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New policy: No more arguing with Christianists, especially the ones who think that missionizing is a good thing. Autoblock on sight.
EDIT: Addendum: Antisemitic atheists too.
Less a DNI, and more just an exasperated sigh at this point, yes, I vet new followers for my own safety and I will automatically block missionaries, Christian apologists, antisemitic atheists, antizionists, Nazis (WTAF are you following me in the first place?), and TERFs.
“Jews shouldn’t live in Israel because Jews were meant to be wanderers”
You can’t seriously be suggesting Yishuv Eretz Yisrael (a blessing/commandment in the Torah) goes against Judaism and that Judaism instead requires Jews to be The Wandering Jew (a Christian antisemitic trope)…
“Living in exile is a Jewish Value™️ because it allows us to empathize with other dispossessed and oppressed people”
As does being homeless or being raped or having your family members killed or any number of traumas. Doesn’t mean you should refuse to live in a house or that you should actively seek out situations that give you and your family more traumatic, disempowered experiences.
If you want to believe exile was G-d’s plan and we were meant to experience it to better identify with other people, okay I guess. But we have that experience now. We’re good. We can go home now.
Jews lived in exile in Egypt for 200 years.
In Assyria for another 200 (counting Babylon conquering Assyria and the Edict of Cyrus as a return).
In Babylon for 70.
Even if you’re going to believe the expulsions under the Romans were divine punishment of some kind, and not simply a senseless act of hatred and oppression by our oppressors, there’s no way whatever sentence that was hasn’t been served.
It’s been nearly two thousand years. No other previous exile lasted nearly that long.
If G-d wanted to prevent the return of millions of Jews to the Land of Israel they would have already. Instead, nearly half of our people has already returned.
The exile is over. You’re allowed to return.
Sinwar anticipated catastrophic Israeli retaliation—and attacked anyway
Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib—a Palestinian-American analyst who grew up in Gaza—has published a furious response to newly revealed documents attributed to Yahya Sinwar. He calls Hamas a “genocidal cult” that sacrificed Gaza’s population for an international propaganda strategy.
I understand his anger.
The document in question was seemingly handwritten by Sinwar on August 24, 2022, more than a year before the October 7 attacks. It was recovered in Gaza by the Israeli military and subsequently published by the Meir Amit Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center.
According to the document, Sinwar envisioned sending as many as 10,000 fighters across the border. They would breach the barrier at 25 different locations, seize junctions, attack military bases and enter more than 200 Israeli communities.
Residents would be expelled or taken hostage.
This was a plan for an enormous invasion of southern Israel.
Sinwar also considered how Israel might respond.
He was apparently uncertain about whether Iran and Hezbollah would enter the war. But he was certain that Israel would retaliate with overwhelming force.
He wrote that Israel would use every weapon available to it. He contemplated the possibility that Israel might use an atomic bomb against Gaza.
Nevertheless, Sinwar described the proposed attack as a “battle of life or death” and continued planning it.
This is an extraordinary detail.
Sinwar understood that the attack would provoke an enormous war.
He knew that Gaza was a small, densely populated territory facing one of the most powerful militaries in the Middle East. He knew that Hamas could not protect Gaza’s civilians from the consequences of the war it was initiating.
Indeed, in reality, they did not even try. There were no attempts by Hamas to build bomb shelters for Palestinian civilians. There were no attempts to secure Palestinian civilians alternative supplies of water, fuel, electricity in advance of the attacks, either. There was no plan to evacuate Palestinians away from the war.
Sinwar chose to attack anyway, without real preparation for the civilian toll.
(the rest of this essay is paywalled, but this section alone was worth sharing.)
'Kill everyone you encounter': Recovered this year in an IDF raid on a tunnel used by Sinwar's brother, the document mirrors intercepted Ham
People with terminal cases of antisemitic brainrot are so funny. Nowadays this would be considered healthy Mediterranean cooking, but this Spanish Inquisition guy was upset that the Jews were--checks notes--cooking with olive oil!!,! 😤😡
Glad everyone realized that we pioneered a superior cooking method though.
The Spanish Inquisition's methods for hunting the crypto-jews were often absolutely idiotic and nonsensical. They were generally unable to fathom that generations spent under muslim rules might have lead to a few different habits.
Another big one was eggplants, the Inquisitors refused to believe any good christian could eat eggplant because they were first introduced by the moors.
