, which is in the district she will almost certainly be elected to represent.

[majestic-deers]

According to Wikipedia the motive for that attack was “anti-Zionism”

[darkladynyara]

Okay, so they're admitting that ~antizionism~ just means attacking and murdering random jews. (Yes, I know that's not a deliberate admission. I know they're just trying to minimize and excuse their racist violence. Fuckers.)

[the-great-duck]

EGYPT DESERVED TO WIN THIS IS SUCH BULLSHIT.

I never watch football, once every four years I watch football. The only thing I know about football is when a game is boring.

This game did not bore me for a second. I was on the edge of my seat. I mean I went in thinking, 'oh, for sure Argentina is gonna win'. But man Egypt was insane, they played so well, their goalkeeper was so good.

This game was so rigged it makes no sense how obvious they made it. Like I've always thought that people were making up conspiracy theories cuz their favourite team lost, but this was so clearly biased.

I rarely watch games so I might be wrong, but I've been so angry since the match.

Like right after the match I was writing emails in a bad mood. I should never write emails in a bad mood.

[infiniteglitterfall]

buddy I have some bad news for you about who's being racist here (and it's not just about Egypt not letting indigenous Copts or any other non-Muslims on the team)

[moggiepillar]

[pagecommando]

The central thesis is right here and no one will admit it

Admitting it means they and the GOP have agency and have fucked up. They cannot do this because they are the Good Side of Small Uwu Little Guys in a Caring Community, you Insert Blindingly Racist Pejorative Borrowed from Actual Nazis Here.

[chutzpahchesed]

this is desperate and embarrassing, and another example of the current Israeli government not understanding (or not caring) that not all “support” is acceptable or is even genuine support. he won’t be the first toxic personality to visit Israel for exploitative purposes and then to return right back to the antisemitic, racist, misogynistic poison that is his livelihood and base online. would they let in Hasan? would they let in Nick Fuentes? because that’s the type of guy Clavicular is.

(no judgement whatsoever regarding the religious commentary and no judgement to anyone with a secular outlook either: Cindy’s assessment about the opportunism is spot on.)

I’m all for forgiveness and people doing the real work to make amends, to learn and change, to offer their allyship. there have been amazing people who have done that sincerely and have spoken about the journey it’s taken them. that’s a great thing. however, it should be obvious when someone is making a real effort versus when someone is being cynical and engaging in bait. there is no reason to believe that a bigoted influencer like this, a guy who has encouraged others to bash their own faces with hammers among other gross and abusive behavior, has anything but the worst motives, and platforming or legitimizing him is harmful and void of integrity.

[chutzpahchesed]

Holocaust denier and all around ghoul Myron Gaines is pictured here too.

‘Heil Hitler’ Chanted in Miami Beach Nightclub as Influencers Celebrate Nazi Ideology | Combat Antisemitism Movement

A Miami Beach nightclub drew swift condemnation after a video showing far-right influencers chanting Nazi slogans circulated online, prompti

These are the right-wing extremists we're watching out for in 2026

Antisemitism, Holocaust denial and neo-Nazi ideology are all the rage among the rising stars of the new right

and if I say this clownery is about a certain strain of pathetic misogynistic, prejudiced solidarity, and those who rally together like this will always sell out if they think they can win the approval and clout of other noxious individuals…which we literally just saw here in the US with the Platner debacle too. humiliating, déclassé behavior, and in the end, the incel antisemites still aren’t going to spare them.

[wenevergotusedtoegypt]

Gotta love that thing when you’re reading a book and it’s really good and then all of a sudden WHAM the author drops a cute lil crumb of antisemitism and moves on like it didn’t just completely upend the entire book despite being barely plot-relevant

[wenevergotusedtoegypt]

@jewishgay4il

Well lots of things, let's be real, but in this specific case this is Sublimation by Isabel J. Kim.

The concept of the book is that it's an alternate universe where when a person crosses a border (it seems like this mostly means country borders although there are certain references to other types of borders), if they are not planning on coming back (consciously or not), they "instance," which is to say, they physically duplicate into 2 identical people, one of whom remains in the original country and the other of whom continues on to the destination. Both instances start with the same set of experiences/memories but from that point their experiences are entirely separate - they can't read each other's minds or anything. In this universe it is also possible for instances to "reintegrate" by coming into physical contact (the reintegrated person has all memories/experiences of both instances simultaneously).

It's about the immigrant experience really, specifically the Korean-American immigrant experience but immigration in general. And because that's its focus, I feel like in a lot of ways it doesn't delve completely into the full horror that this universe promises. The main characters are a woman who instanced at age 9 when her mother moved her from Korea to New Jersey (both instances of her) and a man who instanced in college when he was studying abroad in NYC and made a subconscious decision that he wasn't coming back when he headed from Korea to NYC after winter break (both instances of him). So, like, immigrant experience, alienation, who you left behind in your home country and your relationship with them, etc. etc. but both of these individuals are really pretty privileged people. There are background references to scary things like people instancing while being trafficked. But they aren't particularly front and center to the story being told because it's meant to be about the general immigrant experience, not a horror novel.

