Criticizing actions of the government of #Israel is not #antisemitic, nor is describing as ethnic cleansing a plan to remove the entire population of #Gaza out of the conclave

After #antisemitic incident, Jewish bar owner agrees to let two employees stay on if they go to Auschwitz for an education. He fired two others. #education

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c934rx6576yo

@Vivaldi I already reported @kai1108@vivaldi.net yesterday for #revisionism of history, but his profile is still active on your instance. Meanwhile, he also posted clear #antisemitic toots and #holocaust denial, as well as cheering for the far-right German party #AfD.

Here's some links and respective screenshots, with an AI translation to English of the first. Please also consider that such claims have #criminal relevance in #Germany.

https://social.vivaldi.net/@kai1108/114452086815302806
https://social.vivaldi.net/@kai1108/114449308959029530
https://social.vivaldi.net/@kai1108/114438764620525888

@MatWright I wish @AuswaertigesAmt / @GermanyDiplo@social.bund.de was halfway as active in the #Fediverse as on #Shitter.

• Personally, I think like @antidiskriminierung they should announce their move over to #Mastodon citing the continous #Disinformation and #Hatespeech campaigns that they don't want to legitimize by presence in the "Digital #NaziBar" given #Musk's obvious gestures in meatspace and his platforming of #facist, #antisemitic and #racist hatespeech.

But I guess that assumes @Bundesregierung does actually care about #FreeAndDemocracticOrder and #Germany's #Constitution as well as it's #values!

Sept 11, 2024: NPR emails #EdMartin about the award & cites a litany of #antisemitic & #racist comments previously made by Hale-Cusanelli. Martin responds & calls NPR "government-funded propaganda," but does not object to Hale-Cusanelli's antisemitic comments.

Sept 24, 2024: Martin posts an interview w/Hale-Cusanelli on his podcast & refers to him as a "great friend."

Oct 8, 2024: Martin again interviews Hale-Cusanelli on his podcast & refers to him as a "friend" & "amazing guy."

#law #Trump

However, in an email in Sept 2024, NPR wrote to #EdMartin & made him aware of a laundry list of Hale-Cusanelli's prior #antisemitic & #racist statements. In subsequent weeks & months, Martin continued to praise Hale-Cusanelli as an "amazing guy" & "great friend," & they appeared at multiple events together.

#law #Trump #DC #USattorney #judiciary

#Trump nominee #EdMartin’s ties to #antisemitic rioter in question

Martin, Trump's nom for #USattorney for the #DC, is trying to distance himself from a #convicted #Jan6 Capitol rioter known for #racist & antisemitic rhetoric. Federal prosecutors have described Timothy Hale-Cusanelli as a "#Nazi sympathizer."

#law
https://www.npr.org/2025/05/01/nx-s1-5380933/ed-martin-trump-hale-cusanelli-antisemitic

#PeteHegseth has taken Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou off of the library shelves, but left two copies of #AdolfHitler’ s Mein Kampf in the library.

Just consider that for a minute: midshipmen can now read the #antisemitic manifesto of one of history’s most evil men but god forbid they read the autobiography of a Black woman recounting her lived experience.

#Hegseth has taken Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou off of the library shelves, but left two copies of Adolf #Hitler’s Mein Kampf in the library.

Just consider that for a minute: midshipmen can now read the #antisemitic manifesto of one of history’s most evil men but god forbid they read the autobiography of a Black woman recounting her lived experience.

This is so surprising I had to find my fainting chaise lounge. Hear me out though, #zionist are lying about everything at all times. Remember the #antisemitic #panic when the bad evil #students, backed by the nefarious Big Anti-Genocide did their #evil #encampment? Yeah, all the violence was instigated by #genocide supporting #scumbags : https://youtube.com/watch?v=aEKiAUHTCqE

#punchazionist
#fromtherivertothesea
#fuckisraelfreepalestine

«Interim US Att. 4 DC #EdMartin has apologized 4 defendng #TimothyHaleCusanelli, #WhiteSupremacist who once photo'd himself..as #AdolfHitler & has documentd history of #AntiSemitic statemnts. Martin claimed he was unaware of THC’s #extremist views when he publicly praised him

But recordngs dating..to '23 show he not only knew of allegations but repeatdly defended Hale on his podcasts, dismissing accusations as smears, calling THC friend who was “slurred” by allegations»

https://www.rawstory.com/busted-video-undercuts-trump-official-s-apology-for-praising-nazi-sympathizer/

