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writing about philosemitism, zionism, antisemitism. constantly thinking about Jews.
Apr 21 6 tweets 2 min read
"The Jewish terrorists of the warsaw ghetto teach their kids to hate Germans. They don't want to live in peace with us. Gay marriage is not legal in the warsaw ghetto. They started this war and deserve whatever happens. This war would end the second the resistance surrendered." @JGreenblattADL 81 years later, the Jews who fought in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in the face of death and desperation remain a symbol of the indomitable Jewish spirit. They were weak, starved, outnumbered, and had few munitions, yet they lasted 27 days. May we #NeverForget.  @ADL The #WarsawGhettoUprising began #OTD in 1943. The Nazis entered the ghetto to deport the remaining Jewish inhabitants but were met with the largest and longest-lasting acting act of resistance during the Holocaust. Today, the uprising remains a symbol of strength and heroism. "it's racist against Aryans to say that the Jewish terrorists have a "right to resist by any means necessary." It's not a genocide because we're only targeting the Jewish anti-fascist resistance, not civilians. What genocide? there's still food in the warsaw ghetto."
Apr 14 21 tweets 3 min read
In 1943, Joseph Goebbels wrote an article titled “The War and the Jews."

The arguments he makes in it justifying the nazi genocide of the Jews are identical to the arguments the zionists make today justifying the zionist genocide of the Palestinians.

🧵with some examples. "The Jews are our destruction. They started this war and direct it. They want to destroy the German Reich and our people. This plan must be blocked."
Jan 27 5 tweets 1 min read
Philosemitic Holocaust denial is, by far, the most prevalent form of Holocaust denial today.

Here are some examples of Philosemitic Holocaust denial: - Erasing the non-Jewish victims of the Holocaust

- Treating the non-Jewish victims as 'accidental' or 'unintended' victims and refusing to acknowledge the ideological components within nazism that drove the nazis to murder them
Jan 1 9 tweets 2 min read
My whole life I was taught to be vigilant for instances where people spread accusations against a minority group to justify widespread violence against that minority group. I was taught about how these accusations, known as 'blood libel,' were used against Jewish people in europe and were one of the motivating forces behind numerous pogroms. Jews were accused of using christian baby blood to make matzo, they were accused of poisoning wells and of spreading disease.
Nov 13, 2023 6 tweets 1 min read
I am seeing videos of Palestinian doctors refusing to leave their patients to die, operating only by flashlight, celebrating birthdays with tongue depressors as candles. I am seeing children evacuating genocidal carpet bombing yet caring for lost animals they find along the way. I am seeing videos of people, sitting on a bucket under a tent declaring how proud they are to be from Gaza, how their head is held high, despite the warplanes, the tanks, the bombs sent to destroy them, despite the fact that the entire world conspires against them.
Sep 24, 2023 4 tweets 2 min read
Don't worry everyone, I checked the IHRA definition of antisemitism (which canada has adopted) and am here to assure you that canadian parliament giving a standing ovation to a nazi waffen SS veteran doesn't meet the IHRA definition of antisemitism
🧵 Let's analyze this:

Attached below is the IHRA working definition of antisemitism, lauded by the worst people you know as the 'best available definition of antisemitism.'

Is applauding a nazi a 'certain perception of Jews?'. I don't think so. Maybe? Hard to tell. Let's continue The working definition of antisemitism  In the spirit of the Stockholm Declaration that states: “With humanity still scarred by …antisemitism and xenophobia the international community shares a solemn responsibility to fight those evils” the committee on Antisemitism and Holocaust Denial called the IHRA Plenary in Budapest 2015 to adopt the following working definition of antisemitism.    On 26 May 2016, the Plenary in Bucharest decided to:    Adopt the following non-legally binding working definition of antisemitism:  “Antisemitism is a certain perception of Jews, which may be expressed as...
Aug 6, 2023 4 tweets 1 min read
"so you think EVERYONE who refuses to wear a mask is a eugenicist?"

It doesn't matter what individual people 'believe' or not.

COVID normalization is a eugenicist project. The nature of that project doesn't change just because a lot of people support or are aligned with it. A govt project, carried out with the help of corporations and the media, to repeatedly infect everyone with a deadly and disabling virus - knowing full well that said virus disproportionately harms and kills marginalized people - is eugenicist.

This is not a matter of opinion.
Aug 12, 2022 4 tweets 1 min read
Zionism is not and was not a response to the Holocaust. The settler-colonial zionist project pre-dates the Holocaust by decades.

The zionist narrative that so-called “israel” was established because of the Holocaust is a post-facto narrative created to justify zionism. The zionist narrative that all Holocaust survivors were/are zionists is also a post-facto narrative created to justify zionism.

zionism is a settler-colonial project. zionism was a settler-colonial project before the Holocaust began.
Aug 10, 2022 10 tweets 19 min read
Hey quick question @universityofky @KyJewishCouncil @chabadky and @Lubavitch

do you agree with this statement from your representative, Rabbi Litvin- the Chairman of the Kentucky Jewish Council, the director of U of K's Chabad, and the director of U of K's Jewish Student Center? @universityofky @KyJewishCouncil @chabadky @Lubavitch Also just so you are aware, @universityofky @KyJewishCouncil @chabadky and @Lubavitch

after I tweeted this, @BluegrassRabbi blocked me.

Here's his original tweet in case he decides to delete it. Tweet from @bluegrassRabbi ...Image showing that @Bluegra...
Jul 11, 2022 4 tweets 1 min read
the false idea that antisemitism is a cosmic unstoppable immutable and infinite force that is intrinsic to Jews has been a mainstay of both zionist AND nazi rhetoric for literally decades now. Text with clipart image of a child wearing a kippah.   Text An early example of zionist usage of this is in Herzl's Jewish State: “the Jewish question exists wherever Jews live in perceptible numbers. Where it does not exist, it is carried by Jews in the course of their migrations." Herzl said that Jews "carry the seeds" of antisemitism.
May 25, 2022 6 tweets 1 min read
there is absolutely zero chance i vote in 2022.

under biden we've seen more covid deaths, more poverty, more houselessness, more police murders, more mass shootings, more deportations, more funding for war, more provocation with China, more funding for zionist colonization, more inflation, more transphobic violence, more attacks on reproductive healthcare and abortion, more appointments of reactionary racist judges/ambassadors/envoys, more lies about why they haven't forgiven student loan debt, more gaslighting about climate change,