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Israelis really have no clue how loathed they've become.

Israeli woman wonders if a guy she just met is antisemitic for refusing to date her after he discovers she's a zionist 🤦‍♀️

#Israel #Zionists #WarCrimes #Genocide

[Puts on broken record] you can't just replace Jew with another word and think this shit is now ok.

"A #Brooklyn #DemocraticParty official is facing renewed accusations of #antisemitism and calls to resign after blaming “#Zionists” for a bitter dispute over her family’s #BedfordStuyvesant brownstone and comparing the case to #Israeli policies in #Judea and #Samaria.

#CarmellaCharrington, a #Democratic district leader representing part of central Brooklyn, made the remarks during a recent interview with #Egyptian #podcaster #RahaZein while discussing the long-running legal fight surrounding her family home.

“They’re Zionists that basically did this,” #Charrington said. “Same thing that they’re doing in the #WestBank, it’s the same thing. There’s a connection.”

The remarks brought renewed scrutiny to Charrington less than two months after she faced criticism for promoting a video centered on #HenryFord’s notoriously #antisemitic publication The International #Jew."

https://worldisraelnews.com/nyc-democratic-leader-faces-backlash-after-blaming-jews-for-property-dispute/

"[I]ncidents documented in #London between July 16 and July 23 were essentially repackaged versions of the #antisemitic “#ZOG” #conspiracytheory — “#Zionist Occupied Government.” The theory claims that Western governments have been secretly infiltrated by “#Zionists,” a term that report authors say is used as a disguised substitute for the word “#Jews.”

The Campaign Against #Antisemitism noted that the term ZOG was coined in the 1970s by #American neo-#Nazi #activist #EricThompson, a fact that, according to the report’s authors, underscores that the rhetoric derives directly from #whitesupremacist ideology, even when it appears today in other political contexts.

“Antisemitic #conspiracytheories of this sort are nothing new, of course. But their now open popularity among #farleft #activists points to a troubling ideological convergence that should concern all who are committed to combating hatred, regardless of where it surfaces across the political spectrum..."

https://www.ynetnews.com/jewish-world/article/hk6z6u2ufg

Ashkenazi Jews

Author’s Note: This post has mentions of Nazis, the Holocaust, & Nazi Germany. We completely understand if you wish to skip over this post. We’ll catch you in the next one!

Also known as Ashkenazic Jews, Ashkenazis, or Ashkenazim.

This is a form of distinct ethnic subdivision of the Jewish Diaspora. Emerging from the Jewish communities that consolidated during the 10th century in the Rhineland (Western Germany) & northern France. They migrated there from centers such as the Italian peninsula & the Southern Levant. This includes present-day Lebanon, Israel, Palestine, & Jordan.

After numerous massacres of Jews during the Crusades (11th-13th centuries), they began a gradual eastward migration due to mounting restrictions within the Holy Roman Empire & the favorable policies of Casimir the Great & others.

This diaspora ramped up after the persecution during the Black Death of the 14th century. The bulk of the Ashkenazi Jews had migrated to the Kingdom of Poland (which includes modern-day Poland, Lithuania, Belarus, Ukraine, & parts of Russia). This area became the main center of Ashkenazi Jewry until the Holocaust.

Ashkenazim adapted their traditions, rites, & customs to Europe. They traditionally followed the German rite synagogue ritual & until the Holocaust primarily spoke Yiddish, an offshoot of Middle High German written in a variety of the Hebrew script, with significant Hebrew, Aramaic, & Slavic influences.

The Yiddish language progressively declined in prestige, in favor of national languages & Hebrew, being stigmatized by assimilationists & later also Zionists. Though it was spoken by over 11 million people worldwide before the Holocaust. The Yiddishist movement, which sought to preserve & revive the language, faded through the 20th century. Including Duolingo adding Yiddish as a language.

As a proportion of the world Jewish population, Ashkenazim were estimated to be 3% in the 11th century, rising to 92% in 1930, near the population’s peak. The Ashkenazi population was significantly diminished by the Holocaust carried out by Nazi Germany during WWII, which killed around 6 million Jews. Before WWII, the estimated worldwide Jewish population was 15.3-16.7 million, with 92% being Ashkenazi. As of 2023, the population of Ashkenazim was estimated to be around 10-13 million out of 15.8 million total Jews.

The name Ashkenazi comes from the biblical figure of Ashkenaz. He’s the 1st son of Gomer, grandson of Japhet, great-grandson of Noah, & a Japhetic patriarch in the Table of Nations. The name for Gomer has often been linked to the Cimmerians.