Often they become fixated on random things as secret proof of heresy that had no meaning at all.
Real progressives back smart ideas that improve lives — and reject nutty ideas that would ruin neighborhoods.
I’m tired of being told that, to be a progressive, I now must swear allegiance to crazy ideas.
I’m a strong Democrat, with a winning bipartisan track record. I’m rooted in progressive ideals and policies: criminal justice reform, Green New Deal, Medicare for All, free education, clean air and water. These are ideas I have fought for my entire adult life.
But some people in groups like the DSA are pushing an agenda FAR outside those ideals. Supporting Hamas is not progressive. “No police, no prisons, no borders” is not progressive. Celebrating the murder of Israeli civilians is not progressive. These ideas are REGRESSIVE.
If there were no police or prisons, if anyone in your neighborhood could do whatever they wanted, while politicians cheered on terror groups — would that represent PROGRESS to you? No, that would be a step back. Those are REGRESSIVE ideas.
On the other hand, if everybody could see a doctor when they got sick, get a good, free education and breathe clean air — would that represent progress? Yes. Those are PROGRESSIVE ideas.
They are NOT the same thing. And the difference matters.
Some defend the far left by claiming they only want Nordic-style social democracy. If that were true, I might applaud them. I want those policies, too! But what does universal healthcare have to do with Hamas? With abolishing all law enforcement? With erasing all borders? With treating every wealthy person as a villain? Ideas matter. And these are terrible ideas.
Right now, extremists are trying to sneak backwards proposals into our party, hoping mainstream Democrats are too frustrated with MAGA and the Democratic Party establishment to notice.
But we see you.
Yes, we want our Democratic Party to be a big tent. But we don’t need “party poopers. So STOP pooping in the punch bowl — and telling us the turds are ice cubes.
They aren’t. And we are smart enough to know the difference.
Opposing peace means opposing resolution of the conflict
At a pro-Palestinian demonstration today in London, one marcher carried a homemade cardboard sign bearing the words:
“NO PEACE BITCHES!!”
One sign obviously does not represent an entire protest.
But still, it captures a real suspicion of the word peace among parts of the movement.
For some pro-Palestinian activists, peace gets treated like another word for surrender. It means asking Palestinians to accept the loss of land or a future without genuine political rights.
But endless war cannot be the answer. A movement that wants to prevent Palestinian suffering should also be committed to finding a political solution that prevents the next round of suffering.
This is why the pro-Palestinian movement needs to also be pro-peace.
So what does being pro-peace mean to me?
1. It means ending the bloodshed
The first purpose of peace is to stop people being killed, maimed, displaced and traumatised.
That may sound obvious. But every new round of fighting produces more bereaved families, more destroyed communities, and more people with powerful reasons to hate the other side. We can’t ignore this. It needs to end—now.
2. It does not mean total surrender
Palestinians should not be expected to abandon their national aspirations or accept a life without dignity and political rights. Israelis should not be expected to accept permanent insecurity or the possibility of their country’s destruction.
3. It requires a genuine willingness to compromise
It’s easier to favour compromise when it means the other side giving something up.
But real compromise means accepting that neither side will receive everything it wants.
Any vision that requires millions of people to leave, submit or live permanently without rights cannot be treated as a serious peace proposal.
We need compromise. But that compromise needs to be fair, and on both sides.
4. It means recognising the humanity of the other side
Not every Palestinian is responsible for the actions of Hamas. Not every Israeli is responsible for every decision or action of the Israeli government or IDF, either.
An entire population cannot be treated as collectively guilty for harm inflicted on the other side.
Peace requires maintaining that distinction. Even when anger makes collective blame popular.
5. It means rejecting revenge as a political programme
The desire for revenge is sometimes understandable in the context of great suffering or atrocities.
But revenge won’t produce a stable future.
One atrocity does not reverse another. One grieving family is not healed by creating another grieving family.
6. It means accepting that peace is made with enemies
Peace is rarely made between parties that like or trust each other. It is made between adversaries who conclude that coexistence, however imperfect, is preferable to endless destruction.
7. It means choosing the future over the past
History cannot be used as a permanent veto over the future.
At some point, both peoples must decide whether their children will inherit an obligation to continue the conflict—or an opportunity to escape it.
