We need to talk about antisemitism ? Oh really ?

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There are times where we don’t name the fullness of antisemitism for an entirely different reason: because we don’t want to rock the boat. Some people within our own communities seem sort of comfortable with antisemitism, or at least pretty comfortable minimizing it—so it can be deeply uncomfortable to go against the grain and call it out.

And sometimes we diminish antisemitism because antisemitism is working. Maybe a small part of you believes its lies. If somewhere in your mind you imagine Jews as powerful, rich, white, running Hollywood, influencing the media, or controlling the political landscape, then a part of you likely believes that Jews exist at the top of our cultural pyramid. So in that case, why would you call out antisemitism at all?

But it’s time to stop our ignorance and ambivalence, and start talking about antisemitism.

Because it’s the worst it’s been in my lifetime—and probably yours. Instead of denying, diminishing and avoiding antisemitism, we need to name it and face it head on.

https://time.com/6309354/calling-out-antisemitism-essay/

Yeaaaah, sure Diana...

Diana never answered. Diana is ready to go "head on". But not today.

Today is for the media.

La gauche avait réussi à faire croire à la seule existence d’un antisémitisme de droite, cette ère-là est terminée

 L'antisémitisme à gauche est un sujet tabou, soigneusement dissimulé quand il n’est pas volontairement oublié. Par un singulier paradoxe, la gauche se présente comme l'ennemie du racisme alors que ses racines intellectuelles, révolutionnaires et socialistes sont profondément antisémites. 

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Dans La question juive (1844), Marx dénonce « l’essence du judaïsme et la racine de l'âme juive, l'opportunité et l'intérêt personnel qui se manifeste dans la soif de l’argent ».

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Jaurès, l’idole de la gauche, laisse désigner, dans son journal* La Petite République, le député Reinach comme un « juif ignoble ». Lors de son voyage en Algérie, en avril 1895, Jaurès décrit les juifs qui, « par l'usure, l'infatigable activité commerciale et l'abus de l'influence politique, accaparent peu à peu la fortune, le commerce, les emplois publics (…). Ils tiennent une grande partie de la presse, les grandes institutions financières, et quand ils n'ont pu agir sur les électeurs, ils agissent sur les élus ». 

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Dans son discours au Tivoli, en 1898, Jaurès déclare : « nous savons bien que la race juive, concentrée, passionnée, subtile, toujours dévorée par une sorte de fièvre du gain quand ce n'est pas par la force du prophétisme, (…) manie avec une particulière habileté le mécanisme capitaliste, mécanisme de rapine, de mensonge, de corset, d’extorsion ». Longtemps convaincu de la culpabilité de Dreyfus, Jaurès estime que celui-ci a échappé à la peine capitale grâce « au prodigieux déploiement de la puissance juive ». 

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La gauche a toujours fait croire que l’antisémitisme était le monopole de l’extrême-droite. De la même manière qu’elle a fait oublier combien elle était présente à Vichy : Pierre Laval, l’ancien député-maire socialiste d’Aubervilliers, avocat de la CGT, Marcel Déat, Adrien Marquet, Gaston Bergery, et tant d’autres sont issus, comme le communiste Doriot, du courant pacifiste de l’entre-deux-guerres. Les premiers résistants qui entourent De Gaulle viennent souvent, à l’inverse, de l’Action française et de la droite classique.

https://atlantico.fr/article/decryptage/la-gauche-avait-reussi-a-faire-croire-a-la-seule-existence-d-un-antisemitisme-de-droite-cette-ere-la-est-terminee-bernard-carayon

Cet antisémitisme de gauche dont les racines sont bien plus anciennes que la complaisance avec l’islamisme

Ils ne veulent pas voir l’antisémitisme d’une population qu’ils jugent victime de la société qu’ils combattent. À leurs yeux, les musulmans sont des alliés objectifs, auxquels on ne tient pas rigueur de leurs passion antisémite et donc raciste, puisqu’ils sont supposés être les victimes du racisme systémique.