The Biblical Ashkenazis are usually derived from Assyrian Askuza, a people who expelled the Cimmerians from the Armenian area of the Upper Euphrates. The name Askuza is identified with the Scythians.

In Jeremiah 51:27, Ashkenaz figures as 1 of 3 kingdoms in the far north, the others being Minni (or Mannaea), an ancient kingdom that flourished in northwestern Iran, & Arrat (corresponding to Urartu), called on by God to resist Babylon.

Ashkenaz is linked to Scandza/Scanzia (usually identified with Scandinavia), viewed as the cradle of Germanic tribes, in the 6th-century gloss to the Historia Ecclesiastica of Eusebius. In the 10th century, in the History of Armenia of Yovhannes Drasxanakertci, Ashkenaz was associated with Armenia.

As it was occasionally in Jewish usage, where its denotation extended at times to Adiabene, Khazaria, Chimea, & areas to the east. They’re also identified with the Slavim or Slavs. In keeping with the custom of designating areas of Jewish settlement with biblical names, Spain was called Sefarad (Obadiah 20), France was called Tsarefat (I Kings 17:9), & Bohemia was called the Land of Canaan.

Given the close links between the Jewish communities of France & Germany following the Carolingian unification, the term Ashkenazi came to refer to the Jews of both medieval Germany & France.

In later times, the word Ashkenaz is used to designate southern & western Germany, the ritual of which sections differs somewhat from that of eastern Germany & Poland. Thus, the prayer book of Isaiah Horowitz (a prominent rabbi & mystic), & many others, give the piyyutim (a Jewish liturgical poem), according to the Minhag of Ashkenaz & Poland. A Minhag is an accepted tradition or group of traditions in Judaism.

In a religious sense, an Ashkenazi Jew is any Jew whose family tradition & synagogue ritual follow Ashkenazi practices (German rite). Until the Ashkenazi community 1st began to develop in the Early Middle Ages, the centers of Jewish religious authority were in the Islamic world, at Baghdad & Islamic Spain. German Ashkenaz was so geographically distant that it developed a minhag of its own.

The counterpart of Ashkenazi is Sephardic. Since most non-Ashkenazi Orthodox Jews follow Sephardic rabbinical authorities, whether or not they’re ethnically Sephardic. By tradition, a Sephardic or Mizrahi (a.k.a. Oriental Jews; Jews who lived in the Muslim world) who married into an Orthodox or Haredi (a.k.a. ultra-Orthodox) Ashkenazi Jewish family raises her kids to be Ashkenazi Jews.

On the other hand, an Ashkenazi woman who married a Sephardi or Mizrahi is expected to take on Sephardic practices & the kids will “inherit” a Sephardic identity. Though in practice, many families do compromise. A “convert” usually follows the practice of the rabbinical court (beth din) that converted them.

Culturally, an Ashkenazi Jew can be identified by the concept of Yiddishkeit, which means “Jewishness” in the Yiddish language. Before the Haskalah (a.k.a. the Jewish Enlightenment) & the emancipation of Jews in Europe, this meant the study of the Torah & the Talmud for men, & communal life governed by the observance of Jewish Law for men & women.

From the Rhineland to Riga (the largest city in Latvia) to Romania, most Jews prayed in liturgical Ashkenazi Hebrew, & spoke Yiddish in their secular (worldly) lives. But with modernization, Yiddishkeit now includes not just Orthodoxy & Hasidism, but a broader range of movements, ideologies, practices, & traditions in which Ashkenazi have participated & somehow kept a sense of Jewishness. Although pockets of Jews still speak Yiddish, Yiddishkeit can be identified in manners of speech, styles of humor, & in patterns of association.

As Ashkenazi Jews moved away from Europe, mostly in the form of aliyah to Israel. Or immigration to North America, South Africa, Europe (particularly France), & Latin America, the geographic isolation has given way to mixing with other cultures, & with non-Ashkenazi Jews who, similarly, are no longer isolated in distinct geographic locales.

Hebrew has replaced Yiddish as the primary Jewish language for many Ashkenazi Jews. Although many Hasidic & Hareidi groups still use Yiddish in daily life. Aliyah is the immigration of Jews from the diaspora to, historically, the geographic Land of Israel or the Palestine region, where the State of Israel was established.

France’s blended Jewish community is typical of the cultural recombination that’s going on among Jews throughout the world. Although France expelled its original Jewish population in the Middle Ages, by the time of the French Revolution, there were 2 distinct Jewish populations.