Anyway, the only Jew to appear thus far (228 out of 358 pages into a novel set partly in NYC) is in 1 very brief scene that one of the characters remembers. Here is what we know about her from that brief blip of an appearance: she is a startup founder for a tech company working on an advanced wearable that can prevent reintegration of instances in the event of physical contact for those who don't want to reintegrate, and she is "independently wealthy," and she is Jewish.

This character decided to get into this industry and create this product due to her genuinely horrifying family history related to instancing. Her grandparents just barely made it out of Europe before the Holocaust...but they instanced at the border. The instances who came out were fine. The instances who got left behind survived, barely. After the war they came to find the instances who escaped and wanted to reintegrate. This woman's grandfather (the one who escaped Europe) murdered his instance (the one who survived the camps) rather than reintegrate and have to live with the survivor instance's memories.

Again, this is deeply horrifying! These are the kind of implications of the universe I'm talking about when I say that the author doesn't fully delve into them. This is a really logical and meaningful reason for a person to want to create a product that could prevent reintegration - what if her non-survivor grandfather could've felt he was safely able to prevent an unwanted reintegration without literally murdering another version of himself that had already gone through hell?

...or so I think. The implication of the way it's written is very clearly that this startup founder is just in it for the money and using her sob story background for marketing or clout or something. This scene is a meeting between her and a character working for a company that wants to acquire her company, about which she is highly skeptical (and doesn't end up agreeing to it):

It had been an awkward meeting in a too-fancy coffee shop, which trailed into an awkward silence upon which you cast the weak conversational lifeboat of: Why an instancing start-up? Hannah had punctured your lifeboat by telling you, with a vicious smile, about her grandparents, and the Holocaust. How they got out right before it was impossible to get out and how there was a second version of her grandparents, who had survived the camps, who had come and found them again when Hannah's grandparents were visiting family. And how her grandfather, the instance, had pushed his other self off a roof rather than live with the knowledge in his own brain. You hadn't known what to say to that [...] To hell with people who use their family trauma as their conversational nuclear weapon.

[mariacallous]

The Ease of Antisemitism

How a decent congressional nominee reached for the oldest accusation

[knight-of-skyloft]

Let me grant him everything a fair reader should. The suffering in Gaza is vast and a person of conscience watching it has every reason to be sickened; I take Leonard’s horror to be sincere. None of that is in dispute, and none of it is the point. Genuine horror at human suffering does not license the one comparison that turns Jews into Nazis to express it. That a man feels the suffering sincerely is how the oldest structure finds his mouth — not despite his conscience, but through it.

And

Set aside whether this costs you Jewish voters. Ask the simpler thing: is this who you want to be — the kind of person who takes the comparison that turns Jews into Nazis because the room is nodding? Because here is what history actually teaches: There were very few Righteous Gentiles, and the reason there were few is that it was never easy. To see the structure for what it is while everyone around you calls it something else, and then to refuse it at a cost to yourself has always been the hard thing, the thing almost no one does.

[chutzpahchesed]

this is desperate and embarrassing, and another example of the current Israeli government not understanding (or not caring) that not all “support” is acceptable or is even genuine support. he won’t be the first toxic personality to visit Israel for exploitative purposes and then to return right back to the antisemitic, racist, misogynistic poison that is his livelihood and base online. would they let in Hasan? would they let in Nick Fuentes? because that’s the type of guy Clavicular is.

(no judgement whatsoever regarding the religious commentary and no judgement to anyone with a secular outlook either: Cindy’s assessment about the opportunism is spot on.)

I’m all for forgiveness and people doing the real work to make amends, to learn and change, to offer their allyship. there have been amazing people who have done that sincerely and have spoken about the journey it’s taken them. that’s a great thing. however, it should be obvious when someone is making a real effort versus when someone is being cynical and engaging in bait. there is no reason to believe that a bigoted influencer like this, a guy who has encouraged others to bash their own faces with hammers among other gross and abusive behavior, has anything but the worst motives, and platforming or legitimizing him is harmful and void of integrity.

[thetourguidebarbie]

They watch movies and read history books all their lives where the climax involves angry rioting civilians as villains and mobs marching to murder a person or group they find suspicious but who is not guilty of causing an upsetting situation/bad economic conditions and say to themselves "that could never be me i would never believe lies and propaganda i would never go after innocent people just to feel like i'm doing something productive with my anger over a situation i have no control over and resort to violence just to have someone to blame so i don't need to think too hard about my biases because I'm a Good Person™️" and then they, in their hubris, promptly join the mob

[chutzpahchesed]

Kneecap suing indigenous Canadian leader over objection to gig on ancestral lands - The Jewish Chronicle

Harvey Yesno signed a statement accusing the rap trio of supporting terror groups, which they deny

Anti-Israel rap trio Kneecap have brought a defamation suit against a Canadian indigenous leader after he signed a letter objecting to their planned performances at venues on ancestral lands in the country.

