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"#NetureiKarta, which has been estimated at around 100 members, has been doctrinally #antiZionist since long before #Hamas#Oct7, 2023 attack that launched the war in #Gaza. While anti-#Zionist #Jewish groups have reported significant growth since the beginning of the #Gaza war, according to surveys, most American #Jews feel an attachment to #Israel even as many disapprove of #Israeli government policy.

Other, much larger #Hasidic movements eschew #Zionism, but Neturei Karta is unique in consistently showing up to protest Israel and adopting the language and symbols of pro-#Palestinian activism.

The group’s leadership has met multiple times with the leaders of #Iran, an #Islamic theocracy and Israel’s chief regional adversary, including former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who denied the #Holocaust. The group faced particular backlash, as well as condemnation from #haredi leaders, in 2007 for appearing at an #Iranian conference centered on Holocaust denial.”

jta.org/2025/05/30/ny/humans-o

Jewish Telegraphic Agency · ‘Humans of New York’ features a Jewish anti-Zionist member of Neturei Karta. The comments section erupts.By Ben Sales

Someone having the resources should create a fediverse account/instance called #GazaMemorial, like the @auschvitzmuseum, and start listing the names of victims of the #Israeli #genocide against Palestinians one by one on a daily basis, for 75000 days (205 years).

The millions of Jews who perished during WWII should be mentioned at a prominent spot on the front page, along with a statement that racism and genocide is the same whether it is about #Jews, #Palestinians or any other ethnic group.

"The #hamsa itself is not a uniquely #Jewish symbol. It’s used by people of all religions with roots across the #MiddleEast and the #Levant. Some call it the hand of #Fatima (#Mohammad’s daughter), some the hand of #Miriam (after #Moses’ sister). Five is an auspicious number in both #Islam (the five pillars of Islam) and #Judaism (the five books of the #Torah). The symbol’s roots might be in early #Pagan traditions that pre-date monotheistic religions, but it has become a popular symbol in both #Judaism#Jews are speculated by scholars to be the first to use it as an amulet — and #Islam. Many Jews wear hamsa jewelry and put hamsa amulets around their homes."

kveller.com/the-jewish-symbol-

Ever wonder why the #Nazis went after the #Jews ? Because there was over a millennia of history of blaming them for anything because of 2 very key factors. One being a diaspora(immigrants) their populations were always too low to have any real political impact, and two, because they were easy targets they kept to themselves keeping their heads down. Both of these ensured that your average person probably didn't know enough Jews to see them collectively as real people they empathized with.
This natural dehumanizing effect was perfect for those with power to vilify and make people fear and hate. Add to religious differences such as the fact that the church made the use of interest from loaning money as illegal but Jews were allowed to do so, so they were often doing better than their neighbors, and they now had a way to vilify them as greedy and evil.
Its the exact reason why under 3 Caesers, Christians were used as the perfect scapegoats most often by local authorities, because they were small in number, few people knew any personally and often kept their activities hidden for the exact same reason Jews kept their heads down.
for over 1000 years any time the people were getting too restless leaders could trot out the Jews as the cause of the problem and people could attack abuse, lot and kill them in pogroms. After enough time, rulers would give them some piece, let them grow to middle class status again and when they were needed trot them out again as the cause of all the nation's issues.
The Russian secret police invented "the protocols of the elders of Zion" out of whole cloth and spread it around the world creating the first "new world" order conspiracy theory that nearly every new conspiracy theory is mimicking.
The Nazis didn't just target the Jews, they targeted the Roma(Gypsies which is now an offensive term) who also kept to themselves, any minorities, as Germany was very heavily white German, immigrants from other European nations, and anyone who was LGBT, who were targeted for the exact same reason as the Jews were, they were a naturally small population and kept their heads down so people wouldn't view them as people they empathized with.
After WWII, being a Jew hater had a lot of bad press for good reason, so they targeted all the other people the Nazis targeted, minus the Jews at least openly. Minorities, LGBT, and immigrants. They used Jim crow, redlining and racist hiring practices to keep blacks poor and segregated from the average white majority.
They vilified immigrants, first when people came back from the war, Ike pushed a program literally called "operation wetback" where Mexicans that had legally immigrated to the the US to work while our troops were at the front line, and now there was a job shortage, the government did exactly what Trump is doing now, and just rounded up all people who even looked Mexican, including people of Mexican heritage here since Texas and California were part of Mexico as well as many native peoples, and trucked them to the border and dropped them off. After that they passed a lot of racist border laws to make what used to be a normal thing of crossing the border a crime and even then, it was just a low level misdemeanor. Literally every single border/immigration law we have is based in racism, first with the Chinese exclusion act, then with eugenics based immigration laws creating a hierarchy of better and worse races (Irish and many other southern and eastern Europeans were not considered white at the time, white was not about skin color but purity of blood). Then the Mexican border laws, specifically to remove their rights and allow white people to steal land from people of Mexican and native decent.
LGBT were always treated as lesser, though most of the laws against them were used to harass them or give cops a reason to arrest someone they didn't have any evidence against or fill their quota with. Then AIDS came along and a gay panic broke out, never mind that AIDS in Africa effected gay and straight people at the same ratio.
Once the primaries became open to the public, just out of random chance, the parties sorted over time into going two different extremes when it came to scapegoating. The Democrats became more anti-scapegoating temporarily blaming the actual people causing the problems, the powerful rich, and the GOP became the party of blame literally everyone the Nazis did minus the Jews.
This worked so well that the dems ended up losing by such an embarrassing rate in 3 election cycles(literally McGovern and Mondale only won 1 state and DC), they shifted to the 3rd way under Clinton opening up to wealthy donors which since people liked scapegoating so much, they let Reagan dismantle union other little people protections which created a repeating cycle of things getting worse, blame the scape goats, while stripping more protections, rinse and repeat.
And here we are. We have secret police grapping people off the streets and shipping them off to concentration camps in El Salvador with no legally required trial and if the court says the person must be returned, Trump can just shrug his shoulders and say, the El Salvadorian president wont let me, what you gonna do?
The new law in the spending bill now removes courts and congresses ability to enforce the law, which does thankfully have a workaround. States rights at this point is becoming the only checks and balances left, as judges are allowed to deputize people to do the job of Marshals if marshals aren't available. Blue states can assign cops or national guard members to be available to act as marshals, however this could cause a civil cold war between red states who will then force their national guard to support anything Trump wants and attack blue state marshals creating an us vs them between states.
This is where we are now, the minorities and marginalized are not you enemy. They work for cheap and make everything cheaper for you. They get vilified while companies who are allegedly taking the jobs from us and giving the jobs to them, get away with nothing more than a fine or slap on the wrist and in business a fine is just the cost of doing business so its a bribe to break the law.
But no, look at these other scary people with no power you may know only a handful of people from this group, fear them so you never realize that those with actual power are robbing you blind and pushing you closer and closer to poverty, fascism and feudalism on a daily basis.