One consisted of Sephardic Jews, originally refugees from the Inquisition (which no one expects! Sorry, we’re Monty Python fans here.) & concentrated in the southwest. While the other community was Ashkenazi, concentrated in formerly German Alsace, & mainly speaking a German dialect similar to Yiddish.

The 3rd community of Provencal Jews living in Comtat Venaissin was technically outside France, & was later absorbed into the Sephardim. Comtat Venaissin (called Comtat, for short) was a part of the Papal States from 1274 to 1791.

But after emancipation, a sense of a unified French Jewry emerged, especially when France was wracked by the Dreyfus Affair in the 1890s. (We’ll be doing a post about the Dreyfus Affair.) In the 1920s & 30s, Ashkenazi Jews from Europe arrived in large numbers as refugees from antisemitism, the Russian Revolution, & the economic turmoil of the Great Depression.

By the 1930s, Paris had a vibrant Yiddish culture, & many Jews were involved in diverse political movements. After the Vichy years & the Holocaust, the French Jewish population was augmented once again, 1st by Ashkenazi refugees from Central Europe, & later by Sephardi immigrants & refugees from North Africa, many of them francophone. Francophone refers to people/organizations who use French (language) regularly.

Ashkenazi Jews didn’t transmit their traditions or achievements by text. Instead, these traditions were passed down orally from one generation to the next. The desire to maintain pre-Holocaust traditions relating to Ashkenazi culture has often been met with criticism by Jews in Eastern Europe.

In an ethnic sense, an Ashkenazi Jew is a descendant of the Jews who settled in the Central European region of “Ashkenaz.” For roughly 1,000 years, the Ashkenazim were a reproductively isolated population in Europe.

Despite living in many countries, with little inflow or outflow of countries from migration, conversion, or intermarriage with other groups, including other Jews. Since the mid-20th century, many Ashkenazi Jews have intermarried, both with members of other Jewish communities & non-Jews.

Religious persecution of the Jews in Western & Central Europe led to a significant migration of the Ashkenazi Jews into Eastern Europe. This resulted in a major cultural divide between Western/Central & Eastern Ashkenazi communities. In particular, this was reflected in the division of Yiddish into Western & Eastern Yiddish dialects. As well as in other cultural distinctions: traditions, food, dress, etc.

Initially, the Jews of Eastern Europe enjoyed relative freedom in terms of movement, being invited by the kings of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. Over time, the situation was reversed. By the 19th century, the Jews in the West had gradually been integrated into the general society.

While the Eastern Ashkenazi maintained their strict Jewish traditions & were mostly confined to ghettos, especially in the Pale of Settlement of the Russian Empire, which incorporated a considerable amount of land where the Eastern Ashkenazi lived: Poland & Lithuania.

Well-known differences in practices include:

• Observance of Passover (Pesach)
  • Ashkenazi Jews traditionally refrain from eating legumes, grain, millet, & rice. Quinoa has become accepted as a food grain in North American communities. Sephardi Jews typically don’t prohibit these foods.
• Notwithstanding stricter requirements for the ACTUAL slaughter, Sephardi Jews permit the rear portions of an animal after proper Halakhic removal of the sciatic nerve. While many Ashkenazi Jews don’t.
• Ashkenazi Jews often name newborns after deceased family members, not after living relatives. Sephardi Jews often name their kids after their grandparents, even if those grandparents are still living. An exception to this is among Dutch Jews, where Ashkenazi for centuries used naming conventions otherwise attributed exclusively to Sephardim, such as Chuts. Chuts is the name given to Jews who immigrated to London from the Netherlands in the 1850s-1860s.
• Ashkenazi tefillins are wound toward the body, not away from it. Ashkenazim put on the tefillin while standing up. Other Jews generally do so while sitting down. A tefillin(s) is/are sets of small black leather boxes with leather straps having scrolls of parchment written with verses of the Torah inside.
• The prayer shawl (tallit/tallis) is worn by all Ashkenazi men AFTER marriage. Except for Western European Ashkenazi men who wear it from the bar mitzvah. In Sephardi or Mizrahi Judaism, the prayer shawl is commonly worn from early childhood.

The term Ashkenazi also refers to the Nusach Ashkenaz, the liturgical tradition used by Ashkenazi Jews in their siddur (prayer book). A nusach is defined by a liturgical tradition’s choice of prayers, the text of prayers & melodies used in the singing of prayers. 2 other major forms of nusach among Ashkenazi Jews are Nusach Sefard (not to be confused with the Sephardic ritual), which is the general Polish Hasidic nusach, and Nusach Ari, used by those in Chabad.