“No peace” may sound defiant. But there is nothing particularly courageous about condemning another generation to fear, hatred and funerals.
"For some pro-Palestinian activists, peace gets treated like another word for surrender. It means asking Palestinians to accept the loss of land or a future without genuine political rights."
They think that's what it means because it's what they mean when they talk about Ukraine needing to seek "peace"
sure are a lot of people who can't bear to ally with a ~zionist~ on actual progressive activism but are willing to ally with an actual white supremacist for a symbolic vote
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“Jews shouldn’t live in Israel because Jews were meant to be wanderers”
You can’t seriously be suggesting Yishuv Eretz Yisrael (a blessing/commandment in the Torah) goes against Judaism and that Judaism instead requires Jews to be The Wandering Jew (a Christian antisemitic trope)…
Indigeneity does not explain Jewish politics; it explains Jewish peoplehood. The Jewish people meet standards used to assess claims of indig
This one is less "correct stopped clock," more "op-ed by someone not directly associated with HonestReporting."
Are these "millions of innocent people killed" in the room with us? This would be laughable if it weren't so disrespectful to the real victims you claim to care about.
Legitimate estimates are at around 35k civilians (note that this includes noncombatant hamas family members, party members, and supporters, not only innocents) killed, with Gaza's corrupt government's direct responsibility for every death. Each of those deaths is a tragedy directly caused by hamas' actions. Blaming hamas' victims for the deaths of others of hamas' victims is exactly what hamas wants you to do. And inventing millions of dead arabs to justify hating Jews is deranged, racist behavior toward both peoples. Get help.
That username looks familiar to me; I think that's the same person I ran into before, the one who claimed that the IDF had killed 60 million Palestinians, because it was "ten times worse than the Holocaust". Either way, they really do want more dead Palestinians.
I've been thinking about the obsession with needing a "queer history of the holocaust".
I think it is genuinely an impulse towards a kind of stolen valour via holocaust minimisation and subversion, not because being slaughtered in our millions was in any way valorous, but I think there's assumed to be a level of sympathy that comes with recognition that we were subjects of genocide.
So by making an equivalency between the thousands of queer people who were interned in concentration camps to the millions of Jews and Romani who were murdered in the death camps, they elevate the travesty of anti-queer violence in Nazi controlled Europe from its own tragedy to being a part of the genocide widely known as the holocaust.
That "people like me suffered too, why don't we get mentioned in this conversation?", goes from a conversation about having a memorial, to a demand to be on another community's memorial for their different suffering because it's bigger.
It's also - and I say this with respect in my heart for the people who were hurt and white-hot fury for those responsible - a different kind of tragedy.
The tragedy of the Nazi persecution of queer people is an intellectual and cultural one. Relatively few people were actually killed, but a generation who might have been coming out, and who were beginning to be heard and vibrant and public and happy (in some places - not all! Munich was not Berlin!) were driven instead into shame and secrecy. The most prominent elders were lost. The entire archive of the Inside for Sexual Science was gone, including vital work in gender-affirming care.
This is a bad thing!
However, the Jews of Europe lost all of that and also two thirds of their population. (Numbers for the Sinti/Roma are harder to find, but as near as I can figure it's about the same proportion).
They should each be treated as what they are, not minimised for what they're not.
This whole discourse is reminding me more and more of the pre-oct 7th world where I was pushing back against (from my memory usually polish and russian) nationalists who would argue that actually slavs were holocaust victims too and would cite the number of slavs killed as POWs or the kidnapping of children who exhibited "nordic" racial features to be raised as germans.
Why Is It Always the Jews?
I watched Morocco lose to France in the World Cup quarterfinal with the same mixture of pride and disappointment that millions of Moroccans around the world felt. We wanted to keep dreaming. We wanted our team to keep making history. Losing hurt.
What I did not expect was what happened after the final whistle.
Within hours, videos began circulating from cities across Europe. Instead of grieving a football defeat, crowds were chanting, "Hamas," calling for the murder of Jews, and reviving slogans that belonged in humanity's darkest chapters, not in the streets of democratic societies.
As a Moroccan Muslim, I felt something deeper than disappointment.
I felt shame.
Not because Morocco lost a football match. Every team loses eventually. I felt shame because a small but visible minority turned a sporting event into another excuse to express hatred toward people who had absolutely nothing to do with the game.