Harvey Yesno of the Eabametoong First Nation was a signatory to a statement posted by the Indigenous Embassy Jerusalem, a pro-Israel group for indigenous communities globally.

Liam Óg Ó hAnnaidh, Naoise Ó Cairealláin and JJ Ó Dochartaigh, known by their respective stage names as Mo Chara, Móglaí Bap and DJ Próvaí, claim that the statement contained false and defamatory claims.

In particular, their suit centres on the allegation that it accused them of expressing support for the Hamas and Hezbollah terror groups and condoning antisemitism, which they deny.

O hAnnaidh was previously charged in the UK with a terror offence after a video which appeared to show him displaying a Hezbollah flag at a gig at the O2 Forum in Kentish Town, north London, on November 21 2024, circulated online.

However, that case collapsed last September, with chief magistrate Paul Goldspring ruling the proceedings were “instituted unlawfully” as prosecutors had brought charges outside the required six-month time frame from the date of the alleged offence.

That ruling was later affirmed by the High Court, which rejected an appeal by the Crown Prosecution Service.

On Wednesday, an Irish court granted Kneecap’s legal counsel permission to serve notice of the suit on Yesno, in both Irish and English, in Ontario, Canada.

The group is suing for financial damages, claiming that the statement Yesno signed caused material damage to their reputation after it was widely picked up by media outlets.

Judge Cian Ferriter ruled that the group had an arguable case that they had been defamed in Ireland, allowing them to bring the suit in that jurisdiction, rather than in Canada.

He added that the three men’s reputations, as well as their identity with Irish language and culture, were “bound up” with Irish jurisdiction due to their citizenship and status as Irish public figures.

However, he did state that he was open to a prospective application from Yesno’s legal team to challenge the jurisdictional ruling.

Yesno is yet to publicly comment on the case.

[chutzpahchesed]

the comment is the most succinct explanation as to why this conflict has caused such an explosion of antisemitism in Ireland and how badly misinterpreted the history is.

the video in general saying, “every region has its own Israel. every region has an oppressor country like Israel” is a level of unfathomable ignorance in the context of the Middle East alone.

[chutzpahchesed]

Wiki page of World Cup ref edited to make him Jewish as Egyptian fans blame Zionism for Argentina loss - The Jewish Chronicle

Francois Letexier’s entry on the online encyclopaedia was altered after he came in for criticism over a number of contentious calls during t

The Wikipedia page for the French referee who took charge of the Round of 16 match between Argentina and Egypt on Tuesday was changed this week to state that he is Jewish, leading Egyptian fans to blame Israel, Jews and Zionism for their team’s loss.

Francois Letexier has been subjected to a slew of online abuse from disgruntled viewers following a number of contentious calls during the game.

These included calling a foul, with the help of VAR, that ruled out an Egyptian goal and giving Argentina what would ultimately prove a decisive penalty.

Much of the ire centred around claims that football’s governing body, Fifa, is biased in favour of Argentina and its star player, Lionel Messi, which have been prevalent on social media during the World Cup.

However, an Egyptian YouTuber with around 300,000 followers made a video the day after the match claiming that Egypt had “lost to Zionism”, citing Argentine President Javier Milei’s staunch support for Israel and suggesting a Zionist conspiracy is active within Fifa to advance the South American nation’s prospects in the tournament.

Subsequently, the “early life” section on Letexier’s Wikipedia page was altered to suggest he was born into an Orthodox Jewish family in Brittany and that his grandfather was an active member of the French Resistance during the Second World War.

The edit was made by a Bangladesh-based user, who later removed it citing lack of evidence, while another editor under the username “thepharoah17” added Letexier to the topic page for prominent French Jews.

In the wake of the change, several Egyptian fans shared screenshots of the page claiming that the referee’s now-debunked Jewishness played a role in his alleged bias against their team.

It was also shared by a number of prominent pro-Palestine accounts, including Rahmeh Aladwan, a British doctor currently charged with four counts of inviting support for Hamas.

The claim was even “confirmed” as factual by X, formerly Twitter’s, built-in AI chatbot, Grok, in response to users’ questions, though it later reversed its position.

The Wikipedia entry was subsequently reverted to remove the false reference to Letexier’s Jewish upbringing, with editors stating that there was no evidence to support the claim and no reliable sourcing confirming where it originated.

[jewish-vents]

“only the most evil people would go to Israel” interesting because the people most likely to go to Israel for religious, cultural, or historical reasons, or because they have family and friends there, or for weddings and funerals, or to visit the Kotel or Yad Vashem, or to make aliyah, are Jews. I never see “only the most evil people would go” to any other country on earth that has even worse human rights violations and inequality. I’ve never seen celebrities who play in Saudi Arabia (since the NY mayor pulled this comparison) get cancelled for it. I’ve never seen people who want to explore their heritages in troubled nations get called demons and Nazis and colonizers. “only the most evil people” only one group of people is irredeemable to you, and it’s Jewish people.

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