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I wrote for
@tempest_mag
about the rallying of support for Kanye and Kyrie's antisemitism--and the serious escalation of AS politics by the GOP in response
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@BenLorber8
You seem to have a lot of clarity about what you would do upon escaping from 16 yrs in a concentration camp.
I dont. And I believe Fanon that you don't either, because colonialism breaks ppl.
We can mourn. But I have no interest in condemning the actions of ppl being genocided
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The Zionists were right. The BDS resolution did cause a spike in antisemitism. Immediately after it passed, a Zionist woman was calling me a fake Jew.
Congrats to the comrades at Ohio State. From the river to the sea Palestine will be free
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@BenLorber8
I disagree. Develop your analysis. That's a completely different task than joining the chorus to condemn Palestinians--not to mention demanding that the entire left make such a condemnation, as you did here
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@kaylanator17
@Maladroithe
@MAdryaelTong
Zionism isn't a concept. It's an ongoing project of dispossession.
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@Glides
@YossiGestetner
@Ocasio2018
Not to mention the thousands upon thousands of undocumented Jewish immigrants who fled to the US on false papers prior to the Shoah.
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@rabbiandykahn
Really want to second the suggestions about just "member of the Jewish people." For me, I could never disassociate ger from stranger, and any English equivalent (convert, proselyte) rings Christian in my ears in ways that are just...unsettling.
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Reach out to your bi friends. Check in.
Its a troubling experience watching chaotic bisexual energy be used for such evil.
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@BenLorber8
@shane_burley1
The colonizers want us to believe that Hamas HQ made a decision to go massacre a bunch of civilians instead of targeting military targets out of some fundamental unhumanity. Clearly that's not true. So what is the value in articulating a critique of a strategy that never existed?
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Zionists love gloating over other Jews dying in the Shoah. Truly disgusting how commonplace it is for Jewish socialists to get the equivalent of gas chamber meme in their mentions from Zionists wishing we would all meet the same fate as our ancestors
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"DSA has no business engaging in internationalism."
The 1, 2 punch of "socialist" anti-Palestinian racism today is really something.
DSA has no business being involved in the internal affairs of Palestinians.
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@shane_burley1
@BenLorber8
Nat Turner killed kids dude. This shit is horrifying. But critiquing the violence of the colonized like its a worked-out theory of change and not a base reaction to having your kids killed completely misses the point.
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There is no corner of discourse more instructive on what
@EmCohen_
has called the "tropeification" of antisemitism than responses to the work of
@elivalley
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@BenLorber8
@shane_burley1
I think thats what we do. I think its what Fanon does, for sure. But when we approach the question, "Should Palestinian resistance target civilians?" as though it is a live question of strategy capable of resulting in any decision, we play the colonizer's game.
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@MNUnitedAF
No pix, but 2 Boog types spotted in Columbus. 1 wearing a plate carrier and "Hawaiian" print shirt. The other I didnt see, but was recognized from a Charlie Kirk event by a comrade.
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@MAdryaelTong
The difference is that "I believe Israel should exist" is itself a pro-apartheid position. There is no such thing as an Israel--i.e., a Jewish state in historic Palestine--that does not rely on apartheid practices and legacies of ethnic cleansing.
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QTs and replies just chock-full of non-Palestinians who have determined that the Palestinians have gotten out of line in the fight for their lives!
The WG is the only reason this org has any credibility with Palestinian activists leading real struggle. We should listen to them.
The
@DSA_Palestine
WG Calls on the NPC to Reverse Their Decision & Expel
@JamaalBowmanNY
"Not only does the BDS WG dissent from the NPC’s principally bankrupt decision, we also reject the false dichotomy being peddled by the DSA’s right-wing"
Statement➡️
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No other word for it: the decision to dissolve
@DSA_Palestine
was racist. The new "left wing majority" on the NPC must confront what it means to preside over an org that voted loud and clear to silence its members of color. My latest for
@tempest_mag
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I'm begging for the left to rub 2 brain cells together when it comes to antisemitism. Just so many "enlightened" "adult in the room" progressives getting very comfortable calling us kapos and attributing out politics to spineless groveling before our non-Jewish masters
"It’s a cliché already but some young Jewish leftists, feeling a need to prove their commitment to socialism and internationalism, had to be more anti-Israel than anyone else."
Michael Harrington, 1975
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@telushk
I like it when coupled with "show me what hypocrisy looks like" and *points at some Gov't building.* Like when it's a critique of the undemocratic nature of official democracy, and not just...look at us with our 1st amendment.
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Israel waging outright war on Palestinian civil society.
#StandWithThe6
🚨BREAKING: Israeli forces raided and sealed shut our Ramallah-area office early this morning, leaving a notice taped to the door ordering the office closed declaring DCIP an illegal organization.