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https://theconversation.com/how-apocalyptic-worldviews-are-moving-from-the-fringes-to-the-corridors-of-power-286581. It's very interesting that these #Christian #Zionists & #Evangelical #believers in #Armageddon are also disbelievers in #Climatechange & #biodiversity #loss. As for Mr Andreessen & his #accelerationism (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Andreessen; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accelerationism), far from solving our existential problems, it will make them a whole lot worse.

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"Hundreds of people affiliated with the #whitesupremacist group #PatriotFront marched in #WashingtonDC, on Saturday, in a #July4 show of force by the group founded by a veteran of a landmark 2017 far-right rally that featured an #antisemitic chant.

The marchers in #Washington wore masks and some carried #Confederate flags, according to reports and video from the scene. At times, they chanted “Reclaim #America!” — a rallying cry channeling the group’s nativist agenda.

While Patriot Front’s public activities mostly center on its anti-#immigrant and anti-#LGBTQ agenda, the #AntiDefamationLeague has repeatedly cited the group, founded in 2017, as the largest purveyor of antisemitic materials in the #UnitedStates.

One of the group’s signature slogans, which members displayed on a banner in Washington in 2023, is “No #Zionists in Government.”

https://www.jta.org/2026/07/06/united-states/hundreds-of-patriot-front-members-march-in-washington-on-july-4-alarming-jewish-groups

“Is the Met favouring Tommy Robinson over the peaceful Nakba marchers?”

by Ismail Patel in Middle East Eye

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“Let us be precise about what has happened here. The Met gave the political heart of London to a far-right movement whose supporters chanted ‘send them home’. It applied hate speech conditions to a Palestinian commemoration that has never once produced a hate-speech arrest.

That is not neutrality. It is a choice. And choices like this do not merely fail democracy. They make unmistakably clear whose democratic rights are being upheld and whose are being curtailed”

https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/equating-tommy-robinson-nakba-marchers-met-sends-dangerous-message

#Press #SocialMedia #UK #London #Palestine #NakbaDay #MetPolice #UniteTheKingdom #FarRight #HateSpeech #PalestinianGenocide #Gaza #Zionists #Rowley #FalseEquivalence

What media doesn't tell you about Epstein emails and videos:
#Epstein's paedophile ring did not see the world as left versus right but #Zionism versus #goyim

The Epstein files are full of this word “goyim” and there is a good chance most people have no idea what this word even means. Goyim can be used simply to refer to “nations” or “peoples”, but in this context, it was a slur against non-Jews, an expression of Jewish supremacy.

In 2010, Sephardic leader Rabbi Ovadia Yosef said: “Goyim were born only to serve us. Without that, they have no place in the world; only to serve the People of #Israel.”
Epstein casually referred to non-Jews as “goyim” in his email exchanges and contrasted his Jewish associates with “goyim” in intellectual terms. In one conversation, he said “goyim prosecutors” wouldn’t understand his financial schemes.

One of Epstein’s victims — Maria Farmer — said Epstein and #Maxwell would frequently use the term “goyim” and saw outsiders as inferior. This claim is supported by Epstein’s emails.

In a 2010 email exchange with Peggy Siegel, Epstein discussed the guest list for a party at his New York mansion, which included Prince Andrew, Woody Allen, and Katie Couric. Siegal asked: “Is it going to be 100% JEW NIGHT?”
Epstein replied: “No, goyim in abundance – jpmorgan execs brilliant WASPs.” WASPs means White Anglo-Saxon Protestants - Epstein was essentially saying these are the acceptable non-Jews, the ones who are worthy of mingling with us.

In a 2009 email discussing finances with Roger Schanks, Epstein wrote: “This is the way the Jew make money … let the goyim deal in the real world.” He was talking of “selling short the shipping futures” (betting on future freight rates and laying off risks). The implication here is that the struggles of capitalism are for lesser humans and people like Epstein get to enjoy easy money. He basically lived up to every antisemitic trope: every negative stereotype associated with Jews was embodied by this man.

It is fair to say that Epstein did the fight against antisemitism no favours, but one person who came out of the Epstein files with his reputation enhanced was another Jew — Norman Finkelstein.
Finkelstein has been a nemesis of Epstein’s lawyer Alan Dershowitz for years, but the Epstein files gave us a glimpse into how these people operate. Harvard professor Robert Trivers tried to bring Finkelstein into the circle, to recruit him like they recruited Noam Chomsky. Basically, these people either bring you in or destroy you. It takes courage to stand up to Zionists and this is exactly what Finkelstein did.