À gauche, en France, personne ne peut se déclarer ni même se penser antisémite. Heureusement pour ces gens, la détestation de l’État d’Israël soulage leur mauvaise conscience envers les descendants des victimes de la Shoah. Il leur suffit de s’entendre répéter que les juifs d’Israël font aux Arabes ce que les nazis ont fait aux Juifs, et que les musulmans de France sont traités comme les juifs de France le furent sous Vichy.

Tous ces éléments de langage sont ineptes, mais ils s’en gargarisent, s’en intoxiquent, et s’en satisfont.

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L’antisémitisme de gauche découle avant tout de l’équation Juifs= riches-=exploiteurs = ennemis de l’humanité.

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L’adhésion massive des Juifs au communisme fut une énorme mystification. Les Juifs crurent que « l’internationalisme prolétarien » rendait l’antisémitisme impossible, d’autant que Marx était un Juif.

Ils ne surent pas que Marx était un antisémite acharné, ils ne virent pas que l’internationalisme affiché était « prolétarien », c’est-à-dire en guerre contre les riches, et par extension aux Juifs, et ils découvrirent un peu tard que les États communistes flattaient ceux qui détestaient les Juifs, coupables de mieux réussir que les autres. 

https://atlantico.fr/article/decryptage/cet-antisemitisme-de-gauche-dont-les-racines-sont-bien-plus-anciennes-que-la-complaisance-avec-l-islamisme-andre-senik

European bureaucrats are managing antisemitism instead of fighting it

 While there's an abundance of commissioners appointed to combat any form of antisemitism, facts on the ground show they are not actually doing much

Benjamin Weinthal

The proliferation of commissioners tasked with fighting antisemitism across the European Union, particularly in Germany, recalls the biting sarcasm of the German-Jewish journalist Kurt Tucholsky in 1931: "A German's fate: to queue at a counter. A German's dream: to sit behind a counter."

Tucholsky’s wit has not lost its relevance in 2023. There is a kind of expectation among European Jews and others, who are lining up at the doors of scores of antisemitism commissioners in Europe and Germany, that something will be done.

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EU Envoy for Combating Antisemitism Katharina Von Schnurbein

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And there is no shortage of people seeking to serve as a commissioner, an office that imparts a vanity title, creates a sense of being on the side of the angels, and allows a generous budget for travel to conferences and schmooze events.

Nearly all 16 German states have commissioners assigned to combat antisemitism. The city-state of Berlin has five. In North Rhine-Westphalia there are 22 commissioners, and a federal commissioner exists along with an EU counterpart.

The problem with the cottage industry of bureaucratic positions with titles such as the “federal government commissioner for Jewish life in Germany and the fight against antisemitism” for Felix Klein in Germany and “European Commission coordinator on combating antisemitism” for Katharina von Schnurbein is that the state apparatus has established yet another layer of bureaucracy that is not in the business of tackling antisemitism as a counter-terrorism project.

Making matters worse, some of the commissioners are stoking Jew-hatred.

Natan Sharansky, who serves as the chairman of the Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Research and who developed the modern definition of antisemitism, recently termed a tweet by the commissioner in the state of Baden-Württemberg, Michael Blume, as antisemitic.

Far-right activists marching through Dresden, Germany

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Sharansky, a former Soviet dissident and former Israeli government minister, said Blume’s tweet was antisemitic because “it demonizes our people and goes to classic antisemitic conspiracy theory. It is a legitimate question, why should German government pay him for fighting antisemitism.”

Blume suggested in his tweet that he is a victim of a nebulous group of Israelis known as “Team Jorge” who allegedly operate outside of Tel Aviv and might be involved in spreading disinformation about him. He provided no evidence.

Blume has a documented history of spreading anti-Jewish and anti-Israel conspiracy theories on social media. The Los Angeles-based Simon Wiesenthal Center cited Blume as part of the seventh worst outbreak of antisemitism in 2021.

Sadly, the examples of antisemitic and severely incompetent commissioners abound.

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The commissioner of the northern state of Schleswig-Holstein, Gerhard Ulrich, who served as a Protestant bishop for northern Germany, preached sermons laced with contemporary antisemitism. Ulrich sees the Jews as warmongers – in language that recalls the Hitler movement blaming Jews for a global war: “Therefore we cannot accept it when a modern state invokes this God and his promises when war is waged,” he declared.