#StandWithThe6
Read the news alert »
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Remember to continue assuming good faith of the comrades who just announced their support for purging you from the organization.
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My partner, mid-sex: "Remind me to ask you this unrelated thing later"
Me: *sighs inaudibly* "What is it?"
Her: "...how is mini corn grown?"
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Every complaint in this document boils down to "A Black comrade was mean to racists in our org." Solidarity with
@abel_amene
suffering nothing more than cynical, anti-Black politicking by the same caucus responsible for purges of Afrosoc and Palestinian organizers across the U.S.
DSA's NPC voted to appoint Abel A to NTC steering despite a clear pattern of him using positions of power to harass & bully members, particularly women.
I filed a complaint in our chapter last year. Just some of the behavior is documented here:
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"The struggle against Zionism is not a dispute between Jewish Zionists and Jewish anti-Zionists." Incredibly important intervention from
@EmCohen_
We are so proud to share this pamphlet, created in collaboration with the brilliant
@EmCohen_
, which begins a conversation on Jewish (and non-Jewish) anti-zionist solidarity. Standing for Palestinian liberation means something, which for too long has been ambiguous. (download ⬇️)
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@telushk
I'm a white Jew who's faced professional consequences because of my employer's antisemitism. Does that count?
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May "your history, your family, your nation" rot in their fucking graves. Gut shabbos
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@snuffbby
@iknownaama
@personaeternal
Universal mandatory service. So yes, refusing to enlist is a (metal af) crime
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DSA members should mobilize to defend the WG. This is absolutely shameful behavior from the npc
DSA's leadership (the NPC) continues to try to repress, censor, & silence the BDS+Palestine WG since the Bowman debate threatened it w/ massive dissent. Now they have demanded the WG hand over its social media pwds & agree to censorship or face removal &replacement of WG leaders.
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@dhanuraashi
@matthewaraven
"He also has on a racist, actively making sure the plight of the Palestinian people continues. She's awesome."
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I'm just gonna throw this out there: I've been active in the Palestine solidarity mvmnt for about a decade. I have never once heard this "From the river to the sea, annihilate Jews!" chant I keep hearing about
Are Jews now supposed to be fine with weekly public calls for their annihilation " from the river to the sea"? Because they are not.
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@RobertKaufmanYo
@skenigsberg
@JoeBiden
@BernieSanders
Fast food workers are heroes. Biden staffers are villains. Sara should get a different job.
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Marc's replies and QTs are horrifying rn. Getting it from all sides, and the antisemitism is next level.
This bullshit hashtag ploy to further the mainstreaming antisemitism is working. And the kind of collective liberation-centered politics fronted by Marc are the only way out
It is. We must call out and fight antisemitism. ALWAYS. We must still critique the ADL and challenge any political project that is Islamophobic, racist, or committed to undermining Palestinian freedom. But this isn’t at odds with standing in solidarity with our Jewish family.
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@questionsin2014
@JoshuaRush
The entire project of creating an ethnostate, of practicing apartheid, of giving citizenship to white Jews in Brooklyn who've never set foot in Palestine while denying it to Palestinians burned and shot out of their homes in 47-48, is illegitimate.
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@BenLorber8
And I challenge you to tell Nat Turner that his "resistance tactics" didn't "bear witness" to a more liberated world
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@jrbluetexas
@JabariBrisport
He knows what hes doing it's a political choice, and lots of Jewish activists (myself included) prefer antisemitism
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Its not possible to disentangle the bill's anti-Palestinianism from its philosemitism. They happen in one breath. The prblm is that people aren't making substantive critiques of the res's philosem., but sticking to something they understand better--the conflating of Jews w 🇮🇱 1/4
The emphasis on this resolution’s antisemitism (technically, incidentally true) rather than its anti-Palestinian racism (constitutively true) is not “just” downstream of Palestinian dehumanization. It is also downstream of a misguided effort to highlight “hypocrisy,” or the
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"We are rapidly moving toward a transcending of the alt-light/alt-right distinction, and demonstrations like [these] are canaries in the coal mine."
See my convo with
@nottreesap
for
@tempest_mag
about lessons from 3 months of fighting fascism in Ohio.
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"Fix my AC"?!?!?!
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This "mistaken belief" is antisemitism. People gotta get this through their heads. Beliefs about Jewish essence which contribute to the structures of Xian hegemony are prima facie AS, no matter how innocently conceived.
Abuse of the definition of AS has rlly done a number on ppl
10/ So, to summarize: 1) Canceling the lighting of the Hanukkah candles is a really bad and wrong decision that should be instantly reversed. 2) Until I see evidence to the contrary, I can't see the decision as resting upon anti-Semitism so much as a mistaken belief, which
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Ready for DSA's fun and flirty red scare phase
It is no secret that members of various factions within our organization have selected the Bowman affair as their wedge issue.
