replace the word “Israel” here with “Jews” and it is precisely how Jew hatred functions, how it has always functioned, and how it has fueled itself for centuries of destruction and death.
blaming everything on Israel is not about “criticism,” this is classic antisemitism.
Not only is all this stuff painfully obvious Judenhass. But, as a Spaniard, it is also deeply frustrating to see what has happened be used as a weapon in this international ordeal. Because it exonerates the ratfuck who sits in the Moroccan throne and his corrupt billionaire prime minister from being the true culprits of what has happened in Ceuta.
Morocco is an antidemocratic regime currently and illegally occupying a chunk of land the size of New fuckin Zealand. And every time they don't get what they want from Spain (anything from who gets to host the next world cup final, to us having commercial deals with Algeria) they orchestra migrant avalanches to destabilize us.
They weaponize the desperation of tens of thousands migrants from all over Africa to hassle my homeland into accepting whatever this week's greedy or invasive plan is. The international community should be talking about Rabat the way they talk about Moscow, but instead all that matters is finding an angle that lets you call Jews slurs.
Left-wing antisemites embrace fucking replacement theory – the most horrifically racist, anti-progressive conspiracy theory out there – in their eagerness to find things to blame the Jews Israel for, is... actually, it is mind-boggling, even for a jaded cynicist.
It's also dishearteningly lazy and ignorant.
Massively simplified, Morocco and Algeria are rivals for control of Western Sahara, which used to be a Spanish colony (look it up).
Also simplified, Morocco has a long habit of using migration as a coercive tactic against Spain, made possible because Spain has enclaves in Northern Africa with land borders to Morocco, Ceuta and Melilla, here's a map:
Map showing the locations of Ceuta and Melilla relative to Morocco and Spain, source: Encyclopedia Britannica
Many analysts believe this weekend's Ceuta crisis was a Moroccan retaliation for the Spanish Prime Minister meeting with Algeria's head of state, which Morocco fears signals a Spanish normalisation of relations with Algeria, something Morocco isn't happy about (for clarity: when I say "Morocco," I mean the authoritarian monarchy ruling Morocco, also something to look up).
Anyway, just as in the 2021 Ceuta crisis (yet another thing you can look up), Morocco has immediately agreed to readmit the migrants who crossed into Ceuta. To anyone familiar with how difficult it normally is for EU countries to repatriate Moroccan citizens, that speaks for itself.
So why, why do you have to reach for the mother of all racist conspiracy theories, when just a little basic awareness of the regional politics gives you so many more plausible explanations?
It's the same reason behind any "good" conspiracy theory--it flattens out complexities and makes the world into a nice, safe binary--there is Us and there is Them. It's the same appeal as QAnon (which is also horrendously antisemitic).
just some quick math to show how absurd it is to claim that there was no effort to reduce the number of jews on this panel. for this to have happened accidentally all candidates would have to have been chosen randomly out of the pool of possible lawyers. according to statistics on the internet the amount of Jews in the legal field in New York is around 30-50% with much more sources citing around 45/50% but i am going to be generous and assume 40%.
Now the probability of randomly choosing 18 candidates out of such a pool without ever choosing a Jew is pretty easy to calculate:
0.6^18 = 0.0001 = 0.01%
where we take the probability to not choose a Jew (60%) to the power of the amount of people chosen (18) and the results are:
There is a 0.01% chance that this was an accident.
Overlap between antiblackness and antisemitism in fandoms:
- Jewish-coding and Black-coding ignored and erased e.g., character’s experiences are intentional allegory for Jewishness or Blackness, but people insist it’s about queerness instead.
- The desire to see Black and Jewish characters humbled. This is usually in retaliation for some perceived wrong due to a white character. Gets worse if said characters are successful in their fields, then it’s portrayed as “punching up”.
- Ethnic features being erased (skin lightened, curly hair straightened, slimmer noses ect).
- Discussions about antiblack/antisemitic tropes in fandom spaces dismissed because “real bigotry is more important” (“real bigotry” is then never discussed).
