After a year-long investigation, my story at @inthesetimesmag has been released looking at the systemic firing, and forcing out, of Jewish workers who support Palestine from Jewish workplaces. We found that Jewish organizational life is purging critics. 🧵
inthesetimes.com/article/anti-z… Many of these organizations openly told the workers that they could not longer work there if they partnered with anti-Zionist organizations, the most cited being @jvplive. For example, one Hillel worker was ultimately fired after liking Instagram posts by @JVPChicago.

For @JewishCurrents, @ThatRedNJB and I went throught the ADL's Antisemitism Audit line-by-line to try and make sense of what it means. What we walked away with was both that the data provided contains too little to draw conclusions, other than 🧵
jewishcurrents.org/examining-the-… We used the Jerusalem Declaration to re-assess the data in an effort to remove anti-Zionist depictions we didn't agree met the standard of antisemitism. In doing so, we removed mundane expressions of anti-Zionism like use of the phrase "From the River to the Sea."

Returning to the Ye/Alex Jones/Nick Fuentes video, and honestly I'm having trouble keeping up.

He says that the Zionists are actually controlled by Satan, after saying that the Jewish media has corrupted our minds into thinking that Hitler was all bad *2nd Thread* He has started reading antisemitic jokes from Owen Benjamin's website, who is a Holocaust Denier and flat earth activist. These include that Ben Shapiro knows how much change is in someone's pocket from the sound.

"You've been fighting this battle a long time...we just have to salute you." says Ye to Alex Jones in an unhinged rant, adorned in a black mask and with white nationalist Nick Fuentes at the other side of the desk. One of the biggest far-right incidents of the year. *thread* "Ye has arrived in a new ensemble" comments Jones, "God runs the world and Jesus is the way and the life and it's time to put Jesus first" says West underneath his ski mask which he justifies in saying not showing his face is his "right"

Because there is so much misinformation about antifascism, I've put together this thread with some of the most important reading on the subject. I'm starting with my upcoming anthology book on the subject, with over 30 contributors. *thread*
kickstarter.com/projects/shane… Confronting fascism is a now classic discussion between two folks, Don Hamerquist and J. Sakai, who originated in the Sojourner Truth organization and give a complicated picture of how to fight fascism.

akpress.org/confrontingfas…

There is a lot of confusion about what the term "ecofascism" means and how environmentalism has historically had some connections to white supremacy, nativism, and far-right politics, so here is a reading list of useful resources to understand this complicated subject. *thread* Understanding ecofascism is absolutely essential for understanding the recent acts of accelerationist mass violence, such as the mass murder that took place in Buffalo New York recently.
theguardian.com/us-news/2022/m…

This recent piece released by @C4ARR is a poor piece of pseudo-scholarship that reproduces multiple uninformed fallacies that impugn activists. The author does not understand the subject well enough to write on it, which I will go through in this tread.
radicalrightanalysis.com/2022/02/02/bew… Right from the start he suggests the CVE field has been "infiltrated" by antifascists, something that mistakes the deep, deep criticisms that antifascists have had of the CVE work from the start. Particularly its reliance law enforcement.

With the recent crisis at Beth Israel in Texas, now is a good time to share a thread of specifically left-wing writing on antisemitism that comes at the top from a radical antiracist perspective, rather than relying on political centrism or nationalism. *Thread* .@homeandfreedom's "The Past Didn't Go Anywhere" is one of the most essential reads: an accessible pamphlet that has a huge scope, and yet feels personal, conversational, and relatable. This is approaching antisemitism from within a movement context.
aprilrosenblum.com/thepast

As promised, I am start a thread for talking about The Light of the Eyes by Rabbi Menahem Nahum of Chernobyl, the new translation and commentary by Arthur Green. I am going to try to keep up with the readings according to the Torah portions weekly, so bookmark this tweet! I waited until Simchat Torah to start this so I could do this according to the parsha calendar. So each week I will post tweets about the homilies themselves rather than the Torah portion, though the homilies are (allegedly) commentaries on the parsha.

Understanding the far-right in Israel, particularly how the nebulous term "fascism" applies, is challenging for most of us outside of Israel. That's why I put together this reading list of books that I recommend for understanding the rise of the Israeli far-right. *thread* The best book is The Ascendance of Israel's Radical Right by Ehud Spinzrak, and all the later books emerge from this one's deep analysis (particularly of the success of Kahanism). But it is dated (1991) amazon.com/Ascendance-Isr…

TO FAR-RIGHT RESEARCHERS: What is the most painful experience you have put yourself through when doing research?

For example, I listened to every Death in June album in order. Twice. Recently I read Kevin MacDonald's entire trilogy, unabridged, also in order. It was not pleasant.

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@WishShopping on Facebook. Skrewdriver is the best known neo-Nazi band, and the shirt has both Celtic Crosses and the Triskele. This is not the only white supremacist or far-right shirt on Wish. (Thread) These are other Skrewdriver shirts that you can find with a quick product search.

It looks like Andy Ngo is finally being seen out in the open, which may squash this tenuous career he fashioned out of outrage, misleading slander, and small donations. (THREAD) wweek.com//news/courts/2… I wrote this about Ngo shortly after he was accosted at the antifascist demonstration, which he used to craft an image of himself as the speaker of truth beset by political extremism. This was his grift, and it gave him almost a quarter million. communemag.com/were-being-pla… (2)

There are a lot of problems with the reporting on the antifascist protest in Portland yesterday, and since I was there and reporting on it and am writing my article I want to name a couple of glaring problems in the coverage. (thread) Many publications are publishing the allegation that there was cement in protesters' milkshakes as fact, even though it is a completely unproven allegation that all eye witnesses say was untrue. See reporting of @katemshepherd as well.
portlandmercury.com/blogtown/2019/…

The fascist attack in NZ is a real nightmare, I feel overwhelmed with grief and fear, but want to reach my heart to the families who were hit. This kind of attack is called "lone-wolf violence," but that incorrectly portrays it as unaffiliated with the far-right. (thread) 1/ A lone-wolf attack is usually a breaking point with an individual, or small group, breaking from the "social movement" model of the rest of the far-right and going in to engage in targeted violence, an act of desperation and a strike against perceived enemies. 2/

This is a membership card for the Portland branch of the America First Committee. As open fascist organizations from the 30s were marginalized and closed, many of those people just folded into the slightly more moderate America First movement. 1/ This same dynamic has played out a number of times on the far-right. Radical organizations get shuttered, and then a more mainstream institution is formed that echoes their sentiments without the same open affiliations. 2/

This was the Portland-area Exalted Cyclops of the KKK in the 1920s who got candidates elected and pushed out Catholics. Around 1922, Oregon politics was totally dominated by the Klan, and they even had a second resurgence in the 1930s with Gifford at the helm. /1 What the KKK really achieved in Oregon politically was actually a public school measure that was also pushed by the progressives. Their purpose in 1922 was really to stop Catholic schools since anti-Catholicism was the primary political focus of the Klan in Oregon.