The Tempest collective—composed of former ISO members with a nihilistic attitude towards DSA—has been particularly active. +
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The ppl who find this laughable also find it impossible to imagine that many of their comrades are actual workers--not just union/nonprofit staffers and cushy professionals. Maybe they're right; but then the crisis of DSA's estrangement from the WC is even more significant!
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It's not that decolonization should be violent; it simply is violent, because history offers no possible alternative resolution to the fact of colonialism. Decolonization isn't a strategy or tactic judgable on its merits; its a historical process which we are powerless to stop
"that same violence will be claimed and taken over by the native at the moment when, deciding to embody history in his own person, he surges into the forbidden quarters."
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DSA cannot continue to value electoral success over Palestinian humanity
The Steering Committee of our Working Group has signed onto this Letter from Palestinians addressed to our organizational leadership and the membership🇵🇸🌹
"Simply put, we ask that you put Palestinian humanity before political expediency."
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@WhackNicholson
@philosophrob
The campaign office ran out of printer paper, and she had to run to staples.
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@rachelmillman
Among many, many other questions: why specifically Orthodox/Chasidishe Jews? Are the Conservatives in league with the Muslims?
(Unrelatedly, I would bet so many dollars against this person being able to define Hasidic for me)
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Honda: BDSWG was toxic and didnt assume good faith of their comrades
Also Honda: Anyone who disagrees with me is a scab
Anyone who’s posting a handy guide to calling for a special convention is channeling the same energy as people who tell public sector workers they have the right not to pay dues to their union if they’re upset with it.
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This is the single bravest thing I've ever seen.
Glory to the martyrs
Long live the Intifada
From their mouths to G-d's ears, please G-d of mercy, stop the genocide, end the occupation, and free our people
Gaza residents organise dozens of protests refusing to evacuate chanting “we prefer to die and not to be humiliated”
#Gaza
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Really proud of my talk at
#Socialism2019
. Post-convention resolution: don't talk about Jews for 1 week.
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Esp. cuz we DESPERATELY need working-class rabbis. Not rabbis from WC backgrounds; Jews who are currently servers, bartenders, mail carriers, nurses, and who are invested with the authority to teach and lead in our community
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It's shameful & embarrassing that the largest socialist org in the country has unrepentant anti-Palestinian racists anywhere near leadership, much less the majority. "I know they're dodging colonizer bullets this week, but when are we gonna talk about their tweets?" Pathetic
It’s shameful & embarrassing that some of our elected leaders are so determined to score points against their peers that they’ll post blatantly misrepresentative screenshots like this. I hope our next NPC is more determined to build unity in DSA over divisive, immature stunts
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My latest at
@tempest_mag
: "Saturday’s attack was caused by the same antisemitic, fascist conspiracism that motivated the attack in Austin–and indeed, acts of violence across the country from Pittsburgh, to Poway, California, to New York."
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This is what class consciousness looks like
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"Disruption" is the language of defenders of the status quo scolding radicals and rabble rousers like children.
Palestinians and their allies in this org will not sit around and let you throw them under the Democratic Party bus. We will disrupt.
Every hour of meeting time we’ve spent deliberating the appropriate response to the latest disruption from the BDS WG steering is an hour not spent developing and executing a national strategy, our convention priorities.
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"Pay no attention the man behind the curtain."
What an absolute joke of a response. You're not fooling anybody. In the conflict between racists and a queer Jew of color, you sided with the racists.
[1 of 4] Avodah parted ways with a new temp-hire this week. We cannot comment on details of personnel decisions, but we want to be clear...
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@TeamWarren
@ewarren
Does
@ewarren
believe that candidates should not take union campaign donations?
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Happy to send out my "Against a Left Judeo-Pessimism" reading list to all who want. Tbc: I get it. We need a transformation of the way in which AS gets talked about, theorized, and (not) organized against on the left. The answer is a Jewish ID politics rooted in internationalism
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Tying self-determination of all peoples to the existence of a non-Palestinian state on Palestinian land is just Zionism. It's just settlerism with extra steps. This is the real political content of the moral high ground to which JL has laid claim since 10/7
@nudebugpics
@distraughtemoji
“Surrender your right to self-determination or be expelled” does not in any context sound like a just position to me.
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@Thehopper7
@BoardofDeputies
@BoDPres
@JewishChron
@JewishTelegraph
@JewishNewsUK
Because by pretending that Arab Israelis and Palestinians are two groups--instead of one group separated by ethnic cleansing--they can continue to claim that Arabs are enfranchised, even though the vast majority were stripped of their citizenship rights during the Nakba.
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Me: time to work on this antisemitism article.
Also me: reading the
@solid_jews
Twitter counts as research, right?