While this is absolutely correct, the author fails to reach the conclusion that Trump's authoritarian bullshit wouldn't do this with either the left or the right if there wasn't already a built in mistrust of Jews independent of him and his dumb shit within their social, political, and ideological milieus.

"The consequences are serious. By making #Jews the public face of a campaign to #censor #universities, this approach invites backlash from both ends of the ideological spectrum. On the right, it feeds into age-old tropes about #Jewish control of media, academia or public discourse. On the left, it generates suspicion that Jewish advocacy is merely a cover for the suppression of #Palestinian voices.

The effect is to isolate Jews politically and socially − at the exact moment we are being told we are being “protected.”

usatoday.com/story/opinion/voi

USA TODAY · Trump's fight with Harvard risks making Jewish students a scapegoat | OpinionBy reducing antisemitism to a partisan talking point, President Donald Trump undermines efforts to address it meaningfully.

Judenstaat by Simone Zelitch

Simone Zelitch has created an amazing alternate history in Judenstaat. On April 4th, 1948 the sovereign state of Judenstaat was created in the territory of Saxony, bordering Germany, Poland, and Czechoslovakia.
Forty years later, Jewish historian Judit Klemmer is making a documentary portraying Judenstaat's history from the time of its founding to the present.

@bookstodon
#books
#fiction
#AlternateHistory
#Jews
#Germany

Thousands of Israeli nationalists chant ‘death to Arabs’ during annual procession through Jerusalem
[with 5 photos]

from #AssociatedPress #AP #APNews
By JULIA FRANKEL
Updated 3:20 PM EDT, May 26, 2025

'JERUSALEM (AP) — Chanting “Death to #Arabs” and singing “May your village burn,” groups of young Israeli Jews made their way through #Muslim neighborhoods of #Jerusalem’s Old City on Monday during an annual march marking #Israel ‘s conquest of the eastern part of the city.

