Here, @AmiHorowitz successfully solicits donations to pay for terrorist attacks on #Jews. Then (see next tweet)...
At a conference co-sponsored by Duke and UNC, Anti-Israel rhetoric quickly devolves into unvarnished antisemitism, including familiar anti-Jewish conspiracy theories, and an antisemitic song with audience participation. (More in next tweet.) @AmiHorowitz
Unsurprisingly, after attendees are encouraged to believe & express lies about Jews and Israel — including Jews controlling the US government & sterilizing Ethiopian Jews in Israel like Nazis did to Jews in Europe — Swastikas are found on campus. (More next tweet) @AmiHorowitz
People think #antisemitism requires hating Jews. It doesn’t. Jew-haters created antisemitic conspiracy theories so people who don’t hate Jews would believe lies about #Jews. Then eventually, even decent people would come to distrust, demonize, delegitimize, & dehumanize Jews.👇
Once that’s accomplished, Jew- haters can attack Jews and no one will step in to stop them. People will support attacking #Jews. American students will actually donate money to support terrorist attacks on Israeli civilians, cafés, schools, & hospitals. @AmiHorowitz #Antisemitism

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22 Mar
Here’s what you get in a “critically informed” curriculum.
• Antisemitism isn’t a set of conspiracy theories claiming Jews have unmerited success & power, it’s merely part of a “broader pattern of racism.”
• Jews have unmerited success & power as a result of becoming white. 1/
This curriculum teaches that it’s harder for gay Jews to be Jewish than it is for heterosexual Jews. (Presumably Jews, though overwhelmingly progressive, aren’t accepting.) Nonetheless, a gay man has Jewish privilege (“unearned benefits”) that non-Jews of all kinds don’t have. 2/
To make Jews fit in a critical theory paradigm, critical social justice (as opposed actual concerns for justice, dignity and equality) must define and divide Jews in racial terms. (That never works out well for Jews.) 3/ jewishjournal.com/commentary/332…
Read 10 tweets
10 Mar
THREAD:
I’ve been thinking about the new moral culture some call “wokeness.” I see similarities to what happens in a cult. In both, people want to be better & do good. But there’s a kind of incrementalism that moves people from the good parts to the extremely troubling. 1/
People in a cult often disconnect from friends, family, and institutions who appear to be hostile to the ideology. Those who were once considered part of the group but disavow the ideology are not merely wrong, but are suppressive and enemies of the good.
2/
A @RealClearEd investigations article about ethnic studies illuminates some of the similarities. It notes that the ideological training starts by establishing that ethnic studies is grounded in something everyone wants: social justice.
3/

realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2021/…
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15 Feb
Just re-reading the latest by @benyt and appreciating the courage it takes to be this incisive about his own employer. Also, let's not let broader issues get lost when learning the details of the McNeil use/mention debacle. 1/ nytimes.com/2021/02/14/bus…
This is particularly insightful (& creepy): "It seeks to be the voice whispering in your ear in the morning, the curriculum in your child’s history class and the instructions on caramelizing shallots for the pasta you’re making..." (Maybe return to being a source of info?) 2/
This is very sharp: "The Times’s singular status has left its leaders, in a period of high-profile firings and departures, vainly insisting that the exits reflect the normal, confidential and complex workings of human resources." (Tell that to @JBennet) 3/ psychologytoday.com/us/blog/happin…
Read 23 tweets
31 Jan
Hahahahahahahaha!!!! Here’s how Jews have managed to survive continued attempts at vilification, exile, and genocide — and even thrive wherever we’ve landed: We never lost our sense of humor. Image
Read 4 tweets
16 Oct 20
Yet again, the Grey Lady doth protest too much. nytimes.com/2020/10/16/mag…
From the article above: "A few notes on this phrase, “true founding”: It was written by a digital editor and approved by me. (Hannah-Jones, as a staff writer at the magazine is not typically involved in matters of digital display language.)" 🤔
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8 Jun 20
“It is now quite common among journalists to think of opinions not as arguments to be advanced, engaged with, and potentially refuted, but as a kind of viral propaganda with the power to convert readers...” @DamonLinker 1a/
theweek.com/articles/91814…
“On this view, published ideas are a kind of ideological contagion. If the ideas are good, they can serve as a kind of vaccination against evil. But if they are bad, they function as an intellectual and moral pathogen that are better off being eradicated.” @DamonLinker 1b/
In the 1950s, Catholic philosopher, Jacques Maritain, wrote, “If it were true that whoever knows or claims to know truth or justice cannot admit the possibility of a view different from his own...” 2/
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