Kehlani Removed From #CornellUniversity Performance Due to Opposition to Israel’s War in #Gaza

The president of the university, which recently had more than $1 billion in funding frozen by the #Trump administration, said that #Kehlani “has espoused #antisemitic, anti-#Israel sentiments in performances, videos, and on social media

By Matthew Strauss
April 24, 2025

https://pitchfork.com/news/kehlani-removed-from-cornell-university-performance-due-to-opposition-to-israel-war-in-gaza/

#FakeAntisemitism
#PermanentCeasfireNow
#IsraelWarCrimes
#ArrestNetanyahuAndGallant
#USHandsOffICC
#StopGazaGenocide
#GazaBelongsToPalestine
#NeverStopTalkingAboutPalestine
#StopArmingIsrael
#BDS #DivestFromIsrael
#RestoreFundsToUNRWA
#SolidarityWithPalestine is #NotAntisemitism
#EqualRightsForAllFromTheRiverToTheSea is #NotAntisemitic
#JewHatredHurtsPalestine
#Palestine #MiddleEast #WestAsia #politics
#USA #US #USPolitics
#news #press @palestine @israel

The ability of an individual to delineate their subjective feelings about particular actions being either on one hand *just* anti-Israel or indeed somehow #antiSemitic is challenged, if not impossible.

This presumably carries over, statistically, to groups of individuals or organizations, with no effort at closer scrutiny of the original motive in question.

As long as Israel’s admin and ‘Defense Forces’ act so far outside of ethical norms, being *evil* as it were, this is unlikely to improve.

#Harvard professors sue #Trump administration over funding cut threats

by Katie Cole, April 14, 2025, #WBUR

"The Harvard chapter of the American Association of University Professors sued the Trump administration Friday over what they call an 'unlawful and unprecedented' attempt to use federal funding cuts to restrict #FreeSpeech.

"The #DepartmentOfEducation announced in late March that it would review $8.7 billion in federal grants and contacts given to Harvard, alleging that the school failed to prevent #antisemitic discrimination on campus.

"The Trump administration then unveiled a broad set of demands on April 4 the university must agree to in order to keep getting federal funding, including cutting all diversity, equity and inclusion programming, and modifying any programming and departments that 'fuel antisemitic harassment.' The administration gave Columbia University a similar set of demands in March, which the school agreed to.

"The lawsuit by the professors' group, filed in #Massachusetts federal court, alleges that the administration's federal funding review violates the #TitleVI of the #CivilRightsAct, which prohibits discrimination in programs that receive federal funds. The court filing says the law requires specific procedures to cut federal funds and that the Trump administration has not taken any of those steps.

"The group said in a press release that the administration's actions are in effort to create a chilling effect among universities and faculty to stop speech that the president does not like.

" 'Eliminating discrimination and protecting all students is important,' said Nikolas Bowie, a Harvard law professor and the secretary-treasurer of the school's #AAUP chapter, in a statement. 'But Trump is defying the Civil Rights Act, terrifying students, and illegally holding hostage grants for hospitals and scientific research so he can accomplish his real goal of punishing academics for our politics.'

"The lawsuit says that the actions by the administration have 'already caused severe and irreparable harm by halting #academic #research and #inquiry at Harvard.'

"This is the second suit that the Harvard AAUP chapter has filed against the Trump administration this year. The first was a joint suit with other chapters, including one from Columbia, over federal efforts to deport #MahmoudKhalil and students that engaged in #ProPalestinian #activism."

https://www.wbur.org/news/2025/04/14/harvard-aaup-trump-funding-cuts-lawsuit

#SilencingDissent #CharacteristicsOfFascism #Fascism #Authoritarian #Authoritarianism #BibiIsAWarCriminal #FreeMahmoudKhalil #FreePalestine #AcademicFreedom #FreeSpeech #TrumpIsABully #DEI #Erasure #Censorship

now just watch that #fascist bitch #PamBondi NOT press charges on the 38 yr old #antisemitic #OrangeShitler supporter who tried to burn alive the family of #GovernorShapiro as they slept

I hate those commercials aimed at raising money for the poor jewish grandmothers in russia. (Sara M vibes)
Am i allowed to say that? or it it #antisemitic?

#Germany seeks to #deport #protesters

Submitted by webadmin on 9 April, 2025

"The German state has issued deportation orders for three #EUCitizens and one #American who have attended #ProPalestinian protests.