#Palestinian shopkeepers closed early and police lined the alleys ahead of the march that often becomes a rowdy and sometimes violent procession of ultranationalist #Jews. A police officer raised his arms in celebration at one point, hugging a marcher. It was blazing hot, with temperatures hitting 98 degrees Fahrenheit (37 Celsius) in late afternoon.'

apnews.com/article/israel-pale

#AllEyesOnWestBank #EndTheOccupation #SettlersOut
#Israel #Palestine #MiddleEast #WestAsia
#news #press #politics @palestine

Israeli police scuffle with young Israelis marching through Jerusalem's Old City marking Jerusalem Day, an Israeli holiday celebrating the capture of east Jerusalem in the 1967 Middle East War, Monday, May 26, 2025. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)
AP News · Thousands of Israeli nationalists chant 'death to Arabs' during annual procession through JerusalemBy Julia Frankel

Fascinating little bio of this Jewish physicist.

"In March 1968, police broke up a demonstration.The #Communist regime responded to the protests with an #antisemitic campaign, calling #Jews in high positions #Zionists and enemies of Poles to blame for the government’s failures in economic and social policy, and calling for “Zionists to be sent to Zion.”

Wladyslaw Gomulka, First Secretary of the #Polish United Labor Party, called them a “fifth column.” 8,300 people were expelled from the Communist Party – almost all of them Jews. #Jewish emigration from #Poland began. Infeld died in #Warsaw on January 15, 1968. Two months after his death, a campaign of state #antisemitism began. It turned out that the Polish homeland did not require the love of Jews."

sdjewishworld.com/2025/05/26/j

San Diego Jewish World · Jewish Biography: Leopold Infeld, Physicist who Worked with Einstein - San Diego Jewish WorldIn USA, Infeld recalled, “I arrived at Princeton in September 1936. Five months later our collaboration with Einstein began to work out well; we understood each other perfectly and had achieved even partial success, although the problem of formulating the equations of motion was far from being completely solved. ..." [Alex Gordon]

I’m a Jewish Atheist. Didn’t know Jewish identity can be ethnic without Judaism? There may be other things that surprise you about us.

You can read more in my piece about Jewish American Heritage Month:

markwrites.io/jewish-american-

I also stand with Palestine. As do many Jews. Most of us aren’t Zionists, who are religions extremists.

Let us learn about, celebrate, and love one another.

Mark W.rites · Jewish American Heritage MonthWe’re well into Jewish American Heritage Month. In honor of that, I have some (hopefully) enlightening things to share with you. My peo...

Sarah Milgrim’s Death Was Tragedy. Distorting Her Legacy Would Be Another. In world flooded w empty slogans online posturing #SarahMilgrim was something far rarer a quiet #peace builder. She didn’t seek headlines, she sought dialogue. Just few yrs out of college she was already known 4 her engagement w orgs that brought 2gether #Christians #Jews #Muslims #Israelis #Palestinians. Her final master’s research project was on role of crosscultural friendships in peacebuilding. nytimes.com/2025/05/23/opinion

The New York Times · Opinion | Sarah Milgrim’s Death Was a Tragedy. Distorting Her Legacy Would Be Another.By Yasmina Asrarguis
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@coreytrina Just goes to prove the point that there is not much that separates what the #Nazis did to the #Jews in Europe & what the Jews are now doing to the #Palestinians in the #HolyLand.

Don't the #Israelis see the irony??? 🤷‍♂️

They may not be incinerating the Palestinians but they are killing them by the thousands nonetheless.

The Jews fought against the Nazis for their lives & Hamas believes that they are doing the same thing.

So, it goes that that the Israelis don't give a 💩 what the "world" thinks.

They're going to do whatever that want to do to the Palestinians & there's is NOTHING the "world" can do about it. 🤦‍♂️

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So, YTF are we still supporting this repressive government??? 🤷‍♂️

The US always has a way of supporting the "wrong side" diplomatically, militarily & philosophically.

We did it in Asia. We did it in Africa. And we've been doing it in the Middle East for over 70 years now.

When are we ever going to learn??? 🤔🤷‍♂️

For those wondering what American #Jews are experiencing in this moment — and it’s not great, people — a good place to start is with the articles in this morning’s Forward re the shootings at the DC #Jewish Museum / American Jewish Congress event last night. This is a browser version of their morning newsletter, containing links to all the articles and op-eds. (This link does work, ignore the error message.)

mailchi.mp/forward/12928408-12

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This was at an American Jewish Committee event for young diplomats. Yes, the people killed were Israeli embassy staff; museum staff were also injured. This took place at the DC #Jewish Museum (different from the Holocaust Museum). All were targeted bc they were #Jews.

2 killed in shooting outside DC Jewish museum hosting American Jewish Committee event

jta.org/2025/05/21/united-stat

Jewish Telegraphic Agency · 2 killed in shooting outside DC Jewish museum hosting American Jewish Committee eventBy JTA Staff