France scored two goals.
The Jews did not.
Yet somehow, once again, the anger found its way to the same destination it has found for centuries.
That should disturb every decent human being.
Let me be clear from the beginning. The overwhelming majority of Moroccan supporters simply mourned the defeat, congratulated France, and went home. They represented the values of sportsmanship and dignity that I recognize in my own country.
But the fact that only a minority engaged in antisemitic chants does not make the phenomenon less alarming. It makes it more revealing.
Because this was never about football.
Football was simply the latest excuse.
The more I thought about those images, the more one question refused to leave my mind.
Why is it always the Jews?
History offers the same pattern again and again.
When economies collapse, someone blames the Jews.
When pandemics spread, someone blames the Jews.
When political leaders fail, someone blames the Jews.
When wars begin, someone blames the Jews.
When conspiracy theories flourish, Jews somehow become the hidden hand behind every event.
Now, apparently, even the outcome of a football match becomes another opportunity to direct hatred toward the world's smallest religious minority.
As someone who has spent years building bridges between Muslims and Jews, I have learned that antisemitism rarely begins with facts. It begins with convenience.
Blaming Jews is easier than confronting corruption.
Easier than questioning failed leadership.
Easier than examining extremism within our own societies.
A scapegoat is always simpler than self-reflection.
That is why antisemitism has survived for centuries despite constantly contradicting itself.
Jews have been accused of being powerless outsiders and all-powerful insiders.
They have been blamed for capitalism and for communism.
For globalization and for nationalism.
For war and for peace.
The accusations change with every generation, but the target remains remarkably consistent.
As a Moroccan, this troubles me for another reason.
Our country has a unique history. For centuries, Muslims and Jews built Morocco together. Jewish communities were not strangers in our homeland; they were part of its very foundation. They contributed to our commerce, our music, our diplomacy, our crafts, and our culture. Morocco's identity cannot honestly be told without them.
That is precisely why I refuse to remain silent when Jews become the convenient target for frustrations that have nothing to do with them.
Silence is never neutral.
History has taught us where silence leads.
The Holocaust did not begin with extermination camps. It began with words that many people dismissed as harmless. It began with lies repeated so often that they started sounding reasonable. It began when ordinary people convinced themselves that blaming Jews required no evidence at all.
Every generation believes it is different.
Every generation imagines its hatred is justified by new circumstances.
But hatred does not become noble simply because it finds a new excuse.
As a Moroccan Muslim, I believe my faith calls me to stand against injustice regardless of who the victim is. My patriotism calls me to defend the best traditions of Morocco, a country whose history demonstrates that Muslims and Jews can share not only neighborhoods but also a common national identity.
That is why the scenes that followed Morocco's defeat mattered.
Not because they revealed something about Jews.
They revealed something about us.
The question the world should be asking is not what Jews supposedly did to deserve another wave of hatred.
The question is why humanity keeps searching for reasons to blame the same people generation after generation.
Until we answer that honestly, the excuse will keep changing.
The target never will.
Tokenization isn’t representation. It’s exploitation.
When someone says, “I know a Jew,” or “My Jewish friend agrees,” they’re often treating one person as a stand-in for an entire people.
A token is valued not for their individuality, but for the cover they provide:
“See? A Jew agrees with me, so I can’t be prejudiced.”
No Jew was elected to speak for 15 million others.
Listen to Jewish voices. Don’t weaponize one against the rest.
source: HERE
Antizionist critics of Israel often do a fun little thing where they get into high dudgeon where they claim they don’t hate JEWS, they just hate Israel…in a way that indicates that they feel like Israelis are genetically or culturally evil in some way. And then they act confused as to why diaspora Jews, who share genetics and culture with Israelis, are getting mad at them!
Don't forget their "hate Israel, not Jews" often involves defense or sympathy for people shooting non-Israeli jews, setting fire to non-Israeli jews, blowing up non-Israeli synagogues, setting fire to non-Israeli synagogues, vandalizing non-Israeli kosher restaurants and shouting hate at their patrons...
Like, even if they convinced me to desire the death of my overseas kin, which they won't, I would still have no choice but to interpret their words and deeds as hating me because there isn't really any other way to parse demonstrably wanting me dead or at least indicating that if somebody murdered me they'd have more sympathy for the murderer than for me
I still remember how someone said in a tone of like "valid crash out" when they heard that the shooter lost their brother in the Lebanon bombardments by Israel. And that is not even considering the brother was part of Hezbollah.