Ulrich reduced the cause of conflict and suffering in the Middle East to one country: “The name ‘Israel’ is burdened with the horror and misery of this Middle East war.” He also likened Israel’s security barrier, which has prevented Palestinian terrorism, to the former East German state’s Berlin Wall.

Commissioner von Schnurbein has been in office since 2015 and has not uttered a single public remark about the pressing need for the EU to outlaw the entirety of the genocidally antisemitic terrorist organizations Hezbollah and the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). In 2019, when asked whether the EU should ban Hezbollah, von Schnurbein said, “My responsibilities concern EU-internal policies in the fight against antisemitism.”

A bizarre response in light of the fact that Hezbollah carried out a terror bombing in an EU-member state, Bulgaria, in 2012. Five Israeli Jews and their Bulgarian Muslim bus driver were murdered. Schnurbein continued to stay silent this year about terror proscriptions for Hezbollah, the IRGC, and the Palestinian NGO Samidioun. Lethal antisemitism carried out by jihadi terrorist movements is not front-and-center in the EU’s thinking.

In late 2022, German state security sources accused the IRGC of contracting terrorism against synagogues in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia and spying on the president of the Central Council of Jews in Germany. According to a report by ARD television’s political magazine Kontraste, security sources believe Ramin Y., a German-Iranian, was behind the attacks. “We’re talking about state terrorism here,” one investigator told Kontraste.

Klein, the German federal commissioner, published a report on behalf of the German Interior Minister Nancy Faeser titled “National Strategy against Antisemitism and for Jewish Life.” It failed to mention the IRGC, Hezbollah and radical Islamism. Both Klein and Schnurbein hailed the “National Strategy” report as a “milestone.”

Compounding the problem, Klein ignored the 2019 German court conviction of Pakistani citizen Mustufa Haidar Syed-Naqfi, whom the IRGC paid to conduct surveillance on European Jews and Israeli institutions. According to German authorities, Syed-Naqfi’s actions were “a clear indication of a [planned] assassination attempt.”

It is unclear why Klein refuses to confront Iranian regime-sponsored lethal antisemitism in Germany. For example, he carved out the time during the Trump administration’s tenure in office to slam antisemitism in the United States. A possible explanation for Klein’s silence: Germany’s government is deeply wedded to the flawed Iran nuclear deal, the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, and probably does not want Klein to toss a wrench in the efforts to revive the agreement.

The star of David on a fence

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Former U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo declared the Islamic Republic of Iran to be the world’s top state sponsor of antisemitism. The US government under both Democratic and Republican administrations has designated Iran’s theocratic state as the world’s worst state sponsor of terrorism.

One can only hope that the current United States special envoy to monitor and combat antisemitism, Deborah E. Lipstadt, will move her colleagues across the Atlantic to recommend a terror proscription for the IRGC and Hezbollah.

As a general rule, it is not a good idea for Jewish communities to completely outsource their security to bureaucrats. An innovative example of a private-public partnership is furnished by the Jewish community in the UK, which created the Community Security Trust to provide “safety, security and advice” to the country’s Jews. The CST is independent of the British government but works with law enforcement officials to prevent violent antisemitic attacks.

Sadly, German officials and the EU state apparatus will likely ignore calls to change their behavior. To return to Tucholsky: “Furthermore, here the one pointing out the filthiness is perceived as much more dangerous than the one producing the filth.”

https://www.ynetnews.com/article/byln5ffdh

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This article would even be more powerful if this journalist, and this media, had, at any time, give a hand to my work which does not seem to be against any fight...

Joe Rogan

In 2019, Omar drew criticism for tweeting that pro-Israel groups were “all about the Benjamins, baby,” in reference to one hundred dollar bills and Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, invoking antisemitic tropes such as Jewish greed and dual loyalty.

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Rogan went on to say “That’s not an antisemitic statement, I don’t think that is. Benjamins are money. The idea that Jewish people are not into money is ridiculous. That’s like saying Italians aren’t into pizza, it’s f*cking stupid. It’s f*cking stupid.”

Why was what Joe Rogan said about Jews and money antisemitic?

Rogan saying that “the idea that Jewish people are not into money is ridiculous” is a clear example of the long-held stereotype that Jews are money-loving.

