Next week's antisemitism conference in Israel has caused divisions in the global struggle against anti-Jewish hate just when we need unity the most. I've written about what it means. everydayhate.substack.com/p/the-antise...
Good old @theguardian.com, urging Jews to celebrate Purim by reflecting on "the evil that Jews commit" and "the danger we pose" to non-Jews... "With the blood of their foes barely dry, the Jews feast and make merry." Happy Purim! www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Today? Simply this. From @daverich1.bsky.social.
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All that talk of decolonisation, freedom fighters, liberation & resistance, and it ends with Jewish children paraded in coffins as grotesque propaganda props by Hamas. It feels like the right day to remember how some people welcomed October 7 at the time everydayhate.substack.com/p/now-we-see...
The AI-generated fake video of Jewish celebrities supposedly denouncing Kanye West's antisemitism exposed a troubling reality: we need artificial outrage because genuine outrage is in such short supply. everydayhate.substack.com/p/artificial...
You might think it won't happen or that it's better than all the other options (not my view, just to be clear). And it is often forgotten that many states - including in Europe's relatively recent history - were created through ethnic cleansing. But please, let's not pretend this is anything else.
If Palestinians want to leave Gaza and live somewhere else, then if there are other countries willing to offer them residency or citizenship they should be able to go. The moment they are forced against their will to leave en masse, it is ethnic cleansing. I don't see how it can be anything else.
If you write it, I will definitely read it!
Plus, you can imagine what the leaders of that movement would say if Israel forced the released Palestinian prisoners to pose surrounded by IDF soldiers in front of a banner calling them Nazis and crowing about the war in Gaza etc.
Striking how similar the sentiments - and even exact wording - is on this Hamas banner to the placards and chants on protests in the UK. “Nazi Zionism”, victory to the resistance, etc. Different parts of the same movement.
"Musk the Troll" by Dave Rich.
Superb analysis of that Nazi salute and what may or may not lie behind it.
#antisemitism
It was a Nazi salute - but does that mean Elon Musk is a Nazi? As ever, it's a bit more complicated than that. everydayhate.substack.com/p/musk-the-t...
It was a fascist salute. Even if it came from his subconscious, that’s what it was. There shouldn’t be any doubt about that.
With Holocaust Memorial Day approaching I've written about Pankaj Mishra's London Review of Books essay 'The Shoah After Gaza'. It was a deeply disturbing work linking traditional anti-Jewish narratives & contemporary intellectual anti-Zionism: this is my response. isca.indiana.edu/publication-...
Excellent piece from Dave Rich on the implications of changes to Facebook and other Meta entities.
Brilliant.
Changes announced by Meta this week - ditching fact-checkers & removing automated filters for hate speech - confirm that they never really believed in the need to remove hate content, and now, in a Muskovite online world, they don't have to pretend. everydayhate.substack.com/p/meta-opens...
Update to this post: The Met Police have now imposed legal restrictions on PSC's demonstration to force them to change their plans. news.met.police.uk/news/met-use...
Police have asked the Palestine Solidarity Campaign to move their next march so it doesn't clash with Shabbat morning services at a nearby synagogue. PSC have refused. The row gets to the heart of what the marches are for & their impact on community tensions everydayhate.substack.com/p/move-the-m...
Very much looking forward to taking part in this jewishliteraryfoundation.co.uk/events/simon...
Maajid Nawaz has finally completed the circular journey back to his antisemitic conspiracist roots, blaming the grooming gangs on Mossad.
📽 Catch up now on a fascinating talk by @daverich1.bsky.social, Antisemitism and the Holocaust since October 7
He explored how antisemitic tropes and understandings (or misunderstandings) of the Holocaust may condition responses to the conflict in the middle east:
I have a much bigger audience there than anywhere else... but ideally that will change.
Time to get rid of that blue tick on my X account.
Writing about antisemitism can be a miserable business, so I thought that, in the spirit of the season, I should use my last newsletter of 2024 to suggest five reasons to be optimistic for 2025 everydayhate.substack.com/p/reasons-to...
Our Chief Executive, @markg-cst.bsky.social and Director of Policy, @daverich1.bsky.social attended Keir Starmer Chanukah reception at 10 Downing Street alongside many others from across the Jewish community. Thank you for your support.
Every single time this argument comes up it is Mizrahi erasure. Worse -- it's not just forgetting Mizrahi and other MENA Jews exist, it's insisting their very identity is a form of theft. They must choose: they can be Jews, or Middle Eastern, but not both.
This week the Irish government asked the ICJ to widen its legal definition of genocide for the case against Israel. Amnesty International have suggested the same. What does this tell us about the campaign to convict Israel of genocide? everydayhate.substack.com/p/shifting-t...
Israel destroying Syria's air force, navy, chemical weapons and other strategic military assets, so that jihadists or anyone else can't use them, is the kind of thing that governments across the Middle East and Europe will be secretly cheering while publicly condemning www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
📽 Catch up now on a fascinating talk by @daverich1.bsky.social, Antisemitism and the Holocaust since October 7
He explored how antisemitic tropes and understandings (or misunderstandings) of the Holocaust may condition responses to the conflict in the middle east: www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnAa...