- When the main characters are Black/Jewish and yet the fandom won’t stop talking about that fucking white guy.
- Black/Jewish characters made out to be mean, usually depicted as bullying the poor white character (bonus if the “agonisers” are men).
- Infantilisation specific to non-white characters.
#Major parallels with Angry Black Woman/Domineering Jewish Mother stereotypes#Because western society sees Black and Jewish womanhood as unfeminine#It's also interesting how they see Black and Jewish masculinity with Black men being hyper-masculinised and Jewish men being feminised#Both are cast as less-than-human foils to the shining white knights of mainstream western masculinity#with those interpretations being the justification for how and why these communities can be an underclass in their society#anti-Blackness#antisemitism (via tikkunolamorgtfo)
"- Black/Jewish characters made out to be mean, usually depicted as bullying the poor white character (bonus if the “agonisers” are men). "
The Star Wars fandom regarding Mace Windu and anakin
On the dubject, we also should talk about how fandom has more fire for Black/Jewish characters who are heroes and who are just generally right about everything than fandom has for white characters who are canonical fascists, mass murders, etc
A Surprising Portion of Rent-Stabilized Apartments Go to NYC’s Wealthiest Renters
Renting a glitzy Manhattan apartment for half the market rate while raking in a six-figure salary is urban legend for most New Yorkers. But it is reality for a small class of renters, thanks to the city’s rent-stabilization law.
The best housing deals in New York City happen to go to some of the wealthiest renters in the area, according to The Wall Street Journal’s analysis of New York City’s 2023 Housing and Vacancy Survey, the most recent figures.
The top 25% of earners living in New York City rent-stabilized apartments pay $1,000 less each month in median rent compared with market-rate units. That amounts to a 33% savings in rent. The top 10% of earners save $1,300, a 36% discount.
Rent-stabilized tenants in the lowest three income quartiles, meanwhile, paid only about $300 less compared with the market rate, saving between 15% and 22%.
The savings bump for wealthy rent-stabilized renters has for years been an eccentricity of New York City’s rent-stabilization system, the largest in the country.
Some of this discount gap is the result of market forces. Wealthy renters tend to live in more expensive neighborhoods where market prices are higher. So rent-stabilized housing in these areas tends to be significantly cheaper relative to the market-rate, even while still being pricey for the average renter.
“You do have people paying $5,000, $6,000, or $8,000 for rent-stabilized apartments,” said Allia Mohamed, CEO of rental data firm Openigloo.
Another part of this is by design. New York’s rent-stabilized system doesn’t generally test for income status, so it isn’t supposed to weed out wealthy renters.
“I can’t imagine trying to do an income certification for like a million units,” said Brad Greenburg, executive director of New York University’s Furman Center. “Administratively, it feels impossible.”
These renters stand to benefit even more from Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s rent freeze, which takes effect in October.
The Journal’s analysis showed that median rents for Manhattan’s rent-stabilized apartments are about half the market rate, while regulated units in the Bronx go for just 12% less. In Queens, rent-stabilized apartments were priced 13% lower and in Brooklyn, the discount was 24%.
Some in the real-estate industry view the affluent class of rent-stabilized renters as a symptom of a broken system. They say that these regulated apartments should go to people who couldn’t otherwise afford market prices.
“This shows you the system is malfunctioning,” said New York City real-estate attorney Massimo D’Angelo, who represents private landlords. “We need to give these apartments to people who actually need them.”
But tenant advocates see little problem with a few pockets of wealthy renters scattered within the expansive rent-stabilized housing stock. For them, this is a signal that the city needs more of these apartments, not fewer.
“This isn’t a welfare program. That’s not what rent stabilization is. We’re not looking out for just the most needy,” said Darius Khalil Gordon, executive director for the Metropolitan Council on Housing. “It’s made to make sure that people can afford to live in a city that they love.”
