Frankly, I should have put image descriptions and explanations in the original post, but I didn't want to make it too long. Here we go--
First image: Heretics being publicly tortured during the Spanish Inquisition. Approximately 300,000 Jews, accounting for a quarter of the Jewish population in Spain at the time, were forcibly converted, ethnically cleansed, exiled, brutally tortured or killed. Contrary to their modern comical appearance, Jews do actually tend to expect the Spanish Inquisition. This sort of mass violence against our communities keeps happening, in every generation.
Second Image: The KKK marches in Washington, 1926. This is meant to represent the KKK in general, but having them parade in front of the USA Capitol building was just too apt. Known primarily for their persecution and lynching of Black Americans, the Klan's 20th Century resurgence was actually kick-started by the brutal lynching of Jewish American Leo Frank, following false accusations that he murdered a 13-year-old girl. By 1925, the Klan had 4 million members, more than the total population of Jews in the United States. Jews also faced institutional segregation and persecution in the US during this time, being barred from Whtie banks, colleges, sports teams, neighbourhoods, and social clubs.
Third Image: A photo taken during the Farhud, a massive mob violence against Jews in Iraq during Shavuot 1941. This particular pogrom was spurred on when pro-Nazi Iraqi soldiers overthrew the government and attempted to ally themselves with the Axis powers. Local radio began spewing frequent antisemitic propaganda, accusing Jews of being British loyalists, and the homes and businesses of Jews were marked with red paint. The increase in antisemitic propaganda led to the murder of as many as 200 Jews, with 900 Jewish homes and businesses being destroyed.
Third Image, Kind Of. I used an image of the Farhud in this post because it represented a pronounced uptick in antisemitism based on considering Jews to be "germs" or "colonial loyalists", but I also intended this image to represent the beginning of massive Jewish persecution and pogroms in the Arab World. During the 20th Century, upwards of a million Jews were ethnically cleansed from Muslim-majority nations, from Morocco to Iran. If I added a photo or a description for every one of those incidents, this post would go on much longer than I would even care to read.
Fourth Image: The Nazis. If you've made it this far, you know why they're here. This post is long enough as is.
Fifth Image: Prisoners are led by a gunman into the gulags. The gulags were meant to house any form of "undesirable" in the Soviet Union, but Jews were especially targeted by Stalinist policies. The government painted all Jews as "rootless cosmopolitans", or stateless capitalists who were more loyal to monetary gain or to Zionism than to the communist state. This campaign led nearly all Soviet Jews to be purged from academia, education, and the arts. They were blacklisted and starved, sent to a barren farm in the Jewish Autonomous Oblast, or put in a gulag to endure forced labour under hazardous conditions.
Sixth Image: While the Soviets were attempting to get rid of all their (((capitalists))), the Americans were trying to get rid of all their (((communists))). Senator Joseph McCarthy and the House Un-American Activities Committee began blacklisting and imprisoning suspected communist sympathizers. 90% of teachers and actors blacklisted during the Red Scare were Jews, and these policies led to the USA's first-ever federal execution of likely-innocent Jews Ethel and Julius Rosenberg. Surprising nobody, several congressmen in the HUAAC were former members of the KKK.
Seventh Image: The Chinese Cultural Revolution. Mao Zedong's PRC at some times mandated, and at other times conveniently ignored, the brutal slaughter of millions of Chinese educators, artists, and scientists, to ensure that whoever remained would be staunchly loyal to the Communist Party government. There were precious few Jews left in China at this point, and most of them were atheists, anti-Zionists, and publicly committed to the PRC cause. That didn't stop them from being imprisoned for decades and sent to forced labour camps. Their crimes? Merely having Jewish ancestry.
Eighth Image: Protests during the 1968 Polish Political Crisis. Political instability in Poland caused an uptick in student protests, which the Polish government blamed on the Jews, saying we had "masterminded" and "orchestrated" instability in the country. About 13,000 Jewish Holocaust survivors and their children were subsequently ethnically cleansed from Poland under the guise of anti-Zionism (see rootless cosmopolitans, above). You can see the Polish cognates for Zionism and Israel on the bottom of their posters. Beginning with mass anti-Zionist protests, the crises evolved into mob violence, blacklists, and political prosecutions. Jews across Poland were forced to publicly denounce Israel and Zionism, and in many cases, doing so didn't prevent them from being targeted by discrimination.
Ninth Image: Unite the Right Rally in Charlottesville, VA, 2017. Like the Nazis, this is one that most people will instantly recognize and know about.
Tenth Image: Modern anti-Zionist protests. I picked one choice antisemitic poster that has stuck with me, but there are many, many more examples I could have chosen. Today, we see the echoes of the violence we faced before. Like Leo Frank, we are accused of killing children, of blood libel, despite many of us having no hand in those deaths. Like in the Farhud, red paint is used to mark Jewish homes and businesses. Like in Poland, we are accused of masterminding and orchestrating plots to create political instability and benefit ourselves: "The Superbowl is a cover to distract us from Gaza! Spotify Wrapped is a cover to distract us from Gaza!" Like in communist nations, we are all decried as more loyal to Zionism than we are to our diaspora nations and communities. Jews in the public eye are forced to publicly stand against Israel and Zionism to avoid blacklists and boycotts, and yet many of them are still boycotted and blacklisted simply for being Jewish. Violence against Jewish communities is constantly justified under the guise of anti-Zionism.
They used to say the "bad people" were heretics, non-whites, colonist sympathizers, capitalists, communists, or rootless cosmopolitans. All of those words eventually meant "Jews", and all of that violence eventually targeted Jews. Now they say the "bad people" are Zionists, and they've been saying that for a while. If you look at who suffers when we get rid of the "evil Zionists", you will see hundreds of thousands of Jewish corpses.
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