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Rafael Shimunov ✡️ 🍉 Profile picture
@rafaelshimunov
Nov 8 • 12 tweets • 5 min read • Read on X
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Since Maccabi Tel Aviv is trending, come and get to know its soccer/football fans who ignited anti-Arab hate and violence in Amsterdam, leading to reprisals from Arabs who were attacked (and who are universally being smeared as antisemites engaging in pogroms).

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Here is a report from an Israeli agency, who sent observers to every match to find 190 incidents of racist chants, calling 2022-2023 "the most racist and violent" soccer season in Israel's history. Including routinely chanting "monkey" at Black players.

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nif.org/stories/shared…Image
This predominant fan culture in Israeli soccer isn't only home calling foreign team bigoted things, but also veers into going after each other. The study found 20 matches where fans would call for "Shoah" of the opposing Israeli team.

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Soccer fans violence isn't new, but it's exploding according to the Israeli report, which calls the fans a "mirror" of Israel's society.

In 2012, 300 Beitar Jerusalem fans stormed a mall to attack Palestinian and other Arab workers. @Mondoweiss

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mondoweiss.net/2012/03/hundre…Death to Arabs chanted
And as far back as 2003, an Israeli report found that Maccabi Tel Aviv, with Beitar Jerusalem, were composed of the two most racist fanbases.

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Maccabi Tel Aviv fans hold second place only because Beitar Jerusalem fans take it to another stratosphere. For example, openly celebrating being the only club that has never had an Arab player. One player, an African who came from Maccabis, returned to them after being violently mobbed by Beitar. Then, fled Maccabis to return to Nigeria.

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english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/6/…Image
In 2018, David Zirin (@EdgeofSports) wrote in @thenation about how Beitar Jerusalem renamed themselves to... Donald Trump.

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Back to today, Maccabi Tel Aviv fans and The Netherlands "pogroms". The news and politicians being paid by AIPAC, and backed by the hate group, ADL and @JGreenblattADL are simply lying to you.

By erasing these fans' role in manufacturing antisemitism.

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They're engaging in theater of "victimhood", supporting a historically violent, racist fanbase who came to Netherlands to assault and incite violence against Arabs, then flipping it to claim the reprisals and anger in return are simply targeting Jews.

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It didn't even start in the Netherlands, it also occurred this Spring in Athens, Greece, where Maccabi Tel Aviv FC beat an Arab.

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And tonight, as the fans return to Israel, having sparked a manufactured story of antisemitism and pogroms in Netherlands, have reset their sights on Palestinians, barely getting off the plane to chant about bombing Palestinian school children.

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Finally, in order to truly understand the energy of Israeli soccer clubs like Maccabi Tel Aviv and Beitar Jerusalem, you have to witness them with your own eyes and ears.

Then tell me who, who from history they remind you of?

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Rafael Shimunov ✡️ 🍉 Profile picture
Aug 28
As we go into new campus actions for Gaza across the world, you're going to see a lot of our legacy Jewish orgs using polls to tell you how antisemitic our universities are.

The problem with these polls?

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Nearly all of these polls assume that when a student is asked about antisemitism, they have a good analysis of what it means.

One way to examine the polls that are coming, is to look up their methodology, which is rarely reported in articles that mention the polls.

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So @BrandeisU's new poll will be used in media, talks & emails to politicians, agencies, parents etc saying students are swimming in antisemitism.

Who/how they "fixed" the poll won't be reported.

Here's fine print admitting they only polled kids who went on trips to Israel.

3 Note: See Table B3 in Technical Appendix B for 95% confidence intervals and significance tests. The 2023 data on Jewish students were drawn from applicants to Birthright Israel.
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Aug 28
We’ve been told as Jews that the slightest micro aggressions by individuals births antisemitism so dangerous we must have zero tolerance.