Rent-stabilized apartments are the holy grail of the housing hunt in New York City. They differ from rent-controlled units, which are regulated based on price caps set by the state. Instead, rent-stabilized properties are governed by the Rent Guidelines Board, an independent city panel that sets the limit for how much landlords can raise rents each year.
The vast majority of rent-stabilized tenants are low-income, and most of these apartments are concentrated in the Bronx and Washington Heights, along with some parts of Queens and Brooklyn.
With one million rent-stabilized units spread across the five boroughs, economists say wealthy renters are bound to benefit, too. In neighborhoods like Midtown East, the average two-bedroom goes for roughly $7,500 a month, a 17% jump from last year, according to data firm Zumper. Those kinds of price hikes have pushed renters to view these regulated apartments as a crucial insurance policy.
Properties are generally rent-stabilized either because they were built before 1974, when the law was officially implemented, or because they receive some level of public financing or tax subsidy. On the campaign trail, Mamdani pledged to build 200,000 more of these highly coveted apartments over the next decade.
Upper-income households occupy about 10% of the total rent-stabilized housing stock, according to an analysis of 2023 data by the Citizens Budget Commission. More than 86,700 of those households earned over $200,000 a year.
Landlords used to be able to convert their rent-stabilized apartments to market-rate if the tenants who lived there made $200,000 for two years in a row. They could also get rent increases if they made certain improvements to their properties after tenants moved out.
Since 1994, landlords removed more than 360,000 apartments from rent-stabilization, according to the city’s Rent Guidelines Board.
But the state greatly restricted these practices in 2019. The real-estate industry has been pushing to revive them ever since.
“There are no current annual income certification reviews,” said D’Angelo, the real-estate attorney. “That needs to be changed.”
“When in doubt, he charged into the cannon’s mouth—by proxy.” - Gary Wills describing Robert E Lee at Gettysburg with the most devastating use of an m-dash in literary history.
Abdul El-Sayed is seeking to deliver the Democratic Party’s progressive insurgency its biggest win yet in the Michigan Senate primary. But h
Other voters said Stevens, a White woman, has been an extremely active presence in their communities since being elected to Congress in the Democratic wave of 2018. More pointed to her role working on President Barack Obama’s task force that rescued the automotive industry — the economic driver of southeastern Michigan.
At the Soul Day Festival at Northwestern High School in Detroit, which Stevens attended on Saturday, it was the portion of her biography that voters were most familiar with — and an example of the achievements of a Democratic establishment that El-Sayed has cast as a failure.
“She was on the team that helped save our state when Obama was president. She was right there on the forefront,” said Kathie House Vinson, a retired college administrator who lives in Detroit.
“I think in my heart of hearts that (El-Sayed) is a good candidate,” she said, “but Haley has the track record, and I know what she’s done for me.”
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But in conversations with prominent Black leaders from Michigan about the state’s Democratic Senate primary, a recurring complaint came up: El-Sayed’s support for “uncommitted” in 2024.
The pro-Palestinian protest movement was a critical factor in Michigan, with its large Arab immigrant community, as opponents of the war in Gaza voted “uncommitted” on Democratic presidential primary ballots to register their dissatisfaction with Biden’s steadfast support for Israel.
El-Sayed, a prominent Arab American then serving as director of the Wayne County Department of Health, publicly backed “uncommitted,” which garnered more than 100,000 votes in the state.
While Biden ultimately withdrew and the party attempted to rally around former Vice President Kamala Harris, Black leaders in Michigan who spoke to CNN in recent weeks remain convinced the effort did lasting damage to the Democratic presidential ticket’s chances that year.
“Many people believe that he was a part of that. And had Kamala Harris been elected, we would not be in the mess we’re in right now. Gaza would not be what Gaza is right now,” said Rev. Dr. Anthony Wendell of Fellowship Chapel, the president of the Detroit chapter of the NAACP and a Stevens supporter.
