"... the current obsession with a definition of antisemitism is obscene. We are distracted from the horror by panic about an alleged explosion of antisemitism and concerns about Jewish safety – even though it’s been exposed as mostly bullshit.

My mother and grandmother survived the Nazi extermination camp Auschwitz, and I grew up hearing their stories. So, l think I know antisemitism when I see it. In fact, there has never been any antisemitism at our rallies, at universities or anywhere in Australia in my lifetime.

Saying “F**k Israel” or “F**k Zionism” is not antisemitic."
https://johnmenadue.com/post/2025/04/peter-slezaks-speech-to-the-uts-rally-on-26-march/
@palestine

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#zionism
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#antisemitism
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Importance Score: 45 / 100 » Ex-Gov. Cuomo accuses NYC mayoral opponents of being antisemitic DSA ‘disciples’ -

Cuomo Accuses Mayoral Rivals of Antisemitism, Sparks Fierce Rebuttal

Former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo ignited ...
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A few years ago, the people behind the now-defunct white nationalist website VDARE bought a castle (yes, a castle) in Berkeley Springs, West Virginia. It got a fair bit of coverage at the time, but there hasn't been all that much reporting on what they've been doing in there since then.

Now it's clear that the castle was the venue for a recent conference that brought a bunch of Patriot Front goons to town, along with a handful of leading antisemitic and "race science" intellectuals from around the US. And this is after the VDARE people promised to be nice, quiet neighbors.

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On March 7-9 of this year, the neo-fascist American Freedom Party (AFP) held what it billed as its “National Convention” at a location that organizers kept secret from the public. Participants later said that it was in West Virginia without specifying where, however they did post photos from the conference online. A close examination of these images reveals that the conference took place at the Berkeley Springs Castle, which is owned by the people who ran the now-defunct white nationalist website VDARE.

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The Brimelows’ presence has been a source of tension in Berkeley Springs from the start. Peter Brimelow has downplayed residents’ concerns, saying that he wasn’t organizing big rallies in town or doing anything disruptive and that “We just want to be quiet, good neighbors.” Yet the VDARE website also described the castle as a “meeting place” for like-minded people, and Lydia Brimelow stated during a 2022 podcast appearance that “My vision is it becomes a big hub of American patriotism.”

One reason why the recent conference is noteworthy is because it provided exactly the kind of “meeting place” that VDARE promised while breaking any sort of commitment to simply be “quiet, good neighbors,” highlighting the inherent contradiction between the two.

https://alasbarricadas.noblogs.org/post/2025/03/31/a-fascist-gathering-in-west-virginia/

Today in Labor History April 2, 1840: Émile Zola, French novelist, playwright, journalist was born. He was also a liberal activist, playing a significant role in the political liberalization of France, and in the exoneration of Alfred Dreyfus, the Jewish army officer falsely convicted and imprisoned on trumped up, antisemitic charges of espionage. He was also a significant influence on mid-20th century journalist-authors, like Thom Wolfe, Truman Capote, Hunter S. Thompson, Norman Mailer and Joan Didion. Wolfe said that his goal in writing fiction was to document contemporary society in the tradition of Steinbeck, Dickens, and Zola.

Zola wrote dozens of novels, but his most famous, Germinal, about a violently repressed coalminers’ strike, is one of the greatest books ever written about working class rebellion. It had a huge influence on future radicals, especially anarchists. Some anarchists named their children Germinal. Rudolf Rocker had a Yiddish-language anarchist journal in London called Germinal, in the 1910s. There were also anarchist papers called Germinal in Mexico and Brazil in the 1910s.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #zola #germinal #anarchism #writer #fiction #strike #dreyfus #antisemitism #rebellion #novel #author #books #france #mining #coal #journalism @bookstadon

We see that Antisemitism is in the headlines again. We created a resource specifically for teaching about contemporary Antisemitism & its ties to white supremacy. The lesson uses recent, high profile examples from the US but the framework can be adapted for any country. Recommended for grades 9-12, higher ed & adult ed. Get it as part of our Schindler's List film guide or download it as a standalone lesson.

Like all of our resources, this lesson is free for everyone.

https://journeysinfilm.org/product/schindlers-list/

#Antisemitism #AntiBiasEducation #EnglishLanguageArts #NeverAgain #SchindlersList #SocialStudies #SocialEmotionalLearning #Education #Edutooters #Homeschooling @education @edutooters

US Reviews Harvard’s Federal Funding of $9 Billion Over Antisemitism Concerns #Harvard #USGovernment #Antisemitism #EducationFunding #BreakingNews #Politics

https://newspiler.in/us-reviews-harvards-federal-funding-over-antisemitis/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=jetpack_social

They're not going after universities for " #antisemitism ", they're going after them for wrong-think.

Headline: Scrambling to hide “wokeness” for #Hegseth visit, #Naval Academy removes photos of female #Jewish grads

Source: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/4/1/2313826/-Scrambling-to-hide-wokeness-for-Hegseth-visit-Naval-Academy-removes-photos-of-female-Jewish-grads

Trump administration launches review of nearly $9 billion in federal funding to Harvard University amid allegations of campus antisemitism and chaos. The review includes $255 million in contracts and $8.7 billion in grants. #Harvard #Antisemitism #TheDigitalFreePress

#SUA. Agențiile federale reanalizează acordarea unor subvenții de aproape nouă miliarde #USD Universității #Harvard. #Guvern‎ul investighează zeci de universități în care au avut loc proteste pro-palestiniene, unele marcate de gesturi antisemite.

https://biziday.ro/?p=315089

300+ students unite in NYC to combat rising campus antisemitism, launching critical initiative to protect Jewish students and fight discrimination. Incidents up 120.8% in 2024. Resilience and unity are our strongest weapons. #Antisemitism #StudentActivism

https://www.europesays.com/1958699/ Harvard University faces Trump administration review of $8.7 billion in grants amid antisemitism investigation #Antisemitism #AntisemitismInvestigation #Cambridge #DepartmentOfEducation #Harvard #HarvardUniversity #massachusetts #TheWhiteHouse #trump #TrumpAdministration

All over the West, free speech is falling victim to pro-Israel supporters in government and institutions, and anything related to the Gaza genocide is being severely punished and suppressed with the blanket accusation of 'antisemitism'.

c: @5149jamesli on IG

In more "What the heck is going on in Australia?" news, it looks like a city council realized it had a problem on its hands when a song calling for the murder of Jews won a song contest, and the author of the song made antisemitic statements in her acceptance speech for the award.

The town has shut the context and the organization down, so that's good at least.

https://www.algemeiner.com/2025/03/28/australian-city-council-pulls-funding-local-music-awards-anti-israel-song-river-sea-wins-top-honor/

I'm going to make this as simple and straightforward as I can make it.

You don't have to agree with Zionism

You don't have to believe that Zionism is Jewish civil rights.

You don't have to agree with the Zionist idea of Jewish self-determination.

But you do have to accept the following:

Holding all Zionists responsible for the actions of a few politicians in a minority government is not just wrong, it's a form of hate.

Zionism has been part of Jewish thought since were forcibly expelled from our homeland 2,000 years ago, and even in its modern form is older than Herzel and the European Zionist movement.

Saying Zionism is a hate group or hateful ideology is disgusting and inverting the meaning of hate.

70-80% of all Jews are Zionists, and Zionists live around the world.

Using minority viewpoints to say what is and isn't part of Judaism is gross and tokenizing.