I've talked before about the Never Again Is Now! speaking event about rising antisemitism in Australia which took place back in 2024, where so called "protesters" were chanting "stop killing kids" at the Rabbi who was speaking about local antisemitism and how public and private schools had said they couldn't protect Jewish children and had been recommending everything from not wearing markers of Jewish culture to home school. The only News coverage described it as "a clash between pro Israel and pro Palestine groups".
I think about it a lot.
A similar thing happened in Sweden recently. Protesters camped outside Stockholm's only Jewish school (including pre-school) and community center with the sign "All Children Have Equal Value." No, I'm not joking.
But don't worry! Because they'll tell you they were only protesting there because an IDF War Criminal (a.k.a. a completely normal former IDF soldier who they made up horrible shit up about) was invited to a talk at the community center. The talk that, by the way, took place 3 hours after school ended and parents arrived to pick up their terrified kids, which is when they decided to protest!
Jewish children who every single day have to pass through intense security, and get to play outside surrounded by a tall, concrete spiked wall, cameras, security personell and frequently also police cars.
This happens to be the location of Stockholm's only kosher store, the Jewish library, and the home of the orthodox and reform congregations.
Not to be outdone, they were also taking pictures of anyone seen entering the community center, and trying to identify them in their psycho groupchats to target them for harassment. Again, regardless of whether they were going to the talk, or going grocery-shopping, going to the library, or whatever. Just anyone participating in Jewish life in Stockholm.
And! When someone in the government (i.m.o. correctly) called these people "animals" for this disgusting behaviour, the leader of Sweden's biggest party decided that this was the Problematic thing that had to be called out and debated on national television; the only antisemitic thing that actually happened here was someone calling the protestors "animals" for targeting Jewish children, because the protestors also happened to be be jewish (secular antizionist jews who never partake in any aspect of public jewish life, and therefore never have to worry about this shit in the first place).
Because it's perfectly fine and good to make jews - and specifically jewish children and jewish families - feel unsafe and scared going to the only center for Jewish life in all of Stockholm, if antizionist 'jews' are the ones doing it. And if you call them out, you're the antisemite.
I feel like this is relevant here too
The interim vice-chancellor of the Australian National University has apologised for the institution's failure to protect the psychological
In short: ANU's interim vice-chancellor has apologised for the institution's failure to protect the psychological safety of Jewish students and staff during pro-Palestinian encampments in 2024. The Royal Commission on Antisemitism and Social Cohesion hearings in Melbourne are focused on the experiences of Jewish staff and students at universities and the institutions' responses. Earlier, ANU's top academic was asked about a student who was asked to produce a death certificate for relatives killed in Gaza to receive an assessment extension.
and may I add that many of these countries have laws on the books designating non-Muslims as second class citizens. Israel has a lot of issues with racist and islamophobic laws, the same as most nations, but discrimination does NOT an ethnostate make.
Going through the Internet Archive because unfortunately, this administration got rid of the CIA World Factbook, presumably to be replaced with the CIA World Liebook:
(ignore the line going through it, my screen is small and the Internet Archive apparently doesn't handle that great):
So that's our bar -- 73.5 percent.
Note: they ethnically cleansed Nagorno-Karabakh when they took it over. And I mean it:
Oh.
Well.
I'm sure this happened entirely peacefully.
(the Manchus also committed genocide, it's worth noting, but the Hakka are a subgroup of the Han, and I'm talking about extermination of ethnic minorities.)
Er. Well, then.
Which, of course, happened entirely peacefully.
Well, at least the Ustase carried out their genocides (of Serbs, that is--they were cool with the Jews and Romani being exterminated) in ways that didn't make the Nazis squeamish?
Oh.
Maybe the Fang were the first people there--
Oh. I see.
They don't even bother to list anyone else!
Well I'm sure that's all peaceful.
(on the clarification: there have been a lot of Yazidi genocides)
Part one of many, because Tumblr only allows 30 images per post. I'm not done with Iraq yet, by the way, we're up to the Farhud.
Okay, part two.
Ah.
@librastrai has a lot of information on Ireland's treatment of it's Minceiri/Irish Traveller population. Spoiler alert: it's. Not good.