According to AJC’s Translate Hate glossary, the greed trope is the foundation for some of the most constant antisemitic falsehoods and the association of Jews with greed has fueled jew hatred throughout history, including today.

The theme of greed in antisemitic rhetoric is so widespread that it’s led to a long list of Jewish stereotypes, including being excessively materialistic and money-oriented, exploiting others for personal gain, being overly wealthy, and controlling the world’s finances.

In the Middle Ages—when Christians were forbidden by the Church to lend money for interest—money-lending, trade, and commerce were the few professions Jews were allowed to have. Jews were blamed for usury, the act of charging high rates of interest, and this association led to stereotypes about Jewish greed and wealth. 

From Shakespeare’s sinister Jewish caricature in The Merchant of Venice to Rothschild's schemes of world domination to Nazi propaganda on Jewish economic control, the antisemitic trope of greed can be found in everything from pop culture to deep-web conspiracy theories.

https://www.ajc.org/news/why-what-joe-rogan-said-on-his-podcast-about-jews-was-antisemitic

Jewish workers say they’re experiencing more overt discrimination.

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A 2022 study published in the academic journal Socius surveying 11,356 workers of all faiths found that more than half of the Jewish respondents experienced discrimination at work — a higher percentage than any other religious group, besides Muslims. A smaller survey from November of 1,131 hiring managers and recruiters commissioned by ResumeBuilder.com had even starker findings: Nearly a quarter said they wanted fewer Jewish people in their industry and a similar share admitted they’re less likely to advance Jewish applicants. Among the top reasons cited for those discriminatory behaviors: Perceptions that Jewish people have too much power and wealth. 

While Jewish Americans overall have relatively high incomes compared to other groups — half live in households making at least $100,000, compared to 19% of US adults — they span the economic spectrum. A Pew Research Center survey released in 2021 found that a quarter of Jewish respondents had difficulty paying for medical care, their rent or mortgage, food or other bills. Roughly half of Jewish Americans said they live “comfortably,” the survey found, but 15% said they only have just enough to meet basic expenses.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-01-11/jewish-us-workers-experience-more-overt-anti-semitism-at-work

Argentine: un professeur propose d'offrir un bonus à "celui qui trouve un Juif pauvre"

 Un professeur d'université en Argentine a déclaré à ses étudiants qu'il "accorderait un bonus à quiconque trouverait un juif pauvre", a rapporté lundi le Jewish Telegraphic Agency.

Lors d'un cours en ligne sur la politique internationale dans une université située à Cordoue, le professeur Esteban Lizondo a également affirmé que la création de l'État d'Israël était une concession au "lobby sioniste" en échange d'argent, selon des sources locales. 

L'un des étudiants de Lizondo, dont l'identité n'a pas été précisée, a enregistré la conférence et l'a publiée sur les réseaux sociaux. 

L'étudiant a également signalé l'incident au bureau de l'Organisation juive argentine (OJA), qui s'est plainte à l'université.

"L'argent des Juifs démontre également le pouvoir des Juifs. Pourquoi pensez-vous que les nazis ont tué tant de Juifs? Imaginez que tandis que les Allemands étaient empêtrés dans une crise économique sans précédent les Juifs, eux, continuaient de s'enrichir", a-t-il poursuivi.

Dans sa plainte, l'OJA a noté que les commentaires du professeur violaient une loi argentine contre la discrimination, qui stipule qu'il est illégal "d'encourager ou de susciter la persécution ou la haine contre une personne ou des groupes de personnes en raison de leur race, religion, nationalité ou idées politiques."

L'université a répondu dans un communiqué qu'elle ne permettait aucun type de discrimination. Une enquête va être lancée et si les accusations sont vérifiées, l'université prévoit d'imposer des sanctions "maximales"à l'enseignant.

https://www.i24news.tv/fr/actu/international/ameriques/1594061820-argentine-un-professeur-propose-d-offrir-un-bonus-a-celui-qui-trouve-un-juif-pauvre

https://www.lavoz.com.ar/ciudadanos/ya-no-pertenece-a-universidad-siglo-21-docente-que-fue-sumariado-por-dichos-antisemitas/