#Finkelstein replied to Trivers’ invite:

“My guess is, if Epstein put your daughter at age 15, in such a position, you wouldn’t publicly describe him as a “friend” and person of “integrity”. In fact, I would hope you’d promptly throttle both Epstein and #Dershowitz.”

Contrast this level of conviction with a weasel like Keir #Starmer who described himself as a “Zionist without qualification” to the Israeli lobby and proceeded to do their bidding, expelling Jeremy #Corbyn, supporting Israel’s genocide, and proscribing groups that stood up to Israel. Men like Starmer are useful goyim.
I first encountered the word “goyim” during the Corbyn years when I made the mistake of engaging #Zionists on the antisemitism smears. Suddenly, I was being called “goyim” and “goy-boy”. Suddenly, I was being told to “stop goy-splaining”. I had no idea what they meant and when I Googled the words, I was taken aback. I had been perfectly nice and yet these people were using a racist slur against me! This was my first encounter with Jewish supremacy.

I had strongly opposed what Israel was doing to #Palestine, but saw Zionism as nothing more than a nuisance domestically. I didn’t realise how much it had infested the #UK until there was a huge lawfare effort against supporters of Corbyn and critics of Israel. It was then I realised I wasn’t just dealing with apartheid supporters online, but people who were taking away our freedoms too. It was then I fully understood Zionism is a worldwide problem.

What Epstein and Finkelstein demonstrate is that there is a chasm between principled Jews and Jewish supremacists and one should not be conflated with the other. The thing is we’re not allowed to talk about Jewish supremacy at all. Zionists do not want us to explain the difference because they will always lose the argument on moral and intellectual grounds. At that point, all they have left is censorship.

You will be hard-pressed to find a western leader, or a billionaire, or a media mogul who does not describe themselves as a “Zionist” or side with Israel. You doubt that? Start listing all the exceptions in the comments. I’ll be impressed if you can come up with more than three.

All of us non-Jews outside the #Zionist cabal are considered goyim whether we side with Israel or not. These people are running blackmail rings like the Epstein honeypot, lawfare groups like UK lawyers for Israel, and bribery groups like #AIPAC. They are the reason our politicians squeak “I stand with Israel” every time the IDF murders children.

Capitulating to #Zionism is an act of moral cowardice. It is time we stood up to Jewish supremacy like we stand up to other supremacist ideologies.

#JewishSupremacism #UKpol #USpol #Mossad #Racism #paedophile

[Discussion] “A tale of two chants: Why Starmer now casts even the British police as antisemitic”

by Jonathan Cook on Substack

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“Starmer wanted punk band Bob Vylan prosecuted for chanting 'Death to the IDF!' Four months on, he's bullying the police to let Israeli football thugs into the UK to chant 'Death to the Arabs!'”

https://open.substack.com/pub/jonathancook/p/a-tale-of-two-chants-why-starmer

#Press #UK #Starmer #Vylan #Maccabi #Racists #Zionists #AntiSemitism

#ELECTION ANTISEMITISM SUMMIT #1: #Israel's best friend - #Labor or #Liberal?

Here's the keynote speech from me to open my 2025 Federal Election Antisemitism Summit, just like the one what Sky done. Is Labor or Liberal Israel's best best best friend? I unearth the secret of true friendship. --- thank you #tomtanuki   via @tomtanuki

https://youtu.be/LqDPCCAhyKg

#australia #ausgov #politas #zionists #zionazis #nazis #neonazis #neofascism #rightwing #farright #bigots #hypocrites #fascism #colonial

Palestina: alcuni screenshot aprile-maggio 2024
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https://differx.noblogs.org/2024/05/31/palestina-alcuni-screenshot-aprile-maggio-2024/
#Palestina #Resistenza #ricostruzioni #AlAqsa #AlShifa #BombeIsraeliane #Gaza #genocidio #Hutchinson #immagini #Israele #massacri #MassacroDelleTende #Meta #NikkiHaley #Palestina #Rafah #screenshot #sionismo #sionisti #Telegram #TentsMassacre #testimonianze #WorldCentralKitchen #zionism #zionists

im sorry but when #DECOLONIZE #PALESTINE DOT COM, which is RUN BY #PALESTINIANS, affirms that a one state solution and the end of #ethnonationalist #government in the holy land does NOT mean the #jewish #population should be expelled, you as a white #westerner look really, really silly saying it does. and this goes for both #paranoid #zionists and #antisemitic #leftists who are thrilled at the concept

https://decolonizepalestine.com/myth/the-two-state-solution-is-the-only-way-forward/