Yes, I know I switched sources. Sorry.
Well, perhaps they--
Ah.
POLAND JESUS FUCKING CHRIST. No wait, I can't say that because that is a big part of how they're so homogenous. But seriously:
It's honestly somewhat impressive! That level of ethnic cleansing of Jews (and others) takes genuine effort!
Meanwhile, according to the same source as Poland:
Oh.
I'm going to split here because up next we have Russia and that's going to require a loooot of images.
Okay. We're at Russia now.
Please note that this only includes genocides in modern-day Russia.
If you want to learn more about the Circassian genocide, may I humbly recommend: past me!
Also other resources I have on Russia's genocides: here, here, and this one on the Crimean Tatars.
I'm sure their takeover of Siberia was lovely and peaceful and doesn't have a whole section on the Wikipedia page for genocide of indigenous peoples.
I mean, look at this section of the Wikipedia page for genocides in history (WW1-WW2)
(Amnesty International's reliability is of course dubious, but this isn't about Israel, and also, may I present to you the rest of this??
I'm going to end here, although I note this does not include the Holodomor, Kazakh deaths (in a similar event to the Holodomor), pogroms of Jews (which were primarily carried out in the Pale, which deliberately did not include much of modern Russia) or their ongoing genocide of Ukrainians today.
I cannot emphasize enough that Russia is a colonialist empire with one of the worst track records on human rights of any country in history. Russian history is deeply entwined with oppression of other ethnic groups, and it has been for a long time. Russia's borders are not natural, its expansion was not inevitable. Anyone who is anti-imperialist and anti-colonialist and anti-genocide should make Russia a primary target.
I cannot emphasize enough that Putin is not an aberration (except in that he bothers to deny the charges of genocide). Putin is typical for Russian history.
Oh.
Similar principle as with Russia and Japan -- this is only within the borders of Turkey.
Yes, that is who Cenk Uygur named his organization after. (Do you think he means to compliment Israel when he accuses it of genocide? "Oh look, you're just like the Young Turks! I love the Young Turks!")
By the way, Turkey officially denies that Kurds exist. Also Turkey refuses to let people name their children names with q, w, and x. Why? Those are all common letters in Kurdish. Children in Turkish schools, all of them, must pledge each day to be a Turk.
Also, they migrated (invaded?) in the mid-medieval period
I wasn't able to get into this in the Russia section, but there were a lot of Ukrainian massacres of Jews. It was really pogrom central. To be fair, I don't know offhand how many were committed by ethnic Ukrainians as opposed to ethnic Russians, so I'm not going to go into too much detail, but let's just say that the one thing everyone in the Ukrainian civil war could agree on was that Jews should be killed.
And finally:
Seriously, the list of Cham-Vietnamese wars is...long.
As you can see from this list, Israel is clearly the only ethnostate in the world, and certainly by far the worst. It's not like ethnostates are a common thing around the world.
"Israel the Ethnostete" is most recently popularized by Richard Spencer, who was directly referring to Israel and Israel alone as a troll
A leaked audiotape attributed to white nationalist Richard Spencer depicts him as a suit-and-tie bigot who uses coded language to charm the
For years, the white nationalist leader has called for overt ethnic cleansing or “ethnic redistribution” but has tried to pass off his noxious beliefs as intellectual curiosities. Spencer has told journalists that his vision of a white ethnostate ought to be compared to Zionism. “In the mid 19th century, many Jews in Central Europe had an idea of an ethno-state, an idea of Zionism, and they were considered ridiculous and insane,” Spencer told Vice in 2013. He used similar language in 2017 during his brief national college tour, telling students that one state he often turned to for guidance was Israel. That same year, Spencer even told Israel’s Channel 2 News that he saw himself as a “white Zionist.” “You could say that I am a white Zionist in the sense that I care about my people, I want us to have a secure homeland for us and ourselves,” the newspaper Haaretz, quoting from his TV appearance, said. “Just like you want a secure homeland in Israel.” Yet, in the leaked audio from Charlottesville, Spencer purportedly screams to a room of cheering supporters: “Little f—— k—-. They get ruled by people like me.”
