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Yezidis hold placards with pictures of victims of the Yezidi genocide - of the 550,000 Yezidis in Iraq before the Islamic State (IS) group invaded their region in 2014, around 100,000 have emigrated abroad and 360,000 remain internally displaced. Roughly 3,300 Yezidis have returned from IS captivity in the last five years, only 10 percent of them men. (Photo by SAFIN HAMED / AFP)

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if your leftism doesn’t include fighting antisemitism then I’m really not interested in your leftism

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You're one of the only non-Jewish online people I've seen consistently blaring the alarm bells about antisemitism so I hope you don't mind ne talking about this. I'm not Jewish but figured something was up soon after Oct 7th.

I'm knackered. I don't know about you but I'm just exhausted and so I can't imagine how it must be for Jews. I'm trying to find out how to combat antisemitism online without joining big social media sites bc they terrify me. I've stopped interacting with fandom because everywhere. EVERYWHERE. You see it. People have got absolutely no idea how bad antisemitism has got. They are utterly convinced it's just anti-zionism. It is like arguing with a brick wall that's so in denial its convinced bricks don't even fucking exist.

I dont know if you feel this way too. But I genuinely feel like I'm losing my marbles a bit here. I am so scared of what will happen next. Its been 2 years of me going "something terrible is happening". I thought it was bad when the embassy members were murdered. Then an elderly Jew got literally burnt to death in public and it...it was out of the media within a week. How does that happen. I don't understand. Hasn't the world learned a damn thing from history??

I do understand exactly how you feel - a frighteningly huge amount of people have spent the last almost two years diving headlong into extreme levels of antisemitism disguised as activism, justifying and celebrating rape and murder and torture, and generally betraying every single value they pretend to hold and acting like that makes them righteous, while most other people pretend it's not happening, and speaking out about it at all gets you huge amounts of abuse.

The only advice I really have is to continue to call it out when you see it, and listen and learn from Jewish people. Campaign Against Antisemitism is a great organization I support and they have some excellent resources on their website and YouTube channel. I highly recommend their podcast that you can find through the website.

I have a lot of Jewish mutuals and followers, so hopefully some of them will also see this because they, much better than I, can advise how to be most effective.

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This is, like, 57% of Twitter discourse in action.

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There should be a companion to "We've tried nothing and we're all out of ideas" that's "We've tried one thing and it failed, but it's our only idea so we're gonna keep doing it."

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tumblr is like yes we can and must talk about complex sensitive issues but if anyone insists on applying nuance to the discussion I will assume they are taking the opposite polarized stance to mine and now they're clearly my enemy

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"Other people besides Jews and Romani died in the Holocaust" is the "the Irish were slaves in America, too" of the left.

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The rest of the comments were even worse 🤢at this point , this blog is just documenting antisemitism

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The fact that even xfiles recognizes that people use zionist as a dogwhistle for jews yet people nowadays don't is wild.

Season 4 episode 15 Kaddish - a racist right wing white supremist accuses mulder and scully of being jewish because they're looking into a case where a Jewish man was killed by neo nazis. Then when mulder and scully say they work for the FBI, the dude claims the fbi and the US government are working for the jews.

"That's right. You call me paranoid 'cause that's exactly what (((they))) want you to do. But there is one thing you can't call me, and that is a zionist collaborator."

That episode aired in 1997...

This is literally more proof that for decades, zionist has been used as a dog whistle for jews. Yet people still use it in the same way and expect to not be called out on it.

Yes, when using zionist to mean the political belief, it is not a dog whistle.

But some of yall leftists are using the exact same language, down to the fucking punctuation, as neo nazis and white supremists from the 90's and 2000's and act as if you're not being antisemitic.

You can criticize the Israeli government without whipping out the same words neo nazis use.

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So with Musk's AI chatbot on twitter going full Nazi, are we supposed to keep pretending that it's not really dangerous to have this kind of AI marketed as all-knowing and infallible when it can generate white supremacist talking points? And are we supposed to keep humoring techbros who act like this tech can't be easily manipulated to produce whatever kind of output you want?

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The fact that this week alone there were separate articles where Jewish students at three different public schools, all in different states, were expelled or removed from school in response to recorded antisemitic bullying instead of said bullying being punished in a rational and just measure

And the only people I've seen talking about this are other Jews

Well, it says many things, to be frank

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if your child was STOLEN FROM YOU, moved to Russia & educated to FORGET YOU, their friends, their language, their homeland & their values & TRAINED TO KILL YOU, what would you do? how would you feel?

‘Basically impossible to get them back’: Russia’s mass abduction of Ukrainian children is a war crime, say experts

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I used to be a proficient googler who never wasted a word but since Google is near useless no matter how good you are at it now I have reverted to just typing in entire questions like an old person

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Matthias Schoenaerts as Booker in The Old Guard 2 (2025)

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Guys I don’t know why I need to tell you this but the struggles of Haiti, Sudan, Palestine, Yemen, Congo, Tibet, Ukraine whatever else gets added to the list of free country tags are actually not all a part of the same struggle. There are some similarities between some of them but each of these areas has a unique history and actually the conflicts in each of these countries do have different causes. There is not one big mega solution for all of them.

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How to Disable and Remove All AI Features in Mozilla Firefox

*deep, calming breath* On the plus side, the steps at that link were very clear and easy to follow.

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Some days I end up unable to stop thinking about how completely batshit Judenhass/Jew hate/antisemitism is. People will destroy themselves and their societies in order to hurt Jews, and why? This has been going on for over three thousand years. It's older than Christianity, it's older than the Roman Empire.

Just. What the fuck.