Though El-Sayed ultimately endorsed Harris, and encouraged his followers to vote for her, his critics argue it was too little, too late. As he runs for US Senate with an ongoing focus on US policy toward Israel, doubts also linger about El-Sayed’s priorities.
“The question is now: Are you going to be more concerned about the West Bank than the West Side of Detroit?” Anthony asked.
Wow, it turns out that showing up and working for communities makes them like you. And it turns out that shafting them and running against AIPAC instead of on those issues doesn't win people over.
Once again Black democrats may save the party from itself.
Don't worry, Abdul El-Sayed still has strong support from "Sub-Kapo, the AsaJew" and "Radicalized Jew-hating Cabbage Patch Doll With High Energy Antics Millions of Parents Throw Their Children In Front Of." (Neither of whom lives in Michigan, naturally.)
Just. Super normal people. Who haven't made Jews and grifting around being 'good jews' or doing the same weird christ-focus blood libel their entire personality.
The radicalization angle is darkly amusing. Now Mrs. Accurso can drop all the Protocols-tier conspiracy bullshit she wants and NOT endanger her multi-million dollar merch empire.
Fandom shit is just straight up not fun when everyone interprets everything in the worst possible faith and acts deliberately obtuse for the sole purpose of getting mad online
*sighs heavily* it would be nice to have a day when every event on earth isn’t turned into this, but alas. seeing this start as a trickle of whining last night and become a deluge of rage today speaks to the place we’re in societally.
this isn’t about the wedding or the bride and groom or opinions about anything else. they simply had a handful of Jewish guests and a Jewish officiant, and that is drawing intense levels of hatred and scrutiny under the tattered veil of “antizionism.” it’s convenient that the guests being eviscerated for this are just Jews.
the underlying desire here is to stop Jews from existing in public. idc if that sounds dramatic, we’re seeing it constantly. pop culture is a wealthy microcosm, but this is no different than accosting Jews on the street because they’re wearing a kippah or banning the Star of David from Pride, no different from painting swastikas on Holocaust memorials. they do not believe that Jews should be able to comfortably exist, experience life, and be welcomed anywhere without being interrogated and forced to endure either litmus tests or slurs and dehumanization.
we saw this same commentary recently aimed at Jews who attended Knicks games. using hating on Jewish celebrities (for nothing more than being in public) to normalize it is part of the tactic to make that discrimination more palatable.
this ire at Adam Sandler and several of the other Jewish guests is the same ire that saw Scott Wiener harassed and thrown out of a Pride March despite his political record, the same ire that sees Jewish businesses vandalized, the same ire that firebombs synagogues, and ultimately the same ire that leads to Jews being hunted down on a beach or at a museum or at a music festival.
Melat Kiros has made Israel a wedge issue in her campaign. Polls show the strategy is working.
State Sen. Julie Gonzales, state Rep. Yara Zokaie and David Seligman, a candidate for attorney general, said this week when contacted by The
I am a liberal rabbi. I have been deeply critical of Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his government. I have protested alongsi
I am a liberal rabbi. Every Shabbat, I lead my congregation in prayers for safety and healing for both Israelis and Palestinians. I have been deeply critical of Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his government. I have protested alongside hundreds of thousands of liberal Israelis in the streets of Tel Aviv.
I donate to organizations dedicated to coexistence and have shared tea in the home of Palestinian peace activists in the West Bank. Last month, 12 fellows from the Task Force on Arab Citizens of Israel visited my congregation, and we listened with deep empathy to their personal stories and struggles.
My views and my activism have sometimes earned me criticism within my community. Some have feared that crying out for the pain and suffering of Palestinians somehow undermines my desperate cries for the peace, safety, and security of Israelis. But I do not believe that is the case.
The Israeli/Palestinian conflict is extraordinarily difficult. Holding compassion for both peoples should not be difficult. To me, this is not a departure from my religious and progressive values; it is the essence of them. The belief that every person’s humanity matters. The belief that suffering deserves empathy. The belief that justice requires us to expand our moral concern, and that Israelis and Palestinians both deserve dignity, security, and self-determination.