You can see the google trendline worldwide of the term "Ethnostate" ticking up from 2016-2018, when Spencer sold his goods and was lovingly covered by press as a "Dapper Fascist" and spiking in 2020 with an uptick later. Spencer is a troll who sold a bill of goods and a bunch of leftists who screamed about "Punching Nazis" bought his bullshit, hook, line, and sinker. They just needed some fauxademic gloss on it. Note the interest in Ireland.
In this case, the people who love what Spencer had to say want to call Jews "The new Nazis" and ignore who they're taking their marching orders from, and who they are targeting.
I need to add something to @indecisiveavocado's excellent break down.
There's a reason no one else is listed.
No one who isn't Arab lives in Gaza.
Not a soul.
When Israel agreed to pull its forces as part of a truce in 2014, they agreed to remove all Jews from Gaza as well. Ultimately, this led to Hamas being elected as the ruling party over Gaza and the expulsion of every non-Arab: Samaritans, Bedouins, Druze, everyone. Gaza has been ethnically cleansed. It is 100% Arab.
People will argue that there's diversity in Gaza because there are a handful of Christians, but 1) there still Arab, and 2) they're definitely second-class citizens.
It is illegal for anyone who is not Palestinian to enter Gaza. When Avera Mengistu, a mentally ill, Ethiopian-Israeli man, accidentally crossed the border during an episode, he was kidnapped. His family pleaded with Hamas to release him, but they refused. He wasn't part of the IDF. He wasn't a spy. He was a sick man who got lost, for heaven's sake.
Avera Mengistu was held for over a decade.
He was tortured and starved and Lord knows what else. He was entirely nonverbal when he was released as part of a hostage negotiation in 2024.
Mengistu was born in Ethiopia. His family was forced to flee to Israel to escape the genocide occurring there. They had already experienced racial violence, and then Avera was kidnapped.
Hamas got nothing from him. He had no information. He had no connection. They attempted to ransom him and his family was too poor to pay the ransom (and the Israeli government wouldn't let them pay to get Avera back regardless, because it incentivizes such kidnappings). They held him anyway.
Palestine is an ethnostate. Period. Everyone in power, every single person, is Arab. There are some minorities still living in the West Bank but they can't hold government offices. It's illegal to sell land to Jews, publishable by death.
Any time you want to accuse Israel of being an "ethnostate", remember that over a quarter of Israelis are minorities and they have equal rights. There are minorities in the Knesset. There's an entire Arab party. Anyone can move to Israel and live there, and many of the people who move there do so because of bigotry or lack of jobs where they're from.
"No no see I pulled up this OTHER term with 'ethno' in it to discount lefties grabbing Dick Spencer's words and direct usage of 'ethnostate' next to Israel as a troll for his nazi dreams wholesale because they liked the taste in their mouths. Here! Go to this online encyclopedia that's had entire edit wars as a result of tens of thousands of organized people muddling the definition of words to see the proof! https://archive.is/aSdCI
"I AM VERY PROGRESSIVE!" No random dickcheese. You're 'disingenuous' and you liked what Richard Spencer had to say so much you grabbed a different word from a compromised source to defend it.
https://www.piratewires.com/p/how-wikipedia-s-pro-hamas-editors-hijacked-the-israel-palestine-narrative
Fuck off. Words mean things, and linking to an encyclopedia middle school teachers tell their students not to source from with demonstrable issues on any page touching Jews is not the way to 'win' whatever moral argument you're having because you got called out for not clearing out nazis from your bar/fandom.
the reason I clown the vibes based commentariat despite vibes based commentating all day long myself is because im not trying to convince anyone of anything and im not selling my off the dome rambling as if its worthwhile academic research. no one is citing tumblr user femalegothic as an authority on anything.
i really can’t stand the conclusory vibes based commentary that dominates all social media platforms these days. like who are you??? what are your credentials??? why are you pedaling the nonsense you made up in your head has hard hitting fact based assessments of real world issues????
For anyone thanking me for "sticking to my principles" about Israel and Palestine...
Those motherfuckers are sticky as fuck. They're worse than the tar-sap-stuff you get when you climb pine trees. Even the special soap doesn't get rid of 'em. You don't even notice when it gets on you. Even people just standing near me a lot have been known to stick to my principles. (There are those on Tumblr who can attest.)
Use caution!! You have been warned.
It's funny you phrase it that way, because honestly, that's what we want:
The current wave of progressive antisemitism is not only an attack on Jews, but a betrayal of the most cherished progressive principles.