"Berlin immigration authorities issued the orders on 31 March, demanding that the four individuals leave Germany within one month or else face deportation. Their orders cite a protest in October 2024 in which masked individuals caused 'significant property damage, including #graffiti', as well as resisting arrest and calling a #police officer a '#fascist'.

"Unusually, three of the four orders also invoke the German principle of #Staatsräson, (“#StateReason”). This term originates from a speech #AngelaMerkel gave to the #IsraeliKnesset in 2008, asserting that #Israeli security was fundamental to the purpose of the German state.

"Staatsräson is not an officially defined term or codified anywhere in the German constitution or by German courts. At least two of the protestors are appealing the decision, with their lawyer telling Al-Monitor that it is a 'political concept, not a legal concept, and therefore unlawful'.

"In any case, the #deportation of #activists for #protesting should be opposed.

#Khalil

"The activists’ lawyer has drawn parallels to the case of #MahmoudKhalil in the US. 'I see similarities… It is weaponization of #ImmigrationLaw as a tool to silence #PoliticalDissent'. Khalil’s case may also lead to a debate on interpretations of the US constitution’s #FirstAmendment.

"Back in February, #Berlin police broke up a protest, citing a ban on '#ArabicChanting', the playing of #ArabicMusic, or giving a speech in #Arabic. In October 2024, police raided the homes of five men, four of whom were being investigated over 'authorship of #antisemitic social media posts'.

Clapping

"And after the joint Israeli-Palestinian documentary #NoOtherLand won an Academy Award, German culture minister Claudia Roth insisted that she was only clapping for Israeli director Yuval Abraham, not Palestinian director #BaselAdra. Several politicians, including the mayor of Berlin, called for her resignation. A torrent of public criticism was aimed at #YuvalAbraham for his acceptance speech, to which he responded: 'To stand on German soil as the son of Holocaust survivors and call for a ceasefire — and to then be labelled as antisemitic is not only outrageous, it is also literally putting Jewish lives in danger.'

"Israeli politicians cited German politicians when attacking the filmmakers themselves, and only weeks later, co-director #HamdanBallal was attacked by #IsraeliSettlers in the #WestBank, and removed from an ambulance by #IDF soldiers.

"German Staatsräson is less about assuring Israel’s right to exist, and more about giving a free hand to the #repressive policies of the Israeli right."

Source:
https://www.workersliberty.org/story/2025-04-09/germany-seeks-deport-protesters

#CriminalizingDissent #ProPalestineActivists #ProPalestine
#CriminalizingProtest #AntiProtestLaws
#GermanyPol #GermanAntiProtestLaws
#Authoritarianism #Fascism #RightWing #StudentProtesters #Zionism #BibiIsAWarCriminal #Enablers

Oh FFS already :blobcatknife:

"[W]ithin 48 hours, the message was distorted into something else entirely. The video has racked up more than 6 million views after being re-shared by several far-right influencers on X. It has become fuel for an #antisemitic #conspiracy theory: that Coca-Cola is making a superior version of its product for #Jews only. A chosen beverage of the chosen people.

The idea that “the Jews” are hoarding something — knowledge, money, vaccines, in this case soda — is hardly new. But the way this specific idea propagated, and the speed with which it did, is deeply contemporary. In the age of TikTok and X, every niche cultural product — even #Passover Coke — can become a political totem."

https://forward.com/fast-forward/711466/kosher-coke-passover-jewish-conspiracy/

"As was the case last year, there also is intense concern in some countries about a high level of #antisemitic incidents.

More than 10,000 antisemitic incidents in the #UnitedStates were reported between #Oct7, 2023, and Sept. 24, 2024 — the most ever recorded by the Anti-Defamation League.

The Secure Community Network, which provides security and safety resources to hundreds of #Jewish organizations and institutions across #NorthAmerica, has been issuing frequent advisories ahead of #Passover.

Specifically, the group has warned of possible threats from white extremist groups, including some organizing along the U.S.-Canada border. SCN said key extremist anniversaries, including #Hitler’s birthday on April 20, coincide with the holiday, raising concerns about the risk of #violence targeting Jewish communities."

https://apnews.com/article/passover-jewish-holiday-israel-hamas-antisemitism-6bb47e4b095e9bca4304f9b6e11f18d3?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

It is #antisemitic to suggest that Jewish people form a shadowy cabal that controls our culture, economy, and political system. It is not antisemitic to suggest that a nation that proclaims itself Jewish should not be killing 10s of thousands of people on land they control.