For most of my life, I assumed those values were widely shared by the people and movements I considered my political home. Lately, I am not so sure.
What has shaken me over the last two years is not criticism of Israel. It is how noble critiques of Israeli policy have swiftly turned into radicalized calls for Israel’s elimination — a sentiment we never apply to other democratic nations. This obsessive fixation within leftist political discourse has created real fear in many Jews. And yet, when Jews talk about these fears, people in my own political camp stop listening.
That is why I have found myself deeply troubled by the campaign of congressional candidate Melat Kiros.
Over the past year, I have repeatedly found myself wondering whether she understands the fear she creates in Jews like me.
In a column she published on Medium in 2023, Kiros condemned the existence of Israel, effectively calling for the elimination of the only Jewish state.
She has called the atrocities of October 7, 2023, both “resistance” and “inevitable.”
Just this week, in an interview with Kyle Clark on 9News, she refused to call the 2025 firebombing attack on Jews in Boulder antisemitic. She said it was an attack on innocent people marching for the release of hostages, but said of the man accused of murder, “I don’t know. I don’t know what was in his heart.”
When she can’t even name the antisemitism Jews in Colorado are experiencing every day, how can we believe that she will work for our safety? I have deep concerns that the “just” world she claims to want to create does not include Jews like me and my community. She considers Israel an illegitimate, colonialist state and appears to have closed her mind to all other opinions and, indeed, to the human consequences of her rhetoric.
Over the past year, Denver’s Jewish community has repeatedly tried to engage Melat Kiros. We have shared our fears and concerns. Yet time and again, we have been met with dismissal, indifference, or silence.
My fears were amplified by Kiros’s recent decision to organize a rally featuring Hasan Piker and elevate him as a prominent voice in her campaign.
To many people, Piker is simply a provocative political commentator. To me, he represents a growing tendency on the left to speak passionately about empathy and justice while showing remarkably little of either when Jews are involved. He is profoundly dangerous.
I recently watched a video in which Piker laughed as a woman described her fears about rising antisemitism in America. Piker has repeatedly said that he would vote for Hamas over Israel “every time.” Together with a guest, he characterized the firebombing attack in Boulder as similar to anti-Nazi resistance. He also calls Hamas and Houthi attacks “resistance,” denounces many who express positive feelings about Israel, and describes liberal Zionists as liberal Nazis.
Sick. Absurd. Infuriating. When Piker equates most mainstream Jews with the barbaric people who murdered our families, he is flipping the narrative and building validation for Jewish-hate and violence here in America and beyond.
By choosing to elevate Piker and share a platform with him, Kiras made a clear statement. She signaled that this kind of rhetoric is acceptable within her political coalition. For most Jews, including folks like me who advocate tirelessly for peace, coexistence, and for Palestinian dignity and self-determination, that message is terrifying.
When people on the right use antisemitic tropes, those of us on the left are quick to point fingers. Yet when antisemitic discourse comes from within our party, many just shrug and ignore it.
In the past month alone, students in Boulder issued a statement praising the fatal Boulder firebomb attack as an act of “resistance.” (I bet they listen to Piker.) Denver Jewish Day School was forced to cancel summer camp after receiving threats. The ADL filed a civil rights complaint alleging severe antisemitic harassment in Boulder schools. And one of my congregants left his middle-school baseball team because the antisemitic hate speech was unbearable. These are just a handful of examples of what we are facing every day.
When Kiros speaks about dignity and justice for all people, I want to believe she means it. But dignity that excludes Jews and denies the safety of Israelis is not universal dignity. And a politics that embraces voices that mock Jewish fears or demonize Jewish identity does not make my community safer — it makes us more vulnerable.
I will continue to advocate for all who are marginalized and insecure in our society, because that is what my religion and my humanity demand of me. I do not believe Milat Kiros has shown the curiosity, humility, and empathy necessary to represent my community as a political leader.
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