Today we’re told that open genocide, apartheid & ethnic cleansing in co-opting our name, faith, history & even synagogues doesn’t fuel antisemitism & we should tolerate it for our survival. 🧵
If some among us can’t navigate through hasbara engineered to rob us of our humanity for Palestinians and Arabs, and instead favor an often outsized moral panic over our daily safety, one would think maybe at least you can attempt to see our own self interest in ending this. This which will fuel antisemitism for decades to come, putting our lives in danger.

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A common reply to this idea has been a smear. That this frames Jews for our own antisemitism. Yet, if you stay beyond the sound bites you’ll learn that many of us who look deeply into antisemitism history know that it’s invented by right wing Europeans and utilized by white supremacy as a middle man, a steam valve, to offer the poor a target.

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From a booklet distributed by @DemMaj4Israel at the DNC today, touting 22 years of Kamala Harris' support for Israel, including this bit of her backing the criminal prosecution of Muslim students who interrupted an Israeli government speaker at their school. 62. 5/8/11: As 11 UC Irvine students “accused of conspiring to, then successfully executing, a disruption of Israel Ambassador Michael Oren's speech in February 2010” sought to evade prosecution, Harris said in court documents that “Orange County prosecutors should remain on the case.” [Daily Pilot, 05/08/11] - Democratic Majority for Israel
@DemMaj4Israel The students prosecuted are referred to as the Irvine 11, who were moved by Israel's 2008-2009 massacres inside Gaza which killed 1500 Palestinians and left 100,000 homeless.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irvine_11…
@DemMaj4Israel Here's the amicus brief from lawyers at @theCCR and @jvplive on discriminatory enforcement on the Muslim students, such that had not been seen for other protestors first amendment rights and those who had interrupted even longer.

ccrjustice.org/files/Irvine%2…
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9 reasons Josh Shapiro could sink Kamala Harris ‘ campaign. 🧵 Image
1. Josh Shapiro is racist 1 Josh Shapiro is racist. In college, alongside his classmate’s pro-peace article, Shapiro wrote an opinion titled “Peace not possible”, opposing a two-state solution, claiming Palestinians are “too battle-minded to be able to establish a peaceful homeland of their own.” and the Palestinian president who aimed for peace would be killed “by his fellow belligerent Arabs.”
2 Josh Shapiro volunteered with the IDF 2 Shapiro volunteered with the IDF Josh Shapiro isn’t Israeli, and has lived as an American all his life, but volunteered with the Israeli Defense Forces. The IDF was implicated then with supporting apartheid and ethnic cleansing of Palestinians, and today with genocide. During this period, Palestinians embarked on the “First Intifada”, a largely non violent protest movement for freedom, while IDF’s leader promised to “break their bones” and Israel’s Prime Minister promised to have their “heads smashed against the boulders and walls” and “crushed like grasshoppers.”
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Jul 29
Kamala's entry to the race affords Democrats not a reset in swing state voter excitement but an opportunity to reset.

An opportunity she can throw away, in whole, by selecting PA Governor Josh Shapiro as her VP.

Here's why. 🧵
White nationalist aligned Republicans use Gaza protests to do what they've dreamt of doing for generations: delegitimize secular higher learning in favor of far right religious dogma.

Democrats have an opportunity to position themselves in contrast by choosing freedom of speech.

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Josh Shapiro did the opposite, and collaborated with GOP strategies to vilify and criminalize free speech by students, even repeating far right talking points against those students, and against the freedom of speech we'll need to fight for democracy.

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Jul 25
Today Netanyahu paraded an Ethiopian Israeli to Congress as a symbol of tolerance.

But we won’t forget Israel forcibly sterilized Ethiopian Jews in order to maintain its white majority. Today birthdates of Ethiopians in Israel declined by 20%.

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forbes.com/sites/eliseknu…
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Today Israel’s apartheid system and dominant cultural strains of overt racism, pave the way for suspicion of Ethiopian Jews and their systemic oppression.

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timesofisrael.com/shedding-image…
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In fact, Ethiopian Jews were so distrusted that their ancient adherence to Judaism was put in so much doubt that they had to recommit to white rabbis.

And against other white savior narratives like those shared by Netanyahu.

timesofisrael.com/shedding-image…
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