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@bluestockings
@nycDSA
Well done
@bluestockings
for taking an actual internationalist stance--one that says no to both US imperialism and Russian and Chinese imperialism, and one that supports and uplifts the grassroots movements of oppressed people all over the world.
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Genuinely shocking to see just how much ink some folks can spill on the DSA's ongoing collapse and insolvency and not once spare a thought for politics
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Sounds like the mainstream Jewish movements are pretty racist, and need to be replaced by institutions representing the full racial, class, and gender diversity of the Jewish world
This is worth repeating. There is no synagogue in any mainstream Jewish movement that would meet this litmus test. If your position excludes virtually every synagogue in America, and leaves no room even for uncomfortable coalitions or difficult dialogue, you’ve made grave error.
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This is normal and not a bad look at all. So much Zionism in this org, ffs
Removing sponsorship of HR 2748 was a promise he made to us months ago, and he ONLY finally came through on it after newly drawn district borders now exclude Riverdale, an area with a heavy Zionist constituency.
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If you're on the left and boosted these racist narratives--even if you later deleted them--then you have serious teshuvah to engage in
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This language, and the attitude that undergirds it, is why poor and working-class Jews are unaffiliated at crazy high rates.
Why do Jewish events always need to be geared towards "young professionals" and not just..."young"
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The political strategy of philosemitism is designed precisely to ensure that "antisemitism" (contrasted with the full extent of anti✡️ domination) is a subaltern phenomenon only--no ruling-class antisemites. I'm in awe of the lengths they are willing to go to defend this fiction.
The suggestion that RFK Jr. is antisemitic is beyond ridiculous. I’m Jewish. I’m proud to say he is my friend. The insinuation could not possibly be emptier.
What Kennedy said was clumsy, but not hard to understand in light of the scientific work he was referencing.
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Thread on Jews settling in Palestine post-Holocaust: When I was living in NYC, I got the chance to see a Shoah survivor speak who, after being liberated alongside Elie Wiesel, was homeless, jobless, and penniless right up until the Zionists recruited him to go to Palestine.
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@HotishCoffee
@oliviakatbi
The second someone participates in allocating a billion dollars to the oppression that BDS opposes, yes, they should be expelled. I didn't know so many DSA members had that opportunity.
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Solidarity with Palestine!¹
¹Excludes election season and federal holidays
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@halobenson
@cynthiamckinney
This is the company you keep,
@cynthiamckinney
when you traffic in Holocaust denial.
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This just isn't normal. And so few of our comrades--whatever side of this practice they find themselves on--dont have the tools to hear the critique when confronted with it. According to Arash, my politics can be dismissed because I'm Jewish. That's a problem
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Am I wrong to read this as a really wholesome story? Like look at this movement standing with Jews and stopping white boys from accidentally smashing up synagogues.
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@DanWei55
@JewishWorker
@outlivethemnyc
@solid_jews
2. After pitt, a group of rad xians and Muslims came to our shul and stood outside, both holding signs in support of us and watching guard. They didnt come inside and pray, or make services about them; they kept us safe. It's the most "solidarized with" I've ever felt.
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Insisting that you not be questioned on your support for apartheid is just as weird as insisting that its good and just for your local white tankie interrogate every Jew she encounters on Palestine.
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Eli's work is so controversial precisely because it polemicizes against the antisemitism emanating from the top of US civil society that so many pretend doesn't exist. It excoriates Dems AND Republicans who push antisemitism and weaponize the Jews for racist ends.
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@BrandonOfTX
@mtsw
I think this has way more to do with those orgs' capitulation to assimilationist respectability politics and white supremacy in the '40s and '50s than any error of understanding or strategy. They know the extent of the problem they're ignoring. And care about whiteness more
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Check out my latest at
@tempest_mag
How is it that...Marxists have failed to notice, much less understand, the...relationship between the bourgeois organization of political life on the 1 hand, and the prospering of political antisemitism on the other?
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@irene_koo
Guy meets with a pro-ethnic cleansing fascist and you're sitting here hand-wringing about process? This should've been an emergency, but it took half a dozen or more chapters and a working group publishing a statement to get any response from the NPC.
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Me: ACAB
Yall: no, my uncle is a cop in Mass and he just posted supporting th--
Massachusetts detective fired after sharing Instagram post supporting Black Lives Matter
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"According to this logic, if a statement appears similar to one of these tropes, it constitutes antisemitism – regardless of context, regardless of truth. It assumes that antisemitism is inherent to tropes, rather than expressed by them."
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Replies full of the importance of antisemitism to so-called MAGA communism and PATSOC fascism
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"Rather than thoughtfully considering whether a statement really evinces hatred of Jews or upholds oppressive systems that harm Jews, a tropeified understanding of antisemitism compares suspect statements to the catalogue of established tropes: blood libel, dual loyalty," etc.
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