"I literally saw you steal those children's books from the library" vs "those books have been mine for thousands of years actually"
This whole propaganda campaign is really damaging to the Jewish community at large over the long term. Antisemitism is a very real problem with horrible consequences, as history shows. Equating anti-colonialism, anti-apartheid, anti-genocide, pro-palistinian, etc, speech with antisemitic speech undermines the credibility of organizations (the ADL), commentators, and victims of antisemitic attacks when they actually occur. Additionally, there is a very real possibility that it could push people towards actually hateful ideologies. "They lied about that. Maybe they lied about this, too."
They know that and they're betting on being able to complete the ethnic cleansing and have it completely normalized by the west. Every neoliberal politician in the world is trying their hardest to shut down opposition because they also want to do the same to their own "undesirables".
I can't disagree with that at all. Beyond the obvious concern for others, my concern about this false campaign also includes myself. It's not dissimilar to the Jussie Smollett situation in the ways it will be used to deny injustices that have occurred. I'm not Jewish, but I am a POC in the US.
For example, the ADL does not just call out hatred against the Jewish community but other marginalized groups as well. The far right has been attacking the organization's credibility since its inception. They have now decreased or destroyed their credibility with those on the center-right and left by equating criticism of Israel with antisemitism. This includes myself. When they speak out about any actual hate, regardless of the target, it will now fall on deaf ears.
I'm sure I'm preaching to the choir, but I'm frustrated that I don't see a way that this doesn't lead to more people espousing more extreme-right ideology.
credibility of organizations (the ADL)
the Apartheid Defense League collaborated with South Africa to spy on anti-apartheid Americans
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-04-21-mn-25487-story.html
I wasn't aware of that, thank you for that. The people of this world never fail to disappoint.
undermines the credibility of organizations (the ADL)
The ADL destroys its own credibility
the ADL
Absolute dogshit losers
Zionism is totally removed from Judaism. It's a settler colonial project of the west. They don't give a fuck about the Jewish people in fact they hate them. But virtue signaling to spread colonization in the Middle East is still a win. So no nothing they do will be in the interest of Jewish people because it never was intended to.
This whole propaganda campaign is really damaging to the Jewish community at large over the long term.
That's one of the critical doctrines of Zionism. They want to make the rest of the world unsafe for Jews. They want Occupied Palestine Israel to be perceived as the only safe space for Jews. It provides cover for their ongoing genocide against the indigenous population.
Zionism and antisemitism are like:
But both the arms are extremely white.
Been saying for a while they should really be careful because already seeing the sentiment "they call literally everything they don't like anti semitism, who cares about anti semitism"
Literal boy who cried wolf situation. People use the term all the time I think a lot of them forget there was actually a wolf in that story that benefitted from the Shepard delegitimizing the threat of him.
I recently read a report about antisemitic incidents published by my country's Jewish community. The vast majority of incidents were justified anger over the zionist occupation of Palestine that was being misdirected towards Jews and Jewish institutions who have nothing to do with the zionist entity.
Zionists are not friends of Jews. They are not making Jews safe, they are campaigning for people to think of Jews as genocidal fascists. I wouldn't be surprised if 80% of antisemitism globally would disappear if the occupation and apartheid regime was ended.
Ethnically cleansing the library because I'm afraid my apartheid state sucks so bad at propaganda that people might be convinced we're genociding the native population
Zionists stealing? no way
In any other context, this would be seen as cartoonishly evil behavior
no, this context too
Rightoids: "We support free speech...but any opinion that differs from our's is indoctrination and is therefore too offensive to be spoken."
They're going to bring back blasphemy laws, and 'being a leftist' will be considered blasphemy.
I don’t see what doing this kind of irritating shit is going to accomplish for him besides pissing people off.
literally stealing knowledge from children
into a black hole you go
Won't the library eventually just like, charge them the cost of the books and buy new copies to loan out?
a lot of libraries don't do late fines, but they will charge them the fee. which is to say, they have no way of policing that, so the most they can really do is just block them from checking any more books out.
Keep them for so long that you inadvertently radicalize your own kids.
I like how villainous this guy looks. The slick-backed hair, the goatee, the cold dead eyes. It's almost too on-the-nose
Uh wtf? No dude, it's the context of the image and the act together that make him look like a dead eyed genocidal monster. It has literally nothing to do with him being Jewish (I don't even know from the context of this post if he is Jewish or not, there are tons of Christian Zionists and non-Jewish supporters of Zionism in general. Making that assumption/assuming Judaism is equivocal with Zionism is ACTUALLY anti-Semitic).
Also our mod logs are public, this means that if you get mod action taken against you, and also if you make asinine reports like this you nor we have any presumption of privacy. You are free to make your reports public all the same that we are.
@DrJenkem@lemmy.blugatch.tube throws around vibe based antisemitism accusations while a genocide is going on
What are you talking about? He looks like every New York corporate lawyer I've ever me-
Sorry, you're absolutely right, carry on.
Yeah man but it's totally the jews being genocided rn because people hate israel.
I wonder why that is.
Ah yes, "checks out books indefinitely", or as it's actually called, "theft". The police are getting called for conspiracy to commit theft when?
Well actually, they were called into a conspiracy to steal from NYC public libraries just recently
Lol their kid's gonna find the book lying around somewhere at home, read it, and hate Israel. Reactionaries spend so much time controlling other kids that they forget about their own >:)
Based kids.
Honestly a pretty great summation of the whole conflict to go to a place that loans out resources for free for the benefit of all and then take them, say they're yours rightfully and then pat yourself on the back for how brave and tough you are for literally stealing from children.
Party time's over, joy boy!
Why does deranged American fascists throw tantrums over children's books all the time? It feels like a very American thing.
Well they can't just talk to them!
Great thread to find after reading that liberal aunt X post about needing to vote for liberals to prevent book burnings
oh come on this shit